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I FLASHBACK-25 YEARS AGO Jane Oke, daughterif Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Oke, of Fleet St., broujht honour to Bowmanville on Saturday Saturday when sft and Victor Irving, Scarborough, won the Juniç Pairs Championship of Central Ontario at thewarsity Arena in Toronto. By winning winning this Cenral Ontario Championship, Miss Oke and Mr..Irving are now eligible to compete in;the NovicePairs Canadian Finals in Peterborough Peterborough durirv the Canadian Figure Skating Championshps. '/ -- FLASHBACK--10 YEARS AGO -- The top averages averages in tie Ladies' Monday Night League include: include: Donia Harness 251, Marilyn Fintoff 224, lharlene IeHart 221, Jackie Braybrook 215, lie Etcli'jr 211, Nancy Living 209, Valerie Jmith 20vJBarb Ingram 200, Nancy Evans 199, Penny Comaghan 197, Doreen Park 196, Barb Osborne Ilf" SPORT- player lei ances? "bhi EAGLE! have dri PP.ening ries. Tnç Bowma: me :30 p TRIVIA -- What active NBA s the league in All-Star game appear- 2rs ! GAMES -- The Bowmanville Eagles n the Little Britain Merchants in the ound of their best of seven playoff se- first game of the series was played in ille on Sunday night, and the second ;ht (Wednesday) in Little Britain at ie rest of the series will go as follows: follows: ^Saturday at 8:30 p.m. in Little Britain; Sündayjat 7:30 p.m. in Bowmanville; Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. in Bowmanville (if necessary); Saturday, Saturday, February 16, at 7:30 p.m. in Little Britain if necessary); Sunday, February 17, at 7:30 in Bowmanville (if necessary). ll, i -- BHS JtEDMEN REACH FINALS -- The Bowmanville Bowmanville High School senior boys' basketball tfeam Reached the consolation finals before losing in double overtime to Henry Street, 62-56, in the Oëhawa Times Classic Tournament this past weekend. The Redmen reached the finals with a win in the semis over Bawating (Sault Ste. Mane) Mane) 67-55, and a 53-43 win over G.L. Roberts in the quarter finals. The Redmen were put into the consolation round after, opening the tournament with /a loss to Northern (Sarnia) 70-62. Two of th,e' players, Paul Woodlock and Adam Esta- brook, were named to the consolation all-star team. WWF WRESTLING -- Don't forget the mega wrestling card that is slated for the Oshawa Civic Civic Auditorium on Saturday, February 16, at 1:30 p.m. In a Heavyweight title match, Sgt. Slaughter Slaughter will oppose Hacksaw Jim Duggan. In another featured bout, The Ultimate Warrior will tangle with Macho King Randy Savage. Also scheduled to appear are: Jake the Snake Roberts, Rick Martel, The. : Hart Foundation, Power & . Glory, T^f)iBiase, Jimmy Sriuka, The Undertaker and HOBBIES OR COLLECTIBLES - We have started to publish some stories in the past couple ofïweeks about people who have unusual or interesting interesting hobbies. It always make for interesting rejading. This week, we have a sports-related hobbyist and his story appears elsewhere on the shorts pages. If you, or someone you know, has aEunusual sports hobby, or owns a sports col- lefctible item tnat has an interesting story behind hjMv it was obtained, give us a call. Surely there ajFe some readers out there who have a funny story story to tell about how they went to great lengths to obtain an autograph from a professional player, or bought an bought an item years ago that is considered very rare.We're always willing to listen. listen. | ?'■ ' TRIVIA ANSWER -- Moses Malone with 11. ttiberty Mutual Beats National Trust, 7-1 SPORTS The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, February 6,1991 7 Black Belt for Karate Expert Win For Drivers Eagles Take Game One ice Liberty Mutual skated to their! ninth victory on Saturday, Saturday, j February 2, defeating National Trust 7-1. Centre Jason Greenham opened the scoring early in the first period,with period,with a high backhand shot. 1 Two minutes later, Ja- sonj scored again, when he shot! the puck out from behind behind the net and bounced it off I the goaltender and into the net. With 6:01 left in the first, J.J. Warden's hard work and patience paid off with his first goal of the season. season. Congratulations, J.J.! A minute later, Jeff Ross made it 4-0 for Liberty Mutual when he broke through the defense, and put a high shot behind the goaltender. National Trust got on the scqreboard early in the sec- " period on a goal by Mike inulak. After that, it was ond Gus! Liberty Mutual all the way. Jeff Ross scored two more m the second and again the third to make the final score 7-1. Great work, Jeff! Assists Assists