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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1984-03-21, Page 10f r uwa 'v 1 irnfls-? ovo o , sinus t.f l a r , 1104 Sports Spotlight By Ross Haugh Hockey fans in this area are in for real exciting ac- tion tonight and Sunday night as the Exeter Hawks play host to the Grand Valley Harvesters In the second and fourth games of their best -of -seven OHA Junior D semi- finals. Although the Hawks dropped a 9-6 decision in over- time in Grand Valley in the opening game Sunday night, the players and officials are confident they can come back and regain their winning ways of one of the most successful seasons the team has ever had. As one of the players told us after the game, "They play a different style of hockey than we are used to and the first game was played on a strange rink for the first time. We'll get them". The Hawks held an edge in territorial play in most of Sunday's game and outshot the Harvesters by 64-47. That's a lot of shots in one game, so local fans can ex- pect wide open play in the next games at the South Huron Rec Centre. NHL crowds up Attendance has been on the increase at most Na- tional Hockey League rinks this year, but, especially in two cities. The Calgary Flames lead in higher crowds with a rise of 285,600 for their first 30 home games. The reason for this is the Flames have moved from their old home at the tiny Stampede Corral to the new Olym- pic Saddledome. The real increased crowds due to a better team is in Detroit where the Red Wings with their best perfor- mances in many years have enticed 114,296 more perms, sons to their first 30 games at Joe Louis arena than they did during the 1982-83 season. The NHL office has announced the first round of playoffs in the four divisions will begin on Saturday, April 14. The first f(lur teams in each division will play in best -of -five series. The division finals and conference finals and StanleyCup final series will all be of the best of seven duration. There is a monetary advantage for teams to win their regular season championship. All players on the four division winners will each receive $4,000 while se- cond place finishers receive $2,000 per ma'n and each third place team member gets $1,000 and $600 goes to each player on the fourth spot teams. The Stanley Cup champions will each receive an ad- ditional $20,000 while the final losers will take home $15,000 a piece. In St. Louis Thursday night, the intermission bet- ween the second and third periods was extended to almost a half hour as the Zamboni ice machine konked out on the ice and arena attendants had some difficul- ty in getting the machine off the ice. The battle for the fourth and final playoff spot in the 'Norris division is apparently boiling down to the Toronto Maple Leafs and Chicago Black Hawks. The Chicago team has the worst road record in the entire league with only four victories, six ties and 26 losses in their first 36 games away from the friendly confines of Chicago Stadium. Slow starts • Two of the bigjeague baseball clubs off to the slowest start in the current grapefruit league exhibition games are the two expected to be in the rutting for the eastern division championship in the American league. At the recent Exeter Lions Sportsmen's dinner Pit- cher Milt Wilcox of the Detroit Tigers and Jim Gott of the Toronto Blue Jays predicted their two teams would be in the battle for the pennant come September. While exhibition games don't mean a thing it's nice to get off to a good start and have a winning attitude when the umpires call 'play ball' in early April. Neither the Tigers or Blue Jays have been using their top line players on a regular basis, choosing to give the large number of rookies in attendance a chance to show their stuff. The Detroit and Toronto clubs appear to be in the same position if the scarcity of left handed pitching is a necesity for a successful club. That's a commodity some of the other American league east contenders do have. The only experienced left on the Jays staff is Bryan Clark who was obtained from the Seattle Mariners for outfielder Barry'Bonnell. Also trying for a spot on the probably 10 man staff are Stan Clarke who had a few tries last year and minor league John Cerutti. At Seattle a year ago, Bryan Clarke threw a total of 162 innings. He gave up 160 hits while striking out 76, walking 72 and had an ERA of 3.94. In 26 starts at Knoxville before coming up to the parent Toronto club, Stan Clarke had an ERA of 2.49 while strking out 51 in 43 innings. At Syracuse his ERA stayed below 3.00 and he struck out 58 batters in 53 innings. Detroit Tigers manager Sparky'Andersonlasonly Howard Bailey and John Martin to throw from the left side. In comparison to the situation in Detroit and Toron- to, the New York Yankees, Baltimore Orioles and Milwaukee Brewers are deep in left handed pitching talent, The Yankees can call on Ron Guidry, Shane Hawley, Dave Righetti and Bob Shirley while the Orioles have Mike Flanagan, Tippy Martinez and Scott McGregor. Throwing southpaw for Milwaukee are Mike Caldwell and Bob McClure. 'The Blue Jays are rumoured to be close to making a couple of big trades. The one proposed deal has Blue Jays second basemen going to Texas for pitcher Dan- ny Darwin, outfielder Larry Parrish and a third baseman. Chatter out of Pittsburgh has the Pirates offering almost anybody on their staff to Toronto for right fielder Jesse Barfield. We doubt very much if Bobby Cox would give up Barfield in any deal. The young outfielder has already thrown out a couple of runners in this spring and has one of the most respected arms in the American league. t t nay in cxeter tonight and Sunday Hawks drop first Junior D semi..final tilt to Grand Hockey fans expecting lots of excitement in the first, game of the Ontario Hockey Association Junior D semi- finals between the Exeter Hawks and Grand Valley Harvesters were not disappointed. Thanks to a four goal flurry in overtime, the Harvesters defeated the Hawks 9-6 in Grand Valley, Sunday night. The second game of the best -of -seven series will be played tonight, Wednesday at the South Huron Rec Centre at 8:30 