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Pagu 24. Whitby Fre Press, Weclnesday, February 23,1994 Crawf Sports major novice select hockey team came away with the championship at the annual Agincourt Canadians Valentine ournament held over the last 'two wýeekends at mid-Scarborough arena. Gaine on. on Feb. 12 saw Whitby skate to a convincingt 8-1 win over the host Canadfians. Scoring came frorn Richard Thomas, Patrick Lang, Thomas McWhirter, Jef Hase with two and LTJ. Bowles had a hat trick. Single assises were from Darryl Donaldson, MeWhirter, Lang and Thomas. Bowle, Hase and Brian Chard each biad two with Paul Vanderlip picking up th'ree. Gaine two on ' h 13 was against Malvern. Whitby skated weIl and coasted to a 7-0 win. Justin Connors and Ian Upton had the shutout while Geof Wells, Patrick Làîhg and Matt Annis each had single goals. Chard and Bowles picked up two each. Hans, MeWhirter Donaldeon, Gordon Dale and Paul Lombardi had single assiste with Paul Vanderlîp notching a pair. Tournament action continued Feb. 19 against West Hfill. Whitby assured themselves of a spot in the finals with a 13-0 win. Goalscorers were Vanderlip with two goals and one assist, Hans one goal, ]ýowles on. goal and one assist, Chkrd one goal and two assista, McWhirter two goals and two asslist; Lang one goal and on. assist, Waddington on. goal and on. assist, Thomas on. goal Wells one asast, Lombardi and Donaldoon each had two assiste. Justin Connors and Ian Upton registered their second shutout of the tournarnent. The tournament chamnpionship game saw Whitby tae on Weston in a very exciting game. Lang opened the scoring with a blast from the blue lin. off of the Weston goalie's glove. Vanderlip gave Whitby a two-goal lead late in the first pioassisted by Bowles and Hfase.Weston closed the gap to one goal in the second with a power play goal. Heweon regained the two-goal lead by flring a screamner over the golie'. shoulder with five seconds left in the period. The third period was end-to-end hockey with Vanderlip scoring the only. goal from Donaldson to seal the championship 4-1 forWitby. Skateathoi MARGARET O'KEEFE helps daughter Samantha, 5, during the annual skateathon held by the Kinsmen Club of Whitby on Feb. 12. About 600 skaters turnçd out, with funds raised in support of the Cystic Fibrosis Fôundation. Photo by Jetemy Dresar, WhItby Free Press Stec ersý swep t Whitby's quest for a berth in the Ontario minor bantain AAA hockey finale carne to, a haît recently. Whitby Maksteel Steelers Minor atoms fading elimnation Whitby Godwing Systema minor atom MA hockey teama eiiminated Ajax in the. fret round of the playoffe, winning a close 4-3 d"Mson. Starting the. ooring for Whitby was Justin Giles, assisted by Kyie Limkilde and Chris. Simpsn A.dding te tthe tally early in th third was Lucas Naylor, with assis te James Hinkeon and Adam Veiacich. Hinkson went on te olidify the. victory with two more gas assisted by Shawn Steéph e ne, Matt ircock and Naylor. Goaltender Darryl Forsey was strong in net. Whitby kept its edge honed by winning an exhibition gaine against Belleville before second-round- action against firet-place bMarkham. Scoring against Belleville was Naylor, unassisted, followed by a goal by Bryan Mantle, assisted by Hfinkson. Kevin Peel shut the door with two third-period goal, assisted by Simpson and ircock. mhe best-of-five series against Markham opened with a big 5-2 win in Markham. Hiniceon and Peel each ecored two goals, whule Naylor had on.. Assisting twice was Hircock, with other assiste by Naylor, Peel, Hinkson, Stephens and Scott Beethiain. Bryan Sand turned in a solid perorm nce inet, frustrating thi =akhmsharpehooters. Markhain roared back in gaines two and three, outplaying the. Whitby teain on their way te a 2-1 victory and a 6-0 shutout. Scoring the lon. Whitby goal was Hinkson, assisted by Giles. The Whitby teanis back je *ganst the wall as they prepare for thegir final gaines thie week. defeated-Central Ontario Wolves in their firet playoff series but were swept 3-Obyý Peterborough in the next best-of-five series. Whitby lost 3-1 in the tiret irme on Feb. 6, Paul Graygont- nthe 'Whitby goal, ssisted by Mark Haynes and Steve Death. Tom Lawson was solid ini net for Whitby, stopp*ng36 shots. Peterborough wn thsecond ime on Feb. 9 by a 5- 1 score, trayaginnetting the Whitby 1 R a icica Dà.n Fletcher stopped 37 shots in the Whitby net. Peterborough finished the series with a 7-4 win on Feb. 12. Lawson faced 42* shots. Jason Hotchkiss scored three goals and Day. Farquharson had theother for Whitby. Death ear- ned four assise and Adamn Mac- Carl had two. Whitby is now playing Quinte