Times-Advocate, 1978-11-16, Page 16Times-Advocate, November 16, 1978
1 1 By Ross Haugh
Well done
Although the South Huron District High School
junior footballers lost Saturday in their attempt to win
the Huron-Perth Conference championship they turn
ed in a good performance.
Despite the loss of their star running back Rick
Lindenfield, early in the game, the junior Panthers
were able to hold onto an 8-8 tie until the last few
minutes of the game when the Goderich Vikings pulled
away with two quick touchdowns.
The game was exciting from start to finish with
very few penalties being called and action was con
tinuous with first one team and then the other moving
the ball well.
Congratulations to coaches Doug Ellison and Dave
Cox and every member of the club for a job well done.
The same goes along with the better luck next
year to Ron Bogart and his senior Panthers. They
were wiped out by the Goderich seniors in the semi
final contest but should be improved next year with
most of the players back to try it again with more ex
perience.
A FRIENDLY RIVALRY — The mayors of Exeter and Goderich met on the football field Saturday but it was a freindly confron
tation with their sons who were opponents in the Huron-Perth junior final. From the left are Goderich mayor Deb Shewfelt and
his son Brian and Dave and Bruce Shaw Jr. and their father the mayor of Exeter. T-A photo
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Drop behind in dying minutes
Panthers lose in H-P junior final
Ban tarns only winner
A lucky start?
The Toronto Blue Jays were hoping that all the
talk surrounding Friday the 13th is just that. Friday,
April 13 is the day the Blue Jays will open their 1979
American league home schedule at CNE Stadium
against the Kansas City Royals.
The Blue Jays open the season away from home
on April 5 against the same Kansas City club.
The 1979 American league schedule has been
changed considerably to allow a balanced schedule
between eastern and western division teams.
This means that the Blue Jays will play at least
six home and six away games against both East and
West teams. The remaining six games that make up
the 162 game schedule will be split up between eastern
division opposition.
The Blue Jays will be at home on four holiday
dates. They are Good Friday, Easter Monday, Vic
toria Day and Civic Holiday. Thrown in is the annual
Pearson Cup game against the Montreal Expos. It will
be in Toronto the afternoon of April 19 at 4 p.m.
Sounds good
We read recently in the Hockey News that former
Montreal Canadien star goalie Jacques Plante is vir
tually retired and splitting his time between Nevada
and Switzerland.
The article said Plante helps coach the
Philadelphia Flyers during training camp and early in
the season but spends the rest of the year in
Switzerland.
The Goderich Vikings won
the Huron-Perth conference
junior football cham
pionship Saturday but not
before one of the best and
most exciting games of the
season.
The South Huron Panthers
gave up two touchdowns to
the Vikings in the last four
minutes of play and lost 21-8
and a chance to win a second
consecutive championship.
Goderich moved into a 7-0
lead in the first quarter with
a converted touchdown.
The South Huron defence
controlled Goderich after
the first series
the second quarter.
Shortly after South
Huron’s top ball carrier
Rick Lindenfield was forced
out of the game with pulled
back muscles.
Lindenfield was carried
off the field on a stretcher
and taken to hospital. He
returned as a spectator
before the game was over.
Coach Doug Ellison was
forced to make changes in
his lineup. Dave Bell who
was playing end for the in
jured Mike Taylor moved
into the backfield and Greg
Prout took over at end.
Goderich moved into good
field position but the SH line
held and gave up only a
single point to make the
score 8-0.
Three passes from
quarterback Steve Pearce to
Pat Cyr and Dave Bell mov
ed the Panthers deep into
Goderich territory and
Pearce went over for six
points. A Pearce to Bell pass
was good for the two point
convert and the score was
tied at 8-8.
Goderich gained good field
position in the fourth
quarter but a 45 yard punt
return by Doug Willard of
Panthers reversedof plays in
A VIKING DOWN — During Saturday's junior football game in Goderich Doug Willard of
the Panthers (hidden) makes a tackle. Coming up in the background are Pat Cyr and Dave
Bell. - T-A photo
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Bringing in the pros
Chatham, the newest entry in the Ontario Hockey
Association Continental senior league is pulling out
the stops in attempts to come up with a championship
team. The Chatham club already one of the strongest
in the league signed four players this week, all cuts
from professional clubs.
