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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1986-03-05, Page 22PAGE 6A-GODERICHSIGNAL-a, . .DA1'. Ji•1tlt.115. 1986 37th edition of YCW set to go New format features round robin play in two divisions Hundreds off peewee hockey players will be invading the Goderich Memorial Arena this week as the 37th edition of the Lions Club's annual Young Canada Week Peewee Hockey Tournament unfolds over 10 days. The tournament begins Friday, March 7 with preliminary round games and will carry on each day, except Sunday, to its conclusion Saturday, March 15. The longest running peewee hockey tour- nament in the world, this YCW features some new wrinkles that should add to the excitement of play in the top two divisions. This year only six teams will compete in both the AA and A Divisions but each team will play three games in the round-robin format with the top two teams advancing to the final. Under the previous format, these teams were only guaranteed two games and only the finalists played three garpes. The rules for the round-robin format are such that two points will be awarded for a win and one for a tie. ( Ties will not be broken in the top two divisions 1. Atter three games, the two teams with the highest'points will play for the champion- ship. If two teams are tied in points, the tie will be broken by a new statistic called team average. The average will be based on goals for and against with the total divided into the team's goals for. If a team has scored 10 goals in its three games and allowed two, its total is 12 divided into 10 ) goals for) which gives the team an average of .833. The tournament begins Friday with Hen- sall playing Lucknow at 5.30 p.m. and Brussels and Mildmay will follow at 6.40 p.m. with the second D Division game. The tournament's opening ceremonies will take place before the Goderich-Acton game at 7.50 p.m. Friday and Port Elgin and Exeter will round out the first night of action. Action will begin at .8.10 a.rn. each day and continue through to about 10.30 p.m. The AA round robin begins Thursday, Sports Goderich challenges Shell - spiel finals On Sat., Mar. 1 the Maitland Golf and Country Club represented by eight home teams, played host to the 1986 Shell Spiel. Ed's Shell Service Station and Edward Fuels sponsored the men's curling event coinprised of teams from Goderich and parts of Southern Ontario. This year eight rinks from Teeswater, Toronto, Chingacousy, Vanastra, Walkerton,, and Palmerston joined the home teams for a day of fine curling. The 9:00 o'clock draw final game was between Charlie Crawford's team and the Robert Stoll rink. Crawford's team scored a decisive victory over Cam Bogie's team in the second game to advance to the final. However the Stoll rink from Toronto prevailed and took top honors for the draw. In the 11:00 o'clock event the final game was played between Dave Hawkins' team from Teeswater and Bob Dempsey's team from the Maitland. Dempsey was narrow- ly edged out by Hawkins in a very exciting and close game. The win advanced Hawkins' team to become the overall win- ners of the Shell Spiel. Peewees ready for YCW after. League loss Last Saturday, the Goderich Lions Pee Wees were edged 4 - 2 by Strathroy in the .. Shamrock Day playoffs held in Parkhill. The Lions took a i - 0 iead in the second 'period as Brian Lane showed great hustle in grabbing a puck in the corner then pro- ceeded to bank the puck in off the goalie's leg. Mike Stegenstad drew an assist on the goal. Mid -way through the period, Strathroy tallied two powerplay goals for a 2 : 1 lead. The Lions roared back shortly after these goals as Sean O'Brien tied the contest after taking a perfect pass from Andre Cauchi. Jeff Hodge also drew an assist on the goal. However just seconds later, Strathroy got the winner on a goal mouth scramble. The score stayed this way until late in the third, when the fourth goal was scored. The Lions, played well enough in this .contest but some missed opportunities in the first period, and poor clearing passes on the third and fourth goal were their downfall. The Lions will represent the town in Young Canada Week for their final outing of the year. March 13 at 3.10 p.m. with London Satires AAAlaying Owen Sound. Belleville and Stratford will follow at 4.20 p.m. and Lon- don Sabres AA will play Thornhill at 5.30 p.m. The AA teams will get right back at it at 8.10 a.m. Friday, March 14 and the round robin will continue all day with the championship game scheduled for 7.50 p.m. Friday. The A Division teams get underway Tuesday, March 11:with Tillsonburg play- ing Owen Sound at 12.50 p.rn. while London Minor will play Guelph at 2 p.m. and Sim- coe will play Barrie at 3.10 p.m. Tillsonburg will play Guelph in the final Tuesday game .and, Wednesday the A teams begin play at 9.20 