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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1980-01-17, Page 124 . M 1. 3,..�.. • 1tter :seven weeks of carn"peitien, the Industrial eague still has • • two undefeated teams but the number of winless teams is now zero. Both the Victoria Sweepersand the Champion Office squads chimed their first vic- tories of the year„in ex- citing matches. Doug Yeo was, outstanding for the • cr'q+F;ymR,ga am WA' arripjbn •vit Victor' ra—ti a -1n,• a contest. that was un- decided until the final rock- Yeo and company •had secured a two-point lead going into the final end but only fine shooting from Diane '13udnark and Donelda MacDonald kept the GO CI Teachers No. 2 team from staging ' a comeback. High school skip Bill Garrow was only able to score: one point and a ' long awaited 64 win bek'tinged to the Victoria Sleepers. If it is 'possible, the Champion Office triumph - was even more exciting than the Victoria Sweepers .:initial victory. The Champion , crew battled back- from a 5-0 deficit to tie the Maitland Golfers in the last end and then defeat them in ogle take out lifts Godrerich rink to win The Labatt Tankard. Division 13B was held at the Maitland Country Club with eight teams participating. A double„°,,knock-out format left Goderich and Teeswater battling for. first place. What a game! Cam Bogie was up after four ends, then Teeswater, with perfect draw weight, went two up after the end.' of the eighth. Bogie's team picked up two in the ninth, ' to tie the game. Teeswater shot rock, and having the last rock, were looking like a sure win- ner, .until Cam pulled off a phenomenal takeout shot, and the Teeswater skip, who hadn't missed a shot throughout the whole game, missed , his last shot - game over. Congratulations to the Teeswater team ,who curled a perfect draw weight game, with skip Ian Grant, Vice - Dave Hawkins, Second - Byron Bal.lagh, 'Lead Murray McKague. The •Goderich team was skipped by Cam Bogie, Vice - Dennis LeBrun; Second - Jack MacKinnon, and Lead Ron Klages, who had run , into a grand piano and hurt hisribs badly and in spite of the pain curled a great game. The curling season has been great, with a lack of snow, we curlers consider ourselves run Lune.i.e u U we can still enjoy a winter activity. All leagues are in full strength, although readers may thirrk that Thursday night Industrial is the only league, we have curling every night of the week. The high school had a fun jitney during the Christmas holidays. A team skipped by Donald Coughlan came ,in first, and Doug Bundy with Liz, and . Kay Duncan with Ann coming in second. Family togetherness is a sure winner! The ' more energetic adults had a fun mixed spiel during the holidays with emphasis being more on fun than win- ning. This Saturday, is the Business Girls Tankard beginning at 9:00 a.m. Two rinks from our club are entered, skipped by Lynn Edward and Pat Munroe. Come on down and watch the curling, we love an audience, and it's the cheapest and best entertainment in town! Shareholders, please keep Thursday, January 31st in mind, for the annual shareholders meeting. There 'will be cocktails. from 6-7:15, and. a deluxe buffet following. The meeting will begin at 8:30. Tickets are available from any board member. an extra end, Champion skip Jinn Bolan executed„ a superb draw,inthe'last end .to tie the match and set up.a dramatic extra. The winning Office team put .only one rocs in the house in the extra end. This rock -was hit twice by the Maitland Golfers but remained in the house and it was still there after the end was over, `resulting in a dramatic 8 7 victory for the• "Champions.” In the ranks of the undefeated, the A,M. & G. Hospital No. 1 unit fought off a strong challenge from the Oom Club to record a 7-4 win: "We were lucky", stated Ron Klages and his view Was shared by the defeated Oom Club. The match was tied at four going into the final end. when Peter Bergin, Dennis Miskie and Ron Klages, all made expert shots. to put the • game neatly away. Jim Collins was . sharp all night for the unlucky losers. The Foresters' found the going a little easier as they also maintained their perliect record by defeating the Champion Ladies 10-2. The going was certainly not easy in the early ends as the determined women of Champion took a 2-1 lea& after . three ends and stayed close until the, fifth end when the winner scored big. Sylvia Bolan and Marg deBolt were strong for the Champion team while Ja son Ribey and R.alpl/Foster were standouts for the victors. O'rice again, A.M & Hospital No. 2's skip Elmer Taylor made an heroic shot to lead his foursome to victory. In the final end, with the game tied, Taylor -was able to draw through a clutter of racks•to deposit the winning stone.anto the House, The rock was so well hidden that. Vii toric and Grey ° skip Bruce Erskine was unable to get it out and the Hospital. unithad a 5-4 win, Hospital emploYee Craig Cass was also a star throughout, the contest while Jim Holmes was impressive for the V & G contingent. ' Another close •match involved the GD CIteach- er No. 1. team and the Huron Health unit. This contest, was, a see -saw battle from the opening and took a lucky double take-out in the last end by teacher George Sutton to secure a 6-5 win for the educators. Health - Unit skip Jack MacKinnon and vice -skip Laurie Paquette had strong games but the outstanding player of the night was newcomer Barb Ottewell who curled above eighty percent for te t#'3'e achers,.. ; $t 4''r,,�'oln Cr - The .....