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Exeter and Lucan held into the playoffs
The iris i explode with three powerplay goals to Overcome a 4-i deficit tieing Exeter at four
Chris T+A Mir Hawks scored two more goats erirIy
PORT STANLEY. - the Exeter in the third, one from MacDonald
Hawks ended their regular season who banged one in on a well placed
schedule with a tie and a toss and
will prepare to face North Mid-
dtrMax in the first round of the
playoffs on Friday.
Exeter lost to Port Stanley 5-1 on
Saturday after tieing the Lucan
Irish 44 Friday ,tight.
Despite missing Sean Brown,
Shayne Robinson, Mike Bowerman The 4-4 tie against the Hawks
and captain Jason McBride, Exeter was Lucan's last game of the 1995 -
managed to keep the score tied at 96 season.•They finished with a 23 -
One after the second period, but 12-3 record, good enough for sec -
they couldn't contain Port Stanley and place in the Morenz division.
in the third giving up four goals. "Looking back on the year I
Chris Kennedy scored the would have to say I'm happy with
Hawk's only goal with assists from that. I thought we carried a good
Mark Livermore and Sean campaign," said Bogart who was
McCann. only two wins shy from reaching
The game ended the Hawk's sea- his pre-set goals for the season. "I
son with a 30-4-4 record on a los- would have liked to have won 25
ing note but doesn't affect their games but we were only two games
first place standing in the league. short," he said.
Heading into the playoffs, Bogart
Hawks tie Irish will look toward his two biggest of-
fensive weapons for support. Tre-
vor Emms and Mike Robb both
have recorded over 20 goals
through the season, and he will ex-
pect them to continue their scoring
habits when Lucan meets Seaforth
in the first round of the playoffs.
This will be the third time Lucan
squared off in a best of seven
playoff match against Seaforth.
Two years ago Seaforth swept Lu -
can in four games and last year Lu -
can returned the favor taking four
in a row.
"It's going to be like a long-term
rubber match," said Bogart.
screen and the other, from Mark
Bell who let loose R wrist shot that
bounced off Lucdn goalie Phil
Popp and rolled into the net.
With victory in sight, Exeter be-
gan to take penalties and it cost
them. Lucan roared back with throe
power play goals scored by Steve
Hudson and two by Steve Ma-
thews. Trevor Emms, Dave lenken
and Keith Robson picked up as-
sists.
"We took some stupid penalties.
You can't play shorthanded and ex-
pect to win," said head Exeter
coach Dave Revington.
One of the Hawk penalties came
when Nathan Burns was called for.
using an illegal stick with only a
minute left to play.
Lucan pulled their goalie for the
extra skater and Mathews scored
the tieing goal after a scramble in
front of the Hawk's net with only
11 seconds left to play.
A third period let clown was also "When, they. [the Hawks] scored
responsible for the Hawks blowing their fourth goal it kind of took the
a 4-1 lead on the Irish Friday night. wind out of our sails but the guys
After a slow start both teams ex- didn't give up," said Lucan coach
changed goals in the first period Scott Bogart adding they capital -
with Joey MacDonald scoring for ized on all three power play goals
Exeter with assists from Robinson in the third period to earn the come -
and Dave Farquhar, while Mike back.
Robb returned the favor for Lucan Statistically, the game had no af-
with a feed from Mike Bodnar. fect on either of the team's league
Steve Farquhar put the Hawks up standings. The Hawks finished first
by one in the second after taking a overall uncontested and the Irish
pass from Greg Dalrymple and have second place wrapped up in
broke in alone to bury the puck in their division. Two points either
the top right hand corner. The way would not have made a differ-
ence and* showed d ugh ltfleleek The Irish have three wins and
luster Performancefrom.. broth two,losses so far this year against
teams. •Seaforth, too close to make any
"Whea we play Exeter it's usual- post season predictions, however,
ly intense holt that was the leapt feels he's on to .right for'
emotional game out of the five: ; muttfor victory,
times we've played each other," "iiktafordt has small forwards so
said Bogart. if we can be aggressive and' get in
their face I think we can wear them
1. //Ave."
Lucan will host Seaforth in the
first game of a best of seven series
in Lucan Wednesday night.
Laps wads regular season
,:if
Senior Games volunteers were packaging registration forms at the South Huron Recreation
Centre on Tuesday. Right row, from front to back, Ray and June Hodgson, Wilma Davis, Mel-
vin and Gertie Stade, Jean Dann. Left row, Doris Denham, H. McKay, Harold Flnkbeiner, Ron
Dann and Doreen Flnkbeiner.
Exeter and area to host Senior Games
EXETER - Exeter will join Hen-
sall, Dashwood, Zurich, Grand
Bend and Grand Cove Estates in
hosting the 1996 Huron -Perth -
Middlesex Senior Games on June
17and 18.
Organizers were busy preparing
• registration packages last week
which will go out to the par-
ticipants from the three counties.
Over 500 seniors are expected to
compete in games such as carpet
bowling, crokinole, dans, crib-
bage, horse shoes, shuffleboard,
golf, swimming, tennis, Euchre,
carpet bowling five pin bowling
and lawn bowling.
This is the 12th annual Senior
Games and local organizers say
they are honored to be a part of the
competitive but fun event."
The Senior Games are meant to
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