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Times-Advocate, 1978-11-23, Page 10Times-Advocate. November 23, 1978 Sports Spotlight By Ross Haugh Good hockey This fall the South Huron intermediate hockey league is starting its seventh consecutive season of operation with nine teams in competition. We would like to pass on a bit of the background information on this very popular and each year more successful hockey league, thanks mainly to the fine executive in charge. The idea for formation of the South Huron hockey league originated in the summer of 1970 from John Stephens of Centralia College of Agricultural Technology in an effort to provide suitable competi­ tion for the students. Percy Bedard, Zurich and Frank Funston of Huron Park were consulted to determine if there were a sufficient number of good quality hockey players in the South Huron area to form a men’s hockey league of calibre between recreation hockey and OHA in­ termediate “C”. There proved to be enough players and a definite need for the formation of a South Huron hockey league. Through a lot of hard work, Stephens, Bedard and Funston along with a few others put together the first constitution and successfully solicited teams from CCAT, Dashwood, Hensall, Huron Park and Zurich. Derry Boyle of Exeter was named the league’s first president. Many changes have taken place over the years which have altered the appearance of the league. In the 1972-73 season Dashwood dropped out and was replaced by a new entry from Shipka. The following year, the team from Hensall dropped out and part way through the regular schedule Arkona moved in. In 1974-75 the entry from Huron Park withdrew and a team from Exeter was entered. The following year the league expanded with a new entry from Parkhill and the return of Huron Park. The next year 1976-77 further expansion took place with Watford and Goderich moving in and the return of Hensall. Watford withdrew before last season started. The league is back to nine teams for the current season with the acceptance of Kettle Point. Derry Boyle was the first president and held that position for one year. He was succeeded for the next two years by Exeter policeman Ardell MacIntyre. The fourth year the league made an unsuccessful attempt to operate with a committee rather than a president. The big improvement for the league and its . reputation came at the beginning of the 1974-75 season when John Ansley, then of Huron Park and now of Grand Bend was brought in as league president. Ansley was given a free hand to do what was necessary in order to improve the quality of hockey, refereeing, league administration and team manage­ ment. We would like to pass on a large bunch of personal congratulations to John Ansley for his hard and dedicated work in bringing real respectability to the league. John is starting his fifth year as president. Ted McCahill of Forest is the vice-president, John Stephens is treasurer, Ken Fagan is recording secretary, Faye Reichert recording secretary and the league statistician is Bob Somerville. Somerville has handled league statistics since its inception and also deserves a hearty vote of thanks. Brian Campbell of Hensall is referee-in-chief for this year. T-A photo CALDWELL SCORES FOR THE HAWKS — Friday's game between the Exeter Hawks and the Lucan Irish was a high scoring affair with the Hawks winning 9-8. One of the Exeter goals was scored late in the first period by Hawk Jamie Caldwell as he slipped the puck through the legs of Irish netminder Kevin Wood. i Hawks run win streak to five. challenge Mitchell for top spot I o Dart race tightens up Competition is getting closer as the schedule progresses in the Exeter Legion mixed dart league. Only three points separate the first six teams. The Winkers and Doublers . are all even in first place with 32 points apiece. The Itchy Niters are third with 31 points and the Sassenachs, DR’s and Out of Space are deadlocked with 29 points each. The Flying High are seventh with 28 points, the Sabres are at 26, Outlaws 24. Family Affair 23 and the CB’ers and Nicky Tams have 22 each. Trailing are the Shiphunters at 21, Scotties 20, Chances 17 and Canscotts 15. This week’s scores were: Out of Space 5 - Nicky Tams 0; DR’s 5 - Canscotts 0; Doublers 4 - Sabres 1; Family Affair 3 - Shiphun­ ters 2; Winkers 3 Sassenachs 2; Chances 3 - Outlaws 2; Itchy Niters 3 - Scotties 2; CB’ers 3 - Flying High 2; Winterize Your Body At MacLEAN'S Fridays schedule is as follows: 8 p.m. Doublers vs CB’ers, Sassenachs vs Chances, Outlaws vs Winkers, Nicky Tams vs Family Affair. 9:30 p.m. Out of Space vs Scotties, DR’s vs Itchy Niters, Shiphunters vs Canscotts, Flying High vs Sabres. Old teachers never die. They just lose their class. The Exeter Hawks ran their current win streak to five games with three more victories this week to stay right on the heels of the divi- sion leading Mitchell Hawks, The defending champions started the week off with a 4-2 upset win over the southern division leading Belmont Bombers, then came home to nip Lucan 9-8 in an offensive struggle, Fri- day, and bombed the Tavistock Braves 16-3 in a Sunday night tilt at the rec centre. Seaforth will be in town Friday night for a battle for second place in the northern division, and the Hawks then head for Mt. Brydges on Saturday for a tilt with the winless cellar dwellers of the southern group. Playing in Belmont. Wednesday, the Hawks overcame an early 2-1 deficit as they played one of their best defensive games of the season to post the 4-2 victory. Randy Lovie continued to show his old form as he stopped 33 shots. Terry Caldwell paced the scoring attack with a two- goal performance, while the singles were fired by Jamie Caldwell and Dave Bogart. Picking up the assists were Bogart. Jamie Caldwell. Don McKellar and Ken Varley. Belmont picked up 10 of the 15 penalties as they started to run at the Hawks Shooting at Claybird In Sunday’s regular com­ petition at the claybird gun