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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1985-02-27, Page 171n If GDCI hosts volleyball tourney for Huron -Perth Conference GDCI hosted a Huron -Perth girls volleyball tournament last Wednesday. The local Senior team finished with a record of two wins and six losses, while the Juniors had a 4-6 record. . Both teams now advance to the Huron -Perth finals tomorrow in St. Marys. In the above photo, the Junior Vikes inaction against Norwell. From left: Audrey Bos, Susan Murphy, Karen Murphy and Carol MacEwan. Lower left: Shelley Surridge (20) of the Senior Vikes bumps a ball, while Mary Beth Alexander looks on. Below Dianne Shantz, of the Norwell Seniors returns a serve during a game against Goderich. (photos by Patrick Raftis ) Signal -Star Juveniles lose 2-1 overtime thriller to St. Marys The Goderich Signal -Star Juvenires end- ed a two -game roll by losing 2-1 to St. Marys, in a game which eliminated them from the Shamrock League playoffs. Goderich edged Belmont 4-3, in the Stars' final home game, played here Thursday and beat them again, 5-2, Sun- day morning, a tournament -style playoff game, hi Ilderton. The 5-2 loss eliminated Belmont from the tourney and set up a meeting between the Stars and St. Marys. Despite Randy Gaynor's goaltending, described as "phenomenal," by Coach Doug Cruickshank, the Stars were eliminated in a "back and forth" overtime contest. Neither team scored until St. Marys broke the ice in the dying moments of period two. Goderich's Darren Doak sent the game into overtime with his tieing goal, assisted by Tim Jaynes, scored with only 1:25 left in the game. St. Marys scored the game winner with 4:37 to go in the overtime. Goderich scorers in the season final against Belmont were: Brent Williamson, one goal, two assists; Darren Doak, John Graham and Ray Vanstone, one goal each; Rob Dupee, two assists and Lee Frisby, one assist. The Juveniles start their OMHA playoffs against Amherstburg, Saturday at 8 p.m. in Goderich and continue here Sunday in a best -of -fix. e quarter -final series. At right, Goderich Signal -Star Juveniles' Doug Smith hounds a Belmont skater during the Stars final regular season game, played here last Thursday. The Stars edged Bel- mont 4-3 in that game and beat them 5-2 in a single -knockout Shamrock League playoff tournament game. Goderich was eliminated frouii the Shamrock playoffs in a 2-1 over- time contest with St. Marys. (photo by Patrick Raftis ) The Novice A team gave' their fans their inoney's worth of exciting hockey, when they travelled to.;Thamesford to compete in the ha mock ' gae To�'ao�eat, on FebruarThe local boys made it to the champion. ship game before losing a heartbreaking 4-3 sudden -death overtime game against Dor- chester. On their way to the finals, the locals defeated Lucan and Parkhill. - In the game with Lucas, the score was tied 4-4, after two periods. Goderich goals came from Bryan Hodges, unassisted; Rob Kinahan, from Derek, Gilchrist; Bryan Hodges from Mike McBride and Jason Meriam, from David Lumley. In the third period, Goderich came back With three fast goals and never looked back: These goals came from Jason MVlerlam, unassisted; Jeff Klages, from Jeremy Powell, and Derek Gilchrist, unassisted, his first of the season. Lucan replied late, in the third period, with one goal to make the final score 7-4 in Goderich's favor. In the Goderich-Parkhill game, Goderich opened the scoring in the first period with a goal by David Lumley, assisted by Jason Meriam. Parkhill tied the score in the se- cond frame. The third period was a see -saw battle, with Goderich finally coming out on top. Goderich seor'd first with r^ ••^^"^'e¢oil goal;.: from Jason Meriam. 'i rkhill came hack with.two quick goals to go ahead 3-2,, but (WOO tied the score agai n, when. Bryan' . , et sco ed, Unassisted, Parkhill broke the tie and led 4-3 °`wheen, with about six minutes left in regulation time, Goderich tied the score on Rob Kinahan's goal, from Lee Williamson. The «avinnin goal for Goderich came With Nu 3:52 left, from Bryan Hodges, unassisted.. Exciting hockey and 'excellent goalten- ding marked the championship game; between Goderich and Dorchester. The teams traded goals in ".the first period, Goderich's coming from David Lumley, assisted by Jason Meriam, , late in the period. Both teams scored twice in the second period. Jason Meriam, from ,David Lumley and Trevor MacAuley; and Bryan Hodges, unassisted, hit the marlkffor Goderich. After a scoreless third period, the teams started a 10 minute sudden -death overtime. Goderich had many scoring chances in the early minutes. However, at the 6:11 mark, Dorchester's Chris Devine ,managed to sneak the puck past goaltender Chris Lyn- don, to end the game. Lyndon and Dirk Wolterbeek shared -the goaltending duties in all three games and played superbly. They were assisted by the strong defen- sive and offensive skills of their teammates. Midgets win consolation B TD The GDCI Midget By won the consola- tion championship at the Huron Perth championship tournament, last Wednesday at Stratford Northwestern Secondary School. The Vikings lost their opening game to Seaforth, 55-27, but then went on to win their other two games, 72-33 over the Norwell Redmen and 53-38 over the Central Huron Redmen. Stratford Central won the Huron Perth championship, going undefeated on the day's play. Sean Wilson led the Vikings, scoring 16 points in the consolation final against Clin- ton and 19 against Norwell. He had six points in the game with Seaforth. Wilson scored most of his points on jump shots from his guard position and from power moves in the lane. Kevin Black also had a good day for the. Vikings, coming off the bench to play some solid defence and make many excellent passes from the post. He scored five points against Norwell and four against Clinton. Kevin Haasnoot hooped eight in the Vik- ings loss to Seaforth, four against Norwell and 11 points in the game with Clinton. Derek Chandler had a 16 point game against Norwell and Mike Bush had 10 points in that game for the Vikings. Jim Laithwaite had a 12 pointgame against Clinton. Coaches Al Sygrove and Dan Freeman were pleased with the effort put forward by the Vikings, many