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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1983-03-16, Page 33• 4 135 -YEAR -11 GODERICH, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1983 SECOND SECTION Will play second game here tonight Atoms win first game of semi-final The Goderich Machinist Atoms have had another winning week. After defeating Strathroy 7-3 in the fourth game of the OMHA quarter -final m Goderich last Thursday evening to take that series three games to one, the local Atoms went on to win the first game of the OMHA best of five semi-final 6-5 in Mooretown on Saturday. On Sunday, the Machinists won their first game of the Brussels Optimist Atom Tournament against Strathroy 6-0. This tournament continues next Sunday, March 20 in Brussels. Chris O'Neill opened the scoring for Goderich on an assist from Andre Cauchi less than two minutes into last Thursday's game against Strathroy. O'Neill also scored the next goal, on an assist this time from Tim Harrison and Jeff Hodges. By the end of the first period, Shawn Talbot had made it 3-0 for Goderich on an assist from Andre Cauchi and Brian Lane. Strathroy finally got on the scoreboard at the beginning of the second period but Talbot scored again for Goderich assisted by Cauchi and Lane. In the third period, Goderich scored three times to Strathroy's two goals. These were by Harrison assisted by Hodges and O'Neill; O'Neill unassisted; and Hodges assisted by Harrison and O'Neill. In Mooretown on Saturday, Tim Harrison opened the scoring for Goderich unassisted with the first goal of the game. Mooretown came back with two in a row and then Chris O'Neill tied the score with an unassisted goal to end the first period. Mooretown ° scored the only goal of the second period to take the lead. But in the final period, Goderich outscored Mooretown 4-2 to win the game. The, winning goal came from Brian Lane assisted by Chris O'Neill with just 25 seconds remaining. The Machinists' other third period goals were scored by O'Neill assisted by Hodges; O'Neill assisted by Aaron Duckworth and Harrison; and O'Neill unassisted. Down but not out...this Goderich Machinist Atom got his pass away to a team-mate in front of the Strathroy net despite the fact that he was flat on his back during the fourth game of the OMHA quarter - In the'Brussels tournament on Sunday, the Atoms scored four first period goals and one goal in each of the second and third periods while keeping Strathroy off the board. Tim Harrison had two goals and one assist; Brian Lane had two goals; Shawn Talbot had one goal and_ two GDCI junior Vikings only Huron -Perth team to get by first round of WOSSA BY TD , , • The GDCI junior Vikings were the only Huron -Perth team to get by the first round of the boys' WOSSA basketball cham- pionships played here last Friday and Saturday. The Vikings won their opening round game Friday in Exeter, defeating Aylmer East Elgin Eagles. 64a14...This_ victory...put._ the Vikings into the semi-finals Saturday in Goderich but they lost that.game 65-53 to Sarnia St. Pats. St. Pats lost in the finals 43-41 to their cross-town rivals, Sarnia St. Clair in double overtime. Peter Conlon, with 19 points and John Thompson with 18, led the Vikings aginst East Elgin. The Aylmer team led,27-25 at half-time, but the Vikings went to a half court press in the third quarter which seemed to totally confuse the Eagles. Thompson and Conlon picked off bad passes and caused turnovers which they converted into easy layups. Dave Almasi was also a tower of strength for the Vikings, pulling down rebounds and `Np blocking shots in what was his best game of the season. Shawn Rahbek had nine points for Goderich, Almasi got seven. Darryl Black hooped six, Kevin Feagan had three and Andrew Carruthers got two' points. The Vikings played well against St. Pats, trailing by only three points, 31-28 at half- time, The_ difference in thetwo teams turned out to beia foul -shooting. At one point in the third quarter, the Vikings trailing by six points, had six foul shots that failed to go in before St. Pats scored to go ahead by eight. n Dave Almasi led the Vikings with 15 points. Pete Conlon, John Thompson and Darryl Black had nine apiece and Shawn Rahbek, who shot well, had 11 points. Coach Lynn Meyers felt his team played inspired basketball in the WOSSA tour- nament and felt it was a fine way to end a good season for the Vikings. Only Almasi and Black will be returning to the junior Vikings as the rest move up to senior play next season. Elevator Bantams lose consolation to Ilderton in Shamrock tournament By CB The Goderich (Elevator) Bantams travelled to Ildetton on Sunday, March 6 and Monday, March 7 to participate in the "B" division of the Shamrock league tournament. On Sunday Goderich challenged Oakridge in their only game and were trounced, 8-2. Oakridge