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Canadian team on US tour Canadas Patty Olson ll wings shot past the United States Flo Ilynian cen tre and Diane McCormick The LS has beaten the Canadians of games in Texas tour through Pasa dena Dallas and Midland Next major stop is the April 2430 qualifying tourney in Santo Domingo for the 1878 Moscow World Games Crozier gets shutout in Capitals victory By THE CANADIAN PRESS Roger Crozier retired from hockey in 1975 but hes back again in fighting form In his second appearance as goaltender with Washington Capitals Crozier stopped 14 shots in two periods of play to lead his team to in win over Colorado Rockies in National Hockey League game Friday night It felt great to get back into the thick of things again Cro zier said never doubted that could play in the league again It was just matter of if wanr ted to or not Crozier retired from the game in December 1975 following hitch with Buffalo Sabres But the time span has not apparently affected his con dition felt fairly sharp tonight the 3fryearold goalie said When you come back after being out as long as Ive been its more matter of coiidir tioning than anything else In the only other game Fri day night Minnesota North Stars and Cleveland Barons played to 22 tie Iton Low relieved rozier in the third period of the game Stingers control their own destiny By THE II PRESS It seems everybody has con ceded first place in the Work Hockey Association Eastern Di vision to Quebec Nordiques ex cept Cincinnati Stingers check of the WHA schedulr shows that the secondplace Sti ngers are in control of their owr destiny although they have only 10 remaining games to make seven points on the Nordiqