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The Canadien Champion, Tuesday, Febnialy i, 2000-19 ll"aydar continues strong sophomore season while iother junior alumni also making mark on NCAA Darren "Mini" Haydar tallied three times over the weekend, continuing a strong sophomore campaign with the NCAA Division t New Hampshire Wildcats. Milton's electrifying right winger, who cur- rently sits ninth nationally in goal scoring. potted the initial marker in UNH's 3-3 tie with Boston University Fniday. Saturday's retu.rn engagement of the two teams saw the local superstar connect on the powerplay late in the second period and again at even strength early in the third - but it wasn't enougb as his club telI 4-2. This marked onlv their second conférence lass of the year. Haydar now bas 17 goals and 13 assista in 26 games. With about two months left in regular season play, he still has an outside chance of matching last year's freshman totals of 27 goals and 50 points. The Wildcats (18-4-4) were ranked first in the nation heading in to the weekend and are in excellent shape to make a third consecutive trip to the Frozen Four. Brother Jeff Haydar is practicing with the achool Ibis year but isn't be eligible 10 compete, because he attended Laurier University for two years, until next season. Alumni light it up Milton Merchant graduates showed strongly as a whole Ibis past weekend, witb a handful o f for- mer players combining for seven goals and two assista. Besides Haydar, Ron Baker also bad tbree points in two games and remains one of the most reliable contributors for the Alabama-Huntsville Chargers. The gritty centre sank goal number one in a 5- 4 squeaker over Findlay Friday. The following evening, in round two of the home-and-home series, he scored again and added an assiat 10 help blank Findlay 6-0. Nathan Gillies - now with Union - netted his first goal of the season in a 2-2 stalemate with Yale Friday. Teammate Jefi' Hutchins, a sophomore, picked up an assist the next night to belp shade Princeton 3-1. Meanwhile, Ed McGrane registered a goal and an assiat in UMass Lowell's 7-2 rout of Providence Friday. UMass Lowell's Geoif Schomogyi and Notre Dame's Malt( Van Arkel, members of the Merchants' highly elite 40-goal.club, went scorelesa over the weekend. Neither sniper bas made much of an impact Ibis season. (1JffL57 is a proud sponsor of F71 DGEJEP milo Minor Hockey along. with oer local team sports. PHIL CAANTARE: 'la'! ..&N I m 81- ONAI ST N. MITN 7-87 Milton Minor Hockey Association DATE DIVISION TEAM «SCORE TEAM I i [1"Best of Iuck to alithe From the dealership that cares!" 5B ot St .Mlo G Gold G,4eC Connection "Proud sponsors of Milton Minor Hockey" 218 Main St. Milton 875-2999. Proud Spon sors of Milton Minor Hockey Tel: 878-2341 Fax:. 876-2364. SCORE &MVP JAN 29 BEGINNERS RED TIMBITS NVA Aaron Miller WHITE TIMBITS NIA %i -- mch. GREEN TIMBITS N/A Nichlas Cgg BLACK TIMBITS NIA Ke.aim PwM JAN 29 PRE/NOVICE KNUCKLES I 2 Kyle Stevens BRUCE HOOD 1 Haeden Myers LITTLE FIREMEN 2 Michelle Dermott KNUCKLES 2 2 Nex Maracle JAN 29 MINOR ATOM HOME CINEMA VIDEO 3 Tyler Gordon LIFESTYLE/CAR GUYS 0 GORRUD AUTO 1 Rob Roffino HUNT CHRYSLER JEEP 4 Chad Shmdle JAN 29 MAJOR ATOM REBEKAN LODGE O DIRECT T.V. 7 MCCUAIG INSURANCE 3 GALLINGER MOTORS 2 Keain O'Ooem.i JAN 30 MINOR PEE WEE ABSOLUTE TRANSPORT 4 Ian Arseneau NU-TECH RECRUITERS NIA TOWNE DENTAL 2 Victoria Mule GOLD CONNECTION NIA JAN 30 MAJOR PEE WEE KWIK KOPY 6 Jesern Robertson BRIANIS AUTO 10 KENTUCKY FRED ClUICEN 7 Reed Johnson PRESSE LAW 6 JAN 30 MINOR NOVICE GOODLIFE BLACK 7 Jim Shepard GOODLIFE RED 3 Cody SatI GOODLIFE GREEN 1 Rhys Betts GOODLIFE BLUE 3 Sean Whiteslds JAN 30 MAJOR NOVICE HUNT CHRYSLER JEEP 2 Collin Fast CANADIAN TIRE 1 1yler Borges SHOPPERS DRUG MART 3 MakDiUabnaffo BRIAN'S AUTO 2 Bon Stonofl JAN 29 BANTAM DOCS & DENTS 4 AnUionyMabacci ABSOLUTE TRANSPORT 6 John Peppla PLAYOFFS MARMAC 2 Vance Youngs MILTON DODGE JEEP 5 KyleThornas DURANTE'S 5 Kevi Duglm KCK TEAMWEAR 4 Malt ModeIrosi 0Mr! W. 1 1 Y