The Goderich Signal-Star, 1987-12-22, Page 24SOI'tS
GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23,1987—PAGE 7A
Sailors hammer
top team 11-5
Sailors named to all-star team
By T.D.
The Goderich Sailors produced their own
version of "the miracle on ice" Friday
when they defeated the Hanover Barons
11-5 in OHA Junior 'C' hockey action in
Hanover.
That term is usually applied to the USA's
1980 upset of the USSR in the Olympic
hockey championship, but the Sailors'
upset victory over the Barons is of similar
dimension.
The Barons had 18 straight league vic-
tories behind them going into Friday's
game and were solidly entrenched in first
place. The Sailors, with a win and a tie in a
similar number of games, had just as firm
a hold on the bottom rung in the league
standings. Friday night, though, the
Sailors played the game of their lives in
the process of ending the Barons
undefeated streak. It was also the first loss
on home ice for the Barons in regular
season play in two seasons. The Barons
have won the league championship three
years in a row and are well on their way to
their fourth, but the Sailors had their own
moment of glory Friday. They outhustled
the frustrated Barons and held leads of 2-0
and 6-3 after the first two periods and then
outscored the Barons 5-2 in the third period
with their last who goals coming into an
empty net as Hanover coach Jim Nixon
tried vainly to get his team back into the
game.
Todd Graham and Tom Bean led the
Sailor offence with three goals each. Dar-
rell Durnin, Mark Cauchi, Shawn Larder,
Dave Duncan and Greg "Sunshine" Town-
send, with his first of the year, scored the
other Goderich goals.
Mich Landry had two goals for Hanover,
with singles going to Barry Riff, Steve
Schenk and Ken Helmka.
The Sailors got good efforts from the
defence pairs of Shawn Larder with Matt
Wilkinson and Byron Bowman with Barry
Thompson. Goaltenders Shawn Phibbs and
Jeff Roy split the netminding duties and
both played well.
The Sailors lost an earlier" game last
week, Wednesday night in Port Elgin, 5-2.
Ken Feddema, and Ken Gosleigh, with
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two goals each, and Allen I(ruiderink
scored for Port Elgin. Darren coax ana
Barry Thompson scored for the Sailors.
The OHA Junior 'C' Group 2 all-star
team will play the Junior 'B' Stratford
Cullitons Saturday January 2 at 7:30 p.m.
in Hanover. Representing the Sailors on
the All-Star team will be forwards Darrell
Durnin and Darren Doak and defenceman
Shawn Larder.
The Sailors next home game will be Sun-
day, January 3, at 3 p.m. against the
Mount Forest Patriots.
Junior Viking basketball
team opens with win
The GDCI Junior Vikings began their
Huron -Perth Conference boys' basketball
season with a 78-58 victory over the
Seaforth Golden Bears Thursday in
Seaforth.
The Vikings started slowly and were
trailing by a score of 19-10 after one
quarter but held a 32-26 lead by half-time
and were up 46-40going into the fourth
quarter.
Mike Hurd, with 19 points, and Ian Wark
and Adam Ripley, with 16 points each, led
the Viking attack. Pheng Troeung had
seven points and Karl Vriend had six while
Scott Allen got four points.
Bryan Comveau, Tim Harrison, Brian
Lane, Chris O'Neil and Shawn Talbot had
two points each for the winners.
Trevor Fortune was the game's top
scorer with 30 points in a losing cause for
the Golden Bears. Aaron Broome had 14
for Seaforth.
The Vikings are 3-0, with two exhibition
wins to go along with their league victory.
The Vikings defeated Owen Sound C.V.I.
64-61 and beat Owen Sound West hill 64-43
last week in Owen Sound.
Volunteers
to study Hall
The Goderich Recreation Department is
looking for volunteers -to sit on an Ad Hock
committee to study the feasability of a
Goderich Sports Hall of Fame.
