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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1985-12-18, Page 37orts .10-Garrow scores four in 7-4 win The Goderich Elevator Bantams won their 13th league game of the Shamrock League season Wednesday whipping St. Marys 7-4 in a game in St. Marys. The ban- tams have lost only one game in league la p Goderich built up a 4-1 lead in the second period but watched as St. Marys closed the margin to 4-3 by the middle of the final period. The Elevators scored three goals in the final seven minutes of the game to clinch the win. Scott Garrow led the offence with four goals and one assist. He scored two goals in a six -second span in the first period and added two more goals in the final period. Team-mate Barry Thompson scored two goals and set up Garrow's first goal. George Sideris scored the other Goderich goal. Byron Bowman also contributed of- fensively collecting three assists in the game. Jason Million and Bill Whetstone chipped in with one assist apiece. The Elevator Bantams got a solid effort both offensively and defensively and some timely goalkeeping by Tom Durnin. The bantams played in Ilderton Monday and will host Strathroy in a game here Saturday at the Goderich Memorial Arena. Novice team wins two of three games The Goderich Tier II Novices have been rolling along in Huron -Perth League play winning two of three games played recent- ly. The novices lost a Dec.1 game to Hensall 4-2 but rebounded with two straight vic- tories, 7-1 over Huron Park Dec. 6 and 8-2 over Zurich Saturday. In the game against Hensall, the teams played through a scoreless first period but Hensall took the lead outscoring Goderich 3-1 in the second period. The teams traded goals in the final period to produce the 4-2 score. Darnell Connelly scored the first Goderich goal from Mark Johnston and Darryl. Fielder .,and, Brad Phe1a scores, the second goal , with Steve4t Bogie assisting. The offence was in gear against Huron Park scoring seven goals in the 7-1 win. Mark Johnston and Darnell Connelly led the offence with two goals apiece. Johnston also assisted on two other goals. Fielder, Bogie. and Phelan scored one goal apiece for the novices. Ben Armstrong assisted on two Goderich goals. Goderich won its second straight game Saturday defeating Zurich 8-2. Johnston, Connelly, and Steve Clarence scored two goals apiece for Goderich while Brad Jones and Armstrong scored singles. John MacDonald had two assists while Clarence and Ryan Donnelly had one assist each St. Marys hammers Goderich 13-0 The Goderich Legion Midgets were slaughtered by the big guns of St Marys. losing 13 - 0 in St Marys Wednesday St. Marys went after Goderich right from the face-off and never let up as they pumped in seven goals after the first period The Goderich offence never got going as they only had three inside shots. and a total of eight shots in the game St Marys scored a few of their goals off the Goderich defence The Goderich goalies. .laj. Williamson and Gord Maclnnis. despite allowing 13 goals. played well as they were bombard- ed by the St Marys snipers The Midget record now stands at I; wins and 8 losses Goderich plans to get bark 00 track with games at ilderton on `1onda� and home against St Mary s Thursda' and Strathro Saturday SECTION 1101111•111.11a. =am." There was plenty of broomball action at the Goderich and District Arena on the weekend as 34 broomball teams competed in the Sixth Goderich Broomball Tournament co-sponsored by the Goderich Oarsmen and Harbourlites. The Seaforth Easy Riders, last year's consolation champions, won the men's A Division title while the Elora Hangover Hawks won the consola- tion crown. The Satelites captured the women's championship over Chiselhurst and Sparling's of Blyth defeated Brussels 2-1 in sudden -death overtime to win the B Division championship. (photos by Susan Hundertmark Seaforth Easy Riders, Satelites win broomball tourney final opener to Harriston but defeated the Steamers and Clifford to advance to the consolation final. In the women's division, the Satelites won the A championship without giving up a single goal. The Satelites defeated Sparl- ing 1-0 in the tournament opener and then disposed of Waterloo by the same score Saturday to advance to the final which it won 2-0 over Chiselhurst. Chiselhurst hadn't allowed a goal in winning three games to reach the final. ,After losing to the Satelites in the opener, Sparling won three straight games including the consolation championship over Brussels. Sparling lost 1-0 in the opener and then defeated the Knight Riders and Queens by identical 1-4) scores. Brussels lost its opening round game to ('hiselhurst but advanced to the final with a 2-0 victory over the Waterloo Bandits. Last year the F;asv Riders of Seaforth lost ars opening round