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! www.durhamregion.com THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, DECEMBER 3,2003 PAGE 11 Œf )t Canadian Statesman iCIarington's Award-Winning Newspaper Since 1854 PS December 3,2003 infodurhami sgioii.com Bowmanville skaters are among the best in Eastern Ontario A number of strong performances turned in at Sectionals BOWMANVILLE - The medal podium became a familiar destination for members of the Bowmanville Figure Figure Skating at the 2004 BMO Financial Financial Group Skate Canada Sectionals for Eastern Ontario. The Bowmanville pairs team of Rebecca Rebecca Marcinek and Rieki Stone earned bronze medals by placing third in the Juvenile Pairs category. In only their second season as partners, they add this accomplishment to last year's title of Ontario SlarSkate Champions in Introductory Pairs. Together, they are coached by Tracy Tulton and Jean- Michel Bombardier, and individually they are coached by Tutton and Myke Gillman. Marcinek, 10, is a Grade 5 student at Courtice North Public School. She has been skating only four years, which pales in comparison with her achievements. Stone, 14, is a Grade 9 student at Courtice Secondary School. He has been skating with the Bowmanville club for 10 years, and continues to excel each and every season. He also volunteers his time as a valuable Program Program Assistant, helping to teach the children in Bowmanvillc's CanSkale Rebecca Marcinek and partner Ricki Stone earned a bronze medal in the Juvenile Pairs category category at Sectionals. Program. In the Senior Ladies category of Sectionals, Bowmanville's Heather Geboers captured first place and the gold medal once again. Geboers has been the Senior Ladies Champion of Eastern Ontario for four straight years, and placed 16th at last year's Canadians. Canadians. She will now go on to represent our region' at the 2004 Canadian Championships in Edmonton, Alberta from Jan. 5 to 12. Geboers is a member of the Bowmanville Bowmanville Figure Skating Club, and currently currently trains at the Canadian Ice Academy Academy in Mississauga. She is coached by Kathy Cruickshank, Steven Sugar and Robert O'Toole, with choreography by Cruickshank and Diana Flynn-Knapp. In addition to being among the top figure figure skaters in Canada, she is currently a student in the Bachelor of Administrative Administrative Studies Program at York University, University, and a Skate Canada Professional Professional Coach. Also achieving gold with a first place finish was 10-year-old Lindsay Akot in the Pre-Juvenile Ladies flight. Akot has been figure skating since the tige of five, and says she loves skating skating fast and practising to achieve the goals she sets for herself. She not only achieves her goals, but exceeds them. In addition to being this year's Pre- Juvenile Ladies Champion of Eastern Ontario, in previous trips to the Eastern Eastern Ontario StarSkate Championships, Akot was the 2002 Pre Preliminary Ladies gold medallist, and the 2003 Preliminary Ladies bronze medallist. These successes helped earn her a spot at last year's Provincial Championships, Championships, where she represented Eastern Eastern Ontario. A French Immersion student student at Dr. G.J. MacGillivray Public School, she is coached by Tutton and Gillman. To round out all of Bowmanville's triumphs at this year's Sectional Championships, Marcinek came home a double medallist.in addition to her pairs medal, she earned a bronze A number of skaters from the Bowmanville Figure Skating Club turned in strong performances at the 2004 BMO Financial Group Skate Canada Sectionals for Eastern Ontario that were held in Ottawa. Ottawa. From left are Rebecca Marcinek, Heather Geboers and Lindsay Lindsay Akot with their various trophies and medallions. IS lüg medal for her solo performance in Pre- Juvenile Ladies. Results from the 2004 BMO Financial Financial Group Skate Canada Sectionals Eastern Ontario held in Ottawa included: included: Heather Geboers, Senior Ladies, 1st; Tina Cumby, Junior Ladies, 11th; Shayla Brown, Junior Ladies, 12th; Whitney Greentree, Novice