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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1982-10-20, Page 23Goderich ...SIGNAL -STAR ECRE'TC N 134 YEAR -42 GODERICH, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER -20,1982' SECOND SECTION Cheery and Pilous entertain 120 guests with stand-up comedy at sports celebrity dinner Two veterans of the professional hockey wars, Don Cherry and Rudy Pilous, could easily pass themselves off as standup com- edians. u The duo had over 120 guests attending the Sports Celebrity Dinner at the Legion Friday evening, in laughingfits with stories and anecdotes that were almost as colourful as Cherry's three piece suit. The dinner was organized by the ex- ecutive of the Goderich Sailors In- termediate hockey club under the direc- tion of chairman John Doherty with assistance from the Goderich Minor Hockey Association and its president, Don Johnston. Any proceeds from the event were to be pumped into the efforts of the minor hockey association. Both speakers were effusive in their praise .of the organizational committee and the men and women who volunteer their time and effort to make minor hockey) a successful organization in the commtinity. They also suggested that ' minor hockey was a necessity in shaping young men of Canada. Cherry,, the former coach of the Boston Bruins and Colorado Rockies of the NHL, now works' as a colour commentator .on ,Hockey Night in Canada telecasts, is the star of his. own television show, Grapevine, which airs prior to Wednesday night hockey games and announced the release of his first book October 22. .. • A former player in the minor profes- sional leagues, Cherry lavished praise on Goderich native Gary Doak, who he said did not possess outstanding talent, and often played injured, but gave. the team more than 100 per cent. ffort. "Doakie would alw*ys say to me at camp, 'Do you' think 'll be here another year coach?' " Cherry recalled. "I didn't . know that' he would be there longer than me." ' While coaching had its great moments, Cherry conceded that the notoriety gained through television exposure, does not com- pare with the turbulent life of a profes- sional coach. I love •Hockey Night in Canada. Everybody knows me and I'm real hot stuff," he said. "So one day I'm at the air- port standing in line and an older couple start talking about me and I'm reaching for my pen getting ready to sign an • autograph. Rhear the lady tell her husband she's seen me on televion. She tells her husband I'm the Friendly Giant." By his own admission, the five years he coached in Boston were the best years of Cherry's career. Colorado, hesaid, he could not compare as a hockey team. "Colorado was tough," he said.' "We were playing in Montreal once and the game was cancelled because of a bad storm. I threw a victory party for the ' team." By comparison, coaching m Boston was a dream for Cherry, considering -that the team was a stable group of veterans, in- cluding Bobby Orr; who .Cherry said was undoubtedly the best hockey player he Rudy Pilous, seated in the foreground, and Hockey Night in Canada cominentator, Don Cherry, sign autographs and chat with some of the patrons of the Sports Celebrity Dinner held at the Legion Friday evening. Cherry and Pilous entertained the audience with .colourful ' anecdotes and personal observations about the world ever saw. He said the team was like family and indicated they played as hard off the ice as they did on. ' Rudy Pilous,the former coach of the Chicago Black Hawks who now acts as director of operations for the St. Catharines Saints of the AHLL, was a most entertaining speaker and his humerous anecdotes were . superbly augmented by his mastery of numerous dialects.. It was obvious that in his 34 years of coaching and managing in hockey, Pilous has compiled more stories than time would permit him to. tell Friday evening. A devoted hockey promoter, Pilous told the audience that hockey really hasn't changed over the years, but, he contended, imagination has left the galrne. "People always ask me if hockey has changed and I say no, it hasn't. Except that a permissive society has let things get away. Agents have crepttip and it's a dif- ferent game," he said. "The games today, however,..may_be..a little_different._Thelun- of hockey. Proceeds froln the