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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1984-01-25, Page 13Page 12 Times -Advocate, January 25, 1984 Sports Spotlight By Ross Haugh South Huron All Star game set The annual South Huron intermediate hockey league all star game will be played at the Hensall arena on Saturday, February 25. The all star contest will pit the defending champion Exeter Mohawks against the best of the other four teams. They are the Zurich Buckeyes, Hensall Sher - woods, Parkhill Pirates and Centralia College Saints. Proceeds from the game will again go to charity. In recent years, the South Huron Big Brothers and Big Sisters Association were the big winners. Dinner speakers set Don Mousseau, chairman of the 1984 Exeter Lions Club Sportsmen's Dinner tells us that the entire list of speakers have been confirmed. The late, t additions to the program are from across the border. They are Detroit Lions linebacker Gary Cobb and Detroit Tigers right handed pitcher Milt Wilcox. Wilcox recently signed with the Tigers a team he has been with for a number of years after testing the free agent market. 'Tiger officials are confident he will lead them to the American league eastern division championship. The dinner, the 11th event of its' kind is scheduled for the South Huron Rec Centre on Tuesday, February 7. All proceeds are split equally between the Ontario Crippled Children's Society and the Thames Valley Treatment Centre in London. Headlining the speakers are two well known spor- ting figures. They are Toronto coach Bob O'Billovich who was successful in forging the Toronto footballers into a Grey Cup championship team after many other coaches including Leo Cahill and Willie Wood failed. O'Billovich will be supported by American league baseball umpire Marty Springstead. The latter is a con- troversial umpire on the field and is better known for his altercations with former Baltimore Oriole manager Earl Weaver. Springstead along with Ron Luciano holds the record for the most times in tossing Weaver out of a game. We think the magic number of thumbs Weaver received from each of these two arbiters is seven. Representing the female side of sports is all star Canadian golfer Sandra Post, Susan Scherer, a member of the Canadian 1983 ladies fastball championships and gold medal cross country runner Linda Findley. • Elmer Hohl who has won the Canadian and world's horse shoe pitching championships more times than most people can remember will be here along with recently retired London Free Press sports writer Harry Eisen. Eisen is well known for his covering of horse rac- ing for almost 40 years and will be bringing a harness driver and trainer with him. The Toronto Blue Jays are expected to send right handed pitcher Jim Gott and Jeff Arp will be in from the Hamilton Tiger Cats. Arp is a football graduate from the University of Western Ontario. One of the most important persons attending the dinner will be the local Timmy and that's whatt the din- ner is really about, the support of crippled children. This year's Timmy is Troy Whyte of Huron Park and we know he will be an excellent representative of those children who are not as fortunate as most of us. Roses and Lamps The Canadian professional baseball scene should be much more desirable this summer due to the sign- ing of players by the Toronto Blue Jays and the Mon- treal Expos. Many Expo fans hope their club will come up smell- ing like roses for the 1984 National league season due to the signing of veteran Pete Rose. Although he is 45 years of age, the well known hus- tle of Rose who is better known as Charley Hustle should inspire the rest of the Montreal players who have not appeared to have played up to their potential. Where manager Bill Virdon decides to play Rose is a good question. We doubt if Rose is physically able to play every day. He will likely be used in left field or first base in addition to pinch hitting roles. He is only some 200 hits away from tying Ty Cobb's major league record of 4,419 hits in a lifetime in the big leagues. The chances of the Toronto Blue Jays to do as well or better than they did a year ago were enlightened con- siderably two weeks ago when general manager Was able to sign Dennis Lamp as a free agent. Thismarks the first time the Jays have gone in to the free agent market with a bundle of big money. They were going