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wp" 33 -- Scugog Citizen - Tuesday, November 33, 1993 Battle of Ports ends in a draw On November 12, Port Perry hosted the Port Hope PeeWees in a return match. Late in' the first period of a fast moving game Casey vanSchagen found the mark with a slapshot form the point on a pass from Qavid Gainey, the only scoring in the period. The second period ended with the Legionaires ahead 3-1. Adam Jones netted a one-timer passed by David Gainey from behind the net. Late in the period, the Panthers scored but a minute later Seth Gray, on a pass from slapshot from the point past the Port Hope goalie to make the score 3-1 In the third period Port Hope fought back to tie the score, With just two minutes left, lan Parliament shot the puck through the crowd in front of the net and found the mark, the result of two nice passes by Casey and Wyatt Park. A win however was not to be ours as Port Hope scored once again to tie it up. The final score was 4-4. Dave Gainey and Nick Pelyk from the 'B' team filling in for injuries, both played a strong the Port Perry Curling Club won the Rent and Save/Cine-Max Ladies Open Derek Tindall, blistered a game In A Rink Somewhere | By Jim Hughoon, Sportscaster | The Sports Network -- - -- --y In a rink somewhere or, hopefully, somewhere where there's a rink. As the National Hockey League plunks franchises all over North America trying to make pucksters out of people in places like Paducah, Texas, it faces a dlemma How to cultivate growing interest ir the sppn amongst the youthiul target audience when there's nowhere for them 10 play the game? This isn't a problem in hockey crazy Canada, where most would be Zalapskis or Zubovs can walk to a skating rink form their home But in new NHL cities like Dallas, they'd have to pack a lunch for the wak In Canada, every littjé town form Goodsoil to Goose Bay has a rink but it's a differen story in Texas Be careful when you stop on Main Street in Hongy Grove and ask 'where's the rink?" Unlike basketball and baseball, when kids in Dallas get excited about hockey they cant go out and play the game. For obvious reasons, othgr than a few small curiosities in shopping malls, ice rinks havesft had a high priority in Texas. Metropolitan Dallas, populatiop 4.5 million, has one rink. imagine that. It's like the entire jon of B.C. and Alberta sharing one sheet of ice na is in the suburb of Valley Ranch on Cowboy's Park will always be reminded of its place there.) It's not only the Sydrs' practice facility but it's busy 20 hours a day accommodating a Inor hockey program, figure skating and some adult pickup games. The clientele are mainly transplanted families form regions of the continent where ice doesnt melt as quickly. Rental fee is $250 an hour and if you don't lke that, go across the street to Minneapolis. Recognizing thé need for kids 10 participate, the NHL has started a street hockey program aimed at cities like Dallas, Miami, Tampa and Anaheim. It's a great idea and really the only one, given the lack of places to buy skates or use them In those cities. But while there's little wrong with a rousing game of road hockey, I's just not the same. Hockey's great attraction is its action at high speed and that just cant be simulated in running shoes, even by Carl Lewis. In Canada there's roughly one rink for every 20,000 people and constant complaints about lack of ice time. in Dallas there's one rink for every 4.5 million and no threat of a revolt over it. That's not a reason why the NHL team won't be a tremendous success. Quite the contrary; it's already doing well. As one new season-ticket holder put it: "What's not to like? It's fast. They play hard, they knock hell outta each other and the beer's cold." All well and fine for the guy who's got $55 a game for a ticket but what's the hook for his kids? They'll love the excitement but might not be hooked if they can't experience It Until their minor hockey systems graduate a pro or two, Dallas and Its new wave expansion brethren will be NHL cities but not hockey cities. That's not bad, just a shame, because there's something lacking and they don't know what theyre missing. That would be Ice. "Jim Hughson is sponsored by YAMAHA YAMAHA The Posver To Satisfy. (416) 986-4437 Bonaplel Jast week. It was the first Competitive curling at the Port Parry Club this season. Al left pragenting the trophy are Annemarie and Elgin Knopp 10 skip Kelly Evans and her team of Laural Griffen, Karen Parish and Carol Jackson. Thig team was tied with 31 points with Janet Zimmerman of Whitby but won on the tie breaker. Juniors get a big lift The Port Perry IGA Juniors hit the ice in an attempt to find the win column against rival Oshawa. With a 1-3 record the girls needed a win before heading off to their first tournament of the year in Nepean next weekend Linda Payne got the home team started with an excellent wrist shot after receiving a nice set up form Jenny Storms Oshawa did not take long to even the contest just two minutes later. Most of the first period was played on even terms with both teams having chances Oshawa netted the next goal nearing the end of the period Port replied rapidly with Heather Tredway neatly setting up Shona Moase only 18 seconds later. The period ended with the score knotted at two : In a game that was becoming increasingly contentious, it was | don't know what She has it all." Some Restrictions do apply. A, "He's so hard to buy for at Christmas; "She's the worst at Christmas; 'Give that Special Person on your Christmas List who is hard to buy for, * something they would never expect - a - HoT AIR BaLLoON RIDE from FLIGHT MASTER. Gift Certificates are available; Valid for one year. cHRISTMAS sPeciaL : $125. per person, regular $185. Flight Master Ltd. OSHAWA (905) 436-6999 TORONTO (416) 759-3913 Member of the Oshawa Chamber of Commerce the ICA squad that kept their wits about them. The result was & go shead goal by Heather midwly through the second Jenny Storms started a three way passing play that gave Port some breathing room. Jenny passed to Dana Hooker who found Linda for her second of the game and the score was 4-2 with five minutes remaining Strong play by the defensive players Melissa, Dawson, Jen Pashley, Jenny Storms and new for this game, Cara VanderSlagt held Oshawa out of our end for most of the remainder of the game. When Oshawa did get an opportunity, stellar goaltending by Katie Senyk frustrated the visitors. Forwards having scoring chances but not making the score sheet were Lisa Bonser and Jill Topham who played her L- to get." - Margo - Stuart h\ best game to date A special thanks to Cara for switching to defense for this game to fill in for the injured Natasha Burgess and doing an outstanding job. The final score was a 4-2 victory for the Port Perry IGA. Novice House L. Re/Max 6-Haugens 2 Re/Max and Haugens had the early morning game slot for 6 oclock.and Re/Max came up the 'winner in this match. Por Re/Max Jeff Glanville had two unassisted goals as well as two others which were gssisted by Tory Johnson and Clayton Gilmore. Brady Gray had his first of the year assisted by Darryl Copithorn. Clayton * Gilmore also scored a goal with the assists credited to Troy Johnson and Brady Gray. Devon Ferguson for Haugens had an unassisted goal and Justin Shinn scored the second assisted Port Perry Printing and Van Camp came up with a tie this week. For the Printers, Jonathan Breen scored a goal with the assist going to Greg Hunter. The other unassisted goal was scored by Derek Bond. Van Camp's Pierce Jones scored the first goal with the assist going to Kevin Lukas. Chris McKitterick scored thé secondegoal assisted by Joseph Kozlinsky and Joey Lane. Ad & oF OPEN ALL YEAR Monday to Wednesday 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM Thursday to 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM 94 WATER ST. PORT PERRY