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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1967-11-30, Page 6Th Sp(*its Scene , By Sandy AllagDenaki Double Week -end Victory -Siftos Over Greenshirts Goderia Sifto4 solidly en. trenched themselveein second place slot in the ORA Junior a Western division with two week. ead victeries over Kitchener Their lait minnte effort Was second maq. assisted by. Mac. . unsuccessful. The silop,, began . Nair and Paquette. Atother goal .COvering up more 'and thas pre.: was added at the 0:58 Mark tected their one goal margin of when Bell, assisted by Siddall victory. fired one home. , Stites' increased their mar. At 4:50 Paquette added an. The Stites' encounter with Kitchener Greenshirts Friday ntght at the local arena marked the tenth game of the season for the Goderich Stites in the.kOHAJunier•H anterlocking.schedale. Of that number, they .had von al.x and lost four following their Fricia.y night triumph over Kitchener. division of 03A Junior B league, with tg, points, only three points behind first place St. ,Marys. Their win over Kitchener was an important one. Earlier Jo the. week, Owea Soimd Greys had trillicted a crushing 11.5 defeat on the Siftos. Friday night's yictory. over Kitchener, by lifting thein into seeond place, gave the Stites new life, just at a time when it appeared they mtght be fading somewhat. It's also worth noting here that the Stites won Friday night's contest without the presence of defenceman, John Pirie. A Jualor B. Booiter Club official pointed out that the Stites had won all five previous games in which Pirie had played. All four defeats had come when Pirie was absent, he remarked. From these facts, one must conclude that Jehn Pirie, NO 3, plays an important role in the Stites' defence. Friday night's game proved to the Stites It was possible to win without Pirie, even though it was a narrow margin of victory.. For the Siftos, this point in itself matters. a great deal. Pixie gives the Goderich club a lot of strength behind the blue line, but he may be unable to play the entire schedule with the Stites. John, who is now 20, has had three seasons of Junior hockey. This experience provides him with extra confidence out there in front of the goalie with other defencem.an of less experience lack. However, the Goderich Junior B. club will not be able to count on Pirie for every game, nor even every weekend game. The Goderich native, who is now in his second year of university studies at Western, will probably play for his home.tOwn club whenever possible. There will come a time though when Pirie must chose be. tween his hockey and academic careers. As exam schedules appear, particularly the finals, Pirie will no doubt be absent more often from the Siftoso lineup. A Goderich dentist, Dr. W. White, a keen fan of the loaal Junior B teams, was chosen to pick the three Signal Stars of Friday night's game. Few who attended last week's Junior B hockey game here would disagree with Dr. White's three choices. They were: Jim Bell, No 11; Mayo Paquette, No, 7 and Alan Howes, No 1, th Bell, the husky Kincardine centre, played one of his strong. est games of the season in which he. scored two of the S14ftes' five goals. Paquette although ate scored no goals, assisted on two and in general, 'did an excellent job Of checking.and killing penalties. • Alan Howes, who had donned the goalie pads for the capably 'in" the •net - for ,the Stites despite his long absence. It's worth mentioningliere that Dr. White's knowledge of hockey skill' was not obtained entirely as' a spectator. While'attending University. of Toronto, lie played inter -faculty hockey with the dental faculty team. During a telephone conversation later, Dr. White remarked that some -changes in the Stites' lineup, as they appeared in the hockey" program, had been made, .of which he was not aware. Specifically, they were Hurlock, who was wearing sweater Not, which is ordinarily worn by Pixie. The other change in the Stites' roster was the goalie, Alan Howes, who was Nearing the No 1 sweater in place of Kellestine. DIF. White voiced the same complaint which many other fans muat have felt like making to the Stites' management officials. "Why not keep us inforined of these last m4.nute changes in line. up or any o er pertinent details regarding the Siftos via your P. y nigh s w was a gin of victory over the Green• other to the Siftos' lead when "squeaker" as the Stites' three shirts to 6-3 in Sunday after• he penetrated Greenshirt'S ter.. goal lead early in the third noon's glme with the Kitchener ritory and sc =Asa. geal margin by the end of the arena. by Williams and Hurleck put the, game. Greeushirt took' an early Stites' beyond reach of Kit. During the final moments of in the Sunday game when chener, when he scored ithe the third period, the Green- Orr, assisted.by Dargell; bang. sixth and final goal for awl. shirts' coach pulled the goalie ed one ia at 4:03. ' erich.• The first period was nearly Darcy, assisted by Cressman over, before theSiitos" counter. and Crosby, added another for attacked. rkhen Paquette, No. 7 the Greenshirts at 18:16 of the assisted by Ken MacNatia,and final period. very close to losing. Henderson, tied the score for Jim Bell, No. 11, had his best the Siftos with a well aimed, night of the season. shot.. He opened the scoring for the In the -second period, it was Stites at 7:35 of the firstperiod Creasman who put the green. with a screened slap shot from shirts ahead again at 5:09.