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The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, October 24,1990 9 SPORTTHOUGHTS -3' I was sorry to hear last week that some kids from the Town of Newcastle won't be wearing the Toro colours this season. The kids, many of whom would have been playing organized hockey for the very first time, were told that a lack of ice time was the culprit. Luckily for the kids, they were offered the op- 1 portunity to play with the Newcastle Village Minor Hockey Association. No doubt, with a bad taste in their mouths though. The irony of the situa- , tion is that for the first time the Toros are icing a Novice 'CC' team. Ice time, it seems, was not hard to find for them. So why all the fuss? Well, the . team that was told to go elsewhere, were a team of young ladies. ladies. The hard-working volunteers volunteers associated with girls' hockey in Bowmanville Bowmanville spent a lot of hours during the off-season recruiting recruiting young girls to play hockey. Information booths were set up at the Mall, and the response ' was better than expected. For the first time since girls' hockey came to Bowmanville, they felt they had enough girls to ice two teams. A newly formed Junior team, and as always, the Intermedi- ■ ates. The volunteers who ' worked diligently to make two teams in Bowmanville Bowmanville a reality were excited about the upcoming upcoming season. It was a triumph for them after last season when they had no choice but to accept a decision that because they only had 10 girls registered for the junior program, the BMHA couldn't take the risk of allotting ice time to them for fear of the team folding. It wasn't a popular decision decision with the ladies, but they accepted it, and set out to attract more girls this season. They did a marvelous job hosting the Senior 'A' Provincial Women's Championships at the Recreation Complex last January. Area fans were treated to some very entertaining entertaining hockey. And adding to the interest interest of women's hockey was the first-ever world championships held in Ottawa. With television exposure on TSN, fans were able to cheer the Canadian Canadian women to a gold medal performance. Women's hockey, it seemed, had earned the Injuries Hurt Halminen Homes Hoping to 'Click' Soon respect it so rightly deserved. deserved. Anyone who had never seen a women's hockey game before was won over by the determination and spirited games they witnessed. The respect that women's hockey organizations organizations had been fighting for was obtained. It's unfortunate -- or maybe a better word would be unfair -- that these girls weren't given the opportunity to play for the Toros. Hopefully, the Intermediate team will stay intact, and will not see a decline in numbers numbers over the years because because of a lack of a feeder system in Bowmanville. In a situation such as this, there's always two sides to the story. From the parties involved in this one, both tell a different different story of why the program program was shifted to Newcastle. Newcastle. And I thought I was the only one who couldn't get a story straight. A&R Flooring Wins Second Season Game by Karen and Hank Evans A&R Flooring won their second consecutive game of the season defeating Skylight Skylight Donuts 7-1 on Saturday. Saturday. The game was much closer than the score reflects, reflects, with the first period ending in a 0-0 tie. Tyler Kohn and Jeff Reynolds Reynolds led A&R's offence, scoring three goals each, with Mitchell Fountaine assisting assisting on two goals. A strong defensive game was played by A&R's Kyle Maynard, Robbie Campbell, Craig Sykes and Brad Copping. Copping. Brad scored his first goal of the season. Paul Evans held Skylight scoreless until Mike Sellers put one in the net in the third period. Congratulations to all the boys on both teams for a super super game. Triple F Scores from the October 19 Triple F Bowling team. Andy Bonsma 15, Brian Buma 13, Peter Flonk 13, John Rozema 13, Ike Dyk- stra 11, Melle Rozema 11, Case De Plaa 10, Jean Nadeau Nadeau 10, Doreen Bakker 8, Dirk Van Abbema 8, Hammy Hammy VanderGaast 7, Bill Vroom 7. High single ladies - Sally Rozema 242 High single men -- Don VanderMeer 293 High triple ladies - Alice Glasbergen 633 High triple men - Piet Glasbergen 751 High average Indies - Shirley VanBelle 180 High average men - Piet Glasbergen 190 The Halminen Homes bantams, after three league games, have scored only seven seven goals allowing nine against. It is not totally a lack of scoring power, but the shortage of bodies to do the job. The Newcastle additions Shawn Stephenson (broken ■ankle), Mike Stacey (broken hand), and local talent Craig Rickard (separated shoulder), shoulder), Sean Gibbons (back), and now Gary Adams (knee). All these injuries have left coach Dan Doyle very frustrated. ■ This year's squad, with the addition of newcomer Sean Gibbons, and the additional additional help from Newcastle and Orono could be a contender contender for an OMHA crown. This particular team from atom and peewee have just not had enough depth to put