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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1973-10-11, Page 11GODERICH SIGNAL•BTAR, THURSDAY, OCTOBER II, 197 P, mod pH Woes captured the Pam Budny memorial ow the weekend when the Goderich Minor Soccer ploysd host to five Huron Minor Soccer Association • Tum members are (back left to right) Mike MIIIey, Steve Chase, Mike Budny, coach Barry Buchanan, Garry Green, Ken Carrick and Danny, McGee. Front, Ricky Stod- dard, Mark Bellinger, Wilbur Mitchell, captain Gordon Budny, Danny McLean, Danny Wilkinson and Gary Peters. Goderich Intermediate who put Goderich back hockey map last year in first season on ice, have workouts for the 1973-74 ilors' coach Doug hank said the team practices October 2 and 'been working every ing since, excepting giving Day. .Cruickshank said there players out for the team, ethan during tryouts for 72.13 season, and that ality is much bet ter than hman year. coach said he plans to tutting the team down to Friday but noted, "Cut - looks to be a tough job, are a lot of quality trying out for the team is weaker this year", he added, "and it looks as though we may even be stronger in defence. The forwards are cer- tainly as 'good as last year or possibly better". "This year we've got four goal tenders at try -outs", he ex- plained, "where last year we had only the two". The Sailors for the moment have just been shaping up with only a few scrimmages, the coach )explained. "I'm just trying to get some of that sum- mer fat worn off first of all". It will likely be a week or more yet before the Inter-• Mediate League schedule is released but the team expect play to start about November 15. It is not known as yet who wilt put teams on the ice for the new season although Port Elgin, Kincardine and Seaforth have all announced they intend to field teams. Mr. Cruickshank said an attempt was being made to form a seven team league this year. "People are turning out to watch the, practices," the coach explained, "and there seems to be a. ot of enthusiasm among the fans." Financially the Sailors en- joyed an excellent year last season` and organizers hope for improvements even on that during the coming season. GDCI Junior Girls proved last week -that theirs is the team to watch this season. Win- ning over Seaforth's Junior Girls on Tuesday, they ended the game with a score of 32-15. Outstanding players included newcomers Mary Bu-rns, Thursday's game provided exciting competition as GDCI reluctantly lost to Stratford Central's Junior Girls with a close score of 33-30. Chris Wildgen and Marg Kovacs each sunk 7 points and were amply supported by the work of scoring 11 points, and Marg Kovacs with 8 while former Mary Burns scoring 5, Jan player Chris Wildgen supplied Ginn With 4 and Judy Taylor 7. • with The Goderich' Minor Soccer Club played host to clubs from Clinton, Exeter, Grand Bend, St. Mary s and Seaforth, when the Pam Budny Memorial Trophy for Pee Wees was played for last Saturday. The trophy 'was donated by the G.M.S.A. in memory of the late Pamela Budny in recognition of the work Kaz Budny has done to get minor soccer off the ground In Huron County. The first round saw Goderich Pee Wees take a narrow 1-0 decision over St. Mary's. Clin- ton went down to Grand -Bend 3-2 on penalty shots after being 0-0 at full time. Seaforth had to fight hard to beat Exeter 1-0 and the Goderich Mosquitos went into the next round on a default by Huron" Park who failed tOrshow. In the semi-finals Goderich PeeWees beat the plucky Goderich Mosquitos 3-0. In the other semi-final game Grand Bend beat Seaforth 3-2 in a hard fought match. In the finals it was Goderich over Grand Bend 3-1. The local team took command right 'from the start and never looked like losing evert after missing two penalty shots. In the consolation semi- finals it' was St. Marys over Exeter 3-0 and Clinton over Goderich Mosquitos 1-0. A special mention .should be made of the Goderich Mosquitos and the way they fought every inch of every game against .the older Pee Wee teams. The consolation final was another hard fought game with St. Marys beating Clinton 4-3. Dr. John Underwood, president of H.M.S.A. made the presentation of the consolation trophy to the St. Mary s cap- tain. Kaz Budny presented the Pam Budny memorial trophy to the captain of the Goderich 'Pee Wees, Gordon Budny. This was Goderich's first at- tempt at organizing a soccer tournament, and it turned out to be a; most successful attempt. When it comes to hot water, using it wisely—not wastefully— makes good sense. your hydro cs3-74e:A • Our new store is near completion REDUCED �E - SAVE - SAVE