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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1982-10-27, Page 23Godencb SIGNAL -STAR CU 134 YEAR -43 GODERICH, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27:1982 SECOND SECTION HOCKEY ROUND -UP Strathroy defeats Nov,ices The Goderich Garb and Gear Novice team lost 2-0 to Strathroy in Godeich on Saturday. Shane Whiteside opened the scoring for Strathroy with an unassisted goal just one minute and 33 seconds into the' game., Goderich was able to hold Strathroy scoreless in the second period but four minutes and 40 seconds into the third period Strathroy's Brian Pacheco scored a second unassisted goal. The Novices will meet Lucan this Saturday. Pee Wees open season with wine The Goderich Lions Pee Wees opened their 1982-83 hockey season last week with wins of 5-4 and 6-5 over Exeter and Parkhill respectively. In both games, the Lions had to come from behind and score the winning goal in the last minute of play. At Exeter last Wednesday, Scott Garrow had the hat trick while Dave Brown and Greg Alcock tallied single goals to lead the offence. Single assists went to Bill Whetstone, Byron Bowman, Darren Stan- bury, Jim Kelly, Jason Million and Larry Leppington. In Parkhill on Friday, the lead exchang- ed hands five times before the Lions finally won out. Garrow gained his second hat trick in as many games and had an assist to lead the offence, while single tallies went to Alcock, Brown and Bill Trebish who notched the winner. Assists» went to Alcock, Whetstone and Stanbury. The locals will be in action again this week with an exhibition game in Clinton on Friday and a league game in Strathroy on Saturday. This season's edition of Lions Pee Wees consists of Tom Durnin and Greg Town- send in goal; Jason Million, Jeff Boyce, Byron Bowman, Chris White and John Strickland on defence; and on forward there is Scott Garrow, Greg Alcock, Bill Whetstone, Darren Stanbury, Dave Brown, Jim Kelly, Bill Trebish, Larry Lep- pington and Jordon Grasby. Coaches are Dentis Williamson and Doug Harrison; manager is Vic •Whetstone; bus co- ordinator is Bill Stanbury. Juveniles gain tie The Goderich Signal -Star, Juveniles' scored two goals late in the final period to gain a 7-7 tie with Lambeth in a penalty - filled Shamrock League game here Sun- day. The Stars got off to a quick start in the game'and built up a 3-0 lead in the first 10 minutes of the game before settling for a 3- 2 edge at the close of the first period. Jeff Feagan, Jim Mathers and Mark Crawford scored first period goals for Goderich. Brad Dowdy and. Darryl Ireland scored first period goals for Lambeth. The Stars increased their lead to two goals after just 29 seconds of play in the second period with Andrew Telford con- verting a pass from team-mates Crawford and Dave Gallow. Lambeth fourght back to even the score 4-4 midway through the second period but Gallow put Goderich ahead once again, scoring on an unassisted effort. Ireland scored his second goal of the game for Lambeth late in the second period to tie the game 5-5 Beading into the final period of play. Lambethtook control of the game early in the third period and scored -two goals in less than two minutes to take a 7-5 lead. Ireland put Lambeth ahead by one with his 'third goal' of the game and then set up line- mate Dowdy two minutes later :for. Lambeth's seventh goal. tallow's second goal of the game With less than five minutes remaining in the final period pulled Goderich_te within one of Lambeth. eith tied the sore late in .the, game with Feagan and John . Peters assisting on the play. Over 100 minutes in penalties was called against both teams in the game with Goderich picking up 21 minor penalties, one five-minute major and two game misconducts. Lambeth was assessed 25 minor penalties, one 10 -Minute misconduct and two game misconducts. The Stars next home game will be Sunday afternoon. 9 Jeff Hodges of the Goderich Machinist Atoms gets ready to pass the League play against Lucan on Saturday. The Goderich team won puck from behind the net to Lonnie Rumig (3). during Shamrock the game 4-1. (Photo by Joanne Buchanan) Atoms defeat Lucan 4-1 Saturday.. The Goderich Machinist Atoms won their second game of the season 4-1 against Lucan at the Lucan arena on Saturday. Tim Harrison opened the scoring for Goderich five minutes into the first period with a goal on a beautiful set-up pass from Jeff Hodges. Lucan evened things up in the second period and although Goderich was getting more shots on net, they were unable to put one by a superb Lucan goalie. In the third period, Goderich's passing plays really clicked as they