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Times Advocate, 1995-03-08, Page 15SPORTS Hawks drop first to Lancers Junior 'D' playoffs Continued from page 14 ' Prior to Sunday's game, the Hawks and the Lancers have not faced off since December 16. Of the five games played, both won twice and one game was a 3-3 deadlock. "They've picked up a couple of guys. They're a better hockey team than the last time we played them," said Revington. "They've got size Irish sweep Cents By Fred Groves T -A staff LUCAN - There were no brooms at the Lucan Arena but there was lots to celebrate last Wednesday night as the Lucan Irish swept the visiting Seaforth Centenaires four games straight. A shorthanded goal by defense - man Wil Giles saw the Irish elim- inate the Cents and advance to the OHA Junior Development League quarter -finals against the Pt. Stan- ley Lakers. Game One of the semi-finals went last night (Tuesday) in Pt. Stanley and the best -of -seven series comes back to Lucan tonight at 8:15 p.m. 1 Lucan faced Pt. Stanley five times during the regular season and failed to come up with a win "It might be a little edge for them (Lakers)," said Lucan coach Scott Bogart. "We are playing a lot dif- ferent than we did during the regu- lar season." Against the Centenaries it wasn't a dominating sweep for the Irish who were eliminated by Seaforth in similar fashion a year ago. Three of this year's four post - season games were one -goal vic- tories for the Irish including last Wednesday's 4-3 win. Scoring the winning goal, a shorthanded rush- ing effort, was rookie defenseman Wil Giles. "They (Seaforth) shot it, 1 caught it and there was no one around so 1 just kept going," said Giles after the game in describing the winning goal. "The goalie went down and 1 just waited and put it in the open side." Seaforth jumped into a huge 3-0 lead early in the game but Mike Robb closed the gap to two goals by the end of the first period. In the second period the hosts got not one but two lucky breaks as Steve Hud- son and Giles both bounced shots off of Seaforth defensemen and past netminder Dave Nahrgang. "Everyone came out with the at- titude we were going to win easy," said Giles. "We came into the (dressing) room and everyone said get moving, get working." The night before in Seaforth, the Irish won the third game quite easi- ly, a 6-1 victory. Scoring in that one were Jeremy Jemec and Hud- son with two goals each with one to Greg DePrest and one goal plus two assists to captain Steve Mat- thews. While Giles' back-to-back goals ignited the comeback, the spark to start things going was led by the 'Triple D' line of Daryl Boshart, Dave Jenken and Dave Lindberg which although did not score, buzzed around the net and a big hit by Boshart brought the Irish bench to life. Also a big key in this game was the goaltending of veteran Steve Watson. After getting a much de- served rest in Game Four after three starts against Seaforth, Wat- son watched the start of Wednes- day's game as Knyvet Carson went between the pipes. The Irish however couldn't hack Carson and after the three Cen- tenaries goals, Watson was put in to hold the fort. "We've got our work cut out for us." and speed and a lot of balance." It also doesn't hurt, from the Lancers' perspective, to have Jeff Baldachin in net. The veteran puckstopper was a key factor in not only Sunday's win but the playoff series win against two-time de- fending champion Mitchell. Sunday saw the Lancers jump into a 1-0 lead after 20 minutes and they increased that to 5-2 after two periods. Chris Kennedy teamed with Sean McCann and Jamie Cornish for a Hawks' powerplay goal and the sec- ond marker came from Ray Cou- sineau and set up by linemates Steve Farquhar and Nathan Blight. And what do the Hawks have to do to get back into the series? "I expect anybody can be beaten in March," said Revington. "We have to play at a higher level to beat them." Sweep the Bombers: Last Wednesday night in Belmont the Hawks had little trouble in what was to be the fourth and final game of the series as they won 5-1. Game Throe in Exeter last Tues- day night was the most interesting of the series as the Bombers' Mark Watson scored with just one second left in regulation, on a penalty shot, to send the game into overtime. However, with 54 seconds left in the 10 -minute extra period, Mark Livermore lugged it down the left side of the rink and got a centering pass to Shayne Robinson. Exeter Hawks fans will re- member a similar situation which saw a game against Mt. Brydges go into overtime. This one with the Bombers was nearly identical as the net was knocked off with one second left, compared to three ticks on the clock against the Bulldogs. The hosts totally dominated this game as they outshot the Bombers a whopping 53-21 in the 5-4 Exeter win. Besides Robinson's winner, also scoring for the Hawks were Chad Gilfillan, Gavin Snell, McCann and Kennedy. Exeter had to play with four de- fenseman for a good part of the game as Jason McBride was eject- ed for checking -from -behind and Mark Lynn had a sore back. • Times -Advocate, March 8, 1995 Page 15 Exeter Hawks' goalie Brian Knight just couldn't quite reach this shot during the against Belmont. final game SHDHS girls compete at WOSSA EXETER - The South Huron Senior Girls volleyball team com- pleted a very successful season on Saturday at W.O.S.S.A. 'AA' in Strathroy. The girls won the Huron Confer- ence posting a very impressive 20 wins and four loss season in league play. At Huron -Perth they placed sec- ond in their pool and lost a hard- fought semi-final match to the eventual winner, Stratford Central 13-15, 15-11, 11-15. 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