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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1999-03-31, Page 25-J7� 24 Exeter Times -Advocate Sports Wednesday, March 31, 1999 Jr. D Hawks hand out the hardware, coach Bogart steps down By Craig Bradford Shaw) and. Berton TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF Dykstra was named the best defensive defence - EXETER — The Exeter man (in memory of Bill Jr. D Hawks may be done Heywood, sponsored by early this. season, but Eldon and Elva Heywood there was still cause for and presented by Cy and celebration at the team's Eleanor Bloemart). annual awards banquet Jeremy Geoffrey was on Saturday night at the presented the most Exeter Legion. improved award by Goaltender Andy Glavin assistant coach Dave was the big winner of the Dalrymple (sponsored by night. Glavin was given Thames Road Cabinets). the regular season MVP Jeff 'Turnip' Glavin award by presenters Ron won the playoff MVP and Corey Bilcke (spon- award (in memory of sored by Bilcke Electric Derry Boyle, sponsored and in memory of Donny by the Frank Boyle fami- McKellar) and the Hawk ly and presented by. Award from Ron Bogart Hawks vice-president Bill (sponsored by RSD Farquhar). Authentics). Christian Stuckless was This year was Glavin's handed the sportsman - last season with the ship award by teammate Hawks as he frilled one of Ryan Sullivan -On memo - two overage spots. ry of Doug Gould and Glavin said he hopes to sponsored by the Val play university hockey Gould family). with Brock next season Craig Corriveau won or backstop the Hensall the defensive forward br. A Sherwoods. award (presented by Dave Farquhar won the Nick the Bus Driver and leading scorer prize for sponsored by his 36 points (15 goals, Charterways). 21 assists) in 36 games. The .Jr. Hawk team The award was present- leadership award went to ed by Karen Dickens and captain Bill Hodge (pre - sponsored by Bank of sented by Hawks presi- Montreal. • dent Tom Jar r et t ".The players McCann and Jeffrey was deserve a coach sponsored by presented the rookie of the year award by Don Lewis (sponsored by Northlander Industries). Jeffrey wound up sec- ond in Hawks scoring with 31 points (18 goals, 13 assists) in 40 games. Jeffrey was the top goal getter. Ben McCann picked up the MVP defenceman award (presented by Bruce Shaw in honour of former NHLer Dave that can put 100 per cent in it" — SCOTT BOGART JR. D HAWKS FORMER COACH Doug Geoffrey Construction). This season marks Hodge's last with the Hawks because he, along with Andy Glavin, were the two overage players. Hodge said he hasn't made up his mind where he'll be playing hockey next year but hinted he may play for a rec league team or even the Sherwoods. The banquet also marked the departure of Top Hawks. The Exeter Jr. D Hawks hockey club handed held their annual awards banquet at the Exeter Legion Saturday nightThe award winners were, from left: Jeff Glavin (playoff MVP), Bill Hodge (leadership), Jeremy Geoffrey (most improved), Ben McCann (MVP defenceman), Craig Corriveau (best defensive forward), Berton Dykstra (best defensive defenceman), Dave Farquhar (tqp scorer), Christian Stuckless (sportsmanship award),Andy Glavin (regular season MVP, Hawk Award) and Jarrett Jeffrey (rookie of the year). Hawks coach Scott Bogart and assistant coach Steve Matthews. "I don't have the com- mitment," Bogart said after announcing his first year coaching the Hawks would be his last. "The players deserve a coach that can put 100 per cent in it." Bogart hopes to be involved with the Hawks in some capacity next season and will perhaps serve on the executive. Assistant coach Dave Dalrymple said he hopes to remain behind the bench With the team next season and. will apply for the head coaching posi- tion. Team president McCann said the execu- tive is looking for new members with "new ideas and energy" •and anyone interested is invited to the club's annual meeting in May. Despite the early exit from the playoffs, McCann considers the