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Wednesday. December 29, 1999
Sports
'99: all -Ontario team championships and individual greatness
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MAY
•Former Exeter resi-
dent Ronnalee Terry
(nee Bogart) is inter-
viewed. Terry . has
become a top girls bas-
ketball coach with a pri-
1 ate school in Florida.
•Panther junior girls
win H -P high school
soccer championship.
•Granton's Ayden
011ivier wins four gold
medals and a silver at
WOSSA track and field
meet.
•Exeter's Jeff
MacLean sips from the
Memorial Cup as a
member of the OHL's
Ottawa 67s.
•The Exeter Saddle
Club returns to the
Exeter Fairgrounds.
JUNE
•London Werewolves
pro baseball players
come to Exeter to give
local Mosquito players a
skills clinic.
*Dave Robilliard
cleans ftp at the annual
South 'Huron District
High School athletic
banquet.
*Exeter Hawks hire
libation's Andy .Friyia to
replace outgoing head
coach Scott Bbg.
•Lucas's Rebecca
Blane wins gold in
junior girls discus at
OFSAA..
•Women' :.fQ.urs team
skipped by Exeter's
Andra Weigand wins
Ontario lawnbowling
championship.
•Lucan Irish player
Neal Costello named
Ontario Hockey
Association Source For
Sports player of the
year.
•Exeter Community
Park shines after the
grand opening of the
new lit soccer pitch.
•'Bend beach fixture
Jim Cooke named as
Canada's Olympic beach
volleyball coach.
•Exeter's Kieran
O'Rourke wins provin-
cial Knights of
Columbus free throw
championship.
JULY
•Zurich's Jennifer
Jeffrey lands U.S. col-
lege hockey scholarship.
•Huron Park's Chad
Smith makes south
region bantam basket-
ball team.
•Exeter midget hard-
ball team beats St.
Marys 1838s
juvenile/midget team 4-
3 during Canadian
Baseball Hall of Fame
induction ceremonies.
AUGUST
•Bluewater Tug of
War Club hosts Ontario
championships and win
titles.
•Grand Bend
Motorplex announces it
will host IHRA Canadian
Nationals June 2-4,
2000.
•Andrea Weigand's
women's fours lawn -
bowling team wins.
Canadian champi-
onship. Other team
members include Exeter
club's Joanne Bugler
and Gloria McFalls and
Seaforth club's Carol
Carter.
•Lieury peewee girls
win Ontario Rural
Softball Association 'C'
baseball title.
•Bluewater Tug of
War Club wins men's
640 kg, 680 kg and 720
kg divisions at Canadian
championships.
SEPTEMBER
•Hensall's Cara
Gardner makes national
under 22 women's
hockey team.
•Local natives Mark
Bell, Jeff Campbell and
Kian MacDougall bring
their Strathroy Jr. B
teammates to Hensall
for exhibition game ver-
sus Owen Sound and a
skills clinic.
•Lucan-llderton host
Ontario Baseball
Association (OBA) pee-
wee `E' championship
baseball tournament.
•Dashwood bantams
win OBA `E' title.
•South Huron District
High School announces
the return of hockey
after five year hiatus.
All new girls program
started.
•Kippen Gun Club
team wins Michigan
trapshoot.
•Panther girls take
Huron -Perth hi.schopl
golf title.
OCTOBER
•Exeter's Matthew
Johns rubs elbows with
Toronto Blue Jays as
the town's '99 Jr.
Ironman.
•Former Exeter-resi-
dent
xeterresi-
dent Jeff Coward wins
Delaware Speedway's
'99 Enduro Nationals.
•Panther girls win
Huron -Perth high school
field hockey champi-
• onship.
•Panther girls and
boys win Huron -Perth
cross country titles.
NOVEMBER
•South Huron District
High School alumni
Brenyn Baynham wins
Ontario gold as men her
of .University of Toronto
field hockey team.
•Lucan Irish coach
Jason Bukala graduates
to top job with St. Marys
Jr. B.
•Panther midget boys
repeat as Huron -Perth
high school volleyball
champs.
•Strathroy's Tom
Woodiwiss named as
Lucan Irish- co -coach.
•Panther junior girls
win Huron and Huron -
Perth high school bas-
ketball titles.
DECEMBER
•Lucan Irish and
Exeter Hawks neck and
neck for first place in
Jr. D's Morenz Division.
•Zurich native Melanie
Culbert wins ninegold
medals at the Trent
Quaker invitational
swim meet.
•The Exeter Sr." Tyke
Golden Hawks hockey
team hosts the Port
Huron (Mich.) Flags for
an exhibition game at
South Huron Rec
•Centre.
•The South Huron
midget boys basketball
team take home the
Seaforth tournament
title. <.
•The Hensall Sr: A.
Sherwoods hockey team
sits atop the league
standings in only their
second season back.
•The Stephen Twp.
midget hockey team
wins the 'A' final of the
Shallow Lake tourna-
ment.
`Hensall's Jeff
Campbell, a former
Exeter Hawk, leads all
Greater Ontario Junior
Hockey League (Jr. B)
scorers with over 50
goals.
!Exeter Minor Hockey
hosts the ,first Lawrence
Cole Memorial Local
League and A/E tourna-
ments at South Huron
Rec Centreand Hensall
Arena. Cole was a well
known and respected
minor, junior and senior
hockey. referee.
Panther power. Top right photo: South Huron District High School senior girls
basketball player Krista Tuininga, left, can't march any further to the basket during a
game versus Mitchell at the annual South Huron tournament -The Panthers lost 35-
24. (photo/Craig Bradford, originally appeared Sept 22, 1999) Bottom left photo: South
Huron District High School senior boys rugby player Les Vincent, right, loses the
battle for the ball after a line-out versus a Petrolia player during a game in Exeter.
At bottom right is South Huron's Dan Berriman.The Panthers were shutout.
(photos/Croig Bradford, top originally appeared Sept 22, 1999, bottom April 14)
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