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The Wingham Advance Times, 1995-11-08, Page 6THE•WINCHAM ADVMICE-TIMES SPORTS SHORTS iii fti wr" Lancers defeat Harvesters WEDNESpAY NOVEMBER 8,1995 Lucknow Lancers scored a 7- 4 decision over the Grand Val- ley Harvesters Saturday evening in Grand Valley. The Lancers took a 2-1 lead in the first period and were in front by 5-3 count after 40 min- utes of play of the WOAA Sen- ior 'B' contest. Chris Stevenson had two goals and one assist for the Lancers with Brad Priestapnget- ting a goal and two assists. Brad Murray picked up three assists. Dale Priestap collected one goal and one assist with single makers fired by Steve Michie, Stan Kikkert, and Dan Cullerier. Greg Bratton scored a pair of goals for the Harvesters with single goals being tallied by Jeff Detta and Scott Bakwill. In other weekend Senior 'B' play, the Dundalk Flyers defeat- ed the Teeswater Falcons 7-1. The Flyers led 3-0 after the first period and 5-1 after 40 minutes of play. Troy Fischer was the lone goal getter for the Falcons. The Lancers host the Harvest- ers on Friday, beginning at 8:45 p.m, at the Lucknow and Dis- trict Sports Complex, and then host the Teeswater Falcons on Sunday, beginning at 3:30 p.m. The Falcons host the Mildmay Monarchs on Friday, beginning at 9 p.m. in the Teeswater,-: Culross Memorial Community Centre. oGr ert1x runs t, 15th oft, ®F.��� Junior Este s first in 11 The Madill Mustangs junior boys volleyball team kept its per- fect record intact in Huron County league play, last Tuesday, by sweeping Goderich Vikings and the Seaforth Golden Bears. Against the Vikings, the junior Mustangs were forced to come from behind to keep their perfect record intact. Coach Audrey Bos said that sometimes the players lose their concentration on the game, but they do manage to come back and pull out the win. The .coach said there are some teams, like Seaforth, the junior Mustangs take too lightly, and end up having trouble with that team. She said' they are working on not taking any team lightly. The junior Mustangs are 18-0 in league play, after posting six more wins last Tuesday. Coach Bos said that • after prov- ing they could play in the big games during a tournament in Walkerton, more first-year players were given more playing time dur: 'ing the two matches. She added that they are still improving.• The junior Mustangs got past Sjaan Gerth of . F.E. Madill Secondary School in Wingham ran to a 15th place finish in the midget boys race of the OFSAA cross-country championships held in London on Saturday. Gerth ran the 5 -km course in 17:40 minutes. Jamie Good fin- ished in 21st place with a time of 17:48. There was a total of 260 run- ners in the midget boys race. Crusaders fall 7.6 to Palmerston The Brussels Crusaders took a 3-0 lead in the first period of their WOAA Senior 'A' Hockey League against the Palmerston 81s Friday evening, but ended up losing 7-6. The teams were deadlocked at 4-4 going into the final peri- od. The ,81s outscored Brussels 3-2 in the third period to claim the win. Brian Campbell scored three goals for the Crusaders. Rick Boone had a goal and one assist with single markers being tal- lied by Dan Aikey and Ron Strome, Greg Mulvey and Brent Van Den Akker picked up two assists apiece with single help- ers being received by Dean Wheeler, Tom McDoald, and Cory McKee. Lawrence Miller netted two goals for Palmerston with single markers added by Don Leslie, Jamie Williams, Steve MacDon- ald, Ian Brotherstin, and Todd Wilkie. The Crusaders travel to Gode- rich on Friday for a 9 p.m. con- test against the Pirates and then host the Ripley Wolves on Sat- urday at 7:30 p.m. at the Brus- sels -Morris -Grey Community Centre. • Sett'ng...Madill's Matt Smith sets the bali as Patrick No- lan (5) watches the play during junior high school boys volley- ball league play last Tuesday against Seaforth. The junior Mustangs won all three games. GreyBruce Curling Lea The Murray McKague four- some of Wingham moved into sixth spot of the Division 'C' Al- gonquin Special Reserve third event of the Grey -Bruce Major League Curling following a 6-4 