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Clarington 7-Eleven Peewees End Season on Winning Note Section Two The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, March 26,1997 Page 5 Letter to the Editor Arena Trophy Cabinet Needs Upgrades 7-Eleven travelled to Harman to face Thornton Dundee for the "A" Championship. Both teams met at the blue line and were personally introduced, along with their coaching staff. Clarington started off the scoring only 5:10 into the first period. Miki Orme, from a beautiful pass by Jennell West, put Clarington on the scoreboard. In the second period Brandy Carrière, assisted by Lauren Crashley, gave Clarington a 2-0 lead. Strong defensive play by Melissa Winger, Melissa Searle, Katelyn Fair, Megan Forsey and Jennell West kept the puck up to our offense. Kristen Ryan, Sarah Little, Miki Orme, Lauren Crashley, Heather Bangay, Clare Cudahy and Brandy Carrière kept the play in the Thornton Dundee end. Stephanie Mushinsky, for Thornton, and Sarah Ferguson, for 7-Eleven, stood strong between the pipes, not allowing any goals in the third period. This gave Clarington a 2-0 victory. Skating around the ice with their silver cup gave the 7-Eleven squad a fantastic feeling to end the 96/97 season. season. The Clarington 7-Eleven Peewees won the 'A' Championship over Thornton Dundee recently, posting a 2-0 shutout in the final game. Miki Orme and Brandy Carrière scored the Clarington goals. Team members include, back row, (1-r), Dean Little (coach), Janet Ryan (trainer), Melissa Searle, Jenell West, Sarah Little, Lauren Crashley, Brandy Carrière, Cindy Searle (manager), Peter Cudahy (asst, coach), Peter Ryan (asst coach). Front row, (1- r), Heather Bangay, Katelyn Fair, Kristen Ryan, Megan Forsey, Stacey Trotter, Melissa Winger, Clare Cudahy, Sarah Ferguson, Miki Orme. Checkers Extended to Eight Games It proved to be a nail biting, biting, action packed series which took eight games to determine the winner, for Checker Variety Additional Atoms. Every game was close as the Toros competed with Aurora with the games ending ending in overtime or a one goal differential. Throughout the series, the Toros continued to have problems problems getting the puck past Aurora's goaltender. The fourth game of the series was no exception. Aurora got the first goal of the game when the Toros found themselves short-handed. It was Andrew. Oliver who made a rush up the ice into Aurora's zone, and Ryan Garniss picked up the rebound with Jason Emond popping the puck home. The game went into overtime with no success as the game ended 1-1. The Toros met with a strong determined Aurora team on February 28, as they lost the fifth game of the series 4-1. Aurora came put early in the game popping two quick goals in the net. Andrew Oliver scored for the Toros as Ryan Garniss passed it up to Andrew, who deked past the defence and scored. Now the series was tied with both teams with two wins and a tie. The sixth game of the series on March 1, was filled with tension as both teams were competing for the lead in the series. It proved to be the third game of the series that had to go into overtime. There were numerous penalties penalties throughout the game as both teams played aggressively. aggressively. In the second period of the Thank You! The Orono Amateur Athletic Association, during March Break, held both a Novice and Atom hockey tournament and would like to thank the following individuals, businesses and team sponsors: Russ Major Plumbing and Heating (Novice Rep.) and Accessible Design (Atom Rep.) for their very generous donations. Orono Electric Canadian Tire, Bowmanville Home Hardware Sports Exchange Rolph Hardware Flowers Plus Cottonwood Beckers - Orono and Newcastle Country Style Peacock Lumber Pizza Pizza Harvey's Kendal Store (Video) Gatorade The Natural Nut Blockbuster Video Orono IGA Bowmanville Sports Shop The Donut Gallery Tim Horton's Allin's Orchard Clarington Glass Dr. E. Schroeder Square Boy Sports Authority Stutt's Pharmacy M & M Meats, Bowmanville Coffee Time Play It Again Sports Durham Farmer's County Co-op Ace Submarine The Hockey News Hooper's Trophy & Jewellers Village Gift Shop National Sports Pineridge Auto Crow's Sports, Oshawa Avery-Dennison Adam Colville Mèlonie Allin A very special thank you to the family of the late Donald Henry for the generous contribution towards the Don Henry Memorial Atom Tournament, the hockey parents, Orono OMHA Novice and Atom players, their brothers, sisters and all other volunteers who worked to make these tournaments a great success. Orono Amateur Athletic Association @J PJ game, with the scoreboard empty, Aurora was awarded a penalty shot. Toros goal- tender Darren Sloane, easily stoned Aurora's shooter. It wasn't until the end of. the second that Aurora scored the first goal. The Toros tied the game in the third when Jason Morrison took a shot from the point and Mik Boisvert tipped it in. The Toros came back as Drew Sharp took a shot from the point into the corner and Andrew Oliver shot the puck to Ryan Garniss who easily slipped it by Aurora's goalie. Aurora came back quickly with a tying goal and put the game into overtime. Aurora won the game on a short- handed goal 3-2. The seventh game saw the Toros beat Aurora 2-1, with both of the Toros goals coming coming in the first period. Brian Mercer scored the first goal on a nice pass from Mik Boisvert. Jason Emond showed a lot of patience waiting waiting for the goalie to drop and put the puck in the top corner to give the Toros a 2-0 lead. Andrew Oliver and Ryan Garniss received assists. Darren Sloan made two big saves with less than three minutes to go to keep the game 2-1. With this win the series was tied, and an eighth game was needed to determine the winner of the series. The eighth game, which was played in Aurora, saw Aurora take an early 1-0 lead. It stayed that way until the third period when Shane Gonsalves tied it up with passes from Brooks Robinson and Zachery Vine. For the third time in the series the game ended in a tie. In overtime, overtime, Brian Mercer made a nice pass to Drew Sharp to put him on a breakaway. Drew made no mistake about it ending the series with a nice shot in the top corner stick side. The Toros now Newmarket for the finals. Dear Mr. Kelly: It is one of life's little mysteries that begs to be answered and it confronts me each time I enter the Garnet Rickard Recreation Complex. As a hockey parent that has been involved with the Clarington Recreational Hockey League for many years now, I would like to know what the situation is with the single trophy cabinet cabinet in the lobby of the complex. complex. Various organizations seem to display a variety of items from time to time and often things are left in as a 'filler' for lack of a better description. Bowmanville has been a hockey town for a good many years now. Unfortunately, visitors coming coming to the arena complex would not be aware of our hockey history as we seem to be hiding it in moldy closets under the bleachers and in forgotten corners of past participant's base- .ments. The C.G.H.L. for instance, has an array of trophies trophies that have been stowed away and never see the light of day. Yet each one represents represents some proud moment, some momentous effort on the part of players, teams or coaches and most certainly deserve a place in view of the public. The Bowmanville Eagles give out awards to their players every year and these are never on display for the fans to see. I am sure the figure figure skating club, Clarington Girls' Hockey Association and the men's leagues all have similar awards that remain uncelebrated. There is a good amount of wall space still available for trophy cabinets to be installed in the lobby. The main cabinet could be allocated allocated on a yearly basis to groups using the ice and secondary cabinets could be placed on the walls between the public washrooms for long term trophy display. If maintaining the contents contents of the cabinets became an issue, it could easily be the responsibility of the group given the use of the cabinet. Failure to keep displays displays dust free could result in the group losing their privilege. Anyone going to an arena knows how much time is spent waiting. One thing most do in arenas is to browse the trophy cabinets. 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