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Times-Advocate, 1983-12-21, Page 18Page 2A Times -Advocate, December 21, 1983 Sports Spotlight By Ross Haugh Here we go with the 51st and final column for the year :983 as we prepare for the festive season. Along with this comes the memories of the year just past and hopes for the 12 months ahead. The highlight of the year on the local sporting scene is probably the large number of area youngsters par- ticipating in a wide variety of events. More boys and girls than ever have been par- ticipating in baseball, softball, soccer, bowling, hockey, ringette, gymnastics, and figure skating in addition to high school sports which include basketball, football field hockey and cheer leading. While many persons judge a sports success by the number of championships won, we feel the most impor- tant factor is the number of participants who are lear- ning not only how to win, but, to lose gracefully. One sport which is growing by'leaps and bounds is soccer. The number of minor soccer teams this past year in Exeter, Grand Bend and Lucan increased with close to 600 boys and girls.taking part in these three communities. In a time when costs of equipping hockey and baseball teams are rising, soccer expenses are much lower. While most clubs are outfitted properly with shorts and sweaters, the only other expense is the ball, compared to hockey sticks, skates and the necessary equipment and baseballs, gloves and bats. The year of the Jays The 1983 season was the best ever during the seven year existence of the Toronto Blue Jays and the upcom- ing year should be better. The Jays have started to strengthen for the 1984 season by acquiring Bryan Clarke, a promising left handed pitcher from the Seattle Mariners. While Clark's statistics at Seattle are not overwhelming it must be remembered the Mariners were basement dwellers in the American league eastern division. The Toronto club will likely make a trade this week with Kansas City for Willie Aikens, hoping Commis- sioner Bowie Kuhn will lift the suspension in early May. Aikens, a long ball left handed hitter would make a great designated hitter to platoon with Cliff Johnson giving the Jays power from both sides of the plate. We would hope the Blue Jays are able to sign at least one free agent, hopefully another pitcher either as a starter to complement Dave Stieb, Jim Clancy and Luis Leal or help in the bullpen. The Detroit Tigers appear to be serious about win- ning a pennant in 1984 going the free agent route for the first time in signing Darrell Evans. A Lion or Gambler? The hottest news to end the old year and start a new one' will likely surround Detroit Lions great running back Billy Sims. Sims has signed a five year contract with the Lions after apparently doing the same with the Houston Gamblers of the USFL. This controversy will probably be settled in the courts and soon as USFL practices start shortly after the Super Bowl is decided in late January. Hawks tourney set to go Final touches are being put to plans for the annual Exeter Hawks junior D hockey tournament which is set for the South Huron Rec centre on the weekend of January 7 and 8. Tournament co -conveners Gerald Dearing and Gerald Willis have lined up eight top notch junior D clubs and excellent action is assured in the single knockout competition. The defending champion Grand Valley Harvesters will be back to play in the opening game of the tourney at 12 noon on Saturday against the Thamesford Trojans. At 2: 30 p.m. Saturday afternoon, the Exeter Hawks come up against one of the newer .Junior D clubs from Ayr. At 5 p.m. it will be Seaforth versus Howick and the St. George Lions and Lucan Irish tangle at 7:30 p.m. The semi-final games splitting the winners of Satur- day's four games will be played at noon and 2:30 p.m. on Sunday with the championship contest slated for 8 p.m. Flat for two games Hawks squeak through with a victory and tie Complacency is often one of the results of success and it is one of the factors the Exeter Hawks are facing as they en- joy a runaway lead in the nor- thern division of the Western Junior "D" loop. That complacency was evi- dent in two weekend outings by the locals as they were hard-pressed to pick up a tie and a win. Friday night, they rallied from a three -goal deficit and then blew a late lead to tie Seaforth 7-7 and on home ice, Sunday, they managed a 3-2 win over the defending OHA champion Tavistock Braves. The Hawks were flat in both contests, made numerous mistakes and needed a bit of luck to get the three points which put them 14 ahead of the second place Lucan Irish. They now have three games in hand over the Irish, who are followed in order in the division by Thedford, Seaforth and Tavistock. The Hawks have only one outing this week when they travel to Tavistock on Friday in an attempt to avenge an earlier loss there. They host Thamesford the following Friday. Tie Ceatenaires The Seaforth Centenaires, smarting from two drubbings in Exeter, were fired up when they hosted the Hawks, Fri- day, and quickly jumped into a 4-1 lead in the first but couldn't hold on as they had to settle for a tie. The Hawks cut the margin to 6-5 after two periods and appeared to have another win as they scored twice in the third, but the hosts evened the Recording setting on the court Each and every baseball, hockey and football season some memorable occasions occur which draw comments such as, "That will never happen again." This time we have reason to believe what happen- ed on the home basketball court of the Denver Nuggets of the National Association Tuesday night will never be equalled. The same thing could have been said on March 7, 1982 as San Antonio defeated Milwaukee 171 to 166 for a total of 337 points. That high score was NBA record for two teams in regularly scheduled play. That is un- til Tuesday night in Denver. That night the Denver Nuggets and Detroit Pistons went