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Times Advocate, 1995-03-01, Page 14Page 14 Times -Advocate, March 1, 1995 gig 1 This Week in Sports.. • Hoopers head to WOSSA - page 15 , • Ball clinic in HuronPark - page 16 Defth,sive hockey the key, Irish up two Veteran goalie Steve Watson played very strong in net on Sundayin a 2-1 victory y By Fred Groves T -A staff LUCAN - On Sunday there was a sign leading into the Lucan Irish dressing room which said, "there is no substitute for hard work." A little message with big results as the Irish beat visiting Seaforth Centenaires 2-1 to take a two - games -to -none lead in their best -of - seven OHA Junior Development League west division quarter -final series. It was the second straight playoff win and 1 1 th consecutive win for the Irish who were looking to im- prove on that last night (Tuesday) in Seaforfth. Game Two was supposed to be played in Seaforth on Friday night but road closures and bad weather conditions prevented that. Instead the second game was played in Lu - can and the series will go back-to- back in Seaforth, Tuesday and Fri- day. A pair of one win victories over Seaforth have got the Irish playing a very defensive style of hockey. Will that style be maintained if Lu - can advances into the semis? "It's good to get used to that. They've both been one -goal games," said Lucan coach Scott Bogart. "We can't afford to look into the future." The past is playing an important role in this series as Lucan was swept in four straight by the Irish in last year's post -season play. "Defence is the key. Take care of your own end and the goals will come," added Bogart. There were only three goals in Sunday afternoon's contest. Sea- forth's Chad Ramer, a Zurich Minor Hockey Association product opened things when he came in from his defence position and banged away until he got it past Steve Watson. That would be the only time the puck would get by Watson, named the games MVP as he stopped Ramer again later in the game and picked up his second straight playoff win between the pipes. It was tied 1-1 with five seconds left in the first period as big Jim Stanton crowded the goal crease and fell on Seaforth netminder Tim Swan while Christian Criel scored his second of the playoffs. The winning goal came with 12:48 left to play as Mike Robb let go with a quick snap shot off the draw which got between Swan's pads. Irish 4, Cents 3 Last Wednesday night in the se- ries opener in Lucan, Criel spun around and let go with what seemed to be a desparation shot beating Tim Swan with 4:05 left to play. Down 2-0 early in the first pe- riod, the Irish got one back when Greg DePrest set up J.D. Adamth- waite who had stepped in from the blueline. DePrest was on the ice for what seemed to be a six -minute shift and at the end of it he was ejected by referee Paul Petrie for checking -from -behind. Despite not having their top scor- ing forward in the game, the Irish rallied behind Scott Riddell. He went in on Swan early in the mid- dle period, got a shot away and Jer- emy Jemec followed behind with the shorthanded goal to tie the game at 2-2. Riddell, Jemec and linemate George Stephens have not only been putting the puck in the net but they've been keeping the opposition off the scoreboard. "My role specifically is to back - check and take my man. We're probably one of the better two-way lines on the team," said Riddell last year's OHA Junior Development League Player of the Year. "We score shorthanded all the time. We've played together for three or four years," added Riddell. After Jemec tied it up, Seaforth's Steve Geiger got his second of the game, this one a shot from the point which got between Steve Watson's pads. Geiger, a Zurich Minor Hock- ey Association product, opened the scoring with a deflection over Wat- son's shoulder. Ted Sills had the other Centenaries tally. Just 5:47 into•the third, Riddell tied it up 3-3 on a beauty of a wrap- around goal. "It went off the back of the net. The goaltender was there but I just put it between his pads," said Rid- dell. Lucky charms:...Criel, DePrest and Riddell all have two points each over two games...The winner of this series will face either Lamb- eth or Mitchell... ombers rough, but Hawks lead By Fred Groves T -A staff BELMONT - A rough hockey game was expected last night in Game Three of the OHA Junior De- velopment League quarter -finals between host Exeter Hawks and the Belmont Bombers Taking a two -games -to -none lead in the best -of -seven series, the Hawks may be looking over their shoulders as the Bombers seem to be playing an overly aggressive game. "They