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Whltby Fre Press, Wednlesday. Mardi 22, 1995 Page 23 Ringette teams wiln sil ver, bronze .H appy 25th THESE HUNGRY SPECTATORS watch closely as a cake Lmarking the 25th anniversary of Whftby ringette is divided Up. Ault Foods also provided 'Flinistones Push-Ups' for the oelebration, heki March 12 at Luther Vipond Memonial -Arena in Brooklin. Photo by Mark Reosor. VMItby Free Pros Bantamns claini Newmar..ketie A Whitby houa. ieagiie bantain teain won the championship of thei.29th annual Newmarket houa. eag-- tournament over the weknd. The teim, sponsored by Canadiçn TMre, downed Markham 2-1 in a thrilling final' Gaine one saw Whitb defeat Lindsay 4-1. Wayne Pdc ard had three goals and Neil Archaumbault the. other. Whitby downed ichmond Hill 6-2. Richard had two goals, Sean Donnelly, Archaumbault, John Farrugia and Grahamn Leney rounded out the. scoring. G;ymnasts -first at Niagara Cup levent Two Whitby ymnasts, mem- bers of G *in%=natics, were first aill-roundli their divisions ut the Niagara Cup i Buffalo, N.Y. March 10-13. Michelle Totz, 12, was tops ::merg more than 100 competi- torsinti, evel 9 category. 5h. was flrst in floor routine, third on beain, fifth on uneven bars and lOth on vault. Christine Dorrepaal, 10, out- distanced 152 otiier competitors Mx the level 8 category. 5h. was firat on uneven bars and beam. third in floor routine mnd sixth ni vault. Ini the tournamnent championshpgi hty got on the board flrst when Donneliy and Leney teamed- up on a two-on-one break, witii Donnelly converting a beautifulpass from Leney for the. go-ahead goal. However, midway througii the thid period, Markham managed to score to pull even and set up an exciting finish. With less than a minute to Play, Whitby forced play in the Markham end and imaged to get control of the puck. Donnely's shot was blocked by the. Markham goaltender, the. rebound came back te Donn.lly who was only able to kick the puck back at the sprawling goaltender. The puck found its way off the goalie'à stick and up and over rolig off bis back and into the coen net with 33 seconds ieft on Whitby tiien held off a rolentiess.Markham attack in the final seconds to édaim.the championship. Goaltender Jonathan Clancy was named tournament MVP for the bantam division. Otiier team, members who competed in the ýtournament were :Austin Piehl, Chris Gaudette, Keith Pearson, Tyler McDouga]i, Kyle Merriman, TIm Hussey, Matthew Gahna, Mike Grabowski and Joel Gingras. The team is coached by Moe Richard, with assistant coaches Lsrry Gaudette and Brad Archiaumbault. The. Whitby teain had previously fallen just short of a cbampion"ip et a tournament in Dundas. Tine te3amspos e b 9iae custom Skate Gare, starildwith a 4-0 victoy ver Fergus, with shutout oatending from Ricii Sagan and goals from Ryan Clumpus, Steven Race,' John Farrugia and Matt Wu. The hoot team froin Dundas loet 12-1 te Wbitby Galsorers were Race witii thr u John Lang and Brent Pinch each with two-, and inie goals by Richard, Derek Van«?Egmond and Aiden Lav.rty. Paul Clark was in goal for the win. Whitby's third game was a 3-1 win over a big Brampton teain. AUl three goals came fiom Brent Pïnch. mhe championship game was a 4-3 loas in a rematch wit1' Bramnpton. Làaverty had two goals and Clumpus the. other as Whitby gave up two late goals that tied the. gae and then lot in the extra period.. Ini second round playoff action on Marcii 15 li the North York league,Witby rebéunded ~,o their disappointme.ntin -Dundas to defeat rival Foreat II by.,a score of 3-2. 'boals l>-Van Egmoeid, Lang and Pinch carried Whitby to victory.in game. <me-of the best-of-three se. , . Whitby hosts OMHA finaqmw-vls Whitby will host and partici- Ë ate intiie Ontario Minor ockey Association minor pewee AAA finals this weekend. Teains representing five areas of Ontario will do battie in a round-robin sern.a that beis at 10 a.m. on Fniday amd7ends Sunday witi tiie chaxnpionship - consistmg of two games, the teain with the. most goals win- ning. Ail gaines will b. at Iroquois Park pad 1. Whitby becazne host of the. finals by virtue of their all- Ontario championsiiup at the major atoin AAA level last sea- son. Peterborough plays York-Sim- coe i the firat lame, then Whitby will meet the winner (either Halton or Burlington) of the. Central area in the. second gaie at noon on Frida. Whihywil1lagain pLayon Fnl- day at8p.m., against S t. Cath- aretiie soutiiern area repre- sentative. on Saturda, noon, againut týork-Simco;S;aturday, 5 Pm., agait Peterboroughi. some glitter into the 25th anni- versary season of the sport i the communit3r by ciaimig a silver and two bronze medals at, the Ontario championships i Sud- br over the weekend. Witby's petite AA team actuaily turned in a performance worthy of goid, but had to settie for the rumner-up position -- for the secondyear in a row. Whitby was undefeated, win- ning ail six round-robin rames, going into the champions3hip fialinh which'they almost com- pleteiy dominated their opposi-, tion, Grey-Bruce. But despite outshooting their opposition 22-4, they lost 2-1 to a Grey-Bruce teain boosted by. a tremendous goaltending perfor- mance. Whitby- also rattled severai shots ofif the Grey-Bruce goalposts, and onlyLi ndsay Freeman manage to score in a game of total frustration and alisappointment for the Whitby aide. It was only the third lose of the season for the Whitby team of 10- and 11-year-oids that won three tournaments and also plays in the tween (aged 12 and 13)age. Whitby's petite A and tween A teamaeach won bronze medais, while the fourth Wbitby teain that earned a spot in the provin- cials, the belle A iquad, just feU short of the semi-finals. The petite AA teain had wins of 6-1 over Grey-Bruce, 9-2 over Kitchener, 6-2 over Waterloo 9-O over Cambridge, 9-6 over âud- bury and 6-4 over Gloucester. Kitchener and Sudbury had a.ccounted for Whitby's other two bosses this season, both in tour- nainents, but neither were a match for Whitby in the provin- cials. Jessica BrÙownridge had 12 goals and six assiste for WIhitby in the tournament, Freeman had il goals and seven assiste. Bon- nie Chant had six goals and eight 'assists; Krista Mueller three goals aD 13 ~assiste- Emily Lebel two goals and eiglit ass- isa;s; i;âhel Stewart, four go ais and five assists; Kailey Miller, forgalsand three assiste- S0arah Vanderlip,- two pals and two assists; Samant a awford, a goal' and four assists; Kara Byrnes, a goal and an assist; Vicki Strgeli, one assist. Tracy McGillr piay edingoai for the team coaiched by Ross Brown- ridge, with assistant Doug Free- mani and manager Lieza Card- well. TwEIRNA The Whitby Lionesa tween A teain lost 4-3 in the semi-finai to West Ferris whose sharpshooter sored the winning goal with 29 secnds remaiming. Whitby beçan the tournament with a 4-3 win over Cumberland, then won 6-5 over Stratford, lot to Sault Ste. Marie i another one-goal-margin game, won 8-3 over Stratford, defeated West robin Saut St. - mareee-1 p., PETITE AND BELLE RESUTS PAGE 28