Zurich Citizens News, 1977-06-06, Page 11Play 3 games this week in Zurich
Citizens News, April 6, 1977.
Page 11
Hawks, Wellington start OHA
Area hockey fans will be in for
some exciting action this week if
the Wellington Dukes and Exeter
Hawks continue to turn in the
performances they did in
Wellington over the past
weekend.
The two teams split the opening
games of their best -of -seven OHA
semi-final, Wellington taking the
Saturday opener by a 3-2 margin
and the Hawks coming through
with an exciting 4-3 overtime win
on Sunday.
As the scores indicate, neither
contest was settled until the final
whistle had blown.
However, the Hawks came out
of the first two games with an
advantage as they also won the
flip for the odd game and
Wellington will now have to win
two games in Zurich to oust the
locals.
The Hawks will have home ice
advantage for the next three
games, the first of which will be
played Thursday night at 9:00
p.m. The fourth game of the
series will follow on Friday at
8:00 and the fifth game will be on
Saturday at 7:00.
The weekend games in
Wellington were both well played
contests, featuring some heavy
hitting. However, there were only
nine penalties on Saturday and 18
on Sunday as the referees failed
to call some obvious infractions.
The two standouts in both
games were the netminders.
Exeter's Randy Lovie played
exceptionally well, particularly
in the first two periods of both
games when his team mates had
trouble getting untracked.
In the final periods, it was
Gerry Harrison of Wellington
who helped his mates stay in the
game as the Hawks stormed to
the attack.
The Dukes, many of whom
were in Switzerland a year ago
when they played midget hockey,
displayed a quick breaking at-
tack that caught the Hawks
defence out of position on several
occasions.
In the opener in particular,
they had three or four two -on -one
breaks and on one occasion had a
three -on -one situation that they
converted into a score.
Start quickly
The Hawks didn't have to
wait long in Saturday's opener to
see 'the style displayed by
Wellington to get the puck out of
their own end.
After only 30 seconds, defen-
ceman Bill Vidito fed a pass to
Bob Snider and the latter broke
out with Curt Stone to race in on
one Exeter defender. Snider•
pulled the defenceman to his side
and then slipped the puck to Stone
who had a clear shot on Loviefor
the game's first goal.
The play continued fairly even
throughout the balance of the
period, although Wellington had
better scoring opportunities and
Lovie was called on for several
spectacular saves.
Exeter finally knotted the
count at 1-1 as Brian Taylor
dented the twine at the 7:58 mark
of the second when Rick Ingram
pushed the faceoff back to the
speedy winger and he took one
stride and blasted the puck into
the top corner.
Wellington went ahead on a
power play with about five
minutes left in the middle stanza,
but Taylor scored near the end of
the period on a power play
featuring some good passing on
the part of his linemate, Ingram
and Gerald Weido.
The two teams battled on even
terms throughout most of the
final period until Wellington
quickly broke three players out of
their own end with only one
defenceman back. Rick Selman
was given a clear shot and he
neatly deked Lovie to one side
and flipped the puck into the net
for the winning marker.
Bounce back
The Hawks had to overcome a
two -goal deficit to win Sunday's
overtime battle.
Wellington quickly jumped to
the attack again and scored in the
first minute of play when Lovie
couldn't recover from a close -in
shot and Harry MacDonald
blasted one from the point into
the open net.
The home crew scored again
near the mid -way mark of the
initial stanza when they gained
control of the puck while killing
off a penalty and Selman found
an open corner.
The Hawks finally started to
roll in the second period and Rick
Ingram blasted a 25 footer into
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Taylor at the 6:30 mark.
They then ran into penalty
trouble with a double minor and
misconduct to Don McKeller and
an Exeter bench minor, but they
managed to hold off the
Wellington power play to escape
with only a 2-1 deficit at the end of
the second.
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period, Ken Pinder won a face-off
in the Wellipgton end and slipped
the puck to Fred Mommersteeg
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net for the equalizer.
However, Wellington took a 3-2
margin only three minutes later
when they scored on a delayed
penalty situation when the initial
shot trickled behind Lovie and a
winger slipped it into the net.
The Hawks continued to play
best hockey of their the series and
got their first break when Brian
Taylor attempted to clear a puck
out from the Wellington corner.
The puck hit a defenceman and
then hit Harrison's skate to
deflect into the net with six
minutes remaining.
Taylor then scored his fourth
sem i -finals
goal of the weekend at the 4:06
mark of the overtime session
when he batted a puck out of the
air to get the winner. Phil Knight
and Noel Skinner drew the
assists.
Wellington just missed getting
the equalizer shortly after when a
winger broke in alone on Lovie.
However, the Exeter netminder
played it perfectly and just
managed to get his stick on the
puck as he was falling to cover
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