Whitby Free Press, 9 Aug 1995, p. 11

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Whby Free Press, Wednesday, August 9, 1995, P1ei ¶ykes tops in Ontarlo, T7he Whitby tyke A lacrosse teain, .ponsored by Joe Nieuwendyk and Gary Roberts, capped a great season by winning the provincial tifie in Burlington. The teai' motto, 'Offence wins gaines - defence wins chainpionships," was evident in ail gaines played. The final gainematched Whitby against Hamiilton Bengals - the two teains have been rivais pince paperweight. But Warriors' balanced passing attack and strong defence ptoved' too much for Bengals. The final score was 6-3. Philip McIlhone, Aloi Henderson, Ryan Kerr and Andrew Dyment each contributed a goal and an assist, Justin Fox and Bilan Gonsalves had othor goals. Andrew Fanec and Daniel Dempsey each had an assist. Joel Weber was outstanding in net In the final and In theý tournament as a whole. .In round-robin play leading up te the championship, Whitby won five -gaines and lost one. They defeated Milton 18-2, Burlington' 20-2, Spartan 9-7, Peterborough 4- 2 and then Peterborough a second turne 8-2. The only loas in round- robin play was to Hailiton in a close 5-3 contest. Pnior to -the provincial championships, Whitby won three tournaments - Peterborough Classic, Brainpton John McCauley and -Hainilton Super Series. Other teain niembers are Jason Cassidy, Jay Singler, Jinu Provenzano, Chris Boyce, Luke Carson, MdainJohnston and Chris Wood. Wa rriors Whitby Warriors were swept away 4-0 in their serni-final best- -of-sevon playoff seies ini Ontario junior A lacrosse. Warriors, second-place finishers duning the regular season, succumbed te a St. Catharines toam, that was third in league playý but with exporionced playors who showed inore playoff savvy. St. Catharines wrapped up the senies with an 114 in last Thursday. Niali Mlaynard, Brad Reed, Gavin Prout and Marty O'Brion scored for Warni on. St. Catharines had won fixe third gaine 11-8 on Tuesday last week. O'Brien and Steve Voituk oach scored twice, singles by Prout, Paul Sallie, Brad MacArthur and Jason Crosbie. St. Catharines, led by Jason Luke and Steve Toli who were almost. unsteppable against Warriors, will go 'on te face Orangeville in the final. Orangevillo, defending Minte, Cup champions, lost only once during the regular season and are unbeaten in playoffs. Warriors have ail the ingrodionts te also become a charnpionship teain - and that tflUe lsn't eut of reach next seasen. Three ail-star teains frein différont age levels cf a local beague have qualified for the North Ainerican relier hockey championships un St. Louis Aug. 16-20. OshawalWhitby Relier Hockey League teams quallfied -for the championships by ail flnishing second in the men's (any age), junior (aged 18 and under) and poewee (aged 14 and under) divisions of a qualifier un Waterloo. The men's teain, thxe Whitby Vipers, lest 9-6, te KIütchener Rangers in the final of the qualifier.' Vipers'second-place finish, however, was thoir best result in three tournamonts, having placed fifth and third in tournaments in Waterloo anxd Toronto rospoctively. Teain member and- publicist Ryan Canning says Vipers playors SEE PAGE 14 j 8iUKLAUHWM.~~~~j Brampton takes 'n OXFORD University defenders try in vain to slow Whitby's Troyhann. Santos (top left) of the Ontario team in the Canadian women's field lacrosse championships in Oshawa recenfly. Oxford played exnbition games in the tournament,' which was won by Ontario in both the senior and junior divisions. Photo by Mark Reesor. Whitby Free Pross bow Warriors had eight rookies on this year's teain, and two cf those -- O'Bien and Voituk - already cracked the top 15 in beague scoring. And only two players, teain scoring leader Jonas Derks and Jason Jai*owski, won't be back out next season, as they will be over-age. Derks, Jankowski, Shayd on Santes, MacArthur and Mike Wye wore called up frein Warriors te suit up for Broolin Rodinen in the