They are Del Hall from the WHA; Kevin Howe
from Dallas, Jim Pearson from Hershey and Dick
Tourangeau, a late cut from the Port Huron Flags.
The league has a rule which allows only three ex-
pros to play in any one game. Chatham appears the
only team which is going all out to get a winner.
While talking about the Continental league, the
Lucan-Ilderton Jets appear to have the most trouble
with the Stratford Perths. This seems to be an annual
problem.
In two games last week against Stratford, the Jets
could only score four times against goalie Dennis
Thorpe.
Jets manager Don Urbshott said, “It’s getting to
be a habit. We just can't put the puck past Thorpe.”
While talking about the Continental league we
noticed a comment in the latest statistics that only 10
players are in their seventh season with their original
club and three are with the Lucan-Ilderton Jets.
The iron men of the Jets are Barry Baynham,
Jamie Robb and Lome Daer. The others are Brian
Chinnick. London; Gene McLaren, Woodstock; Jim
Betts and Mitch Kennedy, Stratford and Gord Becker,
Chuck Niesen and Larry Schafer from the Durham
Huskies.
Hawks grab two wins,
out of league basement
positions on the Goderich 45.
A third down SH gamble
failed and the Vikings took
over.
Coach Ellison commented
later, “after thought is
great, but, it was a poor
decision on the coach’s part.
Punting would have
probably put Goderich deep
in their own end”.
With less than four
minutes, a good series of
running plays moved the
ball deep into South Huron
territory for a Viking con
verted touchdown.
With less than a minute to
go, the Panthers failed to
make a first down and the
Vikings took over and scored
again.
Coach Ellison said both
offensive and defensive un
its played strong games. He
added, “our boys had
nothing to be ashamed of.
Goderich knew they were in
a game.”
Ellison cited a few in
dividuals for exceptional ef
forts.
They were Dave Bell,
safety on defence, end and
fullback on defence; Pat
Cyr, strong running, pass
catching and corner on
defence; Steve Pearce, good
play calls and passing; Dave
Shaw, good pass catches and
Doug Willard, strong tackl
ing on defence.
Pay Cyr carried the ball 10 1
times good for 55 yards.
Dave Bell and Rick
Fletcher led the defence
with 10 key tackles each, , Al
Gaiser, Gary Spurn and
Greg Prout were in on nine
big stops and Doug Willard
made six key tackles.
I
The Exeter Hawks had
their best week of the season
as they vaulted out of the
league cellar with two vic
tories.
The wins temporarily
moved the locals into second
place in the northern divi
sion, but they dropped back
to third on Sunday when
Seaforth handed the
Mitchell Hawks their first
loss of the season.
Mitchell holds down top
spot with 14 points, followed
by Seaforth with nine, Ex
eter eight, Lucan seven and
Tavistock four.
The Hawks were in Bel
mont last night and play at
home twice this weekend,
hosting Lucan on Friday and
Tavistock on Sunday night.
During the week, the
Hawks thumped Bothwell 6-
3 on Wednesday and came
home on Friday to clip
Tavistock 7-5.
Rookie Preston Dearing
paced the scoring attack in
Bothwell, picking up a hat-
trick for his efforts. Rookies
Kerry Bedard and Terry
Caldwell also added singles,
while the other tally came
off the stick of Don
McKellar.
Both Dearing and
McKellar scored unassisted
tallies in the game.
Ron Bilcke and McKellar
headed the assist depart
ment with two, while singles
were recorded by Bedard,
Ken Varley, Brad Taylor
and Dave Kinsman.
Randy Lovie went the dis
tance in the Exeter nets and
stopped 31 shots.
Bothwell won the penalty
parade with 15 of the 21
handed out in the game
which the Hawks ledwhich the Hawks
throughout.
