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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1984-12-19, Page 19TAR 00160411-51 GODERICH, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 191984 50 CENTS PER COPY A Diablos goaltender stops a shot, while members of the Easy Riders beat the Diablos for the B trophy, while C. H. Express, of Riders close in for the rebound, during men's B final game action at Seaforth won the A side. (photo by Dave Sykes) the annual broomball tournament held here on the weekend. the Seaforth team wins A division at local Broomball tournament The annual broomball tournament, hosted jointly by the Goderich Oarsmen and Har- bour Lights, was held successfully here, on the weekend. There were 36 teams, both men and women, competing in the three day event and there was plenty of action. The Seaforth C. H. Express were the win- ners in the men's A division; while the women's A winners were Parr Line. In B side action, Easy Riders took the prize for the men and the Kandoos were the vic- torious women. C. H. Express won their first game Satur- day morning at 8 a.m., beating the Diablos 4-0, on the strength of a two -goal perfor- mance by Marc Robinet. The Express won another 4-0 game over Teeswater, at 6:40 p.m. Saturday and won again at 10:40, beating Palmerston 1-0. Mur- ray Houston scored the lone goal. They downed the Devils 3-1 in their next game, getting goals from Dale Kennedy, Jim McClure and Muray Houston, to ad- vance to the final game. The Express blanked the Elora Farmers 2-0 in the final, on goals from Jim Nash and Brad Finlayson. Parr Line's first win came came at 1:40 a.m, Saturday, a 1-0 win over Brussels. San- di Fremlin scored the Parr Line goal. On Saturday, they whipped the Blyth Baitoneers 4-1. Sandi Fremlin and Heidi Elliot each scored a goal and an assist, with Jean Dow and Sandra Wilson scoring singles. Later, a 1-0 squeaker victory over Green Machine put them into the finals. Deb Horst scored the goal. A 2-0 win over the Brookdale Stars assured Parr Line of the Ladies A cham- pionship. Liz Bowermes and Sandi Fremlin scoring, with assists going to Sharon Westberg and Sandra Wilson. The Easy Riders won the men's B side after losing to the Lucky Devils 1-0, by beating Bervie 3-1, with goals from Randy Wilson, Ralph Morrison, and Ed Van Miten- burg; Maryhill 3-0, with Dick Robinson I one goal, one assist) leading the way; and the Diablos 3-1 in the final.. Dick Robinson, A Brookdale player attempts to clear the hall from the net area during action in the final game of the women's A division at the annual Broomball tournament held here, on the weekend. Brookdale was beaten 2-0 by Parr Line. who took the championship. Kandoos won the women's B side. ( photo by Dave Sykes ) Roger Morrison and Joe Dorssers scored against the Diablos. The Kandoos won the Ladies B champion- ship by beating Belgrave 3-2 in the final game, after falling behind 2-0 early in the game. Earlier, they beat Commercial 1-0. and Knight Riders 1-0, after losing their first game to Brookdale, by a 1-0 margin. The Harbour Lites were eliminated after losing 2-0 to Winthrop and 1-0 to Belgrave. The Oarsmen lost 5-0 to Elora Room No. 3 and 2-1 to Clifford. Earl Pennington scored the lone Oarsmen goal, assisted by Glen Webster. Vikings make impressive deb BY TD This year's edition ' GDCI senior Vikings basketball to • . ; s v . de an im- pressive debut iii Huron- Berth ' ; erence play. Last week the Vikings, probably the strongest senior team Wince the leagile champion Vikings of six years ago, w their first two league games convincingly and reached the finals in a Huron -Perth tournament to pick a representative for the.University of Western Ontario's Purple and White Tournament. The league victories, both on the road, were a 92-52 win over Wingham on Tues- day and a 76-47 victory over the Mitchell Blue Devils on Thursday. In the tourna- ment, the Vikings had no trouble with Norwell, whom they defeated 67-20, or Mit- chell (56.33) but met their snatch in the final wherafthey were defeated 66-54 by a strong Stratford Central team. In Wingham, the Vikings started strong, leading 45-19 at half-time. They were able to take advantage of their height up front to score almost at will inside. Dave Smith with 17 points, Dave Almasi with 14, Paul 'arenner with 13 and Darryl Black with 12, all hit doublefigures. Todd Graham gave the Vikes some good outside shooting, hit- ting for nine, while Chris Starkey and Tim Bakker had six apiece, Shawn Rahbek and Grant Townsend had four each, John Thompson had three and Baird Robinson and Bop -Barwick had two points each. Ed Sweeney led the Stangs with 27 points. Against Mitchell Thursday. Paul