Ladies, 9th; Jonathan Mills, Pre-Novice Men, 9th; Stefanie Kadykalo, Pre-Novice Ladies Flight 1, 14th; Christine Kadykalo, Pre-Novice Ladies Flight 2, 14th; Lindsay Akot, Pre-Juvenile Ladies, 1st; Rebecca Marcinek, Pre- Juvenile Ladies, 3rd; Carly Morishita, Pre-Juvenile Ladies, 6th; Rebecca Marcinek/Ricki Stone, Juvenile Pairs, 3rd; Carly Morishita/Jonathan Mills, Juvenile Pairs, 4th; MacKenzi Newman, Newman, Juvenile Ladies, 16th. Maccarone a big part of Eagles' success Talented rookie helps extend current winning streak to nine games BY BRAD KELLY .Sports Editor BOWMANVILLE - The best example example of an oxymoron might be the label of 'little' Adam Maccarone. It's hard to imagine anyone listed at 6-foot-1 and 220 pounds being re- : ferred to as little. But that's the contradiction the impressive Eagles' rookie forward faces, trying to play in the shadow of older brother Matt, a former first round draft choice of the Windsor ; Spitfires of the OHL. But while big brother - Matt is • listed at 6-foot-?", 229 pounds - toils ' in the 'O', little brother is starting to carve out a place for himself in the Provincial Junior A Hockey League. Maccarone turned in another solid effort in an easy 7-0 drubbing of the Syracuse Stars on home ice Sunday night, which followed an easy 12-5 win in Peterborough against the Bees Saturday night, where he scored once and added an assist. As for the struggle to gain his own identity, Maccarone is exercising exercising some patience. "1 hope to shake it sooner or later," he said with a laugh of the little little brother label. "I'm pretty much known as Matt's little brother, and that's OK." Maccarone, a 16-year-old Whitby resident, raised his output to 4-11-15 in 27 games following the weekend. A ninth round draft pick of the Kingston Frontenacs, the Grade 11 student at All Saints Catholic Sec ondary School is one of an impressive impressive crop of rookies with the Eagles this year. Two of the others, James Neal and Chris Wood, were teammates with the Whitby Wildcats minor midget team last season. "He's a strong kid," said coach Curtis Hodgins of one of Macc a rone's biggest attributes. "He's like the other 16-year-olds that could work on his consistency and defensive defensive part of the game, but he is blessed with a lot of natural talent and you can see he's getting better with each week that goes by." As time goes by, Hodgins expects Maccarone to be a "dominant player" player" in the league. Adam Maccarone One of the biggest things the rookie has benefited from this season season is quality ice time. There hasn't been the sit, watch and learn mentality mentality with the Eagles' rookies. All have played significant minutes, which has helped contribute to their confidence. confidence. "It's comforting when the coach guarantees you some ice time," said Maccarone. "You just have to show him what you can do with it and hopefully it will increase." Right now, there isn't enough ice time to go around for all of the players players who are contributing to the success success of the team. The weekend sweep ups their winning streak to nine games, as the Eagles have opened a seven-point bulge over third place Kingston by improving to 18-7-2-3. Only the Wellington Dukes are better in the East Conference Conference with a 24-3-3-3 mark. The Eagles and Dukes meet in Wellington on Friday night. Sunday, the Eagles host the Cobourg Cougars at 6:30 p.m. THE SCOOP - Rookie James Neal continues to impress, scoring four times against Syracuse. Matt Caruana, Justin Caruana and Steve Seedhouse had the others...Goaltender Daniel Gould- ing stopped 25 shots to earn the shutout...Colin Baker led the attack in Peterborough collecting a hat trick, while Brad Dormiedy and Neal.had two each. Sean Brackin had four assists...Speaking of goals, Kyle Naderer had one from long range Sunday night in the Shoot-To- Win contest between the second and third periods. Not bad for a goalie on the major atom A Toro team...The Eagles have added former Port Hope Predator assistant coach Ken Cain to the staff. 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