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Ontario Hydro Atoms Play Musical Positions When the players on the team sponsored by the Ontario Ontario Hydro Employees' Union came o(T the ice on Saturday, January 21st, they were all smiles for two reasons. First, they were pleased to have won their game against the team sponsored by T-Mac which turned out to be a very tight, fast, competition. Second, their coach Rick Powell had given them the opportunity to play positions of their choice. Defensemen became wingers, wingers became became centers and centers became became defensemen. Phil Gu- shalak, normally on defense, chose to go in net! When period one began, T-Mac ouickly broke out of the blocks to score the first goal. Midway into the period, period, Ryan Brannigan evened the score with a beautiful pass from Kevin Martin. In the last minute of the period, Kevin Martin got Hydro's go-ahead goal. Period two belonged to T- Mac. In spite of a strong performance performance from Phil Gusha- lak in the Hydro's net, T-Mac managed to score twice while the Hydro Union players were shut down. Going into the final period period down one goal, the Hydro- Union players demonstrated their resilience ns they quickly quickly organized an offense that resulted in two goals. The first of these goals came only one minute into the period when Jason Barr, the team's regular goalie, scored. Assists Assists were earned by "digger" "digger" Matt James and. Kevin Martin. A few minutes later, Jeff Thrasher scored his first goal of the year, which turned out to be the gamewinning gamewinning goal! Congratulations Congratulations Jeff He was assisted by Darryl Cook and Chris Jay. The score of 4-3 for Hydro Hydro stood for the remainder of the game. Spectators could clearly see that a strong team-spint has developed among the players while individual Hockey skills have improved. Much of the credit for this goes to their coach and his assistants Bill Thrasher and Lloyd Barr. However, most of the credit goes to the players themselves. All players, regardless of ability, Have consistently stepped on the ice at the beginning of each shift to play their best, practice new moves and have some fun! While all team members contributed to the day's win, special recognition goes to Jamie Powell and Jeff Crawford for their efforts on the defense lines - a position they don't usually play. Stephen Stephen Wraith's strong performance performance on left wing earned him the position of captain for the next game. Way to go Stephen! Way to go team! Jimmy's Meet Canadians On Saturday, January 21st, Jimmy's novice hockey team faced-off once more against the All-Canadians. All previous games between these two teams have been exciting and fast-paced with end-to-end hockey. This game was no exception. By the time the final buzzer buzzer sounded to signal the end of the game, Jimmy's had earned seven goals while the All-Canadians had one! Although Although the score might suggest suggest a one-sided game, it was. anything but that. The All- Canadians played a good, clean game and kept the pressure on Jimmy's. At no time did the players on Jimmy's Jimmy's team feel confident enough to let down their guard. The first period brought three goals for Jimmy's. Right-winger, Brandon Renton, Renton, who usually tends net for his team, accounted for the first goal, demonstrating his value both in and out of the net. Mark Hodgins was credited with the assist. Jeremy Jeremy Sanders scored the second second goal while Brian Ball got the third. Si Jimmy's added two more goals to the scoreboard in the second period.Brian Ball was responsible for the first one, on a breakaway. The next goal was scored by Joel Osborne. Joel played an outstanding outstanding game and was especially especially lethal in the slot. ! In the final period, Brian Ball managed to complete his hat trick and bring the .team's goal count to six. Jimmy's Jimmy's scoreboard appeared [stuck from then on until the rlast three minutes of the game. At that point, coach [Gary Ball and assistant Jim -MacMnster moved Andrew [[Wraith from defense to left •wing. In the forward posi- arm E_i tion for only a minute," Andrew Andrew received a well-timed pass from Brad Johnson, skated into the corner and drove the puck past the All- Canadian goalie. Andrew and Brad, the "mi ni -mights", connected again! A game report would not be complete without mentioning mentioning the strong performance performance from Wade Worsley as Jimmy's goal-tender. As a 401 Esso Loses One 4U1 Esso had another taste of defeat (5-0) at the hands of Hutton Transport on Saturday, January 21st. Esso played hard but just could not penetrate the opposition's opposition's defense to get many shots on net. Esso fared much better on Sunday morning at Darling- Legion Defeats Ken Hockin by BoB Sheridan Port Hope took advantage advantage of our sluggish back- checking to route us 9-4 last Friday night. Glen Miller led the Port Hope attack with three goals. Mel Stevenson, Keith Boundy and Eric Man- ship each scored twice. Rick Austin played a fine game in the Port Hope goal. Bob Deblois carried our whole attack with three goals and one assist. Bob took a pass from George Sainsbury and fired a perfect perfect shot. Jim Connell started tHis play in our end. Bob then set up George for his goal and fired two more on set ups from Ed Schreyer and Bob Sheridan. ton when they came up against Albert St. from Oshawa. 