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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1984-06-27, Page 18Pape 2A times -Advocate, Juno 27, 1984 Sports Spotlight By Ross Haugh A new sport Attempts are being made to organize a new sport in Exeter -and area. Next Tuesday, July 3 will see the first game of underwater hockey at the Exeter swimming pool. Jim Fleming of Huron Park who has played the game with the London Dolphins for some four months will be introducing the sport. All the equipment necessary is a mask, fins and snorkel. The sticks which are very short are on loan from the London Dolphins. The puck weighs about three pounds so naturally play is carried on in the bottom of the pool. Fleming says participants need not be experienc- ed swimmers. A me is actually 26 minutes in length with each team getting thedeep end of the pool for about 13 minutes and the shallow portion for the same amount of time. Orange pylons are used as goal posts. The game is very exhausting according to Flem- ing with players changing about every three minutes. Anyone wishing to try underwater hockey, male or female are asked to be at the Exeter pool at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, July 3. It's expected play will continue each Tuesday night from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Cost will likely be $10 for a minimum of six outings. Further information may be obtained by contacting Jim Fleming at 228-6280. Lead widening The Detroit Tigers continue their fantastic pace in the American League eastern division and appear to be pulling away from the pack. At the time of writing, Sparky Anderson's Tigers are eight and a half games ahead of the Toronto Blue Jays and showing no signs of abandoning their relentless pace. If there was any flaw in the Detroit armour it could have been in the pitching department, but, that appears to be rectified with the successful return of Jack Morris. Morris had arm problems, but, Sunday he allowed only one Milwaukee hit in six innings and appears to be back to normal. Normal for Morris is more than most AL teams can handle. He now had an even dozen victories as the Tigers have run their season record to 52 wins and on- ly 18 losses. If the Tigers continue their current pace, they would finish with something like an unheard of 120 victories and 42 defeats. What Frank Beckman of WJR Sports Rap said last week may be true. Beckman said the 35 and five start by the Tigers is what has already clinched the pennant for r them. Tiger fans should remember back a few years when a 14 game lead by the Boston Red Sox at the beginning of September quickly disappeared. Sparky Anderson said at the start of this season that the 1984 Tigers are the best club he has ever managed and his players are doing their best to prove him right. The Jays with the second best record of all 26 ma- jor league teams are only three and a half games ahead of last year's mark. In 1983 they practically folded dur- ing the last month. The Jays are on the way to breaking attendance records. In their first 36 home dates, the Jays are more than 200,000 fans ahead of a year ago at 932,989 and ap- pear to be headed over the two million mark. A great game Friday night we were able to see the Montreal Ex- pos take on the New York Mets by way of a satellite dish. It was a tremendous game and while the Expos won by a 2-1 score, the pitching of 19 year-old Dwight Gooden of the Mets was outstanding. He struck out 11 Expos and ,was throwing lots of smoke to take over the NL strikeout lead. With a little more experience, Gooden will turn in- to an excellent pitcher as will another youngster, Brian Clemens of the Boston Red Sox. Player of the year Congratulations to Paul Pooley on being named In- tercollegiate hockey player of the year by the Hockey News. Paul who has been the captain of the Ohio State Buckeyes for the past two seasons will receive a do - tion of $500 to the charity of his choice and a beauti'ul photo engraved plaque. The award is being presented today, Wednesday at. the Sheraton Centre in Toronto at a noon luncheon to which the Pooley family has been invited. A number of other Hockey News awards are being presented at the same time including N1IL player of the year to, you guessed it, Wayne Gretzky. We owe a special thanks to Hockey News editor-in- chief Bob McKenzie for allowing us to use the Paul Pooley award in this week's issue, actually before the winner was officially announced. Other awards being announced today are NHL rookie of the year Tom Barrasso of the Buffalo Sabres, executive Scotty Bowman of the same team and coach of the year Brian Murray of the Washington Capitals. Need fence help The Exeter Royals fastball team has undertaken the project of putting up a new fence at the main soft- ball diamond at Exeter Community Park. The local rec league will be purchasing 10 of the fence panels and the oldtimers team is buying one, but help is needed in the financing of the final five. Each panel of the four foot high self supporting fence is 24 feet in length and the cost is $150. Any team or individual willing to assist should call Fred Cook 235-0831 or Brian Hodgins 235-0432. A plaque with the name of the donor will be placed on the fence which will be portable and can be stored for the winter. f • In league play Soccer squirts remain unbeaten, mosquitos beat opposition 26-3 In soccer action in the squirt division this week, Ex- eter 1 travelled to Arva for a game. Two very even teams tried for 50 minutes to come out as a winner but they had to settle for a tie. Exeter 1 took the lead ear- ly in the game on a well taken penalty shot by Marty DeBruyn, awarded after one of the Arva players played the ball with his hands. The majority of play after that was in the middle of the field with Ryan Kyle for Ex- eter excelling with some great tackles. A quick break by Arva created the