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the examiner Wednesday Jan 1978 Whats up Oro tourney runs smoothly Ry WERNER BERGEN Examiner Sports Editor Organization can make or break an event especially sports event The Oro NoviceJuvenile Hockey lournameiit is probably the biggest annual sports event in Oro lownship and it was run right Organizing 28 juvenile teams and eight lltltt clubs in week long series of games as well as two allstar contests is not easy Not only did everything start on tune but teams travelling long distances had their schedules arranged in such way that they only had to spend iiiuiimuni iiniiiber of nights in motel The club from NiagaraoiitherLake had to spend only two nights in motel saving them time and money The whole tournament was run on it plOftSSlOlttll basis and those in charge should receive eoiigratutatioiis from everyone who participates for job well done With holiday tournaments going on all over the province Barrie teams travelled to Santia London Whitby Kingston Township Stayner Oro and Mississauga lwo novice hockey players from Sinicoe County have been given great deal of attention for their performances David Gillespie of the Torpey Novices from Oro and Darren Rumble of the Lions Novices both showed why they are considered great hockey playeis Shayne torsoii of the Cardinal Cash and Carry Peewees also won lauicls for his hockey playing ability Gillespie led his team to victory in the Oro tournament and the undefeated team then edged the Lions with Gillespie scoring three goals and assisting on fourth Rumble was named the most valuable player in his division in the Stayner tournament with Corson winning the same prize in Whitby where he scored 10 goals and had eight assists FELTIS STRIKES LT Matt Feltis skip of the Barrie Central Collegiate curling team almost won the area high school championship On the fast ice at the Circle Pines Curling Club at Canadian Forces Base Borden Feltis missed an easy shot that could have sent the game into an extra end As it was Feltis sent his hammer stone through the house gving the Kirk Lloyd Rink of CFB Borden the win Feltis should not be blamed too much for the loss Both clubs and all eight shooters missed shots the whole game If they had all been shooting up to their potential it would have been high scoring game Lloyd won 75 While both rinks were guilty of making bad shots CFB Borden did get break with bad shot In the eighth end Kevin Lloyd slipped and fell while throwing his final rock Lloyd went sliding half way down the sheet on his seat but his rock went straight In fact it was the best shot of the day taking out two Barrie rocks in the house and drawing to the centre of the four foot circle Feltis now goes onto meet the Orillia area champions with that winner advancing to regional playoff The regional playoff winner goes to the Ontario Schoolboy championship FLYERS TAKE ON RLSSIANS The Barrie Flyers of the Ontario Senior Hockey League take on team from the Soviet Union on Friday at the Bar rie Arena Steve Cripps Flyers general manager said several weeks ago that Vladislav Tretiak and Valeri Khar molov would be in the teams lineup Both have starred in several series with Team Canada Both players have not played in any of the four games with the team to date against Ontario Senior Hockey League teams so its safe bet they wont be in Barrie The Russians have defeated Whitby Mississauga and Cambridge easily and edged Orillia The Flyers will have their hands full with the Russian team Last time team fmm the Soviet Union played the Flyers the visitors won in what could be considered one of the best games ever played at the Barrie Arena Judo competition to kickoff Games After successful Winter and Summer Huronia Games in Games was successful figure 1977 organizers are now set for this winters various competi tions which kickoff this weekend with judo competi tion in Bradford In all eight sports are scheduled for dates in Jan and Feb Judo is slated for Saturday in Bradford ringette on Jan 15 in Oro crosscountry skiing on Jan 22 in Barrie floor hockey on Jan 28 and 29 in Barrie gymnastics on Feb 11 in Bar rie volleyball on Feb 12 in Barrie weightlifting on Feb 18 in Orillia and swimming on Feb 25 in Midland Also affiliated with the skating competition held Dec to in Elmvale Over 