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Times Advocate, 1989-03-15, Page 20Page 20 Times -Advocate, March 15, 1989 Merner wins silver medal NORTH BAY - Exeter's Julia Merner came home with a silver medal after competing for Western Region Ringette team at the Onta- rio Winter Games on the weekend. Merner first fried out for the Re- gional team after being encouraged by her father. The tryouts lasted about a month, once or twice a week and two to threo hours a day. They were held in Stratford, where Merner plays as a Junior All-Star, London, and Kitchener. She was among the 300 who tried -out for the team and survived all cuts and was named to the team. go- ing to North Bay just recently. Merner's West team played twice Silver medalist - Julia Merner, of Exeter, proudly wears the silver medal she won in ringette at the Ontario Winter Games in North Bay on the weekend. Lucan Irish beat Mitchell Continued from page 17 Murray who each had a pair and Ke- vin Leitch, Muir, Wcishar, and Todd Hayter each picked up one as- sist each. In Friday night's contest, referee Bob Beatty cracked down on Mitch- ell's rough antics in the first period and called the Hawks for 11 minor penalties in the first period, while Lucan had only four calls against them. • A lack of offence proved costly to the Hawks as well and they fired only 20 shots at Irish nctminder Brad Judd in the game, but four went behind Judd for goals. Jeff Redfern stopped 23 of 29 shots that were fired his way in the Mitchell net. Graham Hutton paced the Lucan attack Friday night with a pair of goals, while singles went to Muir, Schram, John McEachem and Dar- ren Neil. Schram, Dean Docrr and Denomy each picked up a pair of assists, while Barnes and Muir had one as- sist each. The victory in the series proved costly to the Irish however, as they lost goaltender Doug Haskctt for -six weeks with torn knee ligaments and Dave Murray for the rest of the year with a broken wrist suffered in Fri- day night's garne. The Irish will now play the Exet- er Hawks in the division semi-final starting Wednesday, (tonight) at the Lucan Arena. The Irish will spend St. Patrick's Day, (Friday), at the South Huron Rec Centre in Exeter playing game two of the series, starting at 8:30. The dates and times for the rest of the series have not yet been worked out with the two teams. on Friday beating the South 6-4 and East 9-4. On .Saturday,. the West beat Central 7-1, tied Northeast 9-9, and beat the Northwest 14-6. After the regular -round play, the West was given first place overall and a bye into the gold -medal game. The West and Northeast each had nine points but West was awarded first place because of a better point differential. • In the semi-final game, Northeast - beat Central 8-7 to advance to the gold medal game against the west, which the West lost 9-5. Merner, who plays defence, said the trip was a great -learning experi- ence for her because the competition was very tough. She plans to try out for the pro- vincial team next year. She added the games were very well attended and she's not tired despite playing six games in just under three days. Zurich bowlers win roll -off ZURICH - The Gutter Busters team from the Thursday Night Mixed League, won the three -game house round rolloff of the Ontario Five Pin Bowlers' Association Pro- vincial Team Championships Sun- day at Zurich's Town and Country Lanes. Paced by Peter Groot with 130 pins over his league average, the Gutter Busters finished with a com- bined 436 pins over their combined team average to win over nine other teams from Town. and Country Five Pin Association leagues.. All six team members bowled over their average, including 115 pins over by Dave Groot, Gary Ste- phens 92 over, Due Stephens 73 over, Elaine Groot 22 over and Sha- ri Groot four pins over. They now advance to the Ontario Five Pin -Bowlers Association Re- gional team finals April - 23 at Kitchener -Waterloo leading to the Provincial finals June 3. Zurich Town and Country Asso- ciation's team of Doug Smith Jr. and Gary. Huston from the Tuesday Night Men's league each won a one-week all expense paid trip for two to Florida by finishing first in their Region at the Ontario finals of the Walkers Special Old High - Low Doubles Saturday at Hamil- ton's Shcrwood Lanes. - Smith set the pace in the pins .over average competition with games of 307, 237 and 206 for a fine 750 triple while Huston added a 609 triple as the duo bowled 162 pins over their combined league av- erages. They finished sixth overall in Ontario. Exeter skaters - These skaters from the Exeter Skating Club took part in the inner -club meet recent- ly. Front row, (left to right), Jaclin Baynham, Jennifer Regier, Becky Wuerth, Alicia Hunking. Second row, (l -r), Brenyn Baynham, Vanessa Laye, Sunny Dinney, Danielle Knox, Rochelle Geoffrey, Jamie Palsa. Back row, (l -r), Kristi Sargeant, Jayann Heywood, Bronwyn Pearson, Rianne Laye. Missing, Jackie Dougall, Courtney Oke, Leanne Little, Kim MacLean, Julie Darling, Terri Hamather, Molting Hawks beat Hensall 10-2 EXETER - The Molting Hawks were in action three times this week, beating Hensall 10-2 while losing to Lambeth and London Old Tractor 10-5. On Thursday against Lambeth, Ron Moore, Bob McDo- nald, Ernie Ahrens, Brian Hodgins and Peter McFalls each notched one goal with McDonald, Ahrens, Bob Petites lose in Dorchester DORCHESTER - The Exeter Pe- tite Ringette team travelled to Dor- chester Sunday to play the Talbot Trail Champs (London and District) but lost 9-2. The locals were confronted by a skilled and very plentiful Dorches- ter squad, but played very well de- spite the lack of bodies on the Ex- eter bench. - Exeter caught Dorchester off guard, on the first free pass, when Sonya Lawrence picked out Da- nielle Miners and Miners slammed the ring into the net with only four seconds gone in the game. The only other goal for Exeter came early in the second half on a lone effort by Miners. Fill-in goaltender Amy Edwards of Exeter kicked out many shots far her team. Exeter will start their playoff fi- nals, Sunday in Goderich at 6:30. Game two will be in Hensall Thursday, March 23 at 8:15 and game three will also be in Hensall if necessary on Saturday, March 25. JACK'S Plumbing & Heating (Exeter)- Inc. High efficiency gas furnaces Wafer Softeners Central Vacuum JACK MAVER (519) 235-0581 Jones, Brian Hodgins and Ron Moore each getting a single assist. On Sunday, Ernie Ahrens was the scoring leader getting a hat trick while Bob McDonald had two. Brian Hodgins, -Peter McFalls, Scott Burton, Jack Chipchase and Eli "Pancho" Pfaff each had one goal. Bob McDonald and Ernie Ahrens each had three assists while Brian Hodgins added a pair. Bob Jones, Scott Burton, Al Flynn, Walt Tiedeman and Jim Pfaff each had single assists. Monday night, Ken Bergmann led the way with two goals while Ron Moore, McDonald and Jones notched single goals. Jack Chip - chase had two assists, while Ken Bergmann, Brian Hodgins and Scott Burton added single assists. This week they travel to London Sunday to play East London, on Monday they host the London Old Rascals while Tuesday they play the Har- veys Old Timers. �cT°RY Camry - One of the finest passenger cars built in The world at any price! Rick Frayne Demonstrators available for your evaluation Test drive today! We ask only for an opportu7tity to earn your business 235-2353 Ron Rader wckrroyn� EXETER TOYOTA] 242 Main St. North Exeter NOM 1S0 WE'LL MAKE YOUR BUILDING PROJECT EASIER! With The Dataquote Computerized Estimating Service Bring us your project the DATAQUOTE will provide you with a complete breakdown of materials, financial analysis based on your budget and a precil r detailed bill of materials. Everything's itemized -- right down to the nails and door latches!! 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