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Times Advocate, 1999-10-27, Page 22THIS WEEK IN SPORTS Six Lucan area girls and their ponies off to Royal Winter Fair. Page 24 Senior Exeter soccer teams hand out the hardware. Page 26 Page 22 •1' iN i t:S-nuVc Cn r i S orts • Sroirrs Tint Contact Sports Editor Craig Bradford Tel: (S 19) 235-1336 ext 113 Fax: (519) 2354)766 E-mail: sportseSouthHuron.com Wednesday, October 27, 1999 Exeter Times -Advocate Panther field hockey tops in Huron -Perth yet again EXETER — Champions...again. The South Huron District High School Held hockey team continued their domi- nance in Huron -Perth by winning anoth- er league title last week at home 1-0 over Mitchell. Mitchell had upset the heavily favoured Goderich in the semi-finals and showed why early on in the final with their tough, determined physical play in the first quarter. . Scoreless through regulation time, Heidi Muller scored the winning goal with three minutes left in the first over- time frame and the Panthers held on through the second overtime half to win. The goal was disputed but the, officials ruled it legal. It had looked like the Panthers had a goal in the second half but it was ruled no goal by the same officials • Hard at it. Panthers field hockey player Ann Marie Parsons tries to take the ball away from a Mitchell player during last week's Huron -Perth final in Exeter. South Huron won 1-0. For the team photo, turn to page 24. (photo/Craig Bradford) Kelli Fulton earned the shutout between the pipes for the Panthers with many key saves. After a shaky start where Mitchell pressed for a goal, South Huron domi- nated the rest of the game but couldn't convert on several chances to score. Panthers coach Jim Workman said it was "a great victory against a physical Mitchell team." Both South Huron and Mitchell head to London for the WOSSA championship tournament on Oct. 29-30. In South Huron's pool will be Medway and Regina Mundi with Mitchell, North Middlesex and Strathroy making up the seoend pool. The top two teams from each pool will advance to the semi-finals on Saturday. The WOSSA champion will move on to OFSAA on Nov. 4-6. r. D Hawks soar with three straight wins, Irish go 0 for 2 By Craig Bradford TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF EXETER — The Exeter Jr. D Hawks are on their second three -game win- ning streak of the season after some impressive vic- tories last week. The highlight match for the T -A readership was the revival of the Hwy. 4 rivalry between the Hawks and the Lucan Irish. At home on Oct. 22, the Hawks inched by Lucan 5-4. It didn't start out well for the Hawks who found themselves down 2-0 after the first period. Lucan's Mike Burns scored from Adam Thomson 39 seconds into the game. Ryan Keating put the Irish up 2-0 with an unassisted powerplay goal with 3:36 left in the period. Exeter dominated the second period which ended up tied. 2-2 at the . buzzer. Dave Farquhar the powerplay from got the Hawks onto the Wagner at the half -way board by scoring with point of the third. 7:41 left in the period Exeter's Jeff Glover from Finnish import scored with 8:25 left in Jaako Heikinnen. the . game from Chris Heikinnen scored a goal Corlett and Nick Regier of his own with 48 sec- scored the unassisted onds left in the period winner with 2:03 left in from Jared Bourne. ' the game. The third period was ° Hawks coach Andy more even but Exeter Friyia said his starting won the battle with three goalie, Ryan 011son, kept goals compared to them in the game. Lucan's two. Lucan's , "They know that two Kevin Dunbar goals down gave his team "The Exeter Hawks isn't the end its first lead of the world," by scoring have a long way to he said. 5:33 into the go before they On the road period from contend with our Oct. 20, Adam hockeyteam at the Exeter beat Wagner. Belmont 7-6 Bourne made end of the season." in an over - it 3-3 by scor- — IRISI4-Co-COACH ing on the JASON BuKALA powerplay from Jason Mandarelli 6:50 into the frame. Lucan regained the lead when Dunbar scored on Top photo: Irish forward Scott Philips crashes into a Mount Brydges player during Oct. 20's game at Lucan Community Memorial Centre. Lucan lost 6-4. Bottom photo: Exeter Jr. D Hawks goaltender Ryan 011son not only has to make the save but has to put up with a Lucan Irish player ending up In his face during Friday's game at South Huron Rec Centre.The Hawks went on to win 5-4. (photos/Craig Bradford) time barn - burner. Exeter was up 2-1 after the first but found them- selves tied with their hosts 4-4 at the end of the second and were down 6- 4 in the third period before mounting their comeback. Jarrett Jeffrey scored a hat -trick for the Hawks and captain Farquhar notched the game tying and game winning goals. The tying goal came with 8:01 left in regulation time and the winner with 44 seconds left in the extra frame. Also scoring for the Hawks . were Jeremy Vanbergen and Jon Miller with assists going to Jeremy Geoffrey (2), Farquhar, Greg Pilling, Chris Chatterson (2) and Glover. "(Bplmont is a) difficult rink to be a goaltender in," Friyia said, since the tiny arena features next to no room from the blue - lines to the face-off cir- cles. Friyia added it feh good beating the team that let him go as an assistant coach last season. The Hawks finished their winning week with a 3-0 home shutout over Port Stanley. Mandarelli got the ball rolling for Exeter by scoring mid- way through the first while on the powerplay from Glover and Geoffrey. After a scoreless second frame, Bourne scored on the powerplay from Mandarelli and Vanliergen with 5:28 left in the game and Jeffrey put the game on ice by scoring with 2:56 left from Heikinnen. 011son faced 41 shots compared -with the 21 Port goaltender Jason Allison faced. Friyia said the win is especially impressive since his squad had to kill off a five-minute major penalty given to Chatterson for slashing that spanned the end of the second to a couple minutes into the third period. "011son is giving us the opportunity to win," he said. To keep up the torrid pace, Friyia said his play- ers "have to continue to buy into the system." Exeter's record is now 6-5, good for first place in the Morenz Division over Lucan. The bad news of the week for the Hawks is Pilling is out six to eight weeks with a broken ankle sustained in a high school football game. Despite the injury to key forward Pilling, Friyia is confident his team will continue to win if they continue to work hard. "We're the pretenders on our way to being con- tenders," he said. See HAWKS page 24