150 skaters took part in the daylong event The Greater Huronia Sports Council GHSC which handled tie past events will not be able to do so this time around so an independent Winter Games Committee composed of replt raentatives of the sports in volved will be handling awards public relations publicity and results The focus of the Games is to provide local competition for Huronias amateur athletes last winter over 1800 athletes participated in 18 sports For further information con tact the GHSC at 7269300 ex tension 212 Steve Couthen is athlete of year NEW YORK AP Steve lauthen who missed his high school senior prom because he was busy making horse racing history was named Athlete the Year for 1977 by The Asso ciated Press Tuesday The 17yearold jockey from Walton Ky is the first horse racing personality to win in the 47year history of the award Nothing disturbs him said Hall Fame jockey Eddie Ar caro of the young man who kept his cool throughout his redhot year in defeat he doesnt look back But Steve Cauthen will look back on 1977 and he will be hard pressed to see the defeats that are as much as part of jockeys life as his lack Some scenes on which his minds eye can focus Dec to winning With Gold Seeker Purse on Little flappi ness at Aqueduct to become the first jockey to ride Winners of $0 million in single year Nov 29 riding six winners at Aqueduct it marked the third time during the year he rode that many winners in day in New York an aCcomplishmcnt matched by no one HMay 23 suffering broken wrist and ribs and cuts of the face and hands when Bay Streak broke leg and tell during the fourth race at Belmont Park June 23 winning with his first ride since his spill on Little Miracle at Belmont Park June 29 riding three winners at Belmont on llIS first day Without an apprentices fivepound weight allowance At the end of the year autheii had ridden but winners and thc purses of his mounts totalled $ti15173 lie was the regular jockey for twiryearold champion Affirmed and grass cham pion Johnny turning in superb rides on both colts in key races that led to their titles 11 will be difficult year to top for anybody and authens approach is dont have any goals just hope to have many more good years sports calendar HOCKEY Barrie COOP Major Midgets Sweden exhibition Barrie Flyeis Cambridge OHA Senior Hockey League BASKETBALL pm Midland Barrie Blues vs Midland Longhorns Simoce County Mens Intermediate Basketball League SWIMMING 615 pm Barrie YMYWCA Barrie Neptune Swim Club regular practice session GYMNASTICS 7pm Steele St Public School advanced gymnastics SKATING 101511 15 am Eastview Arena Mom and lots learn to skate part of Barrie Department of Recreation Winter Recreation Program Swedish goaltender Henrik Larsson gets some much needed help from his defence as Dave Miles of the Barrie OOI Major Midgets tries to get to re bound The Danderyds Sportkluhb of Sweden was no match for Barrie as the spo Beat Cambridge 42 chib 7t Examiner Photo OPs waltzed to an easy xz win in the international hockey game Tuesday at the Barrie Arena Defenccman Bernie llutl led the Barrie attack with three goals Steve Bouchey had two markers Last year the OOPs beat similar Swedish Flyers keep rolling along By WERNER BERGEN Examiner Sports Editor CAMBRIDGE Barrie Flyers moved into tie for secondplace in the Ontario Senior Hockey League with 42 win over the Cambridge Hornets Tuesday The Flyers were in fourth place one point behind Orillia Terriers going into Tuesdays game and two behind second place Cambridge The game was tied 11 after the first period with the Flyers ahead 32 after the second period Everyone contributed to night and put in good effort said Darryl Sly Flyers coach Sly said he was pleased with the good defensive game played by the Flyers particularly the work of Doug Ferguson Sly said it was one of the better defensive games played this season by the team Sly said forward Bob Baird had found place on line With Don Tannahill and Wayne King Sly said the three were working well together and were happy with the new arrange ment You dont BUR HAIR finds home when theyre happy and work ing well Sly said Bob Iupuis change them bed 31 shots in the Barrie iict Trottier Lotleur lead NHL scorers MONTREAL CP Guy Laflcur of Montreal fanadicns is not shadow of his former sell but for the last