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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1985-11-06, Page 33Sal The GDCI junior Vikings captured the Huron -Perth championship on Thursday by defeating the Wingham Madill Mustangs 52-20. In the final the juniors averaged 13 points a quarter and had 443 yards in total offense, including 14 first downs. The Vikings were undefeated in the regular season and in the playoffs. During their 1985 campaign they managed to score 270 points and they only allowed 28. On Thursday the juniors were rewarded with a ride around town in the fire engine as is the custom. ( photo by Todd Mowatt Junior Vikings win their fifth championship in eight years by TD T e GDCI junior Vikings won their fifth Huro Perth football championship in eight years here Thursday, defeating the Win am Madill Mustangs, 52- 20. The Viking offence was just too much for the Mustangs to handle. The Vikes scored 13 points a quarter with an offensive output which totalled 443 yards and accumulated 19 first downs. In seven games this season, he Wingham defence allowed 111 points, 93 of which came in their two meetings with he Vikings, once in the regular schedule acrd here in the championship game Thursday. Tailback Wayne Nivins scored a touchdown in each quarter on runs of one yard, four yards, 12 yards and 14 yards. Nivins, on the season, was the Vikings top ground gainer with a total of 842 yards. He also led the team in touchdowns with 10. Quarterback Scott Garrow contributed two touchdowns to his teams total here Thursday. This gave him a total of nine )touchdowns for the season and a total yar- • dage of 435 running. He also was 18 for 35 in pass completions for the year, and com- pleted six of those fdr touchdowns. Jeff MacDonald scored a first quarter touchdown for the Vikings Thursday on a fumble recovery following a Viking punt in- to the Madill end zone. That play came after an unsuccessful Madill gamble on third down from their own 35 yard line. The other Viking touchdown was scored by Sean Wilson on a two yard dive in the fourth quarter. Jim Wright kicked four con- verts for the Vikings. Wingham got two touchdowns on kickoff returns by Kyle Cronin, one of them on an eighty yard gallop in the third quarter. Bruce Flett scored the other Wingham ma- jor on a four yard sweep in the opening quarter. The Vikings led .?6:-L3 at half-time, and. were up 39-20 after three quarters. the, strong Viking defence blanked the 'Stangs in the final quarter as the game turned into a rout. In the seven games they played in the regular season and playoffs, the Vikings outscored their opponents 270 - 28. The championship victory was especially pleasing to the Vikings as a bit of revenge over the Mustangs, the team which eliminated them in the semi-finals last year. ailors lose a close one. 6-5 to the Barons The Hanover Barons' undefeated streak in 011A Junior "("' hockey did not come to an encs here Friday night, but it was severe- ly tested by the Goderich Sai' irs who lost (i - 5 to the seemingly invincible Barons. The Fianover tears has an undefeated record, «hich covers all of last season's 30 league games and eight games so far this season However, in both of their visits to the (Ioderich Arena to play the Sailors they ha a, been extended to the limit to preserve their record in the opening game of the season here. the Barons scored into an emp- ty net to1,tiin4-2,and here Friday the Sailors had theni on the ropes in the third period but could not get the puck behirul Robbie Nixon 01 the Hanover net. Nixon had to be the star of the game. He held the Sailors at bay. kicking out shot after shot when they controlled play for long stretches. Sailors' goalie Randy Gaynor also played well, but was not subjected to the pressure Nixon faced. The game was fast -paced and kept the good-sized crowd excited as the flow of play went first one way and then the other. Brad Armstrong got the Sailors into the lead early. scoring on a backhand shot dur ing a Goderich powerplay just over four minutes into the game. Kevin Lee and Tim Chisholm assisted on the play. Hanover came back with two goals within a minute to take the lead. Rob Beitz and Richard Graham were the marksmen, but the Sailors' John Thompson tied it up with his hard shot from the right side with less than three minutes left in the period. Todd .Jeffrey assisted on Thompson's goal. in the third period on Friday tragedy struck the Goderich Sailors. As Todd Graham a Goderich forward was handling the puck with his head down, hen a Hanover player ehecked him heavily. Graham tried to make it into the Goderich bench for treatment but he col- lapsed in the doorway. it looked more serious than it turned nut to be. The ambulance came and took Graham to the hospital, but as it turned nut. Graham only pulled a few muscles in his neck. He was released from hospital the same night.