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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1983-02-09, Page 15This weekend, •1! rY the ��cc e Old 12 hos Goderich .- , eckhsinds with 4e hosting their fourth invitational hockey taw, nament. • Fourteen old-timer teams will centric which w in the three-day round eventrobin`.. when Friday '7 ,rnP he. gets: under way a.m. F...,., ...y at P .. ,. Zurich will meet Forest. At 8 P.M. Kin- cardine challenges the Lambeth Canadians. Goderich plays Kitchener at 9 pm. whilethe final game of the day will commence at 10 p.m. when the Guelph Wednesday' Knights meet the Lambeth Blues. host t4cIII:Le: fourteentear will compete in . pawn 1>� three divisions withthe two top teams in each: division having a playoff for gold and, silverinedate. l.. The' Lakeport Division will include Kitchener, Godet ich, the GuelRh Wed- nesday e-nesday Knights and the Lambeth Blues. . of The Bedford. Arms Division will COMM the Guelph Musketeeers, the .Lambeth Canadians, Utica ('New York), Kincardine and the Hamilton Krazy Kanucks. In the Signal -Star Division the London Firebirds, Forest Lakeside; Port Stanley, the London Blues and Zurich will compete. Gdedchfl SIj\LAL-STAR After .Friday .might's ; times . Mound 1 div�si�at play willresume 4d Saturday at , 8'a, tn, and will conclude at 11 a,m, when Reeled 2 divisional play begins'. Goderich will meet the Guelph WednesdayKnights ,; at 12 noon• r . •. Round 3 begins 'at 6.30 p.m,. onSatur Y .; takes• th honthe_ n Go , . w e• lac Cadmic)) Blues. The'final game on Saturday wall• take place at 7:30 p.rn, when the Ishrebeth Canadians meet Zurich, Round 3 action resumes_. on Sunday at 9 • a.m. and concludes at 1 p.m. Playoff action begins at 2:30 p.m. with the Lakeport Division final, followed by the Bedford Arms Division at 3:45 p.m• and the Signal -Star Division at 5 pen. In the event of a tie the division leader will be determined by 1) thetotal points 3) • realest pals o and 3)fewest pals f>r .. g against, & The Goderich Old Dockhands, go into the tournament with.a 14-7-3 record. The tournament will provide good eac- . ri nr to eccere e for theteamas the P they ompete in another tQurna antn ville in. April., The -team will leave y b on April 30 and returnon Sunday, Ma 8. • During the week besides playing hockey, the team will. visit Memphis where *they i will tour Elvis Presley's Graceland, Visit l Opryland and visit the Grand Old ()pry. On 'the .way home the group will watch the -Kentucky Derby. Anyone wishing to take the trip shoted contact any Old Deckhand as there ace four seats still available. track team makes honpr ssive showing The GDCI Viking indoor track team made an impressive showing its first meet theweekend, onwe e, Several athletes qualified for the ORF;S.A.A. all -Ontario indoor track championship held 'at Maple Leaf Gar- dens, Toronto, February 4. The athletes qualified for the championship by posting qualifying times in their events. The senior girls relay team did .ex- ceptionally'well in the 4 X 1 lap (160 yard) relay which is run on an oval banked track. Despite the fact team members have not run on this type of track before they finished fourth in the event, narrowly missing a third-place medal. The relay team members inlcude Kirin Fritzley, Christie DeBB:olt, .hammy Gibbons and Joanne Campbell: In the 600 yard open run for girls, Deb Mitchelmore of Goderich ran a fine race to win tier heat put her tune did not place in the final standings, Rob Gibbons competed well, in the open boys 600 yard event and Scott Vliestecott. competed in the boys open 1,500 metre event. • Thirty track athletes have been working out in and around the halls at GDC since early December in preparation for track meets. The next meet for the Vikings is the Fred Foot Clasie at thee University of Toronto February 19, . ECHE Atoms were runners-up in Leprechaun tourney 135 YEAR -6 GODERICH, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9,1983 SECOND SECTION Vikings reach finals of their own tourney By T.D. The GDCI Vikings reached the finals of their own Tenth Annual ' Invitational Tournament here Saturday but lost the championship game, 65-56 to their Huron - Perth rivals, the Stratford Northwestern Huskies. To reach the finals, the Vikings got by London Medway, 57-53 in their