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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1981-11-11, Page 19Sailors win firstx game of season 6-2 The Goderich Sailors won their first game of the season here Friday night over newcomers to the Intermediate C division, Southampton by a score of 6-2. The Sailors went ahead 2-0 in the first period on goals from Paul Kelly and. Rick Stoddart. Kelly was assisted by Brian Moody and Jerry Rosendal while Stod- dart's play was set up by Graham Hamilton and Steve Meriam. In the second period, the Sailors kept going with a goal by Rosendal, assisted by Meriam and Randy Gaynor. Two goals by Jeff Denome followed, both assisted by Meriam and Gaynor. Brian Moody not- clied the last Goderich goal, unassisted, also in the second period. , Both Southampton goals were scored in the second period with the third going scoreless. Percy Bedard minded the net for the Sailors. The team hosts Wingham on Friday night at 8:30 and then travels to -Southampton on Saturday night for an 8:30 game. Juveniles corns up with victory over Belmont 9-4 The Goderich Signal -Star Juveniles have played four games to date in their new season, recording one win, one tie, and two losses. The win came Sunday in Belmont by a score of 9-4. At the end of the second period, the score was 3-3 with the Juveniles' goals being scored by Darrell Graham with two and Del Bedard. In the third period, the locals exploded for six goals with Belmont answering with only one. Rick Anderson opened the period with a goal assisted by Randy Middel and Larry Kelly. Steve Sager then scored unassisted less than a minute later. Graham and Bedard followed with unassisted goals to put the Goderich Signal -Stars up 7-4. The icing was put on the cake by Jim Young on a play set up by Randy Middel and Graham, and an unassisted effort by Del Bedard. Bantams shut out Ilderton The Goderich Bantams come away with an even record this week, chalking up a win, a tie, and a loss. November 1, they tied in Kincardine 44, lost Friday night in Lucan 6-0, and beat Ilderton on home ice Saturday 13-0. In the rout over Ilderton, Rob Gibbons was high scorer with four goals. Trevor Erb and John Graham got two each, and singles went to Jeff LeBeau, Todd Graham, Kevin Talbot, Scott Stokes, and Chris Sideris. Todd Wilson and Rob Dunn shared the shutout. It was a back and forth game in Kin- cardine Novemer 1, with Goderich taking a lead 4-2 in the third, only to have the home team tie it up with 25 seconds left in. the game. Goderich goal scorers were Pete Willems, Rob Gibbons, Trevor Erb, and Todd Graham. Midgets split pair The Goderich Midgets split a pair of games in Shamrock League hockey action last week. Friday in Lucan, the locals outlasted Lucan 6-4. Playing at home Saturday, the Goderich squad lost 3-2 to Ilderton; The line of. Seott Stoll, Doug Smith and Daryl Madge led the scoring against -= Lucan. Stoll had two goals and Smith had one. Madge assisted on all three: David • Gallow and Mark Crawford each had a goal and an assist. Keith Hallam got the other Goderich goal; ' Defenceman Jeff Sargent had a pair of assists. Jeff Shepley `got Lucan off to an early first period lead but Goderich jumped into -a 4-1 lead byy the end of the period. They upped their . margin to 6-2 after two periods. Lucan outscored Goderich 2-1 in the third period. . The game ended on an unusual note. as Goderich goalie Terry Bean was ejected for a last-minute fight with Lucan's captain Hugh Dietrich. Goderich did not have a second goalie dressed and finished the last 44 seconds of the garne with defenceman Jeff Sargent . acting as a psuedoo-goaltender. Sargent made • two good stops and the Goderich team was able to kill off the clock with no damage oc- curring. Saturday, it was a case of too many 'Goderich _players-recuperating_from tough football final action in theafeternoon. The Goderich team lacked , zip -in -losing their first game of the season. - Keith Hallam gave the locals the lead with an unassisted goal midway through the opening period. Ilderton tied it up before the end of the period but David Gallow's marker,' on a pass from Scott Stoll, restored the lead. Ilderton came back to tie it and then scored the only goal of the third period to take the victory. The Midgets played an exhibition ,game Monday night in . Lucknow. They swing back into league action tonight (Wed- nesday) with a game in St. Marys. The midgets take a record of three victories and one def eat into tonight's game. `hederich; TAR 133 YEAR -45 GREAT ON GODERICH, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11„ 1981 SECOND SECTION d.a r s k�..�"c » d':� "'ri,v••�..,''Y'nR,.,n?k. .;,.roi .. «+..w.Y'., !i'6' Ed Craig makes a run with the ball during Saturday's final. He scored two touchdowns. (Photo by Dave Sykes) Juniors run to victory and title BY TD. The GDC1 junior Vikings, won the Huron.4,17 Perth Conference junior football cham- pionship here Saturday by shutting out the I istowel Lords 25-0. a. The Vikings scored all their points in an explosive second quarter. The first Viking touchdown was scored by Shawn Rahbek on a 92 -yard reverse, ,capping off a long drive which began at the Vikings' 30 -yard line. On the ensuing kick off, Listowel returned the ball to their own 35 -yard line, but on the first play from scrimmage, Geof Chase intercepted an errant Lords' pass and returned it to the Listowel one -yard line. Ed Craig took the ball over for the& second' Goderich touchdowt'i` : which was converted by Joe Melady. The next time the Vikings got the ball, Craig scored again, running out of a crowd of Listowel defenders on an off -tackle play for a 70 -yard major. The Vikings put together another long drive late in the quarter. A 35 -yard pass play from quarterback John Thompson to Geof Chase put the ball