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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1985-03-13, Page 19.!077.7s, t ... • 4; • • '4,, 4. ' - . , ..41; .4,44444.444.44,0AWkwOm46.44.44.4"44.4M1.M4+4.HW4M44M4M404N.,""M"77 ‘• GODERICH, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1085 • 50 cons PFR COPY Lions win two games to advance in tournament -The Goderich Lion Peewees got off to an auspicious start in the Young Canada Peewee Hockey Tournament here on the weekend, winning two games to advance M the B After• a host of local diginitaries and tournament organizers participated in opening ceremonies Friday, the Lions delighted a large audience with a victory over Acton. They kept the momentum roll- ing Saturday with a close 2-1 victory over Exter in second-rouncaction. 'Thevictories move the Lions into the B division semi-finals against St. Marys on Thursday, March 14 at 2 p.m. The winner will play for the division championship Saturday, March 16 at 2.45 p.m. 'Goderich was off to an explosive start, scoring two short-handed goals in the first three minutes 'of play, to go on and defeat Acton 5-3 in the opening game of the B divi- sion. Acton was plagued by penalties receiv- ing the first after only 26 seconds of play. Eric Mattson was off for two minutes for body contact. Goderich was then penalized, with Chris O'Neill going off for hooking. Andre Cauchi scored the first goal of the game short-handed, assisted by Jeff Hodges and the second goal short-handed unassisted. Acton shortened the Goderich lead scor- ing at the 8:52 mark. Robbie Lockhurst scored on a pass from Wayne Sterritt. • Gerry Hurlburt opened the second period scoring for Acton assisted by Marty McAfee to tie the game. The second period was also marked by penalties with both teams receiving four minutes of lost ice time. Therefore neither team could capitalize on their many scor- ing opportunities. Also, both goalies made key saves, as Goderich goali;Pat Donnelly foiled Stet,- ' ritt's breakatirays At the other end of the rink goalie Paul Glass made a save on a roaring slapshot from the blueline. Goderich once again came roaring back in the third period; scoring three quick goals. Tim Harrison scored the third goal on a power -play, unassissted, with a flip shot over •the sprawling goalie, under the crossbar, after 56 seconds of play. Cauchi scored 81 seconds later for Goderich assisted by Sean O'Brien and Harrison. Hodges scored the fifth Goderich goal to, --give-thenradecisive lead_ 0%411 assisted on the goal. At 9:55 of the third period Acton made a valiant attempt to tie the game as the ac- tion went end to end for the remainder of time. The goal was scored as players scrambled in front of Goderich goalie Don- nelly to gain possession of the puck. SCORING SUMMARY First Period Goderich: Cauchi on a pass from Hodges .at 2:46 Goderich: Cauchi scored a shorthanded goal, unassisted at 3:05 Acton: Lockhurst assisted by Sterritt at 8:42 Second Period. Acton: Hurlburt scored assisted by McAfee at 6:51 Third Period Goderich: Harrison scored unassisted at the 56 second mark. r YCW '85 Lonnie Rumig of the Goderich Lions took the ceremonial faceoff from Guy Emmerson. Tourney founders Emmerson and Nip Whetstone were on hand for opening ceremonies Friday. `401eksaki-- Goderich: Cauchi assisted by O'Brien and Harrison at 1:37 Goderich: Hodges scored at 2:24 assisted by O'Neill Acton: Coleman scored on a pass from Westaway at 9:55. Goderich advanced to the semi-finals defeating Exeter 2-1 in B division action Saturday. Goderich took the lead in the game scor- ing the only goal of the first iseriod. Chris O'Neil scored after converting a pass from linemates Andre Cauchi and Jason Pear - sent. The hometown Lions took a two -goal lead early in the second period as Andre Cauchi flipped a wrist shot over the fallen Exeter goalie after picking up O'Neil's re- . bound at the side of the net. The Lions carried a two -goal lead into the final period but Exeter got back in the game with Harle Tinney scoring an unassisted short-handed effort in the first two minutes of play. Exeter pulled its goaltender in the final minute of play but failed to score the equalizer and force overtime with the ex- tra Man. The GljelVikings wee tittninated the 'first round of the'VVOSSA,"Aw, basket ball.t4m1#9,11011ktormentaa*FridaSL "Illinsenailit. The Vikings dropped a 70 7 51 verdict to Ingersoll:. ' The Vikings got behind early, tailing 12 -1 after the first five minutes of the game. • They came back to trail by only one point, 13 - 12, but this pattern was repeated throughout the game. When the Vikings did come close, Ingersoll would surge