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Missed it by that much Despite the efforts of Centennials defen- ceman Terry Cameron and goaltender Brad Bumstead, the Penetanguishene Kings scored their Georgian Bay Junior C Hockey League on this play on their way to a 7-6 victory in game Tuesday at Midland Arena. The two Garry Forbes * Sports editor * clubs will go at Penetanguishene Arena. Game time is 3:30 it again Sunday at Kings win see-saw battle by Garry Forbes After the last insult was hurled at the referee, after the last punch was thrown, after the last taunt from one member of the crowd of about 600 was tossed in the direction of another section, the final statistic, the ultimate verdict, the only thing that really means anything, the score, remained posted on the Midland Arena scoreboard. It read: Home 6. Emotions were still high after the game, of course, long after the lights on the scoreboard were shut off. Because this was no ordinary hockey tussle; it was a Georgian Bay Junior C hockey league game between the Midland Centennials and the Penetanguishene Kings. The simple fact that a hot rivalry exists bet- ween the two clubs Visitors 7, », ©\ Angela Schmidt wasn't enough on Tuesday night, however. They had to make it even more exhausting by taking it right to the wire after major comeback efforts by both squads. What's more, it was an important game on its own. The win boosted the Kings into a second-place tie with the Huntsville Huskies -- only one point behind the league-leading Bracebridge Bears -- to by Garry Forbes For a while there, Angela Schmidt had a hard time working up enthusiasm for the 1982 World Cup _ Cross- Country Skiing Championships. Her goal was -- and still is -- to show well in the World Cham- pionships, "the big one", as the 21-year-old Midlander describes it, which will be held in Norway in mid- February. Last weekend in Telemark, Wisconsin, however, Schmidt changed her attitude. She scored a second- place finish in the Canada-U.S. challenge known as the Gitchi Gami Games, nailing down a spot as one of the and kept the Cen- tennials in a dismal and disappointing -- holding pattern in fifth. Both coaches com- plained loud and long about the apparent inconsistency of referee Sandy Proctor's han- dling of matters, but, in the end, it was a matter of perspective. Judge Tom Garner, the Centennials coach, counted it as Proctor nails Cents two periods, Proctor nails Kings one midto period. Judge Ron Marchildon saw _ it Proctor nails Kings one, Proctor nails Cents one, and one split round. Midland started off the game with 16 minutes in minors in the first period while the Kings collected only eight. Penetanguishene led 3-1. In the second period, the Kings out-penalized the Cents 18-10 -- again an eight-point dif- ferential -- and the Cents orld Cup three women skiers on the Canadian National team which will set out Saturday for World Cup races in Germany and France over the following weeks. Schmidt's second- place finish at Telemark came a week after a first-place finish in another qualifying event at Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. There, she posted a 16:00.2 time for five km., almost four minutes better than Shirley Firth of Banff, Alta. Sharon Firth was third in that event. At Telemark, Schmidt skied to a 16:26.2 time, less than six minutes back of Sharon Firth and just better than Shirley. Schmidt's two finishes gave her a spot on the Canadian team with the Firth sisters, plus two men, Pierre Harvey and Richard Weber. The five will set out for a 10 km. competition at Klingethal, East Germany Jan.-9, and a five km. compétition six days later at Lebresse, France. Schmidt is no stranger to in- ternational competition. She's travelled to Europe for races the past three years, but never this early in the season. This time, she'll be there for New Year's, her 22nd birthday (Jan. 6) and, she hopes, some World Cup points (points are earned by ®@ Cont'd pg. 10 pulled ahead 6-4 by the end of that frame. The third period had Penetanguishene _pic- king up six minors and Midland eight. Unfortunately for the Cents, however, Ed Cooper -- who ran up a game total of 31 minutes -- was assessed nine minutes plus a game misconduct in one helping for his part in a third-period fight with Chris Anderson. Anderson picked up four minutes, the Cents were shorthanded for the difference of five minutes, and the Kings came up with the tying and winning goals. "It just makes me sick when they won't let you play hockey,"' Garner said afterward. "It was pathetic." Kings coach Ron Marchildon was, despite the win, no more im- pressed with the of- @ Cont'd pg. 17 Today Sidelines/10 Haughton stars in MSS basketball win/12 Ski Tracks/13 Silver Stick set to go/14 Friday, December 25, 1981, Page 9