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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1985-03-27, Page 13rt: .r. 4115, I'. ds tit Murphy's Landing goaltender Mike Lajuenesse attempts to clear a, rebound before Bedford Flyers attacker Jerry' Rozendal can bang it past him, during the final game of a best -of -three semi-final series between the two teams, here Wednesday night. Murphy's defender Dave Graf is also pictured battling for the puck. The Flyers won the game and the series, two games to one, to advance to the Goderieh Recreational Hockey League final series against Sunset. (photo by Patrick Raftis ) Sunset and Bedford, clash in Recreational League final series The Goderich Recreational Hockey League playoffs have reached the final series, which will see the Bedford Flyers face off against the Sunset squad, in a best - of -three series, which began Monday night. The second game of the series was played Wednesday and the third game, if needed, will go Thursday, at the arena. Sunset finished atop the league at the conclusion of regular season play, with 'a record of 21 wins, five losses and two ties, for 44 points. The rest of the teams finished in the following order: Murphy's Green Machine, 18-5-5, 41 points; Ernie's 16-7-5- 37; Bedford Flyers; 12-12-4-28; Hodges 12- 13-3-27; C1ere-vu Rockets, 11-15-2-24; O'Brien's 9-17-2-20 and FJltramar,1=26-1-3. Leading the league in regular season string were: Dale Duncan, Sunset, 54 goals. 39 assists, for 93 points; Kevin Meriam, Sunset, 45-36-81; Greg .Burns, .. Clere-vu, 51-28-79; Bill Lewis, Murphy's, 42-31-73; Dan Duncan, O'Brien's, 32-27-59; Rob Standen, O'Brien's 32-24-57; Mark Frayne, Bedford, 22-33-55; Phil Arthur, Sunset, 30-23-53; Don Shropshall, Clere-vu 15-38-53; Brian Moody, Bedford, 35-17-52. In the quarter -final round, first -place Sunset put out last -place Ultramar, with wins of 12-5 and 8-3, in the best -of -three series. Phil Arthur was the big scorer for Sunset in the first game, netting four goals and two ..assists. Dale Duncan added one goal and three assists and Leroy Mer- iam, Kevin Meriam, Jim Farrish and Ken Straughan all had three points. In the second game, Dale Duncan and Phil Arthur each had a hat trick and Paul Dougherty notched three assists to put an end to Ultramar's season. Murphy's -Green Machine . showed O'Brien's the door, with 9-5 and 10-3 wins. In the first game, Bill Peters had three goals and two assists and Ron Sowerby and Bruce Melick had a pair of goals each. Rob Standon and Dennis Lpssaline replied for Oz,Briens..with.twogoals each. Bedford Flyers eliminated Clere-'Lu Rockets two games to one, winning 9-6 in game one and dropping the second game 5- 4beforewra�-up the series in the third game. Mark Frayne with three goals and four assists and Brian Moody, with three goals and one assist, led the Flyers in the pchall notched a pair of goals for the rockets. Ernie's outfought Hodges in a close series, winning two games and tieing one. Dave Ennot and Don Sinnet each scored Jack clenn'D on Health 'Unit team fedin top, spot hi the industrial Curling ague this. week, and MVO the favored spot in this weekend's round- up bonspiel, The Health Unit finished with a 13-4 win - loss record, and because they defeated the Foresters, who bad an identical record. • they were awarded top spot, They defeated the 1863 team 7-4 on Thursday. On Jack's team were vice Laurie Pao quette, second John Orr, and lead Shirley Fisher. In the final games of the regular season, The Men Foresters maintained a hold on second place by defeating Garb and Gear by a 10-4 score, while the GDCI Teacher team took third place in a close 8-7 win over Jim Rourke's Hospital Teaxn. This game went right down to the final rock. Skip Doug Bundy picked up- a big three -ender in the seventh to be one up coming home. Jim Rourke had an oppor- tunity to tie it, but his final rock was just a bit heavy and slid out, leaving the end blank, and giving the Teacher's their vic- tory. The GDCI Viking team, skipped by .Dan Durst pulled up into ninth ,spot by defeating the Elementary teachers team 8- 5. Dan