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Page 20, Whety Free Press Wednesday, Apri 6, 1994 I. AUJ'41 I4~~~J:#F.J'2 q, NoviceÇs, capture petite championship Whitby Hanet Plastics novice B ringette teain captured the petite C major regional championship in Grafton over the Easter weekend. The teamn tallied 35 goals and allowed only eight goals in five gaines. Friday night Whitby faced Sunderland and won 8-2. Rachel Stewart popped in three goals, Tara Henry two. Karen McWilliams had a goal and two assists, Kathryn Penry a goal and an assist and iley Miller a goal. At noon on Saturday, Whitby met Mariposa and blanked them 5-0. Single goals went to Jade Blight, Henry, Miller, Michelle Leni and Stewart. Stewart and Miller eaeh had two assiste. Whitby then defeated Pickering 8-2. Netting two goals for Whitby was Perry, with singles by Stewart, Leni, Miller, Henry, McWilliams and Krystal Chartrand. Blight and Henry each had two assists. On Sunday morning Whitby The Whitby minor novice AA hockey teain, sponsored by Main Tech Industries, ended their season with a thrilling finish at the Streetsville tournament. Whitby ot 3-2 in overtime te the host team in the chamapionship final. I round one Whiùtby met a squad froi Hespeler in a two-game, total-goals-for-and- against series. Ini gaine one, the teains played good defensive' hockey and ended Up with a 1-1 tie. Scoring for Whitby was Aaron MacMurray. Gara. two started ont like gaine on with both teains fai L te find the net inthe flirt perio as the close checking continued. Hespeler opened the scoring in the second period only to have Whitby even the score when MacMurray finished off a setup by Ryan Johnston. Whitby, paced by Liain Reddox froin Grahamn Knox, took a 2-1 lead early in the third. Hespeler tied the gaine 2-2 and then Blake Robinson gave Whitby a 3-2 lead as he finished off a MacMurray setup. Hespeler pressed and again evened the gaine with about two 1 -I played their last gaine before the finals and beat Warkworth 8-1. Stewart had three goals and two assists, Ohartrand two goals and an assist, Bllght, Henry and Mller a goal and aný assist each. minutes te go and this score stood te force sudden-death overtime. But Whitby finally found the net as Reddox fired home the winner froin MacMurray and Tanner Twining in the eighth overtime period -- two hours of hockey -- te advance te the chaxnpionship against Streetaville. Late in the first period, Streetoville took a 1-0 lead. Whitby then came on strong in the second and scored two unanswered gals, by Steven Seedhouse and Wane Turcotte, for a 2-1 lead. With less than a minute te go it looked as if Whitby would hold on to the lead, but Streetsville evened the score te again force sudden-death overtime. 'Streetaville scored midway through the second overtime and eliminated Whitby 3.2. Teaxa members are goalies Kyle Simnpson and Michael Jeffirey- on defence, Jason ichie, Kevin Loeiax, Matthew Race, Grahamn Knox, Blair Singler, Tanner Twining; forwards Wayne Turcotte, Blake Robinson, Chris Laforge, Matthew Fowler, Liam Reddox, Steven Seedhouse, Aaron MacMurray, Brandon Davis and Ryan Johnsten. The Whitby petite C ringette teain, sponsored by Bell Canada, finished second in the regional teurnainent. After losing te Ajax 7-3 in the first gamne, Whitby caine back and defeated Ennismore 8-4 in the round-robin and then again won 8-4 against the saine teain in the semi-fi naIs. In the final against Ajax, Whitby answered all of Ajax's goals in the first half. During the second haîf, Ajax pulled away for a 7-3 win. Whitby met Sunderland in the final. At the end of the first haîf Witby led 2-1 and went on te a 6-3 win. Henry and Stewart each netted two goals, McWilliams had The Whitby miajor novice AAA hockey. teain, sponfiored by the Ladies Auiliary, is one win away froin capturing the Eastern AAA league. Whitby now holde a 2-0 series lead in the beat-of-five series, winning 5-2 at home and 3-O in Peterborough. In the first gaine of the series at home, Whitby buïlt a 3-O first Deriod lead on goa" by Tyler Andrea Bungay played an outetanding game in the Whitby net and was chosen most valuable player. Other Whitby team members are Brianna Coombs, Emnily Defuscia, Làiza Henry, Katie Hodgson, Sarah Landry, Stacey Quisnelle, Lauren Reeves, Melissa Tone, Sophia Yulmaz and Heidi Wilson. "Even though the teani had a slow start te the season, ail players put forth a 100 per cent effort during the year," said coach Anya Bungay. a goal and three assists, Perry a goal and an assist. Most valuable player in the final was Stewart. The defence of Heather Peel, Blight, Meaghan Cloutier and Leni provded strong support te Harrison, Ronnie Robertson and Ryan Tutak. Adding assista were ichael Kosiw with two, Brandon McBride, Harrison and Robertson. Peterborough fought back te within one in the second before McBride made it 4-2 on a solo rush right off the face-off after the Petes' second goal. Whitby outéhot the opposition 2-0 in the third but could only manage an empty