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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1985-01-09, Page 15rich NAL—STAR ' 1 Y OODERICB, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9,19&, Goderich Lions Pee Wees Sha albot slipped this shot past the an Exeter defender slides in a last-ditch attempt to stop the goal. Exeter goaltender with only 11 seconds on the clock, in last Satur- Goderich came out on top 6-1, for their second vietory over Dieter day's contest between the two teams here in Goderich. Meanwhile, m Shaffirock League play last week, (photo by Petrick Raftis) Pee Wees up record wig gins The Goderich Lions Pee_ Wees tipped their season record to 11 wins, five losses and one tie last week, with wins of 4-3 and 6-1 over Exeter. In Exeter last Wednesday, two -goals ef- forts from Shawn Talbot and Tim Har- rison, led the local offence in a 4-3 victory.- Goderich led2-0 after the first period, 4-1 at the end of two and then two late third - period markers for the' opposition made it close. Single assists in the game went to Aaron ' Duckworth, Paul Hamilton, Sean O'Brien, Chris O'Neill and Brian Lane. - At home Saturday, the Lions tallied three' quick firstperiod goals, which kept Exeter off -stride for the entire game. Six different Lions scored goals: Chtis O'Neill, Jeff Hodges, Paul Hamilton, Brian Lane, on a penatly shot; Andre Cauchi and Shawn Talbot. Assists in this , game went to: Cauchi, two; Hodges, Lane,' Talbot, Tim Harrison and Jason Pearson,. one. each. This Saturday, the Lions will be in Ripley, attending the annual Legion Tour- nament. Next league action will be January 19, when the oppositon will be Strathroy. Teams vie for Goderich hosted the Pepsi-Cola Junior (under -20) meas curling competition on the weekend. While there were no Goderich teams in the bonspiel, there was some good curling. A team from Harriston, skipped by Doug Gibbson captured fir4t place and ad- vanced ,to the Southwestern Ontario finis. (photos by Patrick Raftis) Harriston team takes top honors The Ontario Curling Association held the Junior Men's Zone playdowns.for the Pepsi- Cola Trophy, in Goderich this past weekend with eight area teams competing. The games, over Saturday and Sunday, were played at the Maitland Curling club, using a double -knockout format. This means a team that loses two garnes is eliminated. The highly -rated team from Harriston won all three of its games and ended up in first place. The team, consisting of skip Doug Gibson, dice Dave Kreller, second Todd Pridhann and lead Alex Morris defeated the Brad Falconer team from Vanastra 9-4 in theofirst game, then took op a second Vanastra four- some, skipped by Mark Cantelon, who they defeated 7-5. In the last game, to decide the champion- ship, Gibson faced a strong Meaford team, skipped by Carl Nelson, This game we t t ' an extra end after Nelson stole one n t tenth, before Gibson put it away with o in the llth to win it, in a low -scoring 4-3 decision. Since this was Meaford's first loss, they had the opportunity to take second place and be the second representative from the zone. To do this they had to take on a gutsy young team from Kincardine, skipped by Mike Richter, also with only one loss. 'his game also'werit into an extra end, but this time the Meaford skip -had -the hemmer - and mmerand made no mistake to win the game 9-8.. The Meaford team consisted of Skip a. Nelson, vice -skip Nevin McDougall, second Ron McDougall and lead Steve Cramp. e Harriston and Meaford teams will be play g in the regional competitions in Petr lia, this coming weekend, to decide who' will represent Southwestern Ontario in ,' the Provincia' Finals in February. This Thursday, the G.D.C.I. Boys team; skipped by Mark Jeffrey Will be playing in Teeswater, in the Gore Mutual Schoolboy competition, for this zone. Mark has with him Mike Collins, Jason Garrett and Dave Brown. They are coached by Doug Bundy. CT:to tio'..st j.- boys .basetourneyall ..,. - "Goo a la Tbl`a ler-e' � d 4 l an t —lit - rtkwnw en will be hosting its annual Blue and White Huron -Perth Conference boys basketball Junior Boys' basketball tournament, here, action resumes this week, with .GDCI Saturday January 12. Play will begin at 9 a.m.. with champion- ship and consolation games played in the evening. Teams from Kitchener„ Strat- ford,,St. Thomas, Parkhill and Sarnia will be participating "yin the double -knockout Midget, Juinior and•Senior teams all play- ing two home games. On Wednesday, top-rated Stratford Cen- tral Huron comes tei town and on Friday' afternoon, GDCI ,will host the. Norwell Redmen. Edueators earn early lead in {Industrial curling BY DRB After six weeks of play m the Industrial League curling, three teams de up of teachers are on top, with identi 1 5 and 1 records. Although the Elementa eachers team, skipped by FloydImo- armn, earned one of their wins by default, ,both GDCI Teacher teams got their fifth wins in hard- fought games last Thursday evening: Bill Garrow skipped his Teacher Number Two team to a close 5 to 3 decision over the Sifto Salt Maniacs. Three ends were blanked in this game, but Bill and his team managed to score three on the 6th to seal the victory. Teacher Number One team, skipped this week by Doug Bundy, set aside Penny Peters and her Maitland Sports team by an 11 to 5 score. Penny and Doug exchanged clutch last -rock shots for most of the game until Bundy drew two rocks behind cover in the sixth to put the game out of reach. In a game that most people were watching with interest, the vaunted Forester team, skipped by Cam Bogie went down to defeat for the second time this season, this time at the hands of the Hospital Team. Doctors Jim Rourke, his wife Leslie and Art Steed performed a bft of surgery on Cam and his team by letting Cam get away to a 4 to 1 lead after 6, then inserting the scalpel with three in the seventh, and finally sewing up the in- cision by stealing one in the final end to win it5tnd The Foresters now drop. to a second -place tie with Garb and Gear, and the Super `Shell team, all with 4 wins and two losses. Some other upsets were part of the excite- ment last Thursday as the Lally Foresters dealt a blow to Jim Bell's Garb' and Gear team. Vicki