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8 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, April 11,1990 | sport-talk 623-330} FLASHBACK--25 YEARS AGO -- At the recent carnival sponsored by Bowmanville Skating Club, skaters dressed as Swiss Misses drew much applause for their performance. The group includes Janet Large, Linda Webb, Cheryl Williams, Pat Nowlan, Dianne Harrison, Cathy McQuirk, Donna Mikolic and Ann Morris. FLASHBACK--10 YEARS AGO - Winners of the first schedule at the Bowmanville Curling Club were Cy Szymczak, Sherry Rupa, Bob Morrison and Dorothy Dorothy Kuhlsmith. They were presented with the Bank of Montreal trophy by Bank of Montreal Assistant Manager Manager Jim Thompson. Winners of the second schedule were Sherry Shrives, Roy Trudeau, Lorraine Lever, and Bob Hebbert. SPORT-TALK TRIVIA -- With opening day in baseball baseball this past Monday, let's warm up the season with a Blue Jay question. What Blue Jay pitcher led the team in strikeouts last year, Tom Henke? Duane Ward? or Jimmy Key? MASTERS DIVISION SLO PITCH - The Masters Division of the Newcastle Men's Slo-Pitch league has three teams but requires some more players to make up the fourth, as well as a sponsor for the team. Anyone Anyone interested in playing or sponsoring can contact Harvey Webster at 623-2612. NON-CONTACT HOCKEY TOURNAMENT - The Bowmanville Non-Contact Hockey League is holding its annual tournament this coming weekend commencing commencing Thursday, April 12, with games all day Friday Friday and Saturday at the Orono Arena. BOWMANVILLE EAGLES BANQUET - The Bowmanville Bowmanville Eagles will be holding their annual awards banquet at the Bowmanville Recreation Complex on Saturday, May 26. Ticket information can be received by contacting Bob Marshall at 623-7069. The Eagles are also looking for people to be executive members for the 1990-91 season. Anyone interested is asked to send a letter c/o Jr. 'C' Eagles, Box 467. LADIES' SLO PITCH LEAGUE - Plans are in the making for a slo pitch league for ladies 35 years of age and over. If there are any ladies interested in being a part of this league, you can register by contacting 623- 5782 or 623-6666. SPORT THOUGHTS -- We had to chuckle at a recent recent article in a paper last week. A female sports reporter reporter in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia was told by the referee of a Senior 'A' hockey game that the flash on the camera she was using was bothering the opposing goalie. Since she had been taking pictures of games many times before, in the same manner, she ignored the referee and continued to flash away. As she continued continued to follow the action, she didn't know what was going on until the man seated behind her jumped up to shield her from the opposing goalie, who had skated over and was slashing at her with his goal stick. Sport-talk will keep that little trick in mind the next time the Eagles go into overtime in a play-off game. 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To fill these positions, requires requires a special breed. Not everybody can fit the mold. The same can be said about the career Geoff Groves has chosen for him- ' self.' 1 ' r* 1 It takes a special breed to sit behind the wheel of a car travelling at top speeds of 150 m.p.n., flying around an oval track with other cars right on your bumper. In fact, it takes a special breed to sit behind the wheel of a stock car, and turn left for an entire race. Geoff Groves fits that description. description. "I love racing when the cars are bumper to bumper and wheel to wheel. That's when stock car racing is the most exciting for me," explained explained the former Hampton resident. "The biggest high is when you win a race. The adrenalin adrenalin pumping through your body when you win is an incredible incredible feeling." And does it take a special person to sit behind the wheel of a stock car? "I think so," said the 22- year-old. 'You know if you have what it takes or not right away. The hardest thing to do is'charge down a straightaway at 150 miles per hour and steer into a corner." This season will mark Geoffs rookie season on the NASCAR Winston Racing Series. Racing in the Northeast Northeast Region segment of the series, Geoff will be racing on tracks in and around the Buffalo area including Holland Holland International, Spencer International, and Lancaster Lancaster International Speedways. Speedways. vided up by regions, and race at 20 various tracks throughout Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Regardless- of what region he races in, the driver with the most points at the end of the season is declared the Winston Racing Series National Champion. Points are awarded based on the drivers' race results. The higher the finish, the more points they earn. For Géoff, his first race in the series will be on April 22, with the season winding up in mid-September. Racing Racing two or three nights a week in front of 7,000 fans for a prize value of $700- $800 a race, is a long way from where he wants to be. "It's a dream to run with those guys," he said refer- was forced to sit on the sidelines. sidelines. But, like a kid who has fallen off a bicycle, Geoff climbed back into the cockpit cockpit as soon as his foot healed. "My first couple of laps after the injury, I was a little little nervous," he admitted. "The thought was in the back of my head when I went down the straightaway on whether or not the throttle throttle would cqme off." . [ . With'iW'ïnjuries behind him, Geofr is set to embark on the racing season equipped with his 1990 Chevy Chevy Lumina, worth approximately approximately $35,000. The car was on display at Roy Nichols Motors for three days last week. His back-up car, an Iroc Z, is worth in excess of $20,000. Jimmy Bond, who Geoff describes as a living legend in the northeast region, has promised to be Geoff's crew chief. The car that Geoff will be driving won several races last year, and his crew is the same one that worked on the car during last years season'. . ,. ", ; V l<1 . Racing* go-carts since tjje age of 13, Geoff hopes'to ré- main in the sport for many years to come. "Racing is all I've, ever known. It's all I can remember." remember." Lange is Looking Strong line to'the Darrell Waltrip's, III BRHf J PlHVOff ActiOIl DaWmLmmJ tL AM J fpAYWtl ^ Dale Earnhardt's and Terry Lanbonte's of the NASCAR major circuit. "All I want to do is make a decent living at it. That's all." Top drivers on last year's major circuit earned in excess excess of $1 million.' But, says Geoff, seven digit salaries are hard to come by in his profession. "There is a huge cost factor factor involved in racing. A lot of the luck in the sport comes from being in the right place at the right time." And, to reverse that statement, being in the wrong place at the wrong time can cause serious injury. injury. An aspect of the sport that prevented Geoff from getting behind the wheel last year. Racing in Peterborough in May of'88, the throttle on Geoff's car stuck wide open os he entered a corner, sending sending his car crashing off the wall. The end result was a broken wrist, slight concussion, concussion, and four broken bones in his foot. The foot wasn't strong enough last year to apply the brake, so Geoff During the past week, April 3rd and 4th, the Lange Photo Peewees had back to back games in Newcastle to slowly wind down the BRHL playoffs. In this game, the boys carrfe out on the large side of a 5-3 score against Dyk- stra's. We broke quickly to run up a 2-0 count on goals by Jason Colder from Nathan Nathan Siebenga and James Taylor then, Nathan from James. But at this point, Dykstra's scored when we failed to clear our zone. This closed out the first period 2-. During the second the opposition opposition Knotted the score at two apiece and then moved in front by one before Nathan Nathan got that back from Jason Jason Colder and Chris Bradley. Bradley. Nathan completed his hat-trick plus another to boot, with Adam Kooy kicking kicking in for both assists. With the third period scoreless, the final read 5-3 in n good come from behind victory which could have had n different outcome if not for the superlative work of Clayton Rondell and some timely hits and clearing of the defense. Next night we locked horns with Big "E" Roofers and eked out a close 3-1 win. In this match it was typical playoff hockey with the first E eriod remaining scoreless ut in the. second Nathan Siebenga continued his hot hand of late to break the ice at 12:01 from Adam Kooy and James Taylor. Into the third Lange upped the count to 2-0 with Mike Zdravkovski lighting up the scoreboard from Kevin Kevin Grootendorst. The Big "E" hit for their only marker with just over ten minutes to go to inch to within a goal of our local heroes. Mike De- blois' goal, from Adam Kooy at the 1:41 mark, seemed to have iced the game but we drew a penalty with 53 seconds seconds to go and Big "E" also pulled tneir goalie to make things more than interesting but, ns he has done so many times all year, Clayton Ren- dell stoned the enemy the rest of the way to end the game 3-1 winners. Excellent plnyoffhockoy boys! List of Injuries Plague Brooking Transport Oldtimers The Brooking Transport Oldlitnors loaded them- solves onto a bus on Thursday. April C, on their way to a tournament in Lake Placid, Now York. Tho loam Dave Lawson (right), president of the Bowmanville Creek Anglers' Association 1 ,, helps Mayor Marie Hubbard present Kyu Choi, of Toronto, with his first place cheque for winning the first-ever live release steelhead tournament. The tournament tournament attracted 158 anglers to the Bowmanville Creek on Sunday, April 8. The big really pleased way the touma- by Brad Kelly A total of 158 anglers braved cool temperatures on Sunday to compete in Bow- manville's first-ever live release release steelhead tournament. Hosted by the Bowmanville Bowmanville Creek Anglers' Association, Association, this fishing derby was the first of its