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Baseball registration coming up soon It hardly seems possible to believe that with all the cold weather and the snow on the ground that anyone could even consider thinking about playing hall. But yes, the executive of Cartwright Minor Ball have been working like busy little beavers preparing for another ball season. So now is the time to get on down and register for another season of fun and February 19 and February 26, between 8:00 a.m. and noon have been confirmed for the t Minor Ball program. The registration will be ducted at the Blackstock Arena on both mornings. The association is also looking for volunteer coaches and assistants. If you are willing to help or need further information regarding registration, call the registrar (Garry Beechey) at 986-0035. excitement. dates for Saturday InA Rink Somewhere | By Jim Hugheon, Sportscaster The Sparta Network When a January cold snap locked all points east under a blanket of snow and ice, Geoff Sanderson sat in frozen Hartford, Connecticut, marveling at how the locals floundered. After all, t was just good road hockey weather in his Ix ...orh There are a few of them and they all have pretty good ice. Twenty-two-year-oid Sanderson is one of the NHL's emerging superstars, a fact often overlooked because he plays in relative obscurity, or Hartford, the places being one and the same. Perhaps appropriately his route to the NHL took him through a few places known only to family and friends as well - Pine Point, Hay River, High Level, St. Albert and Swift Current. Little wonder he wasnt fated by New York. The odyssey began in the company mining town of Pine Point, Northwest Territories, population 2,000, where pharmacist Aaron Sanderson set up business with his wife Sheila and began raising a family that came to Include four boys. Geoff spent his early days playing hockey at the local rink or even closer to home. "We could skate anytime, even in the streets on the hard-packed snow." He remembers about a country that obviously hadn't suffered the wrath of road salt. "The worst thing that could happen to us was a sand truck coming by." I's quite normal to grow up and disappear from your hx but 10 have your hometown disappear before you grow up is altogether unusual, but that's what happened to Geoff. When Cominco had no more use for the mine, Pine Point ceased to exist. The people left, the houses were moved, even the rink was disassembled and to Fort Resol moved on the Hay River near the shores of Great Siave Lake. obviously disenchanted with the cold weather it was the start of further ventures south. Next they dipped down into the provinces and spent five years In High Level, Alta., before settling In St. Albert, In the banana beh near Edmonton. They've been parked in the sunny south ever since. When Geoff scored more than 60 goals in bantam hockey, the Swift Current Broncos of the Westem League came calling - the first Indication he had that hockey might be vocation Instead of recreation - and three years later when he scored more than 60 goals In junior, the Hartford Whalers beckoned, although they waited till late in the second round to call. Three years later still, the Whalers have a potential 60-goal scorer in the NHL and a solid citizen who hasn't forgotten from whence he came. Last summer, Sanderson made his first trip back to Hay River In seven years. (He'd have gladly gone to Pine Point but couldn't pinpoint its location.) He was a guest at a track meet and spoke to kids in search of something to shoot for about staying in school and setting goals. A topic he's well versed in. Although his team has struggled, Sanderson hasn't, and he was Invited to play in the All-Star Game of the first time. he flew his family to New York for the occasion. it was a game in which Geoff's chikdhood heroes Mark Messier and Wayne Gretzky got to sult up beside the first and only Pine Point player to graduate from the Howie Meeker Hockey School to the All-Star Game. ("Well jumpin' Jiminy, folks, how about that!) There is some Irony to Sanderson's playing In Hartford, a city threatened with extinction by the decline in the arms and Insurance businesses. Despite Sanderson's penchant for folding up towns, however, there's not a city in the NHL that wouldn't welcome the sniper who's used 10 the cold. is sponsored by "Jim Hughson" YAMAHA (416) 9S6-4437 » They were sweeping for cash at Port Perry Curling Club's 11th annual cash spiel over the CUtwingion Tek of Skive Wison, Gary Jordan, Bob Mostgomeey and Tom weekend and the Rogers took home $1000 with a 5-2 win over Unionville Jim Bell In the A final. Donna Falrman of Square Boy Plzza presents trophy to the winning skip. Port Perry's Don Beaton had a great chance to advance to the A final but couldn't find "Blame It on the #$%# skip," said Beaton afterwards. find draw weight on his final shot. Don Giinz and his teem from Whitby Curling Club took the B side and $400 with 8 6-2 win over Port Perry's Ralph Fairman. With Don are Ron Allison, Bob Purdy and Fred Ruck. At left representing bonsplel sponsor Bell Canada Is John Bredin, who Is also vice president of Port Perry Mens Curling this year. Eagles up against it! The Precision Construction Midgets find themselves on the verge of elimination in OMHA week. MONTH'S SPECIAL Lube Fite: 26. 95 v] MICHELIN TIRE DEALER | Sales and Service FULL SERVICE GAS BAR quarter finals after dropping a pair of games in Milton last Monday night Port Perry came out on the short end ofa 10-6 shootout, falling behind only 116 seconds into the game and 2-0 just over a minute later. It was 4-0 before Daryl Bourgeois put Port on the board, converting a great goal mouth pass from Sean Ellis. Ian Shrigley also assisted. Milton then counted two more before Chad Kearns, from Craig Laird and Mike Labanovich; then Shrigley, from Bourgeois and Jason Phillips, cut the margin to 6-3. Another spurt by the home team put them up 8-3. then Shrigley with his second, assisted by Phillips and Bourgeois; and Bourgeois' second, assisted by Ellis and Shrigley, brought the Eagles back to within three again. A late major penalty to Port allowed Milton to score two more on the power play and complete a 10-6 win. Saturday night goals were harder to come by at both ends. James Paterson played an outstanding game in the Eagle net, but Milton was equal to anything Port Perry could muster offensively, and the Eagles were shut out 8-0. They now trail the series 3-0 with the fourth game Wednesday night at 8:30 at the Scugog Arena.