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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1977-10-27, Page 10ZURICH REC BADMINTON PROGRAM * Registration Oct. 27 7:30 p.m. * Men's, women's and mixed * Runs 16 sessions If unable to attend registrations please contact Jerry Roder at Zurich Arena 2364969 J RECEIVE CHAMPIONSHIP BANNER — Prior to Friday's opening game of the 1977.78 OHA Junior "0" season, the Exeter Hawks receiv- ed the banner which symbolizes their provincial championship win last spring. From the left are mayor Bruce Shaw, Hawks captain Steve Jen- nison, league convener Bill Sampson, London and assistant captain Ken Pinder. T-A photo Irish beat Hawks Rick Freeman first scorer First game at new Rec Centre Want to Play Recreational . Broomball? Couples over 25 Tuesdays 10:00 - 11:00 p.m. NQ Experience Necessary Call A. Mothers 235-1037 Get Set For Winter... CHOOSE FROM HURON COUNTY'S LARGEST SELECTION OF OWMOBILE SUITS We Have One For Every Member Of The Family ONE AND TWO-PIECE SUITS FROM CHILDREN'S SIZE 2 TO ADULT GIANT Lucan's Rick Freeman had the honor of scoring the first goal in the first hockey game played the South Huron Rec Centre and that tally helped his Irish team to spoil the Exeter Hawks home opener, Friday. Playing before almost 700 people on less than ideal ice conditions, the Lucan squad scored a 5-4 win against the OHA Junior "D" defending title holders. The ice was extremely soft for the contest due to a malfunction of the ice making plant at the rec centre, and by the end of the The Lucan-Ilderton Jets im- p-roved their season record in the Ontario Hockey Association Continental Senior league to three victories and two defeats this week. The Jets drubbed the Port Stanley Dynamites 12-2 Wed- nesday: lost 7-1 to the Petrolia Jets Friday and scored a 3-2 overtime victory Sunday af- ternoon over the Durham Huskies. Come from behind victory The Jets held scoreless by the Huskies Sunday afternoon for more than two and a half periods broke loose for two goals in the final frame and one in the extra session to down their arch rivals from Durham. The winning goal came at 3:12 of overtime. Ed Parkinson took. a pass from Spurr and rapped the puck off the Durham goal post and the backboards, but, it bounced back out and he was able to put the puck past Huskies netminder John Bak. Gerry Herman and Cal Russell were the Durham Marksmen in the first two periods. Winkers lead in dart loop The Winkers scored a maximum five -points in Exeter Legion mixed dart league play Friday night to take over un- disputed possession of first place. The Winkers now have 19 points, one more than the Doublers and Nicky Tams who are deadlocked for second place. The Out of Space are next with 17 points, the Sassenachs 16 and the Flying Highs 15. The Itchy Niters are seventh with 14 points, the DR's and First Chance have 12 points apiece, the Outlaws 11 and Scotties and Family Affair each 10. Keith Brittain with a score of 180 leads the Men while Eilleen Spurn and Doris Dobson are tied for ladies high score at 140. Friday's schedule is: 8 p.m. The ? vs Shiphunters Out of Space vs Winkers McPfaffs vs Family Affair Frist Chance vs Scotties 9.30 p.m. Nicky Tams vs Sabres Outlaws vs DR's Flying Highs vs Itchy Niters Sassenachs vs Doublers game there were large holes in the ice and the painted lines were smeared over a wide area. This week, the Hawks play two more games at the rec centre. On Friday they host their rivals from Mitchell at 8:30 and on Sunday the Seaforth squad will be here for a 7:30 p.m, start. Playing at home again on Sunday, the Hawks recorded their first win with a narrow 1-0 margin over Port Stanley. Freeman's goal came at the 13:44 mark of the first period, in Friday's opener with Jeff Hart- man and Don Latta drawing the At 10:27 of the third period, Ed Parkinson took a pass from playing coach Jack Chipchase and fired the puck into the Durham net. Only two minutes later the score was tied as Ian McTavish converted passes from Scott Graham and Kett McCut- cheon on a power play, Peter Atlas was in goal for the Jets and played an outstanding game in turning away 27 Durham shots, Only nine penalties were handed out by referee Frank Slota with five going to the Huskies. Slota handed out two penalties in the early moments of the game and from then on both teams stuck strictly to playing the puck. Lose to Petrolia While the Jets lost 7-1 to Petrolia Friday, they were not out of contention until well past the midway mark of the third period. The Petrolia club took ad- vantage of a pair of L-I penalties late in the first period to take a 3-1 edge on the scoreboard. Ex-Exeter Hawk Gerald Weido fired the only Lucan-Ilderton goal at 16:07 of the