Times-Advocate, 1979-04-25, Page 17Sports
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By ROSS HAUGH
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Winning goal disputed Times-Advocqte, April £5, 1979 Page 17
Bantams defeated in OMHA final
It's over
The hockey is officially over as far as all local
teams are concerned.
The season ended on two fronts over the weekend
and with two different results.
The Lucan juveniles won the OMHA championship
for the second straight year with a hard fought 6-4 win
over Colborne in the seventh and deciding contest.
The Lucan-Colborne series was strictly a homer
affair with each club winning their three games on
home ice.
Sincere congratulations go out to Jim Herr, Hon
Carruthers and Keith Connolly who were the three
men responsible for the championship victory along
with help from the Lucan minor hockey association
headed by president Bob Latta.
We caught a few minutes of three of the games in
Lucan and the brand of hockey was excellent with
plenty of hard but reasonably clean hitting going on.
Saturday’s final game in London was well handled
by probably two of the best referees in this part of the
country John Willsie and Glenn Beach.
Willsie was a regular referee this year in the OHA
Major Junior “A” series and Beach was a linesmen at
many of the London Knights home,games.
* Over many years we have watched a lot of hockey
games but, have never seen anything like that which
happened in Lucan Saturday afternoon. It was the only
incident in a well played game.
One of the Colborne players No. 10 Jay Mills got
into a roughing session near the Lucan net late in the
game. When he was being restrained by referee Beach
he became a little cantankerous and decided to
transfer his hostility from the Lucan player to the of
ficial.
Mills was finally wrestled to the ice by both of
ficials and then proceeded to throw a wrestling style
leg lock on Beach. When they were finally disengaged,
Mills tripped Beach as he was skating away.
The Colborne player was quickly tossed out of the
game with a match penalty and will likely be dealt
with further by the OMHA executive.
Sunday the season for the Exeter bantams came
to a close as they were defeated 5-3 in Ernestown and
dropped the best-of-seven final four games to two with
one tied.
Despite the failure to bring the championship
silverware home, the youngsters and their coaches
Jack Fuller and Jack Underwood and manager Bruce
Shaw should be congratulated on a good performance
not only on the ice but furthering the name of Exeter
in eastern Ontario. Well done, fellows.
The Exeter Legion ban
tams had to settle for the
OMHA "B" runnerup trophy
for the third time in the past
15 years when they suffered
a 5-3 loss in Ernestown Sun
day afternoon.
The win gave the Kingston
area township squad the ti
tle with nine points in the
best-of-seven affair that
went the full distance. Ex
eter ended up with five
points and could have forced
an eighth game with a win.
However, Ernestown
came out flying in the con
test and carried the play to
the Exeter lads, who didn’t
give up until the final whis
tle in a fast-paced contest.
The locals were once
again the victims of some
questionable refereeing in
Ernestown, with the winning
goal coming on a disputed
play late in the second
period.
With the scoreknotted at 3-
3. Rick Chard drilled a long
shot from just over centre ice
that partially hand-cuffed
Peter Dearing. Exeter fans
were giving a collective sigh
of relief when they heard the
puck hit metal and saw the
disc fly off into the corner of
the arena, but the sigh was
changed to shouts of outrage
when one of the game of
ficials stopped play and
signified a goal.
He appeared to be the only
person in the arena who was
certain it was a goal, 'as
neither the Ernestown goal
judge nor any of the home
players had signified the
puck had entered the net and
appeared as surprised as
everyone else when the
referee called the play from
outside the blueline.
Exeter fans still couldn’t
understand how the puck
could have entered the net
and end up in the corner
behind the net.
The goal took some of the
steam out of the Exeter at
tack and also led to a bench
minor a few seconds later
when the players were
grumbling among
themselves about the call.
Never say die
The local Legion spon
sored crew, weakened by a
three-game suspension to
first string left winger Mike
Clark, had further problems
when they hit the ice for
Sunday’s seventh game.
Starting centre John Ker
nick was working far below
par, having come down with
a case of the flu on Friday
and a couple of other players
were working under the han
dicap of colds. Winger Steve
Prout was lost in the second
period when he twisted an
ankle after taking a check
along the boards.
Ernestown scored first
when Rich Buss broke thr
ough the defence after three
and a half minutes of play to
get a clear shot at Dearing.
Exeter evened the count
near the end of the period
when Mark Vandergunst
deflected Jamie Chaffe’s
pointshot into the open cor
ner and they moved ahead
by a 2-1 count with just over
a minute left when Jim Sid
dall drilled a low liner into
the cage after taking a pass
from Mike Murray.
However, the lead was
short-lived as the hosts
broke out from the ensuing
face-off and Kevin Hartwick
drilled a shot into the top
corner only seven seconds
later.
Ernestown then took a 3-2
margin in the first minute of
play in the second when
Buss scored his second of
the game, but Exeter’s
white-knuckle crew came
right back to even things in
less than four minutes when
Mike Murray out-raced a
defender to pick up a Chaffe
clearing pass and then mov
ed in alone on Go'rd Downie
to find the necessary hole.
That set the stage for the
controversial winner with
just under three minutes left
in the middle stanza.
Both teams had several
good scoring chances in the
final period, but the new
champs salted the win with
the insurance tally after 10
minutes of play when Rich
Abbott grabbed a loose puck
in the Exeter end and skated
out from the side to whip a
back hander past Dearing,
who had played a standout
game in a losing cause.
• Long season
While the tears of frustra
tion and disappointment
flowed from several Exeter
players when the final whis
tle sounded, they came
through in style as they lined
up to congratulate the new
champs.
