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Volume 12 Issue 9
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Gf D1ERXCH S G1, AL -STAR,, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1986 --PAG
Seaforth captain accepts the C Division championship trophy
Seaforth wins C Division title '5-4, in overtime thriller
The C Diyision championship
game between Seaforth and Har-
riston provided a fitting conlcu-
sion to the 37th Young Canada
Peewee Hockey Tournament
Saturday.
The game was fast, well -
executed, featured a bit of drama
and last minute heroics and when
it was all over, Seaforth carried
home the C championship trophy
with a well-earned 5-4 win in
overtime.
The victory was the fourth
straight of the tournament for
.Seaforth. They beat Forest in
their first tournament game and
advanced with victories over
Lambeth and Palmerston in the
semi-final.
Harriston defeated Mitchell in
its first-round game and, they
beat Wingham and Parkhill to
reach the cahmpionship.
While many championships in
the tournament were decided by
lopsided scores, the final ganpe
Saturday provided some ex-
cellent hockey action -as the lead
and flow of the game changed
several times.
Seaforth led 2-1 after one period
of play but Harriston tied the
game with the only goal otthe se-
cond period. Harriston took the
lead for the first time with a goal
just 12 seconds. into the final
period but Seaforth fought back
with two goals to take a 4-3 lead
with less than two minutes re-
maining in the game.
Harriston never gave up and
after pulling their goalie for an
•extra attacker, scored the tying
goal from a scrable with just six
second remaining, in regulation
tithe.
Ray Murray scored the winn-
ing goal two minutes into over-
time after he picked up a loose
puck, skated in unmolested, dek-
ed Jason Pilkington in the Har-
riston goal and'slid the puck into
the empty net.
The goal -was the second of the
game for Murray who scored a
goal in the first period and set up
another for a three-point effort.
Team-mate Brian Cook also
scored. two goals, both of them in
the third period and was credited
with an assist on Murray's first
goal. Jason McNichol scored "the '
other Seaforth goal.
Steven McDougall, David Ross,
Dan Quigley and Greg McNevan
scored the Harriston goals.
SCORING SUMMARY
FIRST PERIOD
1.Seaforth 4:58 -Jason McNichol
2. Seaforth 5:32 -Murray from
Cook
3. Harriston • 9:38 -David Ross
unassisted.
SECOND PERIOD
4. Harriston- 7:26- Quigley from
David Ross.
THIRD PERIOD
5.Harriston :12 -McDougall from
Benninger •
6. Seaforth 9:26- Cook from Mur-
ray
7. Seaforth 13:08- Cook froin
Gemmel
8. Harriston- 14:54-McNevan'
from McDougall
OVERTIME
9. Seaforth- 2:06 -Murray
Seaforth moved on with 3-2 win
Seaforth and Plamerston
played their C division champion-
ship round semi-final game
Saturday morning with Seaforth
coming out on top of a 3-2 score.
Seaforth opened scoring after a
tight eight minutes of play which
saw the two evenly matched
teams playing up and down the
ice but not .gaining control ofthe
game.
Seaforth captain Jason Papple
put the first goal on the.
scoreboard with a good in-
dividual effort. The two teams
traded ends with the single goal
on the board, scored at 8:47.
Palmerston offense started
clicking and that gave them a two
period still to go..
Paul Douglas scored the first
Palmerston goal evening the
game up at one, ,assisted by
Richard Bowman at 2:24. At 5:23
Trent Hilpert scored the last
Palmerston goal of the game,
assisted by Brett Long.
Palmerston kept the lead they
built tip in the second forathird
of the final period until Jason
McNichol evened up the game
with Papple getting his second
point of the game.
Papple helped set up the final
goal as well, figuring in every
Seaforth score and again,
McNichol was triggerman for the
winning goal. Jeff Gemmell also
goal lead going into the third and assited on the oal in a eriod in
an upper hand with the thir?l`""`�`�"w i c'hi'SMI'f'll4�inated
the game with good fore -checking
and some fine goaltending by
Jason Patterson.
The win put Seaforth into the C
.division championship game late
that day.
Scoring Summary ,
First period:
Seaforth: Jason Papple,
unassisted at 8:47.
Second period:
Palmerston: Paul Douglas,
assisted by Richard Bowman at
2:24
Palmerston: Trent 'Hilpert,
assisted by Brett Long at 5:23
Third Period:
Seaforth: Jason McNichol,
assisted by Papple at 6:43
Seaforth: McNichol, assisted by
Papple and Jeff Gemmell