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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1987-10-07, Page 26S•.orts SECTION B GODERICH SIGNAL -STAN WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1987—PAGE 7A GDCI Junior and Senior football teams hosted Exeter Panthers Thursday. The Seniors lost 19-0 and the Juniors evened their record to 1-1 with a 38-13 win. In the top left photo, Vince Doherty tackles a Exeter runner. Top right Senior running back Wayne Nivins struggles to break a tackle. Below, Junior back, Ian Wark cuts back andleaves three Ex- eter defenders behind. (photos by Ted Spooner) GDCI football teams host Panthers Juniors even record with win BY T.D. The GDCI Vikings evened their record at 1-1 in Huron Perth Conference football play with a 38-13 victory over the Exeter Panthers here Thursday. Early in the game, the Panthers looked as though their spirited pre -game warmup routine might really mean something. They mounted an impressive drive downfield, but had to settle for a single point. From there on, however, it was all downhill for Panther power. The Vikings struck for two quick touchdowns, one by Shawn Talbot on an eight yard wingback blast, the other on a 58 yard return of a pass interception by Brian Corriveau.. Both touchdowns were capped by two point conversion plays. A reverse to Shawn Talbot and a pass to Cor- riveau both yielded two points. Exeter scored early in the second quarter on a sweep, but two more Viking touchdowns made the halftime score 30-7 for the Vikings. Ian Wark scored a touchdown that was converted by Pheng Troeung and Brian Corriveau scored on another interception, running 41 yards for the major. Each team scored a touchdown in the fourth quarter. Shawn Talbot scored on a 12 yard reverse. Mike Stegenstad took a pass from Brian Lane for another two point conversion for the Vikings. The Pan- thers scored their touchdown late in the fourth quarter. The Viking offence was much improved over its opening game performance last week when the Vikes lost 22=18 to Stratford Northwestern. Rookie tailback Ian Wark carried the ball 15 times for 122 yards and Shawn Talbot carried 12 times for 103 yards. Blocking backs Pheng Troeung and Braden Dent, along with the offensive line opened the holes for the backs. The Viking offence totalled 311 yards on 21 first downs. Defensively, Brian Corriveau was a standout with his two interceptions and touchdowns. The linebackers and corners contained the Panthers well, allowing only 11 first downs. Coaches Bill Garrow and Bruce Baker had their team well prepared for the Pan- thers and are hoping the confidence their young team will gain from their victory will lead to the intensity the Vikings will need to become contenders. Seniors .lose season opener 14-0 vs Exeter BY T.D. The GDCI Vikings lost the opening game of their Huron -Perth Conference senior football schedule here Thursday when they were shut out 14-0 by the Exeter South Huron Panthers. The game was a typical hard-hitting Viking -Panther matchup, with both teams showing good preparation and discipline. The • defensive play of, both teams was strong. Neither team was able to score in the first half. The Vikings showed a vulnerability to the short pass in the second half and the line was not able to stop the Panthers on the big plays that led to the only two touchdowns of the game. Vern Iskauskas took a four yard pass from Panther quarterback .Jerry Lamport in the third quarter for one Exeter touchdown and Trevor Ratz gathered in a 10 yard pass from Lamport in the fourth quarter for the other. Jon O'Connor kicked both converts. The Viking offence generated a total of only 81 yards, leaving coach Ray Donnelly feeling he has a lot of work to do to im- prove the blocking of his offensive line. Vikings' inside linebackers Wayne Nivins and Sean Wilson and deep defensive backs Andy Orr and Jeff.MacDonald did a good job defensively for the Vikings. The Vikings kicking and punt return teams were also effective. The Vikings travel to Stratford Thurs- day to play the Central Rams who are coming off a 26-4 victory over the Listowel Lords last week. Bulldogs windivision as slow pitch ends pions of the GMSL, Ideal Supply, by not play on our two new diamonds. Let us protesting, are the champion of cham- never forget though, that SIGNAL STAR pions. They are what other teams should DIAMOND was and is the home of the strive to become. The dynasty is over, but BY BREWSTER Well fans, after five months and several hundred games, the 1987 GMSL season has finally come to an end. Little Bowl and Dearborn Steelers have already been declared champions ,of C and B divisions. This week awaited the outcome of the "A" final series. Port Albert Bulldogs jumped into a one game lead with a 4-2 victory over Ideal Supply. Facing elimination, Ideal re- bounded with a solid 10-3 win to even the series. This set the stage for the war, a slugfest — the final encounter ! The drama and excitement of the final game quickly disappeared as the umpires failed to show and delayed the game 20 min. Fill-ins were found, even though one was a signed player of the winning team. Rumour has it that there were numerous questionable decisions. The game was called after 6 inn- ings due to darkness. The Port Albert Bulldogs won the game by a convincing 23-14 margin and ' thus become the A champs. The circumstances of the day, however, do not allow me to celebrate! How could everything go so wrong, in this, the final game of the year? It is sim- ple to answer — it was trust! A team volunteered to do something and were trusted to fulfill that promise. Our league operates on trust and dedication. Without it, we are sunk! I personally, as scheduling chairman, am at fault in this case. I had umpires all lined up but told them to forget it, because another team wanted to do it. What a mistake that was! It is enough to make me reconsider may nomination for scheduling chairman for the 88 season. Who can you trust, if not your fellow league members? What a soar note to end our, "best season ever", on! The Bulldogs won! They are an excellent team and are full credit for their win. Ideal Supply lost and had every right to