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Times-Advocate, 1982-02-17, Page 8r Times -Advocate, February 17. 1982 Sports Spotlight By Ross Hugh The 1982 National Hockey League all star game provided some of they best hockey and exciting action since the recent Canada Cup games. While both teams stuck to the basic principles of hockey there was enough body contact to keep everybody on the edge of their seats. This year's event was one that will probably be remembered the longest by the participants as they were part of a couple of days activities in Washintgton and at the White House. It was great to see two of the best hockey players ever to lace up their skates take part in the official faceoff. Gordie Howe who took part in 23 all star con- tests and Phil Esposito with 11 of the big games,behind him werehelped by Canada's Ambassador to the United States Ken Taylor. Taylor who was very prominent in getting the US hostages out of Iran has done a lot for Canadian - American relations along with the hundreds of hockey players who play for United States teams. Many stay on as American citizens. The television broadcast of the all star game show- ed the reception at the White House with all the players being introduced to president Reagan. At first glance it would appear that' the US government spon- sored the dinner and reception for the all star par- ticipants. But, apparently that is not true. Actually, the NHL paid for everything and really rented the White House and the president. Regardless of who took care of the tab it added regal splendour to the annual game and at a time when hockey's image isn't the greatest it cer- tainly helped. The first NHL all star game was held in 1947 and was sort of an off -shoot of a number of benefit games held in previous years. The first benefit games were for the injured Ace Bailey who almost lost his life when hit by Boston's Eddie Shore and for the late Howie Morenz and Babe Siebert. Both of these fine hockey players died when they were still valuable members of the Montreal Canadiens. Local hockeyists doing well A number of graduates of recent years from the Exeter Minor Hockey Association are enjoying good seasons in a variety of hockey leagues. Dave Shaw, son of local mayor Bruce and Fran Shaw is a valuable member of the Kitchener Rangers in the Ontario Junior Hockey League. The Rangers arenowin first place in their division three points ahead of the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds. Shaw is only one of three Kitchener players to appear in every one of the teams 57 games to date. Further information on Dave Shaw's career with the Rangers appears elsewhere on these sports pages. To American college ranks Paul and Perry Pooley are in their second season with the Ohio State Buckeyes and are again proving to be very valuable to their team. Paul who was named rookie of the year last year is second in team scoring with 17 goals and 22 assists for 39 points. Twin brother Perry has seven goals and the same nuniber of assists. They have played in all 28 Buckeye games. At the same time Barry Baynham and Randy Kraul, both of Exeter aresteadyperformers with the Stratford Perths in the OHA Senior league. Kraul is a graduate of the Lucan minor hockey system. In addition Tom Coates is with Strathroy in the OHA junior "B" league and DaveBogart plays with the Wilfrid Laurier University hockey club. Swiss team on tour A junior hockey team from Switzerland is going to be in this part of Western Ontario for a couple of games. The Swiss team makes its first appearance Sun- day afternoon at the Zurich arena. The game with the Zurich bantams supplying the opposition will get un- derway at 2 p.m. with official opening ceremonies and presentations. The entire Zurich community is throwing support behind this venture. Involved are the Chamber of Commerce, Lions club, the recreation committee and the village of Zurich. An official dinner will be held after the game at about 5:15 p.m. The same team will be in Lucan on Wednesday, February 24 to meet the Lucan bantams and again a number of gifts will be exchanged by the two teams. The village of Lucan will be presenting official village pins to the visiting Swiss players. Here are two chances for area hockey fans to see a good European team in action. Once in a lifetime . If Exeter councillor Bill Mickle is walking around these days with an unusual big smile on his face he has just cause. Mickle was the skip of a curling rink that chalked up an eight -ender Saturday in the annual Valentine's mixed bonspiel at the local curling club. Bill with his wife Fran and Bill and Alice Walker ended up with eight rocks in the house and his opponent Al Rankin was unable to leave any in the cherished circles. The