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Times -Advocate, March 23, 1983
Sports
Spotlight
By Ron Haugh
Opening day coming closer
With major league baseball's opening day less than
two weeks away, the workouts and exhibition games for
each team are becoming increasingly more important
and more spirited.
While exhibition games don't count in the pennant
races, they do give a good indication of what can be ex-
pected from any of the 26 major league teams
Interest in the Americar. League eastern division
in this part of the country is centred around the Detroit
Tigers and Toronto Blue Jays with a sprinkling of sup-
port for the Cleveland Indians and New York Yankees.
At the time of writing the Milwaukee Brewers are
showing some of the same signs as they did last year
in winning the pennant. Harvey's boys are out in front
in the grapefruit league standings with eight victories
and only two defeats and that's without any help so far
from their ace reliever Rollie Fingers.
Fingers appears to have recovered completely
from his arm ailments of a year ago and has indicated
he could pitch on opening day if necessary. A healthy
Fingers should really be the icing on the cake for
Milwaukee's repeat championship hopes.
The Blue Jays are rolling along witn seven wins in
10 starts and as expected their young pitching staff is
doing very well.
The kingpin of the Toronto hurling staff is Dave
Stieb and he has been extra stingy in his first couple
of starts. Thursday he shutout the New York Mets in
five innings of mound work.
The Jays jumped on Mets starter veteran Tom
Seaver for all four runs in the fourth inning.
The Detroit Tigers with victories in two-thirds of
their first nine games also look very impressive,
especially at the plate.
In a recent game, the Tigers were down 8-1 in the
early innings and came back to win 9-8 in extra innings
with a whirl of batting power. Larry Herndon has been
one of the top Tigers at the plate.
The Yankees with numerous super stars at least
with super star salaries acquired by boss George Stein-
brenner have a similar spring season record to the Blue
Jays of seven and three.
In the National league, the Montreal Expos'are at
an even .500 mark at the moment and their fans are
again hopeful the club with newly acquired manager
Bill Verdon can realize their pennant hopes Which have
escaped so far.
In case anyone is interested we will make our selec-
tions right now for those clubs which we feel have the
best shot at making the World Series.
In the American league east, with a healthy Rollie
Fingers the Milwaukee Brewers should be a shoo-in
with the New York Yankees providing stiff opposition.
Don't laugh too loudly as we call the Toronto Blue Jays
to finish in third spot.
The American league west could be ripe for an
upset. The two favourites Kansas City and California
are at the bottom of the grapefruit standings. We will
go with the Texas Rangers in this division.
In the National league east, look for -the St. Louis
Cardinals to repeat followed by the Expos while the
Dodgers should prevail in the west.
Hockey playoffs closer
National hockey league playoffs are a lot closer
than their baseball counterparts so we should take a
look at what's happening.
The NHL battle for overall leadership is very close
and exciting. The Boston Bruins and Philadelphia
Flyers are currently tied for the lead with 98 points with
Edmonton and Chicago close behind with 95 apiece.
These four clubs should each win their division ti-
tle and have ice advantage in the playoffs. For the
Stanley Cup we will go with the Oilers as the highest
scoring team in the league with the Bruins as second
choice mainly because of Pete Teeters and their lowest
goals given up figure.
If anyone is looking for sleeper or a dark horse how
about the Washington Capitals. Currently in about
seventh spot overall the Capitals have been very con-
sistent of late and only Thursday night edged the Boston
Bruins 2-1.
The Washington team has been getting real goal
tending of late from the combination of former London
junior Pat Riggin and Al Jensen.
That recent Washington -Boston game was quite uni-
que as only four minor penalties were called in the en-
tire 60 minutes of play.
Attendance up
Attendance to date in the 1982-83 season in the NUL
is up more than 128,000 over the first three-quarters of
the schedule as compared to a year ago.
The Chicago Black hawks have increased their fan
support at the Chicago Stadium by more than 120,000
fans, hut, that's not the biggest surprise.
