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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1984-02-29, Page 10Page 10 -The Wingham• Advance-TiMea, Feb. 29, 1984 At s aminate Clinton two gi.:...mes straight The Wingha. Optjlnilt' Atoms, 0000* 'nWn from playoff eoatentiett last week Eiger 8-0 and 371 vie- tories. The .boys : traveled to Clinton last Saturday for the second game of the playoffs. Even though the locals won. last Thursday's contest 3-1, it was a tough game and all expected Saturday's to be close contest. Both teams played a tight - checking first period and neither was able to score. However, Wingham took over in, the Second, scaring no lees than -five goals and • completely dominating the rest of the game. Dave McKee led the Wingham scorers with two goals and two assists, while Rob McKay had two goals. Other goal scorers for Wingham: were Ryan Deyell, Scott Neil, Jason Bloemberg and Rob Harrison. Assists went to Tim Currie, Todd Chadwick, Greg Deyell and Neil. Andrew Gibson recoreded the shutoyt for Wingham. Thiswas a fine team effort - with everyone giving 100 per cent and displaying the. disciplined type of play needed, to advance in the playoffs. In last Thursday's game, the Atoms • hosted Clinton for the first game of the playoffs. As expected, it proved to be a closely -fought match, 'with Wingham's victory not ensured until final minute, of the game. Clinton opened the scoring midway through the first period on a deflected levee= • the shot that the Wingham goalie, in Ale `fraie antiGiscan- liowev,had ne; chance on. er Gibson w. a un- the linton zone.rced However beatable from that point on they were .stopped time and and McKee tied the score again by the Clinton before the end of the first, defenders, ft appeared that with assists going to Neil and overtime would be required Currie: until Harrison picked up a The second period loose puck in the Clinton end, featured plenty of action passed to_ McKay; who with both teams checking quickly shoveled it to Neil, closely but .neither able to who made no mistake and capitalize on its scoring popped it over the sprawling opportunities, setting the Clinton netminder. stage for an exciting third With 1:51. remaining m the period, game, Wingham continued Wingham came out flying to put the pressure on and Neil scored his second of the game with 14 seconds left to go, with the assist going to Bloemberg. This capped an exciting match which proved to the local boys that hard work does pay off. The Atoms now play Seaforth in the next round and the local squad would love to have the hometown fans behind them. Plan on attending the next game Friday at 6:30 p.m. 4 THE WINGHAM LIONS MIDGETS won the B championship at the Walter Lockridge Memorial Midget Tournament in 1969. Team members and coaches are: front, Bill Innes, Joe Kerr, Bruce Corrigan, Rick Kennedy, Bob Sangster, Dale Edgar; centre, George Skinn, Doug Steinback, Pari 1 of a series Tom Irwin, Don Dubeau, Brian Skinn, Paul Templeman, Owen Curtis and Doug Skinn; back, Jeff Lockridge, Jack McPherson, Barry O'Krafka, Ron Dore, Doug Mahood and Carl Mowbray. Wingham. Midget tourney grows over early years By Margaret Arbuckle This year marks the 20th edition of the little tournament that grew: the Wingham Midget Hockey Tour- nament. Just like everything else, it has seen its share of changes over the years, but the initial spirit of family remains. It was the Lockridge family who started the tournament way back in 1965 as a tribute to a father and great sportsman, Walter Lockridge. Bill Lockridge, his sister. Helen West and her husband Roger, as well as numerous other family members and friends sent out invitations for the 'first one and one-half day tourney, staged in March of that year. Max Demaray, a referee for many years at the tournament, said he has fond memories of those early tournaments because of the fun that everyone had. The referees were never paid for their long hours of officiating, but the Lockridges hosted a summer barbecue for them. Eight B teams participated in that first tournament and a total of 10 games were played. Mrs. Walter Lockridge presented a trophy donated in her husband's memory to the first winners, Hanover. One A exhibition game was played at the tournament and it proved so popular that organizers decided to include an A division in the 1966 edition. It also was decided to hold the tournament during the Easter holiday instead of the end of March. Wingham's entry made it to the semi-final round, but was defeated by the champs, Hanover. The 1966 tourney saw Walkerton take home tap honors, defeating Wingham in the final game. That year the tournament expanded to two full days with 12 games being played. The 1967 Wingham Midgets won the WOAA championship, but got nosed out of tournament competition with a narrow 2-1 defeat by Dunn- ville, the centennial year, tour- nament champs. A report