tried to intimidate us, it got kind of silly in the third period," said Exeter coach after Saturday nights 9-5 win in Belmont. "They came after (Chris ) Kennedy three or four times." In the series opener on Friday, the Hawks won very easily, a big 11-3 victory but the following night the Bombers were ready to play. "They scored at 19:46 (14 sec- onds into the game), they were ready," said Revington. It was 2-2 after the first period and knotted at four all following forty minutes but the Hawks pumped in five unanswered tallies in the third period. Ray Cousineau and Mark Liver- more led the scoring attack with a pair of goals each with singles from Kennedy, Jamie Cornish, Shayne Robinson, Steve Farqhuar and Chad Gilfillan. Exeter scored three goals with the man advantage and Gilfillan's was on a shorthanded breakaway. Hawks 11, Bombers 3 The Bombers were bombed in the first game of the series as Shayne Robinson scored just nine seconds after the opening faceoff and it was 5-1 after 20 minutes. "I think they (Belmont) might have come up too early because of Continued on page 15 Lucan's Mike Robb (9), didn't take too kindly to something Seaforth's Scott Wright did during Seaforth goalie Tim Swan looks down at the puck as it comes off of Lucan Irish forward Steve last Wednesday's game in Lucan. Linesman Jim Lewis had to come in and break things up. Matthew's stick during last Wednesday's 4-3 Irish win. A referee that swears, now I've seen everything in hocke I thought I saw just about everything imaginable in hockey un- til Saturday night. . We took the Exeter juveniles down to Tiverton for an exhibi- tion game and I, and perhaps the rest of the coaching staff and the players as well, were a little bit surprised at one officials lan- guage. I'll admit I can be bit of a gutter mouth myself on the bench, but over the years I've learned to curb it. If I'm agitated I'll yell and scream like everyone else in the building but I won't let out the four letter words. Sometimes cursing puts an explanation mark at the end of a statement. That's what this particular referee thought he was doing when every other word out of his mouth in the first two periods started with an 'f or an 's'. This guy's reputation must follow him because the timekeeper, a former referee of 18 years said our referee was a showboater. I thought that also but some officials like to be the centre of•the attention and firmly believe everyone is there to watch them. Tiverton juveniles have been eliminated from the playoffs, they've had a rough season which one report indicated as win- less. They were at the game w:thnine players, including a goal- ie. Frustration set in and their big guys and one or two of our larger lads were banging pretty good, especially in front of the net. Well our team has got a future in that we are starting the OMHA semi-finals against Listowel, but Tiverton didn't have anything to lose. The actions of the Tiverton players weren't that bad, in fact a few of them were just like the guys from Ingersoll, polite but not a lot of talent. Anyway, the referee seemed to get them more upset and in one case when he kicked a Tivertom player out for high -sticking he yelled in the arena, "he's (the player) lucky I didn't give him a #%' @ I match penalty." On another occasion, when Tiverton hadn't yet put someone in the box to serve a penalty the referee said, "I don't give a #%*&!@ who you put in the damn box." During the break between the second and third period we told the Tiverton town contact we didn't want them corning back to Exeter for Sunday's planned exhibition game. Okay, no problem by her. The next thing we chatted about was the referee. She agreed with the timekeeper and in fact had some words that were a little more dramatic, I think she used the word, "idiot." I told the referee that in my years of hockey I have never, nev- er heard a hockey official curse and swear like this guy. I asked him why he was doing it. His response was he was upset. An exhibition game which means nothing, what does this guy do when he has to referee a playoff game and there are fights and lots of controversy? A referee has the ultimate power. He can give out penalties, he can determine who is ejected and he can even write a report to the league. But swearing and making the game a mockery is not necessary. From the sidellines:...Congratulations to Exeter's Jason Hey- wood and the rest of,the University of Western Ontario Mus- tangs who knocked off the Waterloo Warriors in their playoff series...also, congrats to the Exeter petites who won the silver medal at a recent ringette tournament.