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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1969-04-17, Page 6Page 6 Times-Advocate, April 17, 1969 FOR ALL GOOD SPORTS By Ross Haugh RA P is busy This is the time of the year when themes for sports columns are a little bit hard to come by. The hockey season except for the national scene is almost completed and the local summer sport programs are not quite underway, During this interval we would like to talk about an organization in town that does a lot of work but never gets too much publicity or credit for what they do. We're speaking of RAP, the town committee that handles all activities pertaining to recreation, arena and parks. Although this group meets only once a month officially, each member in his or her own time spends a lot of hours in supervising all aspects of sports and recreation. Most visitors to Exeter are enthusiastic about the beautiful appearance of Riverview Park and this is one of the many responsibilities of RAP, Not a meeting goes by that members don't attempt to come up with new ideas to not only maintain the beauty of the park but increase it for the benefit of visitors that drop in or the many local and district families that use the facilities for picnics and reunions. During the summer many tourists stop by with cameras to snap pictures of the beautiful flowers that have become a byword with the park and many brides choose the park as the setting for their wedding photos. With the picnic season still several months away, several bookings have already been received for this season, At Monday's meeting of RAP recreation director Alvin Willert was authorized to go ahead with the painting and repairing of picnic tables and other facilities at the park in readiness for the coming season. The necessary flowers to be planted were ordered more than a month ago and Mrs. Lee Dobbs of the committee who is an enthusiastic supporter of the park and a close-by resident was given the go-ahead to order trees up to an amount of $60. Most of the work at the park is taken care of by Willert, his assistant Gary Middleton and John Roelofs, now a full-time employee at the arena and parks. The latter, a gardener by trade takes a personal pride in looking after the flowers and trees. Also at the park, the local swimming pool is getting lots of action during the summer months. In addition to providing youngsters from town and the immediate area with the opportunity to learn to swim properly other groups from the district will be accepted. The last couple of years, Hensall youngsers have been coming to the Exeter pool by bus. RAP has decided to extend an invitation to boys and girls in Dashwood and Zurich and any other village or municipality that may be interested to make use of the local facilities. At Monday's meeting Willert reported receiving four applications for swimming instructors and the positions have not been advertised as yet. Ads for swim instructors and playground supervisors can be seen on the adjoining sport pages. A leadership training camp for playground supervisors will be held again this year from June 22 to 27. The camp is under the joint direction of Conestoga College and district recreation directors. In addition to the basic sports of baseball, bowling and hockey, the local committee operates a square dance program and is available to assist the Senior Citizens in any of their endeavours. Other possible sports that have been mentioned are lacrosse, badminton and archery and instruction in gun safety. An increasingly busy spot in town is at the local fair grounds and park adjacent to the arena where rodeo and horse club facilities have been set up. Originally started as a two-day rodeo project for the Labour Day weekend, the rodeo ring and track will be in use most of the summer. In addition' to. the rodeo, the annual quarter horse show will be staged along with monthly outings of the Exeter Saddle club. The newest group to make use of the set-up is the Exeter Pony club. This enthusiastic group has been given the green light to establish a quarter-mile pony race track inside the present half-mile oval. The new track will be laid out to conform with American and Canadian Trotting Association regulations. Work is expected to begin on the track very shortly. Approval has been given following a joint meeting with officials of RAP, the rodeo committee, pony club and the Exeter Agricultural Society. Last and far from least on the list of RAP responsibilities is the operation of the arena. The ice was let out on Saturday following Friday's defeat of the Exeter bantams in Keswick. To show how busy the arena was this winter we need only look at the gross receipts of the snack bar. A total of $7,827.99 was taken in at the concession booth. That's a lot of pop and hot dogs. The final report of the arena for the just concluded season shows an average ice time of 7.1 hours