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6 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, February 7, 1979 Remember Whe..... loge in Overtime Howard Wood PeeWees Downed by London 1Mo In Championship Final The Howard Wood Trans- time in the game, with the port Minor Pee Wee Toros assist going to Heard. Mc- travelled to Blenheim last Laughlin scored his second of weekend to take part in their the game, assisted by line- Invitational Golden Acres Pee mates Whitmarsh and Chris Wee hockey tournament. Bow- Dreossi. manville lost 1-0 in overtime in Brian Heard scored at the the championship final to 3:40 mark of the final period, London. assisted by Whitmarsh and In the Toros' first game Dreossi. The last goal of the played on Saturday morning, contest was scored by Jeff they defeated Niagara Falls Dawson, unassisted. Niagara by the decisive score of 6-2. Falls went on to win the Niagara Falls took a 1-0 lead Consolation Championship. early in the first period, only Alan Ulrich was in goal for to have Lorne Whitmarsh tie Bowmanville and played very the score less than two well. minutes later. The assist on Bowmanville's next game the goal went to defenceman was on Sunday morning at Pierre St. Amand, Niagara 7:30. This game was an FalFs scored at the 41 second exciting contest with Wood- mark of the middle stanza to stock supplying the oppos- again go into the lead. The ition. Chris Dreossi scored the Toros' Tom McLaughlin tied only goal of the game when he the score, assisted by defence- intercepted a pass to score man Brian Heard. Brad unassisted. Chris Clifton was Cruess scored to put Bowman- in the nets for the Toros and ville into the lead for the first wasfull value for his shutout against a very strong Wood- stock team. Bowmanville ad- vanced to the Championship with London supplying the opposition. The game for the Champion- ship was just superb with both teams having some excellent scoring chances, particularly the Toros who had a decided edge in territorial play. breakaway to score the win- ning goal. The Bowmanville lads gave all they had in this Tourna- ment, playing all their games against either AA or AAA teams. The team was without the services of Scott Barclay who remained home under doctor's order and he was sorely missed on defence. Brent Neill was injured in the There was no scoring by first minute of the first either team in regulation of the tournament an time, so the outcome would be wasn't able to perfor decided in sudden-death over- maximum efficiency. time. At the 6 minute mark, team is now preparing f London's Chris Corlett inter- O.M.H.A. play offs with N cepted a pass and raced the ham supplying the oppo length of the ice on a in the fîrst round. vanawk's Midges Oust Lindsay in Tw By Don Welsh On Wednesday, Jan. 31 the Van Dyk Major Midgets began their Lakeshore League play- down with a convincing 6 - 2 win over the visiting Lindsay team. The Realtors demoralized their guests by the timing of their goals. In the initial period, Lindsay scored first only to have the Van Dyk crew storm back and score two in the short space of 45 seconds. Neither team was able to gain any further advantage in this game nd he m at The or the Mark- sition o Straight period and at the end of the first Bowmanville led by a score of 2 to 1. At 10:48 of the middle frame, Mark Williams scored his second goal for Lindsay to bring them into a 2 - 2 tie at that point. Once again the Realtors retaliated with two quick markers. The first at 8:17 and second just 9 ticks of the clock later. The Bowman- ville boys capitalized on a scramble in front of the Lindsay goal at 5:41 to move into a solid 5 to 2 lead at the end of the second period. At 9:01 of the third period, Bowmanville scored the only marker of the period to end the scoring at Bowmanville 6 Lindsay 2. In this game the Realtors appeared to be trying to develop more passing plays than they have been using in recent encounters. Their second goal was a fine example of a 3-way combina- tion play that left the Lindsay netminder right out in left field. If the Van Dyk boys can continue to improve their team play through passing they can greatly improve their chances of going far in Provincial Playoffs. On Saturday, Feb. 3 the Van Dyk Major Midgets travelled to Lindsay for the second game of their best of three playoffs. Lindsay jumped into the lead at 7:50 of the first period when goalie Brook Cole's clearing pass was skated into his net by one of the Bowmanville players. At 2:32 of the initial frame Lindsay increased their lead to two during a scramble in front of the Realtor's net. The Van Dyk crew cut the Lindsay margin to one at the 14 minute mark of the second frame on a goal passing play from behind the Lindsay net to the man in the slot. The Bowmanville players were certainly up for the game and hustled for all they were worth but could not get the equalizer