has helped to develop some ex- cellent curlers this year, with Phil Main Junior coining from a raw Novice to a sharp -shooting vice in less than three mon- ths, under his guidance. The Sifto Salt Maniacs faced their counterparts the Sifto Salt Evaporators and came nut on top, both in the game and Bedford Flyers goaltender Derek Divok, waits for a shot from the point during a semi -f playoff game between the Flyers and Murphy's Green Machine, played here Wednesda Murphy's forward Bill Peters waits out front for a possible rebound. The Flyers took t series two games to one. (photo by Patrick Raftis) twice for Hodges • in the first game, which ended in a b -e overtime 6je. Len Kolkman, with two goals, paced Ernie's in the first match. -The semi-final match -ups pittedBedford against __Green Machine and Ernie's against-Sunset- Bedford gainstSunset:Bedford took their series two games to one, over Murphy's Green Machine. Mur- phys won the first game of the series 6-4, paced by Bruce Shoff, with two goals and one assist, while Mark Frayne did the same for Bedford in a losing effort. Bed- ford bounced back to win the next two games, including a narrow 2-1 win In the final game, with goals by Willy Denomme and Brian Moody. Sunset ousted Ernie's in two straight games in therr semi-final series. winning 5 and 5-4. Phil Arthur and Kevin Meriam were -the top marksmen for Sunset, wit two goals and two assists each in the firs game, while Phil Petrie netted two goa for Ernie's. Kevin Meriam's and Dal Duncan led the Sunset-attaek in game -t with a pair of goals and orae assist eac Ian Chisholm, Terry Shoemaker, Terr Kisch 'and Harold Pete all scored for E nie'sin the-second-garme: - - ._ ' The final Sunset -Bedford match -u should be a good series, as the fourth-plac Flyers are on a roll after upsetting th powec ful Green Machine. Sunset been playing some excellent hocke despite being low on manpower throughou the playoffs. Garrett family winners in curling event This past Sunday, the Maitland Curling ly, J' Karen, Jennifer and Stephanie. Club hosted the Second Annual Family Stephanie had the honour of being the Bonspiel, in which 12 teams competed. youngest player in the tournament, she is Coming out on top after three wins in the only 11 -years -old! And, as her prize! she day -long event was the Garrett family won a curling brush. team, John, Dana, Jason and Kathy. They . were presented with the Kinspiel Trophy@by' . The Cameron family, Doug, Dixie, son the bonspiel organizer, Doug Bundy. Jason and Uncle Jack came in third. In second place was the MacKinnon fami- Mel Bogie ESSO and Rill McMullen ESSO Quarterly championships held at A quarterly club championship game at the Goderich Duplicate Bridge Club, was held on March 19, at the Legion Hall. There were 8.5 tables playing With average being 94.5 points. The North/South winners were: first, Joanne Gilchrist and Lee Ryan, 103 points; second, John DOnatis and Bill Bradley, 97.5; third, Jean Paper - nick and Mary -Lapaine, 89; fourth, Theresa Donatis and Arlene Gibbons, 87.5. East#'West winners were: first, Betty and Ray Fisher, 106: second. Joan and Cam Addison, 101.5; third, Georgia, Schaefer and Verna Worthy, 98; fourth,. Tom Eadie and Dick Simpson, 96. Members are reminded that Tuesday, Service Centre graciously agreed to spons this bonspiel, and several Goderi� businesses donated, or provided reduce price prizes, so that there were sufficie awards for the top eight teams. The twelve teams were provided w lunch and dinner by Penny Peters of Ladies Curling section. Bridge Club March 26, i : 45 p.in. is the Presidents Cup. Two and a half tables played a Howe game, on Thursday, March 2. at 1:30 p. Average was 10 points. First, Verna Worthy and C th McDonald, 12; second, Helen Young al, Betty Garland, 11; third, Anna Godley an Jean Papernick, 10. Novice A's wind up season at Listowel tourney The Goderich Novice A's completed their hockey season by competing in the Listowel Tournament on March 23. The locals played Hanover and lost a very close game by'a 2 -1 score. Dirk Wolterbeek, in goal for Goderich, trade