bombarded the Lucan goalie and scored three unanswered goals; the first one by defenceman Richard Bowman unassisted; the second by Brian Lane assisted by Jason Pearson; and the third one by Harrison assisted by Pearson. Goderich will travelto Strathroy this Saturday for a match -up there. Jeff Hodges Shamrock League Buchanan) of the Goderich .Machinist Atoms action Saturday in Lucan. The almost puts one Goderich team hiY by the Lucan goalie in won 4-1. (Photo by Joanne A member of the GDCI senior volleyball team had this spike at- tempt blocked at the net by two Stratford Central players in Huron - Perth volleyball action here Thursday. Goderich loot the first game to Central but rebounded with a win in the second match and took two games from Stratford Northwestern. The last tournament of the season will take place in Wingham, Wednesday. ( photo by Dave Sykes) d• Junior Vikings complete thir. undefeated season BY TD The GDCI Vikings completed their third consecutive undefeated season in Huron - Perth Conference football play by winning twice last week. Tuesday, at home, the Vikings crushed Stratford Northwestern 34 - 0. Thursday, in Exeter, the Vikes defeated the South -Huron Panthers 14 -1. The first place Vikings now play Clinton Central Huron here Thursday at 1:30 in the Huron -Perth semi-finals. Listowel and South Huron meetin the other semi-final, also on Thursday. The Vikings held only a 6 0 lead over Northwestern at half-time here Tuesday, but came on strong in the second half to turn the game into a rout. Kevin Beattie got the Vikings' first half touchdown on a 32 yard reverse. John Thompson went over from the three yard line in the third quarter for the Vikings se- cond major. Trevor Erb caught a two- point conversion pass to make the Vikings lead 14-0 going into the final quarter; Touchdowns by Kevin Feagan, Trevor Erb and Scott Stokes in the fourth quarter put the game away for the Vikes. John Thompson kicked two converts. The Stratford 6 - 4 gap defence kept the Viking running attack to its lowest output of the season. John Thompson carried eight times for 61 yards, and Kevin Feagan had nine carries, netting 49 yards. The Vikings made up for their decreased running at- , tack by an effective passing game. John Thompson was two for four. and Steve Bugler six for six in the passing depart- ment; good for a total of 224 yards. Receiver Scott Stokes caught five passes for 91 yards. The Viking defence held their team in, especially in the first quarter when the of- fence could not move the ball. Twice they held the Northwestern offence pointless on first down situations inside the Goderich 20 yard line. The Vikes blocked 'a field goal attempt and stopped the other drive on a third down and short yardage attempt. The Vikings' victory over third place Ex- eter was a low -scoring affair with tough defensive play by both teams. Kevin Beattie got both Viking touchdowns in the second quarter. Both were on reverses, one of 17 yards, the other an 85 yarder. John Thompson kicked both convert attempts successfully. Exeter kicked a single with the wind in the third quarter. Rick Haas made key blocks on both Vik- ing touchdowns. Kevin Feagan led the Vik- ing ground attack with 123 yards gained. The Viking defence was the key to the Goderich victory. Fumble recoveries by Jeff LeBeau and Kevin Telford and an in- terception by Grant Garrow highlighted the defensive effort. The Viking defence allowed only 37 points in seven league games, and 22 of the points were sur- rendered in the first gamed the season. Senior Vikingsclinch first place in standing BY TD The GDCI Senior Vikings clinched first place in Huron- Perth Conference football standings Thursday with a 14 - 6 victory over the Exeter Panthers in the final game of the regular schedule. Jeff Feagan got both Viking touchdowns in the second quarter. One came on a 25 yard off-track run, the other on a four yard dive. Joe Melady kicked both converts. Exeter got an unconverted touchdown in tie ,chard » quuayrter w aen_naa . H,w,'rrter_dge over from the one yard line. Thevictory gave the Vikes a record of four wins and one loss for the season. The Stratford Northwestern Huskies were also 4 -1, but the Vikings took first place by vir- tue of their mictory over Northwestern here last week. The Vikings meet fourth place South Huron (2.