� The powerful' Assessment Office moved into spin possession of third plac''rwith a con- vincing 11:T . win axes the 'slumping Champion Sales Office. The winners e -sharp throughout the contest with Mike RussellQ and Jim Bell _ providing key shots whenever they„ were required. Pete Wanner and Bill Hayward provided the occasional spark for the office workers but the skillful' Assessment'' foursome were in control throughout the game. Tom. Profit and Fred Armstrong were tiie leaders as Local 1863 downed the View -11a Hardrocks by the score of 9-5. Teacher Marty Bond enjoyed an excellent evening but the ,..ex- perienced two 'timer champions were too much for the Hardrocks. Sunset extends winning streak:toeight games BY GORD McLELLAN Sunset Golf Club won three games in CHHL` • hockey league play this week' extending their • current winning streak to eight straight games and continuing their hold .on first place with a record of 16 wins and five losses.' Wednesday night Sunset outscored Burger Bar 10-7. ;'On: Thursday they stopped Holmesville's six game undefeated string by beating the Rockets 5-2,. then on- Sunday night they downed Whetstone Jewellers 6-3: In the other scheduled' 'game Sunday morning O'Briens defeated Holrnesvill.e 5-3. This coming Friday Jan. 18, the second an- nual "Industrial League Hockey Tournament gets underway at the Goderich Arena with a full schedule of games running right through • until Sunday evening.,.. This year 16 teams' are ' entered • from various towns in the area and; include four CHHL teams : ,(Sunset, Hoimesville, O'Briens and last°,year's champions, Burger Bar). The first game gets underway, at 7 p.m. Friday. • Clinton bantam tourney this weekend The Clinton Recreation , Com mittee's,i2th_anneal, Bantam hockey tour- nament gets underway -tonight, Thursday, January 17, and continues Friday, Saturday,. and. Sunday, and concludes next weekend; January 25, 26, and27. Most of the cham- pionship games will be played on Sunday af- ternoon, January 27. This year, . organizer Len Fawcett has lined up some excellent hockey, with 28 teams playing 46 .games,_ throughout ,: _the seven-day event. There are eight teams' in each serie§,except for 'AAA' where there are only four. Teams . com- pete in a three game round robin series with four teams in each division. Winners of each division will advance to the championship series except ,for 'AAA' where the top two teams play off. Although the tour- n anient....attracts.-1imi.ted support from Clinton hockey fans, many ot'it-of- town coaches, : p'arents and players -say its one of the 'best .,bantamn tour- neys . in ,this part . of Ontario. "I've been to at least 15 tournaments, and none are as well run as the one in Clinton,'" one Goderich coach remarked last, week. Louis Stadelmann wins seven -hour chess duel Last week Lo.uis- Stadelmann won a seven hour duel to hold on to second place in Level I while Jim Kingsley came up with three wins to hold down fourth place. Glen Naylor also won his game to hold onto the ^last top level position. In Level three play Mike Moriarty had a big night winning two of three games to take a real strong hold on third place in level 3. Battles have developed for several positions in the standings as Steve Hammill and Bob Fitz- james are in a dead tie for third ,place°in Level 2 only .029 behind, Don Bogie. In Level 3, Barry Page is closing in on Owen Moriarty who hasa .004 -lead for first place. Owen also holds a slight lead in the most im- proved categorie over Doug Brindley. But, after winning two games last week Mike Moriarty is threatening both Doug Brindley and his -brother, . Mike in the Most Improved category. Jan. 9, 1980 The standings as of follows:' are as LEVEL I W L D P?Pct: Dennis Little ..: 13 Louis Stadelmdnn 14 DoufBrindley 10 Jim Kingsley 15 Glen Naylor 10 LEVEL2 Kirk Lyndon „.10 Don Bogie . 8 Steve Ham mill 8 Bob Fitzjames 8 Darrell Clutton ... , .. 6 2 0 .867 3 0 .824 3 0 .769 5 0 .750 4 0 .714 6 1 .618 7 2 .529 8 0 .500 8 0 .500 9 1 .406 LEVEL 3 Owen Moriarty 7 13 1 .357 Barry Page ,, 6 11 0' .353 Mike Moriarty .... , 5 13 0 .278 Mike Cox 2 21 , 1 .104 Mark'Russell 1 15 0 063 HONORARY MEMBERS Charlie MacDonald 4 Brian Miller :.. .... . . John Kloeze ......... Bob Dick 5 Larry Gower 4 0 0 1.000 .5 1 0 .833 .1 . '0 1 .750 6 0 .454 5 1 .450 T. yid a L.)