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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1999-02-24, Page 16THIS WEEK IN SPORTS Panther midget boys basketball team wins Huron championship. Page 17 Berme Deveau Memorial synchronized skating competition hits Exeter. Page 18 • SPORTS Ties? Contact Sports Editor Craig Bradford Tel: (519) 235-1336 ext. 113 Fax: (519) 235-0766 E-mail: spores et DSouthHuron.com Page 16 Wednesday, February 24, 1999 Exeter Times -Advocate Dayman livevvery Leafs fan's dream Clearing it. Exeter Jr. D Hawks defenceman Ben McCann, centre, moves the puck away from the Exeter net after goaltender Andy Glavin made the save during Friday's game versus the Lucan Irish at South Huron Rec Centre. Lucan won 6-5 to take a 2-0 lead in their Morenz Division semi-final series. Irish take two straight from the Hawks By Craig Bradford TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF EXETER/LUCAN — The Hwy. 4 battle has tipped the Lucan Irish's way after their first two games versus the Exeter Hawks in their Jr. D Morenz Division semi-final playoff series. Lucan won game one at home 7-3 Feb. 17 and game two at Exeter's South Huron Rec Centre 6-5 on Friday. Both games were intense, rough affairs reflecting the change from the regular season to the playoffs. Lucan's powerplay was the deciding factor in game one with four goals in eight attempts. Lucan's depth offensive- ly was shown with seven different players scoring the goals. The Irish goals were scored by Dan Hardick, Scott Philips, Neal Judson, Justin Mulligan, Corey Smith, Mark Phillips and Kevin Dunbar. Assists were earned by Jason Amey, Mark Phillips (2), Judson (2), Hardick, Chad Lambourn, Smith (2), Dunbar (2), Dave Steer and Mulligan. Exeter's goals were scored by Erik Abayof with a pair and Jeff Glavin with the only two assists by Ben McCann. Two of Exeter's three goals came on the power- play. The score was 2-0 for Lucan after the first peri- od and 4-1 after the sec- ond. Hawks goaltender Andy Glavin was busy between the pipes with 43 saves while Lucan's Mike Boyce stopped 31 shots. Friday's thriller was decided with 1:20 left in the game when Chad Greenlee scored the win- ning goal from . Ggeg Henderson ; and Neal.. Costello. The difference in the game arguably happened with a second left in the first period when Lucan's Scott Phillips scored from Andy Marshall to make the score 4-3 for Lucan. Exeter pulled even at 4- 4 when McCann scored on the powerplay from Dave Farquhar and Jeff Glavin. Lucan scored a power- play goal of their own to break the tie with 2:03 left in the period. Costello notched the goal with assists by Mulligan and Smith. Exeter's Jarrett Jeffrey tied the game at 5-5 midway. • through the "We just have to third period carry it over and from Bill duplicate it for Jason Grenier. Wednesday night" Lucan got off — EXETER HAWKS to a fast start COACH SCOTT BOGART when Dunbar scored just 14 seconds into the game from Matt Porter and Mike Jaremchenko. Jeff Glavin tied the game at 17:06 from Jeremy Geoffrey and Craig Corriveau. Costello made it 2-1 for Lucan at 8:16 of the first from Mulligan and Mark Phillips. Exeter tied the game again when Berton Dykstra scored on the powerplay from Geoffrey and Jeff Glavin. The Hawks took their only lead of the game with 2:26 left in the first when Corriveau scored from Jeff Glavin. Lambourn made it 3-3 by scoring with 1:17 left in the period from Hardick and Costello. The.Hawks were two for eight on the powerplay in game two and Lucan was one for 11. Irish co -coach Bill Bourne said the rough stuff and stick work is probably in Exeter's play - book. "I guess that's their plan," he said. "Them try- ing to neutralize our tal- ent. They were liberal with their sticks. That's their strategy." Bourne said that as long as the Hawks play it rough, powerplays and penalty killing will contin- ue to be keys. "We'll work on the pow- erplay and that should make the dif- ference by capitalizing on the man advantage," he said. Hawks coach Scott Bogart said the game had a better flow on Friday, adding his players put in their best effort of the Hodge and season. "We just have to carry it over and duplicate it for Wednesday night," Bogart said. "You can't ask for much more." In the other Morenz Division semi-final series, Mitchell leads Seaforth 2- 0. Game three is 8:15 p.m. tonight at Lucan Community Memorial Centre. Game four is at South Huron Rec Centre on Friday at 8:30 p.m. By Craig Bradford TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF HENSALL — Jenna Dayman is the envy of all Toronto Maple Leafs fans in this part of the world. Dayman, 13, was cho- sen to be a flag -bearer at both the Maple Leaf Gardens closing cere- monies Feb. 13 and at the grand opening .parade for the new Air Canada Centre last Friday. Dayman said . the Women's Hockey League of Ontario drew Hensall as the peewee women's hockey representative and Hensall Junior Girls hockey team manager Marvin Taylor in turn drew Dayman's name out of a hat to choose the team's rep. Dayman said there were 16 youths chosen to par- ticipate in the MLG and ACC ceremonies with 11 carrying flags. The flags represented each season the Leafs have won Stanley Cups. Dayman carried the 1947 flag. The. highlight for Dayman was meeting her favourite Leafs players, Tie Domie and Mats Sundin, on Friday. She also got to meet Eddie Shack and current Leafs Mike Johnson and Steve Thomas. In addition to numerous autographs, the Leafs gave Dayman an official Leaf jacket, boots, tuque and other Leafs merchan- dise. Dayman's mom Brenda said the experience dur- Maple Leafs forever. I-lensall's Jenna Dayman, 13, participated in the Maple Leaf Gardens closing cere- monies and the opening ceremonies at the Air Canada Centre. ing the MLG closing cere- monies was somewhat disappointing since her daughter along with the other youths were not allowed to rpeet the play- ers. Dayman did get to liter- ally bump into Domie when he ran into her when -leaving the iae after, the last game in MLG ver- sus the Chicago Blackhawks. Domie almost knocked her down and when he turned to say sorry someone pulled him away. Brenda said Friday's festivities were different because the youths were allowed free access to all The power of pucks the players. "Today was phenome- nal," Dayman's dad Greg said. Both Brenda and Greg took Feb. 12 off work to take their daughter to Toronto for rehearsals, but Brenda was unable to take last Friday off. ,Dayirroari 'atleft winger with the Hensall Juniors, said it was quite a thrill to meet the Leafs. "Yes, I love the Leafs," Dayman said. "They are my favourite team." Friday's parade was televised by various Toronto TV stations including TSN and City TV. The Exeter Tyke Power Pucks hockey team were put through their paces before Saturday's game versus Seaforth at South Huron Rec Contre. • Exeter won 10-3 but lost Sunday's game to host Bayfield 6-2. For more hockey results, see Minor Hockey Scoreboard else- where in this week's Sports section. Hockey at it's best Exeter Junior D Hawks vs Lucan Irish In Lucan Wed., Feb. 24 8:15 p.m.F ri.,Feb. 26 In Exeter . 8:30 p.m.