from the newspaper of the day said: "The Lockridge Memorial Midget Hockey Tour- nament is history for another year, and the host club has yet to win the silverware. It was very close, but Wingham lost to the eventual win- ner, Dunnville, 2-1 in a hair -raiser Saturday afternoon." The fourth Lockridge tournament saw the well-received addition of four A teams as well as the eight B - level teams. Collingwood defeated Hanover to take home the B championship. Unfortunately the hometown team failed to make it to the final round. The Advance -Times reported that tournament injuries that year necessitated a "two -block trip to the office of Dr. McKibbon whose speed, highly capable and frequent at- tention soon eased the situation. We might mention this service dumb- founded the city players who "aren's so fortunate." AT LONG LAST "A loud roar from the arena about six o'clock Sunday evening signified the news which Wingham hockey fans have been awaiting for five, years. Wingham won the "B"' Trophy in the Lockridge Memorial Midget Tournament." The local lads defeated Hanover in the 1969 championship game. Joe Kerr scored what proved to be the winning 'goal as the jubiliant home team chalked up a convincing 5-1 win. The 1969 tourney also welcomed four C category teams and the entry from Lucknow captured that division. The local team was not able to keep up the momentum as it did not even make it to the finals in 1970. One of the highlights of that year's tourney was A division final in which Detroit edged -Stratford 4-3 in one of the finest games played in tour- nament history. Another new feature added in 1970 was the most valuable player award for top players in each division. The. year 1971 saw the tournament expanded to eight teams in each of the A, B and C categories. Once again, the local squad was nowhere to be seen as Elmira took the B IN THE BAG -Paul Tolton took a pass from Jason Goodall and picked an upper cor- ner to give Wingham Midgets a 3-2 lead in the final minutes of the first period of their playoff game against Wiarton last Thursday night. Following a very close first period, Wingham started to open things up in the, second and third periods en route to a 16-4 rout. The loss eliminated Wiarton and .Wingham now goes against Durham. BANTAMS The Buttercups lead the league with 70 points, followed by the Roses with 68, the Violets with 51, the Daffodils and the Carnations with 48 and the Lilies with 30. Kerri Cleghorn had the girls' high single of 178 and the high double of 261, while Aaron Chapman had the boys' high single of 119 and the high double of 209' was rolled by Brian DeBruyn. Other games of 90 and over were rolled by Carrie Skiiin 125; Kendra Merkley 107; Jennifer Remington 112, 92; Desiree Curtis 102, 95; Amy Currie 92; Sherry Dekker 90;. Lisa Chapman 126; Todd Harrison 90, 112; Adam Deslauriers 90, 107; Brian -Defarayn-95-; Jase laiestel 98; Mark Steffen 90. JR. BANTAMS The Bluej'ays lead the league withe 79 points, followed by the Eagles with 62, the Hawks with 52, the Chickadees .with 48, the Bluebirds with 40 and the Cardinals with 34. Rhonda English had the high single of 190 and the high double of 368, while Jeff Hollenbeck had the boys' high single of 199 and Denton Chambers had the high double of 382, Other games of 130 and championship. By 1972 two of the o iginal organizers,. the Wests, wen wing in London and had the monumental task of trying to coordinate the tournament across the miles. That was especially difficult because that year saw the tourney go to eight teams in each category and the addition of AAA hockey. Just for interest sake, the paper reported that over the course of the tournament that year young hockey players consumed 190 loaves of bread, 40 pounds of butter, 40 pounds of ham, 30 dozen eggs, two turkeys, one case of peanut butter, cheese spread and salmon. The Wests were forced to with- draw as tournament .organizers in 1973, due to business and personal commitments. So the Wingham Recreation and Community Centre Board took over and the name was changed to the Wingham Midget Hoekey;Tournament. A total of 31 teams took part in the '73 tournament and The Advance - Times reported "372 goals were scored before the 6 -day tourney was over." The Wingham Midgets came close to winning the A consolation, but had to withdraw from competition when goalie Brian Wall was injured. The paper said the local team "provided one of the best games of the tourney, rising from their lowly 'C' rating in which they did not trimph, to defeat an 'A' team from Midland 6-3." There were over 3,000 paid ad- missions at the tournament in 1973, tip considerably from other years and 200 players were billetted in 75 local homes. A11 in all, as the newspaper reported "The future of the tournament appears assured." The highlight of the 1974 tour- nament, from a local standpoint, was that Wingham's John Hen- derson won the most