decision over the Jim Trelford rink e of the Bluewater Club in the sev- enth draw. Roy McCarthy of Wiarton and Brian Scott of Allenford remain tied for top spot with 51 points. McCarthy edged past Gary Please see McKAGUE/7 Goderich 15-4 in the first game, and then struggled in the next two, but posted 15-I2 and 15-11 wins. Against the Golden Bears, Ma- dill won 15-9, 15-7 and 15-5. The senior Mustangs were not as fortunate as the junior squad, but coach Barry Simpson is still confident of qualifying for the Hu- ron-Perth uron Perth tournament which will be held in Mitchell on Thursday. He said his players never seem to play well on Tuesdays: "It seems to take them a long time to get going on Tuesdays," he said. "They can play better, and they have played better." The senior Mustangs struggled against Goderich, losing the first game 15-3. They fell 9-15 in the second game and came close in the final game, losing 12-15. Against the Golden Bears, the Madill seniors were close in the first two games, losing both by a 15-12 margin, before finally pull- ing out .the win in the third game by posting a 15-8 victory. In play at South Huron in Exeter on Thursday, the senior Mustangs started off slow as they fell to the host Panthers 15-0 and 15-1 before rebounding for a 15-6 win is the third game. Against the Central Huron Red- men iedmen of Clinton, Madill won the first two games, 15-11 and 1'5-9 before dropping the third game 15-7... The senior Mustangs finished the Huron County season in third place behind Goderich and ,South Huron to qualify for the Huron - Perth championship, being played Thursday at the Mitchell District Secondary School. The junior Mustangs were handed their first loss of the sea- son against South Huron, in league play, but still won five of the six games. Against the Panthers, the junior Mustangs won the first game 15- 12, lost the second game 5-15, and won the third game 15-12. Madill swept Central Huron 15-12, 15-1'2, and 15-9. The junior Mustangs finished the season with a league record of 23-1 to take first place. The Huron Perth junior championships will be played Thursday at the Upper Thames Elementary School in Mitchell. hoopsters undefeated after games The Madill Mustangs junior girls basketball team ran their Hu- ron County unbeaten streak to sev- en games last Monday afternoon by defeating the Central Huron Redmen at, the Wingham high' school gymnasium. The senior Mustangs posted their second win of the season and the midget Mustangs came up with a strong effort, but again end- ed up short. Andrea Hiller hooped 15 points for the junior Mustangs as they scored a 44-22 decision over the Clinton juniors. Paula Kwan contributed six points to the win with Joanne Huber and Kathyrn Alton hitting for six points apiece. Angela . Huber collected 11 points in the senior contest as Ma- dill scored a 46-35decision over Central Huron. The senior Mus- tangs improved their league record to 2-5. Melissa Evers, Mary Lisle and Celina Stewart had six points apiece for the senior Mustangs. Chrissy Kerr had eight points for the midget Mustangs as they fell 26-29 to the Central Huron squad. The Mustangs conclude the reg- ular season today (Wednesday, Nov. 8) by hosting the South Hu- ron Panthers from Exeter, begin- ning at 2 p.m. The midget championships will be played tomorrow at St. Anne's in Clinton. The Huron County semi-finals will be played. Friday with the two winners meeting in the championship next Wednes- day. Bantam Bspost two weekend Wingham Bantam Bs posted a Chris Roberts was in goal for Norm Walker, Keith Hill, and pair of wins on the weekend. Wingham and Tim Buckley was in Ryan Featherstone. Playing at. the Lockridge Me- net fordMinto. Curtis Ritchie and Roberts morial Arena on Sunday, the Ban- Scott Inwood and Stapleton' shared goaltendingchores for tam Bs doubled up Minto 4-2. • fired two goals apiece Saturday as Wingham with Jason Pooley and Getting the goals for Wingham the Bantam Bs defeated St. Marys Jeremy Gill splitting the netmind- were Steve McPartlin, Matt Merk- 8-3 in an exhibition contest played ing duties for St. Marys. ley, Wes Stapleton, and