seven weeks he has shadowed Bryan Trottier of New York Islanders for the National Hockey League scoring lead Trottier had 63 points for ninepoint lead over Lallcur prior to Tuesday nights games figures released by the NHL office showed He had the individual lead in the goals and assists depart ments as well with 28 and 15 respect ivcly Lafleur who won the NHL scoring championship the last two seasons had 54 points on 27 goals and 27 assists Darryl Sitttlcr of Toronto Maple Leafs was solidly in third position with 51 points on 19 goals and 12 assists Rookie Mike Bossy of the Islanders and Gilbert leircault of Buffalo Sabres shared fourth spot with identical records of 25 goals and 19 assists for 44 points Bobby Clarke of Philadelphia Flycrs and Jacques Lemaire of Montreal were tied for sixth at 43 points with Clark Gillies of the Islanders alone at 42 SAME GOALIES LEAI In the past five seasons either Ken Dryden of Montreal or Bernie Parent of Philadelphia had had his name inscribed on the Vezina Trophy for goaltciiders and statistics in dicated the trend would not end this season With almost half the schedule completed Dryden and his teammate Michel Larocquc had played one more game than Parent and his artncr Wayne Stephenson 364 and the Montreal tandem ad allowed three fcwci goals Dryden who won the china Trophy in 1973 1976 and shared it with Larocque last season led the leagues goaltenders with 04 goalsagainst average The Montreal team average was 11 Parent who shared the VCIJIlu lrophy with Tony Esposito of Chicago Black Hawks in 1974 and was the sole recipient of the trophy in 1975 was the leader in shutouts with four and canied 228 goalsagainst average The Philadelphia tcaiii average was 226 Parent appeared to have recovered from neck injury which had sidelined him for most of the 197576 season tanibridgc goaltender kicked out liar ric shots while llavc Johns Stopr lost of the shots ii Johns were easy shots from long way out although he lid make several key saves 111 the first and third periods llupuis was iiiiprcsswc in the first period as Barrie field wide margin of play iii the game but held the Myers to on Iy one goal In the third period the lilyeis were brczikiiig through the lloriicts leleiicc with regularity only to be toiled by lupu1s laiiiiahill said lupiiis had turned iii one of the best gluiltciiding performances he had seen in the league ambridge took to lead at 112 the first period with Don Wilson scoring following taccoft deep in the Barrie end He let the shot go from the point and it was screenixl with Johns not even seeing the puck Jiiii Martel and arl Reinhardt assisted Wayne King tied the game at 1621 when he lofted soft shot at the Hornets goal The ptick took crazy bounce and slid utidcr llupuis Baird and Tan iialiill assisted Willi Ron Lyle scrvuig trip WAYNE IIIIlt7 scores again ping penalty and Gary Mac Millaii off for unsporlsnianlike conduct and misconduct aiiiliridge scored With two man advantage at ltt2 of the second period The lloriiets threw the puck around working the points until Hill Wells was able to beat Johns loii iponl assisted llic llycrs roared back and scored sliorthanded 40 seconds later to tie the game with Tim iialiill scoring laiiiialiill and King broke down ice on two 10110 break llic original shot by King was stopped but the rebound was finally SllOHllttl in by laii iialiillat lit 43 Wayne tailetoii and Les lturgcss teamed up for pic ture goal at 13 ill to put the Flyers ahead for good tarlctoit received perfect pass from Burgess as he crossed the Cam bridge blueline and moved in on goal He moved around the lctciiceiiiaii and fired qtiick low shot that beat lupUis tliailic Shaw rounded out the scoring at the 13 second mark of the third period when he iii tercepted taiiibridge pass at the blueline and had clear cut breakaway llc fired puck wristshot into be far corner The llyers host team from the Soviet him on Friday at at to in at the Barrie Arena Fighting Irish get the nod as top US football team The Fighting lllSll of Notrc Dame conqueror of previoust unbeaten Texas in the ottoii Howl were voted national champions of college football in the United States On Tuesday fir the seventh time in the 127 ymir history of The Associated Press poll In threeway battle with two other teams that posted coiivuiciiig