net goal. Marc Gleeson and Chris Nemiez combined te stop 23 shots for the win. The second gaine of the series featured a strong ciefensive effort by the satire Whitby teain. Strong backchecking by the forwards and fluid Unme changes kept Peterborough off balance for most of the gaine. Harrison opened the scoring on a backhand set up by the determination of Andrew Pigrain and James iaske. B'ily Deir made it 2-0 in the seconZjaznming home a rebound froin a McBride shot. Pigram completed the scoring in the third on a thrse-way passing play with linemates Adam iboeau and Liske. Gleeson and Nemnisz combined for the shutout. Whitby can wrap the series up at home tonight (Wednesday) at 8:15 p.m., Iroquois Park #2. superb goaltendin by Emily Sand who allowe only eight goals in five gaines. The VWitby teais incoached by Judy Henry, assisted by Vince Blight. Whitby edged by Sunderland in championshipfia Whitby Provincial Signa belle B ringette teamn felI just short of winning their fourth consecutive tournament this past weekend at the central region championships in Warkworth. The teurnament started Friday with a gaine versus Pickering. Mm Vanderlip started the scoring quickly notching her first goal il seconds into the game. Whitby skated quickly to a 3-0 firet period lçad and coasted home with a 6-3 win. The Uine of Vanderlip, Erin Carroll and Natasha Carter was virtually unstoppable, accounting for ail of Whitby's scoring. Vanderlip scored three and set Up the other three, Carter scored two and assisted on two and Carrol set up four and scored one. The second game of the tournanient was much more strongy contested as Ennismore jumped out to a 2-0 lead. That was as many goals as goalie Samantha Sheppard would allow, as she played superbly the rest of the way, turning aside many good scoring efforts by Ennismore. Kara Easton, playing a strong defensive gaine, contributed offensively as well, scoring Whitby's first goal and assisting on the tying goal by Michelle Theriault. Carrol then took over and scored three consecutive goals for a natural hat trick to, keep the lead. Erica Giles scored the final goal te put the gaine out of reach and finish the scoing in a 6-3 win. Whitby's third gaine was against their nemesis froin Ajax. In a close contest, Ajax opened the scoring but Whitby quickly tied the score. Whitby then took the lead 3-1 on goals by Vanderlip and Carter, only to have Ajax tie the gaine bate in the second period and then score the winner on a screen shot with three minutes left in the gaine. The 4-3 loss set up a Sunday semi-final between the saine two clubs. Early Sunday morning Whitby and Ajax took the ice to decide who was the better club to progress te the final. In their preious five meetings, the tearns each had single one goal wins and three ties. The gaine was te underline the competitiveness of both clubs, ending with 49 seconds left in the fourth sudden-death overtime period. Play started quickly as strong skating and passing were constantly blunted by solid defense.T I> Witby defense of Lara Huéel, Anne Henderson, Kara Easton and Megan Neilly played superbly and coupled with solid goaltending by cal-up Tamara Wiesiolek, held Ajax scoreless for the first two-thirds of the gaine while forging a 3-0 lead on goals by Vanderlip (two) and Carroll on set-ups by Henderson (two) and Carter (two). Jennifer Cotton was solid on offence and defence. Ajax slowly clawed their way back, scoring with less than two minutes left te send the gaine inte overtime. The two tearns battled back and forth in heart-stopping action for 19 more minutes of sudden death play until Vanderlip fired the winner, scorinjg her third goal for her second 'hat-trick of the tournament. This assured Whitby of the silver medal. After playing four overtime periods, it was difficuit for Whitby to get ready for the final against Sunderland two hours later. Whitby, however, was Up to the challenge, scoring first and holding Sunderland scoreless until the last minute of the first period. I the second, period, Sunderland stretched out to a 4-1 lead before Vanderlip scored two to set up an exciting final few minutes. Whitby pressed relentlessly and caused Sunderland to take four penalties in the last two minutes and allow Wihitby te play four on two in the Sunderland zone. Carter and Vanderlip both hit poste but could not score and the gaine ended 4-3 in Sunderlands favour. Vanderlip had an excellent series, scoring 10 goals and assisting on six of the other 12 goals scored by Witby. Carter was next best, scoring four and assisting on six while being named Whitby's most valuable p layer in the final. Carroll matched Carter's 10 points with six goals and four assists, H4ýnderson had five assists, Gileb\ had two goals and two assists, Theriault had four ïassists, Easton had one goal and one assist, Hugel had two assiste, Cotton had two assiste, and Neilly had one assist. Whitby rep) hockey MINOR PEEWEE AAA qomm by ElsciU Comde Inr. 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