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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1978-11-09, Page 13PAGE 12-QDERICl SIGNAL -STAR, TPRIRSD.Y, NOVEMBER 9 , 1978 GDCI senior Vikings running back Stuart Crew (26) hurdles over an Exeter linebacker as team-mate Eric Mitchell finishes a block to spring him loose in semi-final action Tuesday. Crew, who took over running duties from Randy Little, scored two touchdowns to help the Vikings to a 66-0 win over Exeter. The win moved the Vikings into the championship final against Stratford Central Saturday. Game time is 2:30 p.m. at GDCI. (photo by Dave Sykes) • BYTD The GDCI Senior Vikings, seemingly an unstoppable juggernaut in Huron -Perth Con- ference football this season, continued to roll on toward the league title with a crushing , 66-0 victory over the Exeter South Huron Panthers in 'semi-final playoff action here Tuesday. The victory puts the Vikings into the cham- pionship game here this Saturday against Stratford Central. Stratford defeated Listowel in the other semi-final. The cham- pionship game will be the second half of 'the junior senior doubleheader with the junior game first at 12:30 •p.m. The senior contest should get un- derway at approximately 2:30 p.m. Tuesday's game was played under ideal conditions which allowed the Vikings to do what they do best - execute with precision. • They amassed32 .points in -the first half while shutting tacular catch on a 35 yard . pass from Jon Barz on the last play off the half for another. Picking up where he left off, the fleet -footed MacKenzie ran back •the opening kickoff of the second quarter 70 yards for another Viking major. MacKenzie's final touch- down was on a 45 yard pass and run play from Barz in the last quarter. Rookie running back Stuart Crew ran ef- fectively for two other, Viking • touchdowns on sweeps of 20 yards and 11 yards. Other Viking points came on a 40 yard field goal .kicked tly. Eric Mitchell, five converts kicked by Mitchell, one two-point convert pass caught by Dennis Don- nelly and a two point safety touch conceded by the Panthers. Eric Mitchell had an outstanding game at his defensive tackle spot, in leading an aggressive defensive crew of Vikings. Coach Ray Donnelly's kick -return down Exeter's attack to a team did an outstanding virtual standstill. • job of setting up the Dennis Donnelly scored blocking for some long two first-half majors on returns by MacKenzie short yardage runs of and Mark Frayne. three yards . and five Coach Donnelly and his yards. Randy Little went assistant George Young "'1—,. „_ _ 11. yards _o• n_a sweepfor oi.311_elte4y .:. i?.n,4 .j., the Vtk`f `gs first toniht steori1y improving down. passing game of their number one quarterback, Jon Barz. The Vikings lacked this phase of the game at the beginning -of the season, but now Barz has devloped into a reliable passer to add a i final new dimension to the Vikings attack. The efficiency of the Vikings play had a telling effect on the attitude of the usually competitive Panthers. Beaten 62-0 last week - in the final game of the regular schedule by the Vikings, the Panthers made an early attempt to make a game of it this time, but as the game wore on, coach Ron Bogart'.s team lapsed into confusion and apathy and was a soundly b ten team in the later stages of the game. The Vikings Eric Mitchell and Chris Wood sustained injuries which left them in the doubtful. category for Saturday's final, The Stratford Central Rams, who will meet the Vikings in the finals Saturday, got there by virtue off their 18-8 victory over the Listowel Lords in the other semi-final playoff game Tuesday. That game was played in Stratford. r. girds in second place Gate split backwards, but still a .losing arrangement A story published in last. week's Signal Star concerning the gate receipt split between the Goderich Sailors and the town's recreation board reversed the portion of receipt 'received by each party. The story gave 70 percent of the gate to the rec board and 30 percent to the Sailors. The rec board policy gives 70 percent of the gate to the Sailors and 30 percent to the town. The policy also demands that the Sailors Brie MacKenzie of the Goderich Garb and Gear Gee Gees is airborne as he sank this shot for two points in a Lakeshore Intermediate Basketball league game against Kincardine -Friday. MaeRenzle's last minute basket helped Goderich to a 60-57 win in their league opener. Al Sygrove led Goderich scorers with 16 points. (photo by Dave Sykes) be .prepared, to pay a $100 minimum as a flat fee to cover ice time used by the club for practice and games. The minimum charge is designed to insure the town is paid for ice time in the event that 30 percent of the gate receipts do not amount to enough to pay for ice. The Sailors, through manager John Doherty, requested that the $100 minimum be removed and that the gate split be 60 percent to the Sailors and 40 percent to the town. Doherty argued that no other hockey team using the Goderich arena works under the policy the Sailors must and -that the Intermediate C club be given a fair shake. Arena manager Chuck Jewell reported that the Sailor game on October 27, the ,club's home opener, is a good example of why the town added the $100 minimum to the gate split policy. Jewell said that the town would have received $45.15 or 30 percent of the gate for the four and. a half hours of ice time used by the Sailors during the week. He said that figure was arrived at after the arena had paid expenses of $10 for the ticket girl and $49 for referees hired to officiate the game. Jewell said the Sailors are given a break on the hourly rate for ice time and are charged $20 an hour. He said they should .be .charged $25 an hour under present rates charged by the Goderich rec board. He said at the $20 an hour rate the bill for ice time would have been $90 and without the $100 minimum the town would have- received $45.15. Jewell added that the $1,500 loss reported by rec board members at