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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1984-05-02, Page 81, Pag0 a Times -Advocate, Moy 2, 1984 Sports Spotlight By Ross Haugh All year round competition The success in the last couple of years in oldtlmers hockey especially by the Exeter Molting Hawks and the Zurich Has Beans. is spilling over into the summer months. Plans are being made for a slo-pitch ball league for those who feel young and are at least 35 years of age. Initial interest indicates at least a dozen teams'will be ready when the area league swings into action in late May. Teems are expected from Exeter, Hensall, Zurich, Dashwood, etc. President of the new league is Phil Overholt of Zurich. Jack Fuller is the secretary and Jim Pfaff will handle the duties of treasurer. Both are members of the Exeter Molting Hawks. Bulldogs win it all Belated congratulations to the Mt. Brydges Bulldogs on winning the Ontario Hockey Association Junior D championship after a hard fought final series with the Grand Valley Harvesters. While everyone in this area was pulling for the Ex- eter Hawks to win the provincial title, the next best is to have a team from the same league win it all and the Bulldogs are from the southern division of the Western Junior D league. Molson Cup winners Only two winners of the Molson Cup three star awards of a year ago were back to regain their awards as the 1983-84 regular season of Canadian telecasts wound down. Wayne Gretzky of Edmonton and Toronto Leaf Rick Vaive gained the most points in the three star selections. Gretzky was the winner in Edmonton for the fifth straight year with the most points overall with 155. Mark Messier was second with 95. In Toronto, Vaive was tops with 75 points while rookie goalie Allan Bester and Dan Daoust were tied for second with 50 points. Bester won the $500 award because of more first place votes. The,winner on each team receives $1,000. Guy Carbonneau picked up 75 points to lead the Montreal Canadiens. Guy Lafleur who holds the record of leading his team six times was second with 60 points. Mats Naslund and Richard Sevigny each had 50. There was real battle between two Winnipeg Jets all season long. Laurie Boschman picked up 90 points, five more than Dale Hawerchuk. Roger Lemelin of the Calgary Flames was the on- ly goalie to be a winner. He had little trouble beating team-mate Kent Nilsson by 120 points to 65. In Vancouver, Patrik Sundstrom came on strong in the closing month .to get 100 points and catch Tony Tanti who had led most of the way. Tanti finished with 80. The winners a year ago in additon`to Gretzky and Vaive were Lanny McDonald, Mario Tremblay, Dale Hawerchuk and Thomas Gradin. NHL crowds up The final results are in and the just concluded Na- tional Hockey League regular schedule drew the largest crowds in the history of the league. The 21 NHL teams drew a total attendance of 11,984,275. That's an increase of more than 430,000 fans from a year ago. There are a couple of reasons for the increase. The Calgary Flames moving to their new and larger rink had attendance ligures increased by 380,000 and the great improvement of the Detroit Red Wings enticed an extra 149,000 customers to the Joe Louis arena. While a couple of others clubs had smaller in- creases the big disappointments and decreases in fan support were recorded in Pittsburgh; Los Angeles and New Jersey and despite a good year the Washington Capitals were down by 30,000 fans. The largest crowds were in Edmonton where the Oilers attracted 40 sell-out crowds of 17,498. The New York Rangers were second with 17,394 fans jamming into Marson Square Gardens for every game. Other teams enjoying capacity crowds for all 30 home games were the Calgary Flames, Toronto Maple Leafs, Quebec Nordiques and New York Islanders. While the Pittsburgh Penguins did have one sell- out crowd, their overall average attendance was only 6,872. The next Io 'est was in Los Angeles at 10,495. The Penguins averaged only 2,900 fans for their last 20 contests. What a start! Baseball fans in Detroit are already on the bawl - wagon reviving memories of the 1968 World Series. While it's a little early to order tickets for the fall classic. Tiger fans have a right to be optimistic. At the time of writing Sparky Anderson and his. Tigers have an almost unbelievable record of 18 vic- tories and only two losses in their first 20 outings. In the early going, Anderson is getting better pitching perfor- mances than he expected. Jack Morris has a no-hitter and Dan Petry was within four outs Saturday of doing the same thing. In addition, the Tiger are getting base hits when they count and first classsielding. Our other favourite ball team, the Toronto Blue Jays are also off and running with 13 wins and nine losses. They are in second spot, six games back of the Tigers. The Tigers and Jays don't meet each other until June 4 and then they play seven times in 10 days. 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GordKirk president Cord Kirk was returned as President of the Exeter and district Junior Hawks hockey` club at the annual meeting held Wednesday night at the South Huron Rec Centre. Kirk who is beginning his fourth term as head of the group which operates the local junior D hockey team said he is confident a good team will be ready to go in the fall. He added, "We are losing a few players, but, so are most of the teams. We will certain- ly be competitive." Kirk indicated the team en- joyed a good year financially due to a number of good fund raising projects including the annual slave auction and the fact the team reached the pro- vincial semi-finals with good crowds in attendance. Vice-presidents of the organization are Gerald Willis and Silvere Bilcke. Gord Rook is secretary and the treasurer is Murdena Glover. Club directors are Gabby Mol, Ken Dobney, John Pym, Bob Willis, Tony Jones, Bob Clark and' Tom Murtch. The team's annual season windup banquet is scheduled for May 11. President Gord Kirk, Gord Rook, Tom Murtch and team manager Doc Campbell at- tended the Ontario Hockey Association annual meeting in Toronto over the weekend. Representing the Lucan Irish were manager Bob Taylor, Claire Stanley, Jim ZURICH WINNERS —,The Zurich team tied for first place with Exeter at the area basketball tournament held in Exeter. Zurich members are (back,141i Kerry Deitz, Tracy Fisher, Joanne Bridle, Peggy Gackstetter Laurie Forrester, coach Beth Querengesser and (front) -Sonya Shantz, Carolyn Love, Kelly Kirk, Kathy Merner and Donna Gingerich. Missing: Nicole.deBlieck and Jodi Brokenshire. Season Opener Motocross This Sunday The Wildest Sport on 2 wheels! 41, The Hully Gully Season Opener Motocross..:Double Header Excitement for your whole family all day long... 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