Culbert gave no quarter to Jim and his "clean-cut" team, defeating them 7 to6. Dan burst's GDCI Viking team went right down to the last rock to drop Local 1863 into thefour-loss column, defeating them by. 7 to 6. Emily. Crew, skipping the V & G team for the first time, and using two first-year curlers had her hands full with , Jeff Har- rison's Super -Shell team, and went down to a,10 to 6 defeat. Although the Huron. County Health Unit is the only other team to have defeated the Foresters , • they had some difficulty on Thursday, and couldn't handle Mark Fisher and his Sifto Salt Evaporator team. Mark defeated John Orr's Health team in a close 5 to 4 game. Lady Industrial League curlers who would like to curl in the Ladies "In -Club" Bonspiel coming up on Jan. 26 are invited to sign the sheet posted at the club. It's design- ed for a good time, with three six -end games., food,, fun and prizes. Call Penny Peters for more information. Signal -Stars Win, 5-4 Goderich. Signal -Star Juveniles ended 1984 on A winning note, with a narrow 5.-4 victory over Dorchester, in a December 30 Shamrock League hockey game in Goderich. '-The' Stars had" to play-catch=up hockey; after the visitors fired three first -period goals to end the frame up 3-0. Goderich scored twice in the second frame and three times in the third, before Dorchester net- ted the game's final goal with less than two. • minutes left to pla'v Brent Williamson led the -way for the the home side, with a pair of goals, while John Graham, Rob Dupee and Chris Sideris scored singles. Sideiis also assisted on one goal; as did Tim Jaynes. Dupee assisted on two goals, to give hi n-a-three-pointnight...,, The next time the Juveniles take to the ice will be to compete in the prestegious Silver Stick Tournament: Their first game is January 10, in Mooretown, against Aylmer.. .Rick Stahl.. on top team Rick. Stahl, of Goderich, is playing hockey this season for the Plattsburgh State University College (New York) Car- dinals. Stahl is -playing defense for the Cards and scored two goals and nine assists in the -team's first 14 games. Plattsburgh; State finished the first semester schedule' with a perfect 8-0 record in ECAC Division II play, and is 11- 3 overall. The Cardinals, ranked number one in the Division, have won their own Cardinal Classic Tournament, and have defeated 1984 NCM Division III playoff teams Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Union College and Oswego State. Stahl, a sophomore business major at Plattsburgh State, is a graduate of Listowel High School. He is the son of Mr. - and Mrs. Paul Stahl of Gloucester Ter- race, Goderich. . Rick Stahl Canadian comeback Perhaps because of our frigid climate, it has taken more than 12 years for seeds ° that were sown in 1972, to finally bear fruit •- but hockey fans should be delighted with the results we are now seeing. The' seeds 'were planted when Canada returned to the international hockey scene after a prolonged absence of the "If you won't let us win, we'll take our puck and go home," variety. That unforgetable eight - game Seriea-bursred' th"ie-anytltthut-Cana= dian professionals had already perfected. the grass roots levees, of the need tor revi- hockey and had no further need to refine sion of the way hockey is taught to our skills. youngsters. After our narrow victory over our Soviet Tho child rtartina nut in.h ck v today. is shinny rivals, some long'overduechanges introduced to the fundamentals of team - in our approach to the game were set .in work and passing skills at an earlier point motion at every level. and with more intensity than he was 10 Canada's perfrmance in'recent interna- -years-ago. tional matches have shown the world we have finally learned to blend our own, rough and tumble brand of hockey witrh the percision-passing game played in Europe. The results are everywhere. Team Canada eliminating the Soviets in the semi-final 'and going on to bring the Canada Cup back home; Team Junior Canada going undefeated, to win the World Junior Championship in Finland; even our pre -Olympic squad, a rag -tag band of university and college players, excep- tional Juniors and discarded ex -pros, is looking good. The Olympic hopefuls came back to 'defeat Moscow Dynamo, a top Soviet club team, twice, after losing five straight games to them. Another current series gives even more cause for encouragment.. The above- mentioned Canadian success stories all consist of players who were pi obably late - inductees into the new finesse -oriented style of hockey. However, there is a team if Midget;Ege BY PATRICK RAFTIS This is understandable, since in those days, teams like the Boston Bruins and later the Philadelphia Flyers, were ruling the NHL roost, with emphasis . oh goon - work, rather than good work. Today's NHL games are, nd, longer tedious four-hour affairs,;in which 50 per centof the time is devoted to brawling and sorting out multiple penalty assessments. Bench -clearing brawls, once com- monplace, are now almost a thing of the past. In lieuof commiting acts of violence, players are now playing hockey — better hockey than ever before. - In view of this improvement in the quali- ty of hockey Canadians are playing, both here and abroad, the lack of "Hurray for Our Side," type of editorializing in the media is surprising. These optimistic stories should abound right now, especially in light of the rash of negative commentary the press has heaped upon Canadian hockey since that fateful 1972 series. In the intervening hockey players touring this country, that years, every, publication with a sports must be questioning the sanity of the pro- page has piled abuse on the people who run paganda people back home, who no doubt hockey at every level. - fill the boy's heads with foolish notions of Meanwhile, without a lot of fire, Soviet hockey supremacy. these same people have been quietly The Soviet Midgets have lost eight revamping the system, to the point where straight games to teams made up of we are truce again the top hockey nation in Midget All -Stars from Ontario, Quebec the world. 'and the Western' Provinces. This Can only Maybe not by the margin we once were — be the result of widespread 'acceptance at but still on top.