scored once in the first period, six times in the second period and once in the final period. Goderich's goals were scored by Kevin Talbot in the second period and Darren Doak in the third period. Todd Gilchrist, Chris Sideris and Jim Beattie obtained the assists. Believe it or not Oakridge was not a better team. Goderich received 14 penalties during the game while Oakridge got six. - On Monday evening the Bantams took on Ilderton to challenge for the consolation side ofthe tournament. Ilderton , was the only team that Goderich could defeat during the regular season, however, on Monday, Ilderton beat Goderich, 7-5. Goderich scored once in the first period, Talbot from Sideris, and twice in the second period, Beattie from Gilchrist, and Doak unassisted. However, the,, second period really belonged to Ilderton as they scored five times. The third period saw each team•add two more goals. For Goderich, Sideris and Mark Burbine were the marksmen. final in Goderich last Thursday evening. Goderich won the game 7- 3 to take the series three games to one. (Photo by Joanne Buchanan) assists; Jeff Hodges had, one goal; antis Chris O'Neill and Andre Cauchi had two ' assists each. - The Goderich Machinist Atoms will meet. Mooretown for the second game of the OMHA semi-final series--- at the -- �r Goderich arena tonig' it, Wednesday, March 16t 7:30 p.m. Since Goderich won the flip, the third game will be played Friday, March 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the Bayfield arena (because the Goderich arena . is booked with Young Canada Week.) _ Goderich Vikings player John Thompson (5) ignores two Sarnia SL Pat's defencemen as he concentrates on getting a basket during the W.O.S.S,A "AA" junior boys' basketball championships. GDCI defeated the East Elgin Eagles in their first game but lost the game against St. Pat's.(photo by T.Marr) Sixtytwo Pee Wee hockey teams frog'► across Ontario and Quebec will start te. converge on Goderich this Friday, hi order to take part in the oldest Pee Wee hockey tournament in the world. The Lions Club, Young Canada Week tournament will see teams made up of "AA" Division through* "Jr Division, compete for trophies and crests, with the. teams playing a total of 83 games. Previous tournaments have had up to 100 teams competing and have spawned such, NHL stars such as Wayne Gretzky, Paul Henderson, Darryllittler and Brad Park. The.games are scheduled to start at 5:30 p.m. on Friday with Walkerton taking on Exeter in the `"B" category. In the same category Goderich will meet Petrolia at 7:50 p.m. Friday evening. On : Monday, March 21 at 2:00 p.m. Goderich (2) will play St. Marys (2) when they:cpmpete for the"C" ehamnpionshlp. • Eight teams will be competing in the "AA" Division which begins,on Thursday, March 24 at 3 10 p tn. when Wmdsormeets Galt. Other teams challenging for the "AA" title are; South London, Ottawa, Guelph, South West London, Huron East and Whitby. The "AA,championship gamewill be played on Friday, March 25 at 6:40P.M. Action in the "A" category begins at 12:50 p.m. on Tuesday, March 22 when Mooretown takes . on St. Lambert. Also competing in that division are; Woodstock, Port Colborn, St. Thomas, Owen Sound, Cambridge and Amhersburg. The winner of the "A" division will be decided on Wednesday, March 23 at 9 p.m. The Signal -Star will be following all the action and will be publishing a daily YCW newspaper starting Friday, March 18. Juveniles drop deciding game of quarter -final Signal -Star juvenile coach Doug Cruickshank was the first person to admit his team was a late starter. And it may have cost them dearly Sunday as they dropped the deciding game of the quarter final series 6-2 to Petrolia. The teams were tied at one game apiece heading into the third and deciding game of the best -of -three OMHA quarter final series Sunday, but the game and series, was pretty much decided in the first period of play: The Stars were on top of Petrolia for the first three minutes., of the game but their effort failed to prodcue a goal. ' Petrolia took charge after that scoring five straight goals in an eight -minute span to carry a 5-0 lead into the second period. Richard Helps scored two goals for Petrolia while Doug McGregor, Ken Randall and Terry O'Hara scored one goal apiece for Petrolia. Despite the slow start in the final game, Cruickshank was pleased with the team's effort over the season and in the final series. "I think we set up two of their goals in the first period and we should have been blown .opt in the second period because we were slow out of the gate again," he said: "I'm not offering any alibis: It was a good series and they could take it all." The Stars didn't get blown out .01 the game in the second period but emerged. unscathed and managed to produce -the only goal of the period. Phil Wood scored the first Goderich goal, convertiing