Bren- ner, Todd Graham and Darryl Black each had 14 points. Dave Smith added nine, Grant Townsend had five, John Thompson and Chris Starkey had four apiece and Shawn Rahbek and Tim Bakker each had two points. Mike Selves had 10 for Mitchell. In the first game of the tournament Fri- day in Exeter, the Vikes got 10 point garnes from Dave Almasi. Chris Starkey and Todd Graham, Paul Brenner had nine, Dave Smith and Darryl Black six apiece, Tim Bakker and Shawn Rahbek four each, Baird Robinson three, Travis Bell and Bob Barwick two and Juergen Schulz one point. The Vikings returned Saturday, to defeat Mitchell by 23 points. Tim Bakker had 14, Chris Starkey 10. Darryl Black eight, Dave Almasi six, Juergen Schulz, John Tnomn- son and Paul Brenner four apiece, Shawn Rahbek three, Grant Townsend two and Bob Barwick one. Stratford Central matched the Vikings for size and got better shooting when they eliminated the Vikings in the final. Ron Schumacher led the Rams with 26 points. The Vikings gnt 22 from Dave Almasi and 10 from Todd Graham. Paul Brenner with nine, Darryl Black and John Thomp- son with five apiece and Chris Starkey with three points. rounded out the Goderich offence. Although the Vikings were not able to handle the Rams at this stage of the season, Viking coach Lynn Meyers is op- timistic about his team's future. Almasi, Smith and Black are the big men up front, who along with returnees Starkey, Bren- ner and Thompson and good rookies like Graham plus some other members of last year's championship junior team, should give the Vikings a team capable of challenging for league honors. This week, the Vikings host Clinton Thursday in the third game of their Huron - Perth schedule. Belles snake semi -1W 418,--, Goderich Belles made it to the semi-final gamein the Belle C division of the Mitchell Tournament, on Saturday, but lost to Stratford No. 1, in an 11-10 heartbreaker. The Belles were on' top of their game throughout the tourney and had won three straight games to make the semi-final. Goderich won their first game, a 7-5 victory over Seaforth. Allison Graham and Vicky Vanderburgh were the story for Goderich. Graham scored six goals and Vanderburgh had six assists. Angie Chisholm scored the other Goderich goal and also earned an assist. Graham continued her scoring exploits into the next game, a 13-0 win over St. Thomas, scoring seven goals and assisting on one. Vanderburgh added three goals and one assist, Mary Su McLennan hada goal and four assists and Debbie O'Brien scored once. Marianne Glazier had three assists,- while ssists;while Angie Chishom and Pam Wilkinson had one assist each.,. Game three was a 14-7 win over Chatham N-0.2. Graham led the way again, with six goals and four assists. Vanderburgh had four oals and two assists. Stacy Rean scored our goals. Chisholm had four assists, as did ilkinson. Lori McCartney earned one. assist. In the semi-final game, Graham scored six and assisted on two; Rean scored two and assisted on one and Vanderburgh had two goals and three assists. O'Brien and Glazer each had a pair of assists. Junior yikings win two BY TD The GDCI junior Vikings won two games in Huron -Perth Conference boys' basket- ball last week. Tuesday, in Wingham, the Vikings defeated the Madill Mustangs 55- 49 and Thursday, in Mitchell, the Vikings got by the Mitchell Blue Devils 54-30. The games were the Vikings' first in league play. The Vikes play their first home game here Thursday when the Clin- ton Redmen will be the visitors. The Vikings led throughout the game in Wingham, holding leads of'14-10, 24-17 and 41-33 after the first three quarters. The Mustangs were able to close the gap in the final quarter when the Vikings ran into foul trouble, but the Vikes held on to win by six points. Steve Bugler topped the Vikings with 12 points. Kevin Telford and Scott (Squid) Garrow had nine apiece while. Gerry Kingsley and Shawn Larder threw in eight points each. Byron Bowman hooped seven. Todd Hamilton was the top scoring Mustang with 14 points. The Vikings trailed by a point, 14-13, in Mitchell after one quarter, but were up by 10 by the half, leading 28-18. They con- tinued to pull away from the Devils in the second half and won by 14 points. Kevin Telford led the Vikings offensive- ly. Taking the ball aggressively to the hoop, Telford got„ 16 points. Steve Bugler had 15 and Ger y Kingsley had 12, in- cluding five for six from the free throw line. Kingsley also led his team in reboun- ding. Sha Larder, with six points, Byron Bowman an drew MacAdam with two each and Scott Garrow with one point, rounded out the Viking attack. Scott Baer had a strong defensive game for the Vikings. Midget Vikings split pair BY TD The GDCI midget