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Times Advocate, 1995-03-29, Page 20Page 20 Times -Advocate, March 29, 1995 •e Legion peewees one win away from OMHA crown Back-to-back wins on the weekend puts Exeter way in front of the series By Fred Groves T -A staff EXETER - Talent and team - those are the two words which best describe the Exeter Ladies Aux- iliary Peewees. Sunday afternoon they came from behind to beat visiting Prince Edward County Kings 5-4 and take a commanding four -points -to -none lead in their six - point Ontario Minor Hockey Association peewee 'CC' finals. It was a very successful weekend for the hosts who won the championship series opener 4-2 Sat- urday night at the South Huron Recreation Centre. Exeter can win the title on Friday when they head to Prince Edward County. It the Kings win, the next game will be played Saturday and if the series be- comes tied, the deciding game will be played Sun- day. "That team isn't going to beat us three times," said Exeter coach Bob McDonald. • "They haven't lost too many games until they've come down here (to Exeter)". Heading into what hopefully will he their final game of the year, the Legion peewees have a 14-2-2 OMHA playoff record and have scored 113 goals compared to just 53 by the opposition. "It's a good hunch of boys. They're really keen and everyone is contributing," said McDonald. In Sunday game, captain Jeff Campbell had three goals, including the winner but credit also has to go to a strong defence including Barry Parsons and Jared Bourne which did a superb job on Kings' cap- tain Barkley Vanhecke. Trailing 2-0 just five minutes into the game, Exet- er chipped away and pulled to within a goal when Jason Grenier lugged the puck down the right side and muscled his way into the zone. "They (Kings) had a lot more jump in their skates than we did but luck was on our side," said McDo- nald. Although it was 3-1 for the visitors after the first period, Chad Monteith banged one in from the side of the net and it was Campbell getting the equalizer as he went down on a breakaway and although he was slashed on the play and a penalty was being called, made the score 3-3. Campbell and Mike Seip teamed to make it 4-3 after the second period. Early in the third, Kings' Mike Stever tied it up on a powerplay and it stayed tied at four until 2:25 left in the game when Campbell netted the winner. The winning goal came when the hosts buzzed the Prince Edward County net and Campbell banked one off a Kings' defenseman's skates. "Campbell works for every goal he gets," said McDonald after the game. The Exeter captain leads the team in scoring with 30 playoff goals. In Sunday's game the much bigger Kings played physical early in the game, more so than the night before. "They were a little more aggressive today than they were last night," said McDonald. "It's our speed that kills them." • Three in a row: Sunday's game made it three in a row as Exeter won the opener 4-2 on Saturday. Campbell and Scott Keys had two goals each while Kian MacDougall set up two goals. Also helping out on goals were Bourne, Monteith and Tim Mav- er. Last Wednesday night in Exeter, the Legions' eliminated Mitchell 5-2 to win the semi-finals. Monteith had two goals with singles from Camp- bell, Seip and Tim Maver. Everyone seemed to get in on the scoring as MacDougall helped set up two goals while also drawing assists were Grenier, Ryan Groot, Parsons, Bourne and Andrew Maver. Rebels go to final series Stephen Township peewees eliminated Cayuga HURON PARK - There is a good chance the Ontario Minor Hockey Association peewee 'E' champion- ship trophy may not leave Huron County. Saturday afternoon the Stephen Township Rebels beat Cayuga 6-2 to advance to the OMHA finals. A year ago it was the Zurich Storm getting their name etched in the winners trophy. A very balanced scoring attack help the Rebels win the semi-final series and will now advance to take on Port Carling in the finals. Game One against Port Carling will be played Saturday in Huron Park at 2 p.m. and then the following day in the same arena at 1 p.m. Against Cayuga on Saturday, Shawn Stuckless teamed with Shawn Sherwood and Jeremy Van - Bergen after the hosts applied some very heavy forechecking. Jeff Finkbeiner made it 2-0 with 4:53 left in the opening frame and it was 3-0 when Adam Wilson jumped on a rebound. Danny Mos- urinjohn who took a lot of abuse in front of the Stars net all game, and Jamie Clarke had the assists on what proved to be the winner. In the second, Mosurinjohn scored from Stuckless and it was 4- 2 after two periods as Joe Baird and