opening session on passes from Ian McTavish and Ed Parksinson. There was no scoring in the second period. Scoring in single fashion for Petrolia were Jim Harvie, Dale Wilson, Daryl Ulrich, Brian Edgar, Tom Douglas, Jim Willis and Barry Edgar. Bomb Port Stanely Ian McTavish blinked the red light three times to pace the Jets to Wednesday's 12-2 over Port Stanley. Next in line with two successful shots each were Ed Parkinson, Brian Spurr and Jamie Robb while Jack Chipchase, Pete Glover and Ron Funston scored in single fashion assists on the power play, The lead was short-lived however, as Brian Taylor not- ched the first goal of the season for the Hawks only seven seconds later. Jamie Caldwell drew the assist on the play. Lucan's Gary Herr scored early in the second frame on another power play with Perry Knee and Cecil Nickles drawing the assists and then Exeter came hack to knot the count on their own power play at the 11:48 mark with Ken Pinder firing home a pass from Jim Ferguson. Exeter took a 3-2 lead less than a minute later when. Randy Parsons took a pass in ihe slot and found the range behind Scott McNair in the Lucan net. Kim McKinnon and Ron Bilcke picked up the assists on the play. It was also scored with a man ad- vantage. In the final two minutes of the middle frame, Lucan scored twice to take a lead they never relinquished. Greg Adlington fired the first tally with the teams even and then Randy Kraul scored on a power play to give the Irish a 4-3 margin. Gary Herr assisted on both goals, while Ken Murray drew one assist. The Irish opened up a two-goal margin at the mid-way mark of the final frame when Dean Deanmore fired a shot past Randy Lovie after taking a pass from Jeff Hartman. Matt Muller pulled( the Hawks to within one goal at the 14:06 mark on a play with Phil Knight, but that was as close as they could get. Lucan played much of the final three minutes with two men short, but McNair came up with some key saves as the Hawks battled tenaciously to get the equalizer. The Irish picked up 20 penalties, including a game misconduct to Don Latta and a major misconduct to coach Bill Bannerman. The Hawks had 11 penalties, one being a major to Brian Taylor who was involved in a skirmish with Latta, after the latter grabbed him behind the net in the second period. Hot goa lie The Hawks didn't have any trouble out-playing the Port Stanely Lions in Sunday's con- test, but they did have con- siderable trouble trying to get the puck past Jim Neverly. In fact, it wasn't until the 18:16 mark of the final period that Jamie Caldwell took a pass from Brian Taylor to give the defen- ding champions their lone goal in the 1-0 victory. It was one of the lowest scoring games on record in the Junior "D" loop and rookie SteVe Beer picked up the shut-out in his first league start. He handles 18 shots, The Hawks fired 10 shots at Neverly in the first period and then came up with a barrage of 31 over the final two periods as they continually hemmed Port Stanley in their end. However, Neverly stood his ground and the contest appeared to, be heading for a precedent-setting scoreless draw before Caldwell finally con- nected. Most of the Hawks had been robbed on early plays that ap- peared to be heading for goals. Caldwell's tally came on a power play, one of nine they enjoyed during the contest. The Hawks picked up only four minor penalties and easily turned aside -the Port Stanley power play on those occasions. MINOR BOWLING Anyone missing Minor Bowling registration last week may do so this Sat. morning at 9:30a.m. Leagues will commence play. 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Sports Spotlight Centre opens Two years ago the Ontario Ministry of Labour was get- ting plenty of "flack" for closing down more than 300 arenas throughout the province but now some of the noise has settled down, At Friday's first OHA Junior "D" game in.the new South Huron flee Centre, OHA president Hugh MacLean of London said he feels like writing a letter to Labour Minister Bette Stevenson thanking her for closing down some of the rinks. MacLean made the comment prior to the official faceoff for the first game between the Exeter Hawks and Lucan Irish. He added, "At the time it seemed like a tragedy to lose so many of our arenas, but, see this beautiful new facility, one feels like thanking those that made it all possible." Despite the many delays at Friday's opening game, we are sure all of the more than 700 persons in attendance were impressed with the new Rec. Centre. Once the "bugs" in the public address system and the clock are ironed out and cooler weather helps provide a better ice surface we are sure all residents of South Huron can proudly point to the Rec Centre and say "we