The locals received
OMHA crests and the
runner-up trophy, ending a
playoff that saw them play
27 games. They ousted St.
Marys in three straight, took
the Six Nations lads from
Ohsweken in the final game
of a best-of-five and then had
to go to extra games in
sidelining both Walkerton
and Tilbury.
Coach Jack Fuller and
assistant Jack Underwood
got their pencils working on
the return trip from
Ernestown and announced
the kids had travelled over
3,000 miles in their quest for
the OMHA title.
Fuller lauded the players
for their exceptional season,
moving around the dressing
room after the game to ex
tend a hand shake to each of
the players.
As the boys slowly filed on
to the bus for the trip home,
their parents also commend
ed them for a banner season,
and the glum attitude was
soon forgotten after a meal
stop at Belleville.
Assistant team captain
Bill Glover was one of the
more interested in the
runner-up trophy the boys
received. It had Exeter
Legion teams on it for the
years 1964-65 and again in
1968-69. Bill’s brother Jack
played on the first of those
teams and Pete Glover was
a member of the other.
Bill Gilfillan coached the
1968-69 squad and his son,
Rick, was the backup net-
minder for this year’s entry
after his own pee wee team
was sidelined.
000 miles. Back row, from the left; manager Bruce Shaw, assistant coach
Jack Underwood, Dave Shaw, Jim Siddall, Tom Coates, Mike Murray, Scott
Batten and Mike Clark. Middle row: Steve Prout, John Kernick, Scott
Brintnell, Scott Pincombe, Bill Glover, Dave Underwood and coach Jack
Fuller. Front: Trevor Boyle, Rick Gilfillan, Mark Vandergunst, Peter Dearing
and Jamie Chaffe. Staff photo
SMILES DIFFICULT — Despite a banner season that saw them named as the
second best team in the OMHA "B' category, the Exeter bantams found it dif
ficult to muster smiles when this photo was taken, minutes after they had
dropped a 5-3 verdict in Ernestown, Sunday. The disappointment of drop
ping the seventh game is mirrored on most of the faces along with the
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Ready for ball season
In a recent conversation with Bob Hoffman of
Dashwood we learned that the Huron-Perth baseball
league is embarking on an expanded schedule and ex
pects to enjoy the best season in many years.
Hoffman is president of the league for the second
year and the vice-president again Percy Bedard of
Zurich.
There is only one guess as to who the secretary of
the league is. Jolly John Livermore of Clinton has held
this position for more years than he cares to
remember. We are only guessing, but, it must be well
over 40 years that the former clerk of the town of Clin
ton has been keeping the Huron-Perth records
straight.
While the four regular Huron-Perth teams will be
participating in a 26 game schedule the Dashwood
Tigers have extended their schedule to a total of 32
games. '
The Clinton Colts, Crediton Mets, Dashwood
Tigers and Thorndale Angels will be meeting each
other in a double home and home schedule and they
will also meet four London district junior teams along
with a senior club from Tillsonburg.
Added to the Dashwood schedule will be home and
home series with Walsingham, Arva and Petrolia.
Some of the area teams will also be taking part in
senior tournaments this summer in Tillsonburg, Whit
by, Welland and Petrolia.
The local H-P schedule will get underway on Sun
day, May 13 and plenty of “play ball’ calls can be ex
pected throughout the balance of the summer months.
More on merger
One of the major stipulations of the recent merger
of the World Hockey Association with the National
Hockey League is that the four new clubs must
provide arenas with seating capacities of at least 13,-
500.
The only rink that is already big enough with a
maximum capacity of 15,248 is at Edmonton; The
others with their current seating are Quebec 10,012;
Winnipeg 10,151 £hd New England 10,507. In case
anyone is interested Gary Davidson, the founder of the
WHA is said to be doing well in the real estate
business in Newport Beach, California.
Allan Cup
Area hockey fans are showing a little more than
usual interest in play leading up to the 1978-79 Allan
Cup finals.
For one reason the Petrolia Squires are the first
Continental senior league team to reach the Allan Cup
semi-finals.
The Squires have done better than that. They are
in the final and will be meeting either Trail, British
Columbia or Steinbach, Manitoba. The series is ex
pected to start this weekend in Sarnia.
Local interest is added as Exeter native Bill Fair
bairn is a valuable member of the Petrolia defensive
brigade.
A few oddities
Guy Lafleur of the Canadiens who became only
the second NHL player to record five consecutive 50
goal seasons scored his 50th this year against Denis
Heron of the Pittsburgh Penguins.
It’s the third time in five years that Lafleur
scored No. 50 against Heron, twice while the goalie
was with the Kansas City Scouts.
THE AGONY — The agony of defeat was evident in the Ex
eter end of the Ernestown arena, Sunday, after the locals
dropped a 5-3 verdict to end up as OMHA runnersup. Cap-
fain Tom Coates (7) burries his head while to the left are Bill
Glover and Scott Brintnell. Staff photo
winger Steve Prout
from the ice in Ernestown, Sunday, by Jack
ANKLE — Exeter bantamBREAKS
assisted
Underwood and Bruce Shaw after suffering an ankle injury. It
was determined that a bone was broken when the player had
x-rays at SHH on Monday. The injury came in the last game
of the season and was the only one suffered by the team
members, despite their busy regular season, tournament and
27-game playoff schedule. Staff photo
BIG SAVES —=$Jj»<j.ter bantam netminder Peter Dearing played a standout game in Sunday's
deciding game for lhe OMHA title, despite having five goals against. He makes a stick save
against one attacker in the top photo as Dave Shaw moves in to help, while he slid out below
to prevent another goal with Bill Glover arriving to assist.Staff photo
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