only scor- ing play in the second half. Final score: 1-1. Exeter 2 squared against Exeter 3- and remained unbeaten after a 2-01 win. Ex- eter 2 has now won an three of their games. It was an even well -played game with Ex- eter 2 capitalizing on their chances with two goals by Shawn McCann. The Exeter 'defense deserves special mention, they have not allow- ed a goal in their three games. Exeter 1 atoms played Lucan 1 at the high school. BEST IN JUNIOR SOCCER — Winning individual awards in junior soccer at the re- cent SHDHS athletic banquet were Dave Dougall, Brett Batten, Brian Topp and Sivilay Sen • khounman T -A photo Exeter 1 took a 2-0 lead on goals by Jason Heywood and Jason Coolman but it was not indicative of play. Toward the of the game, Lucan began pressing and closed the gap to 2-1. In the final five minutes, all Exeter 1, could do was hacng on and some excellea saves were made by goalie Jeremy Hern, keeping the final score at 2-1. Exeter 2 travelled to Lucan to play Lucan 2 and were on the long end of a 4-0 score: The play was more even than the score might appear. Some excellent chances by the Ex- eter forwards were stopped by Lucan defenders at the last minute. Forwards Danny Martens and Steven Far- quhar played an excellent game and with some more luck cold havescored some goals. Exeter 3 travelled to Nairn to play Nairn 1. The game saw Exeter totally dominate over the Nairn team only allowing two or three chances during the course of the game. Exeter took the lead in the first minute of play on a goal by Richard Phillips after an excellent play by Darryl Chappel. Exeter built a 3-0 half time lead and in the se- cond half really put the game away by scoring five more goals. Goal scorers for Exeter were: Derek Campbell, Steve Rankin and Fred Steciuk with two each and Richard Phillips and Nicky Szabo one each. The three Exeter mosquito teams are really showing their opponents how to play by outscoring them 26-3 this week. Exeter 1 played at home against Nairn 1. After a close first half, Exeter led by cap- tain Jaime Wulterkens really put it together in the -second half scoring seven goals. The defense with an excellent per- formance by Laurie Drake only allowed one goal to be scored by Nairn. Final score: 7-1. Scorers were: Steve Dubarry with three, Shane Pfaff, two, and Scott Russell and Dean Pfaff one each. Exeter 2 played at the Can- ners field against Lucan 1 and the strikers on the Exeter team again were in excellent form, connecting eight times for a final 8-2 score. Exeter 2 has now scored 18 goals in three games and are in first place in the standings follow- ed closely by Exeter 1 and 3. Exeter 3 travelled to Ilder- ton and totally outplayed the Ilderton team. The Exeter forward connected on eleven of their chances led by Jamie Bedard . with four goals and the Exeter defence with their goalie played shut out soccer: Goalies for Exeter were Scott Hodgins and Jimmy Ahrens. Other goal scorers for Ex- eter 3 were Todd McCann with three and Josef Osman, Tim Van Dam, Geof Sander and Jimmy Ahrens, one apiece. In bantam play, the Exeter team played Goderich and JUNIOR BASKETBALL - Coach Pat Rowe of the SHDHS junior basketball team presents trophies to Kellie Whiteford, Julie Lamport and Dionne Dearing at the re- cent athletic banquet di the school. T -A photo SENIOR GRID AWARDS — Senior football coach Casey Cook presents trophies to individual winners Peter Dearing, Steve Gould, Steve Thompson and Scott Turnbull at the recent SHDHS athletic banquet. T -A photo Royals streak to seven The Exeter Royals extend- ed their Southwestern Fastball League winning streak to seven games at home Thursday as the down- ed Nairn 8-4. Leading the Royals at the plate were Jim Allison, Will Lamb, Paul McKnight and Doug Pearson with two hits each. Starting and winning pit- cher Dave Prout gave up eight hits while striking out three. Brian Hodgins relieved in the seventh inning and struck out the side to record the save. On the weekend, the Royals participated in the Lucan Irish Tournament and got off on the right foot by defeating Parkway Sheet Metal of Lon- don 4-3 in the first game Fri- • day night. Barry Baynham had a big night at the plate as he drove in all four runs with a sacrifice fly and a three run homer. Starting pitcher Brian Hodgins picked up the win with Dan Heywood recording the save with two strong inn- ings of relief. Saturday Dan Heywood starred for the Royals in a 4-0 win over the Lucan Whitesox. In addition to pitching a com- plete game shutout, he pick- ed up two walks and two hits in four times at bat and drove in three runs. Sunday, in the A division semi final, the Royals did not fare as well as they dropped Ladies golf at Ironwood The regular Wednesday competition of the Ironwood ladies golf competition at- tracted 20 ladies. M.J. Chanyi required the least number of putts and the hidden hole winners were Gail Skinner, Grace Far- quhar and Sue Rasenberg. Audrey Fairbairn won the door prize. The next action for the ladies will be tomorrow night, Thursday. That's a day late because of a tournament. a 9-5 decision to the hard hit- ting Mitchell Mets of the South Perth League. Once again Heywood led the Exeter attack with two hits. .Overall during the weekend. Heywood batted .875 with two walks and was voted the most valuable player in the tournament. The Royals' next home ac- tion will be Thursday night when they host a revitalized Lieury squad. NEW SPORT — Underwater hockey will be introduced to the Exeter swim pool, Tuesday night. Jim Fleming is shown with a stick, puck and good posts. • were on the long end of a 7-0 score. The Goderich team totally dominated play and if not for the fine performance by Randy MacDonald, the score could have been higher yet. The bantams are off this week and it will be back to the drawing board for coach Bill• Osterloo. 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