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Plater does Curling c1u4 one-two punch, at the competitioi season and carved out a little histc By STEVE LeBLANC lhemr Colts sand Masters divisioni Special to The Champion each reached the Ontario Ct Devin Plater raged, raged againat the dying of a light. Championships - marldng the fins The l0-year-old goaltender rhymed off save after save the local club ever sent two repre Wednesday night at Memorial Arena. tvsto the provincials. Plater denied Richmond Hill no less than 38 times over an Oldford's Colts squad - comp hour-and-a-half stretch. vice Dave MacLeod, second D He had poise, confidence, lightning quickness and great supr Harknes and lead Russell Emery from a rejuvenated Milton fan base. stitule for Steve Brown) - went What he didn't have was lady luck with him. When the final the AI-Ontario finals lasi weeki verse ended, is remarkable bid to stave off elimination had come Penetatiguishene. up short and Richmond Hill had pulled off a 4-3 overtime victo- f6ili1 ry. -That was some amazing goaltending," said visiting head coach Kevin MacLean of Plater's performance. His single A major novice Stars swept the best-of-tive OMHA zone finals. Plater suffered the worst fortune as opposing sniper Sean D'Orazîo managed a heartbreaking equalizer with just-two sec- onds left in regulation time. Eight minutes later the local tender was beaten through the five hole by Matt Gilbert. D'Orazio ftgured in the winning goal as well with a well-placed lead pass. Particularly impressive through the second period, Plater tumned aside 19 of 20 shots. His Winterhawk teammates would test couniterpart Justin Simone just once, and beat him with a low wrist shot by sparkplug Blake Frittenburg. Craig Howse and Daniel Lafontaine registered the other Milton goals while Graham Sharp drew two assists. Turning in steady defence through the first and final frames weoe Sharp, Alex Marshall and Kyle Walker. Ieremny Martin and Justin Moir came up with robust efforts as well. Three nights earlier Richmond Hill set themselves up for the sweep with a 5-2 win. The 'Hawks enjoyed scoring by Howse and Moir plus a 35-save effort by Paul Herder. Making up the rest of this year's OMUA zone championship finalists were Michael Bruno, David Gooding, Mati Goodman, Jeffrey Lowe, Travîs Iontagner and Greg Roberison. Double trouble The AAA minoir novices suffered through a gang beaîing last week. Double-teamed by Chinguacousy and Oakville, the Hurricanes were denied entry to the OMHA finals - somewhai disappoini- ing after a first-place finish in the regular season. Haton first experienced a power outage againat Oakville which resulted in a 2-1 losa. Geoff Strank potted iheir lone tally. From there, needing to sweep Chinguacou, to make the league championship, they afforded the Blues a comeback and ended game one with a 4-4 stalemate. The 'Canes ended the season with a 2-1 win in Chinguacousy. The Canadian Champion, Fnday, March 27, 1i Og-.- - l b teams, have set the bar higher irew a n this ,sry for ,rling rtime esenta- rising >arren (a sub- 3-4 at end in ITidVVft 141 to top team The AA major bantam Winterhawks can say they were beaten by the very best. Amnie Parcels' crew gave a superb per- formance at the 56-team Georgetown International Bantam Tournament last week. They were eliminated in the B division finals Sunday by a minor. bantam team from Hamilton. A slow start told the tale in a 6-3 defeat. This samne Hamilton squad went on to win the grand championship, eking out a 4-3 decision over itchener. Ben Silk, Jake Vanderbreggen and Kis Beal scored for Milton in the B division finals. Assists went to Vanderbreggen, Mike Austen, Matt deRee, Zack MacKay and Derek Mewbinney. The 'Hawks edged Mississauga 2-1 in the B semis. Mewhinney notched the game-winner with 37 seconds remaining. Josh Amnold was hot in the cage, and enjoyed protection from Bryan Shaw and Matt Ventura. In round-robin play they beat Gloucester 8-2 and blanked Chinguacousy 3-0 while losing to West Ferris 2-0. 1- 0 C NA Victories over Ottawa, Sterling and Glendale earned themn a fifth-place finise in the eight-teamn showdown. A total of 183 Colts teams began prosc)vcal playdowits carlier this nomth. "This was juat a terrific season. Ive been curling for 20 years and neyer done this well," said Oldford. Multons Masters ran into some heavîly loaded teams in Penetang, but simply refused to go home without at least one victory under their beits. As it tumned out, Tracey's tribe mani- aged two in a five-game round robin. 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