If~WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBWUARY 4, 1987. PAGE 17 SPORFTS WEEK, . Peew 4th t(c Strong goaltending helped the Brooklin- Whitby major peewees wmn their fourth tournament of the season i Liindsay, recently. Playing their best hockey yet, the Whitby AA team downed Toronto 'Villagers, Markham, Stratford, Mississauga and Orillia to capture the AA tournament. Whitby outscored their opposition 22-10 in the five games. Rob Martin had three goals 1Whi*tby t precisoe1 By JANET BROWNE The overwhelming ; ucess of Whitby's hfeiin skating teams was again made apparent last weekend when the three teamns icaptured top honors during the Whitby ilnvitational competition ~held at Iroquois Park. SThe junior and'novice 4teams, both Canadian champions for the past t.wo years, were each' hawarded first prize in the finals for their ~divisions. The pre- novice teamn placed fifth. There was a total iof 44 teams in the ~throughout Canada. Not surprisingly, the skaters were "quite tjpleased with their Ifvictories,p according to ~Cathy Dalton; the coach of the junior team, The ~:Ice Crystals. reels win )urn amen and seven assists while Derek Ells scored five Urnes and added three assists in -the five games. Mike Bolton had seven assists, Justin Cardwell had three goals and three assists and Clark Trolley two goals and three assists i the tournament for Whitby. Martin David scored twice and had two assists wbile John Catto scored' three goals and had two assists. Brad Thomnson also had three goals and added an. assist. John Emin had a goal and an assist while Greg Fawcett and Dave Wood each had two assists. Dan Ladouceur and Shaun Dawson were honored as Most valuable goalies in the tournament. They were assisted by the strong defensive play of Jeff Cane, John Malcolm and Chris Stevenson. The' Whitby team maintained its perfect tournament record with the Lindsay championship. eams- win lo.cal n skating. event to meet the team members that they will be competinfg against if they make it to the Canadian finals. " Each team must present a musical routine in which 20-28 skaters perform on the ice at one time. The teains are marked on the difficulty of the manoeuvres, the preciseness of step, and the footwork of skaters. This recent victory is just one more addition to» a long list of accompllshnients, in- cluding an impressive shoWing at Lake Placid recently . There, the junior, pre-novice and novice teains captured second, third and seconI place respectively, out of a total of 93 teams at' the prestigious event. February will continue to be busy for the teams, as the Bantams 2 up ~Whitby's mhajor AA ibantam hockey teamn 'has won the first two games in a best-of-five jeague playoff against ,ýrickering. On Sunday night, the team defeated Pickering -by a count of 5-1 at the Pickering Complex. Scoring for Whitby were David Grant with two goals and two assists, Bilan Munro with a goal and three assists, Keith Primeau with a goal and two assists. Tiin Weber netted a goal with help from Bilan Mueggler and Shawn Phair. SDave Mitchell was in net for the Whitby squad and stopped a penalty shot in- the third period ,with the score 4-1 in Whitby's favor. In the second gaine held at Iroquois Park on Monday night, Whitby had an easier ture of it, beating Pickering 6-0. Mitchell again played net for the Whitby squad. Scoring for Whitby- were Grant with two goals and singles by Pruneau, Shawn Phair, Tim Weber and Chris Guilbert. "We could hiave gone into double figures in that game," said coach Mike Pruneau. If Whitby- gets by Pickering in this first round, Primeau expects to ineet Markham in the> next round. In regular league action against SEE PAGE 19 Eastern Ontario Championships will take place at the ýend- of the month. If the junior and novice teains manage to place within the top three here, they will then head off to Quebec for the Canadian champion- ships. Anyone interested in seeing these fine athletes in action will be able to catch their performance on Feb. 13, at the Oshawa Generals game in Oshawa. M'ledg e t The Brookhin i.egion midget hockey club advanced to the second round of their elimination OMHA playoffs by beating Richmond Hill in two straight games. In game one, played last Wednesday at Iroquois Park, a goal by Justin Moore half way through the second period, was ail the home team needed to take the first game 1-0.