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p12 weekender january 2 1993 stux bruins end 1992 on a winning note it may not be exactly what general managerturnedcoach chuck phillips has in mind but the uxbridge bruins are eating up ground on their way towards first place in the central ontario hockey league the bruins finished out 1992 with a somewhat erratic 86 vic tory over the port perry mojacks tuesday night at the uxbridge arena the uxbridge squad led 42 and then 53 but were forced to come from behind after finding themselves down 65 early in the third peri od it was not a classic game said phillips who continues to spell off the teams head coach bud bower behind the bench we were winning by two goals then we started with the give aways making mental errors and leaving wingers open but the bruins finally got untracked as the final period progressed hitting for a trio of goals to earn the win it finally clicked in the third said phillips they started doing the things they have to do to win youve got to take it a peri od at a time and win all three periods bruin player jeff cowley who came out of his coma in late november was on hand to drop the puck before the start of the game cowley who attended a bruins game dec 4 with the aid of a wheel chair and a walker needed only a single cane this time around steve brown fired a pair of goals for the bruins with sin gles coming from ryan coburn jason underwood jean fran cois amyot chris winn curtis hodgins and darryl bricknell hodgins who leads the league in scoring points also had three assists the win was the fourth in a row since phillips took over behind the bench the bruins took a 62 decision from the bobcaygeon bullets sunday night in bobcaygeon after their scheduled dec 23 road encounter with the little britain merchants was post poned against the bullets it was ryan coburn scoring twice while jay hause brown hod gins and jamie showers had a goal apiece its a good way to end up the year said phillips were on track and were either in first place or very close at this point photosteve somerville preemptive strike the burrows landscaping goalie leaves the haven of the net to redirect the puck into safer territory during a house league tourney game against novopharm at the stouffville rec centre stouffville photo rolls over stouffville bowling leandre forsyth scored three times and added two assists to help lift stouffville photo graphic to a 75 win over stouffville bowling in whitchurchstouffville girls hockey league play dec 23 krista dudley had a pair of goals and a trio of assists for the winners sam comito also clicked for a pair of goals and picked up an assist jennifer mcgowan had an assist as well amanda halls and lindsay mccafferty each had two goals for stouffville bowling with michelle norton scoring once assists were earned by michelle norton devon cham bers and amanda halls nicole thornhill jill vil- leneuve and kari sandiford each scored two goals in stouf fville kinsmens 71 win over ringwood variety and video on a game played the same day mandy vandenberg had the other kinsmen goal while assists went to amie lear 2 jill villeneuve nicole thorn- hill tanya witty blair wilkin son 2 mandy vandenberg and kari sandiford jennifer davis had the lone ringwood marker from emily patriarche in a game played two nights earlier jessica clayton jen nifer dupont katie sandiford and mary callan each scored to give freel lane kitchen gallery a 43 win over ring- wood variety and video assists for freel lane were picked up by mary callan ruth ann gairdner kathy tait and jennifer deacon sherri rossi scored twice for ringwood with carrie kirby adding the third assists went to kelly ward 2 and julie summerhill bantam clippers start fast at north york tourney the edwardsmurphy ban tam clippers showed no signs of rust as they took to the ice after a two week layoff for the north york christmas tourna ment the stouffville crew won two and tied one in the preliminary round of the competition scor ing a total of 13 goals while surrendering just three scores the clippers blanked the oshawa bruins 50 in their boxing day opener roger mcmann had two goals and a pair of assists to earn the games first star nomination while michael underwood david hutchison and peter smith also scored graham crowder picked up two assists with single set ups going to adam crowder don wilkie steve wilcox and craig wood wood was the third star of the game clippers goal keep ers brad hackert and evan boyd shared the shutout hutchison clicked twice as the clippers downed the hum- berview huskies 72 in their next outing smith graham crowder ian ellis tim smart and scott assinck each had a goal for the clippers assists went to john mckin- non 2 assinck 2 mcmann wood and lucas anderson ellis was named first star with graham crowder named sec ond star the stouffville squad ran into red hot goal tending in game three dominating the play but settling for a 11 tie against the east enders mckinnon popped the lone clippers goal earning him the games second star honors stouffville bid for junior b franchise shelved after finally being given the green light to go ahead and set up a junior b hockey franchise in stouffville the man who ini tially set the wheels in motion has lost his zeal ed hakonson who along with local businessmen don ander son and doug todd made appli cation to the ontario hockey association oha for a team almost a year ago told the tri bune this week his enthusiasm has waned he cited opposition from nearby towns lack of local sup port and the length of time taken by the oha to make up its mind as the reasons the oha has told me to go ahead but theres opposition from uxbridge newmarket and markham said hakon son and its just taken too long theyve the oha had a year to get back to me while a final decision hasnt been made hakonson said the idea has been placed on the back burner im not real anxious contin ued hakonson theres not a lot of people coming out of the woodwork to come on board it may just die ive put my money and my time into it there was a lot of talk but no action hakonson said the decision of anderson to pull out had affect ed his thinking anderson is part owner of the kingston frontenacs junior a club the kingston team would have had a working relationship with the stouffville squad i dont blame don for pulling out said hakonson it just took too much time for the oha to decide hakonson said he was aware of the opposition to the fran chise but felt his team could have worked together with teams in neighbouring towns i was disappointed with the uxbridge bruins i had thought we could have worked together with us having a junior b team with connec tions with a junior a team it would only have been benefi cial to uxbridge and their play ers he expressed disappointment that his offer was treated so casually by the oha they had a charice at me but they didnt take it it would have worked i havent failed at anything ive done i know that sounds cocky but its true hakonson said he had 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