p.m. The Harvesters won the coin toss conducted by OHA convener Jim King of Guelph sending the third game back to Grand Valley Friday night at 9 p.m. The two teams return to Exeter for the fourth game Sunday night, Game time will be 8:30 p.m. If a fifth game is necessary it will go in Grand Valley, Wednesday, March 28. A sixth game would be scheduled for Exeter on Friday, March 20 at 8:30 p.m. and the seventh and final in Grand Valley, Sunday, April 1. Sunday's contest was a free -wheeling offensive mind- ed game from start to finish. The Hawks outshot the Harvesters 19 to 10 in the first period and 22 to 12 in the se- cond. The Harvesters had the ODD GAME FLIP — Convener Jim King of Guelph is ready to reveal the outcome of the flip of the coin to decide on odd game in the best -of -seven OHA Junior D semi-final series between the Exeter Hawks and the Grand Valley Harvesters. Look- ing on are Hawks manager Doc Campbell and Grand Valley Officials Fronk Scianit- ti and Jim Irvine. Grand Valley won the flip. most shots in the third 18 to nine while the Hawks outshot the home club in overtime 14 to six for an overall game total of 64 to 48. The only goal of the first period came at 2:55, only two seconds after Steve Prout of the Hawks joined team-mate Kris Bedard in the penalty box. Jamie Taylor of the Harvesters got the draw quickly back to Jason Shaw and bang, the puck was in the Exeter net. The Hawks put on their best pressure of the opening ses- sion with Dave 7ago of Grand Valley off for tripping near the 13 minute mark. Rick Lather sent captain Pete Tuckey in the clear, but, he was robbed by goalie Brent Boswell. • The second period was on- ly 36 seconds old when Greg Flear deflected a shot from the side by captain Murray Hunter to put the Harvesters ahead 2-0. Dan Deaken also assisted. Bill Glover scored his first of three goals at 5:38 on a power play to net the first Ex- eter goal. Glover took a pass from Brian Horner and was able to bang his own rebound into the net. Near the midway mark, Bill Glover and Kris Bedard came up with great defensive plays to catch Harvesters who were breaking into the clear. Shortly after, Scott Brint- nell, Rich Lather and Ed Willis swarmed all around the Grand Valley for nearly a minute, but, failed to score. The Harvesters scored their third goal on a power play. While Brian Horner was off, Greg Flear was in the right spot to deflect a shot from Jamie Taylor. Also assisting was Dave Zabo. Bill Glover found the Harvester net at 14:09 as the result of hard work and se- cond effort as Mike Clark and Tony Jones put the puck in front. The third and tying goal for the Hawks came at 15:38 as Ed Willis dug the puck away from a Harvester in the cor- ner and sent it out to a waiting Scott Brinthell. The Harvesters took a 4-3 lead to the second rest period as the result of a blistering shot from the left point by Paul Irvine. Dave Zago assisted. , Near the end of the period, a good Grand Valley scoring chance was thwarted as Ed Willis came roaring back to catch Murray Hunter. The Hawks wasted little time to again square the score in the third period. Ed Willis fired a rising slap shot past Boswell at 1:44 from about 20 feet directly in front. Kris Valley in overtime Bedard and Rich Lather assisted. The Harvesters moved ahead 5-4 only 38 seconds later as Paul Irvine scored from close in. At 5:17 Scott Brintnell stple the puck inside the Grand Valley blue line and sent Ed Willis in the clear and he neat- ly deked the goalie to score. The Hawks took all four of the third period penalties call- ' ed by referee Larry Skillan of Brampton. They played two men short during a minute and 10 seconds of that time. During Allis time, Rich Lather hit the side of the Harvester net on a breakaway. Each team scored a goal in the third period which was disallowed. In each instance, the net was bounced off its moorings. In overtime, the Harvesters scored three times in the first five minutes. Paul Irvine not- ched his third goal on shot from the left side, Jason Shaw tallied on a breakaway and Greg Flear swept the puck in- to the Exeter net while lying on his back. gill Glover completed a hat trick performance at 8:03 on a power play with Steve Pro- ut and Mike Clark assisting. Jason Shaw notched his third goal for the Harvesters at 9:06 on an unassisted effort to complete the Harvesters scoring. Jr. D. OHA Semi -Finals Grand Valley Harvesters vs Exeter Hawks Wednesday 8:30 p.m. The Exeter Entertainers and Locking Goad preci- sion skating teams will perform between periods. Sunday 8:30 p.m. South Huron Rec Centre Ad sponsored by the Grand Bend Colonials hockey team. Annual Spring Run Off CLEARANCE SALE! Starts March 21 in conjunction with Spring Sell-A-Bration Days NEVER AT BETTER PRICES! • PUMA Laser Jr. & Laser II • CONVERSE Canvas Allstar II 4..11EW BALANCE - WJ280 - Aerobic 460 and W460 - 420 and W420 - T400 racquet ball • BROOKS - J.V. cleats - 206 Baseball spikes ' A REBOUND — Tony Jones of the Hawks tries to bang in a rebound Bill Glover (9) during Sunday's Junior D playoff game in Grand at a shot by SHOT DEFLECTED -- A shot by Pete Tuckey (7) goes wide of the Grand Valley goal. Brian Horner of the Hawks is at the far side of the net. Pee.. wees win one in tourney The Exeter pee wees won one game in three starts in the annual Young Canada tournament in Goderich. In their first start Monday, the local youngsters coached by Brian McLelland and Tom McCann were blanked 5-0 by Goderich: They came roaring back later the same day to score a similar 5-0 victory over Waterloo. The Exeter scoring started in the second period when lfarlen Tinney registered on a three-way passing combina- tion with Rob McLelland and r.-- .............. Doug Clark and David O'Con- nor scored on passes from Tim Van Dam and Henri DeBruyn. The third period was only 12 seconds old when Hob McLelland hit the Waterloo net on a play started by cap- tain Larry Lewis and Harlen Tinney. Less than a minute tater, . Tim Van Dam made it 4-0 as he converted passes from Todd McCann and Doug Clark. The final Exeter goal came on an unassisted effort by Doug Clark. 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