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THE ERA Newmarket Aurora Km wick Jan IWS Section B Seneca In Provincial Junior A game Wednesday night OHA allstar game turns into 71 rout for West division trainers players and spectators and I hope this will be a game youll remember always Good Buck Mayor of Aurora helped pundits winning it easily The dignitaries who par ticipated in the centre ice ceremony included Cliff Phillips President of the George Public Secretary of the Provincial Junior A and many From the very onset of the contest it was obviously allstar type lux with mm fine individual efforts But for the first half of Hie period plays were not executed with the precision thai comes only when players art familiar with each others moves Nonetheless the coaches where ever possible played teammates together on the same line And as they warmed up smooth passing plays slowly evolved lYler Hemman in hil for the west team and playin in his home arena was called upon to make the first save of the game and there were several moments in which he was forced to prove his hilling as an allstar Just a few seconds short of the midway point of the opening period Brian Wilton right- Roberts and Ike The East tested Ifctnzman some more but each time he was equal to he occasion turning away everything sent his way until close to the end of the period when Steve Harrison of tipped in a shot by During the intermission manager of the West team and coach of the Aurora Tigers was cautious about making any predictions The west is favored to win he observed But in the game of hockey you never know what will happen Ferguson said the teams were pretty much the way he voted Had he chosen them on his own there would have been only a couple of changes He declined to say what those changes might have been of the players chosen deserves to he hero lie emphasized Hut there are a lot of good players who couldnt be selected In the second period play Iwgan quickly and maintained that pace for the first ten minutes or so The west kept It I- nil I Hatter cast Scott Mahley of Richmond Hill had gone off for interference the west power- play clicked and it was a Terry McMillan of Aurora got the goal on the precise flection of a shot by teammate George Then at the mark the Toronto Nats contingent scored another goal and the West stretched the margin to Half way through the middle period both teams changed Sim mons of the Toronto Nats coming in for the West and Mike of Seneca taking over in thee went on to say that there was no comparison between the feeling of playing in an all star game and that of playing playoff hockey In this game you only really have to worry about your own play whereas in the playoffs you have to think as a team he concluded The third period of Wed nesday nights encounter belonged to the west division Four unanswered goals were drilled by and when tike John Fox and Chaillc both of North York were on ice they dominated the play utterly At the point Paul Titanic of the Toronto found himself in the right position at the right moment knocking in a goal of assisted Midway through the final frame and Fox com bined on a passing play have all At the last minute however liiimie shut the door on them and the play went hack to heir end Again Fox picked i time even though the east should have known what to look for there was no stopping the North York duo scored the goal on Foxs pinpoint pass It was all down hill from there for the frustrated cast Dixie Beehives Warren Young picked an allstar goal with an assist going lo Titanic for his second point of the game Then with less than three minutes left in Die game Wilton registered his second goal of the night and in doing so gave credence to the oft repeated line Wilton drove in toward the net then circled behind tucking it quickly behind The game ended without any rough play or bad tempers It was a game worthy of the cause it fulfilled which of course was to raise funds for Crippled Children and Charlie Cancer Research Ferguson ebullient after Ins teams excellent display remembered the two previous all star games The first one was won by the West by a close score the wis a tic Tins is the first rout he exclaimed the post J congratulatory handshake and chosen for the and makes it easy to understand why the west conference is so competitive with only a few points separating the top Terry of jee in his attempt to defence Fast Tigers fall through Hie Mike John Cole photos Redmen come alive bomb second place Owen Sound but ended the Newmarket Mftfk Sunday night the skated and outcheeked the Owen Sound Greys who arc presently holding down second position in the league Led by Rod Linns sparkling three goal performance the kept their heads on hockey and relentlessly pecked away at the Owen Sound defence Kelly Smith scored the first goal of the game after being fed a breakaway pass by Don Bone Although he was being pestered Sturrock in the Owen Sound net Only seconds after the Smith goal the first of many fights broke out in he Owen Sound end Don Bone for Newmarket and Mark Kozarlan for Owen Sound got the gate with minor and major penalties Ron Brown played ex ceptionally well in the Newmarket net especially in the first and last periods when he was tested repeatedly by hard Owen Sound snots but the first one to get by him came in a moment of confusion in front of the not went down and the puck went in Newmarkets second goal came with just over four minutes remaining in the opening period Rod Linn picked up Ins fust Near the end of that period Newmarket winger Cliff went down heavily igimst the and had to lie escorted from the ice He did not return for the duration of the qi the second period but unable penetrate the Owen Sound defence completely A good passing combination between Linn and Dan Palmer failed to click and was brought back down the Ice by Owen Sound for a goal It must have occurred to many people that this might be the beginning of the customary Redman mid game slump but it was nothing of the sort Lin rallied back for his second goal of the game with seven minutes remaining in the period With the score and with Hint limning out in tie frame Smith broke over his own blue line as Die puck hit on ilnM When it at Ins fret lie found himself hi lie clear mil skating his pursuers he zeroed teams lead When only four elapsed Linn scoreboard again That made turned In ige to Two minutes later Miller sewed iiun this Jim and Owen Sound players tried ilia get As Owen Sound got further behind it resorted more more to violent pugilistic Hie game got rougher penalties grew more frequent Newmarket players to fight With five seconds left to play i perfect r by Smith Although Newmarket has only the slimmest possible chance of making the playoffs it has put out a higher calibre of hotkey in the last few games than it lias all year Both of the fosses it suffered last week were by one goal Again Barrio the lost Then in Midland the following night it was fi5 and of course the Sunday before they defeated Colts Two home victories in a row two road losses by a single goal Indicate the may now be beginning to play more consistent hockey A little late perhaps but its still a pleasure But this the