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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1984-12-05, Page 19`odench il'SIONAL-STAR RECREATI 136 YEAR -49 GODERICH, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5,1984 50 CENTS PER COPY A member of the Clinton Mustangs takes a shot at the Kincardine Kinucks net during Junior C action in Goderich on Sunday night. The Kinucks won the game 6-4. The Mustangs will host the Port Elgin Bears in Goderich this Friday evening at 8 p.m. while the Clinton arena is still tied up for a Bantam tournament. (Photo by Joanne Buchanan) Mustangs lose 6-4 to Kincardine 13Y TD A crowd of over 400 fans turned out at the Gdderich Arena Sunday night to watch their "adopted" team, the Clinton. Mustangs of the ONA Central Junior C League. The Mustangs lost the game (6-4)to the Kincardine Kinucks, but the fans seemed pleased with the game and the quality of hockey displayed. The game was fast -paced and featured good team play by both clubs, and some fine goaltending at both ends of the rink. Both teams stuck to hockey and only seven minor penalties were called, along with a last-minute penalty shot, awarded to the Mustangs. The Mustangs are playing their home games in Goderich, while the Clinton arena is tied up with a minor hockey tournament. This Friday, at 8 p.m. the Mustangs will play the Port Elgin Bears here. Clinton Coach Bob Zimmer started Sunday's game here with an all-Goderich lineup, with Brad Armstrong at centre, flanked by Torn Smith and Grant Garrow; Daryl Madge and Pete Willems on defence and Terry Bean in goal These players. along with speedy rookie centre John Thompson, compose the contingent of former Goderich Minor Hockey Association players with the Stangs this season. The game was scoreless until midway through the first period, when Dave Fair drew first blood for Kincardine. The Mustangs came back with three goals, two by Brad Armstrong, the other by Jamie Mahler, on a long slapshot that eluded the Kincardine goaltender's glove hand. Dave Petteplace's goal, in the last minute of the period, pulled the Kinucks to within one goal. •Kincardine tied the score at three in the first minute of the second frame, when Terry Irwin caught the Clinton defence out of position and blasted a hard shot past Bean from 20 feet out. Clinton regained the lead, on a goal from the point, by-defencemenDave Wright at the six -minute mark, after some sustained pressure in the Kincardine end. By the end of the period, the Kinucks had taken a 5-4 lead on goals by Darren Elliott, on a screened shot and Al Eedy, who scored following a scramble in front of the Mustang goal. WOSSA tournament The only goal of the third period was scored by Kincardine's Shawn MacDonald, when he took the puck from Mustang defenceman Jamie Mahler at the Clinton Blueline and went in to beat Bean. Zimmer lifted his goalie with just over a minute left and the Mustangs had some chances, the best probably off the stick of Dan Wilson, but Kincardine goalie Al Daza was equal to the challenge. The Mustangs were awarded a penalty shot, with 37 seconds remaining, when Paul Gravel was dragged down from behind as he broke in alone on Daza. Gravel took the shot and had Daza beaten, but rang his shot off the post. Throughout the game, the teams took turns controlling the play, but overall, the Kinucks out -hustled Clinton. As Mustang coach Zimmer put it, "They wanted it more than we did." The loss leaves the Mustangs_ with an even record of six wins, six losses and a tie. They are now in third place in the six -team league, one point behind the Wingham lronmen, who tied the Walkerton Black Hawks 6-6, Sunday. Senior Vikings win silver .medal The G.D.C.I. Senior Vikings won the silver medallions at the WOSSA "AA" Girls Basketball Championships held at Goderich last weekend. The third -seeded Vikes lost to perennial champions, Sarnia St. Patrick's in the championship final 56 - 32. Goderich started slowly against the much taller fighting Irish, falling behind 24 - 8 at half time. The Vikings came back to 31 - 23 in the third quarter, as they played Sarnia even. The Vikes were led by their captain Kun f' ritzley, who received "special attention" from the St. Pat's defenders. She scored 17 points, including a hot nine for nine from the foul line in the second half. Anne AIlan played a strong inside game, especially in the second half, as she scored nine points. Other Viking scorers were Allison Graharn with three, Cathie Gallow with two and Christine Stapleton, who work- ed hard under the basket, with one. Goderich played its best game of the tour- nament in the semi-finals. On Saturday afternoon they downed the London Lucas girls 43 - 27. Lucas made the semi-finals by downing the number two seed London Westminster, the London champion, 60 -57 on Friday night. It set up the fourth meeting between Goderich and the highly rated Lucas team, with the Vikes winning three times. The Goderich girls took the lead 11 - 7 in the first quarter and never gave it up. They played with poise and intensity as a team, especiaily on defence. The aggressive Vik ing zone defence shut down the Lucas of- fence, holding their scorers Janice Field and Lisa DeVries to seven and two points respectively. The defensive pressure outside by Kim Fritzley and Cathie Gallow and inside by Christine Stapleton, Anne Allan and Allison Graharn, forced many London turnovers and alloWed only one shot each time at the Goderich basket. Offensivethe Vikes used their speed and poise to at ck the Lucas defence. Kim Fritzley played a great game, leading all scorers with 21 points. Anne Allan also played well scoring eight 1 points. Christine Stapleton rebounded well and threw good outlet passes as she scored poiIT .' Gallaw 441 a ,Ped -fires_ . 