Simcoe Lions Win Ontario Bantam Title
Simcoe Reformer, April 8, 1968
by Sports Editor Dick Wright
 
HESPELER -- Simcoe Lions brought the first Ontario minor hockey championship to Simcoe in 11 years, Sunday when they defeated Hespeler 3-1 in the Ontario Minor Hockey Association Bantam A playoff.
 
The Lions won the opening game of the best-of-three series Friday night in Simcoe by an identical 3-1 score.
 
Coached by Larry Chambers and Ron Cullimore, the Simcoe boys breezed through the Ontario playdowns undefeated in 10 games and eliminated teams from Dunnville, Ingersoll, Fort Erie and Goderich before meeting Hespeler. In all, the Lions won a total of 43 games this season, while typing one and losing  one.
 
Team captain Doug Demeyere accounted for all three goals in Friday night's game and scored the clincher Sunday afternoon in the dying minutes.
 
John James scored the other two Simcoe goals as well as picking up an assist on Demeyere's tally.
 
John Luke and Gary Robinson shared goaltending duties in the weekend games -- Luke in the net for Sunday's game and Robinson on duty for the opener.
 
Upon arrival in Simcoe at 6 p.m. Sunday, the Lions were greeted by several hundred well-wishers and given the traditional hero's ride through downtown streets on the local fire truck.
 
Three other Simcoe teams have won OMHA titles -- 1956-57 Midget A Minor, 1954-55 Bantam B and 1952-53 Midget B.