game before reboun- ding to win the Consolation championship in the Fifth Goderich Broomball Tourna- ment This vcar. the lass Riders weren't go- ing to settle for second best. The Seaforth team not only won its first round match against Fergus but won five straight game,' without a loss including a 4-1 victory over 1 anesville to win the Men's A Division championship of the Sixth Goderich Broomball Tournament on the V.eekrnrl The Elora Hangover hawks won the B 1)ik inion with a 5-1 victor over Bervie in women's action. the Satehtes won the 1 1)ikision championship with a 2-0 win err (hiselhurst in the final game. Sparl- ing, of Blyth defeated Brussels 2-1 in soudrden-(death nrer-111110 to wtn the B sion crown. In the men's division, Easy Riders whip- ped Fergus 5-0 Friday and advanced with a 1-0 victory over Mitchell Saturday. The championship was an uphill battle for the Riders as they won three straight games Sunday. They defeated Harriston 3-1 and advanced to the final with a 3-0 victory over Pedros in the semi-final. tanesville defeated Egmondville 4-1 in its first match Friday evening and then defeated Winthrop 2-0 Saturday afternoon and the Chargers 1-0 Saturday night. Unlike the Easy Riders, the Saturday win over the Charges vaulted Janesville into the championship final. On the B side, the HangOver Hawks lost its opening game to the Chargers but ad- vanced to the final with victories over Auburn and Egmondville Ber s ie lost its Sailors rack up three victories After only 3 wins in 15 games, Sailors win three straight this week BY TD The Goderich Sailors have doubled their point total in the ()HA Junior (" hockey standings with three victories in five day s Wednesda' in Kincardine the Sailors played one of their hest games of the season. drubbing the Kincardine Kinucks rl - 3 Friday, the Sailors outlasted the cellar dwelling Wingham Jokers, 10 - ft in Wingham and Sunda). at home. the Sailors won another 10 - 8 shootout. this time over the Kinucks The Sailors had only three wins in the first 15 games of their 30 game schedule. but the second half looks more promising. with the team off to a quick start and play ing much improved hockey Wednesday. in Kincardine. the Sailors put it all together. scoring five unassisted goals in the second period to salt the game away, after each team had scored once in th, first period Thr Snilnrs outscored the holm, tr:rnl.1 .it in the final period Chris ri• Sidcris had three goals for the �,ol rs Brad Armstrong and Pete Willems had k ,(piece and f )ar)1 Madge and .John 1-honipson scored singles Chris Todd r d all three Kinur k goals 1)r•u� 1)11 kson had a strong game in the i; rderi h goal. stopping 2() of 32 shots The sailors fired a total of 42 shots at Kelly \Linlle in the Kincardine nets 1- riche night. in Wingham the Sailors came up with another strong offensive ef- fort scoring 10 goals. hut they needed almost all of them as the .Jokers got eight pus ks behind Rand% Gaynor in the (;oderi; h goal .T;,hii (;raharn scored three goals for the Sailors Defenceman Daryl Madge had two goals and two assists. and Dave Gallow. Rick Shaker and Brad Armstrong had a 'nal and an assist each. Pete Willems and Kevin i,ee scored the other Goderich goals. For the .Jokers. Dave Montgomer) and Doug Stevenson had two goals apiece Bret Cameron, Steve Nicholson. Paul Edwards and Blake Flett also sr orcd Wingham goals. The lead changed hand- throughout the game. with Wingham taking a 6 - 5 lead in- to the third period. Howe\ er. the Sailors trumped the .Jokers with a 5 - 2 edge in scoring in the final period The Sailors made it three in a row with their win over the Kinucks here Sunday in another display of offensive hockey. Pete Willems scored a natural hat -trick, getting the last three Goderich goals. the last one into an empty net. The effort brought a fine Western chapeau drifting down from the gallery. Linemate John Thompson assisted on all three of the goals. Todd .ieffrey and Rick Shakes had two goals apiece for the Sailors. Daryl Madge had a goal and two assists and Kevin Lee had a goal and one assist. Shawn Larder scored the other Goderich goal. Sean Burton, scored four goals for Kin- cardine. Singles went to Mike Quipp, Chris Todd, Mike Zuzek and Derrick Skinner. The Kinucks led 3 - 2 after the first period, but the Sailors had the edge, 7 - 6 after two periods and outscored the visitors 3 - 2 in the final frame. The Sailors will attempt to extend their winning streak with a pair of away games this weekend. Friday, the Sailors travel to Walkerton and Sunday they go back to Wingham to deal with the .Jokers again. During the Christmas holidays, the Sailors will be playing in a tournament in Leam- ington. They do not play at home again un- til .January 10. Broomball is barbaric Dozens of broomball teams invaded the