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The Cariadian Champion. Ficday. February 2, 2001 - 21 S;PORTS Photo by GRAHAMV PAINE «,Milton BMXers ready to ride Miltons Track 2000 was recentiy announced as a site for the 2001 War of the Stars North American tour. The local track wli play hoat to thouaands of ridera over the weeksnd of June 23 and 24. Among Milton-area reor siated to compote are (fromn ieft) Alox Brancier, Natasha Brancier, Mike Mills, Jason Bouwrnan and Brenne Mille. ~Another milestone for E C Drury There are few wrestling honours liC. Drury High basnni claimed. And now tbere are even fewer- iollowing Saîurday's Ontario Junior Wrestling Championships in London. Former Spartans Kevin Heffron and John McCart became the local school's first provincial goid medalists with unblemished performances ai the tour- namient. McCart dominaied the heavyweight division. pinning tbree straight oppo- nents to .win bis sixth provincial age clans crown in seven years. In the finals, he defeated Ottawa's Devon Nicholson. Heffron also secured three consecu- tive wins including a technical superi- ority victory over Western's Sean Ross. Despite numerous regionai and national tities, this wan bis first chars- pionship on the Ontario stage. Meanwhile, feliow alumni grappler Chad Memrtt had t0 settle for bronze after a disastrous start. Leading 8-0, Drury's 2000 OFSAA champ slipped whiie attempting a potential-winning throw and was pinnied. He then battled back 10 take four straight matches to grab third - cap- ping his remarkable recover with a close-fougbt decision over fellow Spartan Roy McDonel. Chuis Holmes, also in bis first junior championships, showed strongly and finisbed tiftb, dropping tightly-contest- ed gold and bronze semi-linal matches. The Drury contingent helped the Guelph Wrestiing Club retain its provincial teamn titie. Tbe two will co- host an ali-age group open meet at E.C. Sunday. By STEVE LBLANC The Champion The Merchants got their point across in Buffalo Monday. Only problers was, they should have eamned more than one. However, a 4-0 hammerlock went up in smoke -as penalty trouble, fallen players and a disjointed offen- sive effort conspired to stave off vic- tory. Before a small but spinited crowd at West Seneca Arena, Milton coughed up oneO of its biggest leads of the season and had to seule for a 4-4 >talemate with the fundamental- ly sound Lightning. The visiting juniors, who gained a valuable point in their bid to remain division front-runners, had thinga well in hand through first period play - scoring three times and restricting the hosts t0 a mere six shots against goaltender Richard Fournier. Reversai of fortune But then their bouse of cards came cnimbling down. Defenceman Chris Krieg sus- tained a nasty cut to bis wrist. Forward Dan DeLong left the game due to illness. A rash of minoir infractions resulted in two goals against. A handful of players were banged tsp in fairly high impact col- lisions. A punchless powerplay failed on three occasions. Collectively, this allowed for a major reversai of fortune that was capped with the tying tally being sunk inside the final five minutes of regulation time. On the plus side, the Merchants' retooled top two scoring units con- tinued to produce. The first line accounted for three Low Eseryay Pnoes' ® ® ...... -9tTen Lang 842-»92 AbmDtr -markers, two of whicb were deposit- cd by recently promoted rookie Kevin Amiuda. The diminutive forward - wbo scooped up tbe top fresbman award last week and is second on the team in goals - potted number 19 and 20 in the opening frame before setting up Andrew Francone. Rozak back in form Andy Rozak assisted on ail thre goals while Francone came away with helpers on both by Arruda. Meanwhiie, Rick Ferroni finished up a niiiy pass from linemate Flavio Faggioni about a minute int the gaine. Also assisting on the play was Frank Fazio - who along witb cbecking Winger James Coleman offered robust performances for much of tise evening clash. Buffalo's Nick Watroba tallied twice while the hosts got singles front Jeff Rasmussen and Lee Stempniak. Tbe 27-13-5-i Merchants, who're unbeaten in their last four games alier dropping three straigbî, sit two points ahead of second-place Georgetown witb tbree games remaining in regular season play. Merchant notes: Kevin Arruda bas six goals in his last three games ..Left winger Ian LaBrash and defenceman Adam Sturgeon finish up suspensions this weekend.. Sbould West Conference standings remain as tbey are, the Merchants will open the playoffs against Bramalea. Milton bas won ail but one game against the Blues this sea- son ... Milton will hosi Mississauga tonigist and will look to cement fimt place tomorrow in Georgetown. Game time is 7:30 p.m. [1Cww.clakesolf.cil MAP11 TMKES COVER 11il la flimmpo> Rd, Unit 7 & 8 Milton 95-711 I s8 *mson Rd. Unts67 - 4 Merchants settie for tie in Buffalo A Milton's 4-O lead disappears Ad I