of whom will go on to con- tribute to the Viking basketball program in the Junior ranks next season. • Task force issues report The second and final report of the Task Force on Equal Opportunity in Athletics, which deals with the situation in Ontario schools, colleges and universities, has been issued by Labour Minister Russell H. Ram- say. The task force was established by the Government of Ontario in April, 1982, to recommend measures that would achieve or maintain equality of opportunity for the sexes in athletics in Ontario. The first report, issued a year ago, dealt primarily with amateur athletics in the community. In his second report, Task Force Chair - Man John Sopinka, QC, refers to elementary and secondary schools, and separately, to colleges and universities. "The community provides an opportunity to the young athlete to develop and display. his or her athletic skills. Interest in athletics and the skills to pursue athletic endeavours are however, born and nurtured in the schools", the report states. "Equality in our schools, while not an issue which has sparked widespread criticism, is no longer something to be com- placent about". The report comments at length on an Ot- tawa Board of Education survey of athletics in all its schools, which was instigated by the Ottawa Status of: Women committee. One recommendation is that all Ontario Boards of Education appoint womens' issues committees. Mr. Sopinka says he is not in favour of ap- plying the enforcement provisions of the Human Rights Code to elementary and secondary school athletes. The report suggests That guidelines and policies of the Ministry of Education should be strengthened and information on coni- pliance with the strengthened guidelines should be submitted in connection with a board's grant application. The report discusses the decline in numbers of female physical -education in- structors and coaches, and the lack of role models for girls in athletics. It recommends female athletic specialists be placed in a special category in order to stem this decline. Dealing with colleges and universities, Mr. Sopinka states that fergale students con- tribute equal portion s of their fees _ to athletics but receive ur equal value. Mr:Sopinka recomm ends that the exemp= tion imposed by Section 19(2) of the Human Rights Code be removed for colleges and universities. Section 19(2) states that the right to equal treatment with respect to services and facilities is not infringed where membership in an athletic organization or participation in an athletic activity is restricted to per- sons of the same sex. He -also . recommends Section 19(2) be .amended in favour of females, only, to pre- vent domination of female sports by males. Labour Minister Ramsay says he is ask- ing for comment from the public on the se- cond volume by March 31, 1986. Leafs surprisuo Detroit You never can to with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Last weekend I had my first chance to see the fabled franchise in action, live (or as close as they get to it). I was part of a crew of area hockey_buffs who went on a_bus excursion to Joe Louis Arena in l3etroit, to watch the battle for the last playoff spot in the National Hockey League's 'worst ivision. Leaf fans ( Yes, a few still exist) were not disappointed, as the team did something they rarely do, and pulled off a come -from - behind, 4-2 victory. After seeing the Leafs demolished after 'building up leads in recent televised games, - I have -decided I prefer watching them get whipped by a good team like Edmonton on televison, to watching them win live, against the sad sack Red Wings. The Wings, to be sure, are substantially ahead of Toronto in the standings. Unfortunately, that's not saying much, as the Leafs, despite a post -Christmas surge, remain buried in last place in the entire league. Only in the feeble Norris division, where even the first -place St. Louis Blues have so few points they would be third in some stronger divisions, could the Leafs entertain playoff hopes. Still, hope does exist for the team, because of just the sort of unmotivated play displayed by Detroit in the game I saw. If the Wings could not stir up enough energy to beat the Leafs, in front of a sellout home crowd, fortified amply by spirits (the crowd, not the players) then they hardly deserve to be conceded a playoff position. To give them some credit, the Leafs did play well Saturday, particularly goaltender ,Tim Bernhardt, who played as usual, like he was on tranquilizers. Bernhardt's calm, playing as he does in -the eye of a storm, has never ceased to amaze me since he was called up from St. Catharines, in a desperation move. At the time, moving Bernhardt to the big league roster looked more like a way of salvaging the careers of Ken Wregget and Alan BY PATRI' K RAFTIS Bester, than of saving the season. However he suprised everyone by proving to be much more than the minor leaguer Ile was considered. Aside from Bernhardt, Borje Saiming gets my vote as the most impressive Leaf, you can't really see on television,'how much B. J. adds in experience, to the Leafs grass green defence. Rick Vaive did not strike me as very effective, perhaps because much of the night he played with Greg Terrion as his centre, instead of his usual pivot, Dan Daoust. Terrion is a hard-working player, who, is more interested in such mundane things as back -checking, than setting up Vaive for one of his booming shots, which these days rattle harmlessly off the boards, as often as not. Perhaps the biggest surprise for me, was to see who actually are the movers and shakers on the aging Detroit roster. Long -in -the -tooth veterans like Brad Park and Darryl Sittler abound in the Wings line- up, but the driving force on this teats strikes me as being sophomore forward Steve Yzerman. His enthusiastic play and zeal for the game seems to be what keeps the oldsters going, rather than the other way around. All in all, what we saw last Saturday could not be called NHL hockey at its best. But, it was NHL hockey. If two teams with such mediocre records as the Leafs and the - Red Wings, can fill a 16,000 -plus seat building, then you can be sure that the years of declining fan interest, sparked by expansion, are pretty well over.