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Times-Advocate, 1983-10-19, Page 8• Edge Grand Bend in deciding contest Times -Advocate, October 19, 1833 VpAttoli Sports Spotlight By Ross Haugh While the first few weeks of the schedule in the Na tional Hockey League will not likely have much affect on the final standings come next spring, there have been a couple of surprising quick starts. As this is being written the New York Rangers are one of only three unbeaten teams and are off to their best start in many moons. The Rangers have won their first five starts under coach Herb Brooks. The other undefeated clubs are the Edmonton Oilers and the Philadelphia Flyers. The Oilers are cer- tainly no surprise with four straight wins as Wayne Gretzky is off to one of his best starts and again leads the league in scoring with 13 points in four games. At Philadelphia the Flyers are probably trying to show their fans that last year's first round playoff loss to the Rangers was a fluke. When Herb Brooks took over as the Ranger coach he was expected to work miracles. Maybe he's a year late in doing that type of chore. With the addition of Willie Huber ft om the Red Wings to go along with huge Barry Beck, the Rangers now have the biggest defense this side of the New York Jets. Detroit Red Wings fans will likely be watching closely to see how Huber and the other ex -Red Wings Blaisdell and Osborne perform in new surroundings. The question in Philadelphia is how long can Bob- by Clarke keep being Bobby Clarke and is Ron, the newest of the Sutter's, maybe going to be the best? The Flyers have added three new defencemen. They are Doug Crossman in the Behn Wilson trade with Chicago, Randy Holt and Thomas Eriksson from Sweden. Continuingin the Patrick division, the Islanders should again be the cream of the crop. Al Arbour has made few changes. To staunch Islander fans if your team doesn't do real well in the regular schedule remember what they are capable of doing in the playoffs. Finishing off the Patrick division are the Washington Capitals, New Jersey Devils and Pittsburgh Penguins who have a grand total of one victory between them so far in the early going. In the Adams division, the Boston Bruins seem to be ready to repeat their championship win of a year ago. They have solid goal tending in Pete Peeters at 2.36 goals per game, a tough defense led by Ray Bourke and a surprisingly productive offensive machine with Rick Middleton, Barry Pederson and Tom Fergus leading the way. At Montreal, the Canadiens making tew changes under new general manager Serge Savard appear to be heading down the ladder as they stick with veterans like Guy Lafleur, Larry Robinson and Bob Gainey. A team on the way up is the Buffalo Sabres under general manager Scotty Bowman who learned some of his techniques in Montreal. Bowman has duplicated a feat pulled by the Canadiens in the early 1970's. That's coming up with three first round choices in each of the last two drafts. Names to look for in Buffalo are Phil llousley, Paul Cyr, Dave Andreychuk, Sean McKenna and of course Gil Parrault and Real Cloutier a 42 goal scorer one year at. Quebec. The Quebec Nordiques appear to be heading for the same pattern as a year ago when they scored.a bushel of goals, but, allowed almost as many. In 1982-83 the Nordiques scored 343 while allowing 336 and in the first five games this year they have scored 27 and given up 24, the most of any team in the NIIL. We would hope that the Quebec brass decides to g ve Exeter native Dave Shaw a chance somewhere along the season trail to shore up a defence which ledves a lot to be desired. Shaw is back with the Kitchener Rangers and has been picked as a three star in at least four games to date. Despite their early good fortunes the St. Louis team should be at the bottom of the pile along with the Itart- ford Whalers. In the Smythe division, the Edmonton Oilers with some added maturity should be runaway winners as their famous No. 99 should come close to averaging three points per game. The second best Calgary Flames appear to have a Gretzky of their own in Hakan Loob from Sweden. In one pre -season game Loob