event, organized by the executive of the Goderich Sailorstickey club with assistance from the Goderich Minor Hockey Association, will go towards the minor hockey program. (photo by Dave Sykes) damentals of skating and shooting are no different but the imagination is gone." Pious lauded the efforts 'of the people who work on behalf of young players and suggested that hockey players between the ages of 6 and 12 are overcoached today while players from 13 to 20 ' are under - coached. "A kid playing hockeytoday has too many coaches. Each parent is a coach, telling what to do all the time, and then he has his own coach," he said. "Coaches to- day must be motivators." . In over 30 years affiliation with ' the game, Pilous has seen some outstanding hockey talent such as Bobby Hull, Stan Mikita, Glen Hall, Ulf Nilson and Anders Hedberg and Pierre Pilotte. And, while hard pressed to single out any individual as. the best talent in hockey, he said the Winnipeg line of Hull, Hedberg and Nillson was a joy, to• watch, even during practice - _._..._.... _....__._. When a new coach was appointed in Win- nipeg, he told him not to bother trying to coach the line. ' "They could do it alll" he said. But much of the suetgs ' .of a team, Pilous suggested, depends -on and starts with the goalkeeping. "I had some of the best goalies in Glenn Hall and Roger Crozier," he said. "And it makes all the difference." Both speakers answered questions in relation to the proliferation of violence in hockey today and generally agreed that players use the stick more than the body. Cherry suggested that the abolition of body checking in the lower ranks of minor hockey has encouraged players to check with sticks rather than bodies. Stiffer penal measures will help correct that situation, he said. " • Following the dinner, both speakers eagertly singed autographs and talked with .:_members of the crowd.....--. - Skate-a-tshpii raises over $4-,000 for hockey and skating The third annual • skate-a-thon co- sponsored by the Goderich Figure Skating Club and the Goderich Minor Hockey Association was held Saturday with 149 bkaters participating, many of .them skating the full 10 hours, raising a total of $4,608.09. Angie Harrison was top pledge winner with the amount of $115. Andy Orr Was a close second with $103.50. Third and fourth were Jason (Creamer with $96.50 and Allison Powell with $87.50. The skaters who completed the skate-a- thon will receive trophies and all skaters who participated will receive participants bars for their jackets. Events like these cannot succeed without the help of many volunteers, parents and local bus'nesses. Special .thanks go to the hockey and figure skating club mothers for donating sandwiches, Culbert's Bakery and Ze�nrs for donating cookies; Gardiner's Daily for donating milk and Mac's Milk for donating juice. The organizers would also like to thank the parents viwho heiped at the arena and the many people who sponsored the skaters as well as the skaters themselves. The' proceeds from the skate-a-thon, will be divided between the hockey and figure skating clubs to help defray some of the expenses of the season. Skaters ire reminded to turn in their money into the Bank of Nova Scotia before November 19, 1982. The following is a list of skaters who completed the full 10 hours: Glenn Woodard, Nancy Woodard, Jennifer Culbert, Stacey Rean, John Strickland, Kevin Moss, Allison Powell, Jackie Crawford, Greg Crawford, Pam Fritzley, Angie Harrison, Jennifer Light, .Darren Stanbury, Greg DeWinter, Shawn Talbot, Mike Stegenstad; Paul Sandy, Bill Trebish, Tim Mohring, Jason Duckworth, Joanne Shand, John Tzioumis, Steve Almost 150 skaters raised over $4,600 in the third annual Skate-a- thon sponsored by the Goderich Figure Skating Club and the Goderich Minor Hockey Association Saturday.. The youngsters who completed all 10 hours of the skate will receive trophies for their Tzioumis, Mike Creamer, Jason Creamer, Scott Creamer, David Brown, Kathy Brown, Steven Hutchins, Lindsay Hurd, Denise Johnston, Steven Johnston, Ian Bowman, Richard Bowman, Jordon Grasby, Richard Ch'arron, Byron Bowman, Mark Kinahan, Sandy Mathers, Stephanie Thompson, Bruce Parent, Maureeen Scott, Jackie Rau, Emma Hollingworth, .Scott Garrow, Larry Lep- efforts and other participants will receive crests. As evidenced