went to Ryan Davis, Steve De Graaf and Jamie Griffin. Wingers Ryan Dochuk, Brian Villamere and Matt; Devera deserve a special mention for their hard work along the boards and in front of the net. Darren Kok, Derrick Welch and Michael Harper played a strong defensive defensive game, and Ben Plow- right made some great saves to hold the opposition to-one goal. Coaches Leon Devera and Dwayne Hooey should be very proud of their work with this team. The boys are playing great hockey, and having lots of fun doing it. Central Ontario Jr. C Final Standings T earn Won Lost Tied Pts xbridge 22 11 3 47 Pbrt Perry 20 13 3 43 Bowmanville 18 14 4 40 Lakefield 19 17 0 38 Little Britain 18 17 1 37 Ajax 11 23 2 24 .Cobourg 11 24 1 23 League Scoring Statistics Top Ten as of Jan. 29 Name Team Goals Assists Total S|;eve Black L.B. 27 37 64 Brad Menzies P.P. 19 45 64 Glen Campbell Bow. 23 36 59 Greg Cook John Harman Uxb. 31 27 58 P.P. 19 35 54 Trevor Low Uxb. 23 29 52 Duane Webster L.B. 24 25 49 Derek Candolini Ajax 14 30 44 Nick Dennis Bow. 17 25 42 John Lally \ P.P. 20 21 41 The Young Drivers' nov- __j team skated to a hard- fought win over Sports Shop Saturday, Februaiy 2. goaltending goaltending was one of the keys to victory as Chris Laton played one of his best games of the year. Chris used every trick in the book to shut down Sport Shop's aggressive aggressive offence. The defensive unit of Young Drivers, consisting of Phil Hopkins, Brad Schultz, Neil Legree and Chad Jozlo- ski, played a strong positional positional game. They gave their goalie lots of back up when needed. The Young Drivers' offence offence was very effective, with both lines contributing pood forechecking and scoring scoring punch. Scoring first for Young Drivers was Jonathan Jonathan Hull assisted by Allan Barnes. The goal was Jonathan's Jonathan's first of the season. Robert Graham scored next unassisted, followed by a goal from Tom Jennings assisted by Ryan McKnight. There was no scoring in the second period but in the third, Robert Graham notched two more unassisted unassisted goals for a hat-trick. The find scoré was Young Drivers Drivers 5, Sport Shop 0. NEWAC by Karen Hilhs On Sunday, January 20, NEWAC swimmers competed competed in an invitational meet in Port Hope. The meet was a lot of fun for everyone and the NEWAC swimmers performed performed very well. There were 71% personal best times achieved by the swimmers swimmers overall, and eight swimmers had personal bests in ALL of their events! The Mowing is a summary summary of best times and plac- ings at the meet. Amanda Aasen-lOOm Br (2nd), 200m IM (2nd), 50m Fr (3rd), 100m Fly (3rd) . - Malcolm Bonner-25m Br (2nd), 26m Fr (3rd), 26m Bk (3rd) ■■ . : /■" • ' ' Scott Boumeester-50m ■ Bk (1st), 50m Fly (3rd), 50m Fr (5th) Christine Frisina-25m Fr (1st), 100m IM (1st), 25m Br (2nd), 25m Fly (3rd) Peter Fnsina-50m Fr (1st), 200 IM (1st), 100m Bk (3rd) _ Colin Greenway-50m Fr (3rd), 100m Bk (4th), 100m Fly (5th), 100m Br (6th) Adele Jenkins-50m Fly (1st), 50m Fr (2nd), 200m IM (2nd) Diane Jenkins-lOOm Bk (3rd), 100m Fly (5th) Patti Kay-100m Fly (2nd), 50m Fr (3rd), 200 IM (3rd) Robin Limebeer-50m Bk (1st), 50m Fly (3rd), 50m Fr (5th) April Missons-200m IM (3rd), 100m Br (4th), 50m Fr (5th) Jeff Robinson-50m Fr (4th), 100m Br (4th) Lisa Vonhatten-lOOm Fly (3rd), 100m Bk (4th), 50m Fr (6th) Michelle Vonhatten-100m Br (3rd), 50m Fr (6th), 50m Fly (6th) Ricky Weiss-50m Bk (6th) Carla Werry-50m Fr (1st), 200m Bk (1st), 100m Fly (1st), 200 IM (1st) The NEWAC team had entered two relays and both teams won their events. There were great swims by the girls' 9-10 relay team consisting of Robin Lime- beer, Christine Frisina, Adele Jenkins and Michelle Vonhatten. The girls' 13-14 relay team consisted of Amanda Aasen, Patti Kay, Carla Werry and Lisa Vonhatten. Vonhatten. Good work, ladies! In addition, three new club records were established. established. Christine Frisina set a club record in the 25m Breast, and Carla Werry set club records in the 50m Free and 200m Back. Two NEWAC swimmers did exceptionally well in their placings in the individual individual events and were high point winners in their age groups. Congratulations to Peter Frisina who was the 11-12 age group high point winner, ana to Carla Werry who was high point winner in girls' 13-14 age group. Great swimming NEWAC! There was a time trial at the end of the meet for swimmers attempting to make provincial standard times before provincial champs in mid February. Despite a long wait, followed followed by virtually no warmup, warmup, two NEWAC swimmers qualified to the standard for