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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1984-11-21, Page 19Gtode nch rill SIGNAL -STAR RECREAT 136 YEAR -47 GODERICH, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21,1984 50 CENTS PER COPY Apr GDCI Senior Vikings' Allison Graham (43) leaps past an Egter South Huron Panther defender to make a basket during the Huron - Perth Conference sudden -death semi-finalplayed playoff game, p here Thursday, while Viking captain Kim Fritzley (51) looks on. At right, Fritzley displays the shooting form that scored 22 points in Vikings overpower Exeter 63-30 the game to lead the Vikes to a 63-30 win over the Panthers. The Vikes advanced to the best -of three final series with the Stratford Northwestern Huskies. Game one was played Tuesday in Stratford, with the next game slated for Thursday, in Goderich. (photos by Patrick Raftis) • The G.D.C.I. Senior Vikings won their sudden death Huron -Perth girls basketball semi-final, by trouncing the defending champion South Huron Panthers 63-30. The Goderich girls put on a basketball show, with fantastic team play, highlighted by excellent passing, hot shooting, hustling defence and an awesome fast -break attack. Although it was the third win over Exeter this season, it was sweet revenge for the Vikings who- were upset by South Huron in last year's final. The Vikes, were led again by the excellent shooting of their captain, Kim Fritzley who scored 22 points. More important to the Vik- ing attack were Fritzley's many almost unbelievable assist .passes, .to her open teammates, made of great offensive moves to the basket and her intense defence. Christine Stapleton also played inspired basketball, grabbing many rebounds as she and Anne Allan dominated under the basket. Stapleton scored 14 points as well. Allan played her best game of the season as shi scored 12 points, many on nice moves to the basket. Cathie Gallow who started at point guard, played well making many fine defen- sive plays and scored six points. Other Viking scorers were Allison Junior Vikings in finals Graham with six, Joanne Campbell with two and Mary Beth Alexander who played a great game with one point. The Vikings only went to the foul line six times, but they made five of the shots while the Panthers scored 14 of their totaPoit'ffs'frontthe line. The Vikings meet the 'Northwestern Huskies, who squeaked pst Seaforth 41 - 40, in the best of three Huron -Perth finals this week. The first game is on Tuesday in Strat- ford at 2:00 p.m. and the second game is at the G.D.C.I. gym on Thursday at 2:00 p.m. If a third game is necessary, it will also be at Goderich on Friday at 2:00 p.m. BY TD It'i, on to the finale for the GDCI Junior Vikings. The Goderich girls defeated the Exeter Panthers 53-23, here Thursday, in sudden -death semi-final Huron -Perth Conference basketball playoff, to quality for the best -of -three final series. The Vikings will meet Mitchell, the winners of the other semi-final series. Mitchell defeated Stratford Northwestern to gain their berth in the finals. The first game of the championship series was played Tuesday, in Mitchell. The rest of the series will be played in Goderich, with game two set for Thursday, at 2 p.m. and game three (if necessary) Goaltenders in the Goderich Recreational Hockey League were hard-pressed to keep the puks out of the net, as 100 goals were scored in six games this week. Here, the puckstopper for O'Brien's Porkers reaches for the puck, while two of the team's defencemen 4 rgoaltenders week foNightmare fill the gap in the net and a Bedford Flyers forward cruises by. Bed- ford won this game, played Wednesday night, by a convincing 10-4 margin. (photo by Patrick Raftis) It was a goaltender's nightmare this week in Goderich Recreational Hockey ac- tion, as 100 goals were scored in only six games. Last Monday night Sunset continued its domination of the League, beating O'Brien's 9-6. Kevin Merriam had a hat trick and Dale Duncan and Gerry Mero had two goals and an assist for Sunset. Rob Standen notched three goals for O'Briens' To the late garne Green Machine pound- ed Ultramar 14-4 for the second time this season. Bill Peters, Bruce Melick and Larry Boyce each had three goals for Green Machine. Bill Peters added four assists for a seven point night, The Bedford Flyers outscored O'Briens 10-4, on Wednesday night in Goderich. Brian Moody had four goals, two assists; Mark