on the Listowel eight -yard line. With only seconds left in the hall, the Vikings sent Craig on a fake sweep action play which drew the entire Listowel defence wide, leaving running back Pete Stahl with a wide open path to tilt goal line on the weak side. -That touch-. doWn ended-the,scoring, , and,tle _V ►g ., defence took over. The Vikings allewed theLord§ only three first downs in the entire game. Their pass defence took away any Listowel threat through the air and the Vikings defensive line ,and linebackers destroyed any hopes the Lords had of running the ball. ' It was a total teain effort for the Vikings, who'are coached by Bill Garrow and Bruce Baker. The championship was the third in. four years for the Goderich juniors and the victory was the 39th in42 games over those same four years, an almost incredible 'record. ' The Vikings were undefeated in 1981, their third undefeated. season' in the last four. 1, I8pand,.11lii0 vete also -undefeated seasons for the Vikings and In 1979, they lost the championship by one point. This season was supposed to be a building year for the Vikings. The team had 21 rookies in lineup, and 16 of the 29 junior Vikings will return next season. Winning the Huron -Perth championship this season was almost a bonus for coaches Baker and Garrow, considering the large number of first year players, but it's. certain they will have a contender again next season. It's no wonder the cry around the Con- ference is, "Break up the Vikings!" Defence..lea.,ds senior.Vikings'to. . �.- +u�, ,�.., ,x,�...., :. ..x. .�, - ..amu .. >,i�=r �'- 4 ;g -� • ,.a••« BY TD The name of the game was defence Saturday in Exeter when the Goderich Vikings won the Huron -Perth Conference senior football championship by defeating the South Huron Panthers 7-1. The Panthers were the defending Huron - Perth champions and had been undefeated this season until Saturday. Ron Bogart's team had defeated the Vikings 21-16 in the regular season in Goderich, thus finishing first and gaining the home field advantage for the final. But if anyone thought the Vikings went into Saturday's game as underdogs, they forgot to tell the Goderich team about it. The Vikings played like champions to win their sixth title in the last seven years, last year's Panther victory being the only break in the string of championships for coach Ray Donnelly's teams. It was the Viking defence which Made the difference in the game Saturday. Except for a sustained drive following the opening kickoff, the Panthers were unable to move the ball. The Vikings spent all of the first quarter and most of the second in their own end of the field, but the defence came up big every time. As the game progressed, the hard- hitting Vikings wore down the Panther, attack. Dave McDonald, the Vikings' right inside linebacker, was the leading force for the Goderich defence. His punishing tackles seemed to intimidate the Panther running backs who, by the fourth quarter, were running with considerably less authority than in the early going. South Huron held a 1-0 lead at the half on the strength of a 32 -yard single kicked by Greg Prout in the second quarter, but the second half belonged to the Vikings. The Panthers never got outside their own 45 yard line in the second half. Offensively for the Vikings, the turning points came in the third quarter. Despite having the wind advantage, the Panthers elected to run from their aunt formation on a third and 10 situation. it was McDonald, the defensive star, who made the tackle which left the Panthers short of the first down and gave tihe Vikings the bail on the Exeter 35 yard line. a field goal, but the snap was high. Rob Plunkett, the would-be kicker, retrieved the ball and ran for the first down, This time, the Vikings were able to sustain the drive and Jeff Feagan went over for the game's only touchdown on a four -yard sweep. Plunkett kicked the convert. The 1981 Vikings were not a pre -season pick for the league title. Only five of 13 returnees had held starting positions last year so Donnelly and his assistant coach Chris Connor had their work cut out for them. Coach Donnelly has a motto on his office this year's Vikings:, they got better. Typical of th.eeffort shown resulted in this improvement was quar- terback David MacDonald. At the beginning of the season his quarterbacking skills .,were not impressive but through hard work, both during and after practice, MacDonald became a fine quarterback. He probably threw more touchdown passes than any other quarterback in recent Viking history. The Vikings atl worked hard in practice and it was evident as the season progressed that they were hnproving which _-. iue-Vildngs-sere-able-io-; ove-the mall--droll-c:hich y,s; '.'Eve; y -day youpractice,to the Exeter 17. With third down and three you either get better or worse, you never But the glory Saturday was reserved for yards to go, the Vikings decided to attempt stay the same." That motto well applies to the tough Viking defence. In addition to the outstanding game by 'Finn' McDonald, the whole Goderich defence was strong. Defensive captain Mike Frayne, Carey Muck, Paul Kalbfleisch, Mike Murphy, Darryl Beattie, Tom Foran, Steve Frayne. Ray Vanstone, John Sheardown, Greg Lapaine, Chris Petre and Jeff Feagan all contributed immensely to the Viking victory by their spirited defensive efforts. Murphy, Feagan, McDonald, and Kent Scholtz all made pass interceptions and Van stone recovered a fumble. With between 10 and 12 players retur- ning, raid a fine crop of graduates coming Above left, Jeff Feagan (No. 34) rosea inti, the end zone'for the tip ,-frem -the zhra.. ionship--junier-te prospects for another fine Viking season seniors winning major overExeter.Above if[i Botz gives a next year look bright game -winning hug to friend Mike Murphy: (Photos by Cath Wooden)'