PAGE 18, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1981, WIIITBY FREE PRESS Whitby Free Press SPOR TS WEEK Sun Life waitg for bonspiep By STEPHEN event it would be a real Ashby. decided from one year vious years," he said. proposai handed in to 64 rinks vying for thE GREENAWAY pity for them, 15 years to the next. "They may, however Sun Life in the new year $21,300 in prizes. Free Press Staff of hard work down the The five-year contract "This year they ex- be interested in a iesser would not be along the The Sun Life Assur- drain," said Savage. ran out in 1979 and for pressed that they didri't expenditure." same "6super cornpeti- "In other words, not ance Company of Cana- However, Bil Sher, a the past two years spon- want to continue on in tive" format. as much money will be da have dropped their pubie relations repre- sorship has been the same format as pre- Ashby said that the This year there were involved." sponsorship of the Whit- by Curling Club's an- nual Sun Life Bonspiel, or have they? Recent reports that Sun Life had decided to drop sponsorship of the event which, this year, was the third largest bonspiel in Ontario money wise, is not as cut and dried as it first may have seemed. Last week a report came out that the com- pany did indeed call a halt to the sponsoring of the WCC event after having done so for the past seven years, ever since Dunlop Tires pulled out. According to this year's Sun Life winner Paul Savage of Dundas Granite, Sun Life put more money into the Whitby bonspiel than any other sponsor he knew of in Ontario. With the 50 per cent raise in prize money over last year, Sun Life chipped in $14,000 of the $21,300 in total prize money. "I wasn't expecting it at all," said Savage whose rink pocketed $,000 as the main event champion. "There was no indica- tion of a problem when I talked with the Sun Life representatives on the ice after my win." This year's bonspiel finished just two weeks ago. "The real key to the success of the bonspiel is the people at the club who do a lot of work. If the club.can't get a new sponsor for next year's sentative for Sun Life, said that things were not really any different this year than any other year. "As far as I know Sun Life have asked the organizers to make up a proposal for next year's event," said Sher. He went on to say that once they received the club's proposal they would then make the decision of whether or not to sponsor next year's bonspiel. While Sher said that Sun Life would not be adverse to seeing some changes made should the organizers want to make them he said that the proposal could be turned down. "If it is not in line with our current company policies, regretfully, we would have to decline sponsorship." The annual Molson's Classic in Toronto offers the most prize money in Ontario and the Thun- der Bay 'spiel, hosted this year for the first time by Sun Life Assur- ance Company, offers the most to a winning rink of $8,000. * Whitby Curling Club president Bob Ashby said that the club would be presenting a new pro- posal to Sun Life some time early in the new year "after we put all our ideas together." "Sun Life originally signed a contract with us to sponsor the bon- spiel for five years but then they decided to do the sponsorship on a year to year basis," said A sprawling Brockville defender could not put this Blades ai- to defeat them 2 tpl in a close match. tacker off the puck during the Trillium Tournament held this past weekend at the Art Thompson Arena. The Blades were later knocked out of further play by the Lon- The Brockville goalie stopped this one but the Blades went on don Dilts. Bramton capture A and C titles The second annual Trillium Girl's Hockey Tournament, hosted by the Whitby Blades, is over for another year after having attracted some 29 teams to Pick- ering's Art Thompson Arena for three days of competition. Each team was pro- mised at least two games. If they won the ' first game the team would advance to the Whitby Iroquois Indoor Soccer League Games Played December 12 SQUIRT DIVISION Frank Real Estate 10 Whitby Rotary Mark Solominides 3 Craig McConnell Casey Halladay 2 Robbie Sutton Richard Gordon 2 Dave Parfitt Evan Sandilands 1 Geoff Williams 1 Joseph Kitchen 1 Scottish Bake Shop 7 Kim Crouch Collar Brandon Nussey 2 Jared Stevens Jason Millike 2 Gavin Dowse Troy Cowan 2 Christopher Dewdney Wayne Anthony Family Trust 4 Shoppers Drug Mart Craig McConnell 2 Michael Wollf James Davidson 1 Scott Wanner Charles Tozer 1 SQUIRT STANDINGS Scottish Bake Shop Family Trust Kim Crouch Collar Frank Real Estate Whitby Rotary Shoppers Drug Mart ATOM DIVISION Oshawa Meat Products Jim Stolar GA 12 12 16 17 21 14 3 MacCauley Furniture 1 Dean Mizen championship series in each of the three divisions. The losing team would then drop down into the consola- tion rounds. After that, a loss in either championship or consolation series would drop the team from fur- ther competition. Teams came from all over Ontario and as far away as Deerbourne, Michigan and Montreal. David Flook David Watson Whitby Mall Restaurant Mike Baccelliere Geoff Hull Toby Martin Kiwanis Luigi Pepe ATOM STANDINGS Dairy Queen Oshawa Meat Products« Family Kartway k MacCauley Furniture Whitby Mall Restaurant Kiwanis PEE WEE DIVISION George Cini Barber Shop Danny Love John Curry Tottem Sims Hubicki Brian Watson PEE WEE STANDINGS Van Hoof Construction George Cini Barber Shop Wiggers Furniture Totem Sims Hubicki In the "A" division championship Bramp- ton Canadettes defeated the Toronto Devils 3 to 1 in a shoot out. The shoot out became necessary after both teams went through three regula- tion periods and an overtime. Each team was allowed three shooters and the most goals won. In the consolation round of the "A" divi- sion Orton Driver Ser- vices beat Burlington 3 to 2, also in a shoot out. Toronto Arrows cap- tured the "B" division title handing the London Gems a 2 to 1 upset. Both the Gems and Burlington had been undefeated throughout their regular schedule up until the tournament. The Mississauga Chiefs tooks the "B" consolation prize han- Chris Vesters Dairy Queen Gene Rainey Colin Manson Jeff Finn Family Kartways Warren Milburn Sherry Becker Trevor Lukas Dean Cray GP 4 4 4 4 4 4 W L 3 0 2 0 2 1i 1 2 1 3 0 3 GF 14 15 22 9 il 9 GA 7 11 14 10 14 19 6 Wickers Furniture 5 Dave Crouch 1 Doug Love Lino Iantomasi Brian Cray 1 Van Hoof Construction 1 Mike Davidson GP 4 4 4 4 W L 3 0o 2 1 2 2 o 4 GF 13 22 20 11 GA 8 17 20 21 dling the Lakefield Ramparts 3 to1. The Brampton Cana- dettes "C" team cap- tured their division title with a 1 to 0 overtime victory against Corn- wall. Kanata beat Vanier to take the "C" consola- tion trophy 2 to 0. The host Blades de- feated Brockville 2 to 1 in their first game of the day. Lois Pitre put both Whitby goals past the Brockville netminder. Margaret Fraser picked up two assists and Karen Moloney got one. The win advanced the Blades to the "B" divi- sion championship series where they were knocked out of competi- tion by their old arch rivals the London Diits by a score of 5 to 2. Joan "Skeeter" Mayer picked up a goal and an assist. Pitre not- ched her third goal of the series and Moloney and Fraser picked up their second and third assists respectively. The M.V.P. of the tournament was Kathy Wythe of the "A" champion Brampton Canadettes. M.V.G. was Julie Norton of the Toronto Devils. Both trophies were donated by Peacock Sports in Whitby. The tournament itself was sponsored by Labatt's Canada. _qw GP 4 4 4 4 4 4 c &&& V ý4 y ý-. - - e - -- - - ---- - ---- F