Times-Advocate, 1980-12-03, Page 10With the schedule nearing
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"D" .division have tightened
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The Exeter Hawks. moved
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THROUGH THE CREASE — Exeter hawk goalie Ritch Fletcher had a close call midway through the third period in the game
between the Hawks and the Lucan Irish. Watching the puck go through the crease are Hawks (white sweaters) RonBilcke
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Midgets gain three victories
p9wer-play goal "as Exeter
picked, up nine of the 14
minor penalties called in the
contest.
Orgy.* are hot
The Tavistock Braves.
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hottest team in the northern,
division as they dominated
play throughout Saturday's
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with five unanswered goals
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"1114r 19" Mitchell here. Friday,S"af,rth ',Sunday
Old teams slow
The six old franchises in the National Hockey
League are not off to great starts in the 1980-81 cam-
paign.
In the overall standings of the 21 NHL, teams, one
must move down to the eighth spot to find one of the
original teaMs, the Montreal Canadiens.
Then its down to the eleventh spot to the Chicago
Black Hawks, two rungs lower to the Toronto Maple
Leafs and two more to the Boston Bruins in fifteenth
place.
Practically bringing up the rear are the New York
Rangers and Detroit Red Wings with only the Win-
nipeg Jets below them.
The Philadelphia Flyers are out in front in first
place. Three teams, the Flyers, New York Islanders
and Minnesota North Stars have lost only five games.
The North Stars have five less games than most of the
other clubs.
Three clubs have shown tremendous improvement
over last year. They include the St. Louis Blues,
Washington Capitals and Vancouver tanucks.
In Washington, youthful coach Gary Green,
formerly of the Peterborough Petes has his team play-
ing great positional hockey and they had little trouble
in disposing of the Toronto Maple Leafs in two
weekend contests.
The Washington club is also low' in the loss column
iwth only six. They have a high total of nine ties.
Baseball remains
The 1980 baseball season is long gone but the
summer sport has a happy faculty of staying in the
limelight for most of the 12 months of the year.
During the off season, publicity varies between
managers and coaches eing fired, finding other
positions and players signing long term high priced
contracts.
The 1980 surge towards pennant contention by the
Montreal Expos may not be repeated next summer un-
less they start cracking and get some more top notch
players.
So far this fall and it could be called winter now,
the Expos have not only stood still, but, one could say
they have fallen back.
The loss of fleet footed outfielder Ron LeFlore is
going to hurt the Expos in the run department. In the
same vein, we doubt if LeFlore will be enough to make
the White Sox any contenders for the pennant.
A recent article in the Sporting News which is
known as baseball's Bible lists the tops in a variety of
categories,
Despite their low standings the Toronto Blue Jays
fall into two categories.
Alfredo Griffin and Damaso Garcia are listed as
the best double play combination in the American
league and Bob Bailor was said to be the second best in
hit and run.
The best fastball pitcher is Len Barker of the
Cleveland Indians a starter and Rick Gossage in relief
followed by Ron Guidry of the Yankees and Rich Gale
of the Royals.
The best sinker pitch belongs to Tommy John,
Fergy Jenkins is the fastest pitcher and Dick Drago of
Boston the slowest. Guidry also has the best slider,
Steve Stone the best curveball and Scott McGregor of
the Orioles with the best control.
Behind the plate, Carlton Fisk of Boston gets the
nod as the best in calling pitches and alio makes the
most number of trips to the mound. Lance Parrish of
Detroit has the strongest arm and Butch Wynegar of
Minnesota gets the ball away the quickest.
While the two Blue Jays are best at double plays,
Rick Burrelson of Boston is the best shortstop at tur-
ning a double play and Frank White of Kansas City
gets the nod at second base.
The best infielder hands belong to Mark Belanger
of Baltimore and Todd Cruz of the White Sox has the
strongest arm.
In the outfield, Willie Wilson of Kansas City has
the best range, Gorman Thomas of Milwaukee is the
most willing to crash into a fence, Wayne Nodrhagen
of Chicago has the strongest arm and Dwayne Murphy
of Oakland plays the shallowest.
As could be expected George Brett rates at the top
in two batting categories. Brett is the hardest to strike
out and is the tougest in UP' clutch.
Mike Hargrove of ClevLand has the sharpest eye
at the plate and takes the longest at the plate to get
ready for a pitch.
Ben Ogilivie of Milwaukee has the hardest swing,
Rob Piccilo of Oakland is the toughest to walk and Rod
Carew is the best bunter,
Incidentally, the Rolaids relief man wards went to
Dan Quisenberry of Kansas City and Rollie Fingers of
the San Diego Padres.
e,tuisenberry was tops in the AL with 83 points.
Aurelio Lopez of Detroit was fourth with 63 points.
The NL battle was a lot closer with Fingers only
edging Tom. Hume of Cincinatti by one point 59 to 58.
Pitchers are given two points for each win, two
points for each save and one point deducted for each
game lost.
A good year for cagers
This year is promising to be one of the best in
many years for the basketball teams at South Huron
District High School.
The junior girls team under the tutelage of coach
Pat Rowe won 10 straight games in the Huron-Perth
Conference regular schedule.
They will be action today, Wednesday at the South
Huron gym in the second game of the Huron-Perth
finals and We wou.-I hope they continue their un-
defeated streak. •
The senior girls art. also in the H-P final and the
senior boys club appear to be ready for a good season.
