Page 16, Whitby Froo Prose, Wedneday, Octboer 11, 1996 SIPPERY DoLPHIN SEAN BENNETT of Pickering Doiphins tries to eludle an Oshawa Hawkeyes tackier dunna an .abxx-ed matrh-up in the Central Ontado Minor Football League on Monday, Thaksgvin Da. Hwkeeswon. PM «bo ï JernDmw.arNIby FruePros Wildcats extend streak Last week the Whitby minor atom AAA hockey team took their show on the road, beaing Markham 3-0 on Tuesday, then tying Barrie 5-5 Saturday night, extendingr their unheaten streak to three games., Kyle Percewicz provided much of the offence in Markham, scoring goals ini both the firat and third periode. Kyle Vandeloo picked up an assist on one of the Percewicz goals as well as scoring one of hie The movement for active, healthy living own midway through the second period. David Arnold seemed to be eveiywhere on the ice, earning two assista, while Adam Stein picked up the lone helper. Bryan MacRinnon was outstanding between the pipes, earning a well deserved shutout. Saturday's tie in Barrie saw Cam VonEschscholtz draw firet blood for Whitby at the 7:43 mark of the first period and take Wildcats into the second with a 1-0 lead. The lead would be short-lived, though, as Barrie scored three unanswered goals. Scott Morrison then made a couple of brilliant plays, slipping the puck between the goaltender's legs after an end- to-end rush. The very next shift, Scott roared into the play, just barely keeping the puck inside the blueline with a booming shot at the net. Derek Rayner redirected the puck between the goaltender's legs. Barrie then added one more before the period ended, and another to start the third period before Derek McTeague and Justin Sawyer, each scored on excellent passes from Kyle Musselman te end the game in a tie. Wildcats play their first -home game Thursday in Brooklin. Younger Pr 'imeau siglis -wîth Sabres Whitby's Wayne Primeau last week signed a contract with the Bufalo Sabres of the National Hockey League. Primeau, 19, top scorer last season for Owen Sound Platers of the Ontario junior A league, reportedly signed a three-year deal worth $2 million. 're six-foot-three-inch, 220-pound centre could see action for Sabres this season. He was the l17th pick overail in the 1994 draft. He was drafted fourth overail by* Owen Soundîii the junior draft in 1992. Last season he had 96 points and was one of the top scorers in the Ontario Hockey League. .Wayne's brother Keith, also a centre, ie a -powerful force for Detroit Red Wings of the MIL. Both played minor hockey ini Whitby. OtherWhitby alumni now in the NHL are Joe Nieuwendyk and Gary Roberts of Calgary, Adam Foote of Colorado and Brad Dalgarno of New York Islanders, wile Vancouver goalie -Kirk Mcean now calîs Whitby home. Local. player member of natio nal team Rob Leask of Whitby is a member of the Canadian national hockey teain that begins its international trek towards the 1996 world championship in Vienna, Austria, next April and May, with an li-game international tour this month. The national squad, led by head coach Tom Renney and assistant Mike Johnston, wrapped up their first training block Oct. 8, and then begin a five-game series in SeIlkrk, Manitoba on Oct. 14, against Norway. The thir series of international games for the national- team brings them to Asiago, Italy for the Italian Cup. They will face France, Italy and Russia in a three-day round-robin competition. The October echedule ends with a rematch of the 1995 world chaznpionship bronze medal game, which Canada won 4-1, with Canada facing the Czech Republic in Pizen, Czech Republic. Leask, 24, is a defenceman with Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League. Players from the AHL,' colleges and universities make up the team. A Whitby resident for the past five years after moving fromn Toronto where he played mrnor hockey, Leask played Ontario junior A hockey with the Toronto Marlies, Hamilton and Oshawa GeneraIs. He lias since played in the AHL and East Coast hockey league. The Whitby bantam AA hockey team gained a split in two home games over the Thanksgiving weekend. The first game saw Vaughan defeat Whitby 4-2. Whitby started fast with goals from Matt Smith and Paul Heinrich. Wildcats tried te sit on their two-goal lead in the third period, but Vaughan came back for the victory. Whitby then defeated Orillia 5- 3. Orillia scored early on the power play, but. Wildcats fought back with three goals as Heinrich, with- his first of two, wired a slapshot along the ice te score against a very surprised Orillia goaltender, Ryan Clumpus scored from the point on the power play, and Brion Hendry scored on a tic-tac-tee play play from Derek Ackford and Paul Chornobay. Brant Flaherty scored the first goal, and Ackford collected three assiste. The team, sponsored by Foran Disposal Corporation, ie now 2-1 in league play, and will ht the road this week for games in Barrie and Aurora.. ROB LEASK Ottenbrite helps host camp for swi11Mers Olympic gold medalist Anne Ottenbrite of Whitby was a co-host of the recenit Mark Tewksbury Youth Camp for 24 top Canadian youth swirnmers. Tewksbury, also an Olympic gold medalist, and Ottenbrite, now a university swim coach, were chosen as hosts of the second annual camp held in Toronto. One Durham Region resident, Beth Frisk of the Uxbridge Swim Club, was among the 24 swimmer from across Canada selected for, the camp. The camp je a project of the Mark' Tewksbury junior swim bursary established to provide funding to train and develop Canadian amateur swimmers. Ottenbrite, last year elected to Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, won a gold, silver and bronze - the only Canadian athiete ever to do so -- at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles. Whitby skater takes two Jeif Koeslag of the Whitby Figure Skaing Club had two firet-place finishes at the eastern Ontario sectional Autumn Skate competition in Ottawa recently. Koeslag won the 'special preliminary menas division and teamed with Michelle Koeslag te capture the preliminary dance event. M hichelle was<Turth in her flight in special prelinmary ladies.