many excellent stops to keep the score close, but Goderich just couldn't get the equalizer. Goderich's goal came from Jeff Volland, unassisted. M.V.P. award for Goderich went to Jeff Klages. In the second game, the locals w:lxt against Waterloo. The final score was5 -1tin favouf of Waterloo. Goderich's goal Os scored, unassisted, by Bryan Hodg s, M.V.P. award for this game went to Mike McBride. Irf Urna Stindiaga, 'heirwen the Dame mended up in tenth spot in the stendiian e Silver Brooms maintained their stranglehold:04 .15th. place, by.handin Kathy Hamilton's V & G team their 15th loss in a 74 game, and the Golfers moved up into eighth place over-all, in a resoun- ding 10-3 defeat of Dave Cloet's " GOO Teacher No. 2 tease. The other all -lady team, the ▪ Lady Foresters, picked up fifth spot in the stand- ings ings with an 8-4 defeat of Jeff Harrison's Super -Shell team. The final wind-up event begins this Thursday, with the top eight teams squar- ing quaring off at 7 PM and the bottom eight at 9 PM The bonspiel continues on Saturday. INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE CURLING FINAL STANDINGS Team Health Unit, Mel) Foresters GDCI Teachers No. 1 GDCI Teachers No. 2 Lady Foresters Local 1863 Super Shell Maitland Golfers GDCI Vikings Sifto Salt Maniacs Garb & Gear Elementary Teachers' AM & G Hospital Sifto Evaporators Silver Brooms Victoria & Grey W -L s 13 4 1 13 4. 2 12 5 3 11 .6 4 1165 9 8 6" 9 8 7 9 8 8 8 9 9 8 9 10 8 9 11 7 10 12 5 12 13 5 12 14 5 12 15 2 15 16 Brian Shewfelt lands near top on university wrestling circuit Homegrown Goderich wrestler Brian Shewfelt has pinned down some im- pressive -accomplishments on the universi- ty wrestling circuit of late. Shewfelt finished second in his class (72 Kilos freestyle) at the provincial level, in the Ontario University Athletic Associa- tion championships, held at Brock Univer- sity in St. Catharines in mid-February. Wrestling as a member of the University of Western Ontario team, he pulled off a-4 fourth -place finish at the Canadian Univer- sity championships„ at, McMaster Univer- sity, Hamilton; earlier this month. Shewfelt wrestled. locally, as a member of the Goderich District Collegiate In- stitute team for four years while attending highschool here. Shewfelt, 22, is in his fourth year of a sociology program at Western. Do it right or not at all with new Junior C.. t.earn Months of speculation and rumor were set to rest last week, when it was learned a group of Goderich residents have made an official bid to return Junior hockey to this town. The group has applied' to the Ontario Hoekey Association (OHA) for their sanc- tion to enter a team. into the OHA Junior C Group Two league for the 1985.86 season. If„accepted, it would be the first com- petitive.. hockey . team- to play under the Goderich name since the Intermediate B Sailors hung up their skates, three seasons ago. Junior hockey has not been played here on a regular basis since 1970. • I think it is high time for a return to some competitive hockey for this sports -minded town, and I would also go so far as to say that I think it will go over big. I°rnight be taking a, chance with sue'i an optimistic prediction, given the demise of the Junior and Intermediate entries here in the past, . but from what I've seen during my brief time in Goderich, I would have to say the time is now right. Goderich is, for its size, the most sports - minded community I have .ever seen. Recreational leagues flourish here. In a time when such leagues in other towns often face a yearly struggle to survive, Goderich sports enthusiasts flock to join up for some intramural exercise. There should be no shortage of participants for a Junior C hockey team, in a town where ,Juvenile hockey, al thing of the past in many communities, is alive and well. If 17 and 18 -year-old hockey players can be kept in-%resie'd ii -playing nmmj- hockey, it follows that interest in playing Junior hockey would be all the keener. is to be hoped that the addition of a JItunior team would not interfr with the fine Juvenile program here. The local Juvenile team, under the