per day. In closing we would be remiss in failing to mention the fine minor bowling program being directed by Ruth Durand, a member of RAP. Under Mrs. Durand's capable direction, local bowlers brought home six of thirteen trophies at a Lake Huron Zone tournament held at Kincardine, Saturday, Oirolt10 0000000 o r ll ll 0 • • l'itea'4 • Rafen &ea • qabe se at BILL II DOUG BARBER SHOP Doug Parker Jim Sadler Bill Porker idririiNYiubnriiYlYunilnurirfrruuirlundnurliiririunr fl,,II nrnII iIPV iiiPutluuurnnnIrunndUriva n YOUNGSTERS BRING HOME THE TROPHIES — The senior boys and girls bowling teams from Exeter brought home championship trophies from Saturday's Lake Huron Zone minor bowling tournament at Kincardine. The winning girls' team is shown above with Mrs. Ruth Durand, director of the Exeter minor bowling program. Back, left, Lynne Farquhar, Mrs, Durand and Brenda I. Brintnell. Front, Kathy Campbell, Trudy Stagg and Launa Fuller. The senior boys' champs are shown below along with Billy Wilson at the extreme right, back, who won the junior single and triple awards. The seniors are, back, left, Joe Darling and Jim Brintnell. Front, Don Kirk, Doug Miners and Randy Tiernan. T-A photos Minor bowlers win share of zone awards Opening Saturday FOR THE SEASON 1 1/4 Miles East 9f Highways 4 and 83 Intersection . . 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LIMITED Chev - Olds - Corvair - Envoy - Chev Trucks PHONE /35.0660 EXETER, ONT. WOAA GRAND CHAMPIONSHIP ZURICH FLYERS WOAA "0" champs VS, CREDITON TIGERS WOAA ""G" Champs Huron Park Arena Centralia Friday, April 18 and Sunday, April 20 Game Time Each Night — 8:30 p.m Smith and Rader Barbers and Tony Martens, Market Gardener, are Tiger Supporters MEMBERSHIP FEES * MEN — 40.00 * LADIES — 25,00 * STUDENTS— 20.00 17 and under * JUNIORS — 15.00 14 and under * FAM ILY — 75.00 . GREEN FEES, weekdays $1,00 Sat., Sun., Hol. $1.50 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL 2351517 y, Mile East c4 H ighway 4 an St. Marys Road Crediton meets Zurich. in grand championship Boys and girls from the Exeter minor bowling program walked off with the major share of prizes at Saturday's Lake Huron Zone tournament held at Kincardine, Saturday. The senior girls and senior boys team trophies came to Exeter along with the Recreation Directors' trophy that goes to the community having the highest aggregate total for the eight teams entered. In this competition, the Exeter youngsters rolled a total of 18,218 pins to beat their closest rivals from Kincardine by 2,334 pinfall. Lynne Farquhar with games of 252, 249 and 214 led the Exeter No. 1 team to the senior girls championship and also won the high triple trophy with a score of 715. Other members of the winning team and their scores were — Trudy Stagg, 605; Launa Fuller, 595; Kathy Campbell, 526 and Brenda Brintnell, 516. The senior boys No. 1 team followed in the footsteps of the girls by taking their division title thanks to the high scoring of Joe Darling and Don Kirk. Darling rolled a terrific 343, despite losing 15 pins on a foul on the way to the high triple award with a total score of 746. Kirk had a high single of 252 and a 666 three-game score. Completing the roster of the winning team were Randy Tiernan, Jim Brintnell and Doug Miners. The senior girls No. 2 team came third in their competition with Janice Frayne leading the way with a triple of 650. Completing the roster were Kathy Kirk, Jean Simpson and Betty and Marg Campbell. The other Exeter senior boys club ran aground in the going-over the foul line department and finished seventh, The team comprised Danny Brintnell, Doug Brintnell, Bryan Hearn, Geary Penhale and Paul Robinson. In junior girls ranks,. the Exeter dubs finished third and fifth. Gail Fuller of the No, 1 Learn rolled single scores of 205, 206 and 20'1 for a total of 618, missing the high triple award by Only two pins. The stage is finally set for the Western Ontario Athletic Association Intermediate hockey championship final series, The Huron Park arena at Centralia will be the site for all games in the best-of-five clash between the Crediton Tigers and the Zurich Flyers. The first game of the series was played at Centralia last night, Wednesday with the second contest slated for Friday night and the third Sunday night. All games will start at 8:30, The Crediton Tigers won the WOAA "C" title Monday in Kincardine by downing the Kincardine Bulldogs 9-4 in the seventh and deciding game. The stubborn Bulldogs forced the seventh game of the series by winning 7.6 in Centralia, Wi..inesday, The Zurich Flyers won the league's "D" championship by eliminating Kurtzville in a bast-of-three series but they were forced to do it in The 9-4 Crediton win in hi ti c a rdine, Monday was accomplished with a five goal outburst in the third period without a reply from the home duh. The clubs battled on even terms throughout the first two periods. The Bulldogs