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p12 weekender january 4 1986 weekender x- red rose 3 garden for fast takeout delivery uxbridge bruins move from cellar to second in ohl by kelly connelly the uxbridge bruins have finally traded in their basement apartment for a penthouse posi tion in the ontario hockey league the junior c team has made a tremendous leap from the oha cellar where excoach wayne redshaw put it in 84 to second place this season under new skip per randy hall the rebornagain bruins share second spot with cobourg at 25 points apiece five wins behind defending champion bowmanville early in the season hall re marked that his bruin bench pro fessed no real scoring leaders and that team punch would have to come from fast skaters and cor nerdiggers nine weeks later his perception hasnt changed nobody has really led the way for us or suddenly come out of their shell to lead the team said hall who coached centennial col lege last year if i had to pick anybody maybe brian beddows was starting to come along until he got hurt a banged up knee against bow manville put the talented forward on the sidelines a couple weeks ago since then uxbridge has been juggling its lines with lit tle success according to hall to compensate for beddows abs ence aquatic club members train in florida while many athletes take time off during the holiday season the opposite is true for the swimmers of the town of markham aquatic club each year all except the newest swimmers participate in an inten sive training camp involving five to six hours a day of heavy work outs this year is no exception to that rule of hard work but the venue has changed for most of the mem bers of the gold silver and bronze groups as they have headed south to florida for 10 days to train at the 50metre facil ity of the sheridan aquatic club in long wood thirtyfive swimmers have struggled to save or earn money toward their trip which is no mean feat given their normal routine of twohour workouts per day plus a full day at school which does not leave much time left for their pap er routes or the like the swimmers who were not able to make the trip are training at home together with those athletes from the red group who will be swimming in the 6th annual lions clubs of markham invitational swim meet at centennial pool in markham from jan 10 to 12 this meet now in its 10th year is one of the older established in vitational meets in the province and is sponsored by the lions club of markham victoria square unionville and thornhill as part of their youth program to aggravate the situation team captain todd laroche is having an offyear the 84 team scoring leader hasnt produced much in the way of points this season still despite beddows misfor tune and laroches misfiring the bruins must have something going for them to shake five other teams for second place this season weve come up with the right nucleus of new ta lent plus the maturity of the nine guys that were on the team last year hall explained our penalty killing has improved a lot and our powerplay has done pret ty well too thesigning deadline for re cruiting extra muscle for the playoffs is jan 10 the bruin coach admitted hes in the pro cess of snooping around junior b games in search of an extra attacker or two and though hall might have something in common with the likes of orval tessier and mike keenan both have won nhl coach of the year honors the season isnt over yet and the ux bridge benchmaster isnt about to predict a bowmanville upset for the league title bowmanville is a strong team realistically our philosophys gonna be second place that will give us the home ice advantage for the first two rounds in the play offs thats what we want note the bruins defeated lakefield 83 last friday de- fcnceman scott harper who moved from forward back to the blueline blasted four goals with five games remaining before playoffs uxbridge travels to lit tle britton tonight for a 730 pm tangle john edwards of meat shoppe front battles with jp vitale of aandow york glass right for control of the puck while joseph maiorana back waits for a pass during play in the unionville house league hockey tournament last monday the tournament held at crosby memorial arena ended yesterday results were not available at press time sjoerd witteveen annual ringette tournament markham defeated in final kim harding led the scoring with 11 goals and three assists for markham camerica petite b ringettes but her perform ance wasnt enough to gain vic tory over the scarborough team the 4th annual christmas ringette tournament was held dec 27 to 29 at milliken and clatworthy arenas six divi sions participated in the com petition tournament chairper son was pam hough the camerica team played the first game against scarbor ough and was defeated 111 two subsequent games showed camerica victorious over mari posa 142 and st catherines 12- 5 in the final game scarbor ough squeaked by markham with a score of 43 other camerica team mem bers who scored in the tourna ment included kira andrews 7 jamie mcdowell 2 bobbi leigh bentham 4 leanne zcd- ner 3 debbie stewart 1 and carrie stewart 2 assists came from mcdowell 5 zedner 4 debbie stewart 4 andrews 3 bentham 3 ashley hallinen 3 kristi mil ler 1 carrie stewart 1 and joely dercola 1 scarborough carried the tween b series as well beating markham kid line in the final game 50 and in the first game 70 kid line was also defeated by mariposa 43 but beat barrie 82 goals came from simone van gelder 5 cindy bradburn 2 alexa watson 1 michelle chouinard 1 brittney ineson 1 and kaylee burnett 1 assisting were van gelder 1 bradburn 1 watson 1 kaylee burnett 2 sarah yan- chyk 2 and alice goldthorpe 2 allison jeapes led markham kwi k kopy with 10 goals and one assist in the twecn c tourna ment kwik kopy played two close games with richmond hill the score in the final game was 54 while the two teams tied at six goals each in the third game in the two other games kwik kopy defeated markham aloet- te cosmetics 43 and whitby 71 scorers in this series in cluded michelle chouinard 7 marianne payne 4 lisa stevenson 4 and cheryl goodier 1 payne and stevenson led the assists with four each chouinard goodier and lisa rotman all assisted twice singles came from alice goldthorpe jenny mcmillan and airlee mchale jackie rooney elizabeth ep stein and carolyn nemni also played in the tournament the girls were coached by pat rooney with assistants pauline ely and cheryl colvin markham teams won five of six divisions in the sports-gal- ship awards the petite c categ ory was taken by the markham kinettes while markham camerica took the petite b divi sion markham aloette cosmetics won the tween c award the tween b division was taken by markham kid line the junior c award was won by the barrie team while markham cheseboroughponds was awarded in the belle b category in exhibition play the mar kham bunnies defeated the scarborough bunnies 61 with good scoring performances from kristin james 4 holly vear 1 and karen wolfenden 1 credit for assists goes to jane goldthorpe with three eli zabeth popiel with two and a single by danielle chouinard other players included jen nifer mullen jennifer strype robin coursey and anita points ron goldthorpe coached with assistance from kathy jorgenson lisa kiteley and fiona mcnicoll other final scores in the tournament were richmond hill 6 ajax 5 in the petite c divi sion and sunderland 10 lindsay 9 in the junior c category in the belle c division oro defeated oshawa 52