4 Goderich TBantams win in tournament A member of the Stratford Northwestern team tries to keep her balance as she is pursued by Allison Graham, Anne Allan and Christine Stapleton of the GDCI senior Viking basketball team during opening round action at the WOSSA championships here Friday night. Goderich won the game 40-28. (Photo by Joanne Buchanan) defence and scored four points. Allison Graham added a basket. Mary Beth Alexander, the Viking sixth man, carne off the bench to contribute well on defence and rebounding. On Friday night, the Vikings dawned Stratford Northwestern 40 - 28 in their open- ing round game. The Vikes' timing was off as they started slowly, probably due to a week of examinations and light practices. The Vikings led 32 - 19 after three quarters. They played well as a team and get letter astir erne progressed. Christine Stapleton led the oderich scorers with 14 po Allan and Cathie Gallow added six points each. Mary Beth Alexander and Allison Graham each scored a basket. The Vikings now take their 30 - 7 record to the OFSAA sanctioned Golden Horseshoe Tournament in St. Catharines this weekend. The OFSAA is opening a new category for schools in small towns (under 60,000) and small schbols (under 699) in cities next year. This is the first Ontario tournament for schools like G.D.C.I. The Goderich Elevator Bantams par- ticipated in the Clinton Optimist tourna- ment and came home with the "A" Cham- pionship consolation trophy. The first game of the tournament was played against Stoney Brook, with Goderich losing 4-2. The Goderich team opened the scoring with Scott Garrow;et- ting the first goal, assisted by Bill Whetstone and Chris White. The Stoney Brook team scored four straight goals, before Goderich could get the'.. econd goal at 14.11 of the third pend - the . goal being scored by Mike ge, assisted by Bob Allan and George Sideris. The second game saw Goderich top Strathroy Goderich opened the scoring on an unassisted goal by Scott Garrow. Strathroy took the lead 2-1, with 2 quick goals at the beginning of the third period. Goderich came storming back, scoring three goals in 22 seconds. The line of Bill Whetstone, Scott Garrow and Darren Stan - bury notched these with some real pretty passing plays. The first goal was scored by Whetstone, assisted by Garrow; the se- cond by Darre.n,.Stanbury, again assisted by Garrow; the third by Whetstone, assisted by Garrow. Goderich rounded out the scoring in this hard-fought contest with an unassisted goal by Garrow 12 minutes into the third period. The consistent and sometimes outstanding goaltending of Greg Townshend kept Goderich in the game when they needed it. The Championship game was played against South West Landon and Goderich came out on top 9-2. The Goderich team was led by Scott Garrow, scoring five goals, Greg Alcock two, George Sideris and Bill Whetstone with one apiece. The Championship game featured outstanding defensive work by Jeff Boyce,( Terry Pennabaker, Dwayne Chapman, Byron Bowman and Jason Million. When Coach Dave Wilkinson was asked what makes the team go, he said it was the "ex- cellent" goaltending of Greg Townshend and Tom Durnin, along with "a lot of hard work" and good backchecking by Bob Allen, Mike Beange, Greg Crawford and Dan McDougall. Vikings eliminated BY TD The Goderich Viking Junior girls were eliminated in the WOSSA "AA" tournament here Saturday, losing to Sarnia St. Pats, 57- 43. St. Pats went on to defeat the London Catholic Central Crusaders 41-37 to capture the WOSSA crown. Catholic Central had defeated Ingersol. 44-31 in the othaLsemi-final. - The St. Patsam is part of that school's dynasty in girls basketball. The St. Pats Seniors also won the WOSSA championship, Goderich in the finals. The Junior Fighting Irish had a record of 21-3 this year and before suffering their first defeat, had gone 103 games without a loss. They were just too much for the 'Junior Vikings. St. Pats used a lull court press and capitalized on their goad shooting and quickness to lead 40-8 at the half. The Vikings comeback in the second half was achieved against St. Pats' second -stringers. Juveniles- tie The -Goderich Signal Star Juveniles battled Belmont to a 3-3 tie in a Shamrock League hockey game, played December 2, in Goderich. Neither team scored until the second period, when Belmont broke the stalemate first. The teams traded goals throughout the contest, remaining even at the end of the A, Mary Katharine Stapleton had 17 for the Vikings, Katharine Murphy added 11 and Carol MacEwan had seven points. r The Vikings, who were the Huron -Perth Conference champions, reached the semi- finals by ousting Medway 50-38 in the opening round of the tournament, Friday in Exeter: The Vikings, coming off a week of exams, with not 'much time to practice, started slowly and led by only one point, 27-26, at half-time. Coach 'Lynn Meyers' Vikings picked up the pace in the second half, however, outscoring the Middlesex team 23- 12. Katharine Murphy, with 16 points; Carol MacEwan, with 11 and Mary Katharine Stapleton, with 10 points, red the Viking attack. Jenny Allen added eight points, Erin Robinson had four and Susan Murphy had one point, for the winners. Melissa Denomtne, with 12 points, was Medway's best shooter. Belmont 3-3 game. Jeff LeBeau was the top sniper for Goderich, scoring the team's first and last goals of the game. Rob Dupee and John Graham set up LeBeau's first goal, and his second marker was unassisted. Todd Jeffrey also scored