Chris in Monkton. Cameron.Single markers were added by The next game for the Bantam Jamie McCallum, Cameron, Jeff Bs is Sunday at 8 p.m. against Brian Benning and Adam Gani- Leitch, and Merkley. Mount Forest at the Lockridge Scoring for Si Marys were Memorial Arena. er replied for Minto. Michiganian Eric Sikkenga enjoys playing for Ironmen By JIM BROWN The Advance -Times easily be called up by the Cy- injuries or suspensions. playing for the Ironmen he could clones if they ran into a series of The Wingham Ironmen have en- joyed a tremendous start to the 1995-96 Western Junior 'C' Hock- ey League season. Head coach Bill Brown and as- sistant coach Doug Neil have suc- cessfully blended the rookies in , with the experienced players to give the Ironmen a well-balanced, hard -skating team. One of the first-year players on the club, who has fit in well with the Ironmen, is 18 -year-old Eric Sikkenga from Muskegon, Michi- gan. The son of Paul and Sharon Sik- kenga, played most of his minor • hockey in his home town. Howev- er, he travelled to Kalamazoo, Michigan to play 'AAA' midget hockey. At the beginning of the season in Kalamazoo, he was a fourth line player, but by mid- season season he had worked his way up to the first lite and the power play. It was while playing in Kalama-. zoo last year, that he was.sectjted , by the Listowel Cyclones of the Midwestern Junior '8' Hockey League. "They (the Cyclones) invited me to their tryouts," said Sikken- ga. "I did pretty well. I was the last cut." Because of the lronmen's affili- ation with the Cyirlones, Sikkenga trained with the Ironmen and made the roster. He said that by Sikkenga said that the training camp was faster than he had antic- ipated. He added that even the Junior 'C' is faster than he expect- ed it to be. He said there is more physical play than he had antici- pated. While growing up in western Michigan, his favorite NHL team was, of all things, the Vancouver Canucks. However, he added that he really didn't have a favorite player. I look at myself as a blue col- lar player," said Sikkenga. " I am not a Wayne Gretzky-type player." At five -feet, 1l -inches tall and ,170 pounds, Sikkenga does con- sider himself a scrapper, however he added that he won't back down from anyone during a game. "I just like doing my job (on the ice) and hope that I can be in the right place at the right time," he said. While getting along with his teammates is important, Sikkenga said the other players on the team have accepted him. He noted that he gets along great with his line - mates — Kyle Wheeler and Jason Becker on the ice. He added that he is also getting as much ice time as he had antici- pated when he joined the Ironmen. As well as seeing regular duty on his line, he has also played on the power play. However, he has not- ed worked on the penalty killing unit. Eric Sikkenga...of the Wingham Ironmen has given the Junior 'C' team international flavor, as he hails from Muske- gon, Michigan. Going into last weekends games, Sikkenga had nine goals and six assists, putting him among the leading point getters on the team. "I've had a really good , start," he said. "I am quite happy with my start." Sikkenga said that hockey, is a much faster game in Canada than it is in the United States. He added that there is more 'clutch ,and grab' in the United States than there is Canada. "There is more use of the stick in the United States," he said. Sikkenga boards with the Bill McGrath family, and helps out at the Flower Nook by doing deliver- ies. Right now he is enjoying him- self by playing hockey with the Ir- onmen. He noted that the weather in Wingham is quite similar to the weather in western Michigan. However, right now there is too much rain here, and besides he'd rather have snow. "It is a little warmer in Muske- gon, during the winter, because of the lake effect," he said. Sikkenga will be going home for nine days in early December when the Ironmen have a 1 2 -day break in the schedule. However, he won't be able to go home for the American Thanksgiving or for Christmas because with only two days, ir would not be worth the eigitur drive. 0