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a a permet IH Serr rn ET oA TE. oT S | ad vo The Penetanguishene Kings had 65 chances to move into a first-place lie in the Georgian Bay Junior C Hockey League during their game against host Parry Sound Shamrocks Tuesday night. But Parry Sound goaltender Cec Gosse thwarted all 65 chances, plus three more, as the Shamrocks came up with a 3-1 victory and left the Kings scrat- ching their helmets. Penetanguishene goaltender Ken Dunlop allowed only three of 27 shots past. Brian Forget scored the lone Kings goal with assistance from Blair McReynolds and Dave Robillard. MCC wins playdown Midland Curling Club advanced to the Southern Ontario Ladies Curling Association Division 3 Tankard playdowns after defeating seven con- tenders in the District 10 playdowns early this week at the Barrie Essa Rd. Curling Club. The two-rink Midland combination hammered Stroud with a combined score of 19-13 in Tuesday's. final. They'll now advance to the Division playdowns in Parry Sound March 4, and, if successful there, will go on to the Southern Ontario Tankard Championships. Leading the Midland attack in this week's action was the rink of Lynn Morton, which recently placed fourth in the Southern Ontario Ladies' Curling Championship in St. Catharines. The other rink, led by skip Gwenn Milley -- who was competing in an SOLCA event for the first time -- had not competed together before the playdowns. Others in the Morton rink are Vivian Shaw, Marg Bourgeois and Diane Vollick. Roun- ding out the Milley rink are vice Doreen McCurry, second Jackie Gyte and lead Marylynne Beauvais. The two rinks com- bined to dump Base Borden 20-12 in their opening matchup on Monday (Morton won 8- 5, Milley 12-7). Tuesday morning they defeated Barrie Country Club 21-11 (Morton 8-5, Milley 13- 6), and finished things off with the victory over Stroud (Morton 15-5, Milley 4-7). - Bid fortop eludes Kings | The Kings are now two points back of the leading Bracebridge Bears with each club having nine games remaining. The Kings were missing league-leading scorer Carl Cowan, who received a gross misconduct in Sunday's game against the Midland _Centennials. Cowan will also be out for tonight's game, a home-ice encounter with the third-place Huntsville Huskies. Game time is 8:30 p.m. The Centennials will also be playing host tonight against the Huskies of Haliburton. That one also starts at 8:30. Both clubs will be on the road Sunday -- the Kings will take on the Indians in Gravenhurst and the Cents will travel to Parry Sound. Wednesday's sche- duled Centennials matchup in Oro against the 77's was snowed out. f- Championship event. 26th. setting out for Oslo. Edmonton. XN Schmidt Be off to Bi Worlds Angela Schmidt is off for Norway and the World Cross-Country Ski Championships. The Honey Harbour native, now a resident of Midland, skiied to third-place finishes in the 5 km. and 10 km. events at the recent Canadian Championships in Edmonton. And, despite missing the 20 km. event due to illness, was named to the four-woman, three- man Canadian National entry in the World The Worlds are slated to begin witha 10 km. womens' race Feb. 19, a 5 km. event on the 22nd, a four-by-five km. relay on the 24th, and cap off with a gruelling 20 km. race on the The team was scheduled to leave last night for Vaja, Sweden, where they'll compete against the U.S.A. team on Wednesday and Thursday, and warmup for the big one with an international meet next Saturday before Joining Schmidt on the womens' team are Sharon and Shirley Firth of Banff, Alta., and Esther Miller of B.C. The twin sisters finished 1-2 ahead of Sch- midt in both the 5 and 10 km. events in One of the World Championship races will count asa points race in the World Cup series. Schmidt is currently ranked 21st in the World Cup standings. . Sure step A young member of the Hurons Gymnastics Club's developmental program takes a few careful steps along the balance beam with a little in help from her instructor during a recent practice session at Parkview School in Midland. The club's com- Garry Forbes * Sports editor * petitive section trains out of Corpus Christi School in Penetanguishene, and several members were successful last weekend's Metro-West Regional qualifying meet in Toronto. For more, see page 10. ¢Photo by Bruce Finlayson). Athletics still in good shape The Barrie Flyers' 8-4 victory over the Orillia Terriers Wednesday in Barrie didn't help the Midland Athletics' chances of making the OHA Major Inter- mediate Hockey League playoffs. Then again, there's no reason for the A's to panic yet. The Midlanders, who finished on rock bottom last year with only two wins and a tie all season, will get an opportunity to pick up their 11th win of the season tonight with a shot at the back- peddling Terriers in Orillia. A win tonight will lift the A's into a three-way tie for fifth, only two points back of fourth- place Owen Sound Greys. The A's only have three games left after that, and if they're tied for a playoff position when the smoke clears a week from Sunday, they're almost sure to get into the playoffs on the basis of the league's drive campaign Sunday, when the powerhouse tiebreaking formula (goals for plus goals against divided by goals defending champion for). Georgetown Raiders The Athletics will stop by for an 8 Pm: continue their stretch- visit. | oda 4 Leitch family tops alpine event/8 Pollard's still in control/ 9 Gymnastics Corner/10 Sportscene/10 Pin Chatter/11 ESPSS tourney set to go/12 Friday, February 5, 1982, Page 7 a ne "