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Times-Advocate, 1982-03-17, Page 8r Paget T1wM.Advecate, March 17, 1982 Sports Spotlight By Ross Haugh The hockey season locally is quickly slipping away with only a few teams left in contention. The South Huron hockey league has run down to the final round with the defending champion Zurich Buckeyes taking on the Hensall Sherwoods. This is the renewal of an old rivalry which should provide an ex- cellent brand of hockey. After losing their first three games, the Exeter Mohawks put up a real battle with two wins over Hen- sall before bowing 10-9 in the sixth game. The Mohawks led 7-6 at one point in the second period. In Junior "D" ranks, the Lucan Irish polished off the Mitchell Hawks in four straight games in the northern division final and now are set for Ontario Hockey. Their next opposition comes from Stayner. The first game goes in Lucan Friday night at 8:15 with the se- cond back in Stayner Monday night. The Lucan ban- tams have also reached the semi-final plateau in OMHA playoffs and meet Wainfleet in the next round. This is basically the same club which won the OMHA pee wee title two years ago. The first game will be played in Wainfleet Friday night with the second in Lucan, Sunday. The Exeter midgets are battling right down to the wire in their second round of OMHA playoffs. The best -of -five series against Ohsweken has turned into a sudden death game as each team has won both games on their home ice. The locals won the toss of the coin and the fifth game is set for tonight, Wednesday at the South Huron Rec Centre at 8:30 p.m. Should provide lots of excitement. Carnivals, Sunday Deciding game here tonight Midgets all even in OM1IA playoff The Exeter midgets will be hoping that the pattern established in their best -of - five OMHA quarter -finals with Six Nations will con- tinue when they take to the ice at the rec centre tonight (Wednesday) for the deciding game. Each team has won two games on home ice to deadlock the set and the locals will be trying to capitalize on that home ice advantage to move into the semi-final series. Friday night, the Exeter crew withstood an inept first period through the heroics of netminder Peter Dearing and went on to post a 4-2 win, while back in Ohsweken on Sunday they failed to wrap up the series when the home team posted a 5-3 margin. This is our last chance to mention the two figure skating clubs in the area that are staging their annual carnivals, Sunday afternoon. The Zurich -Grand Bend figure skating club holds their carnival at the Zurich arena with Lynn Nightingale as the featured skater along with an ap- pearance of the Exeter skating club's precision team. At the Lucan arena, all members of that village's. figure skating club will be presenting their skills on ice. Skaters on Television The Ilderton precision skating team will be featured on Bill Brady's Performance program on CFPL televi- sion on Sunday March 28 at 5 p.m. Included on the roster of the Ilderton team are four skaters from the Exeter club. They include Susan Tiernan, Kelly Livingstone, Janet Pfaff and Heather Prout. The Ilderton team won the gold medal at a competi- tion in Mitchell Saturday and a bronze at the Western Ontario sectional championships in Port Stanley in February. Should Be An Improvement The showing by Team Canada in this April's world hockey championships should be improved somewhat over a year ago mainly because a larger number of players will be available. The world's tourney to be held in Helsinki and Tam - pare, Finland is, being held one week later than in 1981 and thus eight teams should be eliminated in the first round of NHL playoffs allowing a few players to sup- plement those already chosen from the five that do not make the playoffs. The fifth games of the eight semi-final series in the Jour divisions if necessary will be played on April 13. That's 20 hours before all teams in the tournament must post their final rosters. Any teams eliminated in three or four games would give Team Canada officials a little more time to get ex- tra players. The general manager of this year's ' Team Canada is former Washington Capitals general manager Max McNab. McNab says he is enthusiastic about putting together a good team. He added, "The overall style in the NHL has swung towards the European style in skating and puck control and I think all our players are more familiar with what they will be facing in