a.pass from team-mates Keith Hallam and Dave McDonald. The Stars got back in the game in the third period on a goal by Jeff Sargent after six minutes of play with Wood and Dave Gallow assisting. However, Petrolia put any visions of a comeback to rest with its sixth goal 30 seconds later to put the game away. The loss eliminates the Stars from further play this season. Coached by Cruickshank, Bruce Crew and Gary Abbott, the team includes members; Dennis Kerr, Randy Gaynor, Pat Bissett, Phil Wood, Dave McDonald, Mark Crawford, Jeff Sargent, Dave Gallow, Del Bedard, Scott Stoll, Andrew Telford, Keith Hallam, Jeff Feagan, John Peters, Paul McCartney, Tim chishohn and Daryl Madge. Senior girls' ringette team atiVance§ GC The Goderich • Optimist senior girls ringette team has advanced to the WOAA championship series after disposing of Huron- Park -in--two -straight -games in -the - semi -final. Goderich won the first game in Huron Park Saturday 13-1 and wrapped the series with a 11-2 win here Sunday. • The gills proved they meant business in the opening game of the series, scoring in the first 20 seconds of play. They parlayed that goal into a 6-0 lead after the first period of play and then outscored the home team 7-1 in the final period for the 134 victory. Tammy Gibbons and Allison Graham led the 13 -goal assault with five goals apiece. Graham scored three goals in the opening period and added two. in the second while Gibbons scored one goal in the firstperiod and four in the second. Angie Alcock, Lisa Kisch and Debbie - Mitchehnore-scored one goal - each for Goderich. Each team received two minor penalties in the game. ' The story wasn't much different in the second game as Huron Park was unable to contain the explosive Goderich offence. Goderich rallied for a 7-1 lead after the first period of play and outscored the visitors 4-1 in the second period to produce the 11-2 final. Graham again sparked the Goderich offence scoring four goals, two in each period. Gibbons and Kisch scored three goals each for Goderich and team-mate Tracey Wilson scored the other. Junior team advances The Lions junior girls ' ringette team will now advance to the finals after defeating Seaforth two games straight. During the first game, which was played on Monday, March 7 in Seaforth, Stacey Rean opened the scoring at 11:55. Seaforth Countered at 7:16 but Rean, assisted by Vicki Vanderburgh scored again at 5:51. With only 19 seconds remaining, Seaforth scored and ended the period in a two all tie. Mary Michelle Morrissey, assisted by Vanderburgh, scored the next two goals at 14:47 and 11:40 but Seaforth came right back with two goals and again tied the score. - -- On a power .play, Ream assisted by Morrissey and Vanderburgh put Goderich ahead. Then with 2:52 remaining Reap assisted by Deb O'Brien scored again'. The final score was 6-4. On Sunday, March 13 Goderich defeated Seaforth, 6-3. - Vanderburgh scored at both the 13:50 and 13:11 marks and teammate Tammy Talbot slipped another ring in at 12:15 giving Goderich a quick 3-0 lead. Seaforth quickly came back with two goals but Angie Chisholm scored another goal for Goderich giving the Lions a 4-2 lead. -- O'Brien and Morrissey scored Goderich's final two goals while Talbot, Morrissey and Vanderbugh picked up, the assists. The next Lions' game will be played in Goderich on Sunday, March 20 at 6:30 p.m. SPORTS SHORTS The Goderich Tykes played their first hockey game of the season on Saturday, March 12 in Goderich. The local team played a good game but were defeated by ucknow, 6-3. Trevor Bazinet got a hat trick for Goderich as did Lucknow player, Matthew Drennan. Danny Kerr scored two goals for Lucknow and Gerad Brophy scored one. The Tykes will be taking on Lucknow again on Saturday, March 19 at 8:30 a.tn. in Lucknow. +++ The Goderich Recreation Department will be once again be ,sponsoring Holiday Happenings during the March break. Children ages 5-12 years can take part in crafts, swimming, hiking and other various activities. Registration for the five day event takes place all this week at the Recreation Departm t office. Registration for softball, soccer, T -ball and hardball will be held on Tuesday, April 19 and Wednesday, April 20 from 4-8 p.m. in the Community room at the Grand- stand. +++ An informative booklet, "Things to do in Goderich" is now available free of -charge to anyone wishing a copy. The booklet lists activities which will take place in Goderich during March, April and May as well as various clubs and organizations which one may wish to join. For a free copy (or copies) of the booklet contact the Goderich Recreation Department. +++ Plans for the Goderich Oldtimers to play the N.H.L. Oldtimers have_been put aside since the N.H.L. players couldn't fit the game into their schedule. However, plans are being made to organize a game for next year.