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Times-Advocate, 1978-11-16, Page 16 (2)Page 16 Times -Advocate, November 16, 1978 Sports Spotlight By Rosi Haugh Well done Although the South tluron District High School junior footballers lost Saturday in their attempt to win the Huron -Perth .Conference championship they turn- ed -in a good performance. Despite the loss of their star runniug back. Rick Lindenfield. early in• the game. the junior Panthers were able to hold onto an 8-8 tie until the last few r minutes of the game when the Goderich Vikings pulled away with two quick touchdowns. ' The game was exciting from start to finish with very few penalties being called and action was con- . tinuous with first onelear and -then the other -moving— - the ball well. 1 '` Congratulations to coaches Dong Ellison and Dave Cox and every member of the club for a job well done. The same goes along - with the better luck next year to Ron Bogart and his senior Panthers. They were wiped out by the Goderich seniors in the semi- final contest but should be improved next year with most of the players back to try it again with more ex- perience A lucky start? The Toronto Blue Jays were hoping that all the talk surrounding Friday- the 13th is just that. Friday. April 13 is the day the Blue Jays will open their 1979. American league home schedule at CNE Stadium against the Kansas City Royals. The Blue Jar's open the season away from home on April 5 against the same Kansas City club. The 1979 American league schedule has been changed considerably to allow.•a balanced schedule between eastern and western division teams. - This means that the Blue Jays will play at least six home and six away games against both East and West teams. The remaining six games that make up the 1112 game schedule will be split up between eastern division opposition' The• Blue Jays will be athome on four holiday dates. They are Good Friday. Easter Monday. Vic- toria Day and Civic Holiday. Thrown in is the annual Pearson Cup game against the Montreal Expos. It will be in Toronto the afternoon of April 19 at 4 p.m. Sounds good - -We read recently in the }Jockey News that former Montreal Canadien star goalie Jacques Plante *is vir- tually retired and splitting his time between. Nevada and Switzerland. • The article said Plante helps coach the Philadelphia Flyers during training camp and early in the season but' spends the rest of the year in Switzerland.. Bringing in the pros Chatham. the newest entry in the Ontario Hockey Association Continental senior league is pulling out the stops in attempts to come up with a championship team. The Chatham club already one of the strongest. in the league signed four players this week. all cuts from professional clubs. - • They ai•e Del Hall from the %VHA: Kevin Howe from Dallas. Jim Pearson from Hershey'and bick Tourangeau. a late cut from the Port Huron Flags. The league has a rule which allows only three ex - pros to play in any one game. Chatham appears the only team whith is going all out to get a winner. While talking about the Continental league. the .Lucan-Elderton Jets appear to have the most trouble with the Stratford Perths This seems to be an annual problem. ' In two games last week against Stratford. the Jets could only score four times against goalie Dennis Thorpe. Jets manager Don 1•rbshott said. "It's getting to he a habit We fust cant out the puck past Thorpe While talking about the Continental league we noticed a -comment in the latest statistics that only 10 players are in their seventh season with their original 'club and three are with the Lucan-ilderton Jets. The iron men of the Jets are Barry Baynham. • •Jamie Robb and Lorne D<ter The others are Brian . Chinnick. London. Gene McLaren. Woodstock: Jim Betts and Mitch Kennedy. Stratford and Gord Becker. chuck Niesen and Larry Schafer from t'he'Durham Huskies. A to Bantams only winner This turned out to be less than a productive week for Exeter's minor hockey teams,- with only the ban- tams managing to post a win in Shamrock action. The high -flying midget crew came down with a tinny when they were bombed 6- by Belmont in the weekly triple -header at the rec cen- tre, Wednesday. The visitors scored after 34 seconds of play, added four -more by the end of the first and another•in the first minute of the second before Exeter started to skate. From that point they • played scoreless hockey. Pee weer edged The Exeter pee woes FRIENDLY RIVALRY — The mayors of Exete7r and Goderich met on the football