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Editor: Norm Nelson Phone: 905-845-3824 (ext. 255) Fax: 905-337-5567 e-mail: nnelson@haltonsearch.com SPORTS Lane Moodie is back with the Blades, three more goals for Tarantino in Buffalo By Sarah Elliott SPECIA L T O T H E BEAVER The Oakville Blades continued to make some much needed changes to their team as they entered into last weekend's action. Most recently, was the addition of former Blade, 17-year-old Lane Moodie, who suited up for Oakville for the first time this season on Friday night, as they hosted the Hamilton Kiltys. Moodie, who had a great opening weekend with the Blades with a goal each night, spent a season with the team two years ago, and was one of the top rookies in the league. After just one season in the league, Moodie was drafted 14th overall by the Ontario Hockey League's Ottawa 67s, where he played last season, before being traded to the Owen Sound Attack this summer. Starting the season with the Attack, Moodie decided to return to Oakville to rejoin the Blades, bringing with him a lot of depth, which he showed during this weekend's match ups. "It was nice to see Lane contribute right off the bat," commented Jay Anderson, who originally had a hand in recruiting Moodie to the team two years ago. "He is going to add so much to this team. Lane is a quiet leader, but will contribute offensively as well as being a physical presence on the ice." This weekend was an interesting story for the Blades who lost six play ers as well as Coach Anderson to sus pensions after Friday night's physical affair with the long time rival Kilty B's. Although Hamilton walked away from Friday's game with the upper hand, getting a 5-4 win, it was a very strong showing for the Blades, who fought right to the end. The main highlight of the game was the five-on-five brawl that occurred during the second period, costing the Blades the services o f for wards Marc Pinizzotto, Geoff Aselstine and Dan Powers and defenders Demitri Semenov and Tyler Woodisse. With the exception of Pinizzotto, who was given a four game suspen sion, each player, as well as Anderson, was handed a two game ticket to the stands, where they would be joined by Mike Ruberto who was given a sus pension of his own later on in the period. To make matters worse, Will Barlow and Steve Pinizzotto were out with injuries, and Kevin Harvey was ejected from the game before the first (See 'Blades' page D3) Barrie Erskine · Oakville Beaver It's close quarters for these unidentified players from Milton Merchants and Oakville Blades (dark jersey) in provin cial junior A hockey action from Saturday night. Oakville won 4-1. PROVINCIAL JUNIOR A WEST CONFERENCE STANDINGS T OTL GF GA Pts GAA PMA GP W L HAMILTON 21 1 37 18 2 0 125 73 3.48 28.09 GEORGETOWN 19 12 3 2 2 115 72 28 3.79 26.70 MILTON 18 13 4 1 0 93 52 27 2.89 19.56 BURLINGTON 19 12 5 2 0 4.21 24.11 103 80 26 OAKVILLE 22 12 9 94 1 0 97 25 4.41 37.19 MISSISSAUGA 1 1 24 3.47 25.82 19 11 6 78 66 STREETSVILLE 20 5 12 0 77 5.65 3 113 13 24.55 64 BUFFALO 20 4 12 1 3 85 12 4.25 17.42 BRAMPTON 19 5 13 1 0 88 125 11 6.58 21.80 BRAMALEA 19 5 14 0 31.74 0 58 113 10 5.95 * does not include Tuesday night gam es: Bram alea a t Streetsville; M ilton at Georgetown. PROVINCIAL JUNIOR A WEST CONFERENCE - TOP FIVE Player GP G A P PIM TEAM JOSH SOARES 20 25 26 51 58 HAMILTON SCOTT MacDONALD 20 14 25 39 2 STREETSVILLE ROB TARANTINO 21 24 14 38 16 OAKVILLE RICH MELOCHE 18 20 17 37 22 MILTON JON JANKUS 18 13 24 37 40 HAMILTON * does not include games after Saturday # 11 27 32 5 14 26 19 17 10 12 22 16 2 18 21 25 9 4 15 24 23 7 30 31 35 44 OAKVILLE Player GP G ROB TARANTINO 21 24 MIKE RUBERTO 16 12 NICK DODGE 21 11 MATT RUBERTO 19 2 STEVE PINIZZOTTO 18 8 MARC PINIZZOTTO 16 4 KEVIN HARVEY 16 6 GEOFF ASELSTINE 20 6 MARK MENCHELLA 19 2 WILL BARLOW 11 3 NICK DAVIS 19 2 PAUL METCALFE 16 1 SCOTT RUSSELL 13 0 PAUL DAWSON 20 1 TYLER WOODISSE 13 0 DAN POWERS 17 3 ZACH DILUCA 15 2 BRAD MCKENZIE 18 1 DARYL SIMICH 16 0 CHARLIE GIFFIN 10 0 LANE MOODIE 2 2 DEMITRI SEMENOV 14 0 MIKE STANDEN 15 0 DAN GIFFIN 11 0 ANTHONY SANTAGUIDA 6 0 CHRIS HYK 3 0 BEN SNELL 6 0 MIKE GIOVINAZZO 1 0 ANDRE GAUTHIER 2 0 MATT PIKE 2 0 JACOB DUDEK 1 0 DEVIN FRANK 1 0 BLADES 2002/03 A P PIM POS 14 38 16 FWD 17 29 22 FWD 14 25 16 FWD 18 20 68 DEF 11 19 67 FWD 15 19 80 FWD 12 18 115 FWD 4 10 35 FWD 8 