tne first time. Special congratulations congratulations to Toby Lime- qualifying i , and to Joy by Brad Kelly Bowmanville Eagles' coach Mike Noonan feels his team has to win 12 periods of hockey to eliminate the Little Britain Merchants. After Sunday night's opening game, they are only mne periods away from accomplishing accomplishing that goal, and winning the series. Six unanswered goals by the Eagles in the third period period enabled them to humiliate humiliate the Merchants 11-3, in the first game of their best of seven Central league tilt. "We have to play the series series period by period and we have to win every period," said Noonan who was visibly visibly pleased with the effort of his players. "I thought it was a good three periods we put together and everything we got, we earned." 'T enjoyed the win for about 30 seconds. Now it's time to look ahead to Wednesday (and game two)." The series shifts back to Little Britain for games two and three (Wednesday and Saturday), before returning to Bowmanville for game four on Sunday night. Eagles 11 Merchants 3 one-man wrecking crew for the Eagles as he finished the night with two goals and six assists. Shane Armstrong had a hat trick, Steve McCrae tallied twice, while Scott Penton. Nick Dennis, Rob Real and Gareth Stone, had singles. Steve Trumball had a pair of goals for the Merchants, Merchants, while Mark Taylor potted the other. Campbell could only laugh when asked if he could keep his torrid scoring ppce up for the remainder of series, saying, "no I doubt it. It won't be like that the rest of the series." "We came hyped to play tonight. Before this season we always finished in first, but this year because we finished finished third. We have to work that much harder." It wets one of the best games the Eagles .have played dating hack to December December 23- They played solidly solidly from from goalie Chris Massey on out, and played a much more physical game than they have in the past few weeks. The pounding the Merchants Merchants took didn't sit too well with coEich Colin Donaldson. Donaldson. "We came in here just over-cocky and nobody wanted wanted to do anything right. We were just brutal," he said. "Hopefully the guys in the room realize how badly they played, and will come out nungry on Wednesday night." It was the first time in many weeks that the Merchants Merchants came out flat, posing the question of whether they were due for a bad game. "Probably so," agreed Donaldson. Donaldson. "I iust wish it wouldn't have been tonight." The Eagles built a 2-1 lead after the first period, and increased it to 5-3 to close out the second. Bowmanville's most dominant dominant line throughout the sesison, Campbell, Dennis and Real, put the game out of reach with two quick goals only 38 seconds into the third period. Dennis fired in his own rebound 14 seconds into the period, and 24 seconds later, Campbell fed Real with a nice pass on a two-on-one for Bowmanville's seventh goal. With the game out of reach for the Merchants, Donaldson Donaldson pulled starting goalie goalie Rob Harris following the goal. But Jason Taylor fared no better, allowing four more Eagle goals. The prettiest goal of the night came midway through the second period while tne Eagles were enjoying a power power play. Steve McCrae is tied up by a Little Britain defenceman as he tries to back in on " ' It» r ,1 ■ 1 . r • J goalie Rob Harris during the first game of their best of seven opening round playoff match Sunday nignt at the Recreation Complex. The Eagles_took a 1-0 lead in the series with a convincing 11-3 pasting over the F f ame for the Eagles will be game four Sunday night at 'or a complete listing of the playoff dates, see Sport-talk Ribbon Cutting Marks Opening of Chair Lift at Ski Club 60m Free, Joy Mnc- After a couple of unsuccessful unsuccessful attempts at bringing the puck out of their own zone, Dennis circled behind the net and carried the puck the length of the ice before feeding Armstrong in the slot for his second goal of the night. The game couldn't have gone any better for the Eagles. Eagles. Especially in the case of Campbell, who will be relied on heavily to be a leader offensively if the Eagles Eagles have any hopes of advancing. advancing. "I'm one of the leaders, but I'm not putting any pressure pressure on- myself. I'm just going going to go out there and play the wav I'm capable of, explained explained Campbell. "With the ice time that Shane (Armstrong) and I are getting, we both like it and it gets us into the game a lot more. Hopefully, it won't burn us out though." Should the Eagles continue