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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1987-04-01, Page 27ANEMIMINIMMININ SECTION ecreati will advertise f ;r com ittee t study Ce x etre ar Although if was a bonspiel to determine the winners of the Thursday night mixed industrial to have fun during Saturday's event" at the Maitland Curling Club. The two-day bonspiel league, these unidentified members of the National Trust Victoria and Grey team were out ,began Thursday night and concluded on Saturday with. a banquet. ( photo by Lou -Ann Hope) Clowns, men in short skirts highlight industrial Bonspeil By George Sutton Clowns, men in short skirts and boisterous crowds highlighted the 1987 Industrial Curl- ' ing Bonspiel at The Maitland Curling Club, Saturday, March 28, This two day event, which began on Thursday, brought to an end the 12th season .of Industrial Curling in Goderich. The win- ner of the "A" Draw and champion of the 1986-87 season was the Goderich Legion Foursome. Its members ` were- • Jim ' 'Bell ' ( skip), Jack Kellough (vice ), Terry Worsell I second), and Ray Donnelly ( lead). • The victory for the Bell unit' climaxed one ,of the finest final hatches ever seen. Their opponent in. the championship matchwas the Local 1863 squad of Glen Fa1leiner, Gerry Riley, Paul. Hamilton- and Arnie Parker,. The Local '1863 foursome, -. had finished in first place and defected all of the top contenders during the season. ' Local 1863 scored one in the first end. The .4. Legion 'defending champions, two in the se- cond. That was all the scoring until the final • end. Glen Falkiner cooly blanked five ends in a row to maintain his last rock advantage. .Jim Bell forced Falkiner into taking just ' one, point in the final end to send the contest into extra ends. The pressure of the •situa- tion did not appear to affect the two teams. The match 'came down to the final shot. Bell, having recovered his concentration after his first shot caught a straw to go away, calmly ha a lialf-hidden local stone to stay and claim the victory. In this game there was a winner but no loser. Congratula- tions Legion! The B Draw Championship which pitted the GDCI Teacher No. 1 team against the Foresters No. 2 unit was also decided on the last shot at the game. Unfortunately for teacher skip George Sutton and his team, he missed. Excellent shot -making, however, had been the norm for this game as well. Foresters — Moore, Moore, Foster and Culbert - fell behind early but kept their composure to take the lead in the seventh end. Two outstanding shots by skip Vicki Culbert clinched the outcome of this event. GDCI - Murdock, Ottewell, Garrow and Sutton - staged a minor comeback of their own in the final end and had a chance to send this game into extra ends also..A miss- ed double take-out prevented that and the Foresters No. 2 'claimed a well deserved trophy. Third place prizes in the two draws went • to very different teams. In Draw B the The 1987 Industrial Curling Bonspiel was held Thursday night and Saturday at the Maitland Curling Club. During Saturday.morning activity, Floyd Herman watches as George Sutton, skip, and Richard Ottewell, vice, of the GDCI teacher team sweep a rock into the house. (photo by Lou -Ann Hope) money was won by men who'put out -fires; in Drai A. it was won.. by men who appeared to be on fire. The Goderich Firemen defeated Sifto Salt Evaporators to win third place with a con- vincing 9 to 3 victory. A new and positive addition to the league .,this season, the unit of Glen MacCuspey, Jon (inn, Mark Lassaline'and Keith,Criittenden were too hot for Sifto to handle. Sifto reps Mark .Fischer, Dave and Peggy Young, Henry 'Heidrich and Mark Shaw took their defeat philosphically. "After all,"Fischer remarked, we might need their services -sometime". Third place in the A Draw went to the most colourful team in the competition,' Super Shell, pressed in Yellow sweaters, red Minoriockey coaches feel ne hats and carrying the shell flag. This team was ready for anything. The Legion was unimpressed and defeated them on Thurs- day night. Saturday was a diferent story. The GDCI Teacher No. 2 team tried to 'deflect Shell's brilliant power. by wearing Hawiian shirts and sun glasses. It did not work. The final opponent for shell was the perenial powerhouse of the Industrial League The Foresters. Shell's convincing win over them made... Yellow -Power the theme of the day and helped to earn the four- some of Jeff Harrison, Bill Graham, Ed Brissette and Gerry Risebo'rough the Most Improved Team Award. The Foresters were represented by Cam Bogie, Jim Hawkins, Roger- Moore and Bill Koran. This excellent team held on to win fourth place in the bonspiel. Bogie, it is rumoured, will push to pass a club by-law next season forbidding the wearing of bright colours during any Saturday in March. 