- The game became quite tense in the third period. With five minutes remaining, and two Legion players in the penalty box, the visitors from Richmond 11111 put on tremendous pressure. But excellent penalty killing by Steve Wing, Derek Dalby and Paul Cross prevented the game from going into overtime. The experience of goaltender Tom Gosleigh surfaced in the last five minutes as he froze the puck at every opportunity to allow his penalty killers to get a breather. Tom stopped 18 shots to earn the shutout. HENRY STREET HIGH SCHOOL centre Brad Chalmers receives a pass during a junior tournament held at Henry >ast Saturday. Henry lost' to the McLaughlin Trojans by a.score of 45-37. SWin fil Game two, played in Richmiond Hill on Sunday, looked like it was going to be a carbon copy of game one as John Windover scored halfway through the second period froin a goalmouth scramble. With five minutes left in the period, Vinny Wright was awarded a penalty shot after he was pulled down from behind. The first scoring attempt on the penalty shot failed, when the Richmnond Hil goaltender smothered the puck. But the referee ruled that the goaltender had left his crease toc soon. Wright was given another opportunity and this time he made good, putting the puck between the goalies pads. Chris Fowlle scored the third Legion goal, with a hard drive froin the point. It appeared that Tom Gosleigh was going to get hiý second shutout in as many gaines, until the eight minute mark of: the third,. when a Richmond- 11111' player beat him fromn close in. Anderson aims for' LOSSA By MICHAEL LAPLANTE- ,With , basketball season drawing dloser and' dloser to the playoffs, Anderson's senior boys team has high hopes for LOSSA. There are six games left for the season, the last being played on. Feb. 20.* The number of points a teamà has obtained tjiroughout the league games determines the team's situation at LOSSA. Anderson faces tough competition. i-The Bowmanvilleý team is very good and Anderson would have to beat Bowmanville to get to DYSSA. 1The seniors,- to further prepare for LOSSA, played three exhibition games last weekend. With the help of players Drew Davidson and Rob Argallils, ACVI was able to win two of the three games. The first gaine was won- by ACVI against Central. It was a close gaine and by only two points,* Anderson' beat Central. Vanier lost to Anderson by 20 points and Kingston downed Anderson by 10 points.- The midgets from Anderson are stlll on a roll after their slow start. The teain played three games last weekr, defeating -Eastdale on Thursday, Sunset Heights on Tuesday and McLaughlin on Wednesday 6"4. rst round of playoffs 1 With less than a was too little, too late. both gaines. minute. to go in the Brookio Legion went on game. and the Legion to wi 3-1. The home team playing a man short, the Richmond 1111. coach puled his goaltender for an extra attacker, but it Troy Scanga and Warren Davidson were standouts on defense in now waits for the winner of the series between Pickering and Ajax- Pickering. Novices reach 'final of Pickering tournament The Whitby major novices played in the Pickering tournament January 24 and 25, making it ail the way to the championship gaine before losing to the host tein. The first gaine was against the Barrie Lions AAA team, an excellent game with a lot of back and forth action and the score tied at zero. With overtinie looming, Jeff Malcolmn and Brian Lodge set up Stewart Adain who scored with only 2:12 to gr, in the game. The Whitby teain then held on to keep. Barrie Off the scoreboard ,and Matthew Norton ea rned another shutout. The second gaine was against Streetsville, which Whitby had not played since last year when Streetsville defeated the Whitby teami n two tournament finals. Streetsville started where they left off last year taking an early two goal lead. Whitby fought back scoring twice in the last four minutes of the second period. The first was scored by Steve BIais on a pass from Jin Boyd and the second was scored when defenceman Josh Wilson got the puck up to Bilan Lodge at bis outskated everyone to put the tying goal into the net. Streetsville fought back but Whitby held them off and Steve Blais scored his second of the game unassisted with 3:02 minutes to go. The final score was 3 to 2 for Whitby. This put Whitby in the finals against Pickering. Pickering opened the scoring two minutes into the first period. Whitby scored a minute later when Sean Saunders picked the top corner on a pass fron Ryan Horwood, and Brian Scott to tie the game. That was all the scoring Whitby could SEE PAGE 19