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* muy Scugog Citizen -- Tuesday, August 10, 1993 ZH Durham Pony Club team wins final meet The 'B' team of the Durham Pony club are from left Jaime Lesley with Ladybug, Lesley Harding, Andrea Smith and Beth Murray with Fiddlesticks. See story on the club's success. Junior C hockey The Central Ontario Junior C Hockey League will be down to five teams this year as the Lakefield Chiefs folded last week due to financial reasons. The owners of the Chiefs, Rick Ostler, Bob Lucas and Bill Wellman met July 31 and came to the conclusion then that the club would not able to operate this coming season. "The demise of the Chiefs has been precipitated by a continual decline of the economy, attendance at the gate, sponsorship support and fundraising events such as the annual golf tournament, bingos and baseball tdurnaments. This has been occurring over the past six or seven years until all reserves and profits were depleted," said the owners in a statement last week. The folding of the team means the Central League will have to draw up another schedule for the five remaining teams (Port Perry, Uxbridge, Hockey League now at 10 teams With registration now complete, the executive and players of the Scugog Hockey League are eagerly awaiting the start of their thirteenth' into the arena, the season officially begins with the Annual Team Draft Night on August 20, 1993, starting at 7:30 p.m. at the Kinsmen Hall. season. The Draft always involves This year will see excitin great interest as Team changes as the League expands Members are selected, stories to a ten team format. of past moments of greatness Consequently, 25 Scugog Area Residents have been added to the SHL membership. Faithful Sunday morning fans will see the return to Scugog Arena of a number of former Minor Hockey and MoJack players. Although the ice has yet to go PORT PERRY MINOR SOFTBALI Sealing Durward Driveway J Homéstead Fumiture, or. Van Ci 's Past Durham n's Towing, Bac Buick, Bel Pineridge Il 905; are shared, and teams try to avoid the "Grosvenor Curse"! Continue to watch for news of the SHL beginning in September and players, don't forget to attend Draft Night on Friday, August 20, 1993, as the 93-94 Hockey Season begins! md DISTRICT ASSOCIATION iH sacl 2 by Heather McCrae The Durham Pony Club hosted the Central Pony Club Prince Phillip Games Final Meet held at Dreamcrest Equestrian Centre on Monday, August 2, The Prince Phillip Games are a team competition played by Pony Clubs around the world using teams of five riders and five ponies, four of whom participate in each game. If one club is short a player or has an extra one, mixed teams are formed with members from different clubs. Fun, horsemanship and sportsmanship are the objects of the Games. The "B" Team of the Durham Pony Club came in first place at the Meet and first overall at the end of the season. This talented team comprised of Beth Murray, Jamie Alloway, Andrea Smith and Lesley Harding, is noW eligible to compete at the CNE on August 28. The: Club's "C* team, consisting of Lisa Alloway, Alexis Bradbury, Matthew Morrison and Katie Murray placed second at the end of the season and the "A" team, comprised of Lisa Reid, Stephanie Jensen, Erin Quinn, Angela Mercer and Tennille Matthews finished third overall, a fine showing by all the riders. Pony Clubs competing at this popular event were from Saddlewood, Huronia, Durham and Eglinton. ' Pony Club members can compete in the PPG's right up until they are fifteen years old, then can go on and still compete in mounted games called The Masters, up until their twenty-first birthday. The Durham and Uxbridge/ Scugog Pony Clubs both have teams that qualified on Monday, enabling them to compete at the CNE. Representing the teams from the Durham Pony Club are Daina Codlin, Keith Reid, Tricia McCourt, Trini Jabusch and Stephanie Inglis. And in the Uxbridge/Scugog Club the riders are Robyn Ginou, Blair Trotter, Rebecca Sterritt, Kawartha, Tynedale, Toronto/North York, Baltimore Hills, Uxbridge-Scugog, Dani D lly and Wendy Benns. : Good luck to all the riders. Chiefs bow out of league Bobcaygeon, Bowmanville and Little Britain) MoJack general manager Murray Parliament said he expects the League will hold a meeting by the end of this week, and he will suggest the schedule be 32 games with the bottom club missing the playoffs. . He said it is too late to attempt to find another team for the coming season. As for next year, he said it's a possibility, but at this time, he knows of no centre logking to enter the Central Junior C Loop. The owners of the Chiefs had hoped to raise enough money this through weekly minutes of upsetting the eventual League champion Bowmanville Eagles in the opening round of the playoffs. Ci ting on the decisi to fold the club, Bill Wellman said "it's a sad day for us, and it's really too bad because we had had a team returning this year that had the potential to take the All-Ontario Junior C title. One of our players, Allan Medhurst, took the top Junior C player in all of Ontario last ~ season, winning the Canstar Player of the Year Award, and scholarship at the Annual OHA Awards Dinner." He went on to say that it is a sad day for Lakefield as it loses ther of its traditions. bingos, but the crowds were not large enough to make a profit. It costs about $30,000 to operate a Junior C hockey team for a season, and even those teams that have strong corporate sponsorship are always looking for ways to Wellman sounded a warning to Junior hockey teams everywhere by noting that Lakefield's population make up «is changing to a higher percentage of seniors who have little or no interest in hockey. The numbers in the Minor Hockey system are declining which makes it tougher to get Junior C players from the home town. -~ Also, there is more competition for hockey players from the A and B Junior 1 , colleges, universitie and high school teams. Wellman said that any player already registered to play for the Chiefs this coming season will be given every opportunity to find a new team and the owners will assist inigetting the players' releases. Baseball Assoc. to host tourney The Scugog Baseball Association will be hosti raise additional funds. Last February, the three owners, who live outsid Lakefield, offered the community a chance to take over the team, virtually without charge. The owners offered all the equipment, uniforms and One interest, but jin the end, no a six team tournament this coming weekend at the Port Perry Fairgrounds. The competition.will be among Bantam Select teams (ages 14 dnd 15) from Port Perry, Uxbri ©, Canpin| , Woodville, 0 eaverton. Sp rs are more than welcome to come out and see the young stars of the - All Equipment Supplied SALMON * RAINBOW * BROWN TROUT * LAKE TROUT + REBEL» Faking Charters i 6 Call and Compare Rates before Booking Your Next Charter PORT DARLINGTON MARINA Bowmanville (416) 986-0842 earl | future. Admission to the games is free. Port Perry's entry will face Oakwood this Friday evening at 6:00 PM to get the tournament started, and the Port team will see action on Saturday at 11:00 AM against Woodville. Competition will . be divided into an A and B division with the championship games slated for Sunday afternoon. [I< I FeIVIN ToT o TE] ond ROSES ele]