kind in Ontario. Ontario. Although cool water temperatures temperatures reduced the number number of fish caught, BCAÀ President Dave Lawson was happy with the results. "We'r with ire the way ment went this year," explained explained the weary president following the competition. "Next year we hope to go even bigger and better." Noticeably exhausted, Mr. Lawson said that he was only able to get about two and a half hours' sleep the night before the big event. Toros Compete in T.O. This past weekend the Novice Toros travelled to Scarborough to compete in the Toronto Devils MTHL Invitational. Once again the hometown hometown boys completely dominated dominated the tournament as they scored 19 goals and allowed allowed only three against in three games. In the first game, the Toros Toros met Goulding Park "AA" and came away with a 5-0 victory. Chris Pot came up with the hat-trick, and Jason Jason Lange netted two. Assists Assists on the goals went to, Brett Pakosta, Jeff Shmyr and Mike Maynard. The second game proved to be the most challenging as Bowmanville met the Agincourt Canadians. The Toros jumped into a 3-0 lead early, as John Armishaw got things going, with Erik Griffin Griffin ana Mike McCrory assisting. assisting. Colin MacDonald and Jason Lange popped in one each before the period ended. Assists on the goals went to Chris McKenzie and Steve Ewles and Brett Pakosta. Pakosta. In the second period, both teams exchanged goals with Chris Pot getting one unassisted. unassisted. By the time the buzzer buzzer went, Agincourt scored 2 more goals to come within 1, but the Toros hung on for a 4-3 victory. In the final game, Bowmanville Bowmanville met Malvern "AA" who they handily defeated 10-0. Goal scorers in this game were John Armishaw (1) , Chris McKenzie (2), Colin Colin MacDonald (2), Craig Sabine Sabine (1), Chris Pot (3), Jason Lange (1). Assisting on the goals, Mike Maynard (1), Colin MacDonald (2), Andrew Andrew Wraith (3), Chris McKenzie (1), Erik Griffin (2) , Steve Elwes (3), Craig Sabine (2),Jeff Shmyr (2). Although the Toros held the opposition at bay throughout the tournament, goalies Greg Koenderman and. Nick Adams rose to the occasion when tested, as both boys have been superb. Tournament captain Mike Maynard, with assistants, assistants, Mike McCroiy and Andrew Andrew Wraith accepted the trophy, which they will give to team sponsor Dennis Pizza. Pizza. With one more game next • weekènd at Maple Leaf Gardens, Gardens, the Novice Toros will end their season at 75 games. They hold an incredible incredible record of 5r wins, 6 ties, 13 losses. They competed in 8 tournaments, and came away with 6 "AA" Championship Championship trophies. Scored a total total of 461 goals and allowed only 172 goals for an excellent excellent 2.3 goals against average. average. We would like to wish the boys good luck next weekend at the gardens. Any one interested interested in supporting the team can get tickets at the door on April 13/90. Game time is approx. 4:00 p.m. winner in this year's tournament was Kyu Choi who netted six fish on the day, measuring a grand total of 327 centimetres. Top prize was worth $828 for thé Toronto native. i| In the biggest fish corij- test, Ray McKinnon won first prize with a rainbovy that measured 75 centime;- très in length. The Pickering resident captured the top prize of $335. ; The competition got unt der way at 5:30 a.m. on Sun-- day, and closed at 4:30 p.m]. Measuring officials were staj- tioned at various points throughout the creek and, as the fish were caught, offir cials measured them, then released them so they could continue upstream to spawn. . ? With the first tournament tournament of this nature behind him, Dave already has the wheels spinning for next year's event. ;; jj "Next year we're thinking about extending the tournament tournament to a two-day event," he revealed. "We would like to use a larger section of the river, have a larger prize structure, and increase the sponsorship." In past years, the BCAÂ has run a spring derby, with half of the proceeds used for improvements to the creek- and the other half donated to the Memorial Hospital Bowmanville fund. • One of the many interested interested onlookers during the day was fishing expert Bob Izu- mi, who had nothing but praise for the volunteers of the BCAA. "Bob thought the tournament tournament was a good concept," said Mr. Lawson. "He felt that the work the association has done on the river shows that the anglers in the area care about the fishery sport. He was quite impressed." While in Bowmanville, Bob did some videotaping for his show. Segments of the tournament will be aired later on in the season. Another Big Year for Penalty-Free Hockey The Esso Penalty Free Sweepstakes scored big for the third consecutive season. season. This year's grand prize winners were the O.W.T. Novice Lawyers' team from Belleville. Each member of the team received a Nintendo Nintendo Action Set. 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