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Times-Advocate, 1988-01-27, Page 19Mohawk steamroller in gear for Dave Randerson, Paul Barton. Those names across Tillsonbur Quincy Wilker, kept rippling Maroons bench Tuesday night at the South Huron Rec Centre when that line com- bined for four goals in Exeter's 9-4 romp over Maroons in game two of the,Hardy Cup playdown. Tillsonburg goalie John Calic skated off the ice mid -way through the second period muttering their Times -Advocate, January 27, 1988 Page 3A Hardy Cup names. His tone was respectful. Calic, an old teammate of Ran- derson and Wilker from the days when they played Senior A in IMPENETRABLE -- Mohawks goalie Rick Pikul gets some help from his team mates as Tillsonburg Maroons put pressure on Exeter. Dave Rander- son (number 18), who, along with linemates Paul Barton and Quincy Wilker Jason Clay holds off Cru iseu Atoms goalie Jason Clay held Cruncher snipers to just one goal during a recent Lambton- Middlesex game between the two local teams. Bell Atoms delivered a 4-1 loss to their opponents, on the strength of goals by Craig Schwartzentruber and Jeff De - Block. Schwartzentruber pumped in two goals in the first period with the help of Adam Wallis and Steve Cook, giving Bell Atoms a 2-0 lead. DeBlock added a single with 58 seconds left in the opening period to make it 3-0. Brent Urlin and Kevin More Sports on page 11A, 12A Ross drew assists on the play. Crunchers kept thing close when Willy Partridge scored an unassisted goal with just 2:26 remaining in the second period. ' DeBlock, however, reduced Crunchers chances of a come -back in the third period with his second goal of the game from Ben Guenth- er and Urlin. Exeter Crunchers fought to a 1-1 tic against Forest B's Saturday. Crunchers took a 1-0 lead in the first period on.a goal by Matt Sims, his first of the season. Sims was as- sisted by Rob Wagner. Exeter kept the pressure on the Forest goalie throughout the game, bouncing a number of shots off the goal posts. John Gibson put the puck in the net for Forest in the third to tic the game. Andrew Hem and Garrett Colter accounted tor tour goals I uesday night, moves into the fray. Mohawks de- feated Maroons 9-4 and advanced to their next Hardy Cup series against Mooretown Comets. The Comets -Mohawk series got under way Tuesday nchers. for Bell Atom win turned in good defensive efforts. Wagner, Mike Burton and Willy Partridge all made major contribu- tions to the Exeter effort. DuBarry notches four goals Exeter Legionnaires walked over Ridgetown in OMHA playdovvns January 15 when Steve DuBarry led a scoring attack which resulted in a 10-2 win for the local Bantams. DuBarry scored four goals in the effort. After a scoreless first period, Ex- etcr took control in the second and capitalized on a number of Ridge - town penalties to build their lead. Jamie Bedard, who picked up three points over the course of the even- ing, scored the opening goal of the garlic early in the second. Mark Burton, DuBarry and Dave O'Connor all followed with goals. Harlen Tinney opened the third with a marker and then DuBarry contributed two more. O'Connor scored his second of the game with 3:47 left to play and then Tinney added his second goal. Jason Clarke played an outstand- ing game in goal for Legionnaires. In game two of Exeter's OMHA playdowns held Wednesday, a stum- bling block was thrown in Legion- naires' way by Forest who defeated the local team 4-2. Tied 2-2 in the second, Legion- naires fell behind in the third and were unable to recover. Dubarry and Tinncy scored Exet- er's goals. DuBarry was assisted by Tim Van Dam while Tinney's goal was unassisted. Lucan Irish trounce Belmont, done in by Thamesford Trojans A second period explosion of Lu - can Irish goals Wednesday night finished off Belmont Pests in Western Junior D action. Pests lost the confrontation 8-2 to the hungry home team. The momentum from Wednesday night's game didn't translate in Lu - can's next match, however. Irish dropped a close 7-5 decision to Thamesford after allowing three goals in the third Friday. Muir was sct up by Joc Febrey and Jamie Greig. Then came the second period: Febrey started the scoring frenzy with a well aimed shot at 3:06 with Greig drawing the assist; his second of three that night. At 5:18. Dave Murray connected with Brian Shuyler and Dave Smith and then Ian Craig added to the score four minutes later from Tim Hayter and Muir. Keeping the run alive, Hayter It was quiet at either end of the- pumped in a shot at the half -way ice in the first -period Wednesday mark ofthe period from Scott De - night when neither Belmont nor nomy and