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Times-Advocate, 1996-06-12, Page 18Page 18 Times -Advocate, June 12, 1996 SPORTS T•S John Watson fights off a Latino defender during an Exeter Fury soccer game on Sunday. Wat- son scored on a long and accurate kick picking off the far top comer to tie the game in the second half but the Fury still lost 2-1. Fury lose first game of the season EXETER - The Exeter Fury suf- fered their first defeat of the season Sunday, 2-1 to the Latinos from London after allowing a winning goal in the last five munutes of the game. The game started with the Lat- inos having the early pressure on the Fury defense. Fury goalie Craig Winbow made a great diving stop of a penalty shot in the first two minutes to keep the Latinos off the scoreboard. The visitors managed to get the lead however, as a Latino player was left unattended and he made no mistake by picking the far corner of the net. The Fury started to play better in the second half and tied the game on a brilliant rush by defender John Watson scored when he fought his way past the 25 yard line and drilled a long shot into the far upper corner of the net. Pete McAllister nearly had a goal of his own as the Latino goalie appeared to catch McAllister's shot on the other side of the goal line but play continued with the score tied. The Fury pressed for the win per- haps inspired by the ejection of coach, Jeff Playfoot who was kicked out form the sidelines after becoming a little too vocal about the officiating. But they failed to capitalize on a couple of chances that would have put them up by one goal. With the game in the dying minutes the Latinos were given a corner kick that eluded the grasp of Winbow and found its way to the back of the net. The win keeps the Latinos perfect record intact but drops the Fury record to 2-1-2. The next game for the Fury is Friday night in In- gersoll. t s- . t { ;�1TS rt �r7r .t,. `11,-�.c irP6 Exeter wins Masters Tournament- GODERICH - A local team from Exeter con- sisting of past and present Centennial soccer players won the 15th annual Masters Soccer Tour- nament on Saturday. The tournament, which Exeter repeatedly par- ticipated in, but has never won, included teams from as far away as Guelph, Windsor and Michigan. Peter Hakvoort, Charlie Wise and Brad Lightfoot scored the goals in the first game against Suageen to win 3-1. In the second game, strikers George McEwan, Julio Farfan and Hakvoort scored for a 3- 0 win over Windsor Ciocaro. Wise scored Exeter's lone goal against Anchor Bay Michigan securing a 1-0 victory. Undefeated after three games, Exeter earned a berth in the final game against the Windsor Scor- pions. A controlled defensive game led by Brad Lightfoot and Pat Donnelly of Exeter allowed Far - fan and Hakvoort to score putting the champion- ship trophy in Exeter's hands. The toumament outcome was a surprise to the Ex- eter players since they needed to adjust their line- up prior to the final game. Three of their key players were absent due to a Centennials regular season game against Nairn that afternoon. Panthers lose in A/AA OFSAA Hardy birds again come through quarter -finals Baseball roundup ash wood Peewee 'A' May 22 St. Marys 2 to Dashwood 22 Pitchers: Brayden Lord (3 strikeouts); Mark Laye (1 strikeout) Top hitters; Lee PTnkbeiner (1 double, 2 singles); Jesse Schroeder (3 singles; Cal deLange (1 double. 1 single); Lord, Cam Becker (2 singles);�IoM Brand (double); Brent Hof 'man, Jarrett Palen. Dennis Bedard (singles) May 31 - Kincaniine Toumament Game 1 Kincardine 8 vs Dashwood 9 Pitchers: Lord (4 strikeouts), Laye (1 strikeout) Hitters: Becker (double and 2 singles), Lord, Schroeder, Andrew Kinsman 2 singles apiece. Dashwood rallied in the last two innings of the game from a6-1 deficit. Won 9 to 8 scoring four runs in the last inning with four consecutive hits. Game 2 Goderich 10 vs Dashwood 10 Pitchers: Lord, Schroeder (5 strike- outs), Kinsman (1 strikeout) Hitters: Lord. Schroeder, Kinsman (1 double and 2 singles), Bedard (2 sin- gles); Brent Morrison, Becker, Jarrett Palen (singles) Again Dashwood had to rally back from a 10-5 deficit to tic the garne in the last inning. Four key hits and an error al- lowed the local squad to tie the score. With two out, three consecutive batters brought in two runs. Game 3 Mitchell 8 vs Dashwood 5 Pitchers: Morrison; Kinsman (1 strike- out) Hitters: Lord, Schroeder( 2 singles), Kinsman (double) Dashwood started the game strongly taking the lead in the first inning and held their opponents until the fourth in- ning. The Dashwood squad showed some great