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Zurich Citizens News, 1975-12-10, Page 33Sports Spoflight By Ross Haugh We had the pleasure last week to attend the annual get together of the South Huron District High School senior football team. It's certainly no secret that most grouting boys like to eat and have enormous appetites but we were amazed at the capacity of one of the footballers. The fellow we have in mind is fairly tall so he could be called a "string bean' and after the amount of bean salad he devoured he could be named any kind of bean. You need your vitamins, Rick. It was interesting to look at all the inscriptions on the trophies given out each year to the most valuable player on the senior Panthers in memory of William Ellerington. Ellerington was a senior football player and lost his life in a farming accident in the late 1950's. His family donated a trophy in his memory. The winner of the Ellerington award the first year it was offered was Gord Strang , now a successful Usborne town- ship farmer. The long list of names include Steve Kyle, Dick Colter, Bud Desjardine, Uilke Nagel, Jim Hayter, Bill Fair- bairn, Tom Prout, Ross Huff, Wayne Regier, Stefan Orenchuk, Dave Cyr, Richard Jennison, Don Truemner, Doug Mock, Al MacLean, Dave Lovell and David Green. The winner this year was the team's quarterback, John Van Gerwen. Having been in the area during all these years and knowing most of the boys personally we would make a guess at the most outstanding over the years. The backfield award would probably go to Hensall native Steve Kyle who won the trophy for two consecutive years. Steve is now a school teacher and was a star in baseball, hockey and basketball in addition to his football prowess. The choice as the best linesman would be Uilke Nagel. During our reminiscing after the dinner, senior coach Glenn Mickle who was already at South Huron in the early days substantiated this saying "Uilke was tremendous." Every once in awhile the subject of dedication in sports is brought up and how important it is not only in competitors but coaching and in fan support. The dedication of players was shown very vividly this fa -11 in the performance of the senior football team. Coaches Ron Bogart and Glenn Mickle had only ten boys left from the previous year and they along with a large group of new recruits came through with exc client performances. The dedication of coaches is almost taken for granted, Bogart and Mickle along with Doug Ellison and Dave Cox of the juniors do a lot more than is neccessary. They put out a lot of effort on a voluntary basis. Doug Ellison indicated after this year's junior football win that he would like to retire for a year or two due to a large number of other committments. Senior coach Ron Bogart had also thought of calling it quits but changed his mind after the championship loss to Clinton. Being a great competitor Bogart said he wanted to quit as a winner so will likely carry on for another year. This type of dedication reminds us of the visit of a few months ago to Exeter of coaches and members of the United States Olympic wrestling team. The coach of the Americans, Al Bevilacque told us he was amazed at Canadian high school atheltic coaches giving of their coaching time free of charge. He said there would be little action in American school athletics if the coaching was on a volunteer basis. All are paid for any extra time spent at the schools, be it athletics, drama etc. The final dedication is from the fans and parents in particular. We certainly wouldn't want to leave out the names of any parents because a large group were on hand for most of the games but it's folks like the Mclsaac's, Gould's, Knight's and Taylor's etc. that give their sons the support not only in their presence but loud cheering. A VISIT WITH FERGIE Another pleasure we had this week was to talk briefly to Fergiie Jenkins when he was the guest speaker at the Kirkton baseball awards banquet Friday. We will talk only briefly about Fergie in this column. A more complete report will appear elsewhere in this issue of the News. Jenkins, a native of Chatham who was recently traded to the Boston Red Sox said he was excited about joining his new club. He commented, "I have neverbeen on a winner and with Boston in 1976 we should have a real good chance at the World Series . " During this talk, Fergie laughingly said, "1 might have trouble breaking into the Boston lineup as their fourth pitcher Roger Marrette won 14 games and this