true to form. When the team was establish- ed officials said they would not go after expensive players until their farm system was productive and the thoughts of a pennant contender were not just pipe dreams. Dennis Lamp who had a good record last year with the Chicago White Sox and with lefty Bryan Clark who was acquired from the Seattle mariners for Barry Bon- nell should considerably bolster the Blue Jays bullpen corps. The Toronto Blue Jays caravan will be in London tomorrow, Thursday and we hope to be there to keep up to date on the hopes and expectations of the team for the 1984 season. With the signing of Lamp, a number of Toronto sports writers went wild with puns and plays on words regarding the new pitcher. Here are a few of our own. Lamp short circuits Yankee rally. Lamp lights up Jays pennant hopes. Lamp is Toronto's leading Iight.Sock-et to'em Dennis. Lucas, Seaforth take titles in rec tournament at Hensall Lucan and Seaforth won the two championships in the weekend rec hockey league tournament held at the Hen- sall arena. The Lucan club took the A title with three straight vic- tories. They defeated Goderich 8-3 in the champion- ship contest after swamping Seaforth 12-1 and edging Il- derton 8.4 in an excellent semi-final contest. After losing their opener to Lucan, Seaforth bounced back to down Monkton 12-2 and edged the Hensall Whites 6-4 in the B final. The Hensall team lost 7-4 to Goderich in the first game and then came roaring back to beat Zubyk's of London 6-5 and the Bluewater Lakers 7-4 before losing to Seaforth in the final. Rick Freeman scored two goals to lead Lucan to the final 8-3 victory over Goderich. Scoring one goal apiece were Rick Abel, Cec Nickles, Gord Moon, Brad Taylor, Brian Noyes and Dan Marshall. Ron Glenn with a pair of successful shots paced Lucan to the close 6-4 semi-final win WIN HENSALL REC TOURNEY — Lucan won the grand championship of the weekend rec hockey tournament in Hensall. Back, left, Brad Taylor, Gord Moon, Paul Medd, Brod England, Rick Freeman, Brian Noyes, Doug Latta, Dan Marshall and coach Bob Smith. Front, Gerry Brown, Rick Abel, Ron Glenn, Kevin Lightfoot, Marty Wraith and Cec Nickles. T -A photo Tuckey is leading scorer Hawks continue to roll alon The Exeter Hawks rolled to 'two decisive wins over the Thedford' Browns this weekend as the northern divi- sion champs show no signs of - merely coasting through the balance of the season. With individual records at stake and a chance to establish the best record ever for a local junior squad, the Hawks bombed the Browns 13-3 at the rec centre, Friday, and then battled their way to a 7-3 win in Thedford, Sunday. League scoring leader Pete Tuckey picked up two goals and five assists in the two games as the locals ran their season record to 23-2-2. Meanwhile, the other four teams continue their close fight for the remaining three playoff positions. Lucan and Tavistock each won once to hold second and third respec- tively with the Irish one point in front. The Braves, however, have two games in hand. Both Seaforth and Thedford failed to pick up a win and are separated by only two points. The Browns appear to be in the most difficulty as they have only five games left and Dart teams score five The Rowdy Ones and the Turtles were the only Exeter Legion dart teams to sweep to five points in Friday's regular league play. This week's scores were: Rowdy Ones 5 Canscotts 0, Turtles 5 Smurfs 0, Itchy Niters 4 Makeups 1. All in the Family 4 Shiphunters 1, Merri Wraggs 4 Outlaws 1, Odd Ones 3 Trailers 2, Crusaders 3 Scotties 2, Swat 3 Snyde and Clyde 2. Friday's schedule is as follows: 8 p.m. The Makeups vs Odd Ones Scotties vs Rowdy Ones Merri Wraggs vs All in the Family Trailers vs Crusaders 9:30 p.m. Smurfs vs Snyde and Clyde Shiphunters vs "Furtles Canscotts vs Itchy Niters Swat vs Outlaws two of those are with the Hawks. Seaforth also have two games with the Hawks, in- cluding one last night in Seaforth. - Friday night, the Hawks come home to play Belmont and will be out to beat the Bombers and establish a record for the Hawks in sweeping the home -and -home series with each of the southern division teams: The Hawks will also be at home on Sunday to the Centenaires and then finish their six -game set with the Lucan Irish on Wednesday. Horner gets hot There was good and bad news for the Hawks in their 13-3 win over ,the Browns on