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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1989-03-01, Page 88A — THE HURON EXPOSITOR, MARCH 1, 1989 THIS . IN ROUGH AND TUMBLE TACTICS were very much a part of the Seaforth Seahawks game against the Wellesley Merchants on Saturday, as evidenced here by a Wellesley player running at goaltender Keith .McClure. Mcilwraith photo. FUN IN THE SLOT - Seaforth goalie Keith McClure flops on a loose puck in the slot, while other Seahawks tangle at close quarters with the Wellesley Merchants during Saturday night' 'SEAHAWKS FORWARD Brad Carter flips the puck past a flailing Wellesley Merchants playoff clinching win. Campbell photo. goaltender in the Seahawks 8-2 victory Saturday in Seatorth• Mcilwraith photo. Seahawks win playoff series against rival Wellesley The Seaforth Seahawks did what they had to do, when they had to do it, so won thefirst playoff series in their short history on the weekend. They made it look easy. • The Seahawks advanced to the Western Ontario Athletic Association Intermediate A semi-finals by bumping off the Wellesley Merchants 8-2 in front of their largest crowd of the season at the Seaforth arena Saturday night following an important 5-1 mictory at Wellesley Friday. The Seahawks took four games to win the best -of -five series, and will now play Kincardine in the semis for the right to play Durham in the final. The best -of -five series opens Friday night at 8:30 at the Seaforth and District Com- munity Centres. Gaines two and three are at Kincardine, Sunday afternoon at 3:30 and a week Friday at 8:30 p.m. Two weeks ago few would have thought it. The Merchants are a tough and talented hockey club that finished an unchallenged first in the WOAA's Southern Division. The Seahawks, in only their second season of operation with a nucleus of equally talented . local players who won a junior D champion- ship for the town several seasons ago, finish- ed third, were tough to beat and occasional- ly brilliant on home ice but often short- handed and mediocre on the road. In five games during the regular season Seaforth only managed two ties in five games against KARATE 3 MONTH COURSE 2 Classes Per Week STARTS% Mono, March 139 1989 FEE: $35.00 Classes held at Goderich Township Hall in Holmesville TO REGISTER CALL: 4823634 (before March 10, 1989) Excellent Fitness & Defence Training for Men, Women & Children the Merchants, and going into Friday night's game had lost all three games at Wellesley while being outscored 25-8. But a few goals at the right time can make short work of such statistics. The Seahawks scored four unanswered goals in the last seven minutes of Friday night's game to put an end to their 'problems at Wellesley. Greg Murray scored two of them, including the one that broke the deadlock-, which was assisted by goaltender Keith McClure, Don Williamson and Dave Murray bagged the. others: Jim Campbell evened the score at 1-1 midway through the first period after Darren Snyder opened the scoring with a shorthanded goal four minutes into the game. Seaforth outshot Wellesley 45-32. Referee Pete Chisholm tagged Seaforth with 32 minutes in minor_ penalties, two fighting majors and a game and gross misconduct. Wellesley's corresponding 'stets•were18, eivo..and a misconduct. Saturday night at Seaforth it was all over but the rough stuff after the Seahawks took a 4-0 lead nearing the end of the second period, and the Merchants, realizing their Free Unitorm For Everyone Joining The Club Sudden season was going down the tubes, started some serious head hunting. The Seahawks led 7-0 before Wellesley got on the scoreboard late in the third period. They got their other goal in the last minute of the game. . McClure was at his butterfly -style best again, especially in the first period when it was still anybody's game. Seaforth led 2-0 after the first period and 5-0 after two. Greg Murray put on another show offen- sively, scoring three goals, including one end-to-end rush that would have been nice to see again on instant replay, and brother Dave also netted a hat trick. Dave McClure played his best game of the season with some solid hits, a goal and three assists, while Brad Carter popped the other Seaforth goal. It was no picnic but referee Claude Daw was hard to figure, perhaps working on the principle that everything„should always even out, even if it shouldn't. Wellesley's Paul McSorley, brother of the NHL's in- famous Dave, went berserk late in the third period and got into it with Seaforth's Gerard Ryan, peeled off and almost took on an of- ficial, then went after Tom Turner who still had his gloves on and did little but cover up. McSorley took fighting and high sticking majors on the play, an automatic game misconduct and a minor penalty for being the. instigator. On the way off the ice he tried to pop the Seahawk's Gerry McLaughlin, who was in civies. But Turner was given a match penalty for hair pulling and Ryan was also given a game misconduct. Seaforth's Kevin Williamson took another game misconduct when he did some enforc- ing in the second period, when Wellesley's Bruce Lindner took a heavy duty run at'Mc- Clure in net. When the dust had cleared both teams accumulated 51 minutes worth of penalties, not counting misconducts. Turner, Ryan and Williamson may all have to sit out a game, or more? Kincardine gets the fifth game, ff neeessary, in -the semi-finals for -finishing with a better winning percentage in the Nor- thern Division, than Seaforth did in the south. Kincardine finished