Finland. Anything can happen in a short playoff series so it's quite possible a super star or two could be put on the NHL sidelines after the first round and eligible to head overseas. A week earlier the teams had traded a pair of three - goal victories and in the four games, each squad has netted 16 goals. Sunday's loss in Ohsweken has been protested by the Exeter club, based on the fact that Pete Hill, who Friday night picked up a spearing penalty which calls for a match penalty and suspension, was in the lineup for the fourth game. The protest will only have a bearing on the series if Exeter loses the fifth game tonight. Dearing hot Goaltender Pete Dearing, who has been most in- strumental in the team's playoff showing to date, was at his best for Friday's contest in Exeter and turned aside a barrage of shots by the visitors who carried play throughout the first half of the game. Six Nations hit the scoresheet early in the first, but Dearing held them at bay for the rest of the period and Eric Tadgell evened the count in the first minute of the second when he took a pass from Chris VanGerwen and broke into the clear and tucked .tbe puck into the corner. The visitors regained their one -goal margin at the 4:46 mark and again Exeter came back to knot the count when VanGerwen scored on a power play at the 8:20 mark with Tadgell and Greg Hern drawing the assist. Exeter scored the eventual winner with just one second left in the middle period when Scott Brintnell shoved the puck across the line on another power play with Exeter enjoying a two-man advantage. Mike Tiedeman and Steve laatten picked up the assists on that one. Exeter couldn't capitalize while still enjoying a two- man advantage to start the third period, but Tadgell scored his second of the game just before the three minute mark when he took a pass from Dave Hayter and blasted a low drive into the corner from the top of the face-off Circle. The locals ran into penalty trouble shortly after and had two men in the box, but the defenders and Dearing held the Six Nations crew at bay and then started to forecheck more diligently to preserve the victory. Come out flat Despite having the chance to wrap up the series in Ohsweken, Sunday, the Exeter crew came out flat and the home crew carried the play throughout the contest, with Dearing again being the main reason for the score being close. Six Nations stored after three minutes of play on a power play, but Scott Brintnell got that one back near the end of the stanza while his team was a man short. He picked up a puck in the corner of the Ohsweken zone and his shot across in front was deflected into the NIFTY EFFORT — Rightwinger Eric Tadgell leaves a defender on the ice and the• cage by a Six Nations puck in the net as he potted one of his two goals in Friday's game against Six defender. The Indian lads regained a Nations on a breakaway effort. one -goal lead early in the Precision team places fifth The precision skating team from the Exeter figure skating club placed fifth in the novice flight at a com- petition in Mitchell, Saturday. The local novice team will be guest skaters at Sunday's. carnival of the Zurich -Grand Bend figure skating club being held at the Zurich arena. They will continue to compete in the llderton- London International competition on Saturday, April 3. The Ilderton senior precision team with four skaters from Exeter, Heather Prout, Susan Tieman, Kelly Livingstone and Janet Pfaff will be in the same com- petition on April 4. Former Irish Win With a couple of hours to spare in London Saturday afternoon we dropped into the London Gardens to watch the East London Manufacturing hockey league final game won by Wolverine Tube over the Free Press. Two valuable members of the winning Wolverines team who took the series in seven games were former Lucan Irish juniors Cec Nickles and Jerry Jongeneelen. Most Playoffs Set With most of the NHL teams still having nine or ten games remaining in the regular schedule, playoff pair- ings in three of the four division have already been determined. In the Smythe division the Edmonton Oilers who clin- ched the title several weeks ago will meet the fourth place Los Angeles Kings while the Calgary Flames and Vancouver Canucks will tangle in the other series. The Patrick division leading and defending champion New York Islanders have also cinched top spot and will go against the Pittsburgh Penguins. The New Y ork Rangers and Philadelphia Flyers, battling