bowl victories Notrc Dame fifth in the final rogularseasoii poll won out over Alabama and Arkansas The Irish who routed pro viously topranked lcxas tttrlt iii the ottoii Bowl received it 173 of ill firstplace votes and 17 It of possible 1280 points tmni countrywide panel of sports writers and broad casters Alabama No at the tlll ot the regular season walloped Ohio State 353 in the Sugar Bowl and received 19 til first placc ballots and 1132 points In third place was Arkansas 3H winner over Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl The Razor backs No tat the conclusion of the regular season received 173 votes ll the top spot and Lo points The Sunny lialniers Itiiik won the mens consolation event in the first schedule at the liar iie urlitig lub and won the lahatts Breweries trophy From left are Sonny liiiliiiiis ship on Martin ice loliu lctaiin touipaiiy representative Bill Taylor second and IAO Madigaii lead Examiner Ihoto Swedish club no matchfor COOPs By SCOTT IIASKINS Examiner Sports Reporter llohum So this is international hockey at its finest Over 700 fans showed up at the Barrie Arena expectin to see an exciting international hockey game Tuesday What got was enough to put even the most dedicated hockey fan to sleep Barrie IOOP Major Midgets breezed to an 82 win over the touring Dandcryds Sportklubb of Sweden and it could have been much worse It was evident from the start of the game that the Swedish club was outclassed COOPs would have been farther ahead to go for leisurely Sunday afternoon skate It would have been better practice The Swedish team was intimidated to the point that they were almost afraid to touch the puck The surprising thing is that the fOOPs didnt throw hard check during the entire game Barrie players were allowed to roam at will The top Swedish player was undoubtedly goaltender Henrik Larsson He was forced to make numerous key saves to keep the score from rcachingdoublefigures Last season the CttPs played the Djurgaden Midgets from Sweden and won 7zt Djurgaden was firstplace team in Sweden while the Danderyds Sportklubb is in secondplace in similar league this season The forechecking of Barrie combined with strong skating and shooting kept Sweden off balance for much of the game brief flurry in the last 11 minutes of the game made the score more respectable but the final outcome was never in doubt IOOP coach John McCann was understandibly upset after the game He expected top Swedish team but he certainly didnt get one am really disappointed in them McCann said shaking his head They moved the puck alright but their skating was just awful certainly thought theyd be more competitive he added Last season it was Doug Shedden with three goals who led the attack against Sweden This year defenceman Bernie Hutz repeated Sheddens performance and was the top player on the ICC Steve Bouchey had two goals for Barrie Dave Johnston Dave Mayor and Ken Thompson had single markers John Helmer and Urban Larsson replied for Sweden Chris Harris and Darryl MacKenzie split the goaltending chores for Barrie Harris shutout the Swedish team for the first half of the game but MacKenzie seemed to have trouble with shots from outside the blueline The biggest cheer of the night was reserved for Swedens first goal Helmer broke around the defence at the blueline and backhanded soft shot to the bottom corner at 1317 of the final eriod just missed it MacKenzie said after the game looked bit like Gord McCrea goaltender for the Toronto Maple 1121B on that one Barrie jumped out to an early lead less than three minutes in tothe game when Hutz scored his first of three goals Dale Pickard and Steve Chappel set up Hutz at the blueline and his low hard shot found its way into the bottom of the net Sweden had chance to tie the score couple minutes later Barrie had two men in the penalty box but the Barrie defence only allowed one shot on goal and it was from outside the blueline Johnston and Bouchey with his first of two goals gave Barrie 30 lead at the end of the first period and already it was ob vious that the fans were getting restless with the Swedish players lack of hustle and desire Johnston and Bouchey with his first of two goals gave Barrie 30 lead at the end of the first period and already it was ob bus that the fans were getting restless with the Swedish