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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1977-02-24, Page 7BY TD . ,,, • , The GDCJ Jaistar*14 basketball ,leint '0080$/ed4 close 83-52., 4.1)014004 to. StratfordCen Perth Conference "c , last Thursday. The Vikingslell 22-7 score in the first -gairte4 and although they came back to play well defensively after that, the Yikingt were unable to catch up to the fine shooting 'junior Ramblers. Rick Erb, with 18 points, and 'Torn Sherrie, with 13, were the top point -getters for Stratford. Dennis Donnelly, who had game -high total of 28 points, played an outstanding game • hird nb 11 [e Beacom .of the senior Vikings grabs a rebound in front of a Stratford Central der in a game last Thursday. The Vikings won their eighth straight game to claim possession of first place in the Huron -Perth standings. (staff photo) both offensively and defen- sively'for the Vikings. Mark Alexander 'had eight Viking points while Don Bogie and Andy Moore added five each. Tom Doherty and Eric Mitchell rgurided off the Viking scoring with three points each. r The GDClsquad has a busy week, having played in Listowel Tuesday, and travelling to Stratford to play Northwestern today (Thursday) to complete their regular schedule. The Vikings held a record- of six wins and two losses going into this week's action. The junior Vikings played two exhibition games in Owen Sound Friday defeating West Hill Collegiate•554i.hi a Que contest, and edging.. Owen. Sound - Collegiate' 88-6 7 in what - became a . 'genie strategy And self-discipline in the dying seconds. ,Eric Mitchell was the Vikings leading scorer against West Hill with -14 points. , Dennis Donnelly had 18 points, and Andy Moore 13, while Don Bogie, Eric Mit chell and Mark Alexander each had 12 in the game with OSCVI. The Vikings, leading, by three points In the lastIeW ^ seconds, avoided committing a foul which could have led to a three point play and sent the game, into overtime. ,..tets drop .s00011.10, • gott*".----10 Stratford BY TD The GDCI midget boys basketball team lost -their second game of the season here Thursday when they dropped a 55-45 decision to enior Vikings break five year sing streak with Stratford , BY TD GDCI Senior Vikings their eighth straight in Huron -Perth Con- e boy's basketball here day, defeating the usly unbeaten Strat- ntral Ramblers, 52-39. Vikings led 25-14 at the a game which proved ey,rank as perhaps the enior boy's team to represent GM' in recent history. This was the first time the Vikings have defeated the always -tough Central team in five years of regular season and playoff action. Playing superb defence, and employing an effective fast break, , the Vikings were full value for the win. Jain Lambert, who exhibited dedication and leadership throughout the game, topped the Vikings. with 17 points. Greg Beaconl threw in 15. Jeff Baechler and. Dave MacKenzie each had nine while Perry Teichert added two points. Dan Fischer was tbe best Rambler with 14 points. The Vikings complete the regular schedule this week, having played in Listowel Tuesday and travelling to Stratford today (Thursday) to play the North-western Huskies.. In exhibition play in Owen Sound on Friday, the Vikings split a pair of games, beating West Hill 66-62, but losing to OSCVI by ten points, 65-55. That game was tied 25-25 at half time. game•with. Port Elgin • Suncoast Suns Atoms eet Port Elgin Satur- 6 p.m. in the third and g game of their best of Atom 'BB' sethi-final series. game, to be played at . will determine Ann goes on to the 'Onship, final series •e winner of the ethilinal series het- alkerton and 8:took the lead in ':Serjes here last with a 3-1 win over but the Port men A:44 win Sunday to les to the deciding game. Port Elgin scored first Saturday when Vaughn MacDonald beat Randy Gaynor in the Sun's net at the three minute Mark of the first period. The Suns came back with two goals in the second period off the sticks of Grant