major playoffs. Their attack smothered, Brooklin Redmen have fallen behind 2-1 in thefr Ontario major lacrosse besi-of-seven semifinal playoff series against Brampton Excelsiors. Excelsiors, who have improved Seniors-. begin playdowns Whitby Melanie Pringles needed only a wîn in one of their two gaines tis week to linch second place. in thxe Eastern Ontario Basebail Association senior league west division. Whitby had been in a ta4lspin that saw them fail to sixth place by about mid-July. But wins in six of their next eight gaines propelled Whitby to second place, with a season record of 14 wins and il losses. SA win ini one. of two games against Little Britain this week would also make Wbitby the higherit seeded teain at fixe C level (A, B, C and D level teains 'play against each other ini the league). The C playdowns also begin this week, with fixe winner advancing to the Ontario C finals ini Courtwright in September. Whitby will likely face Quinte Braves, currently with and 11- 12 record in the east division, in the C playdowns. Ajax and Markham are also C teams. League playoffa will also soon begin. Oshawa is the top teamn in the west' division, Northumberland tops in the east. EOBA senior Standing", as 01IJuIy 30 W L P WEST Oshawa 10 9 32 Wbitby 13 '10 20 Unifia 13 il 26 Ihddia 13 13 26 Ajax 12 12 24 Sco«Kqouuh il 14 22 Lue tibhin 9 12 18 EAST Northuiriastnd 18 4 30 Puturborough 15 4 30 Port Hope 13 12 28 ojinte il 12 22 Kendal 1ý) 16 20 Bownvillo <loIdMd) 0 27 0 Top fourfrom sach divsin goton playoffs lead with each gaine against Redmen- this seasen, bounced back froinîan opening gaine boss to win the neit two gaines, including a 7-4 win on Monday night at Iroquois Park that gave thein the series lead.' The home floor- advantage counted -for little in. Monday's encounter, as. Redmen feil behind 3-0 after the first period and were neyer able to get back on even terms. The faster, younger Excélsiora continually beat Redmen to loose balse. Meanwhile, when Rednxen did get opportunities, they were thwarted by goalie Steve Dietrich who was outstanding. Redinen also hit the goalpost at least five turnes. Rédinen won the opening gaine 10-8 and thon allowed Bramnpton to come froin behind for a 7-6 win in the second gaine. Jim Veltinan, a scoing star when he played -in British Colunxbials senior league in recent years, has sparked the Brampton offence. He had a goal and five assista in the 10-8 loss and thon led Bramxpton te victoryy-in the. second gaine by sconing a goal and. setting up four cf the other six goals. He had two -assista on Monday. Tom Wreggitt had four goals te lead Rednxen un the flrst gaine, Gary Gait and Derek Keenan with two each, singles by Peter Park and Erie Perromi. For Bramnpton, in addition to Veltman's scoring, Ted Dowling had three.goals, Jim Mosa two, John Veltman and Kevin Dance one each. In BrarnptonAs 7-6 win, Gait had three goals for- Redmen, Bfi Passfleld two and Paul St. John one. Brampton trailed 6-5 after the second period before getting fixe only two, taflies in fixe third period. lIn addition to Veltinan's scoring, Brampton got two goals fr-oi Chris Driscoîl, singles by Jeif Wilfong, Mike Hasen, Dowling and lp Rennick. In Monday's game, Wilfong and. Dowling each had two goals and two assista, Driscoli a goal and two asassa Dance and Bill Philipe lied the other goals. Gait had two goals, Passfleld and Keenan the others for Redinen who have been punchless on the attack due -te the relentiess Brampton checking. Thursday night's encounter ini Brampton wifl be the pivotai game in the series. The flfth gaine will be on Saturday night at Iroquol Park, gaine turne 8:30 p.rn. Ia sixth is needed, it wilbein Brampton on Monday night and a seventh gaine would ho in at Iroquois next Wednesday night. Six Nations, defonding Mann Cup champions, leads Forgus in the other semi-flinal serios. selries. Viprscin ruiler hocke y Chanipilonshi p

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