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Over the last 4.5 years he has played sledge hockey with the KW Sidwinders and was one of a province-wide group who showed up for a demonstration tournament at the Acton arena in Septem- ber. Earlier this fall a call went out seeking new players to try out for the national sledge hockey team. Organizers felt the existing team members were getting a bit old and there was a need to prepare some new players to take their places when they were ready to retire, Bowden was told. Bowden was one of three from the KW team who went to Ottawa in October to try out for the 15 spots on the national team. He and Billy Bridges of Guelph made that team and another KW team member, from Burlington, has been chosen as an alternate. National team practices are held in Ottawa about once a month, Bowden says. Al- though Sweden and Norway are two of the world's strong- est teams, the Canadian team A NATIONAL REP: Bradley Bowden will be one of Canada's national sledge hockey team at the World Championships this year and at the 2002 Olympics. - Maggie Petrushevsky photo is favoured to bring back a medal from the World Cham- Minor Novices edge Elora The Acton Minor Novice Dylan Creasey had a pair of Tanners ended the year with a 5-3 over Erin/Hillsburgh. McCarthy. Bradley Kri and. goals and Brandyn Acton PeeWees were ousted from Christmas tourney A 5-3 loss to Oakridges nocked the Acton Minor -eewee Tanners out of the onsolation final at the Acton ep. league's annual Christ- nas tournament on Monday. sight teams with 120 players ook to the ice in the 7th an- ual event that drew approxi- nately 1,000 people to town. A flukey goal after three ninutes of overtime gave St. Marys a 1-0 win in game one. The scorer tipped over his kate lace, got the puck and slipped it into the net. Neil Armstrong split the lefence to score his second oal of the game with 1:05 on he clock to give Acton a 3-2 vin over Oro in game two. <yle Marshall and Jim Berry 1elped on Armstrong's first oal at 4:40 of the second pe- iod. Kyle McDonald made it 2-1 Acton with help from Nick Ridler and a nice pass from Brady Masters..allowed Armstrong to score the win- ner. In the consolation final, Acton was down 4-0 mid-way through the second period and managed to battle back with singles from Kyle McDonald, Karl Hjelholt and Ches Zaborowski. Assists went to Armstrong, Elliott Shrive, Nick Ridler and Berry. THE Tanner Hometown news that people read! Tyler Bandy had singles. As- sists went to Colton Burgan (2), Taylor McNabb and McCarthy. Gordie McKeon hada pair of goals, Creasey had a sin- gle as Acton downed Elora in an away game last Sunday. Billy Burgan and Colton Burgan and McCarthy had assists. Visiting Fergus edged Acton 2-1 last Saturday in a fast-paced game that could have gone either way. McKeon scored for Acton with help McCarthy. The Minor Novice squad is hosting a holiday tourna- ment today. The Atom tour- nament begins at 8 a.m. to- morrow morning. pionships at Salt Lake City in March. They will also be the Canadian Sledge Hockey team for the 2002 Olympics which is also set in Salt Lake City, Utah. The rules for sledge hockey are basically the same as for regular hockey, Bowden says. However play- ers use modified hockey sticks to propel themselves around the ice by arm strength. The short sticks have a blade on one end for puck control and double fig- ure skating picks on the other to dig into the ice for propul- sion. In place of skates the players ride on sleds equipped with double skate blades on the bottom. > G8 6. oS ee | Drug Mant 0. Monday - Friday 9 - 9 Saturday 9 - 6* Sunday Closed 853-2220 & WN WanTER 'ine SCHOOL BREAK WYothiug "Ta Da? 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