Garrow and Daryl Madge. •Madge also got the insurance goal on a powerplay, at 7:31 of the third period, assisted by John Thompson. • On. Sunday at Port Elgin, the .Suns came out flat in the first period and Port Elgin scored twice in the first three minutes of the, game. Mike Chennette was the marksman BY TD GDCI wrestling season an end last week with SSA competitions held and Saturday in .Viking mat men took the WOSSA events, ur of these: Wrestlers in the.top ten of their dlvision Jeffery 4was . third in pegnd class arid Dive Was third in the 168 *Ion. Dwight Isaac th in thel3d4Uund. tile Sig ShaWfait .had•S th. place finish the d, r.wiestlerricer4ftthigz.•' WOSSA level wereShewfeLt and Bob in the 90 pound class. itTigert at 106.0 ' ••••"; dual meet held Y , in .,,Exeter, tea*. losi.,,144t,<X,0 Stnith Hitrori", *hit VIOLJeffery, C its a tic and alt won, by pinning 4traftaii dOtet4dtv • )' • los • Tigert and Steve Palmer were pinned by Exeter wrestlers. Coaches of the GDCI wrestling team this season were Ray Donnelly and Bob Dick. '14 on both the goals, assisted by Bob. Carr and Vaughn MacDonald. Port Elgin scored their final goal near the end of the first period when Ashley Cook scored on a pass from Rob Bender. The Suns got untracked in the second period and started carrying the play to Port Elgin, scoring twice. John Thompson and Daryl Madge - were the Sun's goal -getters. Assists went to Todd Graham and defenceman David Day. Although the Suns con- trolled the play in much of the third period they were unable to get the equalizer past Bob Armstrong in e Port Elgin goal. Ter ean, returning • from a b ut with the flu, gave a s performance in the Sun's net, shutting out Port Elgin over the last two periods. - , The Suns finished second in the regular schedule with 22 points in 19 games. Port Elgin finished fourth with 17 points in 19 games. In the four meetings between the two teams during the regular season, each team won twice, once at home, and once away. The Suns victories were by 7-3 and 5-0 scores while Port Elgin won 5-1 and 3-1. Sun's coach Richard Madge rates Saturday's game as a toss-up, and feels that the team that wants it most w,ill probably win. "When two teams are so evenly matched, in a series such as this, desire is usually what decides it," said the Sun's coach. Saturday's game will tell the tale. The Atom game will be one of four playoff games at Vanastra Saturday evening. At 5 p.m. the Graham Electric Novices begin a best of three series against Listowel. Following the,Atom game, the Lakeport Steelers begin their quarter- final OMHA playoff series with .Glanbrook and in the final game of the evening the Signal -Star Juveniles play Byron in the fourth game of their best of five OMHA series. Byron ,leads that series two games to one. Stratford Central. The Vikings led 30-25 at halftime, but a bad third quarter, in which they lost their momentum, cost them the game. Steve Arbour had a game -high total of 29 points for the -Vikings. Dan Maillet had five and Joe Moore hooped four for GDCI. Larry Madge, Gil Vandenheuval and Steve Gallow had two points each for coach Lynn Meyers squad. pave Leeming, with 18 points topped Stratford 241 Central. Rob Eybergen had 13 and Kevin O'Donovan 10 for the winners. The Vikings, who have won six times against their two losses, wind up their season this week. Tueglay, they played in Listowel and they travel to Stratford today (Thursday) to meet Nor- th wes tern. Tomorrow, (Friday) the Vikings will be competing in the Huron -Perth • championship tournament which is being held here in the GDCI gymnasia. LEISURE WORLD SUNCOAST MALL GodorIch FOR BUXTON DIONITE BILLFOLDS& PURSES • AND ACCESSORIES • LUGGAGE AND BRIEF CASES LA -MARQUISE• HANDBAGs • . , Otte Greg Beacom of the GDCI senior Viking's loses a battle for a rebound in a game against Stratford Central last Thursday. Goderich won the game 52-39 to remain in first place. 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