the board's last meeting was a little high. He said the, arena lost about $1,100 last season on the Sailors. Bridge Mary Donnelly and Eleanor. Erskine com- bined for a point total of 98% to top competition in the North-South section of play at the Nov. 7 meeting of the Goderich Bridge Club. There were eight tables in play. Evelyn Galbraith and Dawna Sproule were second with 94 points and Bill Duncan and Joe Martin were third with 88% points. Auleen Curry and Jean Papernick took East- West honors 'with 103% points while Barb Howe and Marian Lane were second with 92. Ron Menzies and R Bill Riseborough were third with 901/2 points. Last minute basket lifts Gee Gees to win A last minute basket by Brian MacKenzie gave Goderich Garb and Gear Gee Gees a hard earned 60-57 victory over. Port Elgin. The Win marked the first appearance of the Gee Gees in the Lakeshore.' Intermediate Basketball League. MacKenzie's. driving basket with under one minute remaining in the game moved the Double G's into a"M 58-57. read. Secondsh iatey J'o Jo Watt sank two free throws to cap the victory. • The Gee Gees were led in scoring by Al Sygrove with 16 points and Warren Watt and Brian MacKenzie with 13 each. Jo Jo Watt and Greg Beacom added 7 points apiece while Jeff Baechler and Phil Bugler each added two points. Next league action pits - Garb and Gear against Port Elgin on Thursday, November 9 in an. "away" game. Dave MacKenzie continued his offensive wizardry, scoring four touchdowns. He ran back a 65 yard punt return in thesecond quarter for one and made a spec - BYTD The GDCI junior girls basketball team took firm hold 'of second -place in the Huron -Perth Conference standings with a 28-25 win over Listowel ` here last Tuesday. The victory gave coach John Geiger's Vikings a record of eight wins and one loss going into the final week, of the' Vikings played their final league game in Clinton against Central Huron. Today (Thursday) they play here in semi-final playoff action. The game with way. The Vikings held a 14-13 edge at half-time, but had been trailing by a score of 9-4 in the first quarter. Good "p`assing and hustle put the Vikings back in the game. Barb Conlon, who scored six points, Robin MacDonald, who had four, and Mona Gleason, who also had four points, sparked the Viking cbmetaG ""•"Sona` apaine was fhe'" Vikings' scoring leader, with 10 points. Sharon Burbine and Tracy Jewell each had two points for Goderich. Diane Rathwell led Listowel ' with 'seven Listowel was close all the points. GDCI junior Viking running back Larry Madge (30) turned the corner on this sweep and scored on an 11 yard play in semi-final action against Listowel Tuesday. Madge scored two touchdowns on the day to lead the'Vikings to a 40-0 win and a berth in the champoinship final against Exeter. The championship game will be played at GDCI Saturday at 12:30 p.m. In their only meeting, this year Goderich defeated Exeter 20-9. (photo by Dave Sykes) r. Vikes play Exeter in final BYTD The GDCI junior Vikings advanced to the Huron -Perth Confdrence football finals with a 40-0 sudden -death semi-final victory over the Listowel Lords here Tuesday. The Vikings ' will meet the Exeter Panthers, win- ners of the other- semi- final here Saturday at the GDCI campus in the Conference final, beginning at 12:30 p.m. • The Vikings put on an impressive offensive and defensive display against Listowel, running up a total offensive output of 446 yards, while holding the Lords to 101 yards and only five first downs. By contrast, the •• Vikings controlled the ball, running 57 plays, com- pared to Listowel's 29, and picked up 17 first downs. The Viking of-' fence movedthe ball an average of just under eight yards per play, according to team statistician Tim Howe. . Halfback Larry Madge scored the game's first touchdown on a six yard dive in the opening quarter. The scoring play. came after a Listowel punt Was blocked by kick MacDonald and Steve Frayne. .- ._ On the last play of the quarter, quarterback Steve Gallow Went over from the four yard line on a keeper play for . the Vikings' second„ touch= down. The Lords mounted . a successful goal -line stand to hold the Vikings off as they threatened again early in the second quarter, but then the Lords were forced to concede a two-point safety 'touch' to the Vikings when they were unable to move the ball offensively. Larry Madge 'went 51 yards for his second touchdown of the game on a play that broke through the middle of the Lord's line. Larry Boyce kicked the convert to give the Vilcings a 21-0 half-time lead. In the third quarter, the Vikings put together a scoring drive after Boyce ran a fakekick for a first down, and the Vikings Dave McDonald recovered a fumble following a Viking punt on the next series. Mike Wedlock ran 20 yards on a n sweep to finish off the drive. Boyce kicked the convert. In the fourth quarter the Vikings had first and goal to go following a long pass from Gallow. to Doug Alexaii4er, but Listowel held. On the next series of downs by Listowel, Joe Trebish recovered a Lord's fumble setting up a 15 yard touchdown pass from Gallow to Brian Shewfelt. A 32 yard run by Wedlock set up the final Viking touchdown which, came on a five yard reverse by Willie Denomme. Wedlock was the Vikings leading ' rusher with 130 yards. Madge carried for a total of 109 yards. Coaches Bruce Baker and Bill Garrow were pleased with the fact that the Vikings had no tur- novers and also that their passing attack began to take shape. Quarterbacks Steve Gallow and Dave MacDonald completed seven of nine. passes for a net gain of 126 yards. The coaching staff of the Vikings were able to use everyone and try several new plays which may come in handy . in the finals Saturday. Defensively, the Vikes `got strong games- from Rick Muck and Steve Walters. Chris Pitre had a pass interception to his credit. The junior Vikings opponents Saturday, the South Huron Panthers, advanced to the final by defeating the Stratford Northwestern Huskies,, 21-6,