A week ago they won a tournament in St. Thomas with
Doug Hoffman sinking the winning point with only a
couple of seconds remaining.
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Lucan when they posted a 7-3
win over the Irish at the re -1
Friday, but they
watched the Tavistock
Braves make it a three-way
with three losses during the
week. They were clipped 9-2
by Ilderton, 4-2 by Lucan and
5-2 in Goderich.
Calvin Stanlake and John
Wells fired the goals against
Ilderton with the aassists to
Steve Gould and Steve
Batten. Batten and Scott
Bogart were the marksmen
against Lucan, while Batten
and Steve Gould fired the
goals against Goderich.
In an exhibition contest,
the bantam H team dropped
a 2-0 verdict to Huron Park.
Jim Beaver and Scott
Dinney scored for the win-
ners. Jason VanHarlaan and
Derrick Misner were in goal
for Exeter and played
superbly to keep the score
close. Pee wees win
The Exeter pee wees
finally picked up their first
Shamrock point when they
tied Ilderton 3-3 at the rec
centre, Wednesday and
came right back Friday to
beat Lucan 5-4 for their first
win of the seMon.
Sean Whiteford and Jim
Lewis sparked the team to
their first points of the
season. Whiteford scored six
The Exeter midgets posted
three wins in Shamrock
league action this week to
run their league • unbeaten
string to seven games.
The locals started off with
a 3-2 win over Ilderton at the
rec centre, Wednesday and
then took to the road to post
wins over Lucan and
Goderich.
Exeter spotted Merton a
2-0 lead in their Wednesday
game and then rapped in
three straight for the win.
Steve Prout notched the
winner with five minutes left
in the game.
Dave Underwood and Jeff
Rowe fired the other
markers with the only assist
on the three goals going to
Dennis McBride. ,
Playing in Lucan, Friday,
the locals opened up a 3-0
lead in the first and coasted
to a 7-1 margin. Dave Hayter
paced the attack with three
goals. Steve Prout added two
and singles were fired by
.Dave, Underwood and Mike
Clark. Jamie Chaffe drew
three assists and adding one
each were Clark, Jeff Rowe
and Jim Siddall.
Saturday night, the
midgets travelled to
Goderich and returned with
a 4-3 win, again coming back
from an early 2-0 deficit.
Mark Vandergunst scored
a pair and the singles came
off the sticks of Clark and
Underwood. Randy Ford and
Scott Brintnell helped out on
two goals each and single
assists went to Steve(( Batten,
Clark and Dave Hayter.
Peter Dearing was in the
nets to post all three
triumphs.
Atoms get tie
The Exeter atoms gained
one tie in two weekend
contests. They tied Goderich
2-2 on Saturday and then
dropped an 8-1 loss to St,
Marys at the rec centre,
Sunday.
Scoring in the loss against
St. Marys was Rob
McKnight, with the assists
going to Doug Clark and Jeff
Hannah.
In the Goderich game,
Scott Boyd and Jon O'Connor
blinked the light, for Exeter,
with Doug Clark picking up
one assist. Bantams dumped
The local bantams kept
their winless streak intact
tie when they lost to the
Bray.es by a 10-2 count,
Saturday.
The Brave's. are. the hottest
team in the division and they
goals in the two games, while
Lewis played some standout
goal to keep the.opposition at
bay. Waxers tie, lose
Playing at home, Sunday,
the local novice crew
dropped a 4-1 verdict to the
league leading crew from St.
Marys.
Tim VanDam scored the
lone Exeter goal with the
assists going to David Sch-
windt and David O'Connor.
On Saturday, the Waxers
battled Goderich to a 4-4 tie.
Alan Blommaert scored a
pair with the singles to
Robbie McLelland and Tim
VanDam.
beat the loop leading
Mitchell Hawks, on Tuesday
before thumping both Ex-
eter and Seeforth on the
weekend.
Mitchell still leads the
loop with 20. points, while.
Exeter, Lucan and
Tavistock have 15 each,
§eaforth brings up the rear
with five., The Braves have
two games in hand over the
Hawks and the. Irish have
one,
This week, Exeter hosts
Mitchell at the rec centre„
Friday, and then will have
§eaforth here fora Sundays
afternoon contest. The Irish
also have a shot at Mitchell
and the standings could be
even tighter by the end of the
week.
Strong effort
The Hawks came up with
one of their best efforts in
handing the Irish the 7-3 set-
back, Friday.
The visitors took a quick 2-
0 lead and were ahead 3-2 at
the end of the first.
However, the Hawks scored
the only two goals of 'the
middle frame and won going
away with three more un-
answered -goals over the
final 20 minutes.
Preston Dearing and Pete
Tuckey paced the locals with
two goals each with the
singles being fired by Brad
Taylor, Bill Glover and
Bryan Baker.
Captain Brian Mercer was
the top play-maker with four
assists, while Ed Willis con-
tributed three and singles
were recorded by Dave
Couse and Taylor.
Tony Underhill, Bob
Hodgins and Ron Glenn
scored for Lucan.
Rich Fletcher recorded
the win for Exeter in the
nets and had 28 saves to his
credit. Kevin Woods had 22
stops for Lucan.
Both teams managed -one