a.m. and caray on through to the championship at 7.50 p.m. The B Division is spread throughout the schedule with two games Friday, six Saturday, four Monday before the semi- finals are played Thursday. The B Division finalswill he played Saturday with the con- solation final at 1.10 and the championship at 2.30 p.rn. C Division action will carry on through the week as well with semi-final and final action scheduled for Saturday, March 15. The consolation final will go at 3.50 p.m. and the C final at 5.10 p.m. will wrap up the tournament. D Division games will also be played throughout the week and semi-final and final action is scheduled for Friday, March 14. The consolation final will go at 6.40 and the final at 9 p.m. There are still some positions to fill in the schedule as teams were occupied with OMHA playoffs and unable to make firm commitments but tournament chairman Bill Chisholm says the schedule will be complete by tournament time. Because the top two divisions are limited to six teams this year, a total of 58 teams will compete. Children under 13 years of age will be ad- mitted free this year while adult weekly passes are available for $5. The pass also entitles the bearer to a chance on a VCR draw. Daily passes are available at the door for $2. Eight local teams represented the host Maitland Curling Club as the 1986 edition of the Shell Spiel was held at the curling rink Saturday. While two local rinks made to the finals of both draws rinks from Toronto and Teeswater won the draws and Dave Hawkin's rink from Teeswater became the overall winner. Hawkins defeated Bob Dempsey's rink in the final. In the above photos, Dempsey watches a rock in the house with another skip and directs a shot during play. (photos by Sharon Dietz) Final draivplanned for ladies with In -club Bonspielwin 6 to 3. Hope you are feeling better, Ron! The Industrial league standings as of Feb. 27 are as follows: Team W . L Perc. The Foresters 11 0 1.000 Viking Veterans 10 2 A.M.&G Hospital 9 3 Goderich Legion. 8 4 Port Albert Ice Cubes 7, 5 Super Shell 7 ' 5 Lady Foresters 6 5 Local 1863 6 6 'HD.C.I. Teachers No.1 6 7 uron Health Unit 5 7 Victoria and Grey 5 7 Elementary Teachers 5 7 G.D.C.I. Teachers No.2 5 8 Sifto Salt Evaporator's 3 9 G.D.C.I. Viking's 2 10 Maitland Golfers 1 11 .083 NOTE: there are three weeks to go in the regular schedule, with the first playoff game on March 27th, and the final two games on Saturday, March 29th. Turn to page 8 • The ladies ended their Second Draw last week with an exciting race for first, second and third place. Since all three lost their games, these positions did not change. First place was won by Eleanor Erskine's team of Lynn Edwards, Betty Moore and Eileen Beauchemin with a big score of 77- 1/2 points. Doreen Garrow's team of Holly Doherty; perfect last Thursdaydue to a break -down Phil Fisher and Diane Stinson narrowly won second place with a score of 65 points. of the ice machinery, the Thursday nighters Winners of third place were Faye Ribey, went ahead with theirgames, much to the Emily Crew, Donna Finnegan and Donalda chagrin of a few teams!) MacDonald with a score of 63 points. In the early draw, both GDCI Teacher The third and last draw of the , season' teams and the V & G team couldn't seem to began with some very exciting games. Faye Ribey's team fought hard to narrowly win over Emily Crew's team 7-5. Although Ann Kuran's team won 4 ends, she lost to Doreen Garrow's team 11-6. The last big event of the year is a special Ladies In -Club Bonspiel td be held Mar. 8. All ladies are welcome to participate or just come down and watch. 13 his team, as they got wompedto zip! THURSDAY NIGHT INDUSTRIAL In the other earl arne, t Rileyski Although the ice 'conditions were far from y g p- g • •;r;:?::<::•.:;;.:.<g•'•:,;;: •:.•: ,'r.:::...: •:::f?•:.� :fid.;; ;;?{::::: •:::.� •.-.; .. .. •�. ' ON THE ROCKS at the Maitland get the hang of the greasy surface, and all went down to defeat at the hands of their respective opponents. Dave Cloet's Teacher No.2 team lost to the .Hospital seam 6 to 3. And Doug MacKay struggled but gave up a six -ender to lose to The Legion Team 14 to 9. George Sutton's team of educators were taught a lesson in humility by former student Dan Durst and ped a close 5 to 3 win over the shorthanded Health unit, who missed John Orr that night! In the 9 PM draw, Jeff Harrison practised up for the upcoming bonspiel by leading his Super Shell tearh to a 10 to Twin over the Sif- to Salters. We think we better have Jeff's team scheduled to play the Hospital team every week for now on just in case the baby decides to arrive early! It could be a hog - line violation! With the high school kids all hard at the books studying for exams they brought in some ringers, skipped by Jerry Riseborough to defeat Charlie Crawford's Ice Cubes 7 to 