Goderich arena for a tournament last weekend. When I first heard about it; I envisioned school age children pounding a ball down the ice towards their opposition's net, fall- - ing on their backsides with every sudden movement. For curiosity's sake, I decided to go and watch a few games. What I witnessed was astounding. It could be said that broomball has changed from my public school days, when it used to be a non -contact sport played for recreation during gym class. Today broomball players wear as much padding as Los Angeles Rams running back Eric Dickerson. They wear elbow, knee and shoulder pads. I am told that some even wear Cooperalls for added pro- tection. For balance each player attaches rubber soles to their running shoes. 1 per- sonally would wear steel toed work boots. The way the games I saw were played, I think the object of the game is to inflict as much pain into the opposition as is human- ly possible. There is a certain degree of skill involved in the sport, with balance being the key. The games I watched, saw grown men going for the ball swinging their brooms like hatchets. At one point I saw an offensive player . coming in on the defender and in hatchet like fashion the defender swung his broom with all his might taking the feet out from under his assailant. I thought that maybe that was an isolated incident, but as it turned out that is the way defence is played in the sport of broomball. In order to hone their defensive skills, I bet that each defenceman is required to cut a cord of wood before going out onto the ice. Apart from the stick work, the body con- tact is fierce with lots of tenacious checks and rough play along the boards. Watching the games it seemed that cross checking is legal. Even the younger school -aged children in the tournament displayed the same techniques when they played as the older players. For the participants I am sure broom - ball is a fascinating game. But to me and a few others I have talked to, it is nothing more than bedlam on ipe, One could say the flame about hockey, but there are rules that are enforced. In broomball, it seems that everything goes. That is except for strangling or maiming an opponent. But from the way some of the players were swinging their sticks around, it won't be too long before someone is seriously injured. Modern day broomball combines the strategy of soccer with the kamikaze body contact of Australian Rules Football. For those of you who have never had a first hand glimpse of the sport ( ARF 1, it is a take off from rugby except for the fact that all points are scored by kicking the ball. It sees grown men without equipment dive through the air and knock heads in full stride. SAILORS ARE BACK ON TRACK The Junior C Sailors gave the fans of Goderich their Christmas present early by winning at home Sunday night in front of a packed house. The Sailors hosted the Kin- cardine Kinucks in a 10-8 shoot-out. For the Sailors, Sunday's victory was their third in as many games. The story of the game was the inconsistent calls made by the referees. During the contest Goderich received 11 minor penalties, plus one ten minute misconduct. Kincardine on the other hand was handed five minor penalties. The same referee did both of the Sailors weekend games. At the conclusion of the game in Wingham the referee skated over to Ron (Tag) Sowerby the assistant coach and warned him that he was doing the game in Goderich Sunday and that he was going to clamp down on the Sailors. The Sailors ended up winning but they sure didn't get many calls that went their way. At one point Grant Garrow was serving a minor penalty for a previous infraction when he questioned the referee about one of his calls. The referee then gave Garrow the ten minute unsportsmanlike penalty. The game was well played and at one point during the second period the Sailors trailed 5-3 and it looked as though they were going to lose. But coaches Dan Dun- can and Tag Sowerby rallied the troups and managed to come out on top. Coach Duncan is impressed with the way his team is now starting to work together as a unit. "For the last few games we have passed the puck well and we have stopped playing as individuals and we have been working together as a unit." he said. Near the end of the game one fan was so jubilant over the Sailor victory that he pro- ceeded to throw his cowboy hat onto the ice. Walton man wins Minor Hockey draw The Goderich Minor Hockey Association held its fund raising draw on Saturday. Dec. 14 and two winners were announced. Howard Hackwell of Walton is the big winner and claims the top prize of a $500 gift certificate at Granger's TV and Ap- pliance store. Judi Dent of Goderich won the second prize, a $10(i gift certificate at Shanahan's Foodland. The Goderich Garb and Gear Novices were the top ticket selling team