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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1971-04-08, Page 6a 6 Thhos-Adyocato, April 8, 1971 IIIIIMIlmINMIllIllmallamamaloammummounaluansmanammemanammaumuom' FOR ALL GOOD SPORTS By Ross Haugh Fine season Congratulations to the Exeter Novice Hockey Team on winning the OIAHA bivision Championship as well as the Shamrock title We're proud to salute these lads and their coach and manager on bringing these two titles to Exeter. E xeter Produce & Storage LEN VERI IF A MORTAL CAW- BE HAPPY AT EASTER TIME, HE MIGHT AS WELL STOP TRYI NiG Don't get stuck in the Easter parade ... have your brakes, tires, lubrication checked at Ron Dale's this week. You can depend on our quality service. 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LIMITED • Chevrolet — Oldsmobile PHONE 235-0660 EXETER The Home of Guardian Maintenance ALL-ONTARIO JUNIOR 'D' FINAL Cheer The Hawks On To Victory...At The EXETER ARENA SATURDAY *SUNDAY 2:00 p.m. First Two Games In Best-of-seven Series EXETER HAWKS vs HALIBURTON HUSKIES The Best Junior 'D' Teams In Ontario! °vice win Ontario title This hockey season of 1970-71 has to be the finest ever experienced by the Exeter Minor Hockey Association. For the first time ever, not one but two clubs representing the town have reached Ontario finals and one has already won a championship. The Exeter Broncos won the provincial zone novice championship last week by defeating Blenheim and three days later took the Shamrock title in the same age category. We would like to pass on our sincere congratulations to Ron Bogart and Bob Pooley who masterminded the youngsters through a very busy season that encompassed 55 games in league, exhibition and tournament play. A real crowning touch to an excellent season would be the capturing of the Ontario Junior "D" championship by the Exeter Hawks. This fine young club has reached the final round and 'will be meeting Haliburton in a best-of-seven series. The first two games of the series are set for the Exeter arena this weekend. The first game goes at 8:30, Saturday night with the second contest slated for Sunday afternoon at two o'clock. The Hawks completed a very successful regular schedule season finishing in first place by something like 18 points. In their own group playdowns the Hawks disposed of Lambeth and Belmont and then took care of a good Caledonia club in six games. The young Hawk club has shown consistently all season that they are able to come from behind despite the score. Many of the regular season victories were accomplished in the third period. Using the same type of pattern, they eliminated Caledonia with three consecutive wins after being down two games to one in the seven games set. This is probably the best balanced junior hockey team • Exeter has been able to field in many a year. Coach Bob White is able to send out three strong forward lines, has two solid sets of defencemen and has good goal tending. White deserves a lot of credit in bringing a comparatively young hockey club along to the Ontario finals. Only two members of the current club will be lost for next season because of age. Reports on the Haliburton club say they have a big, strong team which should make for an excellent final series. Best of luck, Hawks, as you head for the Ontario championship. Fun and games? Fun and games. That seems to be the situation in the current Ontario Hockey Association Intermediate "B" playoffs between the Lucan-Ilderton Jets and the Durham Huskies. The original best-of-seven series ended in a deadlock with each team winning three games with one being tied. The OHA then ordered a two-game total goals series to decide a winner. The Jets on home ice at the Huron Park arena swamped the Huskies 8-3 and appeared to be well on the way to victory. The cheering had hardly died down when club officials received their copy of Durham protest to the OHA. The protest was based on two rules in the OHA rule book regarding the residence of players. Rule 109 states that each team must have at least four players in the line-up for every game that is an actual resident of the municipality which the club represents. The Jets since their inception three years ago have been under the assumption that any player within three miles of either municipality would qualify as a resident. Sometime Saturday, the OHA executive in Toronto without the apparent knowledge of convener Hugh McLean of London upheld the protest. For some strange reason, after tossing out the result of Friday's game, the league executive decided to order a best-of-three series with Sunday's supposedly return game of the original series standing as the first of a new set. As this is being written, officials of the Lucan-Ilderton club are on their way to Toronto to try and straighten things out and we would hope to have further information elsewhere on the sports pages in this issue. Reading further in the rule book, rule 402 clearly states that no club shall protest the resident qualification of any player after 48 hours of the final game of the regular schedule or February 10 whichever is the latest. During the playoffs with Durham, the Jets have indicated that Steve Storey, Don Urbshott, Jamie Robb and Steve Proctor were the four resident players. They were told by the OHA over the weekend that