401 came away with a 5-1 victory. We started started out a little on the slow side letting Albert St. behind our blue line and giving them the opportunity to take some good shots. At 7:41 of the first the opposing team lit up their side of'the Board. This really started a fire under Esso and their determination determination just kept fanning the flames. With 36 seconds left in the period Kevin Grootendorst opened our books unassisted and next came one from David Chambers on a pass from Wesley Thompson at 8:34 of the second. Ronnie Leger put us ahead by two when he picked a pass from Aaron Stoker ana David Moriarity. Ryan Pingle's goal was the result of a scrimmage around'Albert St.'s net at the beginning of the third, drawing drawing assists were Aaron Stoker Stoker and Ronnie Leger. Rounding Rounding out the scoring of the game was David Chambers from Ryan Pingle at 1:28. Steve Sargent played a good game between the pipes for Esso. Excellent team effort Esso! Mends far Hie * D»Crn--i>WwOwile>n g RED CROSS BLOCD LCNCL CLINIC Wednesday, February 1st at the Lions Centre -- Beech Avenue 12 Noon until 8:00 p.m. Free Transportation to the Clinic will be provided on the day of the Clinic by telephoning 623-9010 LIONS CENTRE WELLINGTON ST, CHURCH ST. KING ST. £ HWY.NO.2 This message provided by GOODYEAR CANADA in the Community Interest SPARTS Optimists Make Donation to Skate '88 V&G Novices Notch Two Wins The Camidiun Statesman. Bowmanville, January 25. 1989 9 Carter's Bakery and Clippers Tie Game mm tv. rookie between the pipes, he certainly appeared calm and confident. But then with strong defense supplied by Brad MacMaster, Kris Pof- ley, Jamie Shrives and Andrew Andrew Wraith, he had good reason to be calm. Well done, Wade! Well done, team! This game should serve as good preparation preparation for the Bowmanville tournament this weekend. Good luck team! Bowmanville Optimist Club recently bought a $1,000 seat in the new Recreation Recreation Complex. Taking part in the presentation were, 1-r, President Bill Whaley, Gary Bennett, Jeff Peirce and Clare Howse of the Optimists; George Moore and Garnet Rickard of the Skate '88 campaign committee. Tykes Start Schedule with Win On Saturday, January 21, Newcastle Golf Course Tykes faced off against the warkworth Devils in their 1st game of the United Counties Hockey league schedule. This game turned out to be a mismatch as the Warkworth team had been bitten by the flu bug. Wark- worths' goalie played three minutes before having to leave and another player left halfway through the 1st period. period. Newcastle jumped into an early lead as Nicholas Stacey scored his 1st of the game 8 min. in, with assists from Gerry Moore and Craig Harness. Harness. However, Warkworth came back with 3 goals in 3 minutes to start the 2nd period, period, and give the Devils a 3-1 lead. Then playing his 1st game in goal Leigh Dengis made a couple of nice saves to hold Warkworth at 3. This seemed to fire Newcastle up as Stacey scored no's 2,3 and 4 to give Newcastle a 4-3 lead after 2 periods. In the 3rd it was all Newcastle Newcastle as Stacey notched 5 more with Matthew Hason and Mike Patrick adding singles. singles. Gerry Moore had 3 assists assists and Scott Mumby chipped in with an assist to give the Newcastle team an 11-3 victory. The Golf Course Tykes now have a busy week ahead travelling to Wark- w'orth and Orono. Next home game Saturday, February February 4, 11:00 a.m. against Colborne. In this week's BRHL Novice Novice play, Victoria & Grey ensured ensured their share of second place with an 8-2 win over Bonded. The first period belonged to Mike McCrory as he scored five unanswered goals. Dave Leppert picked up an assist on one of McCrory's goals with Dave Clark assisting on three. V&G's Dave Leppert added added one in the second period to extend the lead. Bonded finally beat V&G goalie Ryan Turcotte midway midway into the third with Ryan McRoberts and Guy Tousig- nant combining for two quick goals. However, V&G came right back with McCrory scoring his sixth of the game from Kevin Maillet and then Dave Leppert added added his second to round off the game's scoring. The boys travelled to Harman Park Arena in Oshawa for an exhibition game vs. Thornton/Dundee and played a superb positional positional game coming home with a 7-1 victory. Jeff Shmyr picked up the hat- trick on nis first three shifts with a pair of assists each S to Dave Leppert and > Austin. Jamie Austin then added a goal from Dave Harnum. Kevin Mail- let and Mike McCrory set up Ryan Turcotte for a 5-0 V&G lead. Thornton/Dundee beat Greg O'Leary for one goal in the third penod. Although the V&G goal- tender wasn't tested much, O'Leary came up big when he had to. Mike McCrory added another from Craig Matheson. Jamie Austin picked up his fourth point of the game on a goal from Dave Leppert to ice the victory victory for V&G. On Saturday, January 21st Carter's Bakery novice team met Adam & Eve Clippers Clippers in a game that would give the winner first place in the standings but nothing was decided as a result of a 1-1 deadlock. Both teams played an extremely extremely tight defensive game. Scott MacKay scored on a great solo effort for A&E to allow his team to enjoy a 1-0 lead for most of the game; Chris Baumhauer answering answering for Carters with a minute and a half left in the game, put one in the top corner of the net. Both goalies played extremely extremely well; Nick Adams came to Carters' rescue as they were outplayed in the final period. Both teams took two penalties penalties each. All the penalties resulted from good defensive defensive plays that could have led to another four goals being being scored. Everone played really well showing alot of heart and desire. 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