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Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Southpoint Sun - 25
Sports flashbacks from 40 years ago This week’s sports flashbacks are from November 1980. Flags bomb Flyers 9-4 A five-goal outburst in the second period was all the Mooretown Flags needed on route to their 9-4 drubbing of the Leamington Flyers on the weekend. Flags star Pierre Durocher led the winners with a hattrick. Tony LaFleur, Todd Hodgson, Tim Oliphant and Gary Gayer scored for Leamington. Omsteads tie two games The Wheatley Omsteads blew leads in both of their games on the weekend, settling for ties with Tilbury and Wallaceburg. The Omsteads led 3-0 in the Tilbury game, but settled for a 4-4 tie. Tim Omstead scored twice, with singles to Dave Drummond and Joe O’Rourke. The Omsteads had another two-goal lead against Wallaceburg but settled for a 7-7 tie. Jamie Stickney and Rick Robinson each scored twice for Wheatley, with singles to Drummond, Pat Hillman and Tom Howe. Raiders lose 11-2 The Leamington Rhine Danube Bantam Raiders led on two occasions, but eventually were overpowered by the Windsor Club 240 squad, dropping the decision 11-2. Steve Hyrenewich scored both of Leamington’s goals. Mullen, Roos lead senior basketball squad Mike Mullen and Al Roos scored 27 and 26 points respectively to lead the Leamington entry in the Essex County Basketball League to an 88-77 overtime victory over Can-Am Meats. The two squads had identical 3-0 records going into the contest. Can-Am took a 20-6 lead to start the game but Leamington roared back with some fine rebounding work by Bill Petryschuk. Essex drops Bulldogs 9-7 The Leamington Ardiel Bulldogs dropped a hard fought 9-7 decision to Essex in Essex County Juvenile play on Sunday at Leamington Arena. Essex broke a 7-7 tie with two goals in the final minute of play. Manny Silva led the Bulldogs on the scoreboard with two goals, while Richard Kos, Herb Bernhardt, Jay Pepper, Steve Impens and Rick Riediger fired singles. Peewees drop decision to Sandwich The Sandwich West Peewees defeated the Leamington Erie Sport Firebirds on the weekend by a 4-1 score. Greg Enns opened the scoring and sent Leamington to a 1-0 lead but the Firebirds were unable to hold on. Sandwich West outshot Leamington 35-12 and both Leamington goaltenders, Britt Walling and Steve Costello, played well in the loss.
Third period play was hotly contested in the Flyers’ 2-0 victory over the Lasalle Vipers on Sunday. Here, the Flyers defence tries to interrupt the cycle of the Vipers forwards. Sun photo
Flyers, Vipers kick off Superseries By C. Scott Holland In what has been labelled as the Essex County Super Series, the Leamington Flyers and LaSalle Vipers kicked off an eight-game series at Leamington on Sunday afternoon. The intensity and high level of competition were evident between the cross-county rivals. But one aspect was very noticeable - there were absolutely no fans present because of safety reasons related to COVID-19. Throughout the match both sides displayed their skill and the defenses and goaltending were sharp. However, Leamington’s netminding and defense was fine-tuned as they won a 2-0 thriller that went right to the game’s end.
The play was rather chippy at times and in the first period, Leamington gave LaSalle two golden opportunities to go ahead first via powerplays. But neither one generated any scoring. The Vipers gave the Flyers one chance towards the frame’s conclusion but after 20 minutes it was a scoreless draw. The Flyers drew first blood in the second, when captain Dylan Weston shoveled the puck forward to Josh Cyrenne, who went in close on Viper starter Matthew Srbocca and potted the goal at 1:57. With the Flyers’ Colton O’Brien and Vipers’ Cayden Faust both serving two minute misconducts, Weston initiated a forward pass to Cyrenne who found Thomas Michaud open
and Michaud went in alone and drilled the puck past Sbrocca at 7:52 for a 2-0 edge. It was all the Flyers would need to seal the victory although the Flyers certainly gave the Vipers a couple of chances in the final frame. At 6:34 the Vipers thought they had scored but the refs waved it off. For about two minutes in the third, Flyers goalie Chazz Nixon, who had gone in midway through the contest, left for some some equipment attention and starter Ryan Polidori was re-inserted and held the door closed to the fort. Both Polidori and Nixon combined to earn the combined shutout by making 30 saves while LaSalle’s two goalies — Sbrocca and Kyle Metson — turned aside 29.
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