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Times Advocate, 1999-12-08, Page 16Taus WEEK IN Srolrrs Panther gibs and boys win big at high school hockey tourneys. Page 17 Culbert wins nine golds at swim meet.. Divots, Page 18 TIMES -ADVOCATE S OrteS Sporn T.n? Contact Sports Editor Craig Bradford Tel: (519) 235-1336 ext 113 Fax: (519) 235-0766. E-mail: sports@SouthHuron com -age 16 Wednesday, December 8, 1999 Exeter Times -Advocate Irish ground Hawks at home By Craig Bradford •TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF EXETER -- A hot pow- 'rplay and an even hotter goaltender spelled doom 'or the Exeter Jr. D -lawks at home versus -Iwy. 4 rivals the Lucan :rish Friday night. Lucan bested Exeter 4-0 Nith Trish goaltender Marc Williams earning the shutout. Kevin Dunbar got the !rish on the scoreboard while on the powerplay at 3:28 of the first period Loin Corey Smith and Ben Dobbie. Mike Burns made it 2-0 by scoring a minute later from Darrel Parsons and Dobbie. Lucan stole any fresh- ness the Hawks had after the first intermission by scoring a powerplay goal �► 57 seconds into the frame. Smith got the goal from Dunbar and Andrew Moriarity. Lucan's Greg Henderson scored his team's final goal with 6:26 left in the game from Burns. Exeter threw 28 shots at Williams while Hawks goaltender Ryan 011son faced 22 shots. The game ended on a sour note with two Hawks, Shawn Sherwood and Chris Corlett, both given double minors for facemasking. The two also landed fighting majors and game miscon- ducts in tilts with Lucan's Scott Wheatley and Ryan Keating who also got ar fighting majors and game misconducts. Hawks coach Andy Friyia apologized for the Corlett incident. "I'm embarrassed about my team's attack on Ryan Keating," he said, adding Corlett didn't dress for Saturday's game and dressed but didn't play during Sunday's game. As far as the rest of the game, a slow start proved costly for Exeter, Friyia said. "We came out flat again in the first half of the first period," he said. Friyia added the play of Williams played a big fac- tor. Lucan coach Bill Bourne accepted Friyia's apology for Corlett's actions but pointed out that doesn't explain the cross-check- ing attack by Jeremy Vanbergen in the first period (he got a five minute major and a game misconduct) or the Sherwood incident. Bourne said the Exeter game "went pretty well as advertised" with both teams showing a lot of emotion. His team's disci- pline proved to be better, he said. Exeter • rebounded Saturday with a 8-5 road win at Parkhill North Middlesex. Jeff Glover scored two goals for the Hawks, the first to make it 1-0 from Sherwood and Jaakko Heikkinen and the second to make it 8-5 in the dying seconds of the Lucan jr. D Irish player Darrel Parsons, front, heads out from behind the Lucan net followed closely by Port Stanley's Kevin Brown during Dec. 1's game at Lucan Arena. Lucan won 5-2. (photo/Craig Bradford) game • from Dave Farquhar and Ben McCann. Other Exeter goals were scored by Jeremy Geoffrey, Nick Regier, Jarrett Jeffrey, Jason Grenier, Jon ;Keys and Tylet McTavish with assists Nlover, Henny Pfaff, Ms, Berton Dykstra (2), Jon Miller (2), Regier and Jarred Bourne. Hawks goaltender Ryan Sullivan faced 18 shots while Parkhill goalie Steve Schepers faced 23 shots. Pleased with the win, Friyia wished the goals against wasn't so high. "We seem to have mis- placed our commitment to defence," he said, adding goalie Ryan Sullivan came up with some big early saves. All 13 goals scored in Exeter's 8-5 road loss to Lambeth Sunday were scored at one end of the rink. Lambeth was up 5-0 after the it t. period, then Exeter -1 ed all five of their go in the first 12. minutes of the second. Lambeth scored three unanswereU goals in the third period including the winner at 9:00 and the last goal into an empty net while shorthanded with 1:51 left. • Geoffrey scored two goals for the Hawks and added an assist. Ben McCann scored Exeter's first goal while short- handed and notched two assists. Jeffrey and Regier scored Exeter's other goals with other assists by Pfaff, Corlett and Glover. Exeter's last two goals were