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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1970-03-12, Page 16PAGE SIXTEEN ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1970 Dominions Win Series in Eight Games; Meet Exeter Hawks For Group Champion With Gary Geoffrey coming up with an outstanding pperform- .nee in goal, the Zurich Dom- inions on Monday night won their semi-final series in the western grouping of the OHA Junior D League, beating Bel- mont Sunsets 3-1 in the eighth game. The seventh game of the series in Belmont on Sun- day night ended in a 4-4 over- time tie, so a sudden -death game was ordered played on neutral ice, at Centralia In- dustrial Park. The Dominions came from behind last Wednesday night in Zurich in the sixth game of the series, beating Belmont 6-3, and forcing a seventh game on Sunday night. By virtue of their winning the semi-final series, the Zurich team will now meet league - leading Exeter Hawks in a best- of- seven series for the group title and the right to advance into all -Ontario playdowns. The first game of this series was played last night in Exeter, while the second game is sch- eduled for Friday night in the Zurich Arena. Third game in the series will be played in Exeter on Sunday afternoon, and the fourth is back in Zurich next Tuesday night. ZURICH 3 - BELMONT 1 A sizzling slap -shot by Bill Taylor at the .43 second mark of the first period completely fooled Bob Bishop in the Bel- mont net, and seemed to supply the fire a short-handed Zurich crew needed to go on and win the eighth game of the series on Monday night. Less than three minutes later Kevin Mc- Kinnon banged in a pass from captain Ron Coriiveau, to give the Dominions an early 2'- 0 lead. Despite many close calls, neither team managed to score for the rest of the period. At the 4.45 mark of the sec- ond period Aubrey Bedard scored on a pass from Bruce Schoenhals, to give Zurich what looked like a comfortable lead. Throughout the balance of the middle stanza both teams tried desperately to score but the both goal -tenders came up with sparkling perform- ances. In the third period Belmont • came out flying, and forced the play into the Zurich end mon of the time. Finally, at the 6.25 mark Ed Landon slapped a loose puck by Geoffrey to give the Sunsets new life. For the balance of the game, it was simply a case of Belmont trying desperately to score and Geo- ffrey hand- cuffing them every ®. r� rjx :�mJ time. With two minutes left in the game Belmont pulled their goalie in favour of an extra attacker, and still Geoffrey turned them aside. Only 14 minor penalties, and one misconduct, were handed out in the game, with each team drawing seven. The mis- conduct went to Belmont. Zurich played without the ser- vices of centre John Loader, who was out with a pulled muscle in his knee, and Ron Henry, who is nursing a bad gash in his hand. To make matters still worse, Bob Langille was forced to leave the game early in the first period with an ankle injury. Along with all these problems Stu Mustard was suffering from a bad bruise to his forehead from the night before, which took seven or eight stitches to mend. A crowd, estimated at close to 900, were on hand for the game. BELMONT 4 - ZURICH 4 Playing before a packed house in Belmont on Sunday night, the same two teams battled to a 4-4 overtime tie, in which neither could come up with a goal. Following the tie in the seventh game of the series, the OHA ordered a sudden -death game to be played the following night, on neutral ice. Apparently Centralia was the only arena available. Kevin McKinnon gave Zurich a 1-0 lead at the 2.10 mark in the first period, and then at 12.55 John Wiltsie scored for Belmont to even things up at 1-1. At the 2.00 minute mark of the second period Bill Taylor banged in an unassisted goal to give the Dominions a lead again, but at the 9.23 mark Charlie Murray scored for Belmont to tie the score at 2-2. Three minutes later Ralph Jones scored for the Sunsets to give them the lead for the first time, and then one minute later Zurich roared Zurich Mites Lose to Exeter The Zurich Mites lost their first game of the season on Monday night when they were edged out 3-2 in an exhibition contest with Exeter. The win- ners scored once in each period, while Zurich scored both their goals in the third. Marksmen for the local squad were Grant Love and Steven Grainger. NIOR "D" FRIDAY, MAF CH 13 — 8:30 p.m. EXETER AT ZURICH SUNDAY, MARCH 15 2 p.m, ZURICH AT EXETE TUESDAY, MARCH 17 8:30 p.m. EXETER AT ZURICH back with John Loader scoring from Bill Stirling. It was nip and tuck all the way in the third period, and finally at 12.50 John Wiltsie scored his second goal of the game to give the Belmont a 4-3 lead. Thirty seconds later Stu Mustard scored what looked like the equalizer only to have the referees disallow the goal,. claiming the play was offside. Perseverance paid off for Must- ard, and 30 seconds later he finally rifled hone a pass from Loader, to tie the score at 4-4. Even though there were plenty of close calls throughout the last six minutes of the game and the overtime session, neith- er team could manage to come up with the bin winning marker. Both Gary Geoffrey and Bob Bishop turned aside many shots which looked like sure goals. Thirteen penalties were cal- led in the game, with seven of then going to Belmont and six to Zurich. ZURICH 6 - BELMONT 3 Last Wednesday night, with their backs to the wall down three games to two, the Dorn - inions came from behind an early 3-0 Belmont lead and went on to win 6-3. All three Belmont goals were scored be- fore the 14 -minute mark of the first period, by Mike Mort- ensen, Brian Abbey and Ed Landon. Goals by Bill Taylor and Leo Desjardine later in the first period gave the locals new life and they cane out flying in the second. It took the Dominions until the 13.33 mark in the second period before they could finally beat Bishop in the Belmont net, but then Shane McKinnon and Stu Mustard scored in quick order to give Zurich a 4-3 lead by the end of the session. In the third period it was Zur- ich all the way, as the boys completely outskated and out - checked their opponents. At 6.1'7 John Loader scored from Stirling and Mustard and at 14.21 Stirling banged in a pass from Mustard to score an insurance marker. Twenty penalties were handed out in the game, with only eight of them going to the locals, while Belmont picked up 12. ZURICH M A A ST. 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