them over the top. But when we get healthy the offence will be there. Port Perry 4 - Toros 1 This game was a very typical Port Perry/ Bowmanville game. Rough, not dirty with a lot of exceptional exceptional hard hits. Toros jumped out in front in the first period 1-0 on a E oal by Chad Vanderende "om Mike Gramm. Port came right back in the second second with three unanswered goals and one in the third to hand the Toros their first home game defeat. Port Perry 3 - Toros 2 On Monday, October 15, the Toros travelled to the Port with once again only nine skaters plus Chris Hef- feman, a call-up from the Bantam 'CC'. The shortage of manpower manpower once again took its toll on the boys. The Toros held a 2- 1 lead midway through the third on goals by Derek Heritage House Atoms Win 1-0 On Friday, October 19, the Heritage House major Atoms visited Uxbridge. The Toros played two-way hockey hockey and came out with a 1-0 win. Nick Adams again came out with his second shutout. shutout. Colin MacDonald had the only goal with Chris Pot and Chris Steele assisting. On Friday, October 20, the Heritage House Major Atoms hosted the Cobourg team. The Toros again came out ready for this game with a 4-2 win. This was their fourth win of the season. Good going, boys. Steve Tabb had two goals, Mark Frampton one goal and one assist, Chris Pot one goal, and assists going going to Brett Pakosta, and John Armishaw. Dave Yel-. lowlees had a good game in goal. To the rest of the team, good work. This weekend, the Heritage Heritage House Major Atoms will be in their first tournament tournament in Trenton. The first game is Friday, October 26 at 7:00 p.m. The boys play the Oshawa Black Hawks. Saturday, October 27 they play at 8:30 a.m. against Napanee, and against Pickering Pickering at 11:30 a.m. Expressions of FROM $ 119 &r. Order Now for Christmas Y y t Save an additional (Oct. 27 - Nov. 30) 10 % Give mom the gift she'll treasure as an heirloom - a family ring, the gift of a lifetime. Hooper's Jewellers 39 King St. W. Bowmanville Telephone 623-5747 Smith and Sean Brown. Exceptionally Exceptionally strong goalkeeping goalkeeping from Jamie Doyle. But our lack of defensive skills inside our blue line allowed allowed the Port two goals to skate away with the victory. Toros 3 - Uxbridge 2 The other half of our goaltending goaltending team, Chris McCarthy was definitely the most noticeable player on the Toro team with save after after save. Gary Adams was taken from the ice by stretcher with a severely shattered knee cap. Gary was off to a great start this year and definitely the offensive leader from the rear core and will most likely likely be lost for the season. It was a very scrambly and chippy style game from the spectators' point of view. But talking to the coaching staff following the game, some promising aspects were noticed. Goals by Chad Vanderende, Vanderende, Sean Brown and Sean Gibbons gave the team the victory. The team as a whole must be given a lot of credit. Going back to our Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Tournament and for that matter the last ten games, the team has been playing mostly with seven forwards and four defence. From a previous coaching aspect, set lines, penalty units and power plays are what wins games not to mention strong, consistent goal tending. We have not had the opportunity to ice a full squad. With our 6-5-1 record, and nine players with 8-13 points, the Halminen Homes bantams, under the direction direction of our disciplined coaching coaching staff, will supply the Town with an entertaining hockey club and a possible OMHA contender. St. Marys Midgets Earn Hard Fought 6-5 Win Our midget A's played host to the Whitby midgets on October 3, skating away with a hard fought 6-5 victory. victory. Whitby opened the scoring scoring at the 23 second mark, blasting a shot past a surprised surprised Geoff Smith. Bowmanville Bowmanville roared back with three straight goals in a five minute span to take a 3-1 lead. The first goal was scored on some hard work by Steve DeSmedt who scored unassisted. Two minutes minutes and 43 seconds later Adam Stephenson connected for a goal assisted by Seamus Seamus McGuire and Brian Campbell. At the six minute and 51 second mark Seamus McQuire scored on a set-up from Adam Stephenson. At this point, Whitby came back with a goal of their own to make the score 3-2. With five minutes to go, Jason Jason Rogers scored on a pass from Scott Pollard and Trevor Trevor Rogers to end the first period with Toros holding a 4-2 advantage. Whitby scored early in the second period to make the score 4-3 for Bowmanville. Bowmanville. The Toros responded nine seconds later on a goal by Seamus McQuire with assists assists going to Ryan Stewart and Steve DeSmedt. Then •Steve DeSmedt exploded for his second unassisted goal of the game. Whitby came back and scored two late goals to finish the scoring, leaving Bowmanville with a hard fought 6-5 victory. On October 7 Whitby once again visited the Torons Torons Bull Ring and came away on the short end of a 4-1 loss. The guys came flying flying out of the chute