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8 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanvillc, Wednesday, February 26,1992 Local Ladies Display Hockey Talents by Brad Kelly In the narrow hallways of Hannan Park Arena in Oshawa, preparations for another another evening of hockey arc under way much the same as any night through the week. Players with bags slung over their shoulders and sticks in tow make their way down to their respective dressing rooms. A coach of one of the teams is busily lining slicks up in a straight line against a wall outside of the dressing room for the players to pick up on their way to the ice. One player, sitting in the corner closest die door, runs a stone across a pair of skates to smooth out any rough edges. edges. Yes sir -- or make dial ma'am. It's just another typical typical night of hockey for the Oshawa Senior 'C' ladies' team in the Nordi Metro hockey league. "Whitby folded and there was no senior ladies' team in the Durham Region," explained explained Cadiy Lehman, who has played with the Oshawa team for five seasons. "We advertised for one year for anyone who could skate to come out and play and we started from there." Lehman, along with Lynda Lynda Merrick, Debby Gillis and Wendy Couch make up the local connection on die team. Merrick is from Bowmanvillc, Bowmanvillc, while the other three reside reside in Newcastle. Add to that list one of the coaches, Nan Spencer, and a distinct local flavour is apparent. ".We've been growing steadily for die past five years," said Lehman of the team's popularity. This year, 24 hopefuls tried out for the team. "The only trouble we have is trying to gel ice lime." It's a problem that most teams in the Oshawa area are experiencing. But, despite the lack of available ice time, the Oshawa team has enjoyed a tremendous amount of success success in the past dirce years. Each year, they have qualified qualified for the provincial championships, championships, with their best showing dirce seasons ago when diey reached die finals. This year, they arc hoping to make another appearance , at the provincial finals in Brantford from April 11-13. Only Peterborough and Baltimore Baltimore stand in their way. In addition to die Ontario Women's Hockey Association Association (OWHA) playdowns, they arc hoping to make some noise during postseason postseason play in their own league. After 10 league games, they sat in sixth place in the nine-team league with four wins and a tie. Overall, they sport a respectable record of 9-5-2. There are three different tiers (I, II, III) that comprise the North Metro League. After After initially competing in Tier II, Oshawa moved up last year into the top level. "Last year was our first in Tier I," said Lehman. "When we won Tier II we moved up to Tier I so we could compete at a higher calibre." Oshawa arc one of only two teams ranked as a 'O' en try in Tier I. The remaining six are all ranked either 'A' and 'B', with the exception of- the Grizzlies, who arc an intermediate intermediate club. With interest in women's hockey continuing to grow, a group is hoping to initiate a mini-blades program for girls . aged five and up who have never played hockey before. The program, scheduled to ; begin next year, may be based in Newcastle. In die meantime, preparations preparations are under way for the 1993-94 Senior Ladies 'AA' Provincial championships which Oshawa will be hosting. hosting. VOMItimMItl ;*:» « « m>:i « ? ..9 I xii Phone Brad Kelly at 623-3303 EAGLES' PLAYOFF SCHEDULE -- Game five of the Bowmanvillc and Lilde Britain league semi-final series goes tonight (Wednesday) in Little Britain at 8:00 p.m. Game six returns to Bowmanvillc tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m., while game seven (if necessary) will be back in Little Britain on Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. The first game of the league finals will get under way Sunday night in Port Perry, regardless of who wins the Bowmanvillc and Little Britain series. THE TOWN OF NEWCASTLE . PRESENTS THE 9TH ANNUAL MARCH BREAK BONANZA During this years March Break (March 16-20) the Community Services Department has planned a number of entertaining activities. TUES., MARCH 17 WED., MARCH 18 THURS., MARCH 19 FRI., MARCH 20 GAMES AND WACKY OLYMPICS EXOTIC CAT WORLD AND THE ARTS WONDERS OF NATURE TOUR PRE-TEEN DANCE THE ARTS AND BOWLING In order to register for these activities drop in to the Community Services Department at 40 Temperance St. or for more information call us at 623-3379. Several Public skating available. PUBLIC SKATING BOWMANVILLE RECREATION COMPLEX March 15 1:00-2:30 p.m. March 17 3:30-5:00 p.m. March 18 10:00-11:30 a.m. March 20 1:00-2:30 p.m. DARLINGTON SPORTS CENTRE March 16 2:00-3:30 p.m. March 18 3:30-5:00 p.m. March 20 7:00-8:30 p.m. and swimming dates are PUBLIC SWIMS NEWCASTLE FITNESS CENTRE March 15 3:30-5:00 