scored five goals. The Vancouver Canucks have made none or little change. One highlight for the Canucks could be if Tiger Williams collected 301 minutes in penalties. That would put him up to the 3,000 minute mark which is 50 full games. In Winnipeg about the only bright spot is Dale Hawerchuk who came up with a good training camp. He will get some help at centre from Tim Young and Laurie Boschman. The Los Angeles Kings seemed destined for the Smythe basement. In the Norris division only the Minnesota North Stars can challenge the Chicago Black Hawks who fail- ed to have -a collective heart transplant as suggested by coach Ory Tessier last spring. Behn Wilson has been added to the defensive side and cover for high scorers Denis Savard, Al Secord and Steve Larmer. In Minnesota Lou Nanne picked Brian Lawton from the junior draft to go along with Brian Bellows, only a year older at 19. Rookie t:oach Bill Mahoney's biggest problem will likely be to motivate a highly skilled '11',ich of up -to -now under achievers. At Toronto, what can one truthfully say about the Leafs who had problems a year ago finishing ahead of Detroit and St. Louis. Pal Tial and company have done virtually nothing to change the roster of the team with the exception of cutting Paul Higgins. Rick Vaive will be trying for a third straight 50 goal year and will likely accomplish Centennials win Ausable soccer title A more experienced Exeter Senior Centennial Soccer club overcame a one game deadlock to win the deciding game of the best of three playoff with Grand Bend 2-0. Exeter finally wins the Ausable League Champion- ship after finishing second numerous times in the past. The Centennials won the first game 3-2. No scoring took place in the first half. Grand Bend took a 2-0 lead in the second half. With 20 minutes to play, Exeter didn't give up as Paul Vandewalle went to work scoring the first two goals and Shawn Rotteau scoring the winner. The second game saw Ex- eter take a 1-0 lead on a goal by Paul Vandewalle. Grand Bend in a do or die situation scored one to end the half at 1-1. Grand Bend dominated the second half and scored two to win the game 3-1. This left the final and deciding game to be played in Exeter. It saw even play 1111111111111111 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 i 1111 Pooley OS captain Former Exeter native Paul Pooley has been named cap- tain of the Ohio State Univer- sity hockey club in Columbus, Ohio. Paul and twin brother Perry are in their senior year with the Buckeyes. In the team's opening game, a 6-2 victory over Michigan -Dearborn, Paul Pooley scored two goals and added a pair of assists and was named Buckeye player of the week by coach Jerry Welsh. throughout the first half and most of the second. Exeter scored the first goal as Paul Vandewalle put one by the Grand Bend goalie. Ex- eter goalie Blair Burbidge played well throughout the game and stopped a tying op- portunity by Grand Bend with the help of fullback Joe Laurie. It was probably Bur- bidge's best save of the year. A passing combination het - ween Dick Lord, John Muller and Paul Vandewalle enabled Shawn Rotteau to score the go ahead goal in the dying minutes of the game. A large crowd lined the AUSABLE TITLE TO CENTENNIALS — The Exeter Centennials defeated Grand Bend 2-0 Sunday to win the Ausable soccer league A championship. Back, left, Francis Hartman, John Mickle, John Rosenberg, John Flanagan, John Van Esbroeck, Dave Holmes and Pete Czypha. Front, left, captains Dick Lord and John Muller, Paul Vandewalle, Blair Burbidge, Shawn Rotteau and Joe Laurie. Missing were Jerry Vandewalle and Wayne Caldwell. Hawks stretch unbeaten string to six meet Thedford, Friday at Rec Centre The Exeter Hawks posted a' tie and a win in their opening two games of the current Junior "D" season to run their unbeaten string to six straight games including a successful pre -season foray. Friday night, their home opener was slightly blemish- ed when the Lucan Irish battl- ed back from a two -goal deficit to gain a 5-5 tie, while Sunday night they reversed the situation when they put together a strong final stanza to tame the Port Stanley Lions 9-5. The