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the examiner Thursday Feb 23 1978 By ARL DEGLRSE Exa miner Sports Reporter guess things do get little hectic around here sometimes said sports editor Scott Haskins This harried sportswriter had just muddled through his first full day of work at The Examiner and the smoke was just beginning to settle was considering gnawing at my typewriter ribbon and if there is any kind of justice in this life getting ink poisoning and passing on to that great newsroom in the sky The last paper worked on was weekly in Timmins the land of ice snow and mines Winter sports there consisted of mediocre Intermediate hockey team handful of minor league clubs and high school whatever started here last weekend and checked out the local sports calendar Thirtytwo girls teams were playing volleyball at Central Collegiate Institute There were 48 minor league clubs involved in the Barrie Winter Carnival Hockey Tournament The Colts were playing game as were the Flyers There was curling at the Barrie Curling Si Club and public school basketball There were not this many games of anything played in lrmmins all winter thought perhaps we would have week to write up all the weekends activities Deadline was Monday morning Mornings at the Timmins newspaper were mellow time The sports department would gather for coffee and talk g3 about the game last night or the new show in town Monday morning here was like nothing Ive ever been through Everyone seemed to be in overdrive Typewriters were smoking phones were ringing and everyone was rushing about was amazed In limmirts reporters dressed as they wished particularly sports writers Most sports writers know take pride in looking and acting grubby even if it takes some bit of work Within an hour of my first real day here four people commented on my bare neck It seems all male members of The Examiner editorial staff wear tics in the newsroom Even the sports department now find work much better wearing my tie Everything aside did manage to take in few sporting events was impressed with the intensity with which the minor overtime City sports scene hectic leaguers played in the Barrie Winter Carnival Hockey lournatnent Some said the boys were too hyped up to win the tour nament trophies and all pretence of playing for the fun of the game were gone Being all hyped up to win is the fun of tournament games In practices and league contests players learn sport smanship and all the other good things that go along with competitive sports When tournaments and playoffs roll around though the learns should be at peak and should play to win Of course rules of good conduct and sportsmanship should apply but this is the time for players to really care if they or lose When todays players are married with 23 kids the things they will remember about their minor league careers will be the championships and the near misses Thats the wa itis FREE SHOTS Congratulations to Jerry Skipwit and Hay Heaslip the organizers of the winter carnival minor hockey tournament There were 600 minor hockey players and their parents to take care of and the whole thing came 23 off without hitch It was nice to see the men responsible for fif 48 teams take the time to explain to parent whey their sons team lid not get bye Boo and hiss to few parents at the same tournament who cheered when player on the other team lay hurt on the ice It would be quite different story if the player was their son approved helmet to the Innisfil Lions junior girls hockey team that plays in league with five other male teams thought it would be joke but the girls are serious and theyre playing good hockey Just ask the boys tip of the CSA Ready Mix knocks Thornhill out 20 Sarjeant HeadyMix Pecwees have advanced to the all Ontario playoffs by defeating Ihornhill 31 Tuesday in Thor nhill ReadyMix won the bestofv three series two games straight The team will now advance to further competition and will play Sunday in Owen Sound Mike Lloyd led the club scor ing with two goals Willie legros Peter Panagabko and Craig Waddington had singles Assists were picked up by Steve Mayer Steve Board Gary Jermey and Waddington Bill Lord and Robbie Skerrett split the nctminding duties for the team Eastview still alive in basketball finals Eastview Secondary School junior boys basketball team is playing ollingworxl Collegiate Institute today at ollingwotxl in two game series to decide the zone champions in the Georgian Bay Secondary School Association GBSSA The second game iii the series will be played at Eastview Monday at 231 pm Eastview squcaked by Park Street Collegiate Institute from rillia in an overtime frame Monday to reach the finals Eastview Juniors are the only local high school basketball team still in playoff competi tion The senior basketball team from Central Collegiate In stitute lost its playoff game to Park Street Collegiate Tues day in rillia Park Street beat the Central squad til17 to move on to the zone finals against Midland Secondary School Garage ties 22 Dawsons Garage and Briens Sports battled to 22 tie and Barrie Volkswagen mdged Iiffen Farm Equip ment 31 in ro House League peewee action recently Oldtimers Brian Cardy left of the Barrie American Hotel Oldtimers explains to Ed ockburn middle and John Maloney just how close he cattle to scoring goal during an exhibition game spo 124 fans watch ame Onl Action isnt near as fast is main goal with Barrie Credit Union Oldtimers Wednesday at the Essa Township Recreation Centre American Hotel Oldtimers won the contest 31 Examiner Photo Flyers beat Mississauga By SCOTT IIASKINS Examiner Sports Editor Ho hum the Flyers won Barrie Flyers behind the three goal efforts of Les Burgess and Phil Branston beat the cellar dwelling Mississauga Golden Arrows 83 in an Ontario Hockey Associa tion HAl Senior