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Zurich Citizens News, 1976-01-28, Page 8Page 8 - Citizens News, January 28/ 76 , By Ross Haugh Saturday of this coming week is one of the most important days of the year for the Exeter Minor Hockey Association. It's Minor Hockey Day and every one of the boys register- ed in the local program will have the opportunity to play. A total of ten games will be played beginning with regular house league play at 11 a,m. and concluding with a juvenile contest at 8 p.m. For the nominal admission of one dollar spectators may come and go as often as they wish throughout the entire program. This is the chance for all of us to say a sincere "thank you" to the many volunteers who are so necessary to operate a successful minor hockey system. The many managers and coaches, especially of the all star teams spend a lot of time, effort and their own personal finances during the winter months. It's their dedication and unselfishness which allows a lot of boys to enjoy Canada's most popular winter sport. * * * Supporters of the Exeter Hawks junior hockey team should be encouraged by the enthusiasm shown by recently ap- pointed coach Glen Wiese. Wiese better known as Rocky about 20 years ago when he was a valuable member of the Exeter Mohawks intermediate and senior clubs told us at a recent practice he thinks he has another potential Ontario championship team. The new coach said he would be working hard on improv- ing the club in only two areas. He said the boys have plenty of hustle but need to improve in bringing the puck out of their own end and on power plays which have been very inept in recent games. Keep up the good work, Rocky. * * * Time is fast approaching to February 3 and the third annual Exeter Lions club sponsored Sportsmen's dinner. Lions Frank Giffin, Murray Moore and company have been working hard in organizing the event and assuring arca sport fans of a good array of top notch speaking talent. The benefits in attending this dinner arc threefold. First of all everyone is ensured of an excellent dinner provided by the Ladies Auxiliary of the Exeter Legion. secondly the guests will provide interesting entertainment and last but probably most important the monies raised go to an excellent cause. Every cent of the profits will go to aid the cause of crippled children in Western Ontario and we know expenses are kept to the minimum with many Exeter and arca firms and individuals helping to defray some of the expenses. The list of guests attending includes celebrities from a wide range of sports and is headed by former National league umpire Tom Gorman who is reputed to be one of the top after dinner speakers in North America. See you at the dinner on February 3. Remember. income tax receipts are available for the cost of the ticket. * * * A popular radio and television commercial should also have some effect on Western Ontario's most popular stock car driver, Earl Ross of Ailsa Craig. Ross who was named NASCAR rookie of the year in 1974 will be sponsored this year by Coca Cola of Canada Limited. As "Things go better with Coke", they also should be much better for Earl Ross. The Ailsa Craig man's activities on the car racing circuits were cut drastically last fall when Carling Breweries announ- ced they were discontinuing their sponsorship. Ross is working around the clock with his crew at a con- verted barn in Ailsa Craig in getting a new car ready for the big Daytona 500 in Elorida on February 15. Another first at Daytona Beach will be the fact, a Canadian prepared engine will be used for the first time. Performance Engineering of Toronto are building two complete 358 cubic inch motors along with a spare block. Best of luck, Earl as you head south for the Grand National event. * * * Less than two weeks after the Sportsmen's Dinner another worthwhile event in the aid of crippled children will be held. All roads will lead to the Pineridge Chalet near Hensall on the February 13, 14 and 15 for the very popular Crippled Children's Weekend. Organizers George and Lucille Beer and Don and Shirley Mousseau have again lined up a terrific array of entertain- ment for all ages both indoors and out. London radio celebrity Bill Brady will be on hand Sunday morning to head up a very efficient bunch of pancake and sausage makers. Brady has appeared as the "chief chef" since the event was started and he never fails to keep everyone happy with not only his antics but his cooking abilities. We would expect better things from Bill this year after his recent visit with celebrity cook Madam Benoit. Hawks: drop two by one goal The Exeter Hawks •were on home ice at the Exeter arena for two Ontario Hockey Asso- ciation Junior "D" games this week and they dropped both contests by one goal. Friday night they lost 4-3 to Seaforth and Sunday night they were on the short end of a 6-5 score to the Tavistock Braves. The only action for the Hawks this week will be a Saturday night visit to Tavistock to meet the Braves. Their regular Friday night date at home was wiped out when Lambeth with- drew from the league after the schedule was drawn up. Against Seaforth Friday night the Hawks found themselves down 2-0 early in the second period and they were never able to recover. With Seaforth ahead 2-0, Paul Brooks registered the first Exeter goal at 11.40 of the second period. Before the middle frame was over Seaforth scored two more to up their game total to four. The Hawks came flying back in the final 20 minutes of play with two successful shots but were unable to get the equalizer. Ken Pinder fired the second Hawks counter at 3.36 of the third period on a pass from John Van Gerwen and Brian Taylor completed his team's scoring on a three-way passing combina- tion with Gerald Weido and Noel Skinner. The pattern of scoring in Sunday's 6-5 loss to Tavistock was different with the Hawks holding a 3-1 lead after the first 20 minutes. The game was only 25 seconds old when Ken Pinder put the Hawks on the scoreboard with assists going to John Van Gerwen and captain Phil Knight. At 2.27 the Hawks moved ahead 2-0 as Rick