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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1981-12-09, Page 21theoGlerich Juveniles $ 'splay S1GNAL—STAR good form in 54 win The Goderich Signal -Star Juveniles split games last week, losing in St. Marys on Wednesday 9-4 and beating Oakridge from London at Medway arena on Sunday 5-1. After Oakridge scored the opening goal in Sunday's game, it was all coach Doug, Cruickshank's boys for the rest of the game with Dennis Kerr playing solidly in net. Rick Anderson tied it up a minute after Oakridge opened the scoring near the end of the first period. Alan Bakkler and Jim Mathers drew assists on the play. The other four Goderich goals were all scored in the second period in the space of five minutes. Bakker scored first from Darrell Graham, followed by a Graham goal from Tim Chisholm. Randy Graham then notched an unassisted goal, with Mathers getting the final goal from Darrell Graham with 2:10 left in the germ for the 5-1 victory. The Juveniles weren't so effective against St. Marys the previous Wed- nesday, however, -as they were dealt a 9-4 loss. The Signal -Stars kept it close into the second period, but four St. Marys goals to Goderich's one during the rest of the game took it out of reach.,. Steve Sager got the first goal to tie it at one each in the first period on a play set up by Ray Stanton and Graham Salter. Alan Bakker then tied it at two later in the first with assistance from Randy Midden and Kent Tigert. At the beginning of the second period, Bakker brought the locals within one of St. Marys with Tigeit and Larry Kelly drawing assists. The Juveniles lost their grip on the game after that as St. Marys went ahead with four goals. The other Goderich goal was notched -by Darrell Graham from Larry Kelly. Parkhill visits the Juveniles on Sunday for a 2:30 game. Midgets avenge defeat with win over Ilderton BY TD The Goderich Midgets avenged their only defeat in Shamrock League hockey play so far this season when they defeated Ilderton here Saturday, 7-5. In an earlier meeting, Merton had defeated Goderich 3-2. The victory Saturday gives the Goderich team a record of four wins, one loss and two ties in seven league games. The victory over Merton did not come easily for coach Larry Jeffrey's Midgets, however. The game was a rough affair, bordering on crude at times. Both teams were chippy and referees Mark Rowe and Dave WilliScraft did little to keep the game under control. A total of 99 minutes in penalties were handed out, with 49 minutes going to the home team; Goderich jumped off to a 4-0 lead on two goals by Jeff Feagan and one each by Scott Stoll and Jeff Sargent before Ilderton hit the scoresheet. The locals held a 5-2 lead by the end of the second period. John Thompson got the fifth Goderich goal on a Play with Sargent and Feagan. llderton outscored Goderich three goals to two in the third period, but some good goalteeding by Terry Bean in the Goderich net preserved the two -goal victory for Goderich. Peter Stahl and Paul McCartney not- ched the Goderich goals in the final frame. Andy Telford, Keith Hallam and Mark Crawford were credited with assists. The Goderich Midgets travel to Lucan fora game Friday night and then go to Parkhill Sunday for a 5 p.m. game. REG EATIDN 133 YEAR -49 GODERICH, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9,1981 SECOND SEMON Area elementary schools had a boys and girls volleyball tournament on Saturday at Victoria Public School. The Victoria girls placed first in the event and Colborne was second, the teams shown here meeting for a match. The Colborne boys won with Robertson coming in second. (Photo by Joanne Buchanan) Goderich Sailors: new improved! period, with Goderich getting the first ane from Steve Meriam on a play set up by Steve Buchanan and Dale Duncan. The second period saw the Sailors go ahead 3-2 on goals by Graham Hamilton assisted by Jeff Denome and Paul Kelly, and Steve Buchanan from Duncan and Meriam. A minute into the third period, Dale Duncan put the Sailors up 4-2 with assists going to Wayne Rau and Steve Meriam. But netminder Percy Bedard and his front men couldn't hold onto the lead, and Southampton came from behind to tie it. This Friday, the Sailors play host to the Mildmay Monarchs at 8:30. Sunday they travel to Harriston to play the Blues at 2 p.m. It was a new and improved version of the Goderich Sailors on the ice last weekend. With Tom Hill (formerly of the Lucknow Lancers) behind the bench, the Inter- mediate C squad defeated Wingham here Friday night 6-5 in a clean, close game. On Saturday, they travelled to Southampton and salvaged a 4-4 tie. Over the two games, the Sailors drew only seven minor penalties. It was a final minute goal on Friday that won the game against the Royals. The teams were 5-5 with 18 seconds left on the clock when Dale Duncan fired a no -assist effort past Royal goalie HughNichot The Royals had taken a 3-0 lead in the first period an the strength of two goals by Rick 3ackfin, one of than a power play goal. The Sailors got on the score sheet with five minutes remainingin the opening period. It was Paul Kelly getting his rust of four points for the night from Wayne Rau, also getting his first of four, and Graham Hamilton. The Sailors came out flying in the second period and scored three goals in the first ten minutes to take the 4-3 lead. Wayne Rau scored the first unassisted, then repeated bis effort an another goal assisted by Paul Kelly and Jeff Denomme. Dave Bartliffe then scored at 833 to put the Sailors ahead on a goal assisted by Kelly and Denonmie. But at the 12:31 mark of that period, Wingham's Blaine McCuthen scored the equalizer for the Royals to set the stage for the third period. It was Wingham