p.m. March 16 1:30-3:30 p.m. March 18 1:00-3:00 p.m. March 18 6:30-8:00 p.m. March 19 1:30-3:00 p.m. March 20 1:30-3:00 p.m. March 20 7:00-9:00 p.m. March 21 1:30-3:00 p.m. * Correction • Tho number noted In our March Break school llyor (or tho library Is Incorrect. Tho number should road 623-7322. Wo ore sorry (or any Inconvenience this may have caused. Eagles' Series Deadlocked at Two WOLVES COME TO TOWN -- The Ganaraska Wolves' juvenile boys' team will be hosting the Ken Davies Memorial Open Volleyball Tournament this Saturday at Bowmanvillc High School. Davies was an outstanding athlete at Clarke High School who was killed in a car accident in November of '89. A total of 15 teams will be participating, including two from Quebec, two from New York and one from Chicago. Other teams will come from as far away as Ottawa, London and Hamilton. The finals are scheduled to get under way at 8:45 p.m. You can't beat the price of admission.Jt's free! TOROS ON A TEAR -- The major bantams came up with a pair of wins in Vaughan over the weekend and now lead their best-of-seven series three games to two. Their next game is Saturday at 8:00 p.m. at Darlington. The minor bantams lead Cedar Hill 2-0 in their best-of-five series and will wrap that one up tonight at Darlington. The pccwcc 'CC' club is up 2-0 in their best-of-five with Grimsby. They play the third game tonight in Grimsby. And the major atoms had a tough lime in Brampton over the weekend, dropping a pair of games (9-8, 4-3). They arc down five points to one in their six-point series. HE SHOOTS, HE SCORES -- Tom Spencer went home from Sunday's Jr. C game a happy man after lie won a 20" colour television for winning the Scoro contest between the second and third period. His shot from centre ice made it through the hole in die Scoro Board that isn't much bigger than the puck. The Eagles could have used an accurate shot like that in the dying moments of Sunday's game. Sign him up. WE'VE HEARD -- There arc going to be some changes in the Jr. C league next season. It looks as though Slouffville will make a return to the league in time to begin play next year. And, whispers out of Cobourg are that the Cougars will move up to the Jr, B ranks next season. Seems Port Hope was in the midst of securing a team, and when Cobourg found this out, they felt they could operate a successful franchise so they have done some lobbying to the OHA for a team. KARATE DEMO -- There will be a karate demonstration at the Bowmanvillc Recreation Complex on Thursday night beginning at 6:45 p.m. Breaking techniques will be shown, and a registration table will be set up for those who would be interested in becoming a member of the club. TRIVIA -- The last time the Canadian Olympic hockey team won a silver medal was in I960. Who won the gold medal that year? ANSWER -- The United States. They beat Canada 2-1. by Brad Kelly The Bowmanvillc Eagles desperately needed Tom Henke, or any of the other Toronto Blue Jay relievers, in their game Sunday night against the Little Britain Merchants. Merchants. They needed a save. Nobody Nobody on the Eagles' staff, be it their starter or reliever, could make one. Entering the third period with a 6-4 lead, the Eagles surrendered five goals to the Merchants in the final 15 minutes to lose 9-8. The loss was a disheartening disheartening one. The Eagles had wrestled home ice away from the Merchants on Saturday night in Little Britain with a 4-3 win. The best-of-seven league semi-final is now tied at two games apiece, with game five tonight (Wednesday) in Little Britain.- Gaine six of the series will be in Bowmanvillc tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. Game seven, seven, which is shaping up to be a necessity, will be in Little of goals for the Merchants on Britain on Saturday night at shots that travelled slower 7:30 p.m. than die Jamaican bobsled It was the third time in team did at the 1988 Olym- four games of the series that. pics in Calgary, the outcome has been decided Mercifully, Campbell was by one goal. The other mar- pulled after the two dribblers gin of victory was a two-goal spread won by Little Britain in overtime of game one. It was a poorly played defensive defensive game on die part of both teams Sunday night. And, although much blame lies with the forwards and defence, defence, an equal amount of blame was shared by the goal lenders. Eagles' Drew Campbell was shaky at best throughout the game. He especially faltered faltered in the fateful third period. period. Widt a 6-4 advantage heading into die third, and the game under control, the Eagles Eagles appeared to be one win away from their diird consecutive consecutive visit to die league finals. finals. A two-goal cushion wasn't enough. Steve Black scored a pair by Black tied the game. Chris Massey replaced him, but he fared no better. In his defence, it should be noted noted that this was