with two goals in the first to take a 2- 0 lead at the end of one. Our first goal was scored by Scott Pollard, with assists going to Jason Rogers and Ryan Seaway. The Toros' second goal was scored by the hard work of Chris Brown, unassisted. The second second period featured a goaltending goaltending duel between Whitby's Whitby's Brian MacGregor and Dutchman Atoms Tie Omemee in 6-6 Match On Saturday, October 20, the Flying Dutchman Atom 'CC' team played host to Omemee and skated away with a 6-6 tie. At the five minute mark in the first period the Toros had their backs against the wall being down 3-0. Steve Ewles and Brent Stockman eqch got a goal by the end of the first period to make the score 3-2. With Nicky Zdravkovski off for tripping in the second period, Omemee's power play clicked for a goal to take a two goal lead. Chris McKenzie popped one in un-* assisted at the end of the second period. The third period saw a defensive lapse for two minutes minutes with Omemee scoring twice making the score 6-3. With the support of the Toros' fans they began the come back with Craig Sabine Sabine (one goal), and Brent Stockman (two goals), to tie the game at 6-6. Chris McKenzie, Mike and Maynard. Mike Leipsig Richard Aasen assisted. Later in the day the Dutchman travelled to Port Hope, for what proved to be their best game this season. Both teams were well matched and skated for two periods with no goals scored. Toro Bantams Start Season by Ken Nesbitt The Toro Bantam 'CC' team hit the ice Saturday, October 20 with their first league game against Stouff- ville. The first period saw the visitors put themselves on the scoreboard, but shortly after Bowmanville scored when Derrick Honeymnn massed the puck to Doug Parkin who deflected it over to Mike Nesbitt who shot it into the right hand corner of the not. The first period ended ended 1-1. The second period was much the same, but S ton IT- ville came out on top. The third period got a lit- j but the Bo At the beginning oi the third period, Craig Sabine scored with Mike Maynard and Jason Lange assisting. Two minutes later, Port Hope tied the game but seconds seconds after the face-off Brent Stockman took a pass from Nicky Zdravkovski and Chris Baumhauer to take a 2-1 lead. At the 8:08 mark of the third period, Toros' Erik Griffin was off for slashing, and Port Hope tied the game. With minutes remaining remaining in the game, Jason Lange, on the power play, connected with Steve Ewles and Niki DeFreitas assisting, assisting, to end the game 3-2. Strong goaltending from Greg Koenderman and John Marco Cannito enabled the boys to earn a well disciplined disciplined victory. Dutchman's next game will be at Darlington Sports Centre at 1:00 p.m. The opposition opposition will be the Major Atom Canadiens from Oshawa. Toro Atom 'CC' record is 4-3-2. Toros Jay Hiscock that resulted resulted in a scoreless period. In the third period, Whitby struck at the 35 second mark to narrow the home town lead to 2-1. Bowmanville Bowmanville then scored their third goal at the four minute and 33 second mark of the period to take a 3-1 lead. The goal was scored on an outstanding outstanding effort by Trevor Rogers unassisted. With a minute and 17 remaining in the game, Seamus McGuire scored an awesome goal on a breakaway from a picture perfect pass from linemate Ryan Stewart. Also assisting on the play was Scott Pollard. Pollard. Final score: Toros 4 Whitby 1. I would like to add that the Toro defence, backed by the solid goaltending goaltending of Jay Hiscock, should be commended for their fine play. The Toros travelled to Whitby for their first road game on October 10 and as a result of that game skated away with a 7-1 victory. Scoring for the Bulls were Steve DeSmedt (2) Seamus McGuire (1) Jeremy Tymo- shik (1) Adam Stephenson (1) Jeremy Woodcock (1) and Scott Pollard (1). Assists went to Seamus McGuire (2) Jason Rogers (2) Ryan Stewart Stewart (1) Scott Pollard (1) and Steve DeSmedt (1). On October 14 the Oshawa Red Wings visited the Darlington Sports Complex Complex for a final exhibition game against the Toros. With solid teamwork, Bowmanville Bowmanville came away with a 6-2 victory. Scoring for the Toros were Jason Rogers (1) Ron Lux ton (1) Ryan Sear way (3) and Ryan Stewart (1) with assists going to Steve DeSmedt DeSmedt (4) Scott Pollard (1) Ryan Searway (1) Jason Rogers (1) Martin d'Entremont (1) Kris Mathe- son (1) and Adam Stephenson Stephenson (1). Excellent effort guys. Keep up the good work. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome back coach Dave Tabb, assistant coach Bob (Moose) Luxton, Manager Don Luxton and trainer George Hiscock. Good luck to you and the St. Marys Cement Major Midgets for the year 1990/ 91. P If* Pet of the Week if? i % - iûi m tie chippy, but the Bowmanville Bowmanville boys didn't give up and scored n short-handed gonl when Rynn Ferguson passed it to Bruce Hamilton who made it count. Final score was 2-2, with each boy contributing contributing to the tie, Now I would like introduce introduce the Toro Bantam 'CC' team sponsored by Viaaios Pizzeria. Doug Parkin (coach), Kon Farrow (asst, conch), Stove Oko (mgr.), Loon IIolTornnn (trainer). Adam Adams, Stove Oko Jr., Rick Swale, Chris Hof- forann, Bruce Hamilton, Derrick McMillan, Jeff Dnr- rncli, Derrick Honoymnn, Matt Frampton, Jamie Sellers, Sellers, Rynn Ferguson, Michael Nesbitt, Doug Parkin Jr., Brett Rogers, Craig Lock- hurt, To Gary Adams, of the Bantam 'A' team, hope you have n quick recovery from your injury. Lucy doesn't only exist in the Peanuts Comic Strip where she bothers Charlie Brown. Lucy is also alive and bouncing at the Animal Shelter. , Our Lucy is four months old, has learned to sit, stay and shake a paw and bothers her own Charlie Brown - a male pointer pup. Being a Ba- senji-cross, she hasn't barked yet, but does sing. Also, in two weeks, Molly's puppies will ne ready to go to new homes. They are black, cuddly and cute. Molly is a Snmoyd-Ncwfoundland cross find the daddy could have been a Great Dane. Visit the Animal Shelter and see the little guys who need homes. Maybe one will adopt you and make your life complete. Animal Shelter - 623-7651 Sponsored by Cvnfhiti to help with solutions Ann Morgan I like to your Real Estate needs, Office Telephone fwnilgEi Trust ntfr 623-662Z 987-1334 by Brad Kelly Sitting in a dressing room adjacent to the one his teammates were in, the concern concern Shane Armstrong has about his play was written all over his face. The third year centreman was a leading force last season season when the Eagles marched to the league finals against the Port Perry Mo- jacks. He entered the playoffs as the third leading scorer on the team, with only league leaders and teammates Glen Campbell and Nick Dennis ahead of him. He averaged more than a point a game during the regular regular season, amassing 55 points in 30 games which made him the seventh leading leading scorer in the league. For his efforts, former coach Brian Taylor used him in key situations in - the playoffs both on the power play, and while short- handed. If a key faceoff was to be won late in a game, it was usually Armstrong's number that was called to take it. Somewhere between last year's playoffs, and the start of the regular season this year, he has lost some of the confidence he had. It's easily detected in his voice. "I'm having a rough time. I'm getting the chances around the net, but the puck isn't going in for me," he explained explained following Sunday night's game. "Our line (Brad Robinson and Jeff Rohr) isn't really clicking." "The coach told me he is expecting a lot from me which I'naven't been doing," he continued. "I'm getting frustrated, but he (coach Noonan) hasn't been giving up on me." Armstrong has carried the label of a goal scorer with him ever since his days as a bantam with the Toros. During that All-Ontario season, season, he potted 76 goals, and followed that up by scoring 48 on a midget team that reached the All-Ontario finals finals before losing. Scouts from the OHL were so impressed with his scoring ability, that the Oshawa Generals made him a 10th round selection. "I had phone calls from five different teams, but one of them wasn't Oshawa so I was surprised when they drafted me," said the 19- year-old who is in his first year of Law and Security at Planners are Better Than Works Dept. The Town Planning Department Department defeated the Town Works Department in hockey hockey on Sunday, October 21, at the Bowmanville Recreation Complex. The final score was 7-2. Scoring for the Planning Department were Bob Russell Russell (3), David McLeod (3), Steve Harding (1). Scoring for the Works Department Department was Edward Chiu (2). Shots on goal were 17 each. Durham College. "Mv dad went to the draft, and came home to tell me that Oshawa drafted me." "At the time, I wanted to play Jr. A, but I didn't think I had it (the ability) to play." The Generals released him, and he landed with the Jr. É Legionnaires. He made it to the final cuts before being being let go. The following season, he returned to the Legionnaires, Legionnaires, and the coach was ready to ink his name on a player's card. "The coach talked to me about signing, but I was unsure unsure of what I wanted to do," he recalled. "I didn't sign with them and I don't really regret it. I wasn't looking for hockey to be a career." He returned to Bowmanville Bowmanville to play for the Eagles. The move gave him and his filai? brother Kelly, an over-age defenceman with the club this season, a chance to play on the same team. Although not happy with his own play thus far in the season, Armstrong is surprised surprised at how well the team is doing. "Right now we have solid goal tending. If not for that, we wouldn't be 5-0," he said. "Last year we were expected expected to win, and we even talked about getting leather coats. This year, there's no pressure on us so whatever happens, happens." If anything positive is to happen, Armstrong will be looked upon to contribute in key situations. It's expected, that before to long, we'll hear his name mentioned frequently over the p.a. system following Eagles Eagles goals. 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