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Times-Advocate, 1988-11-09, Page 18Page 2A Times -Advocate, November 9, 1988 Sports Spotlight by Wayne Proctor Ever since men began lacing up skates to play hockey, the game has had trouble with violence. - .Back in the 1930's it was'Eddic Shore who high slicked Ace Bai- .. lcy:so severely that it eventually ended his career. - During the 1950:s and .60's, it was the rough and rugged Gordie fiowe.and Bdx)tn Boom Geoffrion Gra. Most of us remember Gordic t lows as a great scoter and player, but he was also one of the rough- est players when he was in his priine. The same can be said for'Ge- offrlon The Philadelphia Flyers came along in the 1970's and brawled their way to two Stanley Cups with the like of Dave Schultz, Bob Kelly and Don Saleski. Last year the National Hockey League had two scary incidents, when -Dave Brown, of Philadelphia, nearly decapitated Thomas Sand- strom, of the New York Rangers, with a vicious cross-check. Also, Dino Cicarelli, of the Minnesota North Stars tried to rearrange-To- Tonialvta-plc Leafs' defence man -Luke -Richardsons face -with his stick _ during a game at Maple Leaf Gardens. Cicarclli was later charged in that incident and fined heavily and spent one day behind bars. Brown was suspended for 10 games as was Cicarclli V iolcnce does not seem to be letting up this year. In the last week NHL vice president Brian O'Neill has handed out three suspensions for violent acts. The first was a six -game suspension handed to Mark Messier, the • Edmonton Oilers for hitting Rich Sutter, of Vancouver, in the teeth with his stick, breaking four of them: Dental records later showed that Messier hit Sutter. so hard that black tape was found in Sutter's teeth that were broken. I think Sutter is better off letting his dentist • rcmove.his teeth'and not Messier. The second was an eight -game suspension to Flyers' Rick Tocchct, who tried to gauge out a New York Islanders' players' eye during a IOC • But all of that hit home and was overshadowed last week when Ex- eter native Dave Shaw, of the Rangers, surpassed them all when O'Neill handed Shaw a 12 -game suspension for slashing Mario Le- . micux, of the Penguins, with two hands across the chest during a game at Madison. Square Gardens on October 30. Just before the slashing incident Shaw had checked Lemieux, the NHL scoring leader, cleanly along the boards, Lemieux retaliated by cross-checking Shaw near the side of the Rangers` net. Shaw took exception to that and swung his stick with both hands striking Le- mieux. . During his statement pronouncing sentence on Shaw last Wednes- day, O'Neill said he went lightly on Shaw because it was his first of- fence, but his excuse of retaliation because ofLemieux's cross-check was "totally unacceptable. From his.home in New York on Friday, Shaw gave his version of what happened during a phone interview. "I• hit Mario pretty hard along thc hoards with a clean check and I think_it shook hint up a little hit. The puck came hack to- him he took a.shot on net, then the play .started going..up the other way, he saw me,.cross-checked me with two hands and 1 got him hack," said Shaw. ."I didn't think -1 hit -him that hard but he. fell to the ice and didn't get up. 1 didn't think any of the other Penguins would have wanted to get at back at me if Mario had gotten up right away, and i wanted. _him get up right away and when he was till lying there after a while I: knew 1 was in trouble. 