were first to hit the scoreboard on goals by Doug Johnston and Jim Bell in a two minute span well past the midway mark of the initial stanza. Crediton's captain Dennis Morrissey wasted little time in evening the score by triggering two goals before the period ended. Ken Fraser assisted on the first Crediton scoring play and the second was unassisted. The scoring procedure was reversed in the second session with the Tigers taking a two goal lead and the Bulldogs coming back to again even the count. Fred Lamb completed a passing play with Glenn Overholt and Bill Hoffman at 7:10 and four minutes later, Craig Chapman was successful on a play started by Terry Bourne, Keith Davidson and Jack Coiling fired the late second period Kincardine counters. Glenn Overholt converted Fred Lamb's pass at 3:47 of the third session for what proved to be the winning goal. In less than two minutes, the Tigers virtually assured themselves of the championship as they took a 7-4 lead on goals by Craig Chapman and Dennis Morrissey. The Zurich Flyers used two quick scoring flurries in the third period to advantage to down Kurtzville 9-4 in the third and deciding contest for the "D" title. The two clubs battled on even terms for two periods. Bob Merner shot Zurich ahead in the second minute of play in the game only to have Kurtzville roar back with two goals in less than two minutes. At 6:35, Bob Carlile scored unassisted to even the count at 2-2. Kurtzville led 3-2 at the end of the first on a score by Bob Coghlin and Carlile bagged the only goal of the second to knot the score again. In the first three minutes of the third, George Suplat, Bob Carlile and Bob Johnston found the scoring range to shoot the Flyers into a 6-3 lead. come-from-behind fashion. Kurtzville took the first game and the Flyers bounced back with an exciting 8-6 win in overtime, Wednesday in Palmerston after coming within two seconds of losing in regulation time. Zurich took the deciding game 9.4, Friday, also on Palmerston ice, thanks to a six goal scoring splurge in the last Period. The Zurich club will be strengthened for the final series by the addition of four members of the Blyth intermediates, Lorne Daer of Blyth has been in the Zurich goal for the last two games after injuries forced Gary Geoffrey and Paul Steckle to the sidelines. To add to the interest of the final clash between the two district clubs is the fact, Earl "Cuss" Wagner has been coaching the Crediton club and has also been playing for Zurich. Wagner will be out on the ice in an active role with the Flyers. Late in the game, Bill Chipchase and Overholt found the scoring range to complete the Crediton scoring. The Bulldogs drew seven of the twelve penalties assessed by referees Frank Slota and Ed Malcheski of Kitchener. COME CLOSE In the sixth game at Centralia, Wednesday, won by Kincardine 7-6, the Tigers waited too long before starting a scoring spree in the third period. Down 7-3 with less than six minutes to go, they scored three times with two goals coming in the last minute of play, The Tigers took a quick two goal lead in the early moments of the first period on goals by Terry Bourne and Dennis Morrissey. Jim Bell scored twice and Ron Farrell scored a single to put the Bulldogs ahead 3-2 at the end of the first, a lead they never relinquished. Bell, who was the Kincardine scoring star with four goals for the night scored two more in the second and Keith Davidson added one while Bourne was the only Crediton goal getter. Early in the third, Leon Wilson upped the Kincardine lead to 7-3. Terry Bourne notched his third goal of the night on an unassisted effort at 14:40 and in the dying moments, Dennis Morriseey and Craig Chapman each scored once to finalize the game scoring and leave the Tigers one goal short. Near the four minute mark, Coghlin scored his third goal of the night and the last one for his Kurtzville club. In the last half of the period Jim Pfaff, Earl Wagner and Suplat added insurance markers for the Flyers. EXCITING FINISH The second game of the series taken by the Flyers 8-6 in overtime was exciting from start to finish. With the score tied at 5-5, Bob Coghlin scored for Kurtzville at 19:46 only to have Jim Pfaff rap in the tying goal for Zurich with only two seconds left on the clock. In overtime, Bob Merner fired the game winner at 4:03 to keep the Zurich playoff hopes alive and Jim Pfaff added the insurance goal at 9:30 into an — Please turn to Page 7 Wendy Gilfillan, Valerie Flynn, Cynthia Gunn and Barb Ferguson were other members of the No. 1 team while Hannah Mathers, Anne Gould, Bonnie Campbell, Sharon Campbell and Cathy Fuller were on the No. 2 team roster. The No. 1 Exeter junior boys team came very close to the title losing to Kincardine by only 10 pins after losing 105 pins on fouls. Billy Wilson came up with the highest single of 242 and triple — Please turn to Page 7 Tigers rally in third Win in overtime