valuable player award for the C division and a week at hockey school. Also in '74, the tournament was held over two weekends and 36 teams par- ticipated. The next 10 years of the tour- nament will be looked at next week. over were rolled by Lori Tiffin 145, 171; Becky Sangster 169; Angela Kerr 131; Kim Edgar 183, 184; Julie Smuck 163; :Sheryl Cleghorn 130, 135; Theresa Kenyon 131, 189; Rhonda English 178; Jason Steffler 136; Dean Tolton 140; Billy McGrath 163, 189; Denton Chambers 187, 145; Kevin Dekker 195; Jeremy Cameron 192; Scott Neil 156, 186; and Paul Edwards 175. SR. JRS. AND SENIORS The Fall Guys lead the league with 82 points, followed by .the Q-Berts with 77, the Jedis with 71 and the A -Team with 64. Tammy Cleghorn had the high single of 167 for the junior girls and the high triple of 435. Sheri Walden had the high single 213 for the senior girls and the high triple of 584. Jeremy Bloemberg had the high single of 260 for the Howick loses series to Grand Valley Jrs. The Grand Valley Har- vesters eliminated the Howick Optimists Juniors from further playoff action with a 7-3 victory on Sunday Feb. 26. Howick scored first on a beautiful solo deke by Jamie Bradstock who was set up by Kyle Reading and Rob Drost. The Harvesters tied it with six seconds left in the period. Grand Valley took control with four goals in the second period to Howick's lone marker by Mark Leslie. , Despite being down by three goals the Optimists came out flying in the third period but couldn't cash in on numerous scoring opportun- ites until Darren Foerter scored on unassisted goal with six minutes gone. Howick stormed the Grand Valley net for the remainder f -the- penia -but--coa1°t beat Brent Boswell again. Murray Hunter added two goals late in the third period to finish the scoring. Grand Valley now awaits the winner of the Arthur - Brussels series as Howick packs their equipment away. Howick Wins The Howick Optimists Juniors travelled to Grand Valley Friday, Feb. 24, to face the Harvesters in the third game of the best -of -five • semi-final series. Down two games to none the Howick club had to win or pack up their geer for the year. Grand Valley took a 1-0 lead to the dressing room at .the end of the first period. In the second, Rob Drost tied the score, on a set-up by John Mock. One minute later Scott Norman took a pass from Dave Harding, :-to give Howick the lead. Forty sec- onds before the endof the period Darren Foerter con- verted a pass from Jamie Bradstock to make the score 3-1. The third period was excit- ing as any played this year. junior boy,s anil fife -Ina -0 triple of 625, while Graham Taylor had the high single of 232 for the senior boys and the high triple of 574 was rolled by Peter George. Other games of 150' and over were rolled by Tammy Cleghorn 153; Sheri Walden 195, 176;, Lori Gavreluk 193, 169; Tim Lewis 166, 208; Bruce McInnes 153, 186," 186; Brian Steffler 159, 199; Jamie Wall 178, 201; Graham Taylor 187; Dwight Chambers 160, 199; Greg Perry 198, 161; Jeremy Bloemberg 218; Darin Hickey 182; Robbie Lamont 164; Ricky Leachman 154, 156 155; Michael Haugh 188, 176; `Tommy Darling 171; and Peter George 215, 226. Belmore hockey shots BANTAMS Shallow Lake 4, Belmore 3. Goals for Belmore by Randy Schaefer assisted by Mike Mulvey and Brian Mul- vey; Randy Schaefer assist- ed by Brian Mulvey and Barry Schaefer; Mike Mul- vey assisted by Barry Schae- fer and Brian Mulvey. Shallow Late 10, Belmc 1. Belmore goal by Barry Schaefer assisted by Randy Schaefer. Shallow Lake `won the WOAA Bantam Champion- ship and was presented with the trophy following Satur- day's game in Belmore. The first game of this series was an exciting match and Belmore came very close to winning except for the strong goaltending of the Shallow Lake goalie in the third period. Steve van Engen is to be commen ed for playing a very stro game in net for Belmore. The second game in Bel - more was a disaster for the home teatn. Plagued by •ill- ness and injury, the Belmore team could not combat the strong skating and passing Shallow Lake team and by the third period seemed to give up. The boys are to be congra- tulated along with their coaches Barry Mulvey and Ed Strome for giving us some great hockey to watch this year and for being final- ists in 'their first year of WOAA play. The Bantams will now play some exhibi- tion games andoare planning to take part in the Harriston Tournament in the winter break and the Teeswater tournament a the end of March. ATOMS Belmore 4, Howick 4. Goals for Belmore by Donny Hawkins unassisted; Steve Wittig assisted by Jay Marston; Derrick Evers assisted by Donny Hawkins; Jay Marston assisted by Shane Smith. TYKE Belmore 5, Belgrave 5. Goals for Belmore by Joey Ireland assisted by Robbie Hammell and Chris Fischer, Scott Smith unassisted, Scott Smith . assisted by Chris Fischer, Chris Fischer assisted by Jason Huber and Chris Fischer unassisted. MIDGETS