(photo by Todd Mowatt) Terry Whiteside put the Barons ahead with his goal at 19:25 of the first period, coming out of the penalty box just in time to pick up a loose puck and fire it past Randy Gaynor. Each team scored three times in the se- cond period. Goderich got the first three, on- ly to see Hanover come back with three goals of their own. The Sailors' first goal came when defenceman Daryl Madge, at the Hanover blueline, spotted team-mate Todd Graham standing beside the Hanover net and fed him a pass which Graham deflected into the top corner. Brad Armstrong then se d on a controversial play, taking a pass from behind the net from Chris Sideris and beating Nixon. The Hanover players felt Sideris had directed the pass with his hand, but referee Paul Clock allowed the goal. Turn to page 2 Belles open Ringette season with a victory The Goderich Optimist Belles played their first game Sunday night and downed Mit- chell 7 - 3. Becky Morris started the scoring off in the first period with a goal assisted by Stacey Rean and Angie Chisholm. Rean added another from Vicky Vanderburgh and Mor- ris. Goderich took a 4-0 lead with goals from Chisholm and Vanderburgh with assists go- ing to Rean and Pam Wilkinson. Mitchell scored late in the first period. Goderich scored three more goals. The scorers were Rean from Norris and Vander - burgh. Vanderburgh from Marianne Glazier and the last goal was scored by Morris from Chisholm. Mitchell added two goals between Goderich's three to end the game 7-3 in favour of Goderich. Although the girls were short-handed an had only one practice they played an ex- cellent game. Special thanks to goalie Sheila Donnelly who started off the 1985 season by playing an excellent game. Coaches Bill Garrow and Bruce Baker will lose 18 of this year's team to the senior Vikes next season. Included in that number is running back Bill Trebish who was the leading ground gainer for much of the season but missed the final due to an injury. Trebish, had a yardage total of 783 for the season and scored six touchdowns. Other Vikings leaving the junior ranks in- clude Rod Nurse, Andy Orr, John Kalbfleisch, Jeff MacDonald, Craig Ritchie, Scott Garrow, Wayne Nivins, Mark Stokes, Byron Bowman, Jim Wright, Dave Duncan, Rob Middel, Scott Glen, Mike Bush, Sean Gosse, Larry Leppington and Richard Bod- dy. Twelve members of this year's champion- ship team will be returning to the junior Vik- ings as the nucleus of next year's team. It's going to be a close one With one Huron -Perth junior football championship under their belt, the GDCI Senior Vikings are hoping to do the same on Saturday against the Exeter Pan- thers. But they are not telling the fire depart- ment to warm up the hook and ladder truck just yet. The juniors have already had their ride around town, but the seniors are facing their nemesis, the mighty Exeter Panthers. The Panthers won five games and lost one during the regular season. Goderich, on the other hand, had an identical five and one record. The two teams met in the first game of the seasbn and South Huron (Exeter) beat the Vikings 15-7. In the fifth game of the season, the two teams met again in Goderich with the Vikings winning 8-0. The teams are even in wins, losses and outscored each other by the same number of points during regular season, forcing a coin toss to determine the location of the final. Goderich won the toss and thus we have the battle of the titans set for Nov. 9 two days before Remembrance Day. During the season the two teams were evenly matched. At the end of the season Goderich had scored 236 points against their opposition and had only 15 scored against them. The Exeter Panters scored 236 points, but allowed only 11. Remembering back to last Sunday when Brent Mussberger and Jimmy "The Greek" went over the weeks games, I remembered how they argued offenses and pondered defenses. I thought that it would be a good idea to consult the experts on the classic match between Exeter and Goderich. Knowing that Jimmy "The Greek" or Pete Axehelm would not be available, I thought of another way to determine the logical outcome of the game before it was played. To accomplish this feat I talked to the all of the coaches in the league including Ray Donnelly the Viking coach and Ron Bogart the Exeter Panther coach. But 1 wasn't satisfied with just talking to the two generals who were about to do battle with each other. I wanted more. I then contacted the other two coaches iii the league for their comments. I also Turn to page 2 Huron Perth Senior finals analysis 1985 GDCI Vikings vs Exeter Panthers This comparison was conducted with the help of three Senior Huron - Perth football analysts. The team with the check mark has the edge. In the categories where each team has a check mark, the analysts could not give one team an edge over the other. For the reasons behind this data, look In this week's Sports Talk. 4