in a beeit-of-five series in the. fret round of the Eastern AAA (ETA) playoff chainpionship. The .ptimiat Club of Whitby recently hosted 29 young sports participants at this yea's Youth A rciaionprograni. Aps tative from. seven local sports organizations were chosen from various age groupe on the basis of sportsmansip, effort , iinprovement and ability. The. following plaques were presented: Baseball: Michael Lehay, Catlan Lane, Jason Menez.;, Alex Minigon, Mathew Leering and Gerg Poçmeroy. Lacrosse: Christopher Waldock, Sean Taylor and D.rek Le. i Figure ektin. Jeif Koeeiag, Jacqueline Weleh, Andrea Accardo, Paul Vanier and Meredith Gilbert.' Soccer: Katie Dodington, Brent Richardson, Brian Crawford, Geif Bruno and Rhean Santos-De Gazon. Softball: Dawn Crandiemire, Kailey Miller and Stephamie Antalsy. Volleyball: Janice Banks, Michelle Moynham and Lauren Palmer. Hockey: Nathaniel Andree, 'frevor Milligan, Ryan Gunn and Shawn Hubbard. Atoms in front mhe Whitby major atoin select teain, sponsored by Hardco Contracting and Excavating, won the. consolation chamnpionship of the Port Perry atom teurnament over tii. week.nd. In the first game Whitby played the host teain who came out flying and took a 2-0 lead in the firet period. In tii. second period Whitby finally got it going and tied the gaine on goals by Mike Liske and Kyle Ruttan. Ini the third Whitby took a 3-2 lead oagoal by Mike Ast&los. However, Plort Perry tied it up with about three minutes left and the. gaine remained tied after regulation turne. A five-minute overtime period was played! with neither teain ucoing. A second five-ninute overtiine period followed with the teame piaying three playere each. Rian Meanev was awarded a "jý;-shot. Ëlwýever, the. Port Perrygoatender made a great save te keepthe gainetied. With about two minutes left in the. secorA wertime, Port P.rry scored L~ end this marathon and move te tth. championship side. In the. second gaine Whitby defeated Scarborough-Malvern 6-1. Goal-scorers for Whitby wer. Ryan Mendes, Lieke, Astalos, Gary Kitamura, Niciiolas Michie and Ryan Robb. In the. consolation final Whitby skated te a 3-1 win over Port Hope. Ruttan, Astalos and Kitamura were the goal scorers. Adam Rinaldi and Michael Thornton botii played well in goal for Whitby throughout the, teurnainent. In North York Select League. play on Feb. 18, Whitby defeated Unionville 7-0. Scoring for Whitby were Michie, Ruttan, Astaos (two), Kitamura, Mendes and Sean Homes. Thornten was in goal for the. ehutout. In a rematch of last year' final, the Whitby major atom AAA teain, sponsored by Dundas Centre Guardian Druge, broke out to a 1-0 series lead by defeating Peterborough 8-2 in the first of a beet-of-five series in the east.rn AAA (ETA) league. Ini the early going of the firet period, both teains spent time feeling out the strat.gy of their opponent, resulting in a close checking contest. The. flrst break in the gaine came as a result of a Peterborough penalty at the eight-minute mark. Twenty-nine seconde luter, Blaine Down slapped ia rebound on a shot froin the point to make the score 1-0. Assiste went te Jeremy Pisher and Robert Lalonde. lhe next penalty of the gaine went to Whitby, bIýt superior foreciecking by Bcbby MeBride was rewmrded with an unassisted goal and a 2-0 lead. Jeif Frazer also added an unassisted goal in the. second period, foibowed by a goal from Lalonde on a shot from Harrison te extend the lead te 4-0 before Peterborough was ahi. te pot their firet goa l he second period ended 4-1. In the. third period, Whitby continued to press the opposition and once again were awarded with a goal by Sean MacRury from Harrison and Frazer. The. gaine seemed out of reach at this point, but in an effort to get back in the game, Peterborough pull.d their goalie when Whitby received a minor penalty, with just over six minutes left. The result of this move was a short-handed goal by David Mosse from Judd Stevenson and Harrison. Poterborough, in an unusual move decided to keep ti.r goalie out for the. remainder of the gaine. Although Peterborough was ahi. te, score their second goal of the contest, they alqo gave up two more .mpty net goals. The. frst goal was scored by Kyle Branch from Reece Robertson and Lalonde. Steven Farquharson scored the iast goal from Frazer and Fisher. Ian Watson was the goaltender for Whitby, and was very solid betwe.n the pipes. Mike Morison and Stephane Linklater were also solid on defense. Justin Zamniit will b. the goalie for gaine two. Regisitration for Whitby minor lacrosse wili b. held on March 5 and 6 at Luther Vipond Arena in Brooklin. Reustrtio isfrom 9 amn. te 3 Selects settle for consolation