1 think if he would have gotten up right away 1 would have only gotten a five-minute penalty, but when he didn't 1 knew i was gone.' Naturally Shaw as well as Ranger's general manager Phil Esposito thought the 12game suspension was a little harsh. Esposito had the - option of appealing the suspension; but decided not to because of the .implication: that can happen. - Shaw said.Messicr's act of violence was much worse than his and was frustrated Messier's penalty was only half as harsh. "In the NHL it all depends upon who you arc when it comes to handing out discipline.: I think if Messier would have done what i did they prohahly would have -only given him six or seven games," said Shaw. "People come out to sec guys like Messier play hockey and don't like to sec them out for very long. 1 guess they want to make an example of me." Nevertheless,. Shaw regrets what he did and said he prohahly will - never do it again, because not only is he hurting himself, he is hurt- ing his team.- Rangers arc currently two points ahead of Pittsburgh, in first place in the Patrick Division standings. • Almost overshadowed -in that game with Pittsburgh was Shaw's first goal of the season. Shaw will continue to practice with the Rangers to keep in shape hut will not be getting paid. He is eligible to return to the lineup on November 27, when the Rangers will play host to the New York is- landers at Madison Square Gardens. I think Shaw -would be the first one to admit he deserves to be sus- pended for what he did, but if it had been anybody besides Lemieux or Wayne Grctzky, he probably would have gotten six or eight games maximum. Lcmicux incidentally got up and skated off under his own power after being slashed by Shaw with only abruiscd ster- num; but hurt his wrist in a game on Thursday and will miss three or four games. Bowlers attend tournament ntinued from page IA i'r: ,relent Andy McIntyre placed [And) in di j,N pins -over average tour- nament with a +96. • Other executives attending were; Marg Carrol, Sheila Charlton, vnn and Larry Smith, and Glena I Tipp. All bowlers received gifts 'from our generous sponsors. • Following the tournament many bowlers attended thc Nall of Fame • dinner and dance held in the Westin Mohawks beaten by Blues continued from page 1 five assists. Jeff Warren and Gates each picked up a pair of markers, while Jcff McClenaghan picked up the single Bgoal. in addition to the assists by arton, Wilkcr, and Randerson, Ron Elliot picked up a pair and Sooner, Sherer, McClenaghan, Bedard, Goodhand, Barry Baynham, Wayne Lrbshott, Dale Timmcrmans and goaltender Rick Pikul picked up one assist each. Darryl Hughson paced the Chiefs' attack with three .goals and Bob Parker, Scott Jackson and Steve Cloutier scored one goal each: Mohawks travel to 'Shelburne Fri- day to do battle with thc Muskies and return home to the South Huron Rcc Centre Sunday night to play the Tavistock Royals at 7:30 p.m. Harbour Castle Hotel, where new , Hall-of-Famers were inducted and honored. FIELD HOCKEY TEAM- The South Huron District High School Pan- thers' field hockey team lost=inAse-quarter finals of OFSSA in Cambridge on Friday. It was only the third loss of the 'season, but it ended their year. Front row (left to right), Jeannette Kaak, Becki Farquhar, Wendy Sims, Tina Campbell, Joelle Lamport. Kim Crawford, Nicole Rosie, Marcie Ellison, Strong third gives LUCAN - Fivc goals in the third period 'propelled the Lucan Irish oyer Wellesley 9=5 -in WeSTern7un- ior D hockey action, at the Lucan Arena Wednesday night. Irish fell behind 3-0 early in the first period, but managed to tic the contest 3-3 at the first intermission. Wellesley scored twicc in the sec- ond period to take a 5-4 lead head- • ing into the third but with the five goals in the third, Lucan put the game -on ice. David Murray had a hat trick to lead the Irish in scoring, Paul Barnes had a pair and singles went to Colin Telford, Joe Febrcy, Jeff Ilirtzcll and Brian. Rick Weishar and Febrcy led in the assist department with three ,411 Cindy Moore, April Lewis, Sue Anne Soldan,.Natalie Brokens ire. :a row, (I -r); Tanya Riehl, Chrissie O'Toole, Mandi Fields, Sue Coates, Sherry Kerslake, Jenny Warham, Cathy Hartman, Kim-Lingard,. Melanie Jones, Leanne Dietrich, Lisa Ellerington, Shannon McBride, Jim Workman, coach. . Irish win each; Glenn Marshall, Barnes, Dar- rcn.Ncil, Brad Muir and Scott De- nomyearh had- apair. • Next game for