field Saturday but it was o freindly confron- remained winless in tion with their sons_who were opponents in the Huron -Perth junior final. From the left are Goderich mayor Deb Shewfelt and Shamrock action as they is son Brion and Dave and Bruce Show Jr. and their father the mayor of Exeter. Drop behind in T -A photo dropped their only start of the week, a narrow 3-2 loss dyingminutes . to Belmont at the rec cen- t g tre. Wednesday. The teams traded goals in • the first period, with George - Panthers lose in The Goderich Vikings won the Huron -Perth conference junior football cham- pionship Saturday but not before one of the best and most exciting games of the season. The -South Huron Panthers gave up two touchdowns to the Vikings in the last four minutes of play and lost 21-8 and a chance to win a second cohseeutive championship: •Goderich moved into a 7-0 lead in the first ,quarter with a converted touchdown. The South Huron defence trolled Goderich atter the first series of plays in the second quarter Shortly after South Huron's top ball carrier Rick Lind(nfield was forced out of the game with pulled' back muscles. Linaenfield was carried off the field on a 'stretcher and taken to hospital. He returned as a spectator before the game was over Coach Doug Ellison was 'forced to make- changes in his lineup. Dave Bell who was playing end for the in- jured Mike Taylor moved into the backfield and Greg-- Prout reg•- -Prout took over at end. Goderich moved into good H -P junior final field position but the SH line held and gave up only a single point -to make the score 8-0. Three passes from. quarterback Steve Pearce to Pat Cyr and Dave Bell mov- ed .the Panthers deep• into GoNterich territdry' and Pearce went over for six points. A -Pearce to Bell pass was good For the two point convert and the score was tied at 8-8. Goderich gained good field position in the fourth quarter but a 45 vard punt return by Doug Willard of the Panthers reversed FIRST DRAW WINNERS — A rink skipped by King McDonald was the winner of the first draw of the recent mix, edbonspiel.te.apen the season at the Exeter curling' club. • Bock, left, Sorry Tiernan and King Mkdo ald. by Reg McDonald,Helen • Webber and Borb Wein. Kota A VIKING DOWN — During Saturday's junior football game in Goderich Doug Willard of the Panthers 'hidden) makes a tackle. Coming up in the background are Pot Cyr and Dove. Bell - - T -A photo Hawks g rab two wins, out of league basement i ne t,xeter Hawks had their best week of the season as they vaulted out of the league cellar with two vic- tories.. The wins temporarily moved the locals into second place in the northern divi- sion, but they dropped back to third on Sunday when Seaforth handed the Mitchell Hawks their first loss of the season. Mitchell holds down top spot with 14 points. followed by Seaforth with nine. Ex- eter eight. Lucan seven and Tavistock four. The Hawks were in Bel-. mont last night and play at home twice this weekend. hosting Lucan on Friday and Tavistock on Sunday night. During the week. the Hawks thumped Bothwell 6- 3 on Wednesday and came home on Friday to clip Tavistock 7-5. Rookie Preston Dearing paced the scoring attack in Bothwell. picking up a hat- ' trick for his efforts. Rookies Kerry Bedard and Terry Caldwell also added -singles. while the other tally came off the stick of Don McKellar. Both Dearing and McKellar scored unassisted tallies in the game. Ron Bilcke and McKellar headed the assist depart- ment with two. while singles were recorded by Bedard. Ken Varley: Brad Taylor and Dave Kinsman Randy Lovie went the dis- tance in theExeter nets and stopped 31 shots Bothwell won the penalty parade with 15 of the 21 handed out in the game which the Hawks led throughout. Coast to win On Friday night. the Hawks jumped into a 1-0 lead in the first against Tavistock and opened up a 6- 2 lead by the end of th se- cond as they coasted ) TFieir triumph. • Midget netminder Steve Wells worked the game and stopped 34 shots. with four -of the five that beat him coming on power plays. Ren Pinder. out of the lineup for some of the recent games. returned and was in Full stride as he helped pace the attack with two goals and three assists. Fred Mornmergteeg duplicated that effort as well The single tallies were potted by Preston Dearing. Dave Kinsman and Terry Caldwell. Picking up lingle assists were Dearing. Dave Atthill. Kinsman. Don McKellar. Jamie Caldwell and Dave Bogart The Hawks served nine of the 13 penalties called by referee Pat 0 13rien.. positions