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Times-Advocate, 1979-02-21, Page 10Page 10 Sports Spotlight Times-Advoccite, February 21, 1979 h/i In Ohsweken, Saturday Back I Sunday, if necessary Bantams take one game margin in OMHA playoffs By Ross Haugh Carnival set The Exeter Legion ban­ tams pushed Ohsweken to the wall in their best-of-five OMHA playoff over the weekend, but couldn’t finish the job on their home ice, Sunday, as the visitors scored a 3-1 win. Exeter won the series opener by a 2-1 count at the Six Nations arena. Friday, and came home on Saturday to post a 3-1 win to give them the opportunity to win the set in three straight. However, the Indian lads came up with their best game of the series to extend the set to the fourth game, which will be played in Ohsweken Saturday. If the fifth game is needed, it will be in Exeter on Sunday at 4:00 p.m. The play in all three games was as close as the score indicated and both The annual carnival of the Exeter figure skating club will be held Saturday at the South Huron Rec Cen­ tre and it promises to be bigger and better than ever. Club president Shirley Hart and carnival chairmen Pat Down and Carol Arthur have been busy lining up an excellent program. A feature of the program will be the appearance of Canadian junior pairs champions Lorri Baier and Lloyd Eisler. They will demonstrate their abilities at both shows at 2 in the afternoon and 7 in the evening. The theme of this year’s carnival is “Saturday Night Fever”. All of the club skaters from the age of three years up will be appearing in at least one number. The various numbers will depict the different ac­ tivities of all ages on a Saturday night. Included will be cartoons and getting ready for bed for the youngsters to watching movies and hockey on television and for some going out on the town. The local club this year has three teaching professionals. Marg Carey is the head pro and she is being assisted by Rick Pettit and Sharon Saunders. They replace Brad Loosley who was the club pro here for about eight years. Loosley recently accepted the position of recreation director for the town of Petrolia. fourth game in Ohsweken on Saturday. QUICK TOE — Ohsweken goalie Ron Monture makes a toe save on a shot from Exeter ban­ tam Mike Murray in Saturday's OMHA playoff game at the rec centre. Exeter's Dave Underwood is shown beside the goalie. The local bantams lead their playoff 2-1 with the T-A photo More information on the carnival will appear elsewhere on the pages of this issue. Another interesting and exciting carnival will be held Sunday afternoon at the Zurich arena. Members of the Zurich-Grand Bend figure skating club will be presenting their annual carnival starting at 2 p.m. with a theme similar to the Exeter one. Irish even in playoffs, get good start in both games A first for baseball Canada’s second major league baseball team has come up with a first in baseball history. The Toronto Blue Jays recently named former major league pitcher Ron Taylor as their team physi­ cian. It is believed the first time an active player has come back to be a team doctor. Taylor, a native of Toronto was one of the top relief men in the National league during a 11 year ■ career with five different clubs. Combining his academic and medical careers, Taylor, as well as being a medical doctor also holds a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto where he conducted his medical studies. Taylor’s best and undoubtedly most memorable season occurred in 1969 with the miracle New York Mets where he had a nine and four record with 13 saves and a 2.72 earned run average. He appeared in two games in the Mets’ World Series victory over the Baltimore Orioles. Before that he was with the St. Louis Cardinals when they won the World Series in 1964. The new Blue Jay doctor finished his career with a commendable 45-43 record with 73 saves and an ERA of 3.93. More from dinner We were interested in some of the comments made by one of hockey’s greatest pioneers Frank Selke Sr. at the recent Exeter Sportsmen’s dinner. Selke said no matter how great a star is there will always be someone else come along to make you forget about the oldtimers. This might be true in some instances, but, it didn’t apply when Selke was asked to pick the top defencemen of all time. He chose only two which you could identify with modem days. They were Doug Harvey of his own Montreal Canadiens and Bob­ by Orr. Of the present day blueline defenders Selke had no hesitation in naming Larry Robinson as the best. He said, “You couldn’t think of a nicer, more effective performer than Robinson.” On the baseball front, Bobby Bragan had no reservations in naming Joe Dimaggio as the best baseball player to ever put on a big league uniform. Bragan commented, “Babe Ruth may have done more to the baseball industry, but, Jolting Joe was tops when it came to performance. He was loved by everyone.” Once in a blue moon one hears of a ball player switching from one position to another and being successful. This sometimes happens when an out­ fielder tries his hand at pitching but the transition Bragan made midway through his playing career was quite unusual. After starring for several years at shortstop with the Philadelphia Phillies he was traded to the Brooklyn Dodgers. When he arrived in Dodger town, Bragan found Pee Wee Reese had a stranglehold on the shortstop position. He told us, “The only way I could stick as a regular was to change positions, so I became a catcher.” The Lucan Irish are on even terms with the Mitchell Hawks after two games in the semi-final round of the northern group of the Ontario Hockey Association western division. Mitchell opened the best- of-seven series with a come- from-behind 9-4 in Lucan Wednesday night but the Irish rallied to win by the same score in Lucan, Sun­ day. The third game of the series was played last night in Mitchell and the fourth goes tonight, Wednesday