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Wednesday. January 20, 1999
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The Lucan Atom Shamrocks Tier H team won the recent Stephen Township Atom
Tournament. Front Ieft:Travis Mueller,Alex Parkinson, Ben Jeffrey,AndrewTaylor,
Jacob Jeffrey; middle Ieft;Tom Wilson, Ryan Lee, Cam Galbraith, Josh White, Scott
Hunter,Ted Peters; back left: coach Brad Taylor, Kevin Vanschaick and trainer
George Jeffrey. Lucan won the 'A' final over Embro 3-2 on goals by Mueller (2)
and Jacob Jeffrey ans assists by Josh White and Scott Hunter. Lucan also blanked
Stephen 7-0 (goals by Jacob Jeffrey -3, Galbraith-2,White and Lee, assists by Ben
Jeffrey -3, Mueller -2, Jacob Jeffrey -2 and Taylor) and beat Belmont 5- I (goals by
Jacob Jeffrey -3), Galbraith,Tayior and assists by Taylor -2, Lee, Mueller and Jacob
Jeffrey). Parkinson was in net for all the wins. (photo/contributed)
TwistingTykes..
The Lucan Senior Tyke Twisters won the recent Stephen Township Senior Tyke
Tournament by defeating Stephen 4-2, St. Clements 5-1 and Exeter 5-4. Front left~
Keegan Marr, Mac Garrison, Nathan Vandenheuvel,Tanner Jackson,Andrew Dekok,
Chris Richards; middle left Shawn Crowley, Brandon Versteegh, Jared Kraul, Kyle
Oosterwal,Tyler Bryden; back left assistant coach Randy Kraul, trainer Harvey
Dekok and head coach John Oosterwal. Lucan scorers in the Exeter game:
Jackson with two,Vandenheuvel, Kyle Oosterwat and Garrison with assists by
Marr, Jackson and Jared Kraul. (photo/contributed)
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Locals shine at Shamrock all-starg ames
By Craig Bradford
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF
ILDERTON — They may not have
scored any goals, but Times -Advocate
area players left a positive impression
at the '99 Shamrock Hockey League
Bantam and Midget All-Star Games
last week at Ilderton Arena.
Local representatives on the North
teams included, bantams: Stephen
Township's Chris Desjardine, Cal
deLange (replacing injured Henny
Pfaff), Brayden Lord, coach Gerry
deLange, assistant coach Dick Lord
(replacing Brad Bowers) and trainer
Glen Rollings; Lucan's Craig
VanKasteren, Dan Pletch (replacing
injured Darrell Parsons), Mike Pletch
and Jason Smith;
Midgets: Lucan's Mike Harding,
Brandon DeBlock, Jonathon Smith,
coach Bruce Cornish (coach Andy
Ross and trainer Dave Smith absent
due to death in.family); Stephen's J.R.
Davies and. Jeremy VanBergen;
Exeter's Brendon Martin and Jared
Bourne.
Stephen's bantam coaches and
Lucan's midget coaches were chosen
because their teams sit atop the
Shamrock standings.
In the games, the South teams both
barely edged the North in shootouts
after tying in regulation.
The South won the bantam game 5-
4 and the midget game 6-5.
Jason Smith got an assist and was
named the bantam game MVP, run-
ner-up; Desjardine was named .the
MVP goalie..
The bantam MVP award went to
Dorchester's Ryan Grayson who
scored three goals for the South
including the shootout winner.
Martin, Jonathon Smith and
VanBergen notched assists in the
midget game; Harding was named the
MVP goalie.
Mount Brydges Bill Piskorowski was
named the game MVP with two goals
and an assist including the shootout
winning goal. Ilderton's Mark Hudson
was named the MVP runner-up.
Ilderton Minor Hockey past presi-
dent and all-star games convener Rob
Andrews said the bantam game was a
fast affair while the midget tilt was a
closer checking one. There was only
one penalty called in the two games.
"I was really proud of the kids and
the way they played," Andrews said.
Cornish agreed.
"As far as I'm concerned, they all
won," he said. "They played some
great hockey."
Andrews said the games were scout-
ed by the OHL's London Knights and
Oshawa Generals, the London Jr. B
Nationals and several Jr. D teams
including Exeter, Lucan, Port Stanley,
Mount Brydges, Thamesford and
Parkhill North Middlesex.
Over 300 family, friends and fans
took the action in, Andrews added..
Shamrock League president Rick
Hume of St. Thomas and OMHA rep
Dick Bennett were on hand for the
ceremonial puck dropping.
Added attractions included a perfor-
mance by the Ilderton Winter Club
Novice Precision Skating team and the
Medway High School Choir's rendition
of '0 Canada'.
Hawks come upwith two onegoal wins
The Exeter Jr. D Hawks
hockey team got a big
boost on the weekend
with two big one goal
road wins.
Exeter slipped by
Belmont 3-2 Sunday. All
of Exeter's goals were
scored on the powerplay
that was three for five on
the night. Geoff Maver
scored from John Miller
at 15:35 of the first period
to give Exeter the 1-0
lead.
Jarrett Jeffrey gave
Exeter the 2-1 lead by
scoring at 13:32 of the
third from Eric Abayof
and Jeff Glavin. Belmont
tied the game again just
over a minute later.
Abayof scored the win-
ning goal at 3:49 from
Jeffrey and Bill Hodge.
The Hawks played well
while shorthanded and
killed off all four of
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Belmont's powrplay powerplay at 6:45 of the
opportunities. third but Exeter hung on
The second period . for the win.
proved to be the charm • Hawks coach Scott
for Exeter in their 3-2 win Bogart said the .wins
over Seaforth on Friday. could spell a turnaround
Exeter scored all three for the team...or maybe
of their goals in the sec- not.
ond. Dave Farquhar got "We've been in a habit
the Hawks going by to win a couple of games
pulling away from a then lose four m a row,"
defenceman for a partial Bogart said. "Hopefully
breakaway unassisted we can break our season
goal at 18:40. long trend."
Ryan Freiter made it 2- The difference in the
0 for Exeter by scoring his last two games has been
own unassisted goal at the Hawks have "picked
9:45 while practically up our defensive respon-
standing on top of the sibilities," he said.
goalie. The successful weekend
Jeff Glavin completed brings Exeter's record to
Exeter's scoring at 5:08 10-17-3-1 and 24 points.
with the helper going to good for fourth place in
Freiter. the Morenz Division.
Seaforth managed to The Hawks hosted
score while shorthanded Mitchell yesterday after
with 18 seconds left in the press and again Friday at
second and while on the 8:30 p.m.
Powerful peewees
The Exeter Huron Tractor Peewee hockey team won
the recent Exeter Minor Hockey Assocation A/E
Peewee Tournament by downing Kincardine 6-1 in the
'A' final. Front left Dexter Brand, Rick Duptessis, Zak
Homuth, Costas Kollias,Troy Lavier, Chris Wilhelm,
Curtis Masse; back left: Chris Armstrong, trainer Bill
Armstrong, Matthew Mattucci, Jason Roy, Steve Mason,
Adam Johns, ScottTurkheim, Kyle Campbell, trainer
Gary Lavier, coach Roger Dougall.Absent are Mike
Cooper and Derek Kelly.