protest the game. But they didn't! Ideal has been the brunt of abuse for many years now. Why? — because they are the best in this area! They cannot get into local tour- naments because they are Ideal Supply. Why we harass our best, I'll never know'— is it because we are not as good, or just plain jealous of their success? Though the Bulldogs are the new cham- I salute you, Ken and the Bears! All things said and done, I would like to thank all team reps for a super job this year. You guys make the league work. This year has been a tremendous success. Next year will be even better as we begin GMSL. We thank Rob Shrier and the Signal Star for helping us to become a dominating force in adult sports. That's it until next year! Tune in about mid April to get Brewsters picks for 1988. Catch you then! I wish you all well during the off season. Club holds quarterly competition Eleanor Erskine directed eight -table play in Quarterly Club competition at the Goderich Duplicate Bridge Club, on September 29. Bill Bradley teamed with John Donatis to score 100 points and capture first in North-South competition. Anna Godley and Verna Worth were second with 97 points, Pat Stringer and Cathy McDonald were third with 92 and Mary Donnelly and her partner, Eleanor Erskine finished fourth with 86 points. Bill Duncan and partner Ralph Kingswell won East-West play with 100.5 points and Bev and Henry Perala took se- cond with 92.5. Dawna Sproule teamed with Evelyn Galbraith to finish third with 91.5 points and Jean Papernick and Louise Hetherington were fourth with 88.5 points. Afternoon bridge begins at the Canadian Legion Hall on November 2 at 1:30 p.m. New members are welcome. Newton's Apple Ted Spooner y Don't take sports seriously When the choices are limited to laughing or crying, I prefer to laugh. The reasons for crying are obvious enough—the Blue Jays lost seven straight games and the American 1,eague East, the NFL is on strike and the Toronto Maple Leafs will soon open their season. Sports fans who live or die according to the success of their teams must realize that no amount of head bashing, wrist slashing or second guessing can possibly alter what has already happened. Okay, the Jays lost and you took out your frustrations on your '1'V. You woke up Monday morning with a terminal hangover, a broken foot and a cornpletly- destroyed $700 Sony 'I'rinitron. The time has come for a little light-headed reflec- tion on what has to be the most ridiculous sports season in history. When you include the Leafs imminent insult on the Norris Division to your thoughts, you will realize a sport is just a game and irony can be so ironic sometimes. CHEATERS NEVER PROSPER What do corked bats, coked pitchers, emery boards, rabbit balls and gloves with sandpaper options have in common? Why, baseball fun, of course. Baseball has had more than its fair share of oddities this year. Joe Neikro, who is around 40 -years -old and should know Netter, was caught with an emery board in his back pocket. The knuckle -ball pitcher claimed it was used to file his finger nails between innings. The knucklehead tried to flip the board away when the.umpires asked him to turn out his pockets and then gave his best Dennis the Menace impression as. he aw-shucked his way through an explanation. Give him a 10 -day suspension and a Cosmopolitan maturity quiz. Another pitcher had a piece 'of sand- paper taped to his glove to scuff balls. The pitchers explain that they must do anything they can to limit the number of homeruns. Some commentators claim the ball is juiced, causing more balls to exit the park. In a season where Garth Iorg can hit four dingers--two in one game—and Howard Johnson can.hit,.30, something is happening. The hitters are stronger, the pitchers are weaker and the wind doesn't blow, it sucks! As for professional athletes using co- caine, I agree with Robin Williams, "Co-., caine is God's way of saying you make t damn much money." • SCROUNGING FOR SCABS The NFL last weekend tried to pass -off CFL rejects, arena football types and USFI, has-beens as quality . football players. The owners even had the gall to charge fans full price to watch these motley crews. I watched about 10 minutes of the Rams game before I switched to the Jays game. Bernard Quarles, a former CFL. bench - warmer, was LA's starting quarterback. Poor Bernie has been cut from five dif- ferent Canadian teams, including lowly Calgary. If he is an NFL quarterback, I am the Editor of Sports Illustrated. The strike has reached the silly stage. Strikers spit on Mark Gasteneau, Kansas City players toted unloaded shotguns and fans, as expected, stayed home. If you are looking for your football fix and want to see some quality players, working hard, you might check out the GDCI Vikings. Their next home game is Oct. 22. THE LEAFS ARE FALLING The baseball season may have increased heartbeats to aerobic porportions, but the upcoming Maple Leaf season should reduce pulse rates to normal. It will be ob- vious after the third game they will not win the Stanley Cup and true to form they will be fighting for the last playoff spot with on- ly a week left in the schedule. However, they will make the playoffs and lose yawn I. There is more drama than skill in the Norris Division and I am not making any profound predictions. This season should be a repeat of last with the names changed to protect the guilty. It is important to rememoer three things to keep sports in perspective. No one will die, the sun will come up the next day and there will be another season—barring a strike, of course. Curling starts at Maitland The first week of November will be free curling at the Maitland Country Club for anyone wanting to try the sport and regular draws will begin the second week. The first week also includes. a free curling clinic. - The curling committee held a evening of dancing at the Maitland on Sept. 26. Over 80 people attended the dance that featured several spot dances. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Carey won the door prize of a basket of wine and cheese. La Brissette won the draw for a free curling membership. The committee would like to thank the companies who donated prizes.