opening round game and defeated Owen Sound West Hill, 54-46 in the semi-final. Northwestern got to the finals by beating London Westminister, 59-46 in their first game and squeeked by Sarnia St. Clair; 62- 60 in the other semi-final. Georgetown took the consolation title by. defeating Sault Ste Marie Korah, 62,57. In the championship.. game, the Nor- thwestern Huskies were led by the tour- nament's most valuable player, Rob James who had 16 points. Mike Otto added 14 and Jerry Denny had 11. • For the Vikings, Scott Bell, who made the tournament all-star team, led the attack with 19.points. Don McCallum had 11 and Chris Pitre added 10. Kevin Adams and Kevin Smith both had six a piece and Joe Morrissey hooped four points. Reaching the finals of the tournament was a bit of a rarity for the Vikings and' they played well against some top flight competition. In the final the Vikings trailed by only three points at halftime but a lapse in the third quarter proved to be too muchto overcome in the final eight minutes. The Huskies outscored Goderich 22-10 in the third quarter. However, the Vikings fought back to within five points and had possession of the ball with 1:20 to play, but they failed to score and then were forced into fouling to try to regain the ball. Jerry Denny potted six in a row from the charity stripe to sew up the Huskie victory. The loss was the third in tournament and league play this season by the Vikings to Stratford. Coach Myles Murdock and his Vikings hope that the next time they meet (possibly in Huron -Perth playoffs) the results will be different. . The Vikings played an aggressive man- to-man defence in their openmg.game with Medway and were able to cause many turnovers with their press. Kevin Adams, who had a fine tour- nament and Scott Bell each had 17 points for Goderich. Don McCallum hooped 11. Kevin Smith, who rebounded well, had six and Joey Morrissey threw in four. Chris Pitre has two points. The Goderich Machinist Atoms were Hodges on two and Shawn Talbot, Lonnie runners-up in the B division of the Lucan Rumig and Harrison on one each. Leprechaun Tournament on the weekend, Goderich bombarded Belmont with five winning their first two games against Seaforth and Belmont and narrowly losing the championship game to Petrolia. Although the local Atoms were unable to bring home the Leprechaun championship for the second year in a row, Richard Bowman was chosen as the most valuable player for the Goderich team in the championship gam e. In Friday night's game against Seaforth, two periods of overtime had to be played fter a 3-3 tie at the end of regulation play. ince neither team scored during this, shots on goal were counted and oderich won 3-2. Seaforth later went on to the 13 consolation. Orth opened up the scoring early in thfirst.-period but Goderich .had tied gs up by tiaa end of that period on a goal by Jeff Hodges.aseisted by Jason Person and Chris O'Neill. ' C oderich scored the only goat in, the secpnd period to go ahead once more. This.. cane from the stick of O'Neill assisted by Ho es. Se orth tied things up again at the beg' mng -of the third period and then Rich rd Bowman put Goderich out front once, more with an unassisted goal. However, the tenacious Seaforth team kept Lighting back and with less than two minu s remaining in the game, they their fourth goal: and then; protected their scot the tying gp►a1 two goal lead untilthe end of the game,, • au t ll shared the en t Glenn Smith, Tim Jeffery and Dennis Martynowski each had 12 points for Medway. The Vikings played a highly emotional game against West Hill in the semi-finals. They had lost to the Owen Sound team by five earlier'tn the season and fell behind 15- 4 in the first quarter Saturday when they came out tight, making only one of their first 15 shots. The Vikings kept hustling, however, and forced turnovers which gave them a great come -back victory. The Vikings took the lead for the first time at the end of the third quarter and then kept it. DoneelcCallum got hot in the secondhalf, making five of nine shots from the floor and eight of ten from the foul line. Kevin Adams and Kevin Smith both had strong defensive games. McCallum finished the game with 22 points while Adams had 10. Scott Bell hooped eight, Joey Morrissey got six and both Kevin Smith and