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Times Advocate, 1999-08-25, Page 22THIS WEEK IN SPORTS Ueury girls capture ORSA peewee 'C' championship. Page 23 Royals trumped due to schedule at all.: Ontario tourney. Page 24 Fl,\11 s-,\D\OCAl'I 0 Wednesday, / 25, 1999 SPORTS TIPS? Contact Sports Editor Craig Bradford Tel: (519) 235-1336 ext 113 Fax: (519) 235-0766 E-mail: sports@SouthHuron.com Controlling it. Exeter Centennials soccer player Nick Szabo keeps his eye on the ball while trying to keep a Delhi Athletics. player from stealing it during Friday's game at Exeter Community Park. Exeter lost 3-2. (photo/Scott Nixon) Centennials fall further behind top two teams with loss to Delhi EXETER -- Ouch. The Exeter Centennials men's soccer • team, did exactly what they shouldn't have done at this point of the season — they lost to a team behind them in the standings. Exeter lost Friday's home game to the Delhi Athletics 3-2. . Exeter got on . the board first about 20 minutes into the first half when Ryan Carroll threaded a great pass to Mark Brintnell who was sent in on a break- away and made no mistake tucking the ball behind the Delhi keeper. With the game knotted at 1-1 after the first half, Delhi took their first lead in the second. The Cents evened the score at 2-2 when Mark Lynn was taken down. in Delhi's penalty area and Dave Farquhar blasted the penalty shot past the Delhi keeper. Delhi s'Core4 the winning goal with three minutes left In the _game. The loss drops Exeter's record in the First Division to 5-3-3 and 18 points. Losing to a team farther down in the standings means the top two clubs can distance themselves from the Centennials. "That game we had to win," Cents coach John Rasenberg said. "We have to regroup and go back to our defensive play we played in the first part of the season." Exeter is due to play in the First Division League Cup game sometime this month, though it hasn't been sched- uled yet. The Cents have a long layoff till their next regular league game which is a home tilt versus the fust place Chatham Express on Sept. 10 at Exeter Community Park at 8:15 p.m. Not putting around Ironwood Golf Club held their junior golf program wrap-up tournament Monday and here are the winners, from left: TY flight winner Lori Hogan,`A' flight winner Matt Dietrich,'B' flight winner ScottTurkheim,`C' flight winner Sean Ellison and draw winner of a free membership Erik Denomme. Dietrich, 14, won the 'A' side ` in a sudden death playoff with his brother Mike, 16. Much thanks from the junior golf organizers to the many local sponsors and to volunteer walkers Bev Anstett, Craig Shelley, Lynn Farquhar, Mari Green and Bernice Thompson .,1 41110. Exeter Times -Advocate Local fours team wins natio By Craig Bradford TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF • EXETER -- Three Exeter women and a teammate from Seaforth have brought home Canadian gold.. • Exeter's Andrea Weigand skipped a women's fours lawnbowl- ing team to the Canadian championship at two Toronto clubs, Balmy Beach and Kew Beach, after a week-long compe- tition. Weigand's team claimed the national title after a 17-9 win in the • title match on Saturday versus Manitoba. Weigand's team repre- sented Ontario. "It's pretty cool," Weigand said during an interview with the Times - Advocate Monday. Weigand's team consist- ed of vice Joanne Bugler and second Gloria McFalls of Exeter and lead Carol Carter of Seaforth. It was a picture perfect week for the Ontario squad who won their first seven matches. The scores were 21-10 over Alberta, 17-11 over Newfoundland, 16-11 over Quebec, 19-9 over P.E.I., 26-11 over B.C., 15-13 over Nova. Scotia and 13-12 over Saskatchewan. "The game scores don't show how hard it was," Weigand said. Ontario lost their last amazing " Weigan'. sea quail fled for the national tour- nament after winning th Ontario championship a London's Fairmount Club in June. Last year Weigand'steam only made it to the second day of the provincials. round-robin match to Weigand said making it Manitoba 17-11 setting= ' out of Ontario i§ sough the stage for a dramatic chore. Ontario and B.C. re -match in the gold are considered the top medal match. lawnbow.ling powers . in "The final game was Canada due the sheer really close (till the end)," amount of teams compet- We ig an d 'said. "It was ing from the multitude of nerve wracking." clubs. Weigand's team is the Lawnbowling for 11 first Ontario women's , years, Weigand has fours team to win the n ational champi- o nship. Weigand, 22, is also the youngest skip to win the title. "The final game was really close...it was nerve wracking." -- EXETER LAWNBOWLER ANDREA WEIGAND notched a number of junior provincial champi- onships in singles, dou- bles and triples before she Weigand credited the switched to adult compe- solid week-long play of tition a couple of years her teammates for the big ago. win. Although satisfied with "You have to bowl well a national championship all week," she said. "You: under her belt, Weigand can't just bowl one good:: isn't prepared to rest on game. They were very .. her laurels. consistant...they were See WEIGAND page 23. Tops in Canada. The Ontario women's fours lawnbowling team are the Canadian champions after winning the national tournament in Toronto last week. Skip Andrea Weigand, left, second Gloria McFalls and vice Joanne Bugler are from the Exeter Lawnbowling Club while Carol Carter, right, is from the Seaforth club. (photo/submitted) Fury tough out tie with Palestinians LONDON --- Try as they might, the Exeter Fury men's soccer team had to settle for a 1-1 tie versus the host Palestinians on Sunday. in WOSL Third Division action. Exeter played the first half with a man advan- tage as the Palestinians only had 10 players. This allowed the Fury to n.ve the ball around the field to create. many • excellent scoring chances. Jason Steinman and Tim Proctor both had golden opportunities with Proctor's shot ringing off the crossbar. Fury goalkeeper Scot Davidson saw little action in the half as Exeter's defence turned away the few rushes the home team managed. The Palestinians were at full strength in the sec- ond half but Exeter scored first when Chad Monteith was sent in alone on the keeper and he made no mistake, blasting a shot into the 'back of the net. The lead held up for a while till a Palestinian player got his head on a corner kick and beat Davidson to tie the game. The Fur) were still in control of the contest but were unable to capitalize on their many outstand- ing chances. Monteith and Proctor both shot wide from in 0 close and Dave Robilliard saw his well -directed shot narrowly miss going in. With the tie, Exeter's record is 3-8-3. They next host the Kurds on Aug. 29 am at 7 p.m. at Exeter . Community Park. The game will be the first between the squads since Fury player Joe Forrester was sucke punched resulting in the Kurd player being banned from the league and the team fined heavily. l0000