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The Times Advocate, 2008-09-10, Page 20Wednesday, September 10, 2008 SPORTS Times–Advocate 20 Bayfield Girls — The Municipality of Bluewater (Bayfield) soccer U- 16 girls team recently had it's end -of -season family picnic.Awards were handed out to: top scor- er -Deanna Love, best all round -Paige McKenzie, most improved -Brittany Mason, most sportsmanlike -Miranda Postill and most valuable player-Hilari McBride.The team is back from left, Kristen Cooper, Becky Cosford, Brittany Parker, McBride, Postill, Kelly Consitt, Mason, Jenna Payne and coach Peter Waldon. Front: Katie Crocker, Stephanie Faulds, McKenzie, Love and Alysia Johnston. Missing: manager Colleen Faulds. (photo/submitted) Championship team —The Zurich PeeWee Girls fastball team enjoyed an excellent 2008 season winning a provincial championship.The team is Madeline Ainslie, Brianne Bedard, Nicole Brideau, Jamilyn Daters, Nicole Dunn, Maggie Earle, Bailey Gackstetter, Jennifer Lucas, Bailey Regier, Megan Schade and AmandaThiel.Absent: Jaclyn Rau. (photo/submitted) Exeter game —The Exeter Angels wrapped up its season last Saturday in Exeter, with a game against the Exeter Fuglies.Above Exeter Angels Sheri Glover makes a hit. (photo/Nina Van Lieshout) Fury shutout 2-0 EXETER — The Exeter Fury were in London Friday night to tackle the Assyrian team but came out on the short end of a 2-0 score. The Fury played a strong second half in an attempt to make a comeback but in the end were shutout for a team record -tying ninth time this season. The first half saw the Fury outplayed for the most part. The home team were first to the ball on most occasions and had plenty of time to make their passes as the Fury marking was a lit- tle lackadaisical. This lack of marking resulted in the first goal. The Assyrian striker was left alone outside the box and was able to fire a long shot into the corner of the net to put the Fury down 1-0. The Fury had trouble making a pass in the first half and looked out of sync, tripping over each other on a few plays. Exeter's best chance in the first half came when Pete McAllister was sent in down the left side on a nice pass from Jan -Steffen Freitag. McAllister's low shot to the far post curled just wide and it was only a few minutes later that the home squad increased the lead. A corner kick found the head of a teammate in a crowd of three Fury players. The Fury didn't chal- lenge on the cross and the Assyrian striker had an easy time head- ing the ball inside the post. The Fury shook things up a little bit in the second half and it seemed to spark the team. The Fury created more offensive pres- sure and were able to move the ball up the field by using the give and go. Ryan Hern, playing his first game for the team in two years since his retirement and Tim Hundey worked the middle of the field sending the ball up the wing to McAllister who would feed the strikers Nick Williams and Freitag. Hundey had a couple of chances in close but was unable to connect on a header and anoth- er shot fired just over the bar. Former Fury stalwart Greg Lamport was on the bench for this game inspiring the Fury to keep pressing in an attempt to get back into the contest. Nick Williams had a strong rush into the box but was hauled down resulting in a penalty shot. Williams drilled a shot to the corner but the keeper made an outstanding diving stop and the rebound rolled just out of the reach of Chris Hern who was unable to corral it and get the shot off. Ryan Masse made a few excellent saves to keep his team in the game but the lack of scoring punch hurt the Fury again this game. "If we played the whole game like we did in the second half we may have had a differ- ent result," team spokesman Jason McFalls stated. The next action for the Fury is at home on Sunday at 7 p.m. against the Gols team from London.