Coast to win
On Friday night,
Hawks jumped into a
lead in the first against
PRONTO
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TRANSMISSIONS
the
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Tavistock and opened up a 6-
2 lead by the end of the se
cond as they coasted to their
triumph.
Midget netminder Steve
Wells worked the game and
stopped 34 shots, with four
of the five that beat him
coming on power plays.
Ken Pinder, out of the
lineup for some of the recent
games, returned and was in
full stride as he helped pace
the attack with two goals
and three assists.
Fred Mommersteeg
duplicated that effort as
well.
The single tallies were
potted by Preston Dearing,
Dave Kinsman and Terry
Caldwell.
Picking up single assists
were Dearing. Dave Atthill,
Kinsman, Don McKellar,
Jamie Caldwell and Dave
Bogart.
The Hawks served nine of
the 13 penalties called by
referee Pat O'Brien.
0KW
HOCKEY
At Its Best!
FRI., NOV. 17
Lucan Irish
vs
Exeter Hawks
SUN., NOV. 19
Tavistock Braves
vs
Exeter Hawks
7:30 p.m.
WED., NOV. 22
7:00 p.m.
London Pee Wees
vs
Exeter
8:00 p.m.
London Bantams
vs
Exeter
9:00 p.m.
Thedford Midgets
vs
Exeter
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This turned out to be less
than a productive week for
Exeter’s minor hockey
teams, with only the ban
tams managing to post a win
m Shamrock action.
The high-flying midget
crew came down with a thud
when they were bombed 6-0
by Belmont in the weekly
triple-header at the rec cen
tre, Wednesday.
The visitors scored after
34 seconds of play, added
four more by the end of the
first and another in the first
minute of the second before
Exeter started to skate.
From that point they
played scoreless hockey.
Pee wees edged
The Exeter pee wees
remained winless in
Shamrock action as they
dropped their only start of
the week, a narrow 3-2 loss
to Belmont at the rec cen
tre, Wednesday.
The teams traded goals in
the first period, with George
Pratt denting the twine on a
play with Mike Tiedeman
for Exeter’s tally.
Belmont opened up a two-
goal margin in the middle
frame, and Darren
Vandergunst pulled the
locals to within one late in
the third on a play with
Steve Laithwaite, but they
couldn’t notch the equalizer.
Lose tough one
The Exeter Waxers took
to the ice lanes only once
and were nipped 1-0 by Bel
mont in an exciting contest
at the rec centre, Sunday.
The local novice crew held
Belmont’s one-man attack
in check for most of the con
test, but he finally broke
loose to score the winner in
the second period.
Several Exeter players
just missed open corners on
their scoring chances as the
play went from one end of
the ice to the other.
Atoms dropped
The Exeter atoms jumped
into a 2-0 lead in their game
against Belmont, Sunday,
but frittered it away in the
second period and ended up
on the short end of a 5-3 ver
dict.
Captain Brett Batten pac
ed the attack, picking up two
of the three goals and
assisting on the other.
Danny McLean added the
other tally, when he banged
in a rebound off Batten’s in
itial shot to start the scoring
parade.
Sean Whiteford, who
played a stellar game on
defence, also picked up
assists on two of the goals.
Relay to win
The Exeter bantams won
their only start of the week
when they overcame a two-
goal deficit to beat Belmont
3-2 at the rec centre,
Wednesday.
The visitors scored twice
in the first frame within a
34-second period, but Exeter
came back with three goals
in the middle frame to post
the win.
Mike Clark started the ral
ly when he blasted a slap
shot into the top corner from
just inside the blueline in the
first minute. Dave
Underwood then added a
pair, the last coming in a
sole effort when he worked
his way past a couple of
defenders and cut back in
front of the net to whip a
quick shot in for the winner.
Dave Shaw picked up two
assists for the team, with
singles being given to Bill
Glover and Steve Prout,
The Exeter crew easily
won the penalty parade,
picking up 11 of the 17
minors called.
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