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Times Advocate, 1989-03-01, Page 17Hawks and Lumberjacks deadlocked at one game each THEDFORD - A one -and -a -half minute defensive lapse in the first period proved costly to the Exeter Hawks as they lost ,7-5 to the Thedford Lumberjacks to even of their best -of -seven quarter -final ser- ies at one game each at the Thed- ford and Bosanquct Community .Centre, Sunday night..• The Hawks won the opening game of the series Friday night, 3- 2 at the South Huron Rec Centre. With the game deadlocked at 1-1, the Lumberjacks scored at 13:16, 14:18 and 14:46 of the first period and took control . of the game lead- ing 4-1 after one period of play. The Hawks came back to within a goal at 4-3, scoring.twicc early in the second period; but Thedford bounced back to score twice more in the second. ' Thedford opened *the scoring at 9:48 of the first period, when Paul Moffat scored an unassisted goal, when his wrist shot from between thc circles beat Exeter goalie Todd Campbell. Exeter answered back three min- utes later when Larry Lewis' shot was muffed by Thedford goalie Mike Sanders and it fell over his shoulder, from Steve Dubatty, while on the power -play. . But Thedford's Derek George scored at 13:16, Tony Peters scored at 14:18 and Steve Wilson scored at 14:46 to put the Lumberjacks back in control. The Hawks' Jim Dickins scored 25 seconds into the second period after having three wacks at a loose puck, with assists going to Scott Bell and Dan Nairn. Just over two minutes later, Jean- Paul Cousineau stole a loose puck and blasted a slap shot past Sanders to make it a 4-3 contest. But exactly one minute later, Richard Bacon put Thedford back on top by two goals when he scored. Thedfordregained the three -goal lead at 15:44 of the second when Kevin Stewardson scored from Bruce George and Scott MacKinlay. Steve. Dubarry got one back for the Hawks before the second was over. He hit from Mark Morrisey and Larry Lewis while on the pow- er -play with 16 seconds to go. Each team scored one in the final period as Thedford got back on even terms in the series. George scored his second, of the game for the Lumberjacks in the third period and Doug Clark got Ex- eter's final 'goal from. Larry Lewis and Jim Lewis. Exeter's chances were hurt in the first period when leading scorer Der- ek Shackelton was given and game misconduct for arguing with referee Reid Smith and Cousineau was giv- en a 10 -minute misconduct -at the same time. Sunday's game was a rough con- test with many penalties being called on both sides. Thedford lived up to their name Lumberjacks Sunday, as they were chopping at the feet of the Hawks players with their sticks whenever the opportunity presented- itself. Most of the Hawks' penalties came when they retaliated from the Thed- ford's suck thrashing. EXETER 3 THEDFORD 2 All of the scoring in this contest was done early. Clark gave the Hawks a 1-0 lead at 6:41 of the first, after being set up by Jeff Ansems and Cousineau and just over two minutes -later Scott Bell made it 2-0 when he scored from Dan Nairn. Thedford answered back at 9:31 of the first when MacKinlay scored and drew even at 16:01 when Steve Wil- son got one past Campbell. Exeter got what turned out to he the game winner at 10:41 of the second when Nairn picked up the goal from Bryan Quinn and Bell. Campbell turned aside 21 shots and Sanders stopped,19 shots in the Thedford goal. Friday's game was not as rough as Sunday's as the Hawks were called for only 10 minor infractions and Thedford had 13 minor penalties. Game three in the series will . be played Friday at the SHRC at 8:30. and game four will go Sunday at 8 p.m, back at the Thedford/Bosanquet Community Centre. Times -Advocate, March 1, 1989 Legion Pee Wees eliminate Dresden EXETER - The Exeter Legion Pee Wecs wrapped up their best -of - three OMHA plyoffs series against Dresde.n by winning the second game 6-2 last Wednesday night at • the South Huron Rec Centre. They opened thcir best -of -five quarter final series with a 15-3 lashing at the hands of Lambeth. The Pee Wees then played an exhi- bition game in Seaforth Saturday. and were blanked by the home team 4-0 Saturday. The Pec Wees scored first against Dresden. Steve Farquhar doing the scoring from Ryan Stuart in the first period. In the second, Derek Campbell made it 2-0 with a goal from Derek , Beckett and Trevor Taylor. But Dresden fought back to tic the contest with a pair of goals lat- er in the second. With the game deadlocked at 2-2, Stuart got what proved to be the winning goal at 1:54 of the third, from Mark Brintnell. Brintnell, Beckett and Mark Gla- vin. scored later in the third for the home team, with Brintncll, Brian Gardner; Stuart and Farquhar pick- ing un assists in thz third. .