Chris Pitre had four apiece. Bill Rusk, with 20, and Rob Quesnl, with 12, topped the Owen Sound scoring. In addition to Scott Bell, the tournament all-star team consisted of Jeff Smith of Georgetown, Bill Rusk of Owen Sound, Jack Willett of Sault Korah and Mike Otto of the Huskies. The Vikings played an exhibition game against Sault Ste Marie on Friday night, losing by ewo points 47-45. The Korah team showed a lot of hustle, crashing the boards and diving for the loose balls. In contrast, the Vikings did not shoot well, hitting only 28 per cent from the floor and 61 per cent from the foul line. Don McCallum had 20 points to top the Viking point production. Scott Bell had nine, Chris Pitre, and Kevin Smith had six apiece while Dave More and Joe Morrissey each got two points. Tournament organizer, Viking coach Myles Murdock was pleased with not only his own team's play but also with the excellent help he received from those who worked at the tournament. He also ex- pressed his appreciation to the fans who supported the tournament and the families who helped by billeting the ,players from Sault Ste Marie. The Vikings return to league action Thursday here when the Seaforth Golden Bears invade Viking territory. more goals in the second and third periods and, by also playing very well defensively, did not allow Belmont another chance to score. Two of these last .five .goals were scored by Harrison with singles going to Bowman, Andre Cauchi and Ryan Fagan. O'Neill had two assists and Rumig and Pearson had one each. After a six hour wait at the arena, the ` Goderich Machinist Atoms came up against Petrolia for the B championship and narrowly lost 4-2. - Petrolia>was well rested for the game after getting a bye right into the finals. They also came into the game determined. to beat Goderich since the locals had previously eliminated them in the Silver Stick tournament in Forest. The Petrolia fans were rowdy and the team was rough. Petrolia opened the scoring in the first period and then scored another before the end of that period. At the beginning of tie second period, O'Neill scored for Goderich, assisted by Harrison, and Hodges. However, Petrolia scored anothergoal at the end of the period to go ahead by tentonce more. ' Harrison, assistedbyO,'.Neill,scored for Goderich once more at the beginning of the third period but with four ' minutes remaining in the game, Petrolia scored; Alt ugh tthhe lelachuiists did not•play up Fail ;Iia' nets a +5�the • usiltll stas[idards•againstHeaforilb et they also seemed to have a lot of tough He and Pat Donnelly et break And what the Seaforth team 'minding Apes` for Godericli throughout lacked in finesse, they made up for with the tournament, with Donnelly playing just plain hard work, skating and digging Friday night and Kinahan playing Sunday and neves giving up: The elachinists had Saturday off and During the championship game, then trpveiled to Lucan for an early Goderich failed to capitalize on Petrolia's Sunday morning game against Belmont. numerous penalty mistakes. Coach Steve ,Belmont . had previously humiliated Buchanan said he felt a lot of his team's Godericl) in 'an exhibition game and problem was mental attitude, counting Goderict) was Out for revenge., This time, themselves down and out after Petrolia got they showed Behinont how they could play a few goals ahead. He praised goalie at their Best and blasted them out of the Kinahan for helping to keep the score as arena 94. close as it was. By the end of the firstperiod, it was 41 All in all though, the local Atoms deserve for Godeiich with O'Neill getting a hat- lots of credidfor doing as well as they did trick and Bowman Scoring an unassisted against some pretty stiff competition in goal. Assisting on O'Neill's goals were the tournament. Atoms in first place The Goderich Machinist Atoms finished their regulaj schedule last Thursday night by trouncin0 Parkhill 8-0; This left the local Atoms in first place iii their division of the Shamrock League, with 16 wins and two losses for the season. Shawn Talbot got the firit goal of the game and wept on to assist tin five others for a six -point night. Andre Cauchi had' a hat -trick along with two assists for a five - point night. Brian Lane had tiro goals and Kevin Adams puts all his effort into reaching higher than