by the above photos, both young and old participated in the 10 hour skate. (photos by Dave Sykes) pington, Melissa Purser, Jason Lajeunesse, Andy Orr, Jeff Hodges, Bryan Hodges, Kevin Merigan, Pheng Troeung, Andre Cauchi, Jean Paul Cauchi, Sonya McCallum, David Crothers, Stacey Clarence, Roxanne Warr, Tim Connelly, Brian Lane, Jody Orr, Ryan McClinchey, Steven McClinchey, Blair Waterfield, Mary Su MacLennan, Norman MacLen- nan, Chuck MacLennan, Doric Ann MacLennan, Shawn Larder, Chris White, Trevor Worsell, Angie Larder, Debbie Horton, Devin Horton, Danny Imanse, Tina Hamilton, Karen Crawford, Tim Wilson, Paul Hamilton, Stacey Bean; Tom Bean, Doug Rivers, Amber LeBeau, Tanury Talbot, Ryan Fagan, Justin Fagan, Shelley Craver, Melissa Hruden, John Hruden, Craig Ritchie, Sean Block and Jennifer Huyck. Junior Vikings rack up fifth football victory BY TD The GDC( junior Vikings buried the Wingham Madill Mustangs 63-6 to rack up their fifth victory without a defeat in Huron -Perth Conference football action Thursday in Wingham. The 4Mustangs were no match for the high -flying Vikings who scored three touchdowns in the first quarter and two each in the other three quarters. The Vikings scoring was well spread around. Only Shawn Rahbek had two touchdowns: one on a 22 yard pass in- terception, the other on a 10 -yard fullback dive in the second quarter. Kevin Beattie ran 42 yards on a reverse, John Thompson ran two yards, Kevin Feagan went 14 yards on a quick pitch, Doug Lounsbury ran 12 yards on'a sweep, Dave Almasi ran a blocked punt back 20 yards on a sweep, Scott Stokes took a 14 yard pass from John Thompson and Grant Garrow went 26 yards on a blast play for other Viking touchdowns. John Thompson kicked seven converts and Trevor Erb caught a two-point conver- sion pass to account for the other Viking points. Leading the offensive rushing were Doug Lounsbury, with 102 yards on eight carries in the third quarter alone, gnd Kevin Feagan with 105 yards. The Vikings defence was not challenged by the Mustang attack to any great extent. Brian Glenn and Jeff LeBeau recovered fumbles for the Vikings. The Viking defence accounted for two of the Goderich touchdowns and was instrumental in set- ting up most of the others. Yesterday (Tuesday) the Vikes were at home to Stratford Northwestern. Thursday they travel to Exeter for their final game of the regular schedule against the Panthers who have lost only one game in their first five starts. Senior girls' basketball team splits pair of games BY TD The GDCI senior girls basketball team split . a pair of Huron -Perth Conference games last week, defeating Mitchell 53-36 here Tuesday and losing 61-45 to a strong Stratford Central team in Stratford Thursday. The Vikings' scoring was well spread out against Mitchell. Mary Beth Alexander was the only Viking in double figures, with 16 points. Karyn Drennan had eight points while Mary O'Neill 'and Barb Conlon had seven apiece. Allison Graham and Mona Gleason added four points each, Anne Allan had three and Nancy Bugler and Cathy Oke chipped in with two points apiece. - Mary Fischer topped the Mitchell of- fence with 12 points. . The Vikes played probably their best game of the schedule in Stratford despite the loss. They played well as a team, trail- ' ing only by. one point, 26-25, at half-time. It was only in the fourth quarter that the high -scoring Stratford squad pulled ahead. Sue Marsh, who scores an average of 22 points a game, had an "average" day for Central with 22 points. Mary • O'Neill, with 15, and Mary Beth Alexander, with 12, were the leading point getters for the Vikings. Barb Conlon added eight while Allison Graham and Anne Allan had four points each. Cathy Oke had two points. Karl(n Drennan and Mary O'Neill had strong defensive games. Coach John Geiger's Vikings now hold a record of two wins and four losses, heading into today's game in Wingham.