• Page 17 Lambeth 15 Exeter 3 Lambeth scored four times in the first period, seven times in the sec- ond and three more in the third en route to their easy victory, which broke Exeter's five -game winning streak. Scoring for Exeter were; Farquhar from Stuart, Farquhar from Brint- ncll and Stuart and Mark Glavin from Jeff Lingard. • On Saturday, Seaforth scored twice, in the first period, once in the second and once in the third in blanking the locals. Tied up - Scott Bell, of the Exeter Hawks, gets tied up by Jeff Thomas, of the Thedford Lumberjacks, during the second game of their Western Junior D quarter -final playoff series Sunday night in Thed- ford. Thedford won Sunday's contest 7-5 to even the series at one game each after the Hawks' 3-2 Friday night. Mohawks win series opener against Elora Rocks in DT ri EXETER - The Exeter Mohawks opened the Cen- tral Senior B semi-final playoffs series Sunday night and played one of their best games defensively all year, defeating the Elora Rocks 2-1 in overtime. The Mohawks had eliminated the Harriston Blues one week earlier and had wanted some time off to help heal some injured players and were able to get a week off when the Rocks eliminated the Tavistock Royals in four games last Monday night. "It was not a'.great game by either. team," said Mohawk coach and general manager Bob Rowe. "It seemed like both teams were just trying to feel each other out which happens sometimes in the first game of a long series.' "Rick Pikul played another great game for us, but either.one of us could have won the game but.I thought that it might even end up going into double overtime," said Rowe. Rowe added he was happy to win the game be- cause it keeps his team on a roll "It was a good win for us because it was our fifth in a row in the playoffs and anytime you win five in a row it really builds your confidence, but they (Elora) will be a different hockey club when we get up to their barn Wednesday night," said Rowe in an interview on. Monday. Elora's Rod Martin opened the scoring when his shot got past Pikul at 5:08 of the first period. Rock captain Greg Broughton and Chet Couture drew the only as- sists on the play: . The Mohawks got that back nearly eight minutes lat- er with Ron Goodhand doing the damage with help from linemates John Kernick and Jeff Shipley. After a scoreless second and third period, the stage was set for Quincy. Wilker's heroics, who scored the game -winning goal at 8:40 of the first overtime period, after being set up by.A1 Gates. Pikul turned aside 33 shots fired at him, while Dave Weiss stopped 28 shots that were sent in his direction. The Mohawks were assessed seven minor penalties and the Rocks just six. Game two in the series will be played tonight, Wed- nesday at 8:30 p.m. -in the Elora Community Centre, while game three will go Saturday night at the South Huron Rec Centre at 8:30 p.m. - Game four of the series is slated for back in Elora Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. and if any more games are need they will be played as follows: game -five Tues- day. March 7, at 8:30 p.m. in Exeter, game six Friday, March 10 in Elora and game seven Sunday, March 12 at 7:30 p.m. at the South -Huron Rec Centre. Panthers host Midget qualifying tournament EXETER - Last Monday, South. Huron District High School hosted the Midget Boys -qualifying Huron- Pcrth basketball tournament. Six teams from ticr one and tier two of the Huron -Perth conference met to decide which two teams Will qualify for the final Huron -Perth tourna- ment