defensive and offensive plays which their supporters enjoyed. May 29, 1996 Listowel 13 at Dashwood 5 Pitchers: Laye, Schroeder (9 strike- outs) Top hitters: Brand, Kinsman (two sin- gles); Schroeder, Palen, Bedard (sin- gles) June 5, 1996 Mitchell 7 at Dashwood 2 Pitchers: Laye (2 strikeouts in 4 in- nings); Becker (3 strikeouts in two in- nings); Schroeder (2 strikeouts in one inning) Top hitters: Schroeder (double); Lord, Kinsman, deLange, Palen (singles) Crediton /Crushers Squirt Giris May 28 Crediton (1) 17 vs Zurich 27 Pitchers: Amber Lord, Annette Groten- traast, Margaret Geurts Top hitters: On base 3 tines: Lord, Geurts, Grotentntast; 2 times: Krista Hodge, Nikki Cyr, Danielle Pertschy, Melody Mungar, 1 time: Kristen Steep- er, Jenna Becker, Amanda Yearley Stars of the game: Nikki Cyr (great de- fensive plays) , Amanda Yearley (great bat) June 3, 1996 Crediton (1) 12 vs Crediton (11) 10 Pitchers: Geurts, Andrea Glavin Top Hitters: On base three times: Gla- vin. Germs (home run), Grotentraast; two times: Heidi Muller, Pertschy, Becker, Yearley; one time: Lord, Cyr, Steeper, Doroschenko, Mungar Stars of the game: Heidi Muller (three outs on first in one inning), Lord (played strong first base) June 5, 1996 Crediton (0 vs Zurich 17 (Exhibition) Pitchers: Lord, Grotentraast, Glavin Top hitters: On base twice: Glavin, Geurts (home run), Cyr, Mungar; on base once: Lord, Grotentraast, Muller. Pertschy, Doroschenko (double), Beck- er, Yeadey. Stars of the game: Krista Hodge (made double play); Melody Mungar (batting) titer Mosquito May 28 Dashwood 3 at Exeter 5 Pitchers: Nick Chessell (4 strikeouts), Beau Dill (3 strikeouts) Triple: Nick Anstett Double: Michael MacLean Single: David Chessell June 5 Listowel 4 at Exeter 5 Pitchers: Dan Masse, David Chessell (only 5 hits allowed) Double: Dill Singles: Masse, MacLean Play of the game: Game ending double play by Dill Centennials short on RlaXerss, big on goals r - With only 11 players dressed the Exeter Centennials beat Nairn 4-1 on Saturday. Goal scoring sensation Jeff Lin- gard opened the scoring for Exeter with two goals. One on a breaka- way and another off his head from a corner kick by Ruud Veidhuiz- en. Suffering from exhaustion the Centennials never lagged keeping the pressure as Jason Wright and Dan Martens made several great runs but just missed their mark. Joe Martens kept the host team at bay playing the sweeper position while setting up his teammates with passes. SARNIA - The South Huron Dis- trict High School senior boys soc- cer team lost a one goal game to Tillsonburg in the quarter finals on Thursday during the AA/A tourna- ment held in Sarnia. After winning their pool with three wins South Huron came up flat in the first half giving up three goals. The Panthers rebounded quickly with Dave Farquhar scor- ing two goals but, despite many good chances, the tieing goal elud- ed them as they dropped the quarter final game 3-2. In pool play, South huron defeat- ed Medway 3-2 in the first game, Huron Park (Woodstock), by the same score in the second game and shut out St Mary's (Owen Sound) 1-0. Dave Farquhar scored two goals in each of the first two games and notched the game winner against Owen Sound. He was backed up by teammates Marty Debruyn and Souban Inlakhana who scored one each. Despite the loss the seniors have had an extremely successful season earning their first Huron -Perth title in 11 years and a berth in the WOSSA playoffs. The seniors went undefeated through the regular season and ac- cumulated an impressive 18 wins and 4 loss record scoring a total of 52 goals and allowing only 18 against. A team of leaders and gentlemen, the Panthers played with integrity never receiving one red card penal- ty. By Al de Haan LUCAN - St. Jerome, Quebec, is situated at a straight-line distance of 410 miles (656 kms) from Exeter and Lucan. Even on a good day that distance presents a real challenge to any racing pigeon. The weather was close to ideal when 25 pigeons entered by five Lucan club members were released at 6:00 a.m. The temperature warmed up to 25°C, and the S.S.E. breeze was an Irish wish come true. Some poet believed that there's not much in a name; that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Well, there is definitely something in the Hardy name. A pi- geon by any other name would not necessarily fly as well. The record shows that the Lucan Hardy pi- geons have consistently shown their mettle on the long, tough rac- es. Kippen Gun Club scores June 5 Ernie Marshall Gord Robinson Brad Mann Bill Stewart Ken Whetham Harold Smith Dennis Boyd Tom Allen Fred Brall Paul Hoff