for Goderich, with assistance from Dupee. Sprts need separation I'm not really sure how women will take this column. I hope they don't find it offen- sive. But what the the heck? A female col- league recently took her best shot at offen- ding me (a pack-a-day smoker) with a col- umn denoucing myself and fellow fire - breathers, as unsanitary swine. Actually this column is not really even one of my own brainstorms. The idea sprouted from a conversation with my brother-in-law, held during the recent Grey Cup football game. (One could use this as an argument against the unfair stereotype image bother -in laws have ob- tained for being "shiftless mooches"; ex- cept that I was at his house, scrounging a free meal and cleaning the refrigerator out of beer, at the time.) Anyway, I'm not sure how, but the con- versation turned to female athletes ( Maybe because the Hamilton Ti -Cats were playing like a bunch of girls). Female athletes have made great strides in the past. decade or so. Top rank- ed tennis players like Chris Evert and Martina Navratelova now command as much media attention and nearly as much. . money, as their male counterparts. I recently watched in amazement, a TV - movie, based on a true story about a Cana- dian girl who made first-string quarter- back on an American high school football team. In light of these occurrences, a recent controversy over letting girls play on boy's minor hockey teams, in Scarborough. seems less outrageous than it might have a few years ago. Still, I can't say that I feel comfortable with the entrance of females, into such traditonal bastions of maleness as hockey and football teams. These are rough games, perhaps ex- cessivley so. Friday's London Free Press carried two horrifying stories of injuries to young hockey players. In one instance, a player died after appearently being slash- ed in the neck and it is believed a skate cut may have caused him to bleed to death. In another case, a player was pictured wear- ing one of those metal contraptions, designed to hold one's head on one's shoulders, after a similar hockey mishap caused a neck injury. These are extreme cases and certainly should not be used as a basis for abolishing contact sports. People are injured at work, at play, even crossing the street, Risk of injury is a fact of life and we cannot hide from it by avoiding such activities. However, we can take precautions. And one of those precautions should be the segregation of contact sports. This is not chauvinism, it's merely reason. For the same kind of reason, par- ticipants in such sports are divided into age categories, to keep players competing against others at roughly the same stage of phypical development, to reduce the risk of injury. Many minor hockey organizations incor- porate mixed teams into their programs and that's fine, up to the Bantam category, where body contact is introduced and the risk of injury becomes too great. In addition to the risks involved, any at- tempt'to integrate contact sports places an unfair psycological burden on the male players. These players, forthe most part, have been brought up believing you don't BY PATRICK RAFTIS bash girls into the arena boards simply because they happen to have control of a black rubber disc. While girls were not involved when I was playing minor hockey, an experience I had as a Pee Wee player leads me to believe I'm right on this. One of our team's opponents that year, included a player whose left arm ended just above his elbow. I remember admir- ing how well he adapted to compensate for his handicapp. With the butt end of his stick tucked under his stump and the shaft held in his right hand, he stickhandled and shot as well as anyone on the ice. Problems arose when the opportunity came up for a bodycheck. No one could br- ing themselves to hit this guy with only one full arrn. Finally one of my teammates did it, he leveled the guy with a hard, but clean, bodycheck. Everyone, myself included, looked at the player who had thrown the check like he was an axe -murderer. I realized later that we should't have. The one-armed player was unhurt, he was after all in perfect health, save for his arm and he just wanted to play hockey and be treated like anyone else. Unfortuately his desire to do that caused a dilemma for anyone ,playing against him. Do you give in to the basic human im- pluse to avoid exploiting another person's obvious disadvantage; or do you agree to treat him like any other player and risk be- ing the one to injure the one-armed player. Not a nice label for a 12 -year-old to live with. Unfortunately, I think the same stigma would apply to any boy, forced by the nature of the game, to hit a girl, Before I start to sound completly non- progressive, I have to say there are some sports long overdue for integration. Baseball is one sport in which I believe males and females could participate equally. The town in which I grew up had a very strong softball program for girls and women. I can remember watching these games with "the boys" and recall being sincerely impressed with what we saw. We would comment that one girl "has quite an arm"; while another could, "really pound the ball". These comments were sincere and not qualified with the words "for a girl". While it won't happen soon, I can visualize the day females break the sex barrier in professional ball; the way Jackie Robinson once broke the color bar- rier. After watc g girls basketball games at GDCI for tt�st few months, I would be ready to add professional basketball to the list of possible breakthrough points, were it not for an acute shortage of women over seven -feet -tall. A