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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1983-11-23, Page 39the SIL;iN L -STAR 135 YEAR ---47 GODERICH, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1983 SECOND SECrION Junior girls basketball team wins Huron Perth championship .4naPark,Ar BY TD The GDCI junior Vikings won the Huron - Perth girls' basketball championship by defeating Stratford Northwestern 41-35 in Stratford Tuesday. The victory gave the Vikings a two -game sweep of the best -of - three final series. The championship was a repeat of events two years ago when the Vik- ings lost only one game during the season, to Northwestern, and then went on to defeat the undefeated regular season winners two straight in the finals. It is also the third similar result involving GDCI teams this fall. The GDCI junior Vikings won the Huron -Perth football championship over the previously undefeated South Huron Pan- thers to avenge their only loss of the year. The other case was not so pleasurable for a Viking team: the undefeated senior girls' basketball team lost to second place Exeter in two straight in their final series. Exeter's only loss during regular season play had been to the Vikings. But for coach Lynn Meyers' junior girls, it was all pleasure. It was the Vikings stingy defence which won the championship for them. Based on "quick feet" and desire, the Viking defence controlled the rebounding which gave them the edge in the close game Tuesday. The Viking press slowed down the Stratford offence, but Northwestern used a variety of defences to keep the Vikings con- stantly looking for ways to get to the basket. The Vikings led 18-14 at half time. Sarah Alexander led the Vikings with a personal high of 15 points. Jennifer Peters hit for 12, Shelley Teal added eight and Tam- my Gibbons and Joanne Campbell had two points each. Terry Murray, with 11, and Joan Stock, with 10, were Stratford's top point getters. Coach Meyers went the distance with his five starters and regarded the victory as a team effort by all five players. The Vikings now move on to WOSSA playoffs to be held Friday, December 2. Senior Vikings lose final BY TD The GDCI senior girls' basketball team had a fine season, finishing undefeated in regular season play in the Huron -Perth Con- ference and easily reaching the finals, but that's where it ended. The Exeter South Huron Panthers, whose only regular season loss was to the Vikings, came up big in the final series to defeat the Vikings two straight in the best -of -three championship series. The Panthers won the title here Tuesday by defeating the Vikings 40-34 before a gym Junior Viking captain Jennifer Peters takes a shot during a game, as the junior girls won the Huron -Perth finals against Stratford, two games to none. The juniors had a good season, topping it off with the championship. ( photo by Anne Narejko ) packed with enthusiastic supporters of both teams. The Panthers used a tight 3-2 zone defence to keep the Vikings at bay. The Vikes could not penetrate inside and did not get the outside shooting to pull the defence out. The Vikings did hold a slim lead through most of the game, leading 12-8 after the first quarter and 22-18 at half time, but a strong effort by the Panthers gave them the lead in the late -going. Leslie Hunter-Duvar and Faye Gaiser led the Exeter offence with 10 points each. Kim Fritzley had a big game for the Vik- ings, hooping 16 points. Allison Graham had eight points, Mary O'Neill and Chris Stapleton had four apiece and Anne Allan had two points for Goderich. Coach Phil Bugler's Vikings are not done yet, despite the loss. The Vikings, who have an overall record of 29-9 on the season, will be challenging the number two team from the London Conference for the right to ad- vance to the WOSSA playoffs. That challenge game will be in London next Tues- day, November 29. SPORTS SHE) TS The GDCI junior and senior boys basketball teams -will play exhibition games Friday at the GDCI gym agairat Sarnia St. Clafr. The junior game will start at 030 p.m. and the senior game at 8 p.m. +++ A total of 14 coaches, representing five sports, have successfully completed the Na- tional Coaching Certification Program (N.C.C.P.) Level I Theory Course sponsored by the Goderich Recreation Board. The course, covering 14 hours of in- struction over a seven week period, was con- ducted by Dick Madge of Goderich, an N.C.C.P. instructor. Topics covered included the role of the coach, sport psychology, how the body works and grows, skill analysis, sport safe= ty, teaching skills and practice planning which was the focal point of the course. Coaches suc leting the course included L: on, Darryl Carpenter, Jean Cruickshank, Bill Crawford, Patsy Keller, Sandra Graham, Valerie Vanderburgh, Dant McCallum, Jerry Rivett, Kevin Rumig, Laurie Glazier, Donna Murray, Harold Cook and Darren Creamer. The sports they represent are hockey, ringette, bowling, soccer and baseball. The Goderich Recreation Board is plann- ing to hold a Level 2 course in April, and will hold further level courses as the demand arises. Maitland curling begins Another year of fast -paced Industrial league curling got underway last week at the Maitland Curling Club. All of last year's teams have returned, with a few new faces appearing. The Lady Foresters have added newlywed Chris Moore to their team, but still had some difficulty, losing 7-4 to the Legion Team. Linda Bell was the obvious dif- ference for the Legion squad, skipped by Jim Bell. Myles Murdock has added his business- like attitude to the GDCI Teachers Number One team and helped them defeat the Teachers Number Two in a close fought 7-5 decision. The GDCI Viking team, with Fraser Huyck skipping handed Jack MacKinnon's Health Unit team a 5-2 defeat, and the Same Old Forester team took four blank ends but fially scored a big four -ender to defeat the 1863 team 6-1. In the 9 p.m. draw, the Elementary Teachers, using newcomber Floyd Herman defeated the Sifto Salt Evaporator plant 7-5. Harry Dykstra has been added to the Sifto Maniacs, and they took the Lady Golfers in an 8-5 game. Champions Silver Brooms got off to a good start, defeating the Victoria & Grey team, with Newcomer Fred Crawford by a big 10-5 score. School Teams Begin Practises In addition to all the other leagues that started out this week at the Maitland Curl- ing Club, the GDCI High School and the grade seven and eight public school kids • Although the GDCI senior girls basketball team finished regular season play undefeated, they lost two games straight to Exeter in the finals. Before a packed house at the GDCI gym Tuesday, Exeter took the championship by winning 40-34. Pictured above is Allison Graham going for two points. To the left is Chris Stapleton and Cathie Gallow blocking the South Huron Panther player during the Huron -Perth Conference final. (photos by Anne Narejko) Overtime didn't decide outcome of game (These results are for games played during the week of November 7-11.) This season the Auburn ladies have demonstrated that sound, fundamental broomball can still win games. The Auburn team thus far has played sound, man on man defence, and as a result have not lost a game in regulation time. The team has only scored nine goals in six league garnes, but has made its goals count and have taken over first place following the fourth week of action. Also their sound defensive game has allowed their opposition only two goals in regulation time. This past week Auburn enjoyed one of its most suc- cessful games irthe past few seasons. On Tuesday night, Chris Moore set up Gail Deer for the game winner as Auburn shut out defending league champion Belgrave by Overtime still did not decide the issue, as a score of 1-0. Then on Thursday night, Betty the Goderich Oarsmen and Lanesville Lords Jane Foran scored the game's only goal battled to a 1-1 tie. Kevin Pennington from from Catherine Bettye as Auburtmlefeated Gerard de Jong was Goderich's scoring the Blyth Baintoneers 1-0. play, while Jim Van Osch picked up the In further action on Tuesday night, Deb Lords' lone goal. Powell had a goal and an assist, as the David Souch picked up four goals and two Goderich Ha rbourlites defeated the assists, while Arnold Pease had three goals Goderich Knight Riders 3-0. Single goals in and three assists, as the 8th Liners blew out the game also went to Kim Vanstone and the Clinton Warriors 10-0. Other 8th Liners Linda Krogan, while Lynda Boyer and Vicki adding to the scoring were Gordon Machan Beattie were credited with one assist each. with a goal and three assists, while Irvin Bill de Vos' unassisted goal three minutes Pease and Ron McNichol had a goal and into the second period helped lift the Lakelet assist each. Hornets past the Blyth Inn 3-0. John and In further action on Thursday night, Doug Kreller picked up single goals for the single goals by Paul Pierce, Terry Sowerby Hornets, while Stephen Douglas and Calvin and John Bird carried the Blyth Bears to a 3- Quipp collected one assist apiece. 0 shutout victory over the Maitland Dirt Riders. Stephen Cook and Larry Sowerby also added one assist each for the winners. Lucknow ladies were led by Donna Fischer's two goats to a 5-1 triumph over the Goderich Knight Riders. Also scoring for Lucknow was Dianne Golley, Jane Vath and Pat Boak with one goal each, while Arlene Turner, Rose Kieffer and Dianne Golley each had an assist. Kim Shewfelt set up Jen- nifer Sinneft for the Knight Riders' only goal, which came with 44 seconds left in the game to spoil Lucknow's shutout. Murray Black was set up by Cam Cook in overtime, as the Blyth lan knocked off the Lanesville Lords 2-0. Pat Cronin, from Herb Govier, scored the insurance goal for the Inn squad. Members of snowmobile club executive from as far away as Burford, Ontario, carne to Bully Gully last Sunday to hear and take part in a special club workshop and seminar. About 30 different directors and club of- ficers listened intently as Ontario Federa- tion of Snowmobile Clubs treasurer, Bob Feasey spoke on the future of the sport and the Federation's role in it. President of the Hully Gully Snowmobile Club, and event organizer Tom Tabor gave a talk on the state of the industry, and Milverton Snowmobile Club Executive and Ministry of Transportation