that went ahead 5-4 just past the midway point of the last third on a shot by Murray Black that beat Sailor goalie Milos Reynolds. Just two minutes went by until the Sailors' Wayne Rau got his hat trick goal from Steve Meriam and Paul Kelly to tie up the game at five aside. Then with less than hall a minute left, Duncan scored the winner for Goderich, perhaps marking the turning point in the season for the Sailors. It was another close one on Saturday in Southampton, with the home team scoring two goals in the final period to earn the 4-4 Each team scored once in the first Cagers lose at WOSSA. BY TD The GDCI junior girls basketball team was eliminated in the quarter -final series of the WOSSA playoffs Friday in Strathroy when they were defeated 39-26 by Sarnia Northern. The GDCI team qualified for the WOSSA playdowns by winning the Huron -Perth chancipionship. Northern, finalists in the Sarma Conference, went on from their victory over Goderich to edge Londdri Montcahn 37-36 in the WOSSA semi-finals but lost to their arch -rivals, Sarnia St. Pat's 49-38 in the championship game. GDCI coach Lynn Meyers felt his team' came up flat in their game with Northern. "Whether it was the pressure of the game or the two and a half week layoff we had, I don't know," said Meyers, "bit we did not play welt at all." .The Vikings had used a full court press effectively in whining the Huron -Perth title, but it cid not work against Northern. The Goderidi girls were also guilty of either rushing their shots or hesitating too long on alternate occasions. The Vikings did manage to put on a spurt which cut Northern's lead to only one point, but Sarnia pulled ahead again to stay. Allison Graham scored 14 points, most of them in the second half, for Goderich. Kim Fritzley and Cathy Oke had four apiece and Ann Allan had two points. Vikings win title at. Stratford tourney BY TD The GDCI junior Vikings won the con- solation championship at the Stratford Huskies Tournament Saturday by defeating Wingham 53-33. The Vikings had lost their first game Friday 35-24 to London Beck but then advanced to the consolation final with a 36- 17 victory over ExeterSaturday morning. Andrew Telford led the Viking offence in the final against Wingham, scoring 14 points. Ken Linner had 12 and John Thompson added 11. Geof Chase and Joe Melady got four points each while Daryl Madge and Dave Smith had two points each The Vikings led throughout the game, holding a 23-15 lead at half time and a 45-25 lead after three quarters. Goderich used an effective half court press and controlled the boards at both ends. It was the opposite story in the Vikings' loss to Beck as the London team won the game an the boards, converting rebounds into easy baskets in close. Ken Limier with 10, Chris Starkey and Andrew Telford with six each, and John Thompson with two points accounted for the Viking scoring. The Viliings trailed 13-4 after one quarter, bat narrowedthe margin to 15-14 by half time. Too many fouls in the second half , prevented a successful Viking comeback The Vikings got their game together in the consolation semi-final against Exeter, playing much better defensively and using Discovering personal potential through fists and feet Gutteral noises and the sounds of fists cutting through the air bounce off the walls of the Goderich-Township Community Cen- tre. "Come on, you're not working hard enough!" urges Ron Tyndall. a first degree black belt in Shurinrny style karate. "If you don't give 100 per cent this week, you won't have 100 per cent to give next week. You must think about what you can do, not what you can't do." The mild-mannered Tyndall tosses in these philisophical thoughts while his 25 students take breathers between karate exercises. The students range from small youngsters to men, from white belts to a blue belt ( which is about halfway to the black ). Tyndall had his karate training in Goderich mainly- under John Pierson. Tyndall's own karate: school is young, just finishing its tenth week of twice a week, two hear sessions in the Goderich Township Centre. The school will start another course after Christmas for anyone interested on Monday and Wednesday nights, Karate students f Ron Tyndall work their press to upset Exeter's game. Andrew Telford had 11 points for the Vilting,s. Chris Starkey hooped silt and Daryl Madge added five Geof Chase, John Thompson, and Ken Limier each had four while Dave Smith got two points. Coach Myles Murdock's Vikings played two exhibition games Thursday in Owen Sound, dropping a close 67-63 contest to OSCVI and defeating West Hill 78-53. The Vildngs were down 18-9 in their game with West Hill, but reduced the margin to four points, 29-25, at the half and took control of the game in the second half to win by 25 points. Chris Starkey and Ken Linner had 16 points each to lead the attack. Joe Melady had 14 and Geof Chase added 11. Andrew Tellord and John Thompson had five poiliti ea& While Daryl- Madge and Pant Brenner got four apiece, Dave Smith got two and Pete King sunk a free throw. The Vikings almost made it two for two on their northern tour as they held a six point lead over OSCVI with three minutes left in the game. However, the Vilies missed some key foul shots and OSCVI got hot and won by four. Ken Linner had 21 for Goderich, John Thompson added 12 and Joe Melady got 10 points. Chris Starkey and Andrew Telford had eight apiece and Geof Chase hooped four points. The Vikings open their Huron -Perth Conference schedule here Thursday af- ternoon when Mitchellwill be the visitors. "What we achieve is sel f -confidence. perseverance. and self-control.- - Ron Tyndall t in Goderich Township Hall. At right, a serious Willie Anderson gives his 100 per cent. (Photos by Cath Wooden) .1