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Out March 3 THE SPORTS ERA season ends Orillia takes series entry bowed out on Sun day after losing to Orillia be fore the largest crowd throughout the regular season The team wound up way in front in the standings over the season with the in second place The Redmen got into the division semifinals by beating Toronto Bom- forced the playoffs into the seventh and final game if they hadnt stop ped hitting after five minutes The came out thumping as Frank Metcalfe almost scored as he skated in all alone The goalie tied the score at But and when he stole the puck Kelly combined to ti from Doug the score at as th and skated in all alone Redmen were again en turnabout goal of the game pulled out of on a neat passing net with seconds Bill Johnson remaining to Ilia War- It might have been ares put the game a different story in Or- at get- on Thursday if hadnt scored the In the first market Mike Sage spent of the first period dressing room as hi caught with his down and was checked heavily opened the scaring at as scored from Metcalfe and John The de fine gave the puck It took the only six seconds to tie the Orillia net missed a Rumors untrue He skated in on Or illia goalie Ray Ryan blasted the puck and the The second period was skating to his bench when some words occurred between he and Little A dozen punches NEWMARKET Redmen in answer to a published rl that his team was in difficulty gave The Era the Let at the outset that I w zed at the article in reporter called me and advised him in a few words to forget that he had heard as he didnt Secondly 1 find it hard to believe thai iy comments made by our coach Hill trouble The fact is that I think what Bill meant is that the turn on investment junior hockey team is not very good Very few junior or hockey teams are a money making proposition and arc aware of this before they get in volved In my case I operate the hockey club as a hobby and I dont expect to make money I do however on the other hand work sufficiently hard enough at it to assure rena ice and at the box office The result is that my financial exposure is not in my opin ion a troublesome burden Hill has been my coach for four of the five seasons I have operated the club and he can continue to coach it as long as he wants the job As far as I am concerned he has not resigned and I expect that he will lie behind the bench next Needless to say the club is not for sale nor is there any danger of it folding as long as 1 take personal enjoyment from its operation The fad is that I have been seriously considering starting another jun ior team in the area to affiliate direct with the in order to be in a posi tion to take a run at the Junior Champ ionship two years fro Tigers win to stay alive in playoffs AURORA The Tigers almost went under for the third time Sunday night but stayed as lied five top to The first period wa Jenkins on a breakaway then Danny kept the Rang ers out of trouble when the Tig ers were swarming all around the net Finally at Dave Mur ray put the Rangers in front with Mike Hammond off for high sticking Billy Steele came back SO seconds later and tied It up The Tigers dominated the play at this point and it looked like it was their game North York came back strongly in the second period and at 11 MO Rick Kennedy took the puck from Sean and tied the score The tempo of the game seemed to pick up with both teams trying to gain an edge Finally Wolf scored for Tigers with and Steele assisting Less than two minutes later tied it up when he tipped in Joe pa- North York went ahead a minute late when Tony Craw ford cruised in from behind the net and scored The score stood at as the second period ended Bill tied It up next at the llfi mark when he got a break away in front of the Hang er net The goalie hobbled the shot and the puck went Into the Two North York threw every thing the Tigers in order to break the tie but the Tigers held Steve Boyle finally got loose in front of the Ranger net and scooped the puck behind the North York goalie That proved to bo the winning goal In the last minute of play Rangers pulled their goalie and scored his second goal of the night into an empty net Part of the credit for the Tigers win must go to smart defensive play by Rob He slopped more than one marked shot with his body and worked tirelessly on defense checking Ranger forwards fier cely when they crossed the blue- Friday night the Tigers werent quite so lucky North York won in overtime The game was nip and tuck all tin wee leading going into the third period Dave Wright Keith McDonald Dave Murray and Evans scored the Ranger The tie remained to the end of regulation time In the overtime period Gallagher scor ed the lone North York marker