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Terriers hurdle Broncos into Conadion finalPORTAGE (CP) — Portage Terriers scored three unanswered goals in the final period Thursday night to defeat Penticton Broncos 6-2 in the deciding game of their Western Canada besl-of-seven Centennial Cup final series.Terriers will host the best-of-seven final series against Pembroke Lumber Kings, beginning Sunday in Portage.Scott Hetherington and Randy Penner each scored two goals for Portage and singles went to Randy Hextall and Glen Miller.Mike Hiefield and Bob Nicholson replied for Penticton.Penticton took periods of 2-1 and 3-2 before putting the game out of reach in the hard-hitting contest.Hextall opened the scoring at 1:33 with a shot from 20 feet out. Less than four minutes later Penner gothis first of the night, digging the puck out from behind the net and forcingit between the pads of Broncos netminder Glen Bueckert.However, Hiefield cut the margin at 12:15 on a sliding shot from the face-off that Memryk tried to kick out. but missed.In a penalty-riddled second period Hetherington and Nicholson traded goals, Nicholson scoring with a flip-shot over the sprawling Memryk after the Portage netminder stopped a drive from ChadCampbell.Although Portage led the entire game, the team was forced to come up with an extra effort in the third period when they had two men in the penalty box for nearly two minutes.A1 Hilton, Warren Remple and Bill Robertson killed the penalties for the Terriers and Penner, Hetherington and Miller scored the goals.Ty Langton, who made his first start in goal in the sixth game of the series,obviously impressed Terrier coach Murray (Muzz) MacPherson and got the nod to start in goal Sunday against the Lumber Kings.“We’ve got the two best goalies in Western Canada, and unless something goes wrong, we’re going to alternate them the rest of the way,” MacPherson said after the game.Macpherson said histeam proved they were number one beating “a great team from Penticton, a team with a whole lot of class.”Penticton can be proud of every one of them” he added. “All 1 can say is east of Saskatchewan’s border and west ofSaskatchewan’s border we are recognized as a roughbut dedicated hockey club.‘‘We’re proud to represent Western Canada.”Broncos coach Don Slater, whose team saw its 3-1 edge in the series vanish said his team simply ran out of gas.” “We lost to a tremendous hockey club which just got stronger and stronger as the seriesprogressed, and I wish them the very best against Pembroke,” he said.Penticton defeneeman Lee Crozier said Memryk really deserves the credit for the win. “Wow, that was some goal-tending performance by their guy, he said.However, the senior member of the Portage club, veteran defeneemanJohn Hewitt, was quick to admit the road to the finals was anything but an easy one.“For God’s sake, give Penticton some credit,” he said. “They’re the best team we played this year, and I'm proud to have had the opportunity to play against a team of their calibre. It’s too bad there had to be a loser.”but where, oh where will games be played?PORTAGE — Two hours after Portage Terriers had advanced into the Canadian Centennial Cup best.-of-seven final series against Pembroke Lumber Kings, there was mad partying going on around victorious coach Muzz Macpherson.But Muzz wasn’t doing anything that he’d be ashamed of.Contacted by The Sun early this morning, MacPherson said he washuddled with executive secretary of the Manitoba • Amateur Hockey Association, George Allard, “trying to work out dates for the final.”A report earlier thisweek said that all games of the final would be played at the Keystone Centre, but Macpherson eliminated that possibility by saying, “we’re defenitely opening here (in Portage) Sunday. After that, we don’t know athing. That’s what Allard and 1 are trying to work out right now.”A Winnipeg reporter said Thursday that MacPherson had told him the Terriers didn’t want to come to Brandon and that the club was talking to officials of the Dauphin Arena, in the event that nothing else can be satisfactorily arranged.And what are the possibilities of some of thegames being played at the Keystone?“Well, there’s a very good possibility,” said MacPherson, “but as I said before, I don’t know a thing right now, other than the opener on Sunday.*’The problem with the Portage arena is the artificial ice plant. When the weather gets hot, the ice plant acts up. Thursday night, the problem was so bad that flooding betweensecondimpos-the first and periods was an sibility.Brandon hockey fans, should they desire to get some of the Porfage-Pembroke action right on their own doorstep, might consider praying for healStay tuned----Macpherson says he’ll know sometime this afternoon official dates for all seven games of the final series.
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Brandon Sun
Brandon, Manitoba, CA
Fri, May 04, 1973
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