locals have only one contest this week, hosting the Thedford Browns at the rec centre at 8:30 p.m.. Friday In Sunday's contest, the Hawks hampered their own cause with a parade of penalties in the first period and then ran into some defen- sive problems in the middle frame, However, they put it all together in the final 20 minutes to score three unanswered tallies to win go- ing away: Ril, Glover• a dominant force throughout the contest in a defensive as well as offen- sive role, sparked the squad with a hat trick and added two assists for a five -point night. Tony Jones and Pete Tuckey contributed two goals each and the singles came off the sticks of Mark Kirk and Mike Clark. Kris Bedard, Brian Horner and Ed Willis assisted on two tallies each and singles were registered by Tuckey, Kirk. Jeff Rowe,Steve Prout, Jones, Clark, Steve Batten and Dave Ske-. Cross country today The long-awaited Huron - Perth cross country meet is being held today at the Wildwood conservation area near Sl. Marys. South Huron had left it up until the eve of race day to decide in what division to have its runners compete. Dart scores All in the Family and Swat were the only teams to score four points in Friday's regular action in the Exeter Legion mixed darts league. This week's scores were: All in the Family 4 Canscotls 1 Swat 4 Odd ()nes 1 Turtles 3 Makeups 2 Crusaders 3 Merri Wraggs 2 Shiphunters 3 Rowdy Ones 2 Trailers 3 Snyde and Clyde 2 Scotties 3 Outlaws 2 Itchy Niters 3 Smurfs 2 Friday's schedule is as follows: 8 p.m. Rowdy Ones vs Smurfs All in the Family vs Makeups Odd Ones vs Merri Wraggs Snyde and Clyde vs Scotties 9:30 p.m. Itchy Niters vs Trailers Crusaders vs C'anscotts Outlaws vs Shiphunters Turtles vs Swat The midget girls led ny spunky Lindy Dillon and Jeanette Van Esbroeck have the ability to win Huron -Perth but may be eliminated at WOSSA. These first year runners could run as seniors to over- fill an already talented team with leaders Mary -Lou Run- dle, Catherine Patterson; Irene Dietrich and recovered Sheila Regier who had suf- fered from an injured knee. With such depth that ;earn could easily win both Huron - Perth and WOSSA and put in a three finish at the all-Ontarios. Greatly improved second year runner. Mark Johnston leads a strong midget boys team which coach Joe F'ulop• predicts will place first or se- cond at Huron -Perth today. The junior team will pro- bably move up to senior to in- crease their second or third place ranking. The top 10 individual finishers and the top two teams in each of the six divi- sions advances to WOSSA on Friday.Octoher28 at the Lon- don Ski Club. which will also host the OF'SSA races on November 5. F'ulopexpects to qualify all his runners for the WOSSA meet-. that and Bill Derlago is much better than he showed last year. The Leafs need some help on defence and in goal. In their first four games the Leafs scored eight times, but, gave up nine. This type of average will not win many championships. Despite their fine start, the St, Louis Blues will like- ly battle the Detroit Red Wings for the right to finish last. A recent Detroit Free Press story on the Wings said. "Of the 22 players on the roster, 14 are new since open ing night last year. Three are untested teenagers, two are defencemen Toronto didn't need. Two forwards couldn't score in the AHL. Two others will be 35 or older before next season arrives, which is 10 years older than the NHL average and the leading scorer in pre -season Kelly Kislo has only 15 games experience. 4 Pete Dearing started in I he nets and was replaced early in the second after he allow- ed two quick goals. one 00 .i long bouncer that eluded him and then one that was rifled into the cage by one of his own players. I)ave Rook -finished up and combined with fearing for 25 saves. The Hawks sat out 13 minor penalties compared to 12 for their hosts and picked up two powerplay tallies while allow ing none Irish Rebound The Lucan Irish scored on awen l• Pc► pay. with just under eight minutes left in Friday's game to gain the 5-5 tie with the Hawks, who had four midgets suited up for the con test as five regulars missed the- game due to the