Anyone interested should contact the
Rec. Dept. in writing before Dec. 31 at 166
McDonald Steet, Goderich, Ontario. N7A
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A Bantam B player introduces a Kincardine forward to the boards. Goderich lost the
home game on Thursday 4-2. (photo by Patrick Raftis)
Locations set for
Goderich runners
Times and locations have been set for
the three Goderich residents who will
carry the Olympic Torch.
Judy Watt, Tanya McCuspey and David
Hollingworth will be among the over 5,000
Ontario residents who will carry the torch
for one kilometer each on its journey
across Canada.
Watt will carry the torch on January 3 at
7:30 a.m. She will be starting five
kilometers from the intersection of
Highways seven and 21 at Reece's Corners
and will be running straight on Highway 21
South.
McCuspey will be running the sameday,
but will be starting at 3:30 p.m. two
kilometers North of Mount Brydges
straight along Highway 81 South.
Hollingworth is running on January 4 at
1:39 p.m. and will be starting at the Petro -
Canada station in Woodstock and running
North on Highway 59.
Atom As win 4-0 over Strathroy
Goaltender Chris Lyndon, turned in a
spectacular game, to lead the Atom "A"
team to a 4-0 win over Strathroy, Thursday
Dec. 17. n''``
Coaches Dave Wilkinson and Jim
Gilchrist, were pleased with the effort of
all the players, as they played with only
nine skaters.
Goderich'jumped into an early 3-0 lead in
the first period on goals by Jason Meriam,
David Lumley and Mike McBride. Assists
went to Jeff Volland and Derek Gilchrist.
MINOR HOCKEY
After a scoreless second period, Jason
Meriam scored his second goal of the
game from Taylor Cicchini and Jeff
Volland to round out the scoring.
The Atoms next game is Sat. Dec. 19 in
St. Marys.
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End of
Olympics
The Summer Olympic games are on the
brink of extinction.
1 had hoped to write a semi -humorous,
possibly even cute Christmas style column
this week, but the situation in South Korea
has me worried.
The last two Olympic Games – 1980 in
Moscow and 1984 in Los Angeles – have
suffered through large-scale boycotts. If
major sporting countries pull out again,
the Olympic concept will die. South Korea,
where the 1988 Games will be held, is cur-
rently going through social and political
upheaval, accompanied by violence.
It is sad but true that the Olympics have
become political. Blame this on Adolf
Hitler, if someone is to be held responsible.
Hitler used the 1936 Berlin Games to
demonsrtate the superiority of Germans to
the rest of the world and to Germany
herself. Since then, no matter where the
Games have been held, they have been us-
ed to make some kind of political state-
ment, either by countries refusing to go, or
terrorists disrupting the Games.
1972 in Munich, West Germany, Arab
terrorists captured and eventually killed
several Israeli athletes at the Olympic
Village.
1976 Montreal many African countries
boycotted to protest South Africa's par-
ticipation in the Games.
1980 in Moscow, NATO countries decided
not to attend the Games to protest the
USSR's invasion of Afghanistan.
1984 in Los Angeles, Eastern Bloc (War-
saw Pact) countries skipped the
U.S.-hyped Games because of security
problems. In fact, they boycotted for two
reasons: they felt many athletes would
defect, after a taste of California life and if
the Americans didn't go to Moscow they
certainly would not go to L.A.
While I applaud the South Korean's at-
tempts at democracy, this may be the
most dangerous Olympics yet. The man
who won the election is backed by the
military, who have run the country for a
long time, and the opposition candidates
are calling the election a fraud.
Southeast Asia has never been known for
its political stability and there are many
people with a wide variety of political lean-
ings who would like to make their feelings
known to the world. The Games have long
been recognized as a way of getting a
message across, regardless of how radical
that message is.
I hope the Koreans get their act together
(1 own a Korean car and may need parts
someday) and the 1988 Games go down as
one of the greatest in history, but I doubt it.
Call me a pessimist if you like, but there
has already been talk of moving the
Games to another site. It is too late for a
move. For better or worse the Games will
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Goderich Bantam B player can't find the puck at the side of the Kincardine goal in a game hi Goderich Thursday. Kincardine went on
to win 4-2.(Photo by Pat Raftis) .
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