- 3) here Thursday in semi-finadl playoff . action, following the Clinton- Goderich junior semi-final which begins at 1:30 p.m. Northwestern meets Norwell in the other senior semi-final. . Although the Vikings played well in the first half Thursday; they let down in the,se- cond half and Exeter gained the momen- tum. The Vikings ran into a rash • of penalties which nullifed any good plays they did make. Vikings' •coach. Ray Don- nelly felt his team wasrpfortunate»to hold on for the -vi reT ��'k'G 'd-: -'»ain c penalties to South Huron's one. The Viking ground game was effective, picking up a total of 250 yards,. but again was unable to come up with first downs in some key situations. The Goderich defence was steady except for giving up occasional. long gains by the Panthers. Junior girls' basketball team wins tournarnent BY TD The GDCI junior girls' basketball team won the championship in a tournament in Strathroy last Saturday and won their only league game of .the Week Wednesday, 68 - 24 over Wingham. In the Strathroy tournament, the Vikings had two solid victories to claim the title. They defeated Lord Dorchester 55 - 31 and than outgunned Strathroy 56 - 30 in the final. • Kim Fritzley had 22 points, Tammy Gib- bons 12 and Cathie Gallow 11 against Dor- chester. Mary Murphy and Christine Stapletonhad four ; :mints each . and Kathleen nnelly two fortthe\winners. DonnaLeadlay,hat 10fo Dorchester. :. Kim Fritzley and Christine Stapleton were the big gunners against Strathroy with 23 and 19 points respectively. Cathie`. Gallow added six, Tammy Gibbons had four and Mary Murphy and Shelley Teal had two points apiece. Mary Deruiter had 10 for Strathroy,.. The Vikes led 21 5 after one quarter and 35 -15 atthe half. Earlier in the season, the Vikings needed overtime to edge Strathroy by one point so coach Phil Bugler was pleased with his team's improvement. In the league game with Wingham, Tam- my Gibbons sparked the Vikings attack in the first quarter with eight points on -driv- ing layups. She wenton to record a 16 point game. Kim Fritzley showed some fine of- fensive moves to top the Goderich scoring .with 27 points. 'Christine Stapleton played a strong defensive and . rebounding ` game and had 12 points. The Vikings led 36 - 13 at the -half and then Wingham went -to a zone defence in the third quarter to slow. down the Goderich attack. The Vikes responded with a team effort to outscore Wingham 19 - 2 in that quarter. . 'The Vikings overall record now stands at an .impressive 17 wins and four losses. They are 7.- Q Huron -Perth Conference p St. Marys plays here today (Wednesday) in a league contest and Friday., the. Vikings travel to Sarnia for the St. Pats' tourna- ment. Senior girls' basketball team defeats Wingham BY TD The GDCI senior girls' basketball team defeated Wingham 41 - 29 Wednesday in Wingham. The victory gives the Vikings a record, of three wins and four losses in league play. Mary O'Neill had 14 points for Goderich. Allison Graham added eight, Mona Gleason hooped seven, Barb Conlon had six and Mary, Beth Alexander got four points for theWikings. Teresa Donnelly and Anne Allan each added one point to the Vikings' total. Tracy' MacKay had 14 points for Windham. Mary O'Neill was the leading rebounder for the Vikes. Barb Conlon . had the hot hand at the free throw line, making four of five attempts. The Vikings led 18 - 12 at half-time. ' Coach John Geiger's Vikings have a busy week in process. Monday the Vikes hosted Listowel. Today ( Wednesday 1 St. Marys plays here and Friday London Med- way is in to play an exhibition game. Next Monday, the Vikings play Central Huron in Clinton. O'Brien's tea m wins three 111 a row in Rec League Ron Corriveau scored two third period goals to give the Bedford Flyers a 44 tie with Garb and Gear in Recreational . Hockey _League_.action.. Moiday:__October 18. `th other-Lgue action the saine`night, Green Machine defeated Hodges 9-5. Mike Lapaine Qf Green Machine scored four goals while Sugar Mariam led Hodges' scoring attack with one goal and two assists. Jim Farrish, fast -skating centre -man for Sunset, dented the twine twice as Sunset handed Ultramar their second straight loss in as many games Wed- nesday, October 20. Graham Hamilton added the lone marker for Ultramar. The final score was Sunset 3 -Ultramar 1. John "Hoy scored two gels to give the Bedford Flyer's a.44 iW wfth H'o' ges- on" Thursday, October. 21. It was Hodges' first .point affe_r. JoSing their first two games._ On Sunday, October 24, Dave Melvor, Jim Farrish, Paul Dougherty, Wayne Kennedy and Leroy Meriam each scored a goal to defeat Clere-Vu 54. This win by Sunset puts,ere-Vu at a 0.3 record for the season so far. O'Briens made it three in a row by defeating Garb and Gear 8 to 5 on Sunday morning. Dan Duncan had four goals while Rob Standen had one goal and three assists for O'Briens. Scoring for Garb and Gear were Phil Petrie and Dean Nesbit each with two goals and Ken Bowen with one.