players lack of hustle and desire Boucheys goal came with only three seconds left in the period Once again it was Chappel and Picard who started the play to put Bouchey in alone on goaltender Larsson Hutz and Bouchey added their second goals of the game in the second period Bouchcys goal came early in the period when Barrie was playing man short Pickard let shot go from the point and Bouchey was in perfect position to tip it into the open net Those fans that stayed to the bitter end saw Sweden start to play some hockey in the third period The Swedes came out with more hustle in the final period and finally started to resemble hockey team Thompson Mayor and Hutz scored third period goals for Bar rie while Sweden replied with goals from Urban and Larsson The COOPs are in secondplace in the York Simeoe Minor Hockey League with record of 16 wins 11 losses and six ties but Tuesdays game will do little to help them in their bid to overtakeOrillia it certainly didnt do our club any good to play them Mc Cann said It did give the team break from the regular season though and they enjoyed it The Canadian reputation of rough hockey intimidated the Swedes from the start of the game but the COOPs didnt have to resort to rough play You just never know how to play European teams until after youve played them McCann said but we were very nice to them 1E 111PS The appearance of Sweden on Barrie ice mark ed only the second time that team from the Barrie Minor Hockey Association BMHA has entertained an overseas team OOPs presented the Swedish players with hockey stick and sweater bearing the BMHA crest The game was halfanhour late starting Stephanie Mayor of Barrie sang Canada at the start of the game Barrie Flyers of the Ontario Hockey Association Senior League host Russian team Fri day at the Barrie Arena Lets hope the Russians put on bet ter show Three Canadians make rankings INNSBRUCK Austria CP Olympic gold medallist Kathy Kreiner and mens downhill aces Ken Read and Steve Podborski are the only ranking Canadians in the FIS Inter national Ski Federation lists released Tuesday Kreiner gold medal winner in the giant slalom at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck and fourth on the World Cup circuit last season is ranked fourth She trails World Cup leader LiseMarie Morerod of Switzerland and Austrians Monika Kaserer and Annemarie ProellMoser Read with couple of fourthplace finishes this season is listed eighth among downhillers by the FIS with Steve Pod borski rated 28th The FIS listings determine the starting order in Alpine ski events Dorsett wins another award NEW YORK AP Tony Dorsett of Dallas Cowboys the Heisman Trophy winner who sprinted his way into select group of 1000yard gainers was hxmed The Associated Press Offensive Rookie of the Year in the National Football League Tuesday Dorsett only the eighth NFL layer ever to gain 1000 yards as rookie was an overwhe ming choice He received of the 84 votes cast by panel of 84 sports writers and broadcasters three from each NFL franchise city Wesley Walker the New York Jets wide receiver got three votes Wide receiver Billy Waddy of Los Angeles Rams and Chicago Bears offensive tackle led Albrecht icccived one vote each Dorsett who rushed for an NCAArecord 6082 yards and 38 touchdowns at the University of Pittsburgh knew what he wanted when he left college ranks and more precisely what hedidnt want He didnt want to play in Seattle he said Gretzky still leads scorers Wayne Gretzky of Sault Ste Marie Greyhounds fresh from stint with Team Canada continues to lead the On tario Hockey Association Major Junior scoring race this week with 16 goals and 59 assists for 95 points llis closest rival is Bob Smith of Ottawa 675 with 87 points from 15 goals and 52 assists Gerry Leroux of Windsor Spitfires is in tfiird spot with 37 goals and 39 assists for 76 points Ottawa right winger Tim Higgins scored four goals and eight assists last week to maintain his fourthplace spot with 75 points Steve Marengere of Ottawa and Stan Adams of Niagara Falls Flyers each have collected 67 points to share fifth place At Jensen of Hamilton Fiiicups leads the goaltending race with 279 average in goals scored against him Hamilton teammate Rick Walinsley is second with 292 average and Pat Riggin of London Knights is third with till average