6. Floyd Herman left his director's post at the Little Theater to come out and direct his curling cast to a close 7 to 6 win over Nancy Nephew and her Lady Golfers. In a make-up game that had been poston- ed earlier, the Lady Foresters took on the Hospital team, who had just finished play- ing at 7 o'clock. Ron Klages slipped on the greasy ice and hurt his shoulder, and the Ladies took advantage of their opponents to Clarence leads Novice Bs to 6-0 victory .833 .750 .666 .583 .583 .545 .500 .461 .416 .416 .416 .384 .250 .166 SPORTS SHORTS 07111111 The Goderich Tier II Novice B blue team got a three -goal performance from Steve Clarence and went on to defeat Exeter 6-0 in Huron -Perth League action in Goderich Saturday. The teams played through a scoreless first period but Goderich got its offence un- tracked in the second period and scored four straight goals. Clarence scored two unassisted goals just eight seconds apart and then Brandon Corriveau scored twice in two minutes to boost Goderich into a 4-0 lead heading into the final period. Goderich clinched the win scoring two goals in the final period to produce the 6-0 final score. Clarence completed ,his hat - trick scoring midway through the period and Dwayne Leddy rounded out the scor- ing with a late goal. Ryan Donnelly, Jason Campbell and John McDonald each picked up'an assist in the game. Robin Adams turned in 'a solid perfor- mance in the Goderich net and was full, value for the shutout. Novice team whips Zurich. The Goderich Novice B Orange 'Team had aneasy time of it Saturday defeating Zurich 9-1 in Huron -Perth League play here Sunday, Goderich led 3-0 after one period of play, increased its lead to 6-0 after two periods and outscored Zurich 3-1 in the final period to nrndl!ce thc i-1 victol'y. Six players shared in the Goderich goals with Mark Johnston leading the way with a four -goal performance. He scored once in the first period, added two goals in the se- cond period and then scored the final goal of the game on an unasssited effort. Brad Phelan, Bryan Currie, Ben Arm- strong, Darryl Fielder and Darnell Connel- ly.each scored one goal for Goderich in the game. Steve Bogie picked up two assists while Armstrong, Currie and Fielder were credited with one apiece. Zurich avoided being shutout with a goal after four minutes of play in the final period. Atoms lose to Belmont 5-2 0 The Goderich Machinist Atoms lost in the opening round bf'the Shamrock League Tournament Saturday, dropping a 5-2 deci- sion to Belmont in Mt. Brydges. Belmont built up a 2-0 lead after one period, increased the margin' to 4-0 after two periods and coasted to the 5-2 win. Belmont led 5-0 in the first minute of the final period before Goderich replied with two goals before the close of the game. Bill Ingham scored the first Goderich goal from Andrew McLarty and Jason Cook completed the game's scoring with an unassisted effort. The top eight teams .,competed in the A Division toaurnament. Goderich 'had better luck the week before defeating the London Jets 3-2 in an exhibition game here. The teams played through a scoreless first period and were tied 1-1 heading into the final period but Goderich outscored the Jets 2-1 in the third period to win 3-2. ' Sam Hosack scored the first Goderich goal in the second period from Jason Cook. Todd Papple° scored in the first minute of the third period to break a 1-1 tie and put Goderich in the lead after completing a play with Jeff Beange. Goderich went ahead 3-1 a minute later with Paul Wheeler scoring from Papple. London pulled within a goal at 3-2' but was unable to tie the game. Grubs take 19 Grub's Group won. convincingly over the Goderich Entertainers taking 19, out of 30 points. Tim Gerrits led Grubs with a 615 triple. Bonzai Bombers defeated Berzerko Bud- dies taking 18 points. Jeff Cox rolled a 625 triple. Sound Trek took 18 points from Huronia Hustlers on the strength of Bill Tranter's 696. On Tuesday, the league faced a challenge from Zurich. Ceres win competition Pat Stringer and Cathy McDonald com- bined for 48.5 points to take first place at a four -table Howell game at the Feb. 24 mting of the Goderich Duplicate Bridge CI b. 'the teams of Verna Worthy and Archie Harhilton and Marg Hall and John Wood tiedd for second with 48 points while Mar- tina Schneiker and Mary Donnelly were fourth with 46 points. Jane and Brian Cere were first overall with 86.5 points at the President's Cup Competition on Tuesday, Feb. 25. The average score was 70. Stringer and McDonald were second in the East-West section with 76.5 points while Nuala Conlon and Kay Duncan were third with 69.5 point's. Dawna Sproule and Eleanor Erskine topped the' North-South section with 84.5 points while Louise Hetherington and Mary Lapaine finished second with 83 points and Bill Duncan and Ralph Kingswell third with 75 points.