ahead again, In the second half, the Vikings had shaved Ingersoll's lead to 34 - 32, but then Ingersoll scored eight unanswered points Industrialipague curling' and, by the and at ine. third Omer tett,op 17. The Vikings of that narrowed to five, but Ingersol went to work again and led byjR7g11fgr1roy 40, in the-senOrfinals, but the Saints ,lost big to ii4Soopon Glendale, the toupainent chaniplim0; whowill now go on th"repre- sent WOSSA in the all -Ontario champion. ships. The Vikings got most of their scoring from guards Todd Graham and John Thompson who had 19 and 15 points respec- tively. Paul Brenner had seven points, Dave Ahnasi got six and Darryl Black had five points for GDCI. season winding, down BY DRIB With only three weeks • left in the In- dustrial League Curling season, there will have to be some interesting figuring to decide who ends up on top! Mere wins and losses won't be enough! Following last week's games, four teams are tied in first place with 11 wins and 4 gave up one in the twat end and lost to end Foster's Siftb-Salt Maniac team 5 to 4s Charlie Crawford, who has been playing two games back-to-back every week for the past month, turned around from a loss in the seven o'clock draw and skipped the Machinists 1863 team to an 8 to 4 win over Floyd Harman's Elementary Teacher osses. Team The FOresters, the traditional top -place In one of the closest games of the night, team, now share the spotlight with both Jim Bell's Garb and Gear foursome looked GDCI Teacher teams and the Huron Health like they had things sewn up against Dan Unit. Durst and his Viking "Graduates", but Dan In second spot are the Lady Foresters and and his team of Phil Main Junior and Paul the Super Shell team with 9 and 6 records, Bogie took two on the 7th and one in the followed closely by Garb and Gear who have eighth to take a come -from -behind 6 to 5 an 8 and 6 record with one game win. outstanding. Local 1863 hold an 8 and 7 win- In the battle of the first -place teams, the loss record, followed by the Maitland two GDCI Teacher teams were set to engage Golfers and the Elementary Teacher team. in a close battle, but a couple of key missed In Thursday's contests, Mark Fir/er's Sif- shots on the first and second ends allowed to Salt Evaporator team ganged Up on Pete George Sutton to move quickly into a 6 to Crew and his V & G foursome, defeating nothing lead over Bill Garrow and his team. them 7 to 3. Both teams played well from then on, it was Jack MacKinnon led his Huron Health too much of a score to overcome, and the Unit to a 12 to 5 tarnishing of the Silver Teacher Number One team ended up 8 to 4 Brooms, and Bernice Moore scored an upset winners, over the Male Foresters whose tearn was • The Industrial League will wind up its shorthanded due to a bonspiel in Ripley. The season with a bonspiel involving all the Lady Foresters came up on top by a 7 to 3 teams in the league on Saturday, March scoreand that put them into a second place 30th. tie in the standings. •Hopefully the log -jam of teams in the top Naney Nephew's Maitland Golfers team Spots will be spread around by that time so had to resort to bringing in ahnale member .George can make up the draw. The top eight for their traditionally female foursome, but teams will compete in one draw while the the' one male didn't help matters, as they bottom eight will fight for prizes in the se- , cond draw. Midgets blast Clinton The Goderich Legion Midgets played an exhibition game against Clinton last Friday and handily beat them 13-0. The first goal came at 7:50 of the first period as Tons Bean scored assisted by Scott Garrow and Mark Cauchi, This line scored nine of the thirteen goals with Garrow get- ting eight points. Rod Nurse scored next with Gary Erb and George Sideris receiving assists. Garrow then scored on an unassisted goal. In the first period Cauchi scored with Gar - row and Bean assisting. Near the end of the first period Nurse dove at the puck which set up Erb for a goal. Shawn Larder received an assist. --G period making it a six -goal period. Cauchi and Bean assisted on the goal. Three goals were scored in the second period. Garrow scored two - one unassisted and the other assisted by Rod Nurse. Bean scored the other goal of the period assisted by Cauchi and Garrow. In the third period Shawn Larder's shot was deflected into the net to begin the scor- ing. Next: George Sideris scored with assists going to Nurse and Erb. Halfway through the period Bean scored assists going to Garrow and Cauchi. With one seconnd left in the game Cauchi scored from Mark Burbine. '- Greg Townshend played a solid game in arrow scored anstherstoserid