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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1978-11-16, Page 14c$, PAGE 14 --GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16,1978 L" ports pa Stratford eliminates Sr. girls with win BY T D The GDCI senior girls basketball team lost, 48- 35, to Stratford Ceqtral here last Thursday in sudden death semi-final Huron -Perth Conference playoffs. The Vikings, who had finished second in regular season play with a record of nine wins and one loss, had an uphill battle all the way with Central. The Stratford girls showed speed and accurate shooting and the Vikings could not penetrate their zone defence. Viking coach Donna Bonnie Reid of the ' GDCI senior girls basketball team found herself in a wrestling match with a member of the Stratford team as the two battled for a rebound in semi-final play in Goderich, Thursday. Stratford won the sudden death contest, thus • • • BY T D The GDCI junior girls basketball team was eliminated in sudden death semi-final playoff action in Stratford last Thursday, losing to Stratford Northwestern, 24-22. The Vikings,who had finished in a three-way tie for first place in the Huron -Perth Conference, with a record of nine wins and one loss, lost the home -court advantage in the playoffs by virtue of a flip of the coin. The GDCI team, Stratford Central and Northwestern had identical 9-1 records and had their only loss against one of the other two teams. Central had defeated the Vikings, GDCI had beaten Northwestern, and Northwestern had defeated Central in regular season play. The coin toss gave Central first place, Northwestern second and the Vikings third. • The Vikings played good defence and organized offence in Stratford, but had trouble putting the ball in the hole. They missed a lot of their outside shots, many layups and all 'of their foul shots. The Vikes hit on only 11 of 53 shots from the floor and missed all ten of their attempts from the free-throw line. Despite their atrocious shooting the Vikings were in the game all the way, trailing 14-42 at halftime, and missing tying the game up on a shot that went around the rim and stayed out at the final buzzer. The Vikings outrebounded Nor- thwestern on a ratio of 2:1 and ' had one-half the turnovers that Stratford had. • Tracy Jewell had eight points, tops for the Vikings. Sonja Lapaine, Barb Conlon and Teresa Kovacs each had four points and Sharon Bur. bine had two. Sue Zybura had nine points to lead Stratford. Tuesday of last week, the Vikings won their final league game, dropping Clinton 36-28. 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Central also outrebounded the GDCI girls and thereby shut off their fast break. ,T -he -V i -king s- had defeated Stratford by 10 points in the regular schedule but nothing went right for them in the playoff game and when the smoke had cleared, it was all over - for "Doidge's dirty dozen" as coach Doidge af- fectionately called them. Sixataurd Cuntial *oes on now to meet Listowel, the first place finishers, in the league finals. The Vikings had won the final game of the regular schedule last Tuesday, with a 53-12 romp over Clinton. Audrey Vanden Heuvel topped the G.D.C.I. scorers in that game with f4t"points. Heidi Elliott and Joni Thompson each had 10 points for Goderich. Karen Melady with seven, and Jenni More and Sandra Rowe with four points each were the other Viking scorers. The Vikings hit their highest shooting per - Bantams split league games BY DAVE SYKES The Goderich Lakeport Steel Bantams split a pair of WOAA league games on the weekend losing a close 3-1 game to Hanover, Saturday and downing Port Elgin 6-2, Sunday. The Bantams lost the opening two games of their schedule and recorded their first win of the campaign against Port Elgin Sunday. The Bantams played a ei1.11—SeM1411M1 strong game against • • • with four points,' Theresa Osborn with two, and Teresa Donnelly, with, one point, were the other Goderich point -getters. Judy Carter had nine points to top Clinton. Coach John Geiger although disappointed with his team's loss in the semi-finals, felt his Vikings had a fine season, and with ten of •his players returning next season, is looking for- ward to another shot at Hu-ron-Perth honours next year. Six hold first The Unlucky Six still hold 'first place° in the Foresters' Sunday Night Bowling League with 21 points, , gaining five of them with the help of John Bissett's 292 and 636 •triple. Last place Sunday Headpins took two for a total of seven, their high games rolled by Doug Fuller a 255 and 720 triple. Tied for second with 19 points, 'Hopeless took seven points with Tom Willis' 252 and Ron Bushell's 573, blanking sixth place Merry Strikers despite Wayne Swan's 235 and 590 triple. George Robinson rolled a 224 and 628 triple helping Hopefulls, tied for second, gain seven points for a total of 19. Fourth place Bloopers were shutout with Bob Rising grabbing a 249 and 637 triple. With the help of Debbie Ginn's 223 and Jack Thom's 627 triple, J.J. •-s tied for third, gained four points from fifth place Blowouts with Kevin Rumig hitting a 281 and 687 triple. Jack's Jokers, tied for third, used Glenn Lamb's 274 and 675 triple to,take seven points from seventh place Try Hards despite Sylvia Johnston's 248 and Ted Johnston's 617 triple. November 25 at 6:311p.m. against Walkerton. 03 0 0 3:. m — -Hanovor Saturday but, - despite scoring the first— . goal of the game, Hanover rallied for a 3-1 win. Paul Day opened the scoring converting a pass from linemates Colin Alexander and Denis Kerr to give Goderich a one -goal lead. Hanover tied the score one minute later and added single goals in the second and third period to record the victory. The Steelers rebounded from the loss Sunday as they built up a 3-1 first period lead tand coasted to a 6-2 win over Port Elgin. • Jim Mathers led the Goderich offence with two goals while. team- mates Dave McDonald,. Don • McCallurn, Denis Kerr and Darrell -Graham added single goals. The Lakeport Steelers play two away games this weekend, in Kincardine Saturday and Hanover Sunday. 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