Cole Cronk answered for Cayuga. It was all Stephen Township in the third as VanBergen knocked in a shot from Sherwood and than Sherwood parked himself in front of the net and took a feed from VanBergen. Exeter peewee forward Jason Grenier tried to bang the puck in during Saturday's 4-2 win. Dorothy Pfaff of the Exeter Legion Ladies Auxiliary dropped the puck between Exeter captain Jeff Campbell and Barkley Vanhecke of Prince Edward County. In another ceremony Satur- day night, mayor Ben Hoogenboom dropped a puck with Frank Winters of Huron Tractor. Sonics head to OMHA finals It took the fifth and deciding game to beat Alvinston By Fred Groves T -A staff ALVINSTON - Not one but two teams from Stephen Township are going to the Ontario Minor Hockey Association finals. Saturday afternoon the peewee Rebels beat Cayuga and advance to take on Port Carling (see this week's edition). Later the same night the atom Sonics beat host Al- vinston 4-2 and will now take on Oops in the 'E championships. The Sonics will host the first game of the OMHA series on Sat- urday at 4 p..m. and then again at the Stephen Township Arena in Huron Park on Sunday at 3 p.m. "We were having trouble getting ice and so were they so we left it at a six -point series," said Sonics coach Dick Lord. Saturday in Alvinston it went down to the third period as the teams were tied 2-2 after two pe- riods of play. "We really settled down in the third period and they couldn't get going," said Lord. I felt if it was ihow even going into the third that we would win it." The scoring started at 5:07 when Alvinston's Kurt VanDesRecken made it 1-0 but four minutes later Brian Dixon teamed with his lin- emates Jesse Schroeder and Bray - den Lbrd. In the second frame Schroeder scored from Henny Pfaff to put the visitors up 2-1. However, Alvinston captain Adam Swan evened the count. It was all Stephen in the third as Dixon got his second, this one from Pfaff and with less than three min- utes to go, Lord scored from Jeff Rollings. "We played better than we have been. The defense came together," said Lord. On the subject of defense, goalie Gary Sauder was outstanding throughout the series and in Friday night's game in Huron Park he stopped Alvinston's Zake Hunt at least three times on breakaways. "It's only his second year of play- ing net and he's played well," said S: ephen Township's Henny Pfaff, left; battled for a loose puck during Friday night's game against Alvinston. Lord. The march to the final for the Sonics began by beating Wallace in the first-round of the playoffs, that was followed by winning the West- ern Ontario Athletic Association ti- tle over Clifford which doubled as the quarter -finals. That put Stephen into the semis against Alvinston and it went right down to the fifth and deciding game in the six -point series. In the semis, the Sonics won the first game 8-3, lost the second 7-3 and bounced back to win Wednes- day night in Alvinston Alvinston 4, Stephen 2 Friday night in Huron Park, Al- vinston players wore black arm bands in mediory of their friend John Black who passed away on Thursday. It seemed to inspire them as they trailed 2-1 at one point but came back to win 4-2. Stephen opened the scoring when Dixon let go with a high rising shot right off of the draw which was one by Lord. The powerplay goal came mmowne EXETER • ` MOHAWKS 4.013;t's cordially invite everyone interested in restructuring the Senior A Hockey Club for the 95/96 season to attend a with just 20 seconds left in the opening period. It was tied 1-1 just after Sauder had made a spectacular save on Hunt and with 5:26 Brent Tatara gave the hosts an unexpected lead when he stole the puck at the side of the net and banged it in. With seven seconds left in the second period Alvinston tied it up 2-2 and it was all the visitors in the final frame as they scored twice as both pucks just trickled _ hind" Sauder. Stephen 4, Ainston 3 Last Wednesday night in Alvins- ton, Scott Davies scored the winner in overtime midway through the ex- tra period as he teamed with Tatara. A save on a breakaway by Sauder sent the game into overtime. Roman Wilson, Davies and Schroeder also scored with assists to Tatara, Pfaff, Rollings and Lord. tttt, MEETING at the South Huron Rec Centre In Exeter WED. APR. 5 at 8:15 p.m. Anyone having input or wishing to assist please feel free to attend. The turnout will be the yardstick for YES or NO for 95/96 tp1L117L1LIML1LIIVA MM21711111711111Z-IM7I7t7N1.7U171.1M1 14147117Ne'll-11-1M4,11.'LLl91:1.1- NEED A USED VEHICLE? NEED FINANCING? We can help! 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