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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1998-09-30, Page 18Ti►►revs-Athx►rntc', September 30, 1998 Tg' This Week in Sports., Couture hits, runs and throws his way to national ball skills tide - page 19 • Catch up with what your Panther teams were doing last ream - page 19 Call Sports Reporter Craig Bradford with your sports tips. (519) 235-1331.• Fax (519) 235-0766 Centennials await playoff opponent But red card trouble late in Sunday's ..game means two of Exeter's top defenders, will- miss -the semi-final EXETER =- A lack of dis- cipline, even over a ques- tionable call by an official, can cost you big at the. wrong time. Red cdrd trouble for the Exeter Centennials men's soccer team near the end, . of their final regular season game at home on Sunday _versus London.Benfica B may come back to haunt • them. • While the Cents held on to tie Benfica 1-1, Exeter lost . defenders Scott Rosenberg, and Mark Lynn for "Sat- - urday's semi-final playoff -game at Nabisco Field at 21- : : p .rn. Exeter's opponent has • yet fp be decided. Both Lynn and Rosenberg were.handed fed cards late. .in the game for -the one- -game suspension. - Exeter started Sunday's --game with. a solid first half. Several scoring -chances were created, capped off. • when Shawn Rotteau head- ed the ball:into the back of the net -off a nice low cross from Pete McAllister. Dan Martens and -Ryan .Carroll were the heart of Ex= -- eter's offence early on as they pushed some nice - passes to their teammates. - The Cents came close to a 2-0 lead in the second half when Luke Sims' head - ball found the "crossbar. Benfica tied the game mid -way through the sec- . and half when a free kick was headed into the car- ner. . The red cards to Exeter - • meant they finished the game with nine players -on the field compared to Ben- fica's 10 (a Benfica player was handed a red card earlier): '- The Cents finish the season witha 13-4-3 record, good - for first place overall. Exeter will move up to the First Divi- . sion next season with their • first place-regularseas.on fin- ish. : - • .- If the Cents win Saturday's semi-final gome, they move on to th-e• Second -Division championship final at the London Portuguese Club on Oct. 11 at 1 p.m. They're on It.. Top photo Centennials forward Luke Sims beats a Benfica opponent to the ball during their game at Nabisco Field on Sunday. The teams tied 1-1. Bottom photo: Exeter,s Ryan Carroll gets a foot on the ball in front of the Benfica defender that's fast on his tail. Exeter lawn bowling scores September 22 Courtney Smith Les Hills . John DcWecrd Mike Underhill Henry Dranchenbcrg September 24 Chad Smith Frank Palen 2W32 2W28 2W24 2W20 IWI7 2W27 2W24 Marion Dearing Stan Roth Don Overholt September 26 Lcs Hills Carmon Stewart Roy Triebner Barb Triebner 2W20 2W17 I W20 2W24 2W24 1W16 IW16 Have a sports tip? Call the T -A 2354331 Exeter pair win Goderich tourney GODERICH - Les Hills and Bill Mickle won a pairs tournament held in Godcrich on Saturday with • 3 wins 45. • St. Marys tournament Peter and Gloria McFalls fin- ished fourth with 2 wins 41 in the St. Marys Fowl Mixed Pairs Tournament on Sunday. while Andrea Weigand of Exeter and Chris Stadnyk of Niagara Falls were high one game winners. The cram try. Exeter Hawks goalie Andy Glavin shuts the door on a wrap-around at- tempt by Thamesford forward J: Musc2elt during the Hawks home opener on Fri- day: Exeter lost 4-3,'. Exeter Jr. D Hawks off to slow start The Hawks= have lost their first three games. of the season BRYDGES — The Exeter -Jr. 1-) Hawks . hockey -team:seem to have broken wings after losing their first three games of the '98/99 season. Exeter lost 5-2 at Mount Brydgcs on Monday.. I3en McCann put Exeter on the !Marti first with an unassisted goal early in the second period to' break a scoreless tie. • • Moon Brydges•scored three -unanswered goals•to go uti 3-1 by.1(r.24 of lhethird•period. Excter'-s Jar. rot Geoffrey made it close by scoring on the pow- erplay with 4107 left in the g.unc with•thie assist go-. ing to McCann. But