club, Glen Vickery was the winner in the black powder rifle division and Jody Mosurinjohn was the best in the big bore rifle section. Rick Schroeder with a score of 19 led the trap shooters. Bill Weber was next with 18 and Larry Mason and John Love were deadlocked at 16. All even at 15 were Ted Van Rompev, Jody Mosurinjohn and Grant Hodgert while Dale Dinnev hit 13 targets. There will be shooting at the club grounds next Sun­ day if weather permits. • after they saw their chances of winning diminish. Dearing is hot Rookie Preston Dearing, who had .one hat-trick per­ formance to his credit this season, came up with four tallies Friday night as the Hawks out-lasted Lucan in a 9-8 scoring duel. The game was close throughout, the Hawks cap­ ping the win with a 3-2 margin over the final period. Dearing picked up the winner as well. , Jamie Caldwell added a pair of tallies for the Hawks, while singles were fired by Kerry Bedard. Dave Bogart and Ken Pinder. Dave Atthill. Bogart, Pinder and Fred Mommersteeg had two assists each, while. McKellar, Bedard, Ron Bilcke. Steve Jennison and First ladies bonspiel The ladies curling held their first two Saddle dub to end season One of the least publicized sporting groups in the area will be holding their annual awards banquet and presentation Saturday, December 9 at the South Huron Rec Centre. We are speaking the Exeter Saddle Club. Com­ posed of about 68 members, most of whom live within a 30 mile radius of Exeter, the Saddle Club is incor­ porated as a non-profit organization under the Cor­ poration Act by Letters Patent issued by the Province of Ontario and all funds received are used to sustain existing activities and to develop new programs. Since its inception, the primary objective of the Saddle Club Association has been to encourage and promote knowledge in the care, handling and enjoy­ ment of horses and in the science of horsemanship and equitation. In addition, through its youth activities the club has enabled junior riders, most of whom are active members of area 4-H clubs to obtain practical ex­ perience in the art of pleasure and trail riding as well as provide aspirant competitors with supervised train­ ing in all aspects of performance and gymkhana events. Hensall tourney The Hensall Minor Athletic Association has lined up an interesting and what should be exciting hockey tournament for the weekend. The new Hensall Community Centre will be the site for an eight team intermediate “C” double knockout event. Five of the teams are from the South Huron in­ termediate hockey loop. They are from Zurich, Hen­ sall, Grand Bend, Parkhill and Huron Park. They will be joined by Mildmay, Monkton and Ex­ eter. The Exeter club will be made up of players from two local rec league teams, Pfaff Electric and Les Pines. The semi-finals in each of the “A” and “B” divisions will begin ai 10 a.m. Sunday with the finals going at 3 and 5:30 p.m. Looking further ahead to other upcoming tourneys we will mention the Exeter novice and the Exeter junior Hawks events. The novice tourney goes at the South Huron Rec Centre on December 26 and 27 while the Hawks will sponsor their junior “D” tournament on January 6 and 7. Hensall beats CCAT, loses to Zurich club The Hensall Sherwoods broke even this week in the South Huron hockey league as they defeated CCAT 7-2. Sunday they were beaten 6-5 by the Zurich Buckeyes, Thursday Bill Chipchase led the way for the Sherwoods with two goals and an assist. Hensall hit the score sheet first as Larry Bourne found the range with five minutes gone in the first period. Ferguson and Ingram assisted. Two minutes later, the Sherwoods scored once again, with Ingram firing one past Dave Holmes in net for CCAT. Ferguson added the assist. The agricultural college put itself back into the game with eight minutes remain­ ing in the period but Hensall regained their two goal ad­ vantage on a score by Brian Baker. Ingram added the assist. Scoring the only two goals of the period was Chipchase with Steve Knight assisting on both goals. With twelve minutes elapsed in the third, CCAT scored their final goal of the game. The Sherwoods scored two goals in the final two minutes as Bourne scored from Ingram and Allan. Just before the buzzer went, Ingram picked up Hensail’s seventh goal of the game with help from Al Taylor and Gary Koehler. Sunday’s game between the Buckeyes and the Sherwoods was a hard fought contest with the action fast and furious. Hensall opened the scoring with only 14 seconds elapsed in the game with Steve Knight taking a pass from Greg Campbell and beating Oke. The Buckeyes rose to the occasion and put three consecutive goals behind Please turn to page 16 club game bonspiel Wednesday xyith 31 ladies playing. First prize went to Doris Hackney, Lois Learn and Ruth Skinner. Second prize winners were Melva Ecker, Ede Boyle. Joe Vallis and Betty McGee with thirdprize going to Betty Hoyles, K. Davison, S.O’Toole and Anne Grey. This week’s regular ladies curling scores were1. Busche 8 Ross 5 Ecker 6 Shapton 5 Timmerman 7 Dawson 4 Simmons 8 Hoyles 6 Boyle 5 Beattie 4 Moffatt 9 Pfaff 8 DeBlock 12 Hackwell 2 Coates 12 Hackney 7 Mickle io Gray 4 Lovell 8 Burton 3 Coleman 10 Davison 5 McDonald 11 Gregus 6. Dave Kinsman helped on one each. PaulMedd had a hat trick; while Kevin Hartwick and Brian Lather had two goals each for the Irish and the single Was registered by Brian Murray. Randy Lovie stopped 35 shots for Exeter, while Kevin Wood turned aside 30 for the visitors. The Irish picked up nine of the 17 penalties, the total including fighting majors to Ron Bilcke and Rick Freeman* in the final period. Scoring spree Goalie Steve Wells was about the only Hawk failing to hit the scoring column in Sunday night’s 16-3 drubbing of the Tavistock Braves. The Hawks scored six in the first, added four in the middle frame and came back with another half dozen in the final 20 minutes of the spree. 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