Belmore 4, Normanby 3. Belmore goals by Randy Schaefer assisted by Ron Strome; Keith Harper assisted by Ron Chambers; Jeff Sandburn assisted by Rob Gallaher;. Randy Schae- fer assisted by Kevin Hall- man and Ron Strome. Normanby 3, Belmore 2 (in overtime) . Belmore goals by Ron Strome assisted by Rob Gal- laher and Randy Schaefer; Kevin Hallman assisted by Keith Harper and Ron Strome. The next game in this playoff series will be in Ayton on Wednesday even- ing 8:30 and then back in Belmore on Sunday after- noon, 2:OOp.m. BEILMORE LADIES Tiverton 2, Belmore O. Tiverton leads the best of five series 1 game to 0. The next game is in Tiverton Sat- urday night and then in Bel - more Sunday 4:00 p.m. Grand Valley stormed out to. get two goals in the first seven minutes to tie the game. Moments later Butch Cowan made a fine body check along the boards but unfortunately broke his leg while doing so. After, that the Paul Charlebois, Mark Les- lie and Darwin Weber line got its act together with de- vastating results. In a space of six minutes the scoring was Leslie from Charlebois and Weber; Norman from Hesselink; Leslie from Charlebois and Weber; Les- lie from Mike McDougall and Weber, and Weber from Leslie. That production al- lowed the Howick club to take an 8-3 lead. Grand Val- ley added a late goal to make the final score of the game 8- 4. Dave McLean returned fron_O.ttawa..to play goal in The Wingham Lions Midgets eliminated Wiarton from the WOAD playoffs with a 16-4 ,drubbing last Thursday night in. the Lock - ridge Memorial Arena. Tim Brown led the Wingham attack with a three -goal performance, with Ed Sweeney, Bill Haines and Jim Dennis each firing a pair. Doug Mc- Farlan, Bill Cameron, Jamie Robinson, Paul Tilton and Jason Goodall all picked up singletons. This series was an obvious mis-match, but Wingham now goes against Durham in the WOAA playoffs. Durham was eliminated by Seaforth in three games. ICE CHIPS - Someone must have lit a fire under Ed Sweeney as he played his best game of the season against Wiarton, picking up no fewer than six points. Murray Foxton from the Wingham Bantams played goal for Wingham in the last half of the game and turned in a fine performance. Look for big things from this youngster. this game and to give some rest to Pat Chambers who has played so well in a. solo role for the past month. Dave made many excellent saves and controlled the puck well around his own net.. Ed Hesselink and Dan Wickel have added a new di- mension to the team in the past few weeks with their ag- gressive forechecking and strong backchecking. • The loss of. Butch Cowan will weaken the Howick de- fence as the strong man from Harriston had been playing very well. This game marked the first time all year that the "Harvesters" had lost on their home ice. The Industrial Accident Prevention Association ad- vises that to prevent slips and falls when walking on icy sidewalks or streets, keep your body position slightly forward and put your feet down flat, not on the heels. Take short steps. Be sure your footwear fits the weather conditions as well as your feet. Tykes defeat Wallace 2-1 The Wingham Optimist Tykes defeated the Wallace Optimists 2-1 last Saturday in their first playoff game. The Wingham lads had their work cut out for them due to Wallace's close checking and quick rushes. There was no scoring in the game until Murray MacLeod scored unassisted, drilling a hard shot into the Wallace net with only 21 seconds left in the second period. The Wingham boys played furiously to keep their edge, but four minutes into the third period Joash Alexander slipped the puck across Wingham's goal line to tie the game. He was assisted by Marty Felkar. Neither team could gain an advantage -an tilewi8h-only 48 seconds remaining in the game, Jonathan Lane took the puck around the Wallace net and jammed it into the corner for the go-ahead'goal, assisted by Shane Pegg. Even though the Wallace goalie was pulled and Wingham was playing one man short, the Wingham lads held their lead until' the buzzer sounded. Each of the boys can be proud of the individual effort he gave to win the game. A -T and Bridges record upset wins The Advance -Times team has made it to the finals, completing its upset with a 4- 2 victory over Staintons last week: Tim Wood' had two goals and Bruce and Doug Maclntyre had one each for the Advance. In the other series, Bridge Motors stayed alive by fighting to a 4-3 overtime win over Crawfords. Robert Wharton scored the winner in the second minute of overtime to give Bridges the victory. WIN BONSPIEL--These local ladies captured the Diamond Seniors' l3onspiel last Thursday in Kincardine to qualify for the Ontario playoffs to be" held March 12 in Fergus. The ladies defeated Kincardine and Ripley to record the win and team, members are: Nora Finnigan, skip, Vicki • Wild, vice, getty McDonald, second, and Ethel Gerrie, lead. 0