a Medway player while trying to get a basket during the GDCI Tenth Annual Invitational Basketball Tournament on Saturday, February 5. The Vikings defeated both Medway and Owen Sound in order to reach the finals. (photo by T.Marr) Novice team hosts Port kiuron for exhibition an assist. And single goals went to Richard Bowman and Sean O'Brien. Jason Pearson, Ryan Fagan, Justin Fagan and Aaron Duckworth each had one assist. Pat Donnelly and Mark Kinahan shared the shut -out in net for Goderich. The 'Machinists will travel to Stoneybrook this Saturday for their first OMHA playoff game in a two -out -of -three series. Pee Weed lose game 5-2 i The Goderich Lions Pee Wees opened their OMHA playoffs last Saturday at home with a 5-2 loss to Strathroy. The score was 1-1 after theFirst period with Scott Garrow'tipping in B 1 Trebish's shot from the blueline for the ions' goal. Larry Leppington {+iso drew airs assist on the goal. The Lions had three power play attempts in the period but the goal posts were not in the Lions favour. ' Strathroy tallied two goals id the middle stanza for a 3-1 lead after two roods. The Lions made it 3-2 early in t e third as Garrow scored from Trebishand Bill The Garb and Gear novice team hosted a novice team from Port Huron, Michigan on Saturday in their second annual series of exhibition games. Despite losing 6-2, the Goderich boys played a very strong game against a strong Port Huron team. Following the game, the Port Huron players and their families were treated to a meal in the grandstand for which the boys owe their thanks to the hard working Garb and Gear team parents. The success of this venture was also made o possible through the generosity of the Lions Club, Zed , Doug Sm of Hostess Potato Clips, and Gear and the town itself. Y �� A Port Huron pee wee houseleague team also travelled to Goderich this weekend and played two different Goderich pee wee houseleague teams, tying one game 3-3 and losing the other 3-0. As Garb and Gear Novice hockey team goalie, Chuck MaeLennan dives for the puck and attempts to reach for it, a Port Huron player (left) and two Goderleh players, Jaime (background) and Ian Ilownlan eaeb try to gain possession of the The Goderleh team was playing Port Huron in an exhibition game on Saturday, February 5 but unfortunately were beaten 4 2.( photo by T.Marr) Whetstone but Strathroy came back with two more quick goals in the middle of the period for the win. Last Wednesday the Lions finished their season series with St. Marys by tying them 7-7. Scott Garrow notched four goals, Bill Trebish had a goal and an assist as did Bill `Whetstone and Byron Bowman. Single assists went to Jeff Boyce, Larry Lep- pington and Jordan Grasby. The Lions' next outing will be the second game in the best -of -five series at Strathroy on Saturday. Midgets lose playoff game BY TD The Goderich Legion 'ranch 109 Midgets trail their best-ofifive Ontario Minor Hockey Association (OMHA) playoffs one game to none Mllowing their 4-2 loss to Strathroy here SattIrday. The game, played before a large crowd, was fast -paced and hard-hitting. Strathroy scored first on a goal by from behind the net. Jackson was Strathroy's outstanding player but on this one, he was more lucky than good as he managed to tuck the puck around the post behind Goderich goalie Terry Bean. The Legionnaires came back with a goal by Darren Creamer, assisted by John Thompson midway through the first period but Torii Gibson restored Strathroy's lead, scoring in the final minute of the period when he broke in alone on Bean. Strathroy got the only goal in an end-to- end second period when Dan Gibson came out of the penalty box and scored on a pass from his brother Tom. After only two minutes of the third period, Strathroy held a 4-1 lead on a goal by Paul McSpurren on a break=away. The Legionnaires stormed back with a goal by big left-winger Todd Jeffrey, on a pass from John Thompson but that was all the scoring they could manage despite several power -play opportunities. Second game in the series will be played Saturday in Strathroy at 4:30 p.m. Game three will go here next Friday, February 18 at 8 p.m., with the fourth game back in Strathroy the next day at 4:30. If the series goes five ,games, the deciding game will be played here, Friday, February 25 at 8 p.m.