to three overtime periods before the Pistons finally won by a score of 186-184 in a game that required three hours and 11 minutes to complete. As would be expected a number of team and in- dividual records were broken. In addition to the highest score ever, the 93 assists broke the NBA mark of 89 set by Detroit and Cleveland on March 28, 1973 and the 142 field goals eclipsed the record of 136 set by Milwaukee and San Antonio in the high scoring 1982 contest. The 74 field goals by the Pistons broke the previous record of 72 set by Boston against Minneapolis on March 7, 1959. While the 186 points chalked up the Pistons is an all- time high, the 173 scored by the Boston Celtics against Milwaukee on February 27, 1959 will continue to stand as the record for a regulation game. in closing we would like to wish all a very Merry and Blessed Christmas followed by a Happy and Pro- sperous New Year. READY TO SKATE — Getting some ice time during a moms and tots skating ses- sion Thursday morning at the South Huron Rec Centre were Amy Truemner, Rhoda DeJonge and Jessica DeJonge. T -A photo Pee wees get three points The Exeter pee wees gain- ed a victory and a tie in three Shamrock minor league games this week: In a home and home series with Parkhill, the Exeter youngsters won by a score of 8-1 and played to a 4-4 tie. In the third game St, Marys trounced Exeter by ascore of 14-5. In the draw with Parkhill, Exeter scored three unanswered goals in the third period to get back on even terms. The only Exeter score of the first two periods came from the stick of Tom Rolph on a three-way passing combina- tion with Henri DeBruyn and Jeff Rowe. Mark Burton started the Exeter third period scoring spree at 2:41 on passes from Dart scores The Swat team was the on- ly one tosweepfive points in Friday's regular action in the Exeter Legion mixed dart league. This weeks's scores were: Swat 5 Trailers 0 Scotties 4 Merri Wraggs 1 Turtles 4 Rowdy Ones 1 Outlaws 3 Snyde and Clyde 2 All in the Family 3 Itchy Niters 2 Makeups 3 Smurfs 2 Crusaders 3 Odd Ones 2 Canscotts 3 Shiphunters 2 Friday's schedule is as follows: 8 p.m. Shiphunters vs Scotties Trailers vs Smurfs Snyde and Clyde vs All in the Family Outlaws vs Rowdy Ones 9:30 p.m. Makeups vs Swat Turtles vs Crusaders Merri Wraggs vs Canscotts Itchy Niters vs Odd Ones Close score in houseleague Mitchell edged Exeter 6-5 in a bantam houseleague hockey game at the South Huron Rec Centre, Saturday. The home team jumped in- to a 2-0 first lead period lead on goals by Jeff Kints and Rob McKnight with Pat Hart- man and Al Vanderlaan pro- viding the passes. The only Exeter score in the second period came from the stick of Jeff Kints on a three- way passing combination with Angelo Vilos and Jamie Oke. In the final frame, Shawn Forsythe set up the passes for goals registered by Rob McKnight and Al Vanderlaan. Tom Hummel) and Brian Pridham led the Mitchell scoring attack with two goals apiece while Craig Risteau and Kelly O'Leary notched one each. O'Leary's score which proved to be the winner came with only 20 seconds left in the game. Tim Van Dam and Doug Clark. David Dalrymple registered on passes from David O'Connor and Al Blom- maert to make the score close and Rob McLelland con- verted a pass from Henri DeBruyn to tie the score with only 28 seconds left in the game. Scoring for Parkhill with single goals were Brian Vanhooydonk, Andrew Ross, Jeff McGee and Jim Poore. In the second game won 8-1 by Exeter, David Dalrymple led the Exeter scoring attack with a three goal perfor- mance. David O'Connor choked in with assists on all three goals while Rob McLelland helped on two scores and . Doug Clark assisted on one. Scoring in single fashion for Exeter were Mark Burton, Henri DeBruyn, Tim Van Dam, Doug Clark and Jeff Rowe. Helping set up these goals were captain Larry Lewis, Jeff Rowe, Doug Clark and Jeff Chipchase. The only Parkhill shot to get by Exeter goalie Steve Sillery was fired by Jim Poore. Eight second period goals helped St. Marys to Wednes- day 14-5 win over Exeter. Henri DeBruyn was the scoring stat' for Exeter with four of the five goals. All four of his successful shots came on unassisted efforts. The fifth Exeter score was notched by Rob McLelland also on a solo dash. count at the 17:25 mark to get the single point. Tony Jones and Bill Glover paced the Exeter attack with two goals each, while Pete Tuckey, Steve prat and Rich Lather added the singles. Glover added three assists to lead in that department. Tuckey, Mike Clark and Pro- ut helped out on two each and recording singles were Mark Generals fly beat St. Marys The Exeter Generals were flying Wednesday night as they downed St. Marys 9-1 at the South Huron Rec Centre in a Shamrock midget game, but, were shot down in Parkhill Friday as they drop- ped a 8-1 decision. In the victory over St. Marys coach Ron Bogart said his team made only one mistake and that was in allowing the only opposition goal with only a minute and 11 secc,nds left in the game. The Generals scored three times in the first period in the win over St. Marys with Steve Gould, Chris Tiedeman and David Skea doing the scoring. Getting assists were Al Pym and Scott Heywood. In the second period, Gould notched his second goal of the night while Al Pym, Bill Fisher, Bud Richardson and George Pratt notched single scores. Pratt picked up two assists while Sean Whiteford, Bill Fisher and David Skea each helped on one score. The only third period goal for the Generals came from the stick of Scott Lovie on a three-way combination with John Hannah and Bud Richardson. Geoff Hicks scored the only goal for St. Marys to spoil Jason Van Haarlen's bid for a shutout. In the loss to Parkhill, Scott Lovie registered the only score for the Generals in the third period on passes from Bud Richardson and Bill Fisher. Brent Martin led the Parkhill scoring with a three goal effort. 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