high School commencement and suspensions Rookie defenceman Mark Kirk had the distinction of scoring the first regular - season goal for the Hawks as he blinked the light at the 5:36 mark of the initial period: The teams each scored three times to the middle frame ..nd the llawks ran their lead to 3-3 early in the third before the Irish came back with two of their own to knot the count Pete Tuckey led Exeter with two goals. while singles in addition to Kirk's came from Dave Skea and Tony Jones. Ed Willis and Kris Bedard had a pair of assists each and adding one were Bill Glover, .left Rowe and Jones Both teams scored two powerplay goals and the Irish added one while playing short handed as John Medd put them on the sheet early in the ( second. it her score, s for the Irish were Al Craig, Bob Thirlwell. Wayne 1 irbshot1 and Les Arts. Steve Glenn assisted on two of the markers and adding one were Medd, Craig. Jell Skinner, Arts and Mark Bannon. Exeter took - t5 of the 25 minor penalties handed out and both Dave Book and Al Moon were busy in the respec- tive nets as they turned aside 40 sholseach i)t frddit ion to the five which eluded them "Customer Satisfaction" Above All Ron Rader Frayne Chev-Olds Ltd. 586 Main St., Exeter 235-0660 1-800-265-7026 OIL UNDERCOATING s3O Satisfaction guaranteed field, large in terms of past crowds watching soccer in Exeter, supporting the teams and was greatly appreciated. Special thanks to all the wives, children and girlfriends for supporting their husbands, fathers and boyfriends respectively. Exeter got into the A finals by tying with Grand Bend and Nairn in the round robin preliminaries. Exeter and Grand Bend. gained the A final by having a better record among the three te,uu,. Nairn went on to win the B final. Exeter had gone through the regulation schedule with seven wins, no losses and three ties finishing first in the league. In the round robin preliminaries to decide "A" and "B" playdowns, Exeter won four and lost one. In- cluding the final playoff series Exeter had a grand total of 13 wins and two losses and three ties. They ended up with a total of 52 goals for and 21 goals against or an average of nearly three goals for and an average of only a little over one 'against. Soccer is normally a game of low scoring and the Exeter defence played strong all year gaining five shut -outs and having only one game where the opposition scored more than two goals against and that was the 3-1 loss to Grand Bend in the playoffs. Credit is due to goalie Blair Burbidge, fullbacks Joe Laurie, John Rasenberg who's hanging up his boots this year, Pet ( Mohammed) Czypha and Dave Holmes. The halves who help the fullbacks and support the forwards 'and who have controlled the midfield in. nearly all the games they played this year consist of John Flanagan, Dick Lord, John Muller, John Van Esbroeck and Wayne Caldwell. High scoring centre for- ward Paul Vandewalle who scored over 50 pe?cent of the team's goals and led the league in scoring was flanked by equally talented forwards in Shawn Rotteau who was se- cond in scoring. Jerry Vandewalle. Francis Hart- man and John Mickle. For veterans Dick Lord. John Rasenberg, Joe Laurie and John Muller it was the first championship for them since the team started 10 years ago when all four started playing. A strong nucleus of players from the Kirkton-St. Marys area have greatly helped the' Exeter squad. Soccer is growing rapidly in the Exeter area with numerous minor teams winn- ing championships this year. It is to the point where it has become the number one sport in the area in numbers participation. Plans are underway for league expansion in the senior division with two new teams and possibly three for the next year. OIL Undercoatin We do the following: 1) Wash out vehicle underneath 2) Use new auto- matic transmis- sion fluid 3) Apply spray 49 underneath vehicles 4) Spray inside of doors, fenders, hood and trunk CALL GORD HAY FOR APPOINTMEN Main Street, Exeter. 235-0660 9 chev. olds. exeter Mathers Motors INVITES YOU TO TEST DRIVE THE BEST SELLING COM PACTS IN CANADA. CHRYSLER K -CARS! 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