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Ë Huy. 40 1 Bloor St. Section Two The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, Wednesday. November 27, 1996 3 Straight Set Losses to Anderson in LOSSA Finals Disappointing End for BHS by Chris Rourke - A four-year plan for Bowmanville Bowmanville High School's senior senior boys' volleyball team fell short of completion recently. BHS, who went to the recent recent LOSSA championships BHS Volleyball Coach Randy Richardson Midget Tourney The annual Midget Classic Classic hockey tournament is ready to invade Bowmanville Bowmanville once again. Sixteen teams from across the province will be entered in this year's tournament, tournament, which will be held December 6-8. Preliminary games will be played at both the Darlington Arena and the Garnet B. Rickard Recreation Complex. The 16 teams will be divided divided into four divisions for round robin games. The first place team in each division division at the end of three round robin games will advance advance to the semis. The semi-finals will be played on Sunday, December December 8, at 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. The finals will have a 4:30 p.m. faceoff. Both semi-final games and the final will be held at the Recreation Complex. The Clarington Toros will open their round robin schedule on Friday, December December 6, at 4:40 p.m. against Nepean. That game will be played at the Darlington Darlington Arena. Skylight Continues To Struggle Skylight Donuts Bantams met Bowmanville Sand and Gravel in house league action November 24. Sand and Gravel opened the scoring in the first only to have Ian Cuthbertson, of Skylight, tie the game with Jeff Hrdlicka and Mike Distepano drawing ' assists. Skylight would take a 2-1 lead by scoring the only goal in the second period on John Kin- ghan's effort with Mike Wood and Bill Kift assisting. Bowmanville Sand and Gravel Gravel completely dominated Skylight Skylight in the third by scoring four times to only once for Skylight. Cuthbcrtson's unassisted unassisted effort at the two minute mark of the third made the final final 5-3 in favour of Sand and Gravel. with the hopes of winning, fell short of their goal by losing losing in the championship final. The seniors, who've been together for four years, had a plan to capture a LOSSA title and compete in an OFSAA championship. But Anderson spoiled the plan by sweeping BHS 15-5,15-8. The championship final, played at Sinclair Secondary School in Whitby, was the third time that Anderson had swept Bowmanville this season. season. "The loss was quite disappointing disappointing because we had it in our heads that in the players' last year of high school we would go to OFSAA," senior coach Randy Richardson told The Statesman recently. - Bowmanville, who were ranked sixth in the province heading into LOSSA, were dominated in the first set by Anderson (second in Ontario). Ontario). In the second set Bowmanville Bowmanville had a chance to extend extend the match to a third set when they were up 8-7, but they gave up eight straight points and lost. "It was a lack of concentration concentration and mental toughness," toughness," Richardson said. "Some of these guys have played at a higher level where every point is played to the fullest." "These guys didn't have the power of concentration to play every point hard." Bowmanville dominated Pickering in the quarter-finals in straight sets and beat Dunbarton Dunbarton in three sets in the semi-finals to reach the finals. finals. Coach Richardson suggested suggested the team might have done better in the finals against Anderson with a different different coach at the controls. "My coaching style probably probably didn't help these guys. They needed to be motivated because they don't have it in them to do it themselves," he admitted. "I'm not a rah-rah type of guy and I can't be in their faces to get them to do things. That just goes against my personality." Despite Richardson's admission admission about his coaching style possibly hurting the team, he still led the seniors to a 37-7 overall record and a LOSSA silver medal. Richardson admits next year the club won't be as good as it was this year because because he loses all but two players to graduation, including including Steve Brinkman, who was a member of the Ontario Provincial Team this year that won gold at the Canadian championships in Calgary. Midget Eagles Selects Settle For 'A' Finalists in Flesherton The Clarington Midget Eagle Select team travelled north into the snow-belt on Saturday, November November 23, to compete in their second tournament of the season. season. Hosted by the small community community of Flesherton, this tournament tournament proved to be a big challenge at the "B" level. In their first game against the Lambeth rep team, the Eagle midgets, were quick to put the scorekeeper to work when Chris Henry notched an early goal. Before this period was finished, Jason Knox and Andy Griffin added two more goals to give the Eagle selects a comfortable comfortable three goal lead. Andrew Andrew Wraith and Scott Slack combined to assist the goals scored in this period. Defenseman Jamie Potter played a solid second period netting two^goals. His first was unassisted, while Chris Watson provided the play that led to the second. Finishing the scoring scoring in the period, Ryan Wood connected with Paul Drummond Drummond and Watson to bring the score to 8-1. In the third period, the Lambeth Lambeth defense held the Eagle Midgets to only one more goal by Jason Knox. Assists went to Nathan Osborne and Andrew Laton. Lambeth did manage to notch one more goal bringing the game to a 7-2 Clarington win. The second game against Port Dover proved to be a tighter game defensively. Ryan Wood scored a lone goal in the first period with assistance from Steve Tabb and Jamie Potter. Potter and Wood added a goal each in the second period to match two goals scored by Port Dover. Tabb, Henry, Knox and Joel Osborne earned assists on the Clarington goals. Starting the third period with a score of 3- 2, top notch goaltending at both ends of the rink held that score for the duration of the game. The two wins earned the Clarington Midget Eagles a place in the "A" championship. Unfortunately, the Eagle Midget Midget players were unable to maintain the winning momentum. momentum. Facing a tough team from Walkerton, who had received a "bye" to get to the championship championship game, the Clarington-skat- ers had trouble mounting muéh offense. Bowmanville Sports Shop * ^ presents our & * IfflFffl (J JBROOKS 25% OFF Adult Jackets Brooks 3-in-One S 184." $ 137.°° Brooks Bomber Style 3-in-One S 169 K * 127." Starter Licensed s l 69." 5 127." Starter Brand S U9." 5 109." 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