is the fellow I'm supposed to replace." He didn't know it at the time but only a few hours earlier, Boston traded Marrette to Atlanta. Jenkins also told the large crowd of about 350, "If you are not a Boston fan now, I want you to change before the 1976 season starts." He listed the late Roberto Clemente as one of the greatest ball players of all time. Fergie continued, "Roberto was a complete ball player and a great guy. He was a leader, It's too bad he didn't get all the respect he deserved until after he was killed." Citizens News, Dec. 17/75 - Page 13 Hawks score two victories, ready to take on Irish The Exeter Junior Hawks improved their Ontario Hockey Association Junior "D" season record considerably this week with a pair of victories. Thursday night the Hawks travelled to Tavistock and over- came an early three goal deficit to post a 5-3 win over the Tavistock Braves. The following night back on home ice at the Exeter arena, the Hawks came up \with a 3-2 win over the Seaforth Centenriaires. The two wins gives the Hawks eight wins against four defeats. The Hawks will be idle until Sunday when they are at home to meet the high flying Lucan Irish in a contest slated to get under- way at 8 p.m. The usual Friday night home date for the Hawks will be filled by the Exeter juveniles when they take on Aylmer in an exhibition game starting at 8:30 p.m. SCORE IN SECOND All the scoring in Friday's 3-2 victory for the Hawks over Seaforth cane in the second period. The. Exeter club scored three consecutive goals and appeared to have a very comfortable margin by the 14.25 nark of the middle thane. After the third Hawks marker the Seaforth team appeared to Zurich Atoms edge Grand Bend in close contest The Zurich atones edged Grand Bend 1-0 in a Western Ontario Athletic Association hockey game at the Zurich arena, Wednesday night. The only goal of the game came at the three minute mark of the first period when Derck Mc- Kinnon scored on a pass from Doug Schack. wake up, and put the puck into the Exeter net on two occasions in the next minute and three seconds. Rick Ingram opened the Hawks and gam scoring just past the seven minute nark on a pass from Gerald Weido. At 10:34 Ingram was back in a scoring mood as he converted a pass from the stick of Matt Muller. The third Exeter score and the one which proved to be the margin of victory was fired by Fred Monmersteeg with the assist going to Ken Pinder. The Seaforth goals wee counted by Steve Southgate and Randy McClinchey. COME FROM BEHIND The Hawks win in Tavistock Thursday was accomplished on three second period markers and two more in the final session after the Braves had moved into a 3-0 lead after the first 20 minutes of' play. Steve Yantzi hit the mark for two Tavistock goals in the first period and Keith McKay fired Ole odd counter to put the h ome tram ahead 3-0. The Hawks waited until past the halfway mark of the second before they found the scoring range. They were short on playing personnel for the away game with only 10 players to go along with netminder Randy Lovie. Coach Terry Bourne was abl e to use only two complete shifts. Paul Brooks was the Hawk to break the scoring famine at the 10.47 mark as he fired a success- ful shot on a three-way combina- tion with Phil Knight and Rick Ingram. At 10.20 Phil Knight cut the Tavistock lead to a single goal w•ilh 0 shot past the Braves goalie. The assist went to Ken Pinder. The -tying goal came with only 26 seconds lcfl in the period. Fred Mommerstecg pulled on 0 piny set by Bill Van Bergen and Ken Pinder. The eventual winning goal came from the stick of Paul Brooks, his second of the night at 2.13 of the third period. The assist was picked up by John Van- Gerwen. Rick Ingram fired the insu- rance goal near the 14 minute mark as he completed a three-way effort with Matt Muller and Don McKellar. Late in the third period, Hawks goalie Randy Lovie came up with a big save on a Tavistock penalty shot to keep his club two goals ahead. Only 14 penalties were called during the 60 minute contest with the Hawks assessed only six minors. The only major call was to Scott Totten of Tavistock for high sticking in the second period. The Hawks were able to take advantage of Tavistock penalties on two occasions with Paul Brooks counting the first of the game and repeating on a power play for the winning marker. HOLIDAY PUBLIC SKATING ZURICH ARENA Mon. Dec® 22 Tues. Dec. 23 M .;n® '1.vere 29 Tues. Dec. 30 Fra. 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