dedicated direc- of coach Dou: Cruickshank and the sponsorship o Signa : r ' u , r8 provided a healthy hockey outlet for the energy of this town's youth for the past several years. Signal -Star PublisherZabert G.Shrier is adamant that Juvenile hockey here will continue, under the company's sponsor- ship, whether or not 'a Junior team is form- ed. The Junior C organizational committee has stated that they too. wish Juvenile hockey to continue and told the Signal that they plan to run the team in such a way as to strengthen, rather than hamper, the local minor hockey program. Hopefufly, that attitude will prevail if the team gets off the ground. The fan support should be there. When the Clinton Jr. C Mustangs were forced out of their home arena by.a tournament last Christmas they played two home games in Goderich. The local arena was packed on both occasions. It remains to be seen if a locally -based team could draw sufficient crowds to be financially secure, but there is enough interest to merit a serious effort. Speaking of Clinton, the fate of the troubled Mustang franchise will have a lot of bearing on the success of a Goderich en- try. If the Mustangs can scrape together an executive and elect to remain in the Junior Ccircuit.,it could mean that one or both of the teams will have trouble fielding a fulltteam. - Junior C rules allow for only four im- ports (players from outside the team's drawing area) so the bulk of 'players on BY PATRICK RAFTIS both squads would have to be locals. Clin- ton has traditionally .drawn the nucleus of their team from Goderich and the loss of those players could make life difficult for. the Mustangs. Even if both teams manage to fully man their respective rosters,• filling both buildings with fans on a regular basis could be difficult. Don Johnston, President - of the Goderich Junior C Committee, has voiced the opinion that the natural rivalry between the two towns would fill buildings whenever the two teams clashed. That prediction may or may not bear out, but that still does not ensure fan support when teams from further afield come to town. However, after seeing the fans come in droves to witne8s Pee Wee hockey at the recent Young Canada Week tournament, I can't help but think, that Junior hockey would draw well. That is, it will draw well if the organiza- tion is run in a classy manner. One of the most important factors will be the choice of a coach. Junior C hockey has a notorious - -reputation-as- t `-animal-hockey"and to_.see- a local team degenerate into the kind of brutal hockey that has often been seen at the lower Junior ranks would be regret- table.-- __ _— - _ __._..._. Whoever is chosen to coach the team will have to have the respect of the players, in order to keep their exuberance directe. e. He must also be someone with enough hockey sense to mold a respectable team, year after year. As the sports reporter for the Listowel Banner, during the 1983-84 season, I saw what can happen when a town consistently. fields a poor hockey team. The Listowel Junior B Cyclones were then and are now, overmatched in every game they played and compiled a miserable 5-35 record the year I was there. Attendance usuall3' consisted of myself and less than 100 other people. Hardly enough to justify Junior B hockey. Listowel, like Goderich, is a good hockey town and while the Junior team was all but ignored, the fans lined the arena walls to watch their Juvenile team, which that year went all the way to an OMHA cham- pionship. The Signal -Star Juveniles currently en- joy the same kind of dedicated support here, being the major competitive team in town, and it would be sad if a Junior team were to detract from their support. I agree with Don Johnston, that a Junior team, if properly run, could be a boon to minor hockey and hockey in general here in town. But proper management is the key. I believe, this town has enough hockey enthusiasts to make a Junior team here a class 'organization, and I hope they pull together and do it. But it will require a lot of hard work to do it right. And it should be done right, or not done at all.