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WEEKEND IIP NORTH HALTON SPORTS for All Your Sporting Goods Downtown Georgetown S HARVEYS TIRE CENTRE Moore Park Gsotgatown 8775110 Gem lib tip in the corners a warning for hockey players Keep head apt Tht warning fallows a rah of neck Injuria In pail two yean A warning for young hockey players keep your heads up ByBOBWHITTON HeraldSpecIal KITCHENER Dr Patrick sports medicine expert In the University of Waterloos kinesiology department has a warning or hockey players of all ages Keep your head up Dr Bishops warning follows rash of serious neck Injuries among leenaged hockey players during the or two There have been half a down broken necks in the last IB months more than there have been In the prevl- jf years he says Hes been directed by the Hockey Ontario Develop ment Committee to study the problem He Is chairing a committee Includes three other kinesiology professors Robert Norman Richard Wells and Donald as well as Dr Greg a engineering with expertise in the area of stresa analysis The committee members are looking for potential causes of neck Injuries and are beginning their investi gation by examining the Influence of the helmet and ace mask on the dynamics of a hockey players neck were designed to prevent bead Injuries and face masks were designed to prevent facial Injuries but neither was designed to prevent neck Injuries Dr Bishop says At the same time no testing ever been done relating to the effect of belroet on hockey player necks FORWARD POSITION Some people feel helmets and face masks tend to change a players bead ori entation causing a player to carry the head in a more forward position he says It may be Dr Bishop suggests tbat some young sters have trouble keeping their heads up because of the weight of the equipment helmets and masks begin to tire By and large most play er seem to with their heads up Possibly the answer will be to get young players to strengthen their neck muscles through speci al exercises and to be parti cularly cautious when they start to Tee they are tiring Dr However the problem of serious neck Injuries has so far been confined to players in older age groups to and for this reason Dr Some individuals and groups have been promoting the use of neck braces as a possible solution to the problem but Dr Bishop says he Isnt confident these devices would make any difference Neck braces are fine when it cornea to keeping the net from snapping back he say from suffering or whiplash But these broken necks are not being caused by Rather they are being caused by flexion or hyper- flex ion which lends to straighten out the normal curve of the neck making It very vulnerable to axial and shear loads when the head strikes the board or when it strikes another player He worries that neck brac es might actually contribute to this sort of injury because they may force the neck Into a position rendering the wearer vulnerable In their Initial studies Dr Bishop and his colleagues are looking Into the extent to which wearing hockey 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Natalie 3rd Sophia 1st Natalie 2nd Sophia DJuk 3rd Dawn Newman Grade GIRLS a back 1st Jenny Melbille Kim back 3rd Shannon Sarah Silcox Urn breast Christine M breast Sarah Christine rick BOYS Scott Jason in back 2nd Kirk SarJeantson IS at freestyle 1st Kirk Sarjenntson Scott Care ss at breast Scott Carscsllen tin Kirk Sar- GIRLS free 2nd Sharlene Berezuk 3rd Beth Young Gra GIRLS IS back 1st Beth Young Tina Newman eth Kerry M back 2nd Sylvia Plqueras tree 1st Tina New man Jennifer Lovely to free lit Jennl breast 2nd Tina Newman Monica Ram- Atom 2s salvage point Georgetown hotted Burl ington team Saturday January and had to play catch up hockey throughout the contest Burlington open ed the scoring In the first period and Mike evened up the game before the period ended Mikes goal was assisted by Dale McNIven and David Inglls Burlington again took the lead In the second Jason Knight playing an outstanding game was re warded Tor his effective puck handling by assisting on BUI utts tie getter Goalie Paul Smith then preserved the tie by making several play their A team Al though the final score was for the host team George town played one of their best games of the year Georgetown and outplayed Burlington for the first half of the game and opened the scoring with a lead pass by Stephen Lee to Cameron Herman Herman using Donnle Guest as a decoy Mated the puck past the Burlington netminder Robbie Doyle was a stand- out employing effective game P and hustle and then added two unnnsw- however tied the goals In the third GEORGETOWN GEMINIS vs GEORGETOWN OLDTIMERS Saturday Jan 30th 700 pm Gordon Arena Regular Admission Price BOOSTER CLUB at mm GEORGETOWN OPTICAL COMPUTE OPTICAL SEHVCE MARKETPLACE PLAZA iwomfvtiiiaaitrrTTDwrHiQQUAiiTr BO mmmifaii EXCHANGE TAVERN 8771111 ROYAL PIZZA 8772277 BOYS ro back 1st Pat Ty- Mark Preston U m back 1st Pat 3rd Mark Preston IS free 2nd Mark Preston tree 1st PatTyhunt 3rd Mark Preston breast 1st Pat hurst 2nd Mark Preston 3D breail 1st Pat Tyhurst 2nd Mark Preston The meet finished up with several fun relays in which all participated The next home meet is planned for March GeniimOldtimer game Once again the still young at heart stars of yesteryear with the help of Absorbine Jr knee braces and rust remover will pit their and know ledge the youth and stamina of the lineup for the January match or mismatch Includes A Arnold Jim Blair John Boyce Neil Cotton Fred Cowbrough Jack Gudgeon Hay Blake Inglls Max Korxack Terry Lane Phil Bob Moncton Ken Morrow Dave Don Norton Brian Pete Rod Preswood Doug Richardson George Kent Robinson Paul Robinson Dave Shepherd Novice 2s win NOVICE The Novices visited our Georgetown Chr ysler Tier lis this paat Sat urday and returned home with a win The visitors connected for Boats at the sixteen and fortysix second mark of the game to Jump Into a lead The boys from Georgetown settled down to skate with throughout the remainder of the game but were still Jake played the part of team leader and worked hard going both He was rewarded for bis strong effort with the borne sides only goal of lbs contest along with being named pla yer of the week Also having a standout game were Chris and Jeff This week the Tier II Novices travel to Burlington for a tough match with the loops top club CUM FOR DISCOUNT FOR CASH You are entitled to it and you dont even need to ask or It at TV Your discount for cash is clearly marked on our price tags Ryders TV written up In Home Goods Retailing because their suc cessful fight against inflation EXAMPLE 26 Colour Television with Electronic Tuning with High Resolution Filter List Price 1129 266 Discount For Cash NOW ONLY RYDERS TV MOORE PARK PLAZA 8779796 Your AntiInflation TV and Ster Store