In their first 30 games at home, the lowly New
Jersey Devils have attracted an average crowd of 12,291
for a total of 368,753. That's a rise of 130,925 from last
season.
The largest losses at the gates have been in St.
Louis, Buffalb and Pittsburgh where the fans have
stayed away in droves Pittsburgh is the highest at more
than 82,000 and St. Louis and Buffalo are around 63,000.
Atoms are ousted
Exeter atoms bowed out of
the OMIIA playoffs on Tues-
day when they dropped a
hard-fought 2-1 decision in St.
Marys.
Brett Seguin provided St.
Marys with the spark they
needed with a first period goal
and then set up Mark
McEwan for a second period
marker as they swept the
best -of -five series 3-0.
Alan Hlommnert scorea
Exeter's only marker with a
solo effort in the second
period. Following Rlom-
maert's tally the locals tried
desperately to get hack in the
series but could not beat the
St. Marys netminder.
Steve Sillery provided
sparkling goaltending in the
Exeter nets as he made
several key stops, particular-
ly in the first period.
Mohawks ready' dor league final,
Zurkh.H�nsall battle in overtime
Sherwoods rebound
The South Huron league
champion Hensall Sherwoods
fought off elimination when
they scored an 8-7 overtime
win in Zurich, Sunday. The
win evened their series with
the Buckeyes at two wins
each and the deciding game
was played last night in
Hensall.
The Buckeyes had taken a
2-1 lead in the series with a
10-8 overtime win in Hensall,
Thursday, but couldn't take
advantage of home ice to pull
the upset in the fourth game.
Al Taylor broke the tie after
almost 11 minutes of sudden
death following a scoreless
10 -minute overtime session.
The lead see -sawed
throughout the contest. Ilen-
sall took a 2-0 lead in the first,
but Zurich rebounded to tie it
and from then on the score
was knotted five times and
each team had the lead twice.
Sunday's winning marker
was the second for Taylor in
the game, while Jamie
Caldwell also had a pair.
Scoring in single fashion were
Ken Varley, B. Maher,
Dwight Consitt and Brian
Baker.
Caldwell, Dave Kinsman
and Lloyd Allan had two
assists each with singles go-
ing to Taylor and Consitt.
Rick Moody was a two -goal
Molting Hawks
lose in London
The Exeter Molting Hawks
dropped a 10-6 verdict to the
London Oldtimers when they
hooked up for a contest in the
London Gardens, Saturday.
The locals took a 2-0 lead in
the first, but couldn't hold on
as London opened up a 5-3
margin by the end of two.
Keith Ahrens had titre,
goals and an assist to pace
Exeter, with singles being
fired by Mike Cushman, Jim
Russell and Bill Pincombe.
Cushman added two assists
and singles were registered
by Frank Boyle, Jim Pfaff
and Eric Finkbeiner.
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singles being fired by Randy
McKinnon, Wayne Thiel, Jeff
O'Brien, Scott Consitt and
Dan Lagerwerf.
Kris Bedard recorded three
assists,.Thiel had a pair and
singles were notched by Glen
Zirk and Consitt.
Zurich sent the game into
overtime when Lagerwerf
scored at the 13:00 mark of
the final stanza after the Sher -
woods had taken a 7-6 lead on-
ly 47 seconds earlier.
Zurich picked up 16 minors
in the game, while Hensall
served only 10:
In Thursday's game, the
Sherwoods scored three times
in the third to send the game
into overtime, but the
Buckeyes potted two in the
10 -minute session to take the
series lead.
Randy McKinnon scored
the winner with just over two
minutes left in the overtime
and Glen Zirk sealed the win
with a minute left.
Zirk, Wayne Thiel and Dan
Lagerwerf each scored a pair
for the Buckeyes with singles
being registered by Kris
Bedard, Marvin Merner, Ron
Rader and Randy McKinnon.
Scott Consitt was the top
play -maker with three
assists, followed by Zirk and
Rick Moody with two. Helping
out on one goal each were
Lagerwerf, Jeff O'Brien,
Rader, Darryl Postill,
Bedard, Randy McKinnon
and Merner.