at the Lucan arena at 8 p.m. The second goal of the game for Cec Nickles assured the Lucan win in Mitchell Sunday. Nickles broke a 4-4 tie as he con­ verted passes from Paul Medd and Jeff Marshall with only a minute and 15 seconds left in the third period. As in the first game the Irish took an early lead, but this time they were able to come back to win. The first period was half over when Martin Duenk started the Lucan scoring on a passing combination with Brian Murray and John Jongeneelen. Six minutes later Brian Murray counted on an unassisted effort to give the Irish a 2-0 lead. In the last minute of the opening session Mike Avery counted the first Mitchell score on passes from Paul Elliott and Eric Beard. The Lucan club scored two quick goals in the second session to take a 4-1 margin on the scoreboard. Jeff Hartman hit the mark with passing help from Keith Hartwick and Rick Freeman and Cec Nickles registered his first of two with assists going to Paul Medd and Bob Hodgins. Steve Elliott and Jay Heinbuch scored for Mitchell later in the second period to cut the Lucan margin to a i single goal. Steve Elliott tied the game for the Hawks at 5.46 of the third period and set the stage for the game winner by Cec Nickles with time running out. Irish lead vanishes In Lucan Wednesday, the Irish held a 4-2 lead at one point early in the third period, but the Hawks came back with three straight goals to snatch the victory from defeat. The score was tied at 1-1 at the end of the first period. Jeff Marshall was the Lucan marksman on passes from Cec Nickles and Paul Medd and Paul Elliott replied for the Hawks. A power play goal by Jeff Hartman at 2.59 of the second frame put the Irish ahead. Kevin Hartwick and Rick Freeman assisted. Five minutes later, Cec Nickles counted for the Irish on a play started by Jeff Marshall and Kevin Hart­ wick. Before the period was over Mike Avery scored for Mitchell and the Irish margin was cut to 3-2. Rick Freeman scored on an unassisted effort at 7.42 of the third period to put Lucan ahead by two goals. The Hawks struck back with two goals in less than a minute to tie the score. Firing the successful shots were Bill Stacey Heinbuch. Dennis Fischer the winning goal Hawks with two minutes and a half to go. The Irish picked up six of the 13 minor penalties called. and Jay counted for the teams failed to take advan­ tage of their power play op­ portunities. In the series opener, the Exeter crew jumped into a 1- 0 lead late in the first period when Dave Shaw drilled a slap shot into the net after taking a pass from Dave Underwood. The Indians evened the count early in the third after Exeter had failed to score with a two-man advantage in the second. However, Jon Kernick picked up the winner with just over three minutes remaining when he flipped the puck into the net on a scramble. Bill Glover pick­ ed up the assist. In Saturday’s second con­ test, Exeter again started early when Scott Brintnell took a perfect pass from Glover on a two-on-one situation and the winger made no mistake as he drill­ ed the disc into the corner. Shaw upped the count to 2- 0 late in the second on a slap shot from the right side on a play with Mike Murray. Ohsweken cut the lead to 2- 1 in the third as they final­ ly beat Peter Dearing in the Exeter nets, but Kernick put the lid on the contest when he took a pass from Underwood and drilled the disc into the open net in the final minute as Six Nations went with an extra attacker. Sunday’s game was another thriller right to the final whistle as the visitors took advantage of an errant clearing pass in the opening minutes to take a 1-0 lead. Exeter evened the count early in the second when Mike Murray slid the puck into the net on a scramble, with Mike Clark picking up the assist. However, Six Nations took another one-goal lead before the second period was over and then capped the win in the final seconds when Ex­ eter pulled Dearing to go with an extra attacker. The three games were on the bruising side with Ex- eter picking up a total of 20 minors and Ohsweken had 16. Atoms sidelined St. Marys continued their domination of Exeter minor teams this week as their atoms posted a 3-1 win on home ice, Friday, to send their Exeter counterparts to the sidelines in zone play. St. Marys took the set in three straight. The winners took a 1-0 lead early in the first, only to have Exeter knot the count when Mark Penhale took a pass from Brett Batten and his shot fooled the net minder as it trickled through his legs. However, St. Marys scored again before the end of the first and added an in­ surance marker late in the second. Playing in the consolation side of the Lucan tourna­ ment on Saturday, Exeter suffered a 3-1 loss to Port Stanley to put them dut of that event. Terry Zachar finished off a play with Dave Russell in the first period to give the locals a lead, but Port Stanley evened the count in the second and then scored a pair in the final frame to record the win. Midgets ousted The Exeter midget “B” team were ousted from further OMHA play as they dropped a pair of tilts to St. Marys this week. Playing on their home ice, Saturday, the Exeter crew missed on several good scor­ ing chances as they dropped a 2-0 verdict that sent them to the sidelines. St. Marys jumped into a lead early in the first and the squads battled on even grounds until late in the third when the visitors potted a clinching tally. In Wednesday’s game in St. Marys, the home team scored after only 18 seconds and went on to a 5-2 triumph. Exeter evened the count in the first when Rob Smith finished off a play with Mark Willert and Greg Prout, but St. Marys took a 3-1 margin early in the third, and after Exeter cut the margin to a single goal. the Stonetowners added two in­ surance markers. Mark Willert connected for Exeter’s second tally, with the assists going to Graham Kobe and Pete Tuckey. 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