Jamie Caldwell 25 25 25 25 24 24 24 23 23 23 21 They did it again last week. Norm Hardy clocked his first pi- geon from St. Jerome at 3:49 Satur- day afternoon, nine hours and 49 minutes after it was released in "la belle Province." Be that as it may, Norm Hardy's first bird flew at an average velocity of 1109 meters per minute - good enough for first place. Another of his birds took po- sition four. Morgan Freele from Grand Bend had a nice pigeon that placed second, and local flyer Al de Haan clocked his first pigeon exact- ly two hours after the first Hardy pigeon touched down. Still, it flew well enough to capture position three. Jim Whitworth from the For- est area claimed the fifth position on the race sheet. On the same day a race was held from Brockville, Ontario, a dis- tance of 314 miles. Eight flyers had entered 42 pigeons. The birds were at released at 8:45 a.m. and Morgan Freele clocked the winning pigeon seven hours and 20 minutes later. A Freele pigeon that returned 20 min- utes later took position three. Harry Winters had a good bird that sneaked into the number two spot. Al de Haan had two pigeons arrive at the same time; they placed fourth and fifth. Norm Hardy placed sev- enth, and Jim Whitworth bottom - lined the score sheet with position eight. Harry Winters also took posi- tion six. Weather conditions, for a change, were favorable, and the race results were proof. The pigeons flew well and the returns were good. The su- preme test, the 500 -mile race, is now only two weeks away. The pi- geons are keeping their wings crossed, but they can rest assured. Better weather is coming: we checked the Farmers' Almanac. Open for your convenience... A Standard Auto Glass Depot at 586 Main St. Exeter (Art's Garage) For,�pi fmn mtall 1.800.265.5178 `�AUTO ltitlASS i'tl Lingard completed the natural hat trick mid -way through the sec- ond half with a hard blast into the low corner and martens rounded out Exeter's scoring after a Veld- huizen shot resulted in a goal mouth scramble. The Centennials are now 2-2 and will visit the London Portuguese tonight (Wednesday). Imperials lose by one EXETER - Two runs in the bot- tom of the fourth inning provided the difference as Drumbo defeated the Exeter Imperials 2-1 last Wednesday night in Drumbo in On- tario Junior Men's Fastball action. Exeter outhit the host squad five to two as Gavin Snell, Greg Dal- rymple and Chris Kennedy all sin- gled while Steve Cook doubled and scored the lone Exeter run in the fifth inning. Darren Kints also sin- gled in the fifth inning. Starting pitcher, Kevin Gooder went the dis- tance as he allowed only the two hits while striking out 11 and walk- ing two. Exeter hosted Milverton at the South Huron Rec Centre Sunday night, with the result unknown at press time, and they traveled to Aberfoyle Monday night. Left fielder, Greg Rutledge has been lost to the club for up to a month with pulled back muscles and a cracked rib, suffered in the Mitchell tournament. THiS WEEKEND SATURDAY -9 AM PEPSI GOOD -TIMES ANY CAR OR MIC -race all day for $15...plus 1st Provincial Series for ASPHALT SNOWMOBILES Adults $10, kids f6-12) $2 SUNDAY .1 PM HAWK THUNDER SERIES, -plus 2nd Annual HARLEYS on FATHER'S DAY (last year over 5001) Atiults $12, Kids (6-12) $2 238 -RACE GRAND BEND MOTORPLEX 3 KM. E. OF ! E BEACH With Thanks from the Exeter Optimist Club We would like to extend a Big Thank You to • Ian Sanders (Miracle child of '96 and his family) • Steve and Audrey Skinner • Exeter Lions Club • Exeter Fire Dept. and family • Holtzmann's IGA • Precious Blood - Catholic Womens League • Exeter and Area Businesses • Walk-A- Thon participants • Volunteers • and Optimists Because of your dedication and belief in miracles, the Optimists first Walk-A-Thon was a successful event. And we were pleased to have presented a cheque at the Miracle Net Work Tele-A-thon In the amount of $13,200 at the Children's Hospital of Western Ontario. Thank you again from the Kids at Children's Hospital of Western Ontario and Exeter Optimist Club Meeting Notice EXETER - GRAND BEND STEPHEN - USBORNE AMALGAMATION COMMITTEE The Council representatives of the above municipalities are meeting on an ongoing basis to determine the feasibility of amalgamating the four municipalities Into a single municipal corporation. These meetings are open to the public. Any group or individual who would like to make a presentation to the committee, should contact Larry Brown Committee Coordinator at 234-6331. The next Amalgamation Committee meeting Is: Wednesday, June 19 - 7:30 p.m. at Grand Bend Legion Public participation is welcomed