` Junior girls' basketball team remains undefeated - By TD. The GDCI junior Vikings remain undefeated in Huron -Perth Conference girls' basketball, following two more vic- tories last week. The Vikings made it six in a .row with a. 71=17 romp over Mitchell and a 68-30 win over Stratford Central. The Vikings over-all record is 12-3. In • Huron -Perth play, coach Phil Bugler's girls are averaging 67 points for and only 23 against. The Vikings had an easy garne in Mit- chell. They led 30-2 after one .quarter and 43-6 at half-time. Kahn Fritzley parlayed a quick 16 points in the first quarter into a game -high total of 35, including several fiaskiets from the 15 „ do 17 foot range: Tammy Gibbons, a rapid- ly improving first ,year player, showed evidence of het growing confidence with a 14 point output. Cathie Gallow and Chris Stapleton added eight points each, Mary Murphy had four and Kathleen Donnelly had two points. Sharman Adams had 11 of Mitchell's .points. KimFritzley scored 33 points against . Stratford Central to rack up another 68 .point week, the total she amassed in last week's two games. Fritzley was featured as. CFPL radio's athlete'of the day last Wednesday. Cathie Gallow, another talented first year performer, had a career -high total of 20 points , for the Vikings. Christine Stapleton had nine points, Tammy. Gib- bons had four and Mary Murphy added two. Murphy also played a strong defen- sive and rebounding game for the team minded Vikings. Lynn. Robbins had 11 points for Central. The Vikings played in the London Saunders tournament last weekend and travel to Wingham today (Wednesday) 'for their next league start. This weekend, coach Phil Bugler's squad will be playing in another tournament in Strathroy. Junior girls' basketball team reaches 'BYTD 'The GDCI junior girls basketball team played well against. stiff competition on the weekend to: reach the finals of the London Saunders tournament. The Vikings defeated London Clarke Road 50-34 in their first round game and then beat the host Saunders team 43-22 in the semi-finals. The Vikings were defeated 48-35 by London Lucas in the finals. The championship game was a close, ex- citing game. The Vikings led 10-7 after one quarter but Lucas held a slim 22-20 edge at half-time and led 28-26 after the third quarter. The Vikes tired in the fourth quarter and Lucas applied a press which gave them their margin of victory. Kim Fritzley had 15 points and Cathie Gallow had eight for Goderich. Tammy Gibbons added six. Christine Stapleton tourney final hooped four and Mary Murphy had two points. The Vikings' first game against Clarke Road was a physical one but the Vikes were able to solve Clarke Road's tough zone defence. Kim Fritzley had 25 points, Christine Stapleton had 18, Cathie Gallow got five points and Tammy Gibbons had two for the winners. Against Saunders, the Vikes ran into another zone defence, plus a combination zone and man to man defence, but once the Vikings solved them, they broke away from the London girls. Kim Fritzley had 20 points for Goderich and Christine Stapleton had 12. Cathie Gallow, with nine and Mary Murphy and Tammy Gibbons, with two each, rounded ,out the Vikings attack. I I Anglers Club formed The formation of the Maitland Valley Anglers is an indication of- the concern of anglers throughout southwestern Ontario _as to what ..is_happentng..to.sport fishingin. - the -Maitland RRfer and Lake Huron area. Over 50 concerned anglers attended the organi ationaT thee ing•of the club which was held In Goderich Sunday, October 3: The executive of the Maitland Valley Anglers includes: president, Fred Salter, Goderich; vice-president, Earl Martin, London; secretary, Ian Morton, Goderich and treasurer, Kien Madge Lond$n.three- tors include Don McIntyre; London; Jun Henderson, Mitchell; Ernie Walsh, Strat- ford and ppm _Mourant,London. . The objectives of the Maitland Valley Anglers are to promote an ongoing stock- ing program in the Mh tland River arid Lake Huron,. to promote stricter controls on commercial netting ope ations and to prevent pollution of the riOers and lake front. The club will conduct a membership drive throughout southwestern Ontario. Atoms defeat Exeter 4-2 The Goderich Machinist Atom's started their season Sunday with a 4-2 win against Exeter in the Exeter arena. Tim Harrison opened the scoring for Goderich in the first period with an assist from Brian Lane. Goderich went ahead by two in the se- cond period with an unassisted goal by Brian Lane and then by three in the third period with'. a goal by Andre Cauchi assisted by Brian Lane and Tim Harrison. The other third period Goderich goal was scored by Tim Hatmtson unassisted. Exeter finally got on the scoreboard with two goals in the third period.