Friday. Right winger Brian Horner returned to his scor- ing ways with five goals. The former Clinton Junior "C" player has been hobbled by a knee injury for several games and his return to form is welcome as playoff time nears. • On the other side of the ledger, the locals lost the ser- vices of Scott Brintnell with a separated shoulder and he'll be out of action for some time. Stever Prout has a bad knee but shouldn't miss more than one or two games. The Hawks peppered 51 shots at Thedford netminder Randy Thompson as they completely dominated the game. Dave Rook had 27 -4shots aimed in his direction. Two of the three goals against him came on powerplays as the locals sat out 11 of the 17 penalties called. Bill Glover scored a pair of tallies and singles came off the sticks of Ed Willis, Mike Clark, Jeff Rowe, Kris Bedard, Rick Lindenfield and Rich Lather. Tuckey's five assists were followed by three from Bedard and two each from George Tomes and Steve Bat- ten. Notching singles were Lather, Lindenfield, Kirk, Rowe, Prout, Horner and Willis. Penalties galore The Hawks and Browns hooked up in a real slug4st on Sunday as the locals prevailed 7-3. The Hawks started the game with 12 skaters and lost Mike Clark and Jeff Rowe for fighting majors as they tangl- ed with the Cloud brothers. Clark left in the first with Brad Cloud and Rowe was banished in the third with Bev Cloud. Aftera 1-1 first period, Ex- eter took control with four se- cond period goals to two by the hosts and then added two unanswered tallies in the third. Rich Lather, who sparkled with his nifty stick work, scored twice and added two assists. Tuckey also notched a pair and singles were fired by Willis, Glover and Lindenfield. Willis recorded three assists, Kirk had a pair and singles came from Horner and Bedard. Pete Dearing turned aside 27 shots to get the win bet- ween the pipes, while the Hawks had 38 shots at Brad Milner. Exeter had 21 of the 35 penalties. over Ilderton. Scoring in single fashion were Brad England, Brian Noyes, Doug Latta and Dan Marshall. Getting one goal apiece for Ilderton were Tom Trevail. Roger McQueen, Ed Parkin- son and Ed Robb. In the win over Seaforth, Paul Medd was tops for Lucan with a four goal effort. Next with two goals apiece were Cec Nickles, Rick Freeman and Brad England while Marty Wraith and Ron Glenn notched single scores. In the B final, leading the Seaforth team with two goals were Tom Nigh and Larry Dalton while Ken Swan and Motocross to go on snow Hully Gully is famous for motocross racing in summer, in'fact, this June 17, they host another Canadian National event, the EXPERT National round... but motocross on snow? Well, sort of. This Sunday, January 29, Hully Gully and Yamaha Motor Canada pre- sent the Huron Cup Snowcross and Tri -cross. It's a full day of snowmobile and 3 -wheeler racing on their snow-covered motocross course. With this style of rac- ing, the machines are air- borne most of the time and rider skill is the most impor- tant factor in winning. Snowcross is the most ex- citing form of winter motosport, combining speed, jumps, turns and intense competition, giving both fans and racers the most to enjoy. Racers from all over Ontario will come to compete for the Huron Cup, and there are also classes for snowmobilers who haven't raced before. 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Scott Jesney led the Hensall Whites attack with a two goal effort with Doug Osgood, John Rowcliffe and Jim Ferguson getting assists. The other goal getters were Steve Knight and John Rowcliffe with Scott Ross and Scott Jesney picking up assists. Hensall goalie Glenn Stire won the most valuable player award in the B final for an ex- cellent performance. Stire's stalwart efforts kept his club in contention throughout. In Hensall's first loss to Goderich, the scoring came in single fashion from the sticks of Scott Jesney, Mark Masse, Scott Ross and Steve Knight. Steve Knight and Lloyd Allan each fired two goals as Hensall downed Zubyk's 6-5. Scoring one apiece were Jim Ferguson and Perry Mattson. Scott Jesney and Steve Knight each picked up a hat trick in Hensall's 7-4 win over the Bluewater Lakers. Greg Campbell notched the other score. Mark Regier and Mike Clarke were the marksmen for the Lakers. In a preliminary game the Hensall Devils edged the Bluewater Lakers 9-8. 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