- He about 3Q feet out which found a was assisted by Orr and Young. corner of the Kitchener net: lje The SifteS came abreast again was asaisted by Ken. MacNair. at 9:50 Wnen Williams, assisted Less than a minute later, Kit. by MacNair apd Pirie, fired one chener answered this goal when past the Kitchener goalie. Crosby, assisted by Cressman, The period ended with the two fired one past Stites' goalie,. clubs deadlocked at two goals Alan Howes, to tie the score. _Apiece. • At 14:20, Orr, assisted by - In the third perked, the Silk's Young, put the Greenshirts struck for three goals in rapid ahead. The period ended with the succession,. putting the game Greenshirts holding a 2-1 lead. on ice for them, In the second period, .Bell Williams scored at the .38 scored his second goal of the game at '4:14, with an assist from M array Henderson, No.17 again wnen he scored at 5:05 of the second period, assisted by Paquette. teams, the Legion Squirts and in favour of six attackers. Stites' held Of the Green. shirts!, assault, however, and salvaged a game they had come Alai) Howes, capably per. formed the net -minding chores for the Stites. Two fights occurred in the Sunday contest. One involved Pirie and the other Hurlock. Their scraps accounted for the two major penalties amongst a total of eight infractions charg. ed a,gainst the Sines. Greenshirts were close be. hind in penalties with seven. Richard M Age, publicity dir. eotor of the Gederich Junior B. chib, reported a good turnout of Goderich • fans at the Kits, chener Arena, Sunday. They provided a strong cheeringsec. tion for the Stites, he remarked. Oakridge Bombs Goderich Mites Squirts Turn Tables Win, 3-0 ing in the second period. Williams scored the fourth goal for Goderich at 17:04, as. sisted by Paquette, to'give the Siftos a „4-2 lead "at the end of the second period. Stites' got their game -win. ning 'goal at 5:22 of the final Legion Mites, enterdined two visiting m'nor hockey teams Of simflar rank from Oakridge Aaes, a municipality near Lon. • don, Ontario. In -the first contest between the visiting Oakridge Mites and Goderich Mites, Oakridge blanked the local squad 10 a O. period when Colquhoim • No..9, Brian Good sparked the Oak. fired .one past the Kitchener ridge Acres Mites by scoring goalie. He wasassistedby Hank • five . goals. Brian Paton aud Scott, No. 15., . gara_ Mclatyreaeachacoilecterlea-a--aaa „, "mulched their attack. At 7:01 added by Rick Rodgers. Orrt assisted by Cressinon, Three penalties were served • Bndge Score, scored to put the Greenshirts during the game, one in each back in the game:Bolton, with period. an assist from Dargell and Lak. Goderich Legion Squirts mg, scored at 15:04. Trailing by only one goal, the fired -up Greenshirts 'aunt ched a sustained drive during the dying moments of the game. all their scoring power in the first ,period. Ricky Moody, Lee Arbour and Jimmy *Good' each collected a goal. tri the first 20 minutes. Neither team scored through. out the last two periods. EaCh team was charge with a penalty. Goderich was charged with a tripping penalty andOak. ridge Acres was penalized.two minutes for holding. turned the tables on their visa tors in the second game of the m inor hockey series by downing the Oakridge Acres Squirts There were six tables in play at the Goderich Duplicate Bridge C lub Tuesday night. Win. ners and their scores were as follows: Mrs. Jim Donnelly and Justice Fraak Donnelly, 46.1/2; Mrs. Jack Chisholm and Mrs. Jack Cook, 46; Mrs. JeanPaper. nick and Mrs. Bob Sproule, 45; Mrs. D.D Worthy and Mrs. 'Bill Duncan, 44. ZURICH Announces ,DELIVERY IN GODERICH .se rmag Fresh .Top Quality Bread 'and Pastry - Available at Your Door 524-7980 After .2.:30 p.m. If interested in having our salesman call SPECIAL PRICES FOR PURCHASE OF TEN LOAVES OF BREAD OR MORE 474 Let us prove it to you ... We knew this color tv produced an outstanding picture. Elliott Research Corp. proved it in a recent study. We'd like to' show you' personally why Philips Fiddle -Free Color TV with10 automatic featureswas over- whelmingly prevferred above all others tested. ,,..:„ ,....,_.,,,vi THE SQUARS AMID Jack Evans, coach of the Goderich Stites, related an amusing incident that arose in connection with the Siftee, recent visit to Owen Sound. (In Coach Evan's mind, it was the only bright spot of the Sifters' excursion last week into Owen Sound considering the humiliating defeat inflicted upon them by the Greys.) Just before game time last Tuesday night, an elderly couple, -approached Jack and asked 'if they could speak with M.Lya Paquette, Y one of the Siftos' Northern Ontario imports: With the elderly couple was the coach of the Owen Sound Junior B hockey team, Frank Bergeron. Frank introduced the couple to Jack as his father and mother. "We lived in Ansonville 46 years," Mr. Bergeron related. "I was employed there with the Abitibi Power and Paper Com- pany. We know Mayo Paquette quitewe.11, havingfrequently watched him play in Minor hockey league games in Ansonville." "Since Mayo Paquette was last playing hockey in Northern Ontario we .have retired and moved to Owen Sound," explained Mrs. Bergeron.' "We , wanted to live in Owen Sound wnere we are closer to Frank here". "We saw the name 'Mayo Paquette' on your lineup recently and we wondered if 'he was the same fellow we knew back in our home town", said Mr. Bergeron. "We wrote to his folks at Ansonville to enquire about him. They answered shortly afterwards and told us that it was their son, Mayo, wno had joined the Goderich Junior B, club this year. Coach Evans replied that Mayo was then changing into his uniform in. the dressing room. - However, he was able to arrange a visit for the Bergerons later in the evening at interntssion time. The arrival of two former Ansonville friends gave the Goderich Junior B star, a real big lift. 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