Irish is tonight when they play host • to Brussels Bulls at the Lucan Arena. Game time is 8:15 p.m. Friday night 1.u - can travels to Tavistock to play the Braves at 8:30 p.m. Hawks beaten by Bulls, Braves Continued from pag,; IA two -minute roughing penalty with only.3:32 left in the period. Just over a minute later, Geoff Slater . was called for a slashing penalty, which put Hawks two mendown. Marty -Rutledge scored for Brussels - with Exeter down two men, to make it 2-1 for Bulls. But Exeter killed off the remainder of the pen- .alty time to Cousineau, which should have given them a boost. In- stead Bulls picked up the momen- tum scoring three times in the sec- ond on just five shots, while Murray Townsend stymied Hawks throughout the game in net for • .Bulls. After Brussels scored its fifth goal - of the night, (Rutledge's third of the night), at- 16:24 of the second, Nairn replaced. starting goalie Todd Ringettes defeat Stratford EXETER - Saturday was the Ex eter Petit Ringettc team's day to travel to Stratford. The Exeter's team of nine players played a tough game and won 7-6 with seven ::cc- ondls left on the clock. Most of the goals for both teams were scored in the first half. Da- nielle Miners and Cara Gardner each nianagcd two .for Exctcr and Strat- ford l 1cgally's had four girls con- tributing to their score; Shannon \Villemsen with two, Amanda Mor- ton, Cheri Clartncc, and Jaime Powers. The second half was more end-to- end action with .Miners getting two goals and Garner connecting on one. Tanya Tessmcr scored Strat- ford's only second -half goal. Miners and Gardner were assisted in their scoring by- Sonya Law- rence, Jo-Dcc Rowe, Judi Wilson, Teresa Shire, Lce_ anne Foster, and Cheryl Wein. First-time goaltender, Amy Ed- wards also performed well for Exet- er. This weekend The Petits will host Mitchell Ringettc at Ilensall on Saturday at 4:30 p.m. and the girls travel to Seaford! Sunday for a 5 p.m. game.. We would like to see you out. SOCCER WINNERS - Precious Blood Primary Mixed Soccer team were hosts of the Huron -Perth championships fast Tuesday, and took the title. Front row, (left to right) John Rasenberg, coach, Jeremy VanEs- broeck, Brenden Kraftcheck, Greg Geoffrey, captain, Darryl Parsons, Amanda Regier, Laura Cook, Teresa Wilhelm, Jody Hodgert. Back row, (1- r), Mark Parsons, Scott Rasenberg, Michael Wilhelm, Brent Hartman, Scott Gilfillan, Tony Pickering, Tyana Fraser, Brianne Czypyha, Jennifer Grenier, Jacklyn VanEsbroek. 11. GREY CUP '88 OTTAWA Nov. 25 -26 -27th Cost; • $189.00 p/p based on quad occupancy • S197.00 p/p based on triple occupancy • $214.00 p/p based on double ok,..upancy • $259.00.pip based on single occupancy WON Travel a Tours Ltd. EXETER (519) 235-2000 Toll Free 1-800-265-7022 or r .Campbell with Bill Pauli, and al- _ though Pauli shut the door the rest of the way on Bulls, Exeter couldn't get the equalizer, despite having many good chances in the third pe- riod. Jack Clarke opened the scoring for Exeter at 15:51 of the first, from Derek Shackleton and Joel Campbell • Mark Morrisey scored the team's second goal, at 16 seconds of the third period; from Dan Nairn and Cousineau. Cousineau scored at the 11 - minute mark of the third, from •Shackleton, to make it 5-3 game. Nairn's goal 49 seconds later, made it a one -goal game, from Joel Campbell, but Hawks couldn't get. 'the equalizer. VISTOCK 10 EXETER 2 Tavistock scored four times in each of the first two periods in ca,i- ly heating "the hawks Saturday night in Tavistock. Hawks had 2() minor penalties • and one major penalty called against them. Braves responded by scoring four times on the .power play. Morrisey scored for Exeter, at 16;03 of the second, from Naim and Jeff Ansems and Larry Lewis .got. the other goal for Exeter. at 12:52 of the third period, from Ansems. Hawks were scheduled to play 'i•a- vistock at the South' Huron Rec Centre last night. 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