Rick Ingram, Ken Varley
and Dave Kinsman had two
goals each for the Sherwoods
and adding singles were
Maher and Jamie Caldwell.
The latter helped out on four
goals to top the assist parade,
while Brian Baker and Taylor
had two each. Assisting on
one were Kinsman, Varley,
Greg Campbell, Consitt and
Maher.
The Buckeyes won the
penalty parade with 10
minors, while Hensall had
five. Each team scored twice
on the powerplay.
BOWLING
Friday Mixed
P. Smith 593 5
H. Faber 665 7
G. Latulippe 622 2
B. Hogarth 659 5
R. Lawrence 563 2
P. Hrudha a25 3
A. Kooey 576 4
L. Heywood 617 2
R. Dougall 687 5
121'2 CD
107 GF
121 GH
129 LO
82 ABB
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64'2 TB
110 GG
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Sunday Mixed
L. Webber 707 7 130
R. Mason 676 7 , 104
E. Blong 635 0 43
Gary & Jim 665 7 104
D. Brintnell 809 0 74
S. Mair 578 0 74
Exeter Minors Sr.
B. MacDonald 363 7 119
M. VanRelle 333 101 88
R. Clipperton 329 4 71
J. Steuer 265 2 88
S. Skinner 409 8 130
Juniors
M. Kingma 232 S 94
B. Geady 241 9 78
M. Baker 197 2 86
D. Negrijn :331 5 70
Pee Wees
B. Heron 88 2 29
• J. Dougall 101 1 19
Wednesday Morning I.adles
R. Berends 557
E. Bowen 518
J. Munds 405
•V. Harbanuik .560
U. Kipfer 515
L. Snell 461
Senior Citizens
M. Dearing
M. Dearing
T Walker
G. Skinner
W. Shapton
L. Stone
Monday Senior Men
M. Dearing
G. Hamilton
H. Taylor
G. Hoggarth
C. Smith
A. Cann
Huron (lope
R. McCann
K. Verbeek
C. Proulx
J. DeKort
E. DeKort
•M. Baker
Mens A
C4 R. Wood 693 4
SP B. Hogg 714 5
LE C. Mcf)onald 685 2
IIS G. Dunlop 791 0
RO J. Bell 669 7
SU H. Holleman 858 5
013 J. Fuller 697 3
PA M Stephen 693 5
CG Gerald 528 7
GG D. Brintnell 724 2
OE B. Vanhammc698 2 35
489
292
317
338
307 •
302
498
398
466
496
493
444
113
114
122
97
95
97
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53
41
47
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Tuesday Ladles
HD E. Millman 612 7
CP L. Pincombe 893 7
PP P.•Haugh 625 5
GT S. Dawe 813 3
TA H. Parsons 475 0
SP G. Steeper 521 2
AC B. Morrissey 690 4
WH A. 7,achar 638 7
YW E. Browning 536 7
RR D. Deters 805 0
RU S. Smith 484 0
138
137
125
118
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77
102
112
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Thursday Ladies
J. Meriam 525 5
S. Wright 606 7
I. Hodgins 611 5.
M. Chalmers 551 5
R. Luther 679 0
D. Webster 522 2
R. Negrijn 653 2
L. We!)Ler 669 2
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CHALLENGE WINNERS - Play in the challenge league at the Exeter curling club
concluded on Saturday. Winners were the Doug Webber rink, shown in the front.
From the left Rick Parker, Larry Fulton, Doug Webber and Gord McCarter. The
"B" flight winners are standing. From the left: trophy donor Bob Rowe, Larry
Dawson, Craig Alexander, Dick Dougall and skip John Cdleman. Other sponsors
of the event in addition to Rowe Fuels were Molson's and Canadian Canners.