scored on the pow- erf5lay while Lambeth scored one powerplay goal and two while short- handed. Exeter scored their five second period goals on just seven shots. O11son faced 31 shots in the Hawks net including 21 in the fust period. "It was a heartbreaker," Friyia said of the loss after coming back from a 5-0 deficit. • He said his team had plenty of opportunities in the third but with near misses and hit posts, Exeter couldn't buy a goal. The win and two losses brings Exeter's record to 13-11 and 26 points, good for second place in the Morenz Division behl d the first place Irish who are at 16-6 and 32 points. The Hawks recently traded defenceman Chris Chatterson, 20, of London to Lambeth for a player to be named later. Another popular player, London's Jason Mandarelli, has chosen to play high school hockey with St. Thomas Lucan Irish player Scott Wheatley, left, is bothered by Exeter Hawks player Jarrett - Jeffrey during Friday's Jr. D game at South Huron Rec Centre. Lucan blanked Ezell 4-0. (photo/Scott Nixon) tinas. atterson's and Mandarelli's absences leave room for any play- ers left over after the Goderich Jr. C club folded earlier this season. Exeter has already picked up Bayfield's Craig Miller, 19, from that team. Miller played in the Nov. 28 game versus Port Stanley but sprained his knee. He'll be back this week. Friyia explained while the Hawks are still in rebuilding mode, it's best to have younger players who will have at least a couple more years in the league before becoming overage. • Miller has two to three more years of junior hockey while Chatterson was facing exiting junior hockey at the end of this season since the Hawks have four other 20 -year- olds who will vye for the single overage spot next season. Those players are captain Farquhar, Glover, McCann and Geoff Maver. Chatterson will get the rest of the year with Lambeth and likely could win the overage spot there since the team has no other 20 -year-olds. Friyia added he traded Chatterson to a team that has a better record than the Hawks. 1 (traded Chatterson) because I like him," Friyia said. "That was in the absolute best interest of the Hawks and the absolute best interest of Chris Chatterson. He now has one and a half years of junior hockey, instead of just a year." Other recent zdditions to the Hawks is local defensemen Jon Keys who's back after playing last year with St. Marys Jr. B and Geoff Maver who's back Dec. 15. With eight defensemen, Friyia said something had to give and teams usually side with local talent. This week the Hawks will host Mitchell Friday at South Huron Rec Centre starting at 8:30 p.m. The game will have a special twist since it marks the annual Teddy Bear Toss. Fans are encouraged to bring new stuffed animals and toss them onto the ice during the second inter- mission. The teddies are destined for the Christmas Bureau who will give them to needy children. The Hawks also host Mount Brydges on Sunday (same time). The Irish started the week with a 5-2 home win over Port Stanley on Dec. 1. Captain Chad Greenlee led the way with two goals in the third period including the winning marker at 12:23 from Dunbar and Moriarity. Greenlee's second goal, scored unassisted while shorthanded, came with 2:23 left in the game. Keating scored an empty net goal from Wheatley and Dunbar with 14 seconds left in the game. Smith scored Lucan's firstgoal at 11:24 of the first. The Lakers tied it up 18 seconds later. Wheatley scored the only goal of the second period from Keating and Ed Etheridge at 10:24. Port Stanley tied the game at 2-2 2:59 into the third period before Lucan scored three unanswered goals for the win. On Sunday the Irish beat host Belmont 5-4. "That was a pretty ugly win but we got her," Bourne said, adding he had a short bench with five regulars out. With his team clicking for a four game winning streak, Bourne said there's not much more he can do. "I'm adjusting very well to my team's systems," he joked turning around the often used coach's saying. "I just let them play. We're grinding pretty good right now." The Irish host Lambeth tonight at 8:15 p.m. and head to Seaforth Friday.