continue to play the way they did in game one, the only thing that Campbell needs to worry worry about burning out is the light bulb on the goal light. THE SCOOP - Not dressed for the Eagles were Gil Bonneau, Chris Eriksson, Eriksson, Mark Tripp and Neil Taylor...Surprisingly, the Merchants outshot the Eagles Eagles 42-36.. In the third period, period, when the Eagles out- scored them 6-0, the Merchants finished the period period with a 15-13 shots advantage...The advantage...The Eagles scored twice in five chances on the power play, while the Merchants Merchants were shut out in nine attempts...Don't forget the Fund Raising Dance the Eagles Eagles are hosting at the Recreation Recreation Complex on Saturday, Saturday, Februaiy 23, from 8-1 p.m. Tickets can be obtained from Bob Marshall at 623- 7069. Toros Visit The IT.S.A. On the weekend of Jan. 25, the Flying Dutchman Atom CC Toros visited the U.S. in hopes of coming home with the Niagara Falls "A" Championship that eluded eluded them last year. They won their first three games over Ohio, Newmarket and Lea- side. With excellent team play the boys came away the the "A" cup. with wins over Cambridge in the semi-final, and Ohio in the final. Team members are Greg Koender- man, John Marco Cannito, Chris McKenzie, Nicky Zdravkovski, Steve Ewles, Mike Maynard, Brant Stock- man, Niki De Freitas, Craig Sabine, Erik Griffin, Jason Lange, Chris Baumhauer. Mike Leipsig and Richard Aason. A complete team effort effort was displayed by all. Craig Sabine, Brent Stock- man, Niki De Freitas, Jason Lange and Steve Ewles all recorded hat-tricks. In Exhibition action, the boys lost a good game to Millbrook on Feb. 2, by a score of 4-2. Scoring for the Toros were Niki De Freitas unassisted, and Craig Sabine Sabine assisted by Nicky Zdravrovski and Niki De Freitas. Greg Koenderman played a steady game in net, as Toros played with a small bench due to illness. Hopefully Hopefully the boys will be better for the Cannington Tournament Tournament next week-end. by Brad Kelly After seven-and-a-half years of operation, the Maple Maple Leaf Karate Club has its first female black belt recipient. recipient. Cristina Santos, a grade 13 student at Paul Dwyer High School in Oshawa, obtained obtained the belt during an examination examination on JanuEuy 27 at the International Karate Association Association Headquarters in Toronto. For Santos, the belt culminates culminates over four years of hard work at the club. "I have always been into the sport and I like to keep fit," said the 18-year-old prior to a practice on Friday night. "When I got interested, interested, the goal then became to get my black belt." The examination was a gruelling affair that included included an hour of basic technique technique and form, and then an hour-and-a-half of in-depth scrutiny instructors who observed observed her defensive moves and suggested ways of im- . proving them. The exam concluded after Santos gave a good account of herself while fighting three ladies who had al ready obtained their black belts. Needless to say, one of the head instructors at the club, Charles Kennish, was very proud of his star pupil. "Of course I'm very proud of her. She is a very determined determined young lady." "It's quite an achievement achievement for her. Many make it to brown belt, but not too many continue on to black." Kennish could still recall the day she first walked through the doors. "I thought she would stick with it," he recalls. "But you never know." Santos brings the number number of black belts at the club to seven. She will now be concentrating concentrating on her refereeing and judging at competitions. A clinic for that is going to be held in the near future at the Ontario Sports Centre in Toronto. As for her future in .the sport, she plans to continue despite moving on to university university next year. "I plan on continuing next year at the U of T.- There is a club up there and I know the instructor. I'll also continue to train here." Cristina Santos, of the Maple Leaf Karate Club, earned her black belt at an examination on Sunday, January 27, in Toronto. She is the first girl to earn a black belt in the club's seven year history. 328 RITSON RD. N., OSHAWA 725-4744 ifbuty call 725-2831 \vnoi.i>Ai.i: x in: i.\n. DURHAM REGION'S WOOD SPECIALISTS IN Hardwood * softwood lumber dry kilns ft. dressing facilities including custom made trim; hardwood ft marine plywoods as well as s complete stock of building materials. EVJF'V.'üi KINGVAR DODGE gmËk Has The Cure For Those "rrT Winter Blues! 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