the first time the over-ager had been in a game situation since suffering suffering a neck injury in January. He wasn't expected to be sharp. And only 54 seconds after entering the game, he faced his first shot. It wasn't an easy one. Steve Roberts stripped Rob Riddell of the puck at the Little Britain blueline and broke in all alone. His goal gave the Merchants their first lead since the early stages of the first period. The score was 7-6. After Armstrong tied the game on a beautiful end-to- end rush, Blaine Harris and Greg Cornell put the Merchants Merchants up by two. Rob Real's goal - his first of the playoffs - with 1:15 remaining and Massey on the bench, brought the Eagles back to within one at 9-8. The Eagles managed to get Massey to the bench again with just under 30 seconds seconds remaining. The closest they came was on a Tony VanHoof slapshot from the point that hit the side of the net. Jason Mosier had a pair of goals for the Eagles while Todd Cannings, Steve De- Smedt, Brad Robinson, Dean Baumhauer, Armstrong and Real had singles. Little Britain built a 3-2 lead after the opening 20 minutes, and managed to stretch it to 4-2 on a power play goal in the second. They began to falter, and four successive minor penalties penalties enabled the Eagles to score a pair of power play goals to tie the game. Mosier scored his first of the night on a two-on-one with Ryan Searway for a 54 lead. Mosier opened the third when his slapshot 20 seconds into the period beat Petronski through the legs. THE SCOOP -- The Eagles Eagles are hoping to have Jeff Flintoff back in the lineup for the rest of the scries. He has been out with a dislocated shoulder...Gary Adams was a scratch from Sunday's lineup with a hip injury...Drew Al- lenby, Shane Armstrong, Greg Goode and Brad Robinson Robinson had the Eagles' goals in Saturday's win. Robinson's goal came with 23 seconds left in the game.Jn the last three games, Little Britain scored 12 goals in the third period. In the first and second periods of those same games, they scored a total of five. Four players from the Town of Newcastle are making a hefty contribution to the Oshawa Senior 'C' women's hockey team that is entered in the North Metro League. They include, clockwise from top left, Debby Gillis, Wendy Couch, Cathy Cathy Lehman and Lynda Merrick. Destinations to Go Wins by Nicky Watt The Bowmanvillc minor bantam Destinations To Go Toros have made it to the quarter quarter final playoff round. They played the first round against Vaughan in what was supposed to be the best-of-five series which .ended up going six full games. The hometown boys dropped the first game on February 5 to Vaughan by a score of 5-3. Bowmanvillc then travelled to Vaughan and cleaned their clocks at their own rink by a score of 5-1. The series came back to Bowmanvillc for game three on Saturday, February 15. Vaughan Vaughan opened the scoring with 1:58 left to play in the first period. period. Bowmanvillc didn't challenge challenge them until early in the third when Dave Walt helped Allan Lacey tie the game at one. As the final seconds ticked down, the game headed into a 10 minute overtime period. period. The full ten minutes had to be played. It was not sudden death. Midway through the overtime period, Jason Jack- man and Dave Watt assisted on the tie-breaking goal scored by Luke Akey. The final score was 2-1. It was now Bowmanville's chance to take the series, needing needing this win to do it. The boys travelled to Vaughan once again. Mike dcBlois and Greg Knox scored a goal each in the second period, giving Bowmanvillc Bowmanvillc a strong 2-0 lead. Brad Ormiston, Jamie Shcllcr • and Steve Hamilton assisted. Then, in the third period, Vaughan Vaughan came back and dealt the Toros a smashing blow. They scored two goals in three minutes minutes to tie the game. Once again the game headed into overtime but neither team was able to score. The final was 2- .2, The series came back to Bowmanvillc and it looked like they had victory within their reach. All the Toros needed to do was get a win or even a lie. A loss would not finish them. But, playing in front of the home crowd made a loss seem impossible. However, Vaughan proved otherwise. They scored first, then Peter Schocp from Steve Bonneau and Greg MeMurter for Bowmanvillc, then Vaughan scored three more in a row. This put the scoreboard at 4-1 with the lead going to Vaughan. Bowmanvillc Bowmanvillc then broke out in the second second period, tying the game with two goals by Allan Lacey and a single from the point by Andrew Ferguson. Assisting on Allan Lacey's goal were Greg MeMurter, Greg Knox, Jason Jackman and Luke Akey. Vaughan scored at 8:52 in the third period, setting the score at 54. With a few seconds seconds remaining in the game, the Bowmanvillc goaltender headed for the bench. Vaughan then tossed two empty net goals in to make the final score 74. Now