licensing officer Jerry Bain outlined this year's licensing regulations and the changes for the 1984 season. have started practice. Doug Bundy coaches the high school students every Monday afternoon from 4 -6 p.m., and Marty Bond has about 20 public school students -on Wednesday afternoon. They are assisted by three senior students who took the Curl Canada Instructors course. Ann Duncan, Lori Dykstra and Fraser Huyck will be supplying most of the team leadership in the highschool this year, and they are the mainstays on the GDCI Viking Team that plays every Thursday night in the Industrial League. The Maitland Curling Club holds a Tuesday morning session for the ladies. Last week the curlers got off to a good start with three rinks in play with both old and new curlers participating. Kay Duncan's team had a good day with 171/2 points while Karen Kirk's team finished with 153/4 points and Danna Garrett's had 151/4 points. The curling season is still very young with the enthusiasts looking forward to a rewarding season. Lynn Edward's team outscored Ann Kuran's team 13-1 during Wednesday ladies' curling at the Maitland Club. Vicki Culbert's team won 12-5 against absent skip Gerry Zurbirg's team Which was skipped by vice Dorie Chisholm. The third game was played on ice three by absent skip Rosemary Davison's team, skipped by vice Karen Kirk whose team was victorious over Jean McGee's team with a 14-3. Helen Dickie's team and Kay King's team had a close game with -a score of 8-7, with King's team coming out on top. • Also discussed were service and Wintario funding. After a brief break, participants took part in snowmobile workshops with topics covering all the various executive of- fices in a snowmobile club. Presidency, chairmanship, the Secretary's and Treasurer's roles, and publicity were covered by people like club president Tabor, Accountant Grant Danstedt, Lake Huron Regional Snowmobile Association, Secretary Joanne Hood, Racing Team member Rob Baxter and publicist Bill Matisz. After a lively session, many positive points were raised, and seminar par- ticipants took home with them a better, shared knowledge of better organization and the dirpction of the sport. Midgets gain revenge The Goderich Legion midgets gained revenge from a 9-1 loss to Exeter in the first game of the season by soundly winning 10-3 Saturday. Goderich scored quickly when Chris Sideris put the puck past the Exeter goalie at the 16 second mark. Darren Creamer and Kevin Telford assisted. Exeter evened the score a minute later but Pete Willens put Goderich in the lead again 2-1. The local team put the game away in the second period by scoring five times for a 7-1 lead. Creamer started the scoring by con- verting a pass from Chris Sideris. Brent Williamson upped the Goderich lead to 5-1 by scoring a pair of goals. Creamer assisted on the first and Todd Jeffrey and goaltender Ray Bedard assisted on the second of Williamson's goals. Pete Winans and Darren Creamer each scored their second goal of the game to give Goderich the 7-1 lead. Kevin Telford and Williamson each gained an assist on the two goals. Exeter then found some life and closed the gap to 7-3 halfway through the third period but Kevin Talbot scored two consecutive goals to restore Goderich's six goal margin. Darren Doak and Trevor Martin assisted on Talbot's first goal and Todd Jeffrey and Dave Telford assisted on the second. Darren Creamer completed his hat -trick in the final minute on a pass from Pete Willens to make the final score 10-3. The Goderich Legion midgets record now stands at four wins and three losses. The midgets are in action Saturday against St. Mary's, who Goderich defeated 14-3 earlier this year. Brindley wins four games Inclement weather limited the turnout at the chess club last Wednesday. Fourteen chess enthusiasts managed to play 15 games. Doug Brindley had four wins in- cluding a key win over Brian Miller to knock Brian out of level one. Tom Donnelly earned two wins as did Louis Stadelmann to main- tain his top position in the club. Bob Dick and Barry Page enjoyed a very close, ex- citing game in which Dick managed to get a checkmate. John McDonagh had a win and a tie to give him a level one standing and the most improved play& status at this point in the season. Robert Nau earned a tie with McDonagh to stay ahead ot John Crawford in level three. Mike Cox checkmated Tom Donnelly in a close game. THE GODERICH CHESS CLUB STANDINGS AS OF NOVEMBER 16 LEVEL 1 WINS LOSSES DRAWS PCT. Louis Stadelmann Doug Brindley , Bob Dick John McDonagh 6 0 0 1.000 11 1 0 .916 5 1 0 .833 4 1 1 .750 LEVEL 2 Brian Miller Mark Maurer George Barwick Eric Hallam Bill Gauley LEVEL 3 Don Bogie Barry Page Robert Nau John Crawford Brian Brindley HONORARY MEMIWES Dennis Little Walter Gottschalk Mike Maurer John George Tom Donnelly Mike Cox John Kloeze Grant Lounsbury Brian Davidson Tom Kelly 5 2 0 .714 4 1 2 .714 3 2 0 .600 5 4 0 .555 4 4 0 .500 2 8 0 .200 1 6 0 .142 1 9 1 .136 1 14 1 .093 0 6 0 .000 3 0 0 1.000 3 0 0 1.000 2 0 0 1.000 1 0 0 1.000 3 1 0 .750 2 1 1 .625 1 1 0 .500 0 2 0 .000 0 2 0 .000 0 1 .000 MOST IMPROVED PLAYER INCREASE John McDonagh .750 4