which was held in Stratford last Wednesday. The South Huron Panthers man- aged to claim two victories to ad- vance them to the finals. The Panthers played excellent de- fense in both games on Monday. Mark Russell and Randy Johnson ked bard -under the basket grab- • tiing many rebOtrd"s. Pete Ovcr- holt played well offensively ad Ter- ry Genttner and Mark Keller also played well in both games. South Huron defeated Seaforth 59-43 and took a tight 60-57 victo- ry over Central Huron to qualify for the playoff tournament in Stratford. South Huron's tournament proved to be quite successful. Many com- petitive games wcrc played with close scores. In fact, four of the six games resulted in close contests decided by a slight 16 -point margin. Madill defeated St. Marys 62-31, Norwell dumped St. Marys 72-23, and Madill 52-33 and Seaforth de - A winning spike • Chris Canlpbell gives a Kitchgrier high school team no chance to recover after Heather Rideout set up the play. The non -official team assembled from South Huron High School students dominated Saturday's •volleyball tournament in Lucan and eventually emerged as the win- ners of the A -finals against the Exeter area team Spike Zone. Panthers close out season on losing note TER - South Huron District played well for the Panthers grab - High School's Junior boys basket- bing many rebounds. Verbeek was ball team closed thcir season on top scorer for the Panthers with Friday on a losing note to *afford---nmc-. points &,4,ed--by--C-4nrlee---- Northwestern in the semi-final with eight and Steve DuBarry con - round of playoffs in the Huron - Perth league. Although the Panthers had de- feated Northwestern in both meet- ings during regular season play, they couldn't seem to put things to- gether on Friday and fell to the Huskies 71-32. Stratford took a convincing 37-19 lead, over South Huron in the first half of play. The Panthers put forth an excellent effort in their at- tempt to catch their opponents, but failed. Ian Verbcek and Jason Clarke tributed five. Despite the disappointing loss the Panthers had a successful sea- - r9on and many will be looking for- ward to Senior play next season. O'Rorke leaps to gold medal in Florida meet MIAMI`- South Huron District High School graduate Lee O'Rourke helped the University of Western Ontario. Women's Track and Field Team to first place over- all in the University of Miami (Florida) Track Classic on the weekend. The women placed first overall with five gold, four silver and five bronze medals. O'Rourke was one of thc gold - ,medal winners, in the triple jump. The Mustangs team was in Flori- da for a week's training in prepara- tion for next weekend's Ontario University's Athletic Association track championship at York Uni- versity in Toronto. Duplicate Bridge EXETER - Exeter Duplicate Bridge Wednesday night scores were: 1st -2nd: Lois Snell, Rosalie Berends, Dr. Gans and Dorothy Linton.. 3rd: Gil Northey and Bob Drummond and 4th Marshal Dearing and John Brintncll. Future games Wednesday nights at 7:30 Exeter Legion I fall. fcatcd Central Huron 54-48. Nor- well took two wins to advance them to the playoff . tournament. along with the Panthers. In the playoffs, South Huron met two tough opponents losing 62-29 to Stratford Central and 52-43 to St. Michael's. The Panthers played well against thc stronger Cenual team but low shooting percentage cost them the game. South Huron held Central to a 36-21 lead at half time but allowed the Rams to control play in the sec- ond half and take the 62-29 victory. -4eson-Heywood Was South Hu- ron's -Ion scorer and Terry Genttner an Pctc Overholt put together some effective plays as well. Mark Rus- sell and Randy Johnson also had a great rebounding game. The boys played a good two-way game against St. Mike's but once against had a low shooting percent- age. The locals played well defen- sively, grabbing many rebounds. Coach George McEwan felt it was simply a matter of being out shot by their opponcnts. • St. Mike's won the game 52-43. The Panthers ended a successful season of good quality basketball. The Midget players are looking for- ward to promising futures.in Junior and Senior basketball.