10 26 DEF 4 7 17 4 6 13 FWD 4 DEF 5 38 5 5 64 DEF 3 4 62 DEF 4 4 17 FWD 0 9 FWD 3 1 3 FWD 5 2 3 10 FWD 3 3 30 DEF 3 3 20 FWD 0 2 2 2 2 DEF 38 4 1 1 DEF 0 0 0 GOAL 0 0 0 GOAL 0 0 0 GOAL 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 GOAL 0 0 0 GOAL 0 0 2 G.A 44 26 17 1 Skins game is coming back to the Oakville Curling Club For the second year in a row, the Oakville Curling Club has been chosen to host the 2002 M&M Meat Shops Skins, December 27-29. The top eight teams in Canada will compete for $100,000, an increase of $25,000 over last year. Representing the West are the current M&M Meat Shops Skins champions, skipped by Kevin Martin, and teams skipped by Randy Ferbey and Kerry Burtnyk. From the East will be teams skipped by John Morris, Wayne Middaugh, and Glen Howard who was the leading money winner on the World Curling Tour last year. The remaining two positions will be filled from the leading money winners from the East and West as of December 1. This `made for TV' event attracted about 800 curling fans to the Oakville club who were treated to spectacular curling from all eight teams. This year, once again, the two semifinals and the final game will be televised on Rogers Sportsnet. For those interested in seeing the games live, orders for tick ets can be made by telephoning (905) 844-6982. Ht 5-10 6-0 5-10 6-0 5-11 5-11 6-2 6-0 6-0 6-0 5-11 6-0 6-5 6-0 5-11 5-11 6-3 6-3 6-1 6-2 6-2 6-1 6-2 wt 180 190 175 190 175 175 175 190 175 170 190 182 210 195 180 185 220 175 175 210 190 175 195 YOB 1983 1983 1986 1983 1984 1982 1984 1984 1983 1986 1984 1985 1985 1985 1985 1985 1986 1986 1986 1986 1983 1984 1984 Bruins bashed at their own tournament The Sheridan Bruins gave St. Lawrence (Kingston) a good old fashion thumping in the preliminary round of the Bruins Bash pre season tournament, winning 95-61. And in the championship game, the Bruins appeared to be on their way to an encore runaway, with a 41-29 lead at the half. But after being bloodied for a game and a half, the visitors from Kingston managed to pick themselves off the mat and completely turn things around against their now overconfident and lethargic hosts, to earn a surprise 86-78 tournament championship victory. St. Lawrence went on a 14-2 run to start the second half to tie the game at 43-43. A shocked Sheridan rallied for their own 8-2 run to regain a 51-45 lead with 12 minutes remaining. From there on, however, it was all St. Lawrence who came back with solid outside shooting to put away Sheridan, the defending provincial champions, and grab the win. "They were well prepared," said Bruins head coach Jim Flack. "They took us out of a few things we like to do. "But also we didn't hit anything from the field or the free throw line and you won't win anything doing that." Jordan Morrison, a tournament all star and the only Bruin to show up to play in the final, scored 25 points. David Martin scored 13 and Vance King, another tournament all star, added 11 . Nathan Tucker was red hot from the outside for St. Lawrence. He drained three second half treys to finish with 23 points and was named tournament MVP. In Sheridan's other preliminary round games, they beat Loyalist 82-53 (Jordan Morrison 20, Vance King 13) and Sir Sanford Fleming 114-22 (Terrill Bynoe 18, Ian Robinson 17 and Bashir Musse 15). The Bruins' preseason record sits at 7-4 which includes a fourth place finish at the always competitive Dawson tour nament in Montreal. The Bruins beat Dawson 91-62 (Vance King 19) and Champlain 91-78 (Kevin Dennis 21) but lost to Vanier 83-69 (King 23) and Montmorency 76-73 (Kevin Dennis 18). The Bruins then blew a 15-point halftime lead and lost the bronze medal game 83-81 to Humber (Dave Martin 22 ). The Bruins continue their pre-season schedule with trip to Pennsylvania this weekend to play division III Pittsburgh Bradford and Penn State Behrend. # GOAL TENDERS 30 DAN GIFFIN 31 ANTHONY SANTAGUIDA MATT PIKE JACOB DUDEK 35 CHRIS HYK · Does not include Monday night's MIN. G.P 10.517 631 326 5.4333 120 2 8 0.1333 183 3.05 game vs. Buffalo. 7' AVG. 4.1838 4.7853 8.5 7.5 2.2951 S.O. HT 0 6-1 0 0 0 0 6-2 WT 175 195 YOB 1984 1984 O A K V ILLE Friday, Nov. 8 at 7:45 p.m. - ^ - 3 ; Friday, Nov. 15 at 7:45 p.m. STAISVILL DCABVS vs '/ / / BUFFALO LIGHTNING VS OAKVILLC BLADCS at Oakville Ice Sports Centre OAKVILLC BLADCS at Oakville Ice Sports Centre