Greig. Lucan could push into the lead. Craig added goal number six Pests took the lead early in the while Lucan was short-handed, de - period or a power play goal by Ja- moralizing Belmont even further. mie Griffin. Irish were unable to A power play gave Pests an op - counter until 17:47 when Brad portunity to answer one of the Lu - Exeter, Zurich earn berth in H -P finals After coming together for a round robin tournament at Mount Carmel Separate school Thursday, two teams emerged from six as the vic- tors. Precious Blood's boys team earned a berth at the Huron -Perth volley- ball finals after clinching the zone championship. They defeated Mount Carmel two games to one and then went on to beat St. Bonafice of Zu- rich three games to none. In the girls division, the team from St. Bonafice emerged as the champions after knocking over Ex- eter in three straight games and win- ning two of three against Mount Carmel. The winning teams played Tues- day in Stratford. Results from that tournament will run in next week's issue of The Times -Advocate. can goals. Richard Clark notched ward in the opening seconds of the the marker. middle period, Paul Barnes potted a In the third, unanswered goals goal at 4:55 from Glenn Marshall from Tim and Todd Hayter put Bel -and Denomy. mont out of their collective misery. Bob Brown scored near the mid way mark of the period, tying the Thame,sford 7 - Lucan 5 game once more, and then Brian -Taking a 2-1 lead in the first, Bruce put Thamesford out in front Irish allowed Thamesford to tie the for the first time that night. game just six seconds into the sec- Hutton pumped in a shot at 15:03 and period Friday . Lucan added two to even the score. The lone assists more goals but they were matched on Hutton's goal went to Denomy. by Thamesford and the two teams In the third, Thamesford dominat- went into the third tied 4-4. ed, out -scoring Lucan 2-1. Denomy and David Murray scored The only Irish goal of the period Lucan's first period goals with as- came from Darrin Neil at 15:58. sists going to Muir, Febrey and for- Hayter and Muir drew the assists. mer St. Marys Junior B Lincoln Paul Farrell faced 32 shots over Graham Hutton. the course of the evening while his After recovering from the light- counter -part, Scott Conelisse fended ning goal of Thamesford's Jim Ho- off 30. • orL s a rAs>.°+ .rs 9,-.W; , rt ."`u r ' ;6Y/3 Woodstock, was stung for three goals by the line before he was re- placed by Kevin Cole. The Mohawks' powerhouse line contributed to Maroons exit from the Hardy Cup playdowns after two games. Exeter will go on to face Mooretown Comets in a best -of - five series. Leading 3-0 after the first period Tuesday night, Mohawks pumped in five second period goals and one in the third to destroy the Senior A team's hopes_Q[_hosting the Hardy -Cup. Mohawks coach Jim Guenther said after the game that Mooretown came into the arena with the idea of slowing the play. That strategy failed. "They knew they were going to be in for a hell of a game," Guenth- er said. "They knew they couldn't skate with us and that was their plan. "I was surprised in a way, that we controlled the game as much as we did, but I think they let us control it." A power play goal by Barton from Wilker and Randerson at 6:49 of the first put the gears in motion. Brian Mercer then rattled the puck off the cross -bar at 10:36. Referee Rick Singleton ruled the shot was a goal despite an opposite ruling from the goal judge. That drew heated protests from the Tillsonburg bench. The questionable goal put Calic off balance and Exeter was able to capitalize less than one minute later when Barton again potted the puck with the help of his. line -mates. A Tillsonburg goal at 1:27 of the second gave some indication that Maroons had recovered, but it soon became apparent that, even at their best, they are no match for Mo- hawks. Two goals by Randerson and sin- gles by Rob Mackie, Al Gates and Kevin Konings -- a right winger pulled out of the Central Senior B as an import for the Hardy Cup -- pushed Exeter far out in front of their opponents. Maroons' Jerry Cunningham scored at 15:03 and then the guns at either end of the ice fell silent until the third. Again, it looked as if Tillsonburg might have some life left in them early in the period. Goals at 2:18 and 2:31 by Cunningham and Norm Stephan shook Mohawks out of their complacency. But it soon be- came apparent that there was no substance to their thunder. Kris Bedard scored Exeter's ninth goal at 9:58 of the third from Merc- er and Konings to construct the fi- nal score. Exeter Novices edge Wallaceburg In their second game of OMHA round robin