Lapaine four goals and Mark Frayne's one goal, five assists, provided the firepower for the Flyers. Dan Duncan had three goals tor O'Brien sin a losing ef- fort. In Clinton Thursday night, Ernie's Roadhouse pulled out a 6-5 win over the Clere-Vu Rockets. Six different scorers tallied for Ernie's. Greg Burns had a four goal night for the Rockets. O'Brien's got back on the winning track this week by outlasting Ernies 9-8 Sunday morning in Goderich. Dan Duncan, Rob Standen and Dennis Lassiline scored two goals each and Scott McCauley added three assists for O'Briens. An upset was in the making Sunday night, but top -place Sunset outlasted bot- tom place Ultramar 14-11. Dale Duncan scored four and two assists; Kevin Mer- riam had three goals, two assists, and Brian Rumig five assists for Sunset. Graham Hamilton, four goals, one assist, Paul Kelly three goals, three assists, and Mark Kernighan two goals, two responded for Ultramar. TEAM GPWLPPTS. Sunset Golf 9 8 1 0 16 Green Machine 7 5 2 0 10 Bedford Flyers 8 4 2 2 10 O'Briens 9 4 5 0 8 Hodges 7 3 3 1 7 Garb & Gear 7 2 2 2 6 3 2 Clere-Un Rockets 7 1 5 1 Ultramar 8 1 7 0 assists, GF GA 73 49 70 31 50 36 59 61 28 33 34 49 40 48 39 84 Friday. The Vikings had tittle trouble disposing of Exeter In the semi-final game. Coach Lynn Meyers' squad controlled the game right from the start, using a full -court press, good hustle and strong defensive play. Mary Katherine Stapleton was the big girl under the basket for the' Vikings, hopping 22points. Carol MacEwan was the only other Viking in double figures, with 12. Katherine Murphy had eight points, Jenny Allen had three and Erin Robinson, Robin Engelstad, Viky Vanderburgh and Susan Murphy had two points each. Midgets ousted in final SCORING LEADERS TO DATE PLAYER TEAM GP G A PTS Dale Duncan Sunset 9 22 11 33 Bill Lewis Green Machine 7 12 13 25 Rob Standen O'Brien's 9 13 12 25 Greg Burns Clere-Un 7 18 6 24 Dan Duncan O'Briens 9 14 8 22 Kevin Merriam Sunset 7 10 11 21 Paul Kelly Ultramar 7 9 11 20 BY TD first quarter and never looked back. The GDCI Midget girls capped off a fine Maureen Stapleton did the big damage, son in Huron -Perth Conference sinking 16 points enroute to the 42-18 "asketball, with at strong showing in the Goderich victory. anipionship tournament, held in Tammy Talbot hit for 10 points, Mary Jo Stratford last Wednesday. _,..Evans added six, Pam Fritzley had four points and Rhonda Teal and Debbie Hebei had two each. It was a reversal of form in the final, where it was the Vikings falling behihe 20-2 in the first quarter. Goderich carries only nine players and signs of fatigue were starting to show in this, their third game of the day. However, the Vikings dug down and by half-time they had narrowed the deficit to five points, trailing 22-17. Stratford took over again, outscoring the --Vikes 10-6 in the third quarter and going on to win by 22 points, 46-24. The Vikings' starters, Maureen Stapleton, Tammy Talbot, Pam Fritzley, Rhonda Teal and Mary Jo Evans all played with a great deal of spirit. The Vikings reached the finals before losing 46-24 to Stratford Central, the first place team during the regular season. ,poach Lynn Meyers' Vikings had an easy time in the first round, defeating Exeter 49-23. Tammy Talbot, with 16 points and Maureen Stapleton, with 14, topped the Viking attack. Pam Fritzley and Rhonda Teal added seven points apiece, while Mary Jo Evans and Deb O'Brian had two each. In their second game, the Vikings played Mitchell, the second place finishers in the regular schedule. Mitchell had defeated the Vikings rather handily in the regular season meeting and may have been looking ahead to the finals. If so, they were being a bit premature. The Vikings jumped to a 20-2 lead in the Graham paces Juveniles with pair of goals in win Paced by John Graham's two goals, the Goderich Signal Star Juveniles, demolished Exeter 6-1, in a Shamrock League home game, played on Sunday. Goderich was up 2-1 after the first period, on goals by Graham and Rob Dupee. Chris Siderus assisted on both Goderich markers. Graham scored aeain in the second frame. Doug Smith and Brent Williamson each netted one in the second as well. Siderus assisted on Graham's goal and Lee Frisby and Darren Doak each assisted on one. Doak also scored the only tally in the third, assisted by Frisby. Dan Maillet returns to -. Colgate university team. Senior defenseman Dan Maillet, of Goderich, is returning