are a part of it". While the glass was not installed in the press box for the first weekend games, this area is really ideal for all media people and our local three star selectors of Hawks games, Derry Boyle and Wally Burton. Sunday afternoon's game played here between the St. Marys Lincolns and Sarnia junior Bees was broadcast over CHOK radio. The flee Centre is really beginning to be a busy spot with all local minor hockey teams swinging into action along with the two junior clubs now playing out of the building. Due to the very inclement weather over the past few months, construction of the new St. Marys arena has been slowed considerably. This means the Lincolns will be play- ing their home games in Exeter probably for the next month. Their next contest is Saturday night at the South Huron Rec Centre. The next home game for the Exeter Hawks will be Fri- day night at 8 : 30 p.m. when they play host to the Mitchell Hawks. Sunday night the Seaforth Centennaires will ,be in town for a 7:30 p.m. contest. The Rec Centre ice surface will be a busy spot Saturday afternoon when the Exeter figure skating club stages a skate-a-thon. Proceeds will go to finance the club activities this winter and to the Rec Centre. The figure skating club is taking advantage of the new facility this year by increasing their program. Club professional Brad Loosley will be back for his seventh year as the instructor and he will be assisted ... by another professional, Marg Carey. Club president Gaylen Josephson tells us that the two pros will be teaching at the same time and thus make much better use of the ice time allotted. Two gun clubs Received several calls this week from members of the claybird gun club to tell us they are not involved with the Exeter gun club which has been operating at the south edge of town and apparently disturbing residents. The claybird gun club has been operating all summer in Hay township. They first operated on the Stanlake farm on Concession 2 but late in the summer moved to a more desolated spot on Concession 5, north of the Exeter dump. The sport of skeet and claybird shooting is becoming in- creasingly popular. The claybird gun club has had as many as 30 competitors at some of their recent meets in Hay township. New coaches helping Although the 1977-78 National Hockey League season is only a week or so old, two of the newest coaches appear to he making their mark. The Toronto Maple Leafs under the guidance. of rookie coach Roger Neilson in their first three league games didn't really set the league on fire, but over the weekend they handed the previous undefeated Philadlephia Flyers two setbacks in as many nights. After the first three contests, even the Leafs staunchest supporters were beginning to wonder about Neilson's defen- sive tactics. Their showing against the Flyers has to be en- couraging. Before meeting the Leafs Saturday and Sunday, the Flyers had allowed only three goals in four games,' but, this great defensive record sure went for a spill. The other sophomore coach Bobby Kromm at Detroit also appears to have the Red Wings up and flying. Thursday night the Wings came within 16 seconds of handing the Mon- treal Canadiens their first loss of the season. The Habs scored in the dying seconds to get a 2-2 draw, The aggressive brand of hockey touted by general manager Ted Lindsay on the Detroit media prior to the opening of the season doesn't appear to be as drastic as first believed. One of the bright spots in the Detroit lineup is their first draft choice Dale McCourt from last year's St. Catharines Fincups.McCourt is an exciting hockey player and should help bring the fans back to Olympia Stadium. Bush survival commandments A recent news release from Constable Gord Barker, community service officer of the Lucan OPP detachment tells about hunter safety. Constable Barker reports that OPP detachments in northern Ontario spend many needless man hours searching for missing hunters and rendering assistance to the injured. He passes on the "Ten Commandments of Bush Sur- vival" which could prove valuable to the many area hunters heading north in search of deer and moose, They are as follows: 1. Tell someone where you are going and when you expect to return. 2. Carry and know how to use a compass. 3. Carry emergency food, matches and a good knife. 4. Check your position frequently, 5. If lost, don't panic. 6. Stay put, prepare shelter and fire, 7. Prepare three signal fires in a 60 foot triangle ready for lighting at the first sound of an aircraft, 8. Conserve your food supply and strength. 9. If you leave your shelter, blaze your trail. 10. If you are not lost but only delayed, notify your home and the OPP. Page 10 Times-Advocate, October 27L 1977