Hockey League game Wednesday at the Barrie Arena Flyers Arrows Flyers did their best to make the game entertaining but one club can only do so much The visitors have to something to generate some excitement Mississauga played like they just got off the bus from crosscount ry tour That was just terrible good practice would have done us more good Flycr defenceman Charlie Shaw said after the game Flyers dominated the game and without the standout work of Golden Arrow goaltender John Traicus the score could have reached double figures certainly dont know how that club ever beat Thunder Bay goaltender Ernie Miller said Their goaltender comes up big every once in while He should win the leagues most valuable player award Harrie dominated every period and held till115 edge in the shotsongoal department The win moved Flyers to within one point of Brantford Alexanders in the race for se cond place in the scventeam The Woolworths Trophy winners for the Barrie urling lubs second schedule was the nnk of from left skip Hob Ilebden Ilave Ricketts vice second Walter Ilumphreys The fourth member of the rink lead Pete Ianagabko was absent when the photo was talien ROBBIE RALPH finally plays league Brantford comes to town for game Friday Bob Baird who picked up two assists in the win was disap pointed with the lack of com petition All you can do is treat the game as practice he said Its unfortunate that we had to play them tMississauga before we play Brantford Fridays game is really important if we hope to finish in second place Barrie led 20 after the first period and held 471 edge after two periods The surprising thing is that Mississauga was still in shape to win the game after the se cond period Flyers could have put it out of reach but didnt IIIII BRANSION three goals seem to have the touch around the net One player who had the touch was Burgess His three goals gave him 25 for the season only three less than hes ever scored in single season just got lucky again Burgess said in his own modest way dont like to think about game during the day just work hard keep in shape and try and do the best can Burgess like many of the other Flycrs felt that the game hurt the club more than it helped It was terrible tuneup for the game against Brantford he added Wayne Carleton who sat out Jr the second and third periods and Don Tannahill scored the other Flyer goals Paul Richard had two goals for Mississauga and Kevin Ken nery wrapped up the scoring with goal with only 107 left in the game FLYERS FACTS Terry Agnew returned to the Flyers after brief stint in the Inter national Hockey League played couple games and then got traded to Flint so decided to come back home he said Robbie Ralph who has been spending most of the season on the bench finally got chance to play Dave Johns played the first two periods in the Bar rie goal Only 125 fans show ed up for the contest and many of them left after the second period think Ill go home and watch the Leaf game one fan said as he was leaving There were only two penalties in the game both to the Flyers When club draws 124 people for home game it makes you wonder why it bothers to broad cast the games Flyers are expecting two new faces in camp next week so someone has to go Flyers play Mississauga again Monday at the Barrie Arena Playoffs are just around the corner thank goodness Barrie curlers win trophies The Shannon Construction Trophy was presented to the mixed team from Central Col Iegiate Institute Tuesday at Barrie Curling Club The award is presented annually to the top team in the social curling division Accepting the trophy front left are 10rd Fry lead Lorraine Young second Janet Caldwell viCc and Doug Stephens skip Presenting the trophy on behalf of Norsummit Contracting Services Limited is Dave Schutz but enjoyment ARL IEGURSE Examiner Sports Reporter The endtoend rushes dont happen as often and the second wind takes bitlonger to take effect but the Barrie American Hotel Oldtimers enjoy playing hockey and this is why they are going to an oldtimers tourna ment in Denmark March The Oldtimers are all over 35 yearsold and some are close to 50 The physical part of the game is not the most important thing said Ralph Haddock one of the Oldtimers Thats important too but most of the guys just come out to have fun and relax Its the social aspect of the thing agrees Penney Youre playing with everybody your own age and theres no rough stuff They do not play as team in any special league but they practice regularly at the Essa Township recreation centre and play exhibition games and tour naments Some play in an organized recreation league as well as for the Oldtimers but many work on shifts and could not follow regular schedule The team has been together for two years Last year it won bronze medal at tournament in St John New Brunswick At the beginning of each season the team gathers to discuss and decide upon the destination for the years major trip This years trip will be to Copenhagen Denmark and they are presently trying to ar range trip to Japan for next year There will be 48 oldtimer teams playing in the Co penhagen tournament Thirty eight of the teams will be from Canada and 10 from Europe trip like this is really like big party said Haddock There will be 48 teams staying in one hotel and everybody leaves their doors open Everyone is over there to have good time The team raised most of the necessary funds for its nine day Copenhagen excursion It has been holding stags and draws including recent one for black Angus cow The club also received Wintario gant The wives of many players will also be going along on the trip In tournament like this one coming up in Copenhagen winning comes fourth said Haddock More important than winning is participation exercise and fellowship He related one incident which he said illustrates