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4 The Canadian Statesman, Bowman ville, Wednesday, December 18, 1996 Section Two WSi ÉM Wmmmm. ■ - • ■■ . . * SwS Sts&ï 111 MiipUil <■ ; .- !» , z x, iwp Ij lllllllllil ÉliSSSil Mî 5 g» ■ ■ | ilü -1 BHS Midgets and Juniors Struggle Against Paul Dwyer Bowmanville High School continued its LOSSA 'AAA' boys' basketball league schedule last Wednesday, December 11, with games at Paul Dwyer. The midgets lost 55-41 to drop to 0-5 in league play, while the juniors (pictured above), lost 66-53 to fall to 1-4. Murray Lynch led Bowmanville in the junior game with 24 points. Skylight Donuts Bantams Falter at Keene Tourney The Skylight Donuts Bantam hockey team played in a tournament tournament hosted by the Keene Bantams Saturday, December 14. Skylight and Keene would start the game on a cautious note. Keene scored the only goal of the first period. Skylight's Skylight's Ian Cuthbertson would tie the score at the nine minute mark of the second with assists to Mike Distephano and Mike Wood. Skylight took the lead 1 <S Youth Soccer Club COACHES NEEDED The Darlington Youth Soccer Club is accepting applications j from qualified individuals for our competitive division teams. If you would like to apply for a position, pick up an application at one of the four local arenas or call Terry Taylor at 723-5962. Deadline for applications is January 12/97, successful applicants will be notified February 1/97. Teams in 1997 Under 9-1988 Boys Under 10-1987 Boys Under 11 - 1986 Boys Under 12-1985 Boys Under 13 - 1984 Boys and Girls Under 14 - 1983 Boys Under 15-1982 Boys and Girls Under 16 - 1981 Boys Under 17 - 1980 Boys and Girls ©J.P. ! on Cuthbcrtson's tally with help from Mickey Bonnell and Mike Wood. With less than two minutes remaining in the second, Cuthbertson's unassisted unassisted effort put Skylight up by a 3-1 margin. The Keene Bantams Bantams would score at the nine minute mark of the third to draw with in one goal. A minute minute later, Cuthbertson would restore Skylight's two goal lead by scoring his fourth goal of the game with Jamie Tabb and Jeff Hrdlicka assisting. Keene never quit and scored again with five minutes left in the game. Good defensive work the rest of the way resulted resulted in a 4-3 victory for Skylight. Skylight. Skylight would play its next game against Lange's Photo of Bowmanville. Jeff Hrdlicka opened the scoring for Skylight on an unassisted effort midway through the first period. Lange's took control of the game and skated to a well deserved deserved 3-1 victory over Skylight. Skylight. The team pressed Lange's throughout the third period but their defense was equal to the test. With this loss, Skylight Donuts Donuts would not advance to the "A" final championship. by Chris Rourke The Bowmanville High School boys' basketball teams continue to struggle as they travelled to Dwyer last week for league action. Last Wednesday, December December 11, the BHS midgets and juniors travelled to Paul Dwyer to play a LOSSA "AAA" league game. Dwyer has no senior team. The midgets came out and played with no aggressiveness aggressiveness and lost 55-41 to fall to 0-5 in league play. The juniors juniors played Dwyer tough through the first half, but ran out of gas in the fourth quarter quarter and lost 66-53. Dwyer jumped out to a quick 12-2 lead early in the opening quarter on the BHS midgets, and Bowmanville were never able to recover. Bowmanville trailed 32-19 at halftime and coach Bill Todd told them that they needed to play more aggressive aggressive and cut down on the missed shots. BHS didn't take coach Todd's advice and Dwyer ran away with the game. Dwyer led 44-25 heading into the final quarter. The only positive of the game was that Bowmanville outscored Dwyer 16-11 in the final quarter. Coach Todd, who received a technical foul for complaining complaining about the officiating, had a reason to complain as his team was getting pushed around by Dwyer and the referees referees just put their whistles away. "The game was very frustrating. frustrating. They shoved us around and didn't get any fouls, but when we did the same things we got called," Todd said following the game. The team hasn't started to panic yet, despite the fact that they have an 0-7 overall record. "We need a win badly because because we're winless and if things don't change we'll continue continue to lose," he said. Ryan Lindon led all BHS midget scorers with 12 points. The juniors were much more focused than their mid-, get counterparts as they stayed with Dwyer until the fourth quarter. Bowmanville started slowly slowly as they were behind 11-6 early in the first, but they battled battled back to lead 13-11 after the first. Dwyer went on a 9-0 run early in the second to go ahead 20-11, but Bowman- ing to within 28-25 at halftime. halftime. In the second half Dwyer started to pull away. Bowmanville Bowmanville was outscored 19- 10 in the third quarter to trail by 12 heading into the final quarter. Bowmanville could never recover and they lost 66-53. Junior coach Dan Mac- master was pleased with how the team played as a unit. "Fouls, fouls, fouls, they killed us," Macmaster told The Statesman. "We played well, but we were a little slow on defence." Macmaster feels his team ran out of gas against Dwyer because of their recent heavy schedule. "The boys need a break. We have played nine out of 10 after today's game (vs Dwyer)," he stated. Murray Lynch led all Bowmanville juniors with a game-high 24 points. The midgets and juniors hosted Father Leo Austin last Monday, December 9. 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