'Businessman 'Brissette has hinted, on the other hand, at renting out his unusual anti - Forester apparel next season. Fourth place in the "B" Draw was won'by • Charlie Crawford and his Port Albert Ice Cubes. On this day, •leis team mates were Jeff Cox, 'Joanne Crawford -Turner and Rosemary Crawford.. Throughout the season Charlie did moe than •any other member to recruit . new curlers forour league. Over a dozen people could clair`n to be an Ibud of To wince •fourthCue placeandprothe Ice tt. Cubes had to defeat four mysterious, curlers disguised as clowns. Bright yellow hair, baggy pants, larger -than -life noses and huge feet hide the identities of these brave individuals. They represented National Trust ancr, drew a great deal of interest. No doubt they were banking on distracting'.their opponents but 'they did not take into account the Ice Cubes monetary determination. It was the telling difference. Cathy Murdock, who appeared later in the day, acted as spokesperson for this uniden- tifiable foursome. "We have caused it lot of laughter with our curling this season so why not dress for the part", she said. The day ended with the annual Industrial Curling banquet. Prizes and trophies were given out; speeches made; draws com- pleted in their usual calm fashion; and all teams thanked for making 19186/87 a great year. Curling is fun. playoffv� format ore violent and expensive thaw ever An experimental round-robin playoff system for the Ontario Minor Hockey Association, was more expensive and violent than a best -of -three format, said Goderich minor hockey coaches The round robin system meant teams played each other once and the one with the best record advances. Goderich played in the Shamrock League against teams as far away as Amhurstburg,( in the Windsor area and Wallaceburg. ' Bus bills for the playoffs ranged from $1200 for the Novice team to a high of $2000 for Atom. Most teams charged $20 to $40 for each player per trip. Midget coach, Kevin Austin, said his team spent $1800 for the playoffs and only $1200 for the regular season • The problem with violeri,te occurred when Goderich played teams who had lost their first three or four games or knew they were out of contention. They didn't care about hockey anymore, said Austin. Austin said it was not just fighting or high - sticking. It was the lazy penalties players take when they don't care- hooking, tripping and checking from behind. Paul Kelly's Bantam team had trouble with Strathroy. Neither team had a Chance FEATLkIE REPORT of winning the playoffs and it was a mean- ingless game, said Kelly. He described one situation as scary, when a Goderich player was hit in the face mask with a high stick. "You could hear the smack clearly in the arena. If he wasn't wearing a face mask, I would have to take him to London( hospital ), said Kelly. Parents asked him to keep the players off the ice for saftey reasons and Kelly com- plied by pulling his team and defaulting the game. He faces a possible lifetime suspension from the OMHA-for removing his team. "Fans were spitting on the kids. 1 wish I had it on tape," said Kelly. The players generally like the new system, agreed the coaches, because they played more hocke . If they lose the first 9 two game of a best of three their done - the hockey season is over. The round robin guarantees nine or ten games, depending on the number of teams they play. The old system meant teams could not promote and advertise a future series because they had to win their series and they might not know who their next oppo- nent would be. Teams were able to promote the round robin better, said Austin, because they had the schedule a month before it started. It helped the gate receipts, he said. OMHA representative, Jim Muir, said he designed the round robin as an experiment - after consulting representatives from the Chatham area- to provide more hockey for the kids. Teams are playing hockey until the first of March, but if they lose their first round in the old system they could be done in January, said Muir. Muir said he noticed less violence, because teams did not have a chance to build up an intense rivalry. You only see a team once; there is no chance for a fued to develop, said Muir rotltcatl man coaches said the did not SPORTS SHORTS Goderich Recreation Board will advertise for citizens to sit on sub-corrunitt.e to study financing and development of the proposed Aquatic Centre. The board recommended last Thursday. to separate the Aquatic Centre from the Master Plan studies and implimentation. No final decisions were made as to the size or membership of the