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We weren't going to offer any trite comments about this picture because we knew we'd just land ourselves in a heap of trouble...but we can't resist, so: it seems the 'Ecole © Secondaire Penetanguishene Secondary School cheerleaders are willing to bend over backwards to help inspire Endzone enthusiasm their football teams. Such enthusiasm seems to: have been helping the Senior squad, at least, who won their first two games before dropping to a powerful Collingwood Collegiate Institute last week. They'll have to try again against the same club today in Collingwood, as will their Junior al r---lUCitN CO ~~ i asi 1 counterparts, winless after two starts. The other local Senior crew, Midland Secondary School, tried to grab their first victory in their third start yesterday at MSS against Orillia's Twin Lakes Secondary School. Photo by Bob Murray Garry Forbes * Sports editor * (Almost) all are in action keep chugging along with all three making The Midland Athletics, the Midland Centennials and the Penetanguishene MS ee yitdeee Kings will continue their 1982/83 gays. Ontario Hockey Association campaigns this weekend -- and Carl Cowan will not. The Kings will try to get on their Georgian Bay Junior C cham- pionship horse tonight As the question of will spend this season where Cowan, one ofthe has been further a a ae cae province's premier complicated by another pie otniker The cape Junior C stars over the affiliation twist, the ak heen having, a past couple of seasons, three local clubs will rough time getting "\ going this season, losing their first three games including one to the Midland Centennials last Sunday in Penetanguishene. (The two local rivals went at it again last night in Midland, but results were unavailable at press time.) The Cents have been faring much better, adding one win to their victory over the Kings and allowing only one bad apple to spoil the batch -- that served up last Friday in their home opener. Tonight, they'll be off | Stars leave hoop loop to tangle with the The Midland Commodores will have to wait Huntsville Huskies of until Remembrance Day before a home date the league's north comes their way after the only team they section and Sunday were to host before that, the Barrie Brookdale they'll be back home for Stars, dropped from the Simcoe County a 7:30 p.m. test against Intermediate Mens' Basketball League ranks last year's league on Tuesday. finalists (now of the north division), the Bracebridge Bears. The same evening, the Kings will travel to Angus to meet the new south division foe Essa 80's. Monday, the Cen- tennials will move down the road to Stayner to take on another new entry, the Siskins. The area's OHA Major Intermediate A entry Midland Athletics will also be in action tonight, facing the Collingwood _--Shipbui- Iders for the second straight time in an 8:30 p.m. get-together at Midland Arena. The A's, who got off to a smashing start with a convincing rout of the formidable new entry Durham Huskies, were Brookdale, who were to play in Midland next Thursday, withdrew because, "Basically, (they had) a lack of organization," league president Jim Martin said yesterday. All Brookdale games will be scratched from the schedule and no points will be awarded the Orillia CC Panthers for their defaulted matchup against the now-defunct Stars last Thursday. The other local entry, Penetanguishene Dock Lunch, were to meet Brookdale in early November in Barrie. The withdrawal reduces the number of teams to nine. Both the Commodores and Dock Lunch played last night in, but results were unavailable at press time. Dock Lunch hosted Bradford, formerly the Alliston entry, and the Commodores were on the road in Stayner. The. Commodores, league defending champs, won their only previous game while Dock Lunch suffered a loss to Stayner in their L opener. Page 8, Friday, October 15, 1982 themselves smashed twice last weekend, losing two games and adding a couple of stalwards to the injury list. They'll be missing four regulars -- Wayne King, Tony Stone, Wayne Dixon and Hugh Robertson -- for tonight's game and probably for Saturday's trip to Barrie as well. But A's manager Shawn Stewart said yesterday there will still be a solid slate of 14 or 15. players ready for what promises to be another rough-and-t- umble squaring off with the Shipbuilders. While just about everybody but the ailing A's will be suiting up this weekend, Carl Cowan will have to be content on the viewers' side of the glass. Cowan, who has spent the past few seasons with the Kings and helped them to a string of Georgian Bay titles and an OHA _ bronze medal last season, has been a willing target of acquisition by the Athletics. He played in one exhibition game for the A's -- scoring two goals and two assists to help them beat the ship- builders -- but has since been the leading figure in a series of murky negotiations between the Kings and the A's. The Kings, now owned by Penetanguishene restauranteur Nick Boudouris, say they obviously can't force Cowan to play for their club and don't want to stand in his way. All the Kings want, Boudouris said yesterday, is a fair break and protection of their interests. Last year, the A's and Kings had an affiliation agreement by which the A's could, with the Kings' consent, draw players up for Inter- mediate service. The agreement hasn't been renewed this season, though, and may not be. Boudouris says he is willing to sign the proper OHA agreement forms -- now in the mail to the A's -- and will free Cowan to sign an A's card under the terms of the affiliation and for a previously agreed-upon sum of $400. The only other way the A's could obtain Cowan would be by outright release -- for which the A's_ would gladly compensate the Kings $400. But Boudouris and the Kings executive don't want to release the player for fear -of losing future compensation (Cowan still has a year of Junior eligibility left after this - season). Last Sunday, a new wrinkle began _ to » develop. The A's began discussing the possibility of an af- filiation arrangement with Centennials president Tom Garner, an arrangement which, says Stewart, would overall be more beneficial to the Intermediate club -- except, of course, for the likelihood that it would eut off access to Cowan. The A's would still have to sign an agreement with the Cents, but they can, because the clubs are.in the same community, draw players until the official documents are in order. Such a drawing , of players would im- mediately preclude any arrangement with the Kings and could ef- fectively shut off any further negotiation regarding Cowan, If Cowan doesn't play with any OHA club this season -- something everybody says they don't want to see happen te he would automatically become a free agent and master of his own destiny next don't think anybody wants to see a young man of his age and calibre not playing in this area," Boudouris said yesterday. 'The last thing we want to do is hold him back. We want him to do what he wants, but we have to be fair to ourselves, too." season. we But Cowan wants to play hockey this season, and obviously he wants to play hockey here. But until somebody lets go of something, that's not going to happen; for now, the ball is in everybody else's court but Cowan's. Looking to weekend Brian Marshall and the rest of the Midland Old- timers have been spending much of their time of late concentrating on the mechanics of practice, but beginning this weekend they'll have plenty of opportunity for more competitive exercise. They'll be travelling to Orillia this weekend for tournament play and, next Friday, will meet the rival Penetanguishene Brule Hotel Oldtimers in an exhibition matchup at Penetanguishene Arena. ati 2' gk) OG er thee