The Huron Expositor, 1995-02-15, Page 8B -THE HURON EXPOSITOR, February 1d, 11M
Cents in thick of wild playoff scramble
It's the wild and woolliest stretch
drive in many a moon for most
teams in the Western Division of
the Ontario Hockey Association
Junior "D"evelopment League.
The Seaforth Centenaires did all
they were asked and drilled the
Hawks 6-2 at Mitchell Friday night,
but still failed to gain ground as the
tight playoff race entered the final
week of the regular schedule.
The Centenaires played a
rescheduled game last night
(Tuesday) at Lambeth, and play
their final game at North
Middlesex, which was also snowed
out earlier this season, next
Tuesday night at 8:30, two days
after the Western Division schedule
was supposed to end with playoff
schedules established.
But only three points separated
third from sixth with the wool only
temporarily settled this Monday
inorning, with first-round playoff
matchups and home -ice advantage
for the four teams in the thick of it
still very much up in the air.
With four games remaining and
42 points the Exeter Hawks (19-
14(1/OT losses) -3) have a leg up on
third and would get home -ice
advantage in the first round against
the sixth-place finisher. Fourth also
gets home -ice advantage against
fifth in the opening round.
Lucan with 40 points (19-18(1)-1)
is now in fourth with two games
remaining - Mitchell and Mt.
Brydges - and can stay there or
climb higher if they win them both.
The Centenaires have 39 points and
are tied for fifth (18-17-3), assured
of their highest placing since the
league went to a two -division, nine -
team format in the late 1980s, with
those two rescheduled games on the
road still on tap.
Belmont (18-21(2)-1) also has 39
points and a share of fifth by virtue
of a 6-1 victory over the faltering
division leaders from Port Stanley
Sunday. But they are out of games
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ICE MAN - Centenaires goalie Dave Nahrgang was one cool customer under extreme pressure at
Mitchell Friday night as the Hawks out -shot Seaforth 42-17 but lost 6-2. It marked the first time since
their championship season of 1985-86 that Seaforth has swept the season's series on Mitchell ice, and
the Seaforth Juniors enter the final week of their Ontario Hockey Association regular season gunning
for the fourth -best record in their 21 -year history.
looking very ordinary, having
coughed.up 27 goals against in their
past four starts.
At Mitchell Friday the
Centenaires ran into penalty
problems right off the bat and
played shorthanded for much of the
first nine minutes, but broke the
scoreless deadlock and got a big
boost when Chad Papple scored on
a long bomb from the Seaforth side
of centre ice at 9:20. Steve Geiger
and Kalen Carroll then scored to
give Seaforth a 3-0 lead going into
the second period.
Goaltender Dave Nahrgang
proved his mettle as a clutch
performer under pressure with
playoffs in the wind, by keeping
Seaforth in the game, especially late
in the second period with the
margin narrowed to 4-2, as the
Hawks enjoyed a 42-17 edge in
shots on net.
and can climb no higher.
In the event of ties the first
formula the league goes to is wins,
then .head-to-head records, unless
it's a three-way or more tie in
which case the OHA tie-breaker
formula kicks in, which involves
goals for and against. Seaforth won
its regular season's series against
both Belmont and Exeter, so is
assured of at least fifth.
The race for the eighth and final
playoff position is somewhat
simpler. Mt. Brydges is currently in
the driver's seat, four points up on
the North Middlesex Stars with two
games remaining. But the Stars
have four games left, so have to
win at least three of those four or
get the golf clubs out.
Meanwhile at the top of the table
the Lakers from Port Stanley, who
have clinched, are all of a sudden
Scott Wright, Jason Hayter and
Greg Matthison also scored for the
Cents and Mark Mahon and Rob
Boville replied for the Hawks.
Adam Agar started the game in the
Mitchell net but was replaced by
Darcy Ballantyne after Seaforth's
fifth goal.
The win was Seaforth's third on
Mitchell ice this season, the first
time the Centenaires have swept all
games in their arch -rival's rinks
(one game was played at Monkton)
since 1985-86. Seaforth has never
finished higher than sixth since the
coming of the nine -team divisions,
and is working towards its best
record since that championship
season. Last season the Centenaires
notched their fourth -best record in
the team's 21 -year history, finishing
sixth at an even .500 with a record
of 18-18-4.
Elvis Stojko (above), who
visited Seaforth in 1993, was
named the second top sports
story in Canada in 1994.
Lloyd Eisler and Isabelle
Brasseur were seventh.
Eisler, Brasseur
among Canada's
top sports stories
Seaforth native Lloyd Eisler,
aid figure skating partner
Isabelle Brasseur, have been
chosen as one of Canada's top
tru sports stories for 1994.
Brasseur and Eisler were
chosen seventh in the Canadiu
Club Sports Survey for
accomplishment of ending t.
amateur carter with a bronze
the Lillehammcr Olympics and a
silver at .the World Champion-
ships.
Elvis Stojko was chosen sec-
ilud for his gold medal win at
the World Figure Skating Cham-
pionships and his silver at the
Olympics in Lillchammer, Nor-
way.
The first choice was Canada's
first World Hockey title since
1961. Other winners were
Myriam Bedard (third), for her
two gold medals in the biathlon
at the Winter Olympics;
Canada's Olympic hockey team
which won silver in Lillchammer
(fourth); Jean -Luc Brassard's
mogul gold in Norway (fifth);
New York Rangers' Stanley Cup
win to snap a 54 -year jinx
(sixth), the National Hockey
League lock -out (eighth); the
first -place Montreal Expos great
season foiled by the baseball
strike (ninth) and the cancella-
tion of the major league baseball
eason (tenth).
TIM CUMMING PHOTO
WATCHING THE PLAY - Seaforth second John McFadzean, vice
Steve Dolmage and skip Todd Doig watch their competitors during
the Colt Zone Competition at the Seaforth Curling Club on
Saturday. (At top right, Gord Pryce watches from behind the
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