only other eight ender ever at the Exeter club was back in 1967 when the feat was accomplished by Harry Snell. Minor baseball meeting . A meeting of the Exeter Minor Baseball Association has beenset for the South Huron Rec Cen- tre at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, February 23. Anyone interested in participating as a coach at the house league level will be more than welcome. (BoostOYToR WOME It's Good For roe, You A At home Friday night Hawks mast Mitchell in first Although they still have a scheduled game to complete with Thedford tonight (Wednesday) the Exeter Hawks have finished in second place and will meet Mitchell in the first round of the league playoffs. League champion Tavistock will face Lucan Irish in the other best -of - seven loop semi-final. The perennial playoff battle between the two Hawks will start in Exeter on Friday night. Second game is expected to be in Mitchell on Sunday or Tuesday. The local Hawks scored two wins in three starts this Week. They were denied any ONCE IN A LIFETIME - The very elusive eight end in curlingoccurredforBill Mickle and his rink in the weekend Sweethearts bonspiel at the Exeter club. Above, bonspiel convener Al Rankin congratulates Bill and Fran Mickle and Alice and Bill Walker. Incidentally, Rankin was the skip of the rink that allowed Mickle to chalk up the miracle end. T -A photo WIN SCOTIA BANK TROPHY - A rink skipped by Murray Dawson won the Bank of Novo Scotia trophy at the weekend Sweetheart bonspiel at theExetercurling club. Above, Exeter branch manager Art McKenzie presents the trophy to Mur ray and Bea Dawson and Linda and Howard Churchill. T -A photo Stephen girls ringette team chalks up wins The Stephen girls ringette In Midget play, the team won two straight playoff games this week over Goderich by scores of 6-3 and 7-1. In the opening game Brenda Wilson led th Stephen scorers with fiv goals. Stefanie Jones not ched one goal and two assists, Cathy Gage scored once and helped with three assists and Christine Smith drew assists on two' goals for her team. Brenda Wilson was again. the- leading scorer in the second game with a five goal performance. Cathy Gage fired one successful shot and contributed three assists. Stefanie Jones added the other goal along with two assists and Christine Smith picked up two assists. In a Monday night game, the Stephen atoms defeated Zurich 6-1. Scoring in single fashion for Stephen were Gary Wilson, Dereck Sch- wartzentruber, Peter Conlin, Scott Russell, Kevin Fick and Steve Dubarry. Kevin Fick and Frankie Wulterkens each picked up two assists while Wilson, Conlin and Dubarry each helped on one goal. In two other games the Stephen atoms were blanked 1-0 by Brussels and 17-0 by Seaforth. e e Oldtimers win twice The Exeter Oldtimers scored two victories over their Clinton counterparts this week. The locals eked out an 11-9 win in Exeter Saturday night and came back with a 5-3 decision in Clinton Monday night. In Mondays victory Bob MacDonald led the Exeter at- tack with a three goal effort while single goals were add- ed by Paul Weido and Keith Ahrens. Picking up assists for the winners were Ahrens, Jim MacDonald and Mike Cushman. The Clinton marksmen were Gene Powell, Larry Powell and John Radford. Keith Ahrens led the Exeter scoring attack with a five goal performance. Eric F'ink- beiner was next with a two goal output and single scores were fired by Bob Mac- Donald, Frank Boyle, Bob Jones and Pete Mcr ail The next game for the local veterans will be Saturday night when they play host to Ripley at the South Huron Rec. Centre at 8 p.m. and the following Tuesday they go to Zurich. Stephen team dropped 7-4 and 5-0 decisions to Elma- Logan. Tony Jones led the storing in the first game with three goals and one assist. George Tomes added the other goal while Liam Brennan and Bob Rook each picked up one assist. In exhibition play, the Stephen bantams downed Exeter by a score of 7-3. Mike Moffatt was the top marksman with five goals. Getting the single goals were Paul Johnson and Steve nor, Lightfoot:' -'Adding assists were Johnson, Eugene Glanville, Steve McIntyre, Bill Lessard and Dave Smith. Yvonne Wells scored 11 goals as the Stephen ladies trounced Tiverton 14-2. Darlene Smith notched two goals and four assists, Chris Kennedy had one goal and four assists and Tammy Mathers scored once and added an assist. In the playmaking department Kim Kennedy drew three assists and Kim Watson helped on one goal. Chance still lead The Last Chance, first place lead in the Exeter Legion mixed dart league has been cut to four points after Friday's regular play. The Last Chance has a total of 70 points with the Itchy Niters getting closer in second place with 66 points thanks to a five point