Ingram finish- ed off a passing play started by Noel Skinner and Gerald Weido. Near the end of the period, Don McKellar converted a pass GB wins in atom Grand Bend bumped Zurich 6-3 in atom play at Zurich on Monday night. Grand Bend had a 3-0 lead in the first on goals by captain Dean Courtney. Doug Shipley assisted on all three. Paul Johnston scored for Zur- ich early in the second but Dean Watts came right back for Grand Bend. The final goal of the period, by George Blackwell of Zurich, put the score at 4-2 for Grand Bend. Grand Bend added two more, both by Courtney to give him five for the night. Zurich came up with one from Dean Armst- rong for a final score of 6-3. Pee wees win twice Zurich Lions Peewees chalked up two more wins to their credit during the past week. On Friday night they downed Clinton 7-0. Chris Denomme scor- ed the only goal of the first period. Again in the second Denomme poked in the 2-0 goal assisted by David Erb and Robert Willert. Three straight second period goals were scored by Robert Willert to make it 5-0 at the end of the second. Chris Denomme and Kris Bedard assisted on Willert's goals. In the third, Kris Bedard scored unassisted and Willert's fourth of the night went in with Kris Bedard and Chris Denornme assisting. ZURICH 12 - GRAND BEND 3 Zurich scored four goals in the opening frame, added two more in the second and six in the final twenty minutes as they ran over Grand Bend 12-3. Grand Bend answered with two in the second and a single in the third. Robert Willert was top scorer with five goals followed by Kris Bedard with four', Jim Willert two, and Dave Smith one. from Toni Richardson. Dwight Steinman counted for Tavistock with only 44 seconds left. Tavistock scored the only three goals of the middle period to take a 4-3 edge on the score- board. With only 45 seconds played in the first frame, Ken Pinder hit with his second successful shot to tie the score. Assists again went to John Van Gerwen and Phil Knight. Brian Taylor scored on an unassisted effort to put the Hawks temporarily into the lead at 14.36. Only one minute later, Steve Yantzi knotted the score for the Braves and Keith McKay scored the winning goal with only a minute remaining. South Huron Stats Mike Chalmers Ernie Schlegel Ken Fraser Wayne Ropp Jim Davis Robert Thomas Glen Overholt Paul Maguire Pat Bedard Gary Hudson Glen Overholt Pat Bedard Ron Desjardine Ron Corriveau Paul Corriveau Ron Rader Bob Farquhar Rick Schilbe Derek O' Brien Kevin McKinnon TOP 10 SCORERS TEAM Parkhill Parkhill Parkhill Parkhill C.C.A.T. Parkhill Zurich Shipka Zurich C.C.A.T. G A PTS pim 16 22 61 14 10 12 53 16 18 0 35 14 20 21 24 13 14 14 10 11 34 32 25 18 13 23 16 14 17 16 TOP 10 FLYER SCORERS G A, 14 16 10 17 13 13 10 14 11 12 8 13 6 11 6 9 8 6 4 9 69 46 45 39 37 36 30 28 27 27 FTS PIM 30 53 27 18 26 11 24 12 23 1 21 16 17 19 15 46 14 0 13 51 SOUTH HURON HOCKEY LEAGUE STANDINGS as of Jan. 11/76 Parkhill Exeter Shipka Zurich Arkona C.C.A.T. Huron Park GP 17 14 14 16 13 16 16 W 14 9 8 6 6 6 2 L 2 5 5 8 6 9 14 T 1 0 1 2 1 1 0 GF 149 87 91 107 76 89 50 GA 81 70 52 99 74 112 163 PTS 29 18 17 14 13 13 4 Parkhill leads league With only two weeks left in the regular schedule the North Middlesex Merchants of Parkhill are solidly in first place, over the Exeter Mohawks, Shipka Colonials, Zurich Flyers, Arkona Provis, C.C.A.T. Saints, and the Huron Park Plugs in the South Huron hockey league. Due to the inclement weather over the last few weeks several games have had to be post- poned. All efforts will be made by the teams involved to re- schedule these games without delaying the start of the play offs. The league programs are now available at all games and will be interesting and helpful to our fans for the balance of the regular season as well as the play offs, according to president John. Ansley. "With six teams in the play offs this year it should be a very competitive brand of hockey and quite interesting for our fans," adds Ansley. Five members of the Parkhill team continue to head up the league's leading scorers. They are Mike Chalmers, Ernie Schlegel, Ken Fraser, Robert Thoman and Wayne Ropp. Glen Overholt of the Zurich Flyers is next and he is followed by Jim Davis of Centralia College, Ron Desjardine of Novice tilt is exciting Zurich edged Grand Bend 2-1 in an exciting novice game at Zurich on Monday night. Dean Courtney scored for Grand Bend in the second period assisted by Chris Tiedeman, Zurich held Grand Bend in the third and came up with two of their own. Jerry Smith scored from Mike Bedard and Marty Merner scored the winner with Mark Johnston assisting. Zurich, Huron Park's John Thomas and Brad Datars of the Exeter Mohawks. Datars leads the Exeter scorers with a total or 33 points while Paul Maguire is best for Shipka with 28 points, John Thomas has 33 to head the Huron Park marksmen, Jim Davis is best for the College with 40 points and Glenn Over- holt's 43 points is best for Zurich. No increase in price of milk Consumers can rest easy for at least six months that there will be no increase in the price of table milk, Ontario Milk Market- ing Board (OMMB) chairman George McLaughlin said recently. "Feed prices have gone down and some other prices have gone up for producers," he said at the OMMB annual meting. "Really, our costs have just about evened out." Mr. McLaughlin warned, however, that milk prices could be increased at the processing and retail levels. "If the government's anti- inflation program works at all, we won't see an increase for at least six months or even beyond that," he said. However, industrial milk -- which is surplus beyond the demand for table milk — could go up in price, he said, It depends on what cutbacks the government makes in subsidies to industrial milk producers. "The government has in- dicated to us that over five years it plans to reduce subsidies on industrial milk and pass costs 011 directly to the consumer," as reflected in the retail price of milk products, he said. Industrial grade milk is con- sidered surplus beyond table milk demand and is used to process butter, cheese and other milk products.