in this period and were still behind 2 to 1 at the end of the second. Finally half way through the third period the Van Dyk crew capitalized on a power play to score the tying marker. It looked for the next five minutes like it would be an overtime situation. Then things seemed to break for the Realtors. Their hustle and pressure paid off and they were able to score three goals in the last three minutes of regulation time to win thé game by a score of 5 to 2 an4 oust Lindsay from further play off action by eliminating them in two games. The Bowmanville players certainly deserve credit foi, the desire they exhibited in this second game. They did not allow Lindsay to mount; any sustained attack as the Realtors hustled continuously throughout the game. Several of the players showed consid - erably more spark than they have put forth recently and it is to be hoped that they will maintain their efforts. Brook Cole was certainly the outstanding player for Van Dyk's as he made many fantastic saves between the pipes at key times to keep the Reatlors from getting too far behind in the first two periods. LET'S GET GROWINGIl with Harry Van Belle This is the right time to think in terms of seeding, what to seed and when to get started. In most Garden Centres and floral shops the different types of seeds have arrived and you can pick and choose. The first concern should, always be what do I want to grow after the seeds are germinated. It appears that most gardeners at this time of the year have a tendency to get carried away with thoughts about spring and the plants they can grow outside, with visions of work- ing in the garden and thor- oughly enjoying the outdoors. 1, for one am one of those that often becomes too eager to get spring started much earlier than our good Lord had it planned and often become discouraged by having every- thing ready, but the time is too early to plant outside and often I feel cheated and discouraged. In this case there is no one else to blame but myself. Our seasons are planned in advance by some- one who knows much better than us when spring should arrive. All of the above, still give me itchy fingers to get started and so I have come up with some seeds that can be sown now and also some of the things we can do at this time of the year to get that "Spring Feeling." The first thing that must be considered for prope- gating is the geranium plant, - remember the plants you just had to save in the fall, the one that bloomed like crazy last year, and you wanted every- body to take a cutting - well go downstairs and see what's left of them and it may surprise you that there is still some life left in the old plant. Bring it upstairs and start watering about once every three days and in about 6-10 days you will see shoots starting to appear at the base of the branches which were formed last year. These are new cuttings you can take from the so called 'Mother Plant'. When you start now with taking cuttings from the mother plant you will probably be able to take another set of cuttings from the cuttings you took from the mother plant. Now back to seeds, first on the agenda, has to be, yes, again the geranium, since it will take the longest to germinate and should be started early in the year in order to get them into flower, so that they can be used for bedding purposes in the spring season. Geranium seed is now available and should be sown since the flower will appear much later on the seedlings than a plant which has been propagated from a cutting. Other seeds that should be started now are the impatients which by the way will do very well as a house plant and will give you much joy in growing since the seeds will germinate easily and the plants when they are started are easy to maintain. Some of the slow growing annuals can be started in about two weeks from now since when you start them too early they will stretch and will produce poor long stringy plants, which will do nothing in the garden. Some of the seeds to buy now and sow in 2 weeks are the Salvia, Snap- dragon, Petunia, Coleus, Celosia, Dahlia and Verbena, these plants can be sown and kept back by pinching after the first full set of leaves appear, which will keep them bushy and will make excellent transplating material for the spring season. Until next week, happy indoor gardening. _çDrF Help your Heart Fund HeIp vour Heart Wedgwood On Valentine's Day, our hearts are trumps If you want something special for someone special, look no further. Wedgwood has it made. A heart- shaped Bon-Bon, a heart- shaped Sweet Dish, two heart-shaped Pendants - crafted with the same ex- quisite care that has made Wedgwood one of the world's best-known names in giftware. Come Valentine's Day - or any day, give one of our hearts. She'Il love it. Rickaby's will be open on Monday, Feb. l2th for your shopping convenience 27 King Street West Bowmanv ile Telephone 623-5556