on the Goderich 45. A third down SH gamble failed and the Vikings took over. Coach Ellison commented later. ''after thought is great. but. it was a poor decision on the coach's part. Punting would have probably put Goderich deep in their own end". With Tess than four minutes. a good series of running plays moved the ball deep into South Huron territory for a Viking con- verted touchdown. . With less than a minute to go. the Panthers failed to make a first down and the Vikings took over and scored again. Coach Ellison said both offensive and defensive un- its played strong games:He added. "our boys had nothing to be ashamed of. Goderich knew they were in a game." Ellison cited a few in- dividuals for exceptional ef- forts.. They were Dave Bell. safety on defence. end and fullback -on defence: Pat Cyr. strong running.. pass. Catching and corner on defence ; Steve -Pea rce. good play calls and passing: Dave Shaw. good pass catches and Doug Willard. strong tackl- ing on defence. Pay Cyr carried the ball 10 times good for 55 yards. Dave Bell and Rick Fletcher led the defence with 10 key tackles each. Al 'Gaiser. Gary Spurn and Greg Prout were in on nine big stops and Doug Willard , made six key tackles. s HOCKEY At Its Best! FRI., NOV. 17 Lucan Irish vs Exeter Hawks SUN., NOV. 19 Tavistock Braves vs Exeter Hawks 7:30 p.m. WED., NOV. 22 7:00 p.m. London Pee Wees vs Exeter 8:00 p.m. London Bantams vs Exeter 9:00 p.m. Thedford Midgets vs Exeter PROThO VAUTO l CENTRE TRANSMISSIONS - MO.P!J, EFFICIENF EQUIPMENT WITH OLD TRADITIONAL SERVICE Automatic or standard. If we can get your car or truck in our building •we con SERVICE, REPAIR or REBUILD your transmission - Domestic or fereign. NO CHARGE For Road Test Or Diagnosis MUFFLERS Double wrapped galvanized, lifetime Guaranty. Exhaust systems manufactured on the spot with oar PIPE BENDER INSTALLATION FREE BRAKES & SHOCKS • High quality brake parts. We have a - brake lathe too. •EZ Ride Shotks. LIFETIME GUARANTEE ki.28 MAIN STREET (Next to Larry Snider. Motors) 235-2322 Pratt denting the twine on a play with Mike Tiedeman for Exeter's tally. Belmont o ened up a two - p goal margin in the middle frame. and Darren Vandergunst pulled the locals to within one late in the third on a play with Steve Laithwaite. but they couldn't notch the equalizer. Lose tough one The Exeter Waxers took to the ice lanes only once and were nipped 1-0 by Bel- mont in an exciting contest at the rec centre, Sunday. The local novice crew held Belmont's one-man attack in check for Ynost of the con- test. but he finally broke loose to score the winner in the second period. Several Exeter players just missed open corners on Gun club Al Kyle and Jamie Caldwell hit 23 targets each to lead the Kippen gun club shooters in the final com- petition of the season. Next in a tie for third Place with 22,hits each were • their scoring chances as the play went from one end of the ice to the other. Atoms dropped The Exeter atoms jumped into a 2-0 lead in their game against Belmont, Sunday. but frittered it away in the second period and ended up on the short end.of a 5-3 ver- dict CaPlain Brett Batten pac- ed the attack, picking up two of the three goals and assisting on the other. Danny McLean added the - other tally, when he banged in a.rebound off Batten's in- itial shot to start the scoring • parade. Sean Whiteford. who played a stellar game on defence. also picked up assists on two of the goals. Relay to win The• Exeter bantams won their only start of the week when they overcame a two - goal deficit to beat Belmont 3-2 at the rec centre. Wednesday. The visitors scored twice in the first frame within a 34 -second period, but Exeter came back with three goals in the middle frame to post the win. Mike Clark started the ral- ly when he blasted a slap • shot into the top corner from just inside the blueline in the first minute.- D -ave Underwood then added a pair. the last corning in a sole effort when he worked his way past a couple of defenders and cut back in front of the net to whip a quick shot in for thewinner. Dave Shaw picked up two assists for the team. with singles being given to Bill Glover and Steve Prout.- - - The Exeter crew easily won the penalty parade, picking up 11 of the 17 minors called teer This Way year ends Terry Baker and Dan Crerar Dave Carter record- ed a score of 21 -and John Hay. Doug St" Louis. Pete Black and Dave Lovell each scored 20. Brad Snell com- pleted the scoring with a 15. 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