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8 The Clarington/Courtice Independent, Bowman ville, Saturday, December 21, 1996 Halminen Homes Reach 'A' Finals of Tournament Checker Variety Meets Aurora On December 7, the Halmin- cn Homes A/E Peewee Toros travelled to Colbomc to participate participate in the Trenton Golden Hawks Peewee Tournament. In the first game we drew North Frontenac from the Ottawa Ottawa District. The game was a fast paced thriller with superb goallending at both ends. The contest was decided with a solo effort by defenceman Darryl Darryl Masterson scoring the game's only goal. Kyle Large and Chris Wood tallied the shutout. The next game had our boys facing the tournament favourite, favourite, Norwood. Midway through the second period the Toros trailed 4-2, but rallied together in an awesome team effort resulting resulting in a 5-4 decision and the advance to the finals. Goal scorers for this game, Darren Kelly (3), Dave Brown (1), Steve Motty (1). One hour later the Toros faced Oshawa. With Oshawa Square Boy Beats Whitby By 3-1 Score On Tuesday, December 10, the Whitby team made its last trip to Darlington for 1996 and returned home on the wrong end of a 3-1 score. The Square Boy Pizza team came out flying and built up a 3-0 lead before the Wildcats were able to break through for their lone goal. Jordan Gross opened the scoring on a set-up by David Perron and Brett Barraball. Ian Garrison made it 2-0 on passes from Barraball and Gross, then put the Toros up 3-0 on a three-way passing play with Gross and Garrison. Triple F Bowling Results Wiebe Vander Gaast 32 1/2, Herman Zwart 28, Hotty Vander Vander Gaast 25, Don Vander Mccr 24, Rose de Vries 22 1/2, Gordon Gordon de Jager 21, Melle Roze- ma 20, Albert Van Belle 19, Peter Honk 17, Shirley Van Belle 16. High Single Ladies - Frances Mulder 287. High Single Men - Wiebe Vander Gaàst 265. High Triple Ladies - Frances Mulder 720. High Triple Men - Gerry Tal- sma 620. High Average Ladies - Frances Frances Mulder 187. High Average Men - Peter Flonk 192. up 2-1 in the second, the boys turned on the power again and would have tied the game if not for a heads up play by the Oshawa goalie, pulling our second goal out of the net. This proved to be the turning point and the boys ran out of steam dropping the final 3-1. Darren Kelly scoring the only goal. This was by far the best effort of the year proving that teamwork teamwork is the key. Congratulations Congratulations to Kyle Large who won the Goal tenders award with a superior display in the tournament tournament skills competition followed followed closely by Chris Wood. Tournament goals/assists: Darren Kelly (4g), Chris Wood (la), Steve Motty (lg) Darryl Masterson (lg, la), Steve Hatfield Hatfield (la), Dave Brown (lg, la), Justin Roussy (la), Stuart King (la), Chris McDaniels (la), Jamie Bryant (1), Johna- thon Schmidt (la), Kent Missions Missions (2a). On December 14, the Toros A/E Pcewecs travelled to Barrie. Barrie. Another solid team effort resulted in a 4-2 Toros victory. victory. Behind solid goaltending from Kyle Large and Chris Wood the team played a very disciplined game. Scoring for the Toros: Jamie Bryan (lg, la), Adam Wilks (la), Steve Motty (2g), Darren Kelly (la), Kent Missions (la). It was three games against Aurora for Checkers Variety Additional Atoms as they win the first one and lost the next two. The first game took place at Darlington Arena on Wednesday, Wednesday, November 20. Spectators watched a fast skating, aggressive aggressive style of hockey as the Toros Toros beat Aurora 3-2. It wasn't until the second period that the first goal came. Shane Gonsalves Gonsalves broke out of the Toros end and carried the puck up the ice with a 3 on 1 situation and placed the puck precisely on Jesse Bradbum's stick, who then one-timed it into the net on the bottom right-hand corner. corner. Early in the third period, Ryan Gamiss picked up the puck in the comer of Aurora's end and passed it out to Bren dan Kalijundic in the slot. Then it was Brendan Kalijundic Kalijundic who look a shot on Aurora's Aurora's goalie and Ryan Gamiss received the rebound and popped one home, leading the game 2-0. With a two goal lead, the Toros almost lost it late in the third, as Aurora came back with two goals and tied the game. Then Brendan Kalijundic made a drive for the net and took three shots on net until he put it past a fallen Aurora Aurora goalie. Toros won the game 3-2 against Aurora. The second game saw the Toros Toros lose 4-3. Aurora took an early lead in the first period. The Toros came right back and tied it on a nice deke by Brandon Brandon Kalijundic to beat the goalie with the assist going to Drew Sharp. The Toros went ahead 2-1 in the second on a goal by Jason Emond with the assist going to Justin Ross. Aurora Aurora got three quick goals in the third and scored a power- play goal by Brandon Kalijundic Kalijundic with assists going to Mik Boisvert and Ryan Gamiss, but it's not enough as Aurora wins 4-3. The third game saw numerous numerous penalties, as both sides dearly wanted the win. Aurora opened the scoring in the first period. Darren Sloan, the Toros Toros goalie, made a nice stop early in the second period to keep the score 1-0. The Toros tied the game in the second on a goal by Brooks Robinson assisted assisted by Shane Gonsalves. The third period was all Aurora Aurora as they scored three goals to win the game 4-1. ill- THE DEALERS Holiday Rate Break raze Value Financing for up to 48 months. (Purchase only) Get 3.9% Value financing on ALL '96 and '97 CM vehicles in stock. 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