Vikings split a pair of Huron -Perth basketball games last week, losing 54-47 to Wingham on Tuesday but re- bounding .Thursday for a 31-26 win over Mitchell ` The game in Wingham was close. The Vikes led 14-10 after the quarter and the score was tied at 26-26 at halftime. Goderich: led 40-37 at the end of the third quarter but Wingham took over in the final quarter to win by seven points. The Vikings did not rebound well, giving the Mustangs too many second shots. The Goderich squad was also unable to -stop the long in -bounds pass used by Wingham to score many of their points. High scorer for Wingham was Kyle Cronin with 11 points. Mike Bush topped the Vikings with 13 points. Jim Laithwaite added nine, Kevin Haasnoot and Bill Trebish had six apiece, Derek Chandler had five, Ron Plaeschaert had three, Tim Bugler and Kevin Black two apiece and Sean Wilson one point for the losers. In Mitchell, the Vikings again led from the start, but this time they made their lead stand up for their five `point victory., Quarter scores were 11-7, 18-12, 29-21 and 31-26, all in the Vikings' favor. Derek Chandler with 10 points and Mike Bush with eight, both had good games in- side for the Vikings. Kevin Haasnoot add- ed four for the Vikes and Bill Trebish, who had a strong defensive game, scored three points. Sean Wilson, Jim Laithwaite and Tom Taylor had one point each • for Goderich. . The Vikings play -here Thursday against the Clinton Redmen. Fight is a sorry sight UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE YEAR: "It was not a pretty sight!" . Hardly an original phrase to begin with. I think the televison commentator, describing the so-called boxing match that marked the professional debut of Olympic boxing star Willie DeWitt, could have gone a little further. Had he used adjectives like "revolting" or "disgusting" he could not have been ac- cused of over-stating the case. The intended six -round bout was cut mercifully short when DeWitt knocked down Ed Morgan, a 27 -year-old auto mechanic, three times before two minutes had elapsed in round two. True, there have been shorter fights — more brutal fights. However I can not im- agine there ever having been a fight, held with the sanction of a respectale boxing organization, that was more of a mis- match. Not that, in terms of poundage, DeWitt is any bigger thaVMorgan — Morgan might even outwieg IeWitt. The trouble. is, if you saw the t, you know that DeWitt is built along t - e of a bodybuilder, while Morgan has the physique of an over -the - hill truck driver. Bluntly put, the man is fat! He has a pot belly that would put the most ardent beer - drinker to shame and his short stubby arms gave him only about two-thirds the reach of DeWitt. Morgan is no athlete. These and other inequities, made it seem like I was watching Lou Ferrigno beating up Archie Bunker.It was like watching an aborted first draft of a scene from "Rocky". In fact, the DeWitt -Morgan clash would have been better suited to the dingy obscure gymnasiums, where Sylvester Stallone's fictional fighter got his start, S3$TS VIEW BY PATRICK RAFTIS than it was as a showcase for one of the most promising boxers to appear on the scene in ages. It can only have been inexperience that caused DeWitt to°allow such a fight to take place. Beating Morgan hardly advanced his carear — more likely it will make real contenders leary of giving him a shot. It also comes at a time when boxing is already coming under harsh criticism because of the damage, -done by years of ° head -pounding, to the legendary Moham- mad Ali. Ali, one of the most articulate men ever to don a pair of boxing gloves, has become an embarassment to the sport. Although boxing proponents hold fast to various other theorys explaining Ali's premature mental demise, there can be no doubt that boxing has to be part of the cause. Interviews showing Ali barley able to string together a sentance have to be among the strongest arguements ever made for abolishing the sport. I don't think the sport need be abolished, merely policed more intelligently than it has been. Boxer's like Ali should be prevented from fighting as long as he did, by madatory medical examinations and fights like the DeWitt -Morgan debacle, should never be allowed to take place. - Twelve boxes of canned goods were collected at GDCI last Wednesday, when the school held a student versus teacher volleyball game to collect diivatlons for the Family and Children's Services Christmas Bureau. Admission to the game was one can of food and a good crowd was on hand. Here, teachers, from left: Myles Murdock, Dave Cloet and Tom Kelly try to bash the hall past a student defender. 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