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Portage Power Too tittle, Too Latev;P-siI5y MOE CARTER Free Press Staff Writer Any cowboy will tell you that to lame a bronco you have to use your spurs from the start of the ride right to the end.In the case of hockey-playing Broncos, you have to use the body and skate for a full 60 minutes,Portage la Prairie Terriers, a club noted for its hitting style, obviously hasnt learned this lesson, Sunday night, before a crowd of 4,997 at Winnipeg Arena , Terriers abandoned their hitting game for 40 minutes and wound up on the short end of the scoreboard as they went down to defeat 5-3 at the hands of a smooth-skating, hustling herd of Broncos from Penticton, B.C. 'The exciting win gave the Broncos a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven Western Canada Centennial Cup final. Fifth game in the series will be played at 8 p.m. today at the Winnipeg Arena. Games six and seven, if necessary, will likely be played in Portage la Prairie Wednesday and Thursday.Broncos were full credit for the win. They controlled the play in the first two periods, building up period leads of 1*0 and 3-1.The third period was ail Terriers. They came out of their shell to^ tie the score, only to see Penticton captain Bob Nicholson picked up a puck off a Portage players' skates in front of the net and score the winner.Nicholson used a good ileke and a buck-hand to pot the winner. Chad Campbell, with his second goal of the night, put the game out of reach with an empty-net goal at the 19:44 mark.Captain Grant Famcombe was the big man for Portage with two goals. The veteran left winger scored a power play goal from the blueline in the second period and started the third-period rally with a goal from a acramblo as the Terriers surrounded the Broncos’First AceAt GlendaleAfour-wood was just what the doctor ordered Sunday on the 228-yard, 14th hole at Glendale Country Club.The doctor was Dr. Harvey Allen, who used bis trusty wood to perfection and scored the first hole-in-one of the season at Glendale.Startled witnesses to the super shot were Zlvy Gu-berman, Charlie Kroft and Al Raetien. “That’s only the first, there'll he lots more,” chuckled club pro Steve Cikaluk.George Miller, moving up from the blueline into the slot, scored the equalizer before Nicholson snuffed out Terriers' hopes ior a victory.Greg Milliard, using a pair of gloves borrowed from Winnipeg Jets' Bobby Hull, opened the scoring for Broncos on a screen shot. Other Penticton scorers were Dan Ashman, on a slap shot, and Chad Campbell, on a rebound during a power play after Portage goaltender John Memryk had made an outstanding sliding save on Tim Struch.Despite being badly outplayed in the Initial stanzas, the Terri-ers did have good scoring chances. Doug Wood • hit the post in the first period and Penticton goaltender Glen Bueckertcommitted rohbcry with his glove on Randy Hcxtoll, also in Ihc first period. And then, seconds later, Terriers thought they had a goal off the stick of Billy Calder, however, it was ruled the puck didn’t go in“That,” said Portage coach Murray MacPherson, in : discussing the disputed goal, “could have changed the whole complexion of tha game. 1 can't say whether it was in or not, but Billy (Calder) «aya it was and our video tape buys say It was. We’ll take a look tomorrow but It doesn’t matter now. It's water over the dam.MacPherson, although disappointed, refused to count his Terriers out.“It's not easy to look at the prospect of having to win threestraight, ho said, “but it can be done. If we play three periods of hockey tomorrow night like we did in the third tonight and we'll be going back to Portage where anything can happen.“It’s as simple as that. We have no alibis. You can’t win playing only zo minutes and you can’t win if you don't hit the net, Hell, if we'd put the nets at the side of the rink we’d have won in a walk.Penticton coach Don Slater also refused to count Terriers out.“They (Portage) aren't dead, not by any means, said Slater, who admitted .“we're capable of wrapping it up tomorrow night if we play like we did the first two periods.Slater, after saying until his team actually wins the fourth game that he Is counting on seven games, gave Portage full marks for its comeback.“They really battled us, ho said, ‘They've a good club when they slick to hockey,Slater also expressed surprisewith the pace maintained by both clubs in the hot. arena. “It's amazing how both clubs were skating in the third period when you taka in tho heat factor, hi said.Penticton goalteuder Bueekert kicked out 36 shots, compared to 29 by Portage's Memryk.Penticton took live of eight minor penalties.BENCH BITS — Milliard’stlfo
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Mon, Apr 30, 1973
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