players must actually live in either Lucan or Ilderton to qualify as a resident and not within three miles. This would actually eliminate Don Urbshott, who is the manager of the team and a member of the defensive corps. Urbshott lives on the east side of the Hyde Park Road, about 50 feet from the outskirts of Ilderton. Steve Storey, a resident of Lucan is actually the only legal player if the OHA interpretation is correct. It seems strange that a club would wait three years to protest the eligibility of one of its opponents. Also, the OHA appeared to be rather hasty in making a decision, especially without checking with the district convener. We know that McLean is the convener as he was at Huron Park arena, Tuesday night and actually set up the two-games total-goals series. Curling wind-up The curling season will officially close at the Exeter curling club, Saturday, April 17 When the annual banquet will be held, At this time all trophies and awards will be presented for the various championships won throughout the year. The banquet will get underway at seven o'clock and tickets may be obtained from any member of the curling executives, After being close to reaching the final round for the Ontario Junior "D" hockey championship several times in recent years, the Exeter Hawks, have finally made the grade. Last year the Hawks lost out in the last game to the Norwich Merchants who went on to take the Ontario championship. This time, the Hawks made the grade and will meet the Haliburton Huskies in a best-of- seven series to decide which is the best junior "D" club in the entire province. The Haliburton club will be in Exeter this weekend for the first two games of the series with the next two contests back in Haliburton the following weekend. The first game will be played here Saturday night at 8.30 with the second going Sunday af- ternoon at two o'clock. Smoke shortens Ausable contest The fourth game of the Ausable Rec hockey league finals staged at the Exeter arena Sunday night was shortened when fire broke out in the north stands at the arena. Shipka was leading 3-2 when the game was suspended at 3,23 . of the third period with players scurrying to the dressing rooms under the stands to save their equipment and clothes. The balance of the fourth game and all of the fifth contest is expected to be played Friday night. Lieury presently leads the best- of-seven series two games to one. Randy Becker scored twice for Shipka in the curtailed contest with the single goal coming from the stick of Pat O'Rourke. Bob Robinson and Robert Bender were the marksmen for Lieury. The E xeter Broncos won the Ontario Minor Hockey Association zone championship Friday night with a 5-4 win over Blenheim to take the best-of- three series in straight games. The club sponsored by the Midwestern Rodeo, coached by Ron Bogart and managed by Bob Pooley brings the first provincial hockey championship to the town of Exeter. After winning the first game in Blenheim by a score of 5-1, the Exeter youngsters started off in the second contest on home ice, Friday as if they were going to wrap the title up early. They scored three times in the first period and appeared to be well on their way. The clubs each scored once in the second period to maintain the three goal Exeter lead. In the final period, the Exeter boys went into sort of a defensive lapse allowing the Blenheim club to roam quite freely around the net. As a result the visitors scored twice by the halfway mark to cut the Exeter margin to a single goal. The game was seven minutes old when Derek Regier opened the scoring for Exeter on a three- way passing effort with Darryl Preszcator and David Bogart. Near the ten minute mark it was Paul Pooley scoring from brother Perry and Bogart. The third Exeter goal of the first period again came from the stick of Regier withthe assist going to Paul Pooley. The second period Exeter marker was fired by defenceman Randy Fisher on a solo effort. With less than three minutes to go and Exeter leading 4-3, Perry Pooley took a pass from Darryl Preszcator and scored what proved to be the winning goal, although it gave his club a two goal lead at the time. It came with six Blenheim attackers on the ice and their net empty. The fifth goal was very B & J's move in dart loop The B & J's have moved into undisputed possession of second place in the Exeter Legion mixed dart league behind the league leading Dark Angels. The Dark Angels continue their dominance with a 101 point total. The B&J's follow with 86 points, while' the Dart Sharks are third with 84 and the Doublers are fourth with 82. Continuing the closeness of the race down the ladder, the Late Niters have a season point total of 80 and the Sharpshooters are one point back at 79. Bill Smith has upped his games won total to 46 with Keith Brint- nell second at 38. Barb Hearn leads the ladies section with 30 wins. Annie Lawson is second with 23 victories. Last week's scores were: Dark Angels 5 - Swimmers 0 Canners 5- Sharpshooters 0 Itchy Four 4 - Scotties 1 Doublers 4 - Noisy Ones 1 Winkers 3 - D & S's 2 B & J's 3 - Late Niters 2 Shiphunters 3 - B A's 2 Featherflights 3 - Dart Sharks 2 If ignorance is bliss, why place a brighter light above the mirror? necessary as Blenheim stormed back to score again witha minute and a half to go and maintained pressure right