for his fourth season with the Colgate University hockey team, in Hamilton, New York. Maillet has been a solid defender on the blueline corps the last two seasons. He en- joyed his finest scoring output last season with two goals and 19 assists, while being one of six players, who played in all 35 games. In three seasons with the varsity, he has scored six goals and 26 assists for the Red Raiders. He played his Junior hockey for the Chatham Maroons, in the Western Ontario Junior B League. As a defenseman-forward, he scored 17 goals and 46 assists in 1980-81 while winning the best defenseman trophy. Colgate opened its 1984-85 season on November 7, against the University of Buf- falo. The Red Raiders have made the ECAC Division I playoffs in four of the last five seasons. Dan Maillet Sorry!! No Grey Cup column Since by now everyone must be getting sick of hearing about the Grey Cup and possibly just getting over being sick due to over-induldging during the game, I thought I'd give everyone a break and not write about it. Certainly there are, topics more worthy of discussion than a football game in which one of the teams involved, (namely the Hamilton -Tiger Cats) only bothered to participate in one quarter. Granted, Tabby fans had some unex- pected cause for hope in that quarter, when the Cats went up 14 to zip after less than 12 minutes had elapsed. Hope per- sisted into the second quarter, as Winnipeg Blue Bombers kicker Trevor Kennerd and Ti -Cat toe -man Bernie Ruoff traded field goals; but right after that, Hamilton lapsed into the letdown everyone has been expecting for the last five games. The letdown started when former Ti -Cat David Shaw intercepted a Dieter Brock pass, intended for Rufus Crawford. That took the wind out of Harold Ballard's pussycats and paved the way for an avalanche of Blue Bomber scoring, that saw Winnepeg up 30-17 at the half. Another reason I'm not going to write about the game, is that it was not supposed to take place, at least not with the Ti -Cats on the program. The Cats posted a 6-9-1 record in the regular season, good for third place in the inferior Eastern Division of the CFL, while three Western teams all had better records than Hamilton. This means that Hamilton posted only the sixth best record in the league, hardly the stuff of champions. From the East, only the defending cup champion Toronto Argonauts could really have been expected to give the powerful Blue Bombers a game and I suspect even they would not have been up to upsetting Torn Clements and crew. The Grey Cup championship was actually decided the previous week, when the Bombers eliminated the Eastern champion B.C. Lions. So wily write about last Sunday's game? Speaking of Clements. The man who gave odds -makers fits, when rumors cir- curated that he would not play because of a rib injury, sustained in the Eastern final, BY PATRICK RAFTIS won himself an automobile as the games outstanding offensive player. Offensive is right. I find it offensive to think the Blue Bombers expected their op- ponents, not to mention the fans, would ac- tually believe Clements would not suit up for a chartipionsl'iip contest. "Clements might not play", "Clements may play", "Clements will dress, hut may not start". The story changed each day. Not until Sunday, did the Bomber§ admit what everyone else already knew, that it would be the gifted hands of the CFL's premiere quarterback, accepting the first snap of the game. Such smokescreen tactics don't even merit comment, so I certainly won't write about them. And what about poor Deiter Brock? Arguably the league's second-best quarterback (Toronto's Condredge Holloway and Joe Barnes might have an opinion on that matter), Brock did not have the luxury of Grey Cup -calibre receivers and the offensive line in front of him couldn't have held back taxes, let alone linebackers. Brock completed nearly as many passes as Clements (22.23), but he had to throw the ball far more often (43-32). Against receivers like that, who needs safties? To add insult to injury, the Bombers ( leading 40-17) felt confident enough late in the final quarter, to send in backup QB John Hufnagel, so he too would be able to tell his grandchildren about throwing a touchdown pass against Hamilton, in the 1984 Grey Cup game. All to all, this year's "Big Game" failed to provide the kind of suspense -filled spec- tacle Canadians have come to expect. But you won't hear about it from me! 1