Bowmanvillc had to face the facts. This was it. Their last chance to win and finish Vaughan off. As usual, they played beautifully under the pressure. Bowmanvillc . scored . the first titrée goals. Luke Akey from Dave Watt and Allan Lacey Lacey look the first goal; Greg Knox from Allan Lacey and Jason Jeffreys took the second; Mike deBlois from Jason Jack- man and Andrew Ferguson took the third. Vaughan then interjected one in the second period, but Bowmanvillc once again took over the scoreboard. Allan Lacey scored once more and Peter Schocp scored two more goals for the Toros. Assists Assists went to Dave Watt, Jason Jackman (2), Jason Jeffreys and Jamie Shcllcr. The final score was 6-1 as the Bowmanvillc boys left victorious. victorious. In the first game of the quarter-finals against Cedar Hill on Saturday at Darlington Arena, the Destinations To Go team won 8-1. Game two was played in Scarborough on Sunday, Sunday, with Bowmanvillc winning winning 13-1. The third game will be played on Wednesday at Darlington Darlington at 8:00 p.m. you day. 4.... abiA *...4-551.1. ÏTTw learn in these courses may save someone you love one Shane Armstrong celebrates what he thought was a goal in the second perioi But, in fact, Little Britain goaltender Kevin Petronski was able to stop the puc just before it crossed the line. As it turned out, the Eagles could have used th -- A goal as they lost 9-8. The series is now tied at two games apiece in the best-o 1 Cltil- seven league semi-final. ;cbru- tunity :c scr- fhtives kchool pccial ii Test Days for Skater: Many of our senior skaters arc preparing for test dates in March. Results of the tests will dictate which category the individual individual skater may compete in for future competitions. While Kaillin and Adam Colville have been preparing to represent represent Qforio at the Eastern Ontario Ontario Interclub Competition at Lindsay, many of our younger skaters have been busy passing badges. Congratulations to the following skaters: Passing Beginner - Jennifer Lamont, Tell Stachcruk, Joanna Joanna Moore, Andrea Lamont, Laura Bcacock, Ian Crashley, Garett Wood, Yvonne Marchand, Marchand, Justin Caruana. Passing Elementary - Ashley Ashley Scholficld, Kathryn Cartwright, Cartwright, Lauren Crashley, Tina Cumby, Jennifer Henderson, Leanne Topper, John-David Tinkler, Michelle Henderson, Passing Basic - Meghan Sawyer, Katie Tinkler, Rebec ca Dclonnc, Christopher Msday, fat, Brittany Robinson, Asiic Li- Simiana. Passing Novice I - Me; Moore, Parissc Marrclt. Passing Novice II - Dr ct * n 8 Cumby. socia- Passing Novice IV - Cifitlcd Baxter. n an d These young skaters wii jnc j s be participating in the Oi,.. Figure Skating Club Carr tUI0 , n ' on April 11th. pt the GOOD NEIGHBOURS AWARD - The Town of Newcastle's Newcastle's Good Neighbours Program is looking for a "Good Neighbour Neighbour of the Year." And they're calling on the public to help them find that special person. The winner of the award will be someone who makes this community a special place to live, through their selfless concern and care for others. Individuals who have demonstrated exceptional qualities of caring and responding responding to the needs of their neighbours are in the running for this honor. Flyers outlining the nomination and selection process arc available from the Office For Seniors' Issues, the Royal Bank and Shoppers Drug Mart as well as the Bowmanvillc Bowmanvillc Library. The deadline for submissions is March 6 and all nominations should be dropped off at the Community Care office office at 80 King St. W. in Bowmanvillc on or before that date. The award-winner from this community will be selected by March 31 and will be in the running for the provincial Good Neighbour of the Year Award. For further details, call Roxy Barnes at the Community Care office (623-2261.) TOUR PARKWOOD -- The doors to the historic Parkwood residence in Oshawa will now be open year-round. For many years, the former residence of Col. Sam McLaughlin was closed from January to April. But, by popular request, a year- round schedule has been arranged. Tours are offered Tuesday to Friday and again Sunday 1:30 to 4 p.m. New this year is the addition of Thursday evening tours. To properly herald the extended extended lour program, there will be special rates during February February and March. During Heritage Week (February 18-23), two adults will be admitted for one adult price. Groups arc welcome welcome by appointment. For further details, call General Manager Manager Brian Malcolm at 579-1311. DIABETES ASSOCIATION NEWS - The Durham Diabetes Diabetes Association and the Charles IT. Best Diabetes Centre will hold a general meeting on Wednesday,. February 26, at 7:30 p.m. in St. Gregory's Auditorium, Oshawa. The guest speaker will discuss the topic "Taking Charge" of your diabetes. diabetes. 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