the par ticipation and fellowship which exists in oldtimer hockey throughout Canada team in eastern Canada gathered together in the off season and built house for one of the team members Between the players on the team there was enough talent and ex perience so that no outside help was needed The Oldtimers are member of the Canadian Oldtimer Hockey Association COHA Teams form across Canada are ranked in groups from to depending upon age and ex perience of the players Last year the team had ranking but this season they have moved up to The previous hockey ex perience of the oldtimers varies widely Most have played minor hockey and some have played junior intermediate and senior and few have even taken stab at pro and semi pro And that was many moons ago said one player That was before expansion and to have chance at the sixteam pro league meant something At the beginning of each season the team holds tryouts The only criteria to be met to try out for the Oldtimers is age All team members must be over35 There are no slapshots allow ed in oldtimer games and bodychecks are not allowed but players do not seem to go out of their way to avoid jostling each other Were hoping to win everything in Copenhagen said Haddock With the quali ty of players we have Id say were definitely contenders Some other players on the squad laughed as he said this To them there are more impor tant things than winning Officials are Optimistic about lacrosse hearing Tonight for the first time Lacrosse Commission will hold hearing in Barrie and local lacrosse officials have high hopes for the meeting The commission will be chaired by Frank Huntley president of the Ontario Minor lacrosse Association OMLA and will accept written or ver bal submissions from local peo ple on any aspect of the game of lacrosse We feel the hearings are pretty important said Harold Torrie president of the local Huronia Minor Lacrosse As sociation HMLA The hearings are being held to change the sport of lacrosse with the times if necessary Torrie noted this is the first time this type of hearings are being held in connection with lacrosse He said in previous years seminars were held to obtain information about what the public wanted but this presented problem because input came from invited representatives only These hearings will bring the meetings to the communi ty Torrie said We will be able to talk to people we nor mally wouldnt have the chance totalk with Some of the subjects the hearing hopes to receive input onare how does minor sport deal with the declining youth population in Ontario what is the attitude and Disposers erupt for playoff win Gand Disposers erupted for 13 points in the second half and then coasted to an easy 8361 win in the first game of bestofthree playoff series in the Simcoe County Mens In termediate Basketball League Tuesday at Eastview Secon dary School Basketball club loses Eastview Secondary School midget basketball team was eliminated from further com petition this season as it fell 5141 to Park Street Collegiate Tuesday in rillia Although the score doesnt show it it was really last minute effort on Park Streets part said Jim Hamilton East view coach Hamilton noted that the game was tied going into the final quarter Dan Coates was the leading scorer for the Eastview squad with 17 points Park Street now moves on to play rillia District Collegiate Vocational Institute ODCVIt in two game series to decide the zone championship Disposers the defending league champions got 11 first half points from Leo McBride to take 403410ad McBride was the top scorer of the game with 21 points Bob Lewis added 15 points Bill McAleer had 14 and Gary Dyck Mike Patrick and Barry Iurnbull added nine points each Bert Crago had 20 points for Stayner John Pretty had 16 points Ollie Cavers added 12 and John Liotta Ken Leyshon and Neil Blue added four points each Hockey League series 20 530 to 730 nastics for beginners to 10 tional volleyball skiing sports calendar HOCKEY Barrie Flyers Mississauga Golden Arrows Ontario Hockey Association Senior League game 15 pm Eastview Arena Barrie Allan Cook Juveniles vs Orillia Orillia leads bestoffive York Simcoe Minor GYMNASTICS pm North Collegiate Barrie Gymnastics Club regular practice session to pm Assikinack Public School advanced gym VOLLEYBALL pm Assikinack Public School womens recrea SKIING 9230 to 11 am Sunnidale Community Park crosscountry philosophy of coaches players and parents what do parents expect for their child when they enroll in minor sports program how best may the Ontario Minor Lacrosse Association OMLAt serve the needs of local associations should equipment and play ing surface size be scaled to the size of younger players Torrie noted that lacrosse has caught on well since its incep tion in 1972 in Barrie At that time there were about 60 boys involved in the program Last season there were close to 300 boys involved He said up to this point available facilities hve dictated the growth of lacrosse in the area Last year however an outdoor lacrosse box was con structed on Little Avenue and Torrie feels the HMLA will now be able to serve larger number of boys Local lacrosse leagues are divided into the same age divi sions as minor hockey Last year there were 17 local teams Boys interested in playing lacrosse can contact Byrne Kyre at 7371290 Persons wishing further in formation about the lacrosse hearings which will be held tonightat800pmattheSun nidale Community Centre can contact m9943 Harold Torrie at The Mossop Award for competitive school curling was won by the team front Central Collegiate Institute From left are Mike Gleason lead Matt Feltis skip Mark Fisher vice and David Hamilton second The award is presetted annually to the high school squad that wins the Georgian Bav Secondary School Association competition Examiner Photos