with 15 wins, eight losses and a tie. Seaforth was 10-7-2. death costly for broomball . Knights MEN'S BROOMBALL EASY RIDERS 3 - KNIGHTS 2 With only Seven seconds played in the game Knight's Mark Louwagie amused his team with an altitude goal. Jim Nyenhuis was by his side. Steve Hulshof scored when the opposing team was short handed and .John Bicknell hoisted a perfect shot into the ;net unassisted. Wayne Gingerich tied the TORQ-GARD® SUPREME ENGINE O� SAE 15W40Nge 20 LITRE PAIL HY-GARD® HYDRAULIC OIL 20LITREPNL 36 50 Lubricants for alttypes at tractors and equioenl JOHN DEERE LIGHT` 12V SEAL ROAM AR104179 $865 S HALRE19075079 GEN $219 AT OUR EVERYDAY LOW PRICES game up assisted by Martin Wynja. in sud- den death overtime Brian Sowrbey was the hero as he twirled and scored. GRADS 1 - DUMPERS 2 Mighty Rick Archambault started the Dumpers goal scoring with help from Frank Flanagan. Sliding across on his knees Dale Kennedy deflected the ball into the net. Ray Filson scored for the Grads with only one se-. cond remaining in the game. He pops the ball into the net on a great pass from Tony Vandenhevel and Craig Smith. RED RUSTLERS 0 - ROYALS 1 This was an ideal game to watch. There was keen playing by both teams until the third period and sudden death occurred. Jack Van Miltenburg made the crowd go wild with a backhand swing goal. RAIDERS 0 - PARR LINE 3 Craig Piet got two goals assisted by Ed , Salverda. John Hart got his goal from the blue line. His helpers were Steve Gibbings and Rod Merrier. The Raiders seemed to get interrupted every time they crossed the red line. RIVER RATS 0 - WINTHROP 4 . Brian McGavin tipped the ball into the net. His attendants were John Van Vliet and Brian Pryce. A double combo by Brad Campbell, who scored twice, and Brian McGavin who assisted him twice. A skilful goal by Fred McClure was assisted by Ed McClure. The Rats' mentality was outstan- ding but they were a little short on goals. LADIES BROOMBALL PERTH 0 - PARR LINE 5 Donna Preszcator pops the ball twice into CULTIVATOR SWEEPS Fits IH & Case IH cultivators. • L 78 11V 5 H.P. TRANSFER PUMP Reg. 4?9; 95® NI. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF .THE WORKS PROGRAM TO -DAY! Prices in effect until March 31, 1989 or while quantities last. 9 JOHN DEERE ±l�y AYS coining soon! the net with a little help from Glenda Chaput. Joan Henderson picked up an open corner shot and also scored twice. Backup came from Jan Rutledge. Star defenceman Heidi Elliott contributed with a smooth goal with only 4 seconds remaining in the game. Perth Ladies are sure to be keen for play- offs. COMMERCIAL 0 -WINTHROP 2 Susan Hulley's ability was running wild as she scored the first goaloff a great pass by Mary Lou McPherson. A shot by Tammy Nash travelled directly into the net, off a pass from Carol Wheeler. Commercial Ladies were keen on playing but no goals were achieved. QUEENS 6 - JR. FARMERS 0 Janice Cairns administered the first goal with defensive help from Pat Koehler. Am- bitious Barb Caldwell popped in two neat goals with assistance from Teresa Finlayson, Marg Henderson and Jean Hag- gitt. An elevated shot by Cheryl Kruse counted for her twice. Brenda Empy on her knees also directed the ball into the net. The Jr. Farmers never gave up hope of achiev- ing a goal. Ladies Broombail play-offs start tonight (Wednesday) at 8 pm when the Commercial vs Jr. Farmers. At 8:50 pm Winthrop vs Queens. In Men's Broomball March 2 at 7:30 pm Winthrop vs Royals; 8:20 pm Parr Line vs River Rats; 9:10 pm Knights vs Easy Riders; 10:00 pm Dumpers vs Grads; and 10:50 pm Red Rustlers vs Raiders. Seaforth Novice eke out win On Saturday, February 25 Listowel came to town for an exhibition hockey game against the Novice team. The boys are try- ing to stay in shape while they wait for the next round of play-offs to start. The home team started the scoring when Mark Van Dooren scored unassisted after only two minutes of play. Listowel tied it up three minutes later. Only two minutes, after the Listowel goal, Mark passed the puck over to his brother, Scott Van Dooren in front of the net, and he shot it in. The second period caught the Seaforth boys sleeping. Listowel scored three uiuuu+wered goals. The score then was Listowel 4 Seaforth 2. The third period was a goalie's nightmare with seven goals being scored all in the last six minutes of play. Listowel scored the first goal of the period but then Mark Van Dooren took control. He scored the next four goals assisted by Bruce Griffin (2), Rob Craig and Jeremy McNichol. Listowel came back to tie it up with only 35 seconds left to play in the game. Seaforth was able to get the play back into the Listowel end and Jered Munro shot from the point with 12 seconds left in the game to score the winning goal. The final score was Seatorth 7 Listowel 6. Tweens one short against London The Seaforth Tweens came up one goal short of tying a team from London in an ex- hibition game held here on Sunday. London started off the scoring with two quick goals. This put same determination in Seaforth's playing as theyy were bound to catch up, and did so through Cheryl McL1- wain who scored two goals. She was assisted by Katie Craig and Crista Clark. Kim Rau scored in the second, assisted by Carrie McLiwain, to put Seaforth in the lead. London overpowered Seaforth late in the second to score three more goals. Cheryl McLlwain added her third for Seaforth, assisted by Robyn Carnochan, but came up short for the win. A good exhibition game to keep the Tweens in shape for the play-offs. A