to the finish but they were unable to get the equalizer. The Exeter novice club also won the Shamrock championship Monday night in Lucan by edging Lambeth 4-3 in the third game of a best-of-three series. Exeter won the second game Saturday afternoon 6-5 after the two clubs battled to a 2-2 tie in the first contest. Perry Pooley's unassisted goal with two minutes to go gave Exeter boys the 4-3 Monday win and the league title. Pooley moved just inside the Lambeth blueline and let go a slap shot that sailed over the goalie's shoulder. Exeter moved in front with a goal in the first period and two more in the second. Lambeth rallied with three unanswered scores early in the third period to get back on even terms. Randy Parsons fired the first period Exeter score on a play started by Randy Fisher. Fisher notched the first goal in the second period on one of his specialities, a blistering slap shot from the point. Paul Pooley scored unassisted a few minutes later. Lambeth had an excellent opportunity to go ahead when Exeter had two players in the penalty box. Excellent penalty killing by David Bogart, Randy Fisher and Perry Pooley saved the day, In Saturday's 6-5 Exeter vic- tory, Perry Pooley led the scoring with a two goal effort, Notching one goal apiece were David Bogart, Brad Taylor, Randy Fisher and Eugene Clarke, The overall season was very successibl for the novice club. They won 38 games, lost 7 and tied 2 in league exhibition playoff and tournament play. The team over the year scored 292 goals while net minders Jim \Teri and Steve Wells only allowed 83 opposition shots go by for an average of 1,78 goals per game while chalking up 15 shut-outs. NOVICE SCORING G A Pts. Paul Pooley 70 44 114 Perry Pooley 41 30 71 Brad Taylor 39 19 58 David Bogart 21 34 55 Randy Parsons 27 26 53 Randy Fisher 16 26 42 Eugene Clarke 13 23 36 Derek Regier 14 18 32 Steve Skinner 15 8 23 Dan Bell 12 10 22 Brian Mercer 14 7 21 Darryl Preszcator 6 14 20 Dennis Preszcator 4 10 14 PARCOST PRESCRIPTIONS at Reasonable Cost (Government Promoted Plan) Middleton Pharmacy. Exeter 235 1570 DOUBLE* CHAMPIONS — The Exeter Broncos won two novice hockey championships in four days. Friday they won the OMHA zone title and Monday they walked off with the Shamrock championship. The happy champs are, back, left, coach Ron Bogart, Darryl Preszcator, Dennis Preszcator, Randy Fisher, Perry Pooley and manager Bob Pooley. Centre, Steve Skinner, Paul Pooley, Derek Regier, Eugene Clarke, Brad Taylor and David Bogart. Front, Brian Mercer, Jim Veri, Steve Wells and Dan Bell. Missing was Randy Parsons. T-A photo Junior D' provincial final starts at Exeter, Saturday The series swings back to the north country for games three and four the following weekend. Exact dates and times of the games in Haliburton will be set when the two clubs meet here for the first time on the weekend. Haliburton is about 250 miles north-east of Exeter. The Haliburton team had little trouble disposing of Southampton to reach the finals against the Hawks. In Southampton on the weekend Haliburton won by scores of 14-4 and 14-3. The Haliburton team manager Zurich bantams win first game The Zurich bantams in an attempt to repeat as Ontario Minor Hockey Association "E" champions took a step in the right direction on home ice, Saturday night. The Zurich youngsters edged Oakwood 4-3 in the first game of a best-of-five final in overtime. The second and third games will be played in Oakwood, Saturday and Monday with starting times set for 6.30 and 6.00 p.m. respectively. The fourth game if necessary will probably be played at the Exeter arena, the following week as ice at the Zurich arena has been removed. Gerald Weido was the scoring star for Zurich with a three goal performance. Weido fired the winning goal at 4.30 of overtime after Oakwood had tied the score at 3-3 with only ten seconds remaining in regulation time. The other Zurich goal came from the stick of Pat Bedard. George Haggitt is coach of the Zurich club and Glenn Weido and Mcirris Webb handling the managing duties. is Scott Larue who played junior hockey in Seaforth about 10 years ago and he has relatives in the Exeter and Grand Bend areas. Hawks manager Bob Baynham has made arrangements for accommodation for the Huskies when they are in this area. They will be arriving late Saturday afternoon and will be staying at the Shillelagh Motel at Lucan. The Hawks may not be at full, strength for the first two games. Centre Larry Haugh who suf- fered a fractured right wrist in the final game against Caledonia may be a doubtful starter Saturday night. The high scoring young centre returns to his doctor today and hopes for a lighter cast that would allow him to see some action. Gymnasts win at H-P The South Huron district high school gymnastic team turned in an excellent performance at Friday's Huron-Perth Con- ference championship meet held at Stratford Northwestern. Kathy Wells was a winner on the uneven bars while Laura Johns placed first in floor exercises. Finishing third on the balance beam was Cathy Holtz- mann. The three girls will be representing South Huron at the WOSSA meet to be held in Woodstock, Saturday April 17. Other local performers finishing well up in the standings were ,Miller, Irene Westelaken, Peggy Wallace, Fion'a Kennedy, Georgina Obre, Louise Panet and Linda Ritchie.