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Times Advocate, 1999-12-22, Page 27Wednesday, December 22, 1999 Exeter 27 Silver stick winners The Stephen Township Atom Rep team recently won the Regional Silver StickTournament in Wingham. Front left Zack Lenson, David Reschke, Eric Duenk, Nick Jeffrey,Trevor Somerville; middle left coach Bob Reschke, MacKenzie Christie, Cale Duenk, Jordan Cronyn, Justin Lightfoot, trainer Randy Vincent, trainer Perry Knee; back left Brett Steeper, Ryan. Masse, J.T. Knee and Brendon VanOsch. Stephen beat Lion's Head 9-1, Brussels 6- 5, Ripley 3-2, Drayton 7-5 in the 'D' division final and Wingham 7-2 in the 'C' division final.The team now heads to the International Silver Stick in Forest Jan. 7-9. (photo/contributed) Panther wrestlers win more medals in St. Catharines St. Catharines — Seven South Huron District High School wrestlers brought home medals from last week's meet in,St. Catharines. Darryl Weiss, Silvana Roduner and Matt Bell won silver medals while Matt Martin, Nathan Spivey, Sisophan Chansamone and Brad Turnbull won bronze medals. In all, 20 South Huron wrestlers participated in the meet. Jr. panthers on a roll EXETER — The South Huron District High School junior boys basketball team is slicing and dicing the competition. At home Monday, the juniors crushed Clinton Central Huron 75-24 in a good overall effort. Kieran O'Rourke led the way offensively with 25 points followed by Jordan Shantz with 15 and Lance Bedard with seven. Nine of the team's 10 players con- tributed to the scoring. The midgets played great defence and jumped out to a quick lead they continued to add to ina68-23 win. Justin Hayter played an excellent game scoring 16 points followed by Jake Romphf with 12 and Chad Smith with 10. Jesse McCann, Cam Murray and Everette Dionne also put in good efforts. The senior Panthers did- n't fare as well against Central Huron despite being up by 14 points at the half. South Huron couldn't hold on to the lead and eventually fell 62-52. Mike Blois led the way with 11 points while Kyle Farwell and Ben Forrest added 10 each. At home Dec. 15, the midgets erased an early deficit versus St. Anne's to easily win 52-39. South Huron held St. Anne's to four points in the third quarter to take the lead. Top scorers were Smith with 12 points, Murray with seven and Dionne with six. The juniors clobbered St. Anne's 69-32 in a game that saw all 10 Panthers score. Mark Laye led the way with 21 points fol- lowed by Shantz with 13 and O'Rourke with 10. The seniors played hard versus St. Anne's but lost 48-45. Ryan Beattie had 11 points, .Farwell nine and Forrest and Les Vincent each had seven. Aran Beattie and Tom Phouttharath also played Putting it up. South Huron midget boys bas- ketball player Everette Dionne rises above the St.Anne's defenders to make a basket during last week's home game.The Panthers won 52-39. (photo/Craig Bradford) well. The teams will be on hia- tus till after the Christmas holidays. The seniors next play in the Kincardine tour- nament on Jan. 7-8. The next Huron league action is Jan. 12 when South Huron travels to Seaforth. May all your plans for a happy holiday be fulfilled. We value your friendship and trust Lucan Jr. D Irish forward Scott Phillips, right, goes airborne but misses a check on Port Stanley's Jeff Kaufmann during last week's game at Lucan Arena. Lucan came out flat and went on to lose 4- I .The Lakers scored two goals in the first period and another early in the second before the Irish could get on the board mid -way through the period. Jason Amey scored from Kevin Dunbar and Chad Greenlee. Port scored its last goal into an empty Lucan net in the dying seconds of the game while shorthanded. "We just couldn't get much offence going;' coach Bill Bourne said.The loss breaks Lucan's six game unbeaten streak."One loss for the month isn't bad," Bourne quipped on his team's success in December."We hope to finish the year strong." Lucan's record is 17-7-1, good for 35 points and first place in the Morenz Division.The Irish host Belmont tonight (Dec. 22) at 8:15 p.m. and Belmont on Monday at 7:30 p.m. in a rescheduled game. Lucan Arena hosted a Jr. B game between St. Marys and Petrolia Saturday (the Irish are St. Marys' affiliate). Petrolia won 4-2. Former Irish players Justin Mulligan, Derek Graansma and Mike Boyce were on hand and current Irish players Mike Burns, Roy Davis, Ben Dobbie, Chad Greenlge, Ryan Keating and Scott Wheatley played. (photo/Craig Bradford) ?Fcankyou for your patronage. We Cook forward to serving you in the New Year oug Geoffrey Construction Ltd. Residential - Commercial Agricultural - Renovations Exeter 235-2961 • .0 Orr