committee. However, Councillor, John Doherty recomended at least two board memberssit on the committee. The move was a reaction to an Ad- ministration and Personnel Committee rnernorandurn which said the cost of the cen tre would be very high and may be beyond the present financial scope of the municipality. , According to the memorandum, the rre11' committee's emphasis would to review a scaled-down version of 'the centre, or pro- posed phasing that would he financially easible for Goderich., Recreation Department Director Jane Netzke said an advertisemrnt would be placed in the Signal Star this week for com- mittee members. y cst to improve arena n a acoustics , says engineering firm A group of consulting engineers says 'it may cost as much as $251,000 to improve,the. acoustics of GoderichMemorial C'onirnunity Centre Arena. JAD Engineering Ltd.. have offered their services to Goderich Recreation Board to supervise installation' of sound absorbing material at the arena. In addition, they will review tenders of •companies wishing to manufacture and, install the materia]. .. The company felt industrial baffles in the ceiling and wall treatment would be suffi- ' tient to reduce sound reverberation time in. the arena to two seconds, ata cost of $81,000. however, more wall panels may be needed. Recent tests showed a reverberation time of five seconds. ' ' • ' : The board recomended to city council that they acce .t.JAD's offer to oversee the work. Mayor Eileen Palmer felt the company's fee, $7,000- $4,600 for • design, evaluation of tenders and award of contract and $2,4000 for office and , field supervision ' during constuction- could be better spent elswhere. like the round robin because there was no rivalry. Atom coach, Dave Wilkinson said it was tough'ketting his players motivated for ten games. 'It is much easier to get them up for a best -of -three series. Muir believes the problem with Goderich is the travel. Goderich has a "BB" rating 'and must play teams that are far away. Goderich minor 'hockey president, Brian Hoy, would like to see the rating drop to •'B'•. He said Goderich plays teams from bigger centres because we are a 'hockey town' and we are competitive. According to Muir a "BB" clarification is for centres of popuation from 7000 to 1300. Factors such as the size of the area teams draw from - where area players traditional- ly go to play - and competitiveness are also considered. "Population is a good rule of thumb and we fine tune it from there," said Muir. A classification committee looks into and reviews ratings once a year and teams can request changes, said Mcdir. The playoff schedule was discussed at a recent OMHA meeting and we heard nothing from Goderich Minor Hockey, said Schneiker ' and Donnelly win, Howell game at Bridge Club " Martina Sohneiker and Mary Donnelly • placed first in a' three table Howell game at the Goderich Duplicate Bridge Club • Mon., March'23. Schneiker and Donnelly won with 31' points, followed by Pat Stringer and John Waad with 26. John' Donatis and Ray Fisher were a close third with 25' 2. On Tues.,March 11 an eight -table Mit- chell game was held to decide the Presidents Cup. Jean Papernick and Louise Hether- ington led the North and South with 98 points, followed , by Bill Bradley and Donatis with 94' 2. Betty and Ray Fisher took the East and West with• 94'2' with Verna Worthy and Brian. Reeve a close second at 94. Three teams tied for third at 92' 2, New bleachers for softball and new lighting for hardball and soccer t4 This summer sports fans at Agricultural Park will be sitting on new bleachers to watch softball and have light to see soccer and hardball. Goderich Recreaton Department are in- stalling new bleachers with a seating capacity of 140. In addition, a netting will cover and protect spectators. The project will cost $20,000-$15,000 for bleachers, $1,000 for netting and $4,000• for cement work and landscaping- said Recrea- tion Director Jane Netzke. Funding was provided by an ONIP i On- tario Neighbourhood Inprovment Program grant. According to Netzke, the area was designated by ONIP. Criteria for receiving the grant is that 25 per cent of the money must go to soft services such as the bleachers, she said. Wiring for soccer field and hardball lights had been installed directly in the ground, without proctective conduit tubing. Water and ground shift had caused the wires to corrode and short out, said Netzke. Materials for the $4,500 project have already been purchased from the 1986 budget. Netzke said they are waiting for the ground to dry, so it can be dug up and the new wire installed. This time, she said, the wire will be installed in conduit. "I don't want to do this again for a long time," said Netzke. a 1