Mount Brydgcs put the game .away -with two goads in the last -four nnnules. Exeter's Cohn Corri-vcau. continued. hrs= lough ways by battling Mount Brydgcs' Shaun Kaspersrna with 7:5(1 left in the third Both were' -thrown out,of - the game for fighting and removing heltnet-s. The Hawks were sunk big -tune Ily..host _Port Sian-, • ley .6-0 un Saturday. The Lakers scored three in.. the. first perio0 and two in the sccoiuf to coast to the easy win. The game was a feisty one with several roughing and slashing penalties, handed to both sides. The •night bf had tempers was punctuated by a fight be- tween Corriveau and Port Stanley's Dan. Miles at 1 1.1(1 of the third period. A more focused but n� less feisty Exeter team hosted 'Ihaineslbrd Friday- at Hensall in the season opener. Exeter failed in its comeback bid -to lose 4-. 3, Exeter got off to a 2-0 Icad after the first period-. Mike Noble" scored at 18:35 With the assist by Jon. Miller. Jererny Jeoffrey scored Exeter's second -goal -. with only 36 -seconds left in the period'from Brad. .Brown and DaVc Farquhar. ' Thamesford storn►ed hack in the second period " and scored four unau wered goals; two on the pow- • crplay. - The Hawks Managed to get within one -with Ber- ' ton Dykstra scoring from- Brown; and Cam. Dougall . With 5:53 left. but Thamesford held on. for the win. The first fight of the year for both teams started at 1 1:04 of .the second period when Exeter',s Ryatt • Frciter took on Thamesford's Chad Purchase: . " Hawks coach Scott Bogan said despite the team -is improving despite the three -losses. "We'rc•ni>t doing the little things to getthe win,". hc•said, "hut we're getting there." • The Hawks heist Seaforth Friday: 8:30 p.m., at Hensall Arena and travel to Parkhill_ to play North Middlesex on Saturday. Exeter's. 'second season_. opener' at Exeter Arena is Oct.. -10. 8:30 p m., Ver- . sus Hwy: 4 ri6ls the Lucan Irish. . ' • Irish start off on right foot with. win MT. BRYDGES — It didn't lake the luck of the Irish fix Lucan's Jr. D_ hockey team 1i>, • win its' first. game. - - . lite Irish heat Mount •Brydges,in- their own barn 3-1 on Friday. Atter a scoreless first period; Mount Brydgcs got on the hoard first al 16:01 of the . second. Lucan tied things at one each at 14:14 on a goal by Kcirin Dunbar assisted by 'Scott Wheatley and Justin MW,. ligan. - Lucan took the Icad it never re- linquished with 3:34 remaining in the second on a goal by Andrew Stansell with assists by Andy -Mar- shall and Wheatley. 'Mount Brydgcs kept Lucan to its one goallead fill the Irish put the game on ice with 28 seconds left op; a goal Mulligan ,with assists by Dan Hardick and Dunbar. : Irish co -coach Jason Bukala said Mount Bryd_•es' subpar.compressor made ice conditions Tess favourable than expected. . "It was like skating on slush," he said. - Bukala lauded Irish starting goal- tender Mike Boyce for his efforts between the pipes. He added his team's . penalty killing was good. , killing off two four -minute ad- vantages for Mount Brydgcs. • Bukala criticized the heavy- handed officiating but admitted his team needs to find its focus. "Wc. have to be more disciplined -as.a team to'be:successful," he said. The .'Irish were without corner- stone players Mark Phillips, Neal - Costello and Chad Lamboum who were suspended for the first game • of the season for preseason fights. . Though itdoesn't count„now that , the regular season is off and skat- ing. Logan lost its last exhibition game at home to Parkhill North Middlesex 7-6 last week. Lucan heads to Thamesford on Friday and• plays its home opener versus North Middlesex on Oct. 7; 8:15 Breaking out Hustling.for if. Hensall Sherwoods players Mark Cooper, centre, and Chad Ramer, right, try to outskate a Goderich Pirates defender to the puck during their exhibition game at Hensel' Arena' on Sunday. , The Sherwoods won 2-1 on a powerplay goal by Ramer. at 7:38 of the' first period (assists by (Dan ,Taylor and Cooper) and a shorthanded marker by Sean McCann (Todd McCann). The Sherwoods open their season at home Sunday, 12:45 p.m., versus Clinton. A it