playdowns, Exeter Novices inchod into a 3-2 win over Wallaceburg Sunday. Taking a 2-0 lead in the first, Exeter watched their advantage dwindle in the .second and third periods. Jason Lindenfield, in net for Exeter, made several key saves in the final minutes of the game to deliver the win for his team. Bryon Ellcrington scored from Jeff MacLean and Rob Lynn at 2:56 of the first to give Exeter a platform to shoot from. Bryce Hann added to the score, with a goal from Dave Farquhar at 5:30. In the second period, Jeff Sara- ras was the recipient of an excel- lent pass by Chad Gilfillan from • behind the net. Sararas found the mark, giving Exeter a 3-0 edge. Wallaccburg connected for a goal just over one minute later when Matthew McClintock blasted in a shot which glanced off an Exeter skate and went into the nct. McClintock scored again, un- assisted in the third to give Ex- eter a run for their money. Exeter continues the OMHA playdowns when they host Lambeth Sunday at 4:30 p.m. Waxers paste Lambeth Exeter Waxers took a two goal • lead in the second period of an OMHA playdown against Lambeth Saturday which earned them to vic- tory. Waxers shut out Lambeth after the two teams fought through the entire first period without scoring a goal. Jason Lindenfield was in net for the shut out. Early in the second, Ryan Beckett put the puck in the net after con- necting with Dave Farquhar and Bryce Hann. Just 17 seconds had elapsed in the game when Jeff Sararas tipped in a rebound on Chad Gilfillan's shot. Neither team was able to score in the third period and Waxers took home the win. HEAD AND SHOULDERS ABOVE -- Chad Arnold gets some height as he executes a good spike during a zone final volleyball tournament at Mount Carmel Separate School Thursday. Exeter's Precious Blood team won the boys division of the championships while a team from St. Boniface captured the girls division. The zone champions earned the right to partici- pate in the Huron -Perth finals. game The Mooretown Comets - Shelburne Muskies series went a full three games before Comets emerged as champions, routing Shelburne 9-2 in the last game. Mohawks have had just two ex- periences with Mooretown -- both during the pre -season exhibition schedule when the two teams played a home -and -home series. Exeter pulled a 7-4 win out of Mooretown against a squad that, according to Guenther, was. not_ yetin its firlsl .- foti1 When Comets Came to Exeter and fought to a 5-5 tie, they were closer in strength to their current status. Guenther isn't looking for a cake- walk when the Hardy Cup series be- gins. "We know their capabilities and we certainly aren't going to underes- timate them," the. Mohawk coach said Tuesday night. Asked if any conclusions could be drawn from the way in which Mooretown decimated Shelburne -- the team which ousted Mohawks, albeit in an overtime shoot-out, in the final of the recent Palmerston tourney -- Guenther points to out- side circumstances. "I think that, due to the fact that that was our fifth game in so many hours- and we had a few different guys, I don't think it ( the Shel- burne -Mohawks game) was a good judge," Guenther said. The two teams met in Moore - town January 26 in the first game of the series. Mohawks have home ice advantage February 5 when they meet for game two. Game -three will be back in Mooretown February 9. if neces- sary, game four will be staged in Exeter February 16 and the final game of the series will be in Mooretown Friday, February 19. Mohawk manager Doc Campbell said Sunday, that Mooretown's home ice advantage should have little bearing on the series. "It's got its pros and cons too," Campbell said. "If you start at home and lose at home, it's tough to re -group." Note: Konings, one of three players picked" up ,in the Central Senior B league for use during the -Hardy Cup play -downs, came in handy Tuesday night when he filled the gaps left on the bench by Jeff Shipley, who is out of action with a broken finger, and Dale Gibbon, who was unable to attend the game. Guenther commented on the im- ports, noting that while Konings made a substantial contribution to Tuesday night's effort, the extra players will be used to counter any injuries over the course of the play - downs. Generals tripped up by Forest Exeter General stumbled Wednes- day night at the South Huron Rec Centre when they faced off against Forest Midgets and lost 7-3 in OMHA action. Exeter fell behind 5-0 in the first and could muster only two goals in the second. -• Jim Dickens scored at 2:14 after he picked up a pass from Larry Le- wis, putting Exeter on the board. 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