for second place will meet in the semi-finals. Playoff spots are also set in the Adams division where the Montreal Canadiens, sure to finish first will play the Quebec Nordiques while the Buffalo Sabres and Boston Bruins will oppose each other. Only in the Norris division are playoff matchups not decided. The Minnesota North Stars will end on top but, the other three spots are up for grabs. Winnipeg appears to be heading for second place, but, it looks like a real struggle between St. Louis and Chicago for third. The team finishing fourth meets Min- nesota in the 4irst round. t Oldtimers win twice The Exeter Otdtimers scored two wins this week. They blasted the Hensall oldtimers 12-3 and edged Varna 9-7. In the win over Hensall, Glenn Stire played an out- standing game in goal to keep the Hensall sharp- shooters at bay. Leading the scoring with two goals apiece were Keith Ahrens, Bob McDonald, Paul Weido and Frank "Golden Jet" Boyle. Checking in with one goal each were Eric Finkbeiner, Gord Slaght, Pete McFails and Mike Cushman. Jim Russell picked up three assists. Mike Cushman with a hat trick performance led the Exeter scoring in the win over Varna. Pete McFalls was close behind with a two goal effort while Eric Fink- beiner, Paul Weido, Jim Russell and Bob McDonald scored in single fashion. Last Chance six ahead The six point lead of the Last Chance in the Exeter Legion mixed dart league continues. The leaders have 82 points with the Itchy Niters in second place at 76 points. The CP's follow with 72 points and the Evil Eyes are fourth with 70 points. This week's scores were: Outlaws 5 CP's 0 CB'ets 4 Rowdy Ones 1 itchy Niters 3 Sassenach5 2 Canscotts 3 Crusaders 2 Scotties 3 Evil Eyes 2 Last Chance 3 Out of Space 2 All in the Family 3 Shiphunters 2 Winkers 3 Jaams 2 Friday's schedule is as follows: 8:00 p.m. Last Chance vs Crusaders Scotties vs Shiphunters Outlaws vs CB'ers All in the Family vs Sassenachs 9:30 p.m. itchy Niters vs Jaams Winkers vs Evil Eyes Canscotts vs Out of Space CP's vs Rowdy Ones Exeter WS. e e BIER- ex'eier midgets netrpjn4ler Peter Dearing has been the biggest factor in his team's playoff performa'n'ce to date in reaching the OMHA quarter- final. He stopped a barrage of shots oh Friday night to help his mates to a 4-2 win and kept them close an Sunday when they lost 5-3 in Ohsweken. His team will be hoping for a continued performance in tonight's deciding tilt. Above, Dear- ing wipes the sweat from his brow after the game while being congratulated by Greg Hern and Steve Gould. Other team membersjoin in congratulating him in the photo below. second and again Exeter came back to tie it up when Brent Atthill scored from the slot on a play with Tadgell and Hern. However, the roof fell in then for the Exeter crew as Six Nations regained their one -goal lead only 21 seconds later and then upped it to 4-2 16 seconds after that. Exeter's effort to get back, series in the tilt was thwarted early in the third when they ran into penalty trouble with three minors in succession and while they held the at- tackers off while playing two -men short, Six Nations got their fifth goal while holding a one-man ad- vantage. Sean Whiteford whittled the count to 5-3 with just over four minutes remaining when he was on the doorstep to bang home a puck dropped at his feet by the Six Nations goalie on a shot by Tadgell. Randy Ford also drew an assist on the play. Exeter continued to press and went with an extra at- tacker in the final minute and a half but couldn't get any closer. GAME CLOSE — Exeter midgets leftwinger Steve Batten digs for a puck in the Six Nations crease on Friday while his two line -mates, Scott Brintnell andiMike Tiedeman move in to help out. The trio used the same effort to score the winn- ing goal with one second left in the second period on a power ploy. Eric Tadgell was the scoring star in the local's 4-2 win as he bagged a pair. Deciding game in the series is tonight (Wednesday) at the rec centre. Staff photo Stephen girls all tied up The Stephen girls ringette team and Howick are tied at one game apiece in their current playoff series. After Stephen won the first game, Howick came back to score an 8-5 victory to even the series. Chris Smith and Brenda Wilson led the Stephen scoring attack in the losing cause with two goals and one assist each. Stefanie Jones fired one goal and picked up three assists while . 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