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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 12 Jan 1983, p. 18

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Richard O'Brien Chronicle Staff Waterloo Vikings and Bluevale Knights both handled the opposition in their respective games Thursday and Friday night, so the main thing separating the two teams contin- ues to be the game they played against each other a week ago Tues- day. Vikings evened their record at 2-2 with a 62-34 win over the visit- ing Preston Panthers Friday,night after the Knights had gone to 3-1 in Waterloo County Senior boys high schgol has etball with a 60-40 win over Waterloo-Or ford Crusaders Thurs. day night in Baden. And in the crosstown matchup a week _agn Tuesday, Knights broke loose after a 30-30 tie at halftime to win 63-38. Rob Faulhammer scored 20 points to lead the Knights win over the Crusaders. but Ill!,',:),,',':?!? clash difference for Knights, Vikes Nr-Ill-l-l-l"""""-"--" Things' Todd Smith appear: poiud to pounce on knights' Keith Ronny u soon as he picks up the ball. memo-mm "'iiih(e coach John McCarthy emphasized the role of players who came off, the bench to replace his starters. "Our starting lineup sputtered a bit," said McCarthy. "Rob played well offensive- ly, but no-one from the starting lineup played well defensively except Mark Hackett, who usually plays well de- fensively." So in came Doug Ramon. Rob Drasdo and Jayson Heller, who scored 14, eight and four points, respective- ly. "That was pleasant to see," said McCarthy. "The bench played well offensively and defensively." Keith Lazenby. with ll, was the other leader among the Knights starters. who saw most of their action in the fi r s t a 1 quarters. A Friday at Waterloo collegiate, Vikings led 28-22 at halftime in a garmrthat started late and third and seemed to take a long time to finish _due to sloppy play and fre, quent whistles. Todd Smith led the Vikings with 21 points and Sean Tuckeu fol- lowed with 15. H“l‘m pleased we won, but I'm not pleased wi.th, the way We played," Viking coach John Zdrahal said: _ In the Knights-Vik- ings contest, Vikings were held to just eight points in the second half as the Knights ran away with it, outscor- ing the Vikings 2l-2 in the final quarter, Yesterday tTues- day). Knights hosted Galt collegiate and Vikings hosted Ca- meron Heights. Fri- day, Knights travel to Kitchener collegiate to take on the Raiders. Vikings.“meanwhile. will be in Toronto Fri- day and Saturday to compete in the eight- team 17th annual Jarvis collegiate invi- tational basketball tournament 5.1 Laurier's Tim Glgncross (left) was credited with a goal as the puck wet into the RMC net. C Gowiing grabs No. 1 oo Richard O'Brien Chronicle Staff The count, if you‘re keeping track, was 101 ax of Saturday afternoon. I" can“ “a: :11“. .W______r That's the number of wins Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks hockey coach Wayne (lowing had to his credit following his club's NH romp over the Royal Military College Redmen at Kitchener auditorium. duulun Ewa.... That win. and the one before it - a 14-5 pasting of the Brock Badgers Friday in St. Catharines - were just business as usual for (lowing and his team. While there could have been a celebration following the win over Brock - number 100 for (lowing - in fact there was none. - r“ . . n ,,:___ .....L -.._.= p". \luwu-p, ... ...‘- u... -- "It was only 100," said Gowing, who can be very low key at such times. "Maybe when it's 200 or 300.3 Gowing was no less modest about winnihg the two games by high scores. partly because his Hawks didn't play much better than necessary in games they were certainly expected to win. . ' ' _., -» =- _....l::-Hnn|Iu amd I" gaunt: IIIC’ "‘l‘v y‘.-_...._, - . “I guess you have to look at it realistically and say it's a victory and we want it." Gowing said after the RMC game. "But (against better teams) it _we don't correct our errors, we'll be in trouble." , Richard O'Brien Chronicle Staff It would seem the Wilfrid Laurie? Golden Hawks basketball team died two deaths Friday night. First. the Wind. sot Lancers quickly killed them on the court). then their coach. Paul Thomas, killed them with kindness. Such was the fate of the Hawks during and after their 92-73 home loss Friday. which left them with an 0-2 record in the west division of this young Ontario Uni- versities Athletic Asso» ciation season. "We just happened to get away on them to- night." said Thomas, the Lancers mentor, in reference to the 35-12 Hawk Coach takes milestone in stride aesolaqmes on ttire,,),,!!,,'.!,,),,', y it's a victory and we want u. mum-m mm . wan, mum“... ._.... m.“ -.F- 7 Ler the RMC game. Badgers' goal came from the sticks of Cord "But (against better teams) if _we don'1 Christie, Karl Herod, Brian Foley. John Dankin rrect our errors, we'll be in trouble.“ , and Randy Piesch. lead his squad built up take a shot " every- 12 minutes into the .body else. There's not game. "They probably going to be an easy outscored! us in the game." second half." And in fact, Comm In fact, the Hawks outscored the Lancers 49-44 in the second half. but one has to wonder what the future holds for Hawks. who have fallen into the habit of getting behind early. “(Hawks coach) Chris (Coullhard) has been in championship games so many times. by the end of the year he'll have them playing championship ball." said Thomas. "He knows what it's all about "Everybody in the conference is going to WATERLOO CHRONICLE. WEDQESOAY‘ Laurier had period leads of ro and 7-0 against the Rodmen. who finally got on the board with breakaway goals by Brent Lamb and Jim Waddell at 7:31 and 10:23. Jami Quathamer and Doug Lawrie had the other goals for RMC. Hawks were led by the taree-goal perfor- mance of hardnosed forward Kevin Pruden. Greg Mills. Don Poulter and Paul Roantree had two apiece and Tim Gleneross had the other marker. y........w H..." ___ ---_ n, Friday in St. Catharines. Hawks had no trouble lifting Gowing to the century mark as Todd Stark and Mills each had three goals. But once again. Gowing thought they lacked consis- tency. "When we looked good. we looked damn good." said Gowing. "when we looked bad, we gave up some easy scoring chances." - . - . L ,JJ_J L...A anal” Hawks were assessed six penalties c_alled in the game. 5."; " bPV...ie --".r WW __ Tr Dan lEpoch and Pruden each added two goals in thtt game while singles went to Roantree. Poulter, Glencross and peric fyhts.. And in fact, Coqlth- ard would be the first to admit that his club has not had an easy game. However. he's not prepared to say his team will start playing championship bail, let alone win a game all season. “It really has been a trend for us to start so slowly." said Coulth, ard. “It makes it difrr cult mr us to catch up. "We are very young. Confidence will come. I really believe it's a confidence factor." Jim Kennedy led the Lancer stuck with 21 points while Phil Her- JANUARY 12. 1983 - PAGE 21 went off his leg and Richard 030.0 'shoots manutz and Dt Byrne each_h_ad P: six of the 13 minor Dave Byck had " for Laurier. Enzo Piazza netted 12 and Steve Forden had 10. Wednesday in Guelph. it was the same story as Lauder lost 57-SI to the Gry- 'kk?s'.a8ipfaiCfg' , :.; 'iiEi'i,,5i,ici": p ’4, ’/'//‘$"/ b', k t qua/:71 Hawks fell behind NH. then fought back to within three points before succumbing. Piazza and Eyck both notched n; points in that name and Mark Poiischuk added 12. Hawks travel to Uni- versity of Waterloo Saturday night to meet the Warriors. Game time is 8 p.m. r6fi, Tf,

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