per- formance Friday. The CP's are third with 61 points. This week's scores were: Itchy Niters 5 Canscotts 0 Evil Eyes 5 Outlaws 0 All in the Family 4 Out of Space 1 CP's 4 Scotties 1 Jaams 4 CB'ers 1 Last Chance 4 Shiphunters 1 Winkers 3 Rowdy Ones 2 Sassenachs 3 Crusaders 2 Friday's schedule is as follows: 8 p.m. Last Chance vs Scotties Out of Space vs Sassenachs Crusaders vs Jaams Outlaws vs Shiphunters 9:30 p.m. Canscotts vs All in the Family CB'ers vs Itchy Niters Rowdy Ones vs Evil Eyes CP's vs Winkers hope of placing first when they dropped a 3-2 decision in Lucan, Wednesday, but they gave themselves a morale boost on Friday by winning their first game of the season in Tavistock by a decisive 7-4 count. Sunday night, they thumped Thedford by a 7-1 count and will finish the season at home against the Browns tonight. The Exeter crew have held the upper hand against Mitchell this season, winning two games at the homg of their arch -rivals, while dropping one home en- counter to Mitchell. Lose to Irish The Lucan Irish won their only game . of the season against the Hawks in a junior playoff gc Atender's battle, Wed- nesday. Lucan netminder Dan Sceli turned aside 31 shots to get the first star of the game, while Rich Fletcher made 33 saves for Exeter to get the number two star. Exeter led 2-1 early in the third, but the Irish scored twice in the final six minutes to cap the win. Art Gregory's goal at the 18:14 mark was the winner. Jamie Shipley and Steve Glenn recorded the other goals, the latter scoring on a short-handed effort in the first and Shipley connecting on a power play in the third. John Kernick and Pete Tuckey replied for the Hawks with each assisting on the other's goal. Brian Mercer also picked up an assist In the contest. Thump Braves The Hawks scored four times in the second period in Tavistock, Friday, on the way to their first win of the season in the Braves arena. Doug Brooks paced the attack with a pair of tallies and adding singles were Preston Dearing, Bill Glover, Ed Willis, Pete Tuckey and Brian Mercer. The Hawks dominated play throughout the contest and fired 53 shots at the Tavistock net, while the Braves had 40 on Rich Fletcher. Tavistock scored their final two goals in the third with Exeter playing two men short. Local youth successful with Kitchener Rangers Being named to the Emms division all star team in his first• year of Ontario Junior Hockey league competition is the biggest thrill in the career of a graduate of the Exeter minor hockey system. Dave Shaw was named to the all star team when two original choices were out with injuries and he took a regular turn on defence throughout the game. Shaw in his first year with the Kitchener Rangers is one of only three players that have participated in every one of the 67 regular schedul- ed games of the Rangers to date. Last season, he was with the Stratford Cullitons after a championshipyear with the Exeter migets and was selected by Kitchener in the midget draft. Dave, the son of Exeter mayor Bruce Shaw and Fran Shaw will celebrate his 18th birthday on May 25 of this year and will be eligible for the under age NHL draft which takes palce in June. With theunior schedule ,heading for the home stretch, NHL scouts and would-be agents are attending every game. When asked which NHL team he would prefer to be. drafted by Dave replied, "I would prefer Minnesota or Pittsburgh, but, I guess would , be happy to go to any pro Scouts from Pittsburgh,' Quebec and Philadelphia have shown an interest in the Exeter youngster. Currently the Kitchener Rangers are in first place in the Emms division with a three point lead and a game in hand over the strong Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds.' The Rangers have won 11 and tied one of their last 13 games and appear to be ready' for playoff competition and Dave Shaw has held down a regular spot on defence and is used on the second shift of power plays. Shaw finds the big dif- ference in the move from Junior "B" to "A"' ranks is the quickness of the game and he added, "The game is a lot rougher with more fighting." Most Kitchener practices consist of improving techni- ques of bringing theuck out of their own end and Shaw is doing more of this as the season progresses. Dave has recently com- pleted grade 12 studies at Kit- chener Collegiate Institute and is now beginning a grade 13 semester. On the school situation he commented, "I find it hard to fit studies in with playing hockey. It's difficult to study on a bus and we do all of our travelling that way." After a big victory in Ot- tawa Friday night, coach Joe Crozier gave the whole team Superior! Announcing A Service that's Great News for Car Ownan with. 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