thessfirstsriet-as-weltasthedefences Stars win final game The final genie of the ringette house league was played Monday, March 4th as the Black Stars defeated Green Machine 4 - 2. Tara Haylow and Julie Campbell each scored two goals for the Black Stars. Assists went to Donna Waterfield with two and Tonia Seddon, one. Jennifer Hamilton had two goals for Green Machine with assists by Alesha Glousher and Heather Moss. Both teams have had an enjoyable season. Since January the Black Stars have won two and tied one while Green Machine won four and tied one game. • The Black Stars players are: Tonia Sed- don, Jody Pearson, Amy Baer, Dory Ann MacLennan, Sherry Suplat, Julie Campbell, Tara Haylow, Karen Harrison, Becky Har- rison, Jackie Crawford, Donna Waterfield, Melissa Purser. Caches are Angie Chisholm andSandra Kisch. Green Machine players are: Heather MacDonald, Heather Moss, Tanya Ross, Jennifer Hamilton, Stacey Clarence, Cathy Jo Moore, Jackie Vanstone, Meredith Rompf, Angie Larder, Alesha Glousher, Sherry Hogan, Leslie Brereton and coaches Stacey Rean and Yvonne Porter. Atoms trail Mooretown after. exciting OMHA victory over London The Goderich Atoms face a must -win situation in its Ontario Minor Hockey Association playoff series against - Moor -et -awn this -week after Losing the first - two games of the series on the weekend. The atoms dropped a 4-1 decision to Mooretown in Mooretown Saturday and Sundaythey wez e blanked 5 -0 -in the second game of the series. The third game in the best -of -five series is scheduled this week in Mooretown. " But just advancing to the next round of , the OMHA was a big chore for the Atoms as they were forced to double overtime in the fourth game before disposing of a pesky Southwest Optimist team from Lon- don. , Goderich took the lead in the London series with a 3-1 win in London Wednesday. The visitors scored two goals in less than a minute in the opening period to hold a two- s goal lead. Paul Wheeler scored the first Goderich goal after taking a pass from linemate Sam' Hosack and then Todd Pap- ple put Goderich up by two with a goal less than a rninnte later. Andrew MeLarty and Hosack assisted. Londoat hack in the game with a goal late in the first period to trim the score to 2-1 in favor of Goderich. The teams played through a scoreless second period and it wasn't until late in the final period when Chad Papple icored the insurance goal to clinch the win. Jason Jeffrey and Jason Hayter assisted on the play. The final game of the series here Thursday was something of a classic with Goderich winning in sudden -death over- time in' the second overtime period. The game featured end-to-end rushes and ex- citing action. The teams played through a scoreless first period and it wasn't until the final minute of the second period when d Goderich scored the first goal of the game. Hosack scored the goal with linemates Wheeler and Jeff Beange assisting. G_orleriehsclun_g, to that slim one-goallead. until the final minutes of the third period when London tied the scure and forced overtirne. In. accordance with OMHA rules, the_ first overtime was a 10 -minute stop-timeperiod, period, followed by a sudden -death over- time period. " London was the first team to store in the overtime period as Cs Pryde scored in the first two minute$. But Goderich rebounded midway through the first overtime to tie the game with Chad People scoring. Jason Volland and Andrew McLartyassisted on the goal. • Goderictrfinally put an end to the game, and the series, in the second overtime period as Sam Hosack scored his second goal of the game. Todd People and Paul Wheeler assisted on the winning goal. While the Goderich atoms were full value for the series victory over London, they met a well -disciplined Mooretown team on the weekend. Mooretown took the opening game of the series Saturday scoring two goals in the first and second period in coasting to a 4-1 win. Jason Jeffrey scored the lone Goderich goal on an unassisted effort in the final period of game one. The second game of the serieshere Sun- day produced some tight -checking but ex- citing hockey. The teams battled through a scoreless first period but Mooretown final- ly broke the scoreless game with a goal ate in the second period to carry a 1-0 lead into the final period. Goderich tried to get back into the game but a string of penalties and some bad clearing passes led to a four -goal outburst by Mooretown m the final period to pro- uce the 5-0 final score. • A well -disciplined Mooretown team scored four goals in the final period to beat Goderich 5-0 in OMHA playoff action here Sunday. Mooretown leads the series 2-0. (Photo by Dave Sykes) 1.