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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1995-01-04, Page 10Page 10 Times -Advocate, January 4, 1995 ••• • Irish beat Hawks - page 11 • Minor hockey - page 12 Rebels win after third overtime period OT at Silver Stick meant advancement for one local team and defeat for another KINCARDINE - Jeff Fink- beiner's goal, his second of the game on Friday will be re- membered for a long time. He scored in the third over- time period to lift the Stephen Rebels to a 4-3 win over Ripley to take the Peewee Regional Silver Stick final in Kincardine. . Stephen will now head to the North American tournament to be held January 27-29 in Forest. Against Ripley, Dan Mos- urinjohn and Shawn Stuckless also scored. Pinkbeiner had two assists for a big four -point game while Jeremy VanBergen, J R Davies and Shawn Sher- wood also help set up the goals. The Rebels opened the tourna- ment with a 7-0 win over Kin- cardine II as Sherwood fired the hat trick, Davies netted two and Fink- beiner and Adam Wilson also scored. Goalie BJ Theophiloupolos had the shutout. In the five games they played, Finkbeiner had 11 points to lead the Rebels offence. Game Two was a 2-0 loss to Ta- vistock before they regrouped on Thursday to beat Zurich 4-2 on two goals from Finkbeiner and one each from Shawn Stuckless and Sher- wood. Later the same day, Stephen beat St. Clements 2-1 on goals by Fink, beiner and Sherwood. Disappointment for Generals PETROLIA - Four hours is a long time for one hockey game - especially if its your sixth game in as many days. The new year started off on a dis- appointing note for the Exeter RSD Generals as they lost 6-5 in the fourth overtime period to St. Marys in the midget final of the Regional Silver Stick Tournament in Pe- trolia. Exeter held a solid 3-0 lead after the first period against their fa- miliar rivals but it was tied after two periods and again knotted, this time 5-5 after three periods. Following three overtime pe- riods, each ten minutes long, St. Marys Chris Masse got his second f the game to clinch the title. Generals centre Chris McDonald had a goal and two assists while Marty DeBruyn and Geoff Maver each scored once and set up an- other. Also scoring were Gavin Poole and Brent Gibson. Exeter are now preparing for the OMHA playoffs which will see them open up a round-robin series with Dresden and Lambeth be- ginning January 29. New Year's Eve day saw De- Bruyn score two goals and Ryan Soldan notch the other in a 3-1 semi-final win over Tilbury which saw Dan Taylor set up two goals. On Friday defensemen Brian Richardson and Bill Hodge scored in a 4-2 loss to St. Marys in round- robin preliminary action. However three earlier wins put them into the semis. Gibson notched the winner in overtime as Exeter beat Oakridge 6-5. DeBruyn had two goals while McDonald had three assists. Also scoring for the winners were Hodge, Jeff Sararas and Blair Moir. Last Wednesday DeBruyn had two goals and an assists in a 6-0 shutout win over Tilbury. Gibson had two with a goal and an assist from McDonald. Maver also scored while Scott Rowe and Matt Gla- vin each had two assists. Exeter opened up the tourna- ment last Tuesday with a 6-1 win over Wallaceburg. In this one McDonald had four assists while DeBruyn had three goals and an assist. Maver had two goals with the other from Moir. Over the six games, DeBruyn paced the Generals offence with 10 goals and three assists while McDonald also had a good tour- nament with two goals and 11 as- sists. Lingard playing volleyball with top university team He's now with the U of Waterloo Warriors By Fred Groves T -A staff -EXETER - In the hallway of South Huron District High School there is a framed photo of the 1992 Huron -Perth junior boys soccer championship team. The Most Valuable Player was Jeff Lingard. Two -and -a -half years later, Lingard is not wearing the colours of the Panthers but suiting up for the University of Waterloo Warriors in another, sport - vol- leyball. Lingard, a native of Grand Bend and graduate of SHDHS, is a fresh- man at the university and one of four first-year players to make the men's varsity volleyball team at Waterloo. • "I was very glad I made it. I thought I had a chance. You only —had three tryouts to show your stuff," said Lingard during a pickup game during the holidays at South Huron. There were 35 freshman players that came out to crack the lineup, only four were taken onto the team that is currently ranked first in On- tario and ninth in the country. In his final year of high school, Lingard helped the Panthers win the Huron -Perth championship. That is where the Waterloo coach approached him. When he was in Grade I! and 12, Lingard played city volleyball in Stratford. "I had been approached when I was in Stratford. He talked to me but he (the coach) didn't propose a position," said Lingard. The science and business student is very busy. He spends two hours a night on the court with the varsity team and is in class for 25 hours a