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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1970-01-22, Page 12PAGE TWELVE ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1970 Dominions Lose Two Big Games The Zurich Dominions lost a pair of crucial games in the western grouping of the OFIA Junior D league last week, as they fell prey to the powerful Exeter Hawks an two occasions. Friday night they were beaten 5-2 in Exeter and then on Sun- day afternoon they lost a heart- breaker, 4-3 with only three seconds remaining in the game. Last night the Dominions played in Lucan in another cru- cial contest, and this Sunday they play host to the Mitchell Hawks in the local arena. EXETER 4 - ZURICH 3 After corning from behind a 2-0 deficit on Sunday afternoon, the Dominions saw Ron Janke score on a braakaway with only three seconds left to play, to give the Exeter Hawks a lucky 4-3 victory. Zurich outplayed and out -shot the Exeter squad throughout the entire game, but it seemed the breaks were not coming their way. Rick Schell scored the only goal of the first period for Ex- eter at the 5.25 mark, and this lead held up until the 18.09 marl< in the second period, when John Braid managed to beat Gary Geoffrey on a screened shot. With less than a minute left to play in the second, and four Exeter players in the penalty box, Stu Mustard rifled in a pass from John Loader and Bruce Schoenhals on a power play. A fired -up team of Dominions came out flying in the third period and after only 21 seconds had been played John Loader knotted the score at 2-2, when he rifled in Bill Stirling's pass. Less than two minutes later Mike Hoy shot Exeter into a tempor- ary 3-2 lead when he banged in a pass from Larry Laye and Bob Rowe. Their lead was short-liv- ed, however, as Stu Mustard uncorked a terrific back -hand drive into the net at the 3.23 mark to tie the game at 3-3. Both teams tried desperately to break the tie in the next 15 or 16 minutes, and Zurich held an edge on the play, but were foiled -on every attempt by the stellar netminding of John Hay- ter in the Exeter net, With a one-man advantage in the dying minutes of the game, the Dom- inions held the play in the Exeter end continually, but just couldn't beat Hayter. Then the death blow came with only three seconds left to play, as Ron Janke picked up a loose puck near centre ice and raced in on the Zurich net, to score the winning goal. Ron Corriveau made a desperate attempt to catch him, but just fell inches short of his objective. Both teams suffered heavily in the penalty end of the game, as they picked up 14 each. The Exeter total included a major and a misconduct. The largest crowd of the sea- son, well over 700, attended the hard-fought game between the two rivals. EXE TER 5 - ZURICH 2 Four unanswered goals in the second period was all the Exeter Hawks needed on Friday night on their home ice, to give them a convincing 5-2 win. Neither team managed to score in a well -played, hard skating first period. Larry Laye with two, Ron Lindenfield and Bob Rowe with one each, accounted for the Exeter scoring in their big second period rally. In the third session the Zurich crew came on strong, and scor- ed two big goals to throw a real scare into the Exeter crew, be- fore they finally added an in- surance marker with one minute left to play. John Loader sunk home aass from Bill Stirling for the first goal, and Shane McKinnon flipped in John McKin ley's pass for the other. As in the Sunday game, John Hayter in the Exeter net, foiled the Zurich scoring attack on many occasions. A total of 24 penalties were handed out in the game, with 16 of them being called against Zurich by two referees wlio were referred to as homers by most Zurich fans. Included in the Zurich total were a major misconduct and a ten-minute misconduct penalty. A hectic battle for second, third and fourth positions in the western grouping of the OHA Junior D league is currently under way, with Lucan, Zurich and Belmont all fighting des- perately for second spot. As of Monday evening, Exeter was still solidly located -in first place in the six -team grouping, while Lucan has taken over second spot from the Zurich Dominions, who are two points behind the Irish. Belmont is currently in fourth place, only one point behind the Dominions. Both Mitchell and Lambeth are well behind the top four, and would seem to need a mir- acle to make the playoffs. Lucan has played one game more than both Zurich and Bel - HOCKEY IN THE ZURICH ARENA FRIDAY, JANUARY 23 — 8:30 p.m. W.O.A.A : Intermediate ]®ASHWOOD BEARS vs ZURICH FLYERS SUNDAY, JANUARY 25 — 2 p.m. O.H.A. Junior D'' MITCHELL HAWKS vs ZURICH DOMINIONS This space provided through the courtesy of Dominion Hotel Your Hoots: Marg and Ross Johnston ZURICH nzont, and last night the Dom- inions played in Lucan in a crucial tilt, By the end of this week the three teams could quite easily be in different positions in their current strug- gle for second place. As of Monday night Zurich had lost one game less than both Lucan and Belmont. 0 JUNIOR STANDINGS W L T PTS Exeter 16 3 1 33 Lucan 12 8 1 25 Zurich 10 7 3 23 Belmont 10 8 2 22 Mitchell 5 15 0 10 Lambeth 4 16 1 9 Zurich Kings and Hensall Tie in Rec League Play; Hornets Win (by Doug Turkheim) Z. HORNETS 7 - BLUEWATER 2 Last Thursday night the Zurich Hornets downed the Bluewater team, 7-2 Hornet goals were scored by Eric Smale and Don Hesse who each scored a hat- trick. Phil Overholt scored the extra cou- nter. The two Bluewater goals were scored by Dave Durand. Zurich scored twice in the first and three in the second. They added two more in the last stanza. Bluewater scored one in the first and second. Zurich drew two penalties and Bluewater one. Z, KINGS 8 - HENSALL 8 In the' second game that same night the Kings and Hen- sall fought to an 8-8 tie. The Kings goals were scored by Paul Corriveau with four big goals. Don O'Brien; was next with two and Richard Thiel, Gord IIay and Isidore Laporte all scored once. Charlie Schwalm and Grant McClinchey scored two each for Hensall. Four singles went to Charlie Dalyrmple, Rick Parker, harry Moir and Pat O'Brien. Each team scored five goals in the first period and three goals in the last stanza. 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