season a success since it was one of "transition" with new players and a new coaching staff. He said the team is "close to breaking even" financial- ly this season. "Our goals for this year were not lofty," he said. Bogart said winning is fine, but there are even more important matters when you play on a team. "Building new friend- ships," he said. "Sometimes that gets overlooked." The top ten The Hawks released the '98/99 season final statistics last week. As mentioned above, Farquhar and Jeffrey led 35th Ontario 5 Pin. Open begins tonight in Hamilton By Ron and jean Dann ZURICH - Ontario Five Pin Bowlers' Association's (0.F.P.B.A.) highest level and only flat score tour- nament for its best bowlers, the 1999 Ontario Open 5 Pin Championship for the Sidney L. Morris Awards and the right to represent Ontario in the 1999 Canadian Championships May .25- 29 at Regina, Saskatchewan, begins tonight at Hamilton's 48 lane Sherwood Centre. Three area bowlers from the newly amalga- mated Bluewater Association Zone T 19 member contingent, which covers from Owen Sound in the north to the Zurich Bowlers' Association in the south, are Murray Benneweis, Parts Manager for Exeter Chrysler Ltd., and Dashwood's 011ie Edwards who bowl out of Clinton Crown lanes along with Gayle Schellenberger from Seaforth Bowl. Benneweis is a 10 time Bluewater qualifier for the Ontario Open, has bowled a perfect 450 game, was a pin bowler who carried a 250 plus average in league play but discovered he could raise hisaverage into the 265 range by converting to spot bowling and will be a Men's Roc WOO Teams Exeter mane slow. pitch league has openings for the 1999 ball season. 2 openings for teams are available on a first come, first serve basis. For more information contact Scott 0 2354945 evenings competing members of the Oluewater men's team. Edwards, a life member of the zurich Association and many times qualifier for the Open, is a fully certified Level Two National Coach and will be head coach for the Bluewater men's team. Schellenberger is a reg- ular Open qualifier and holds the all-time ladies Open high single game of 445 (just Sve pins short of a perfect. game) width she bowled in 1993 Open sin- gles competition. She will be competing this week for Bluewater in both sin- gles and ladies team com- petition: Benneweis and Schellenberger will not only provide strong lead- ership for the Bluewater contingent at Hamilton but will also be keen com- petitors for the Ontario Open perfect game award providedby Sidney L. Morins. FIREARMS STUDENTS Register now for our next "One Stop" Hunter Safety and/or Firearms License (FAC) Course. The course and tests will be held in Dashwood on April 17, 18 and 24th. Advanced registration only : Call Terry Romphf at 237-3248 4 scoring with 36 and 31 points respectively. Farquhar also led in plus/minus with a plus 8. Jeffrey was third in plus/minus with plus 2 and Mike Noble was sec- ond with plus 4. Jeffrey was the only player to appear in all 40 games this season. The rest of the top 10 scorers in descending order: Corriveau, 17 points (8 G, 9 A, 23 GP); Erik Abayof, 13 points (7 G, 6 A, 22 GP); McCann, 12 points (5 G, 7 A, 39 GP); Brad Brown, 12 points (2 G, 10 A, 32 GP); tied with 10 points each • are Stuckless, Noble, Jon Miller and Hodge. Glavin finished with a 3.84 goals against aver- age, an .890 save per - Dave Farq led in plus with a plu centage, one shutout and an 8-18-2 record. Backup goalie Ryan Shelton finished with a 3.67 GAA, an .8790 save percentage and a 3-8-1 record. The team .had an 11- 26-3 overall record going 5-13-2 at home and 6- 13-1 away. It's power- play efficiency was 14.6 per cent and, penalty killing efficiency 82 per cent. The team scored a total of 114 goals (2.85 goals/game) and let in 154 (3.85 goals/game). The Hawks played best versus Belmont with a 3- 1 season record. Exeter. had the . most trouble with Mitchell who won all live of their games. uhar also /minus s 8. 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