week. The rest of the time he has his nose buried in the boobs. "You have to budget your time "It's a lot more demanding. You have to keep your head in it all the time." accordingly. They (marks) haven't dropped much from high school." The Warriors, along with Queen's University, are the teams to beat in the Ontario University Athletic As- sociation men's league. Lingard is hoping Waterloo will head to Sud- bury in early March for the Ca- nadian championships. Being a freshman doesn't mean there is always going to be a lot of court time and Lingard, a quite .spoken young man, doesn't mind waiting his tum to be a starter. "I'm happy with the court time . I'm seeing as a first-year player but I'm looking forward to the years to come." When he was with the Panthers, there were a few big hitters on the senior team so Lingard was able to improve his whole game including setting which he is doing quite a bit of with the Warriors. "I'm in training for setter but most of my court time is hitting right side." When he played high school vol- leyball, Lingard said that the teams South Huron competed against didn't always have six good players on the court at one time. That, he said is the big difference between high school and university volleyball. There are always six good players on the court- in the university version. When asked what he thought the biggest difference between the two levels of the game was, Lingard an- swered, "it's the pace. There's al- ways good players in high school but not a whole team." "It's a lot more demanding. You have to keep your mind in it all the time." Thursday afternoon when he and a group of locals were trying to get in a good workout at the high school, Lingard's former senior high school coach Scott Halpenny was looking on. Lingard said a strong program at South Huron is what helped him make the big step to the university game. "I was lucky here. We've always had a good program with Mr. Hal - penny. I had a chance to play with some good players. Ringette could be a good starting point for hockey i Sidelines Here is Just an idca. Instead of young boys, and the few girls who do play hockey, starting off their careers on the ice by playing hockey, how about a year of ringette. 1 know, there are a few of you out there shaking your head and saying no, "that's a girls game". But wait a second because it may not be such a bad idea. Ringette parents shouldn't get me wrong here when I say that one sport should be used to springboard into another. Coaches and executives know how difficult and frustrating it is to lose kids to another$ ort. What I am saying here is that one sport can loam from an- other. While we now have a hockey initiation program for the young future Gretzkys perhaps it would't be a bad idea to have the three and four year-olds learning how to take a pass using a ring and a bladeless stick. • Ringette players learn how to skate hard and quickly at a very young age but besides that, the number one benefit of having the boys play the girls game would be'to learn how to give and re- ceive a pass. In ringette, the stick has to be lifted up and then back down to receive a pass. In hockey, the puck is there and it takes a little more skill, Fm sorry to say to you hockey players, to receive a pass in ; ingette. Bernie Cockburn, head coach of the Ontario Junior Ringette team recently visited the area and said in some parts of Canada, playing ringette before hockey was mandatory. "There was an organization in Montreal and they insisted all their boys play ringette for the first year to get the skating skills and passing skills" said Cockburn. While in Hensall for • training session over the holidays, Cockburn said the two sports can compliment each other but noted that playing one before the other should not be mandatory. "I really don't sec a necessity for it," said Cockburn. Looking ahead into 1995 here are just a few predictions as 1 look into my sports crystal ball. - Exeter native Dave Shaw may have to think seriously about a new career as he is getting on in years (as far as hockey stan- dards go) and their will be no hockey in the spring of 1995. - Look for the following minor hockey teams to content for the OMHA championships - Zurich midgets, Exeter peewees and midgets and the Stephen atoms, peewees and bantams. - Fred Cook will from the junior men's fastball team and they could have a good shot at an OASA title. - As far as soccer is concerned, the Centennials will continue to improve and look for them to add a lot of local talent to their lineup. • - Junior baseball will return in Exeter and maybe down the highway in Lucan as well. - The South Hon District High School Panthers girls field hockey team will winefourth straight OFSAA title. From the sidelines: ...In last week's edition I forgot to put in the Year in Review a very important accomplishment and that was that the Exeter Atom Broncos were OMHA ti- nalists...Congraulations this week goes out to the Stephen Pee- wees for winning the Regional Silver Stick tide. 4