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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1980-03-27, Page 154, • I • Ken Meriam of the Goderich Sailors bangs at a loose puck hi front of a sprawling Ron Martin while John Hamilton keeps a close eye on the proceedings in playoff action at the Goderich Community Centre Monday. Goderich scored with nine seconds in the rtvItg., game to nip the Lancers 6-5 and win the playoff series in seven games. They now advance to the OMHA semi-finals against Dresden. (photo by Dave Sykes) • GOD Ei ICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, MARC437, .1.98QPAGE za Colquhoun scores three straightgoal to lead Sailors to playoff series win BY DAVE SYKES The Goderich Sailors did their .darndest to give Lucknow the seventh and deciding game of their playoff series here Monday. But Dan Colquhoun wouldn't let them. Colquboun scored three straight goals in the final period, including the winner with just nine seconds remaining in regualtion time,to lead the SailOrs to a 6-5 win and clinch the playoff series: The game was a perfect illustration of the back and forth series between the teanW as Goderich forfeited a two -goal lead late inthe game and allowed Lucknow to score two quick goals and tie the game as a result of some sloppy work in their own end. The. Lancers were a good bet to win the game at that point after. tying, the game 5-5 with just over a minute remaining. But Ron Sowerby led a final rush up ice and dumped a pass off to Colquhoun two -on - one break and Colquhoun slid the puck into' the corner past Ron Martin for the winning goal. The game was a nail - biter from beginning to end as Goderich led 1-0 after one period and,held Lions cap tremendous season The Goderich Lions •Pee Wees won the Young Canada Week 'B' division championship be defeating Tillsonburg, 2 - I', in an exciting final here last,Saturday. The victory brought the. <",:",'-•' • , Young Canada Week championship to a Goderich team for the first time in eighteen t , • • A,"' ,:s01 . L4,•,w Cathy Garrow, 11, of the Goderich Figure Skating Club won a silver medal in the pre -juvenile event at an invitational skating competition held recently in Sarnia. She is the danghter of Tina and William Gallow and is coached by club professional Ricialettit. (photo by Cath Wooden) years. It was last won by the host team in 1962.: The championship •came ,through what the 'Lion's coach Dick Madge called "a tremendous team effort". The Lioris' played a total of five games in 'the highly competitive tournament and won them all. Four of their wins came on the way to whining the 'B' category and three of the four were won by only one goal. The. Lions edged Mooretown 4 - 3 in overtime, and then had their only easy game, an 11 - 3 romp over Port Elgin, before getting by Kincardine 4 - 3 in semi- -final play and beating the strong Tillsonburg team 2 -1 in the final. A total of 14 teams were competing ,,in the 'B' diVision and many of • them play in the 'A' category in Ontario Minor Hockey Association play. The Lions are a "BB" team. The Lions other victory in the tournament was a 6 - 2 win over St. Lambent, Quebec in the annual East-West game. St. Lambert went to the 'A' division championship final in.' their own category in the tour- nament before losing to ()wen Sound 6 - 5 in' oVertime. The Lions had a good season, finishing' in first place in their. WOAA league, losing only twice in their 20 game schedule. • They were automatic "BB" WOAA champions and won the silver medal at the Kincardine Winter, Games. The only disappointing part of their season came when the Lions were' eliminated in the first round of the OMHA playoffs by Strathroy. "At that point," coach Dick Madge explained, "we were having trouble getting some of the in- dividuals on the team to think of the team ahead of themselves." By the time Young Canada .Week arrived that problem had obviously been solved. "We got a tremendous team' effort from everyone," said Madge. "It was very gratifying to see." Madge went on to explain the pressure on Goderich teams in ' the Young Canada Week. "They grow up with it. • There's only one thing a young boy who plays hockey in this town would, rather do than play in Young Canada Week.and that would be to win it. 'Sometimes that pressure •works. against. Goderich teams but these boys, just made up their minds they were going to Winit and they did. They showed great deter- mination and most, im- portant of all they did' it as a team. "They 'had tremendous team spirit all through the tournament. We played on five different days in the week-long a 3-2 lead heading into the final 20 minutes. Each team scored -three goals in the final period. Dale Duncan scored the first Sailor goal in the opening period at he teamed up on a line with Rick Fremlin and Colquhoun. Goderich increased their lead to two goals as Ken Meriam scored midway through the second period from Steve Meriam and Paul Kelly. The Lancers roared back and countered with Awo_goals in _two minutes. to tie the game. Grant clerk and Jim Murray scored the Lucknow goals. Meriam then gave Goderich the luxury of a lead slapping in a hard shot from deep.in the slot to push the Sailors ahead 3-2 heading into the final period. Dennis Burrows set the tone of the final period scoring after just 1.17 to tie the game 3-3. The teams played cautiously until midway through.the ,period when Colquhoun shovelled in two goals in a four minute span to lift the Sailors into a 5131,kir' The Sailors forechecked strongly for a couple minutes but then backed off and ,allowed _ Liicknow's offence to move at will in the Goderich end, The Strategy backfired as Murray scored -two goals in a minute and a half to tie the game with 1.45 remaining in regulation time. But -the period belonged to Colquhoun as he scored three straight goals 'to clinch the series. The teams played four games in the past week after the •Lancers had opened up a 2-1 lead in games. Last Wednesday Goderich tied the series „with a 6-2 wiji_ in . Lucknow. Paul Kelly led the offence with two goals while Dave Bartliff, Jim Farrish, Frem lin and Colquhoun added singles. Goderich took the read for the first time in the series last Thursday with an impressive 9-3 win in Clinton. Steve Meriam, Ken Meriam, Dan Duncan and Dan Colquhoun scored two goals each- while Wa-ne Rau chipped in with a single goal. Grant Clark scored two of the Lancers goals. Lucknow came back to tie the -Aeries at three games apiece with a 5-4 win at home Sunday. The Lancers were guilty of letting up as they built up a 5-0 lead after two periods and watched the Sailors retaliate with four third -period goals. A fifth Sailor goal 'was disallowed. Dennis Burrows led the Lancers with two goals. The final game in Goderich Monday gave the packed house plenty to cheer about and goaltenders Ron Martin and Dennis Fleishauer both played. strong games. The Sailors now ad- vance to the Ontario semi-finals against Dresden and the first game will be played in Dresden this Friday at' 8.30 p.m. The second game of the series will be at the Goderich Com- munity Centre Sunday at 8 p.m. Industrial league playoffs In Industrial League curling action last weekend, A.M.&G. No.1 clinched second place with a victory over Victoria & Grey. The score was 12-5. The Health Unit lost a' close match to Local 1863 9-6. John Orr skipped for the Health Unit and stayed close to Local 1863 until the final end when Jack Kellough made a perfect take-out to' win the game and count three. Jim Bell, skip of the Assessment Office team was upset by his team's loss to Champion Girls, Sylvia Bolan, Marg De Bolt, Alma •Vollick and. Michelle Morenz 6 to 3. Jim concluded that it was a combination of the ladies' talent , and beautiful delive:•ieS that threw his team off. • The A.M.&G. No.2 team, skipped by Jim Rourke, had a 9-2 lead over the Forresters at one point in .their game: But the strong forrester team, skipped by Phil Foster, scored three in by winning tournament and they came up big every time." In their semi-final victory over Kincardine, - Thursday, • the Lions carne out htingry before a packed house and scored four straight goals to lead Kincardine 4 - 0 after two periods. ' Peter • Conlon got the Lions started, scoring on a pass from Grant Garrow. Todd GrAham added an unassisted goal just over a minute later. Rob Gibbons made -it 3 -0 early in the second period finishing off a play with Trevor Erb and Todd Jeffrey. Scott Stokes got what proved to be the winner on a shot from the corner that :deflected into the Kincardine goal. Grant Garrow was credited h , with an assist on the play. Kincardine began outskating the Lion in the .third period and scored three goals to make „ the score 4 - 3. Craig Palmateer, Mich Landry and Sean Burton were the goal -getters. • Lions goalie Rob Dunn came on late in the third to make some key stops to preserve the victory. Dunn was a major factor in all the Lions tour- nament games, providing his -team with strong goaltending. In the championship game against Tillsonburg Saturday afternoon, the Lions played near -perfect defensive hockey to win the title°. "We thought it would be a low -scoring game so we stressed the im- r • . the sixth, stole two in the seventh and eighth, and then won it in an extra end. This clinches first place for the Forrester team. Ron Ritchie and Marty Bond of the Elementary Sweepers won a decisive victory over Doug Yeo and Dianne Budnark of the Victoria Teachers, 7 to 3. The Sweepers are now number one of elementary schools. With Jim Bolan now working in St. Thomas, Barry Paige had to take over as skip for the cliampiOn Office's genie against " the Champion Sales Office. Bill Heywood, skip for the •Sales Office, discovered that Barry has been taking lessons from Jim and proved so as Champion Office beat the 'sales office 10-7. The Golfers picked up a completely new team for their 10-2 win over the Dom Club. Ed 'Brissette skipped with help. from,. Dave Brissette, Sheila Sulley, and Maxine 'Martin. The Oom. Club, with captain Wayne De Bolt, could not handle all the talent on the golfer team and are hoping the old team returns for playoffs. Playoffs •are on Saturday, March 29. Juvenile Bs win title The Goderich Juvenile Bs scored twice in the second overtime period to defeat Hensel.' 6-4 and *in the WOAA league championship. • Tom Smith set up John Little for the winning goal in the 'second overtime and then scored the sixth Goderich goal to clincl-. • the Win. Earlier in the week they defeated Hensall 6-5. The juveniles:will now play Hensall in a best -of - three series for .the WOAA grand- cham- pionship. The first game . will be played • in Goderich Thursday at 8 .p.m. at the- Community Centre. portance of the defence not getting caught up and the forwards coming back," said Madge. Rob Gibbons, whose inspired. play was one of the big reasons for the Lions' success, scored 'both Goderich goals. The first came at 8:03 of the second' period when he rifled home a pass -out from Trevor Erb. Shawn Rahbek also received an assist on the play. Just eight seconds into the third period, Gibbons got the winner on a shot from deep in along the right boards. Midway. through the period, Rob Hutchison beat Dunn with a hard slap shot. for Tillson- burg's only goal. From there on the Lions played .opt . e.. ' tight 'defensive hock,ey, including killing a penalty with only two 'minutes left in the game, to preserve the victory.. The members of the championship Lions' team were goalies. Rob Dunn and Jeff Scott, defensive pairs Shawn ,Rahbek with Scott Stokes and Grant Garrow with Trevor Martin, and forward lines of captain Trevor Erb between Todd Jeffrey and Rob Gibbons, Todd Graham with wingers Brent Williamson arid Ken Huff and Peter Conlon. with Robin Moore and Mike Coach Richard Madge was assisted by' Bob Dick and Bill Rahbek was the manager of the team. 4, 4 Several Goderich athletes competed at the Ontario Open Karate Championships at McMaster University in Hamilton on Satur- day, March 24. Winners were from left, Ken McPhee, first place in the Orange Kumite division, Lisa Moore, first in the Kumite , White to Orange division, and second in the Kate White to Orange division, Jane Netzke, third place in Kata White to Orange, and Chris Graham, first place in the Kata Orange Green division* (photo by Cath Wooden) LYE