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Wednesday, December 2, 2020
Southpoint Sun - 21A
Sports flashbacks are from December of 1964
This week’s Sports flashbacks come to you from December 1964. Curling Club Makes History The first eight-ender in Sun Parlor Curling Club’s history was scored by Elliot Scott’s rink last week. The team included Murray Haggith, Harold Scott, Elliot Scott and Ernie Sayers. Elliot Scott was the club’s first president. Falcons to start play soon The Leamington Falcons basketball team will swing into action next week. General Manager Doug Sellars said the squad will play four games in 12 days before the Christmas break. Four teams comprise the Windsor District Basketball league. Bill Thomson will act as playing coach for the Falcons. Other players back from last year are Murray Wales, Hal Wigle, Pat Irwin, Dave Creery and Alan Robertson. Three newcomers are trying out this year in Jim Miller, Danny Bateman and Bill Manery. Home games are at Leamington District Secondary School. Seacliff beats Blytheswood in Juvenile play Seacliff, led by hattricks from Barry Fillimore and Don Haggith, upset Blytheswood by a 6-3 score. Larry ‘The Flash’ Schmidt scored twice for Blytheswood with a single goal to Dave Hewett. Selkirk drops Squirt All-Stars Selkirk came from behind to nip the Squirt All-Stars in Peewee house league play by a 3-2 score. The Squirts had upset on their minds as they built a 2-1 lead on the stellar goaltending of young Frank Salive. Kris Manery and Terry Quick both scored for the Squirts, while the Selkirk comeback was led by Ken Piper, who scored the tying and winning goals. Ken Beaul had a single marker. Bantams beat Detroit 8-2 The Leamington Bantams trounced Detroit Teamsters 8-2 in an exhibition game on the weekend at Leamington Arena. Leamington was paced by Gerry Bradbury, who scored three. Mike Martin scored twice, while Danny Duckett, Morris Peters and Doug Coulter each had one goal. Peters also notched five minor penalties. Jim McFadden got the win in goal. Flyers beaten by Riverside The Leamington Flyers were handed a 7-2 defeat at the hands of the Riverside Rangers in Bluewater Juvenile League play last Thursday. The Flyers are now 4-5 in league play. Gary McIntosh and Greg Mason scored Leamington’s goals.
LaSalle Vipers put on pressure in the Leamington Flyers zone during the third period of game one of what was supposed to be an eight-game series. The series was aborted after three games due to new COVID-19 restrictions prohibiting games and practices within Windsor-Essex. Sun photo
Flyers beat Vipers on OT penalty shot By C. Scott Holland The two local Jr. B teams who engaged in what has been dubbed the “Super Series” took to the ice here in Leamington for game three on Sunday afternoon. Sunday’s contest — the last for some time at the Nature Fresh Complex — was another close affair and much like the previous one, which headed to overtime before it was decided. The Flyers out-shot the Vipers 36-24 in the spirited contest, which featured plenty of fabulous goaltending, strong defensive plays and great offense. Speed, agility and finesse are all important elements in the new game without body contact and both the Vipers and Flyers showed how well they have adapted. Vipers’ starter Matthew Sbrocca
halted 14 of 15 Flyers’ shots while Chazz Nixon made a minimal number of saves in his half-game stint, allowing only one tally. Late in the opening frame, the Vipers took a 1-0 lead with a goal that just eluded Nixon during the final minute of the period. However, the Flyers evened the score at 6:16 of the second period when Darby Lemieux and Kale Couvillon hooked up with Tanner Flood, who ripped a shot from the right point that knotted the game. The two teams switched goalies at the midway point as LaSalle’s Kyle Metson and Leamington’s Ryan Polidori both got between the pipes. Metson stopped 22 of 24 pucks that headed his way and Polidori blocked 14 of 15. Tied at 1-1 in the third, Lemieux gave Wyatt O’Neil a good chance
on net, but it was captain Dylan Weston who plucked a rebound and fired it into an open side to spot the Flyers a 2-1 lead. In the final two minutes, while on a powerplay, the Vipers’ Spencer Lecot managed to drill the puck past Polidori to keep the score even and send it to the five minute, three-on-three overtime. With 23 seconds left, Flyers player Alex Cunningham was hauled down and awarded a penalty shot. Cunningham made no mistake as he ripped a low shot that squirted under Metson and found the back of the net to win the contest. It is uncertain when any type of play will return or even if a season of any kind will be played but if things go well January 15 is the date the GOJHL is currently hoping to start.
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