Pee wees clipped in first,
seek Goderich consolation
After a heart -breaking
overtime loss in their first
game at the Young Canada
Week tournament at
Goderich, the Exeter pee
wees have taken one step
towards the consolation
trophy. '
The locals dropped a 3-2
decision to Walkerton in the
opener on Friday, being
denied partially on an of-
ficial's decision regarding
what appeared to be a goal in
the final mintite that would
have given them the victory.
Trailing 2-0 after the first
period, the locals rebounded
to knot the count and ap-
peared to have the winner
late in the game when Jon
O'Connor fired a back -hander
that bounced around in the
post area. Walkerton team of-
ficials, who were closer to the
play, said after the game they
thought the goal was in.
Their team scored just
under five minutes .into the
overtime.
Jeff Rowe and O'Connor
scored for Exeter, with the
latter assisting on the goal by
Rowe. '
Returning to play on Satur-
day on the consolation side,
the locals scorecta convincing
6-2 win over Poet Elgin, with
all eight goals coming in the
final period of the game after
the team failed to dent the
twine in the first two stanzas.
Again, Exeter had to come
from behind and they did it by
scoring four times in the last
twa and a half minutes.
CURL IN GUELPH -- A rink skipped by Gord Ross won the Exeter division of the
Gay Lea Foods curling bonspiel and qualified for further playoffs in Guelph. Above,
Edwin Miller' representing Gay Lea congratulates Gord and Eileen Ross and Albert
and Didi Van Dyken. T -A photo
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Again; Exeter had to come
from behind and they did it by
scoring four times in the last
two and a half minutes.
Steve Anderson and Jon
O'Connor paced the attack
with two goals each, with the
singles being added by Tom
Rolph and Jeff Kints.
Anderson, O'Connor, Jeff
Dalrymple, Shawn Forsythe,
Rob McKnight and Jeff Han-
nah registered assists.
The Exeter crew will meet
either Goderich or Delhi
their next outing on Thursday
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Tribe oust Marauders
The Exeter Mohawks down-
ed Centralia Marauders 5-2
Thursday to sweep their
South Huron' league semi-
final in three straight and now
await the winner of the
Zurich-Hensall series for the
championship battle.
The locals took a 2-0 lead in
the first on goals by Dave At-
thill and Luc Gagnon and
were never headed after that,
although the Marauders pull-
ed to within one goal in the
third.
Brad Taylor for the
Mohawks and Blair Hearn for
the Marauders made it 3-1 at
the end of two and then Terry
Underhill scored for Centralia
at the 8:10 mark of the final
stanza to make it 3-2 for
Exeter.
However, Rick Lindenfield
scored two minutes later to
push the lead back to two
goals and Brad Daters pulled
the game out of reach when
he dented the twine at the
14:14 mark.
Brian Mercer and Tom
Ryan assisted on three of the
goals for the Mohawks, while
Brian Taylor helped out on a
pair. Rick Lindenfield and
Brad Taylor had one assist
each.
Matt Muller registered an
assist on both goals for Cen-
tralia and Mark Cronyn and
• Bill Hodge had one each.
The Mohawks. who head in-
to the final series of the
S.11.H.L. for only the second
-time, hope to capture their
first championship with a
lineup that boasts seven
players who had over 47
points in 26 regular games.
Heading the list of high
powered shooters is Brian
Mercer who finished with 29
goals, 39 assists good for 68
points while Tom Ryan was
the top n,arksman with 31
goals. The defence. headed
by Barry Baynham and Jim
Guenther along with rookies
Dave Atthill and Rick Linden -
field has helped the goalten-
ding duo of Doug Fairbairn
and Tom Steeper capture the
award for the lowest average
in the league.
The Mohawks now await
the winner of the Hensall-
Zurich series. The first hone
game against Zurich would he
Friday night, while they
would play Sunday night at
home against Ilensall it the
Sherwoods were to win.
Time for either game would
be 8:30.
An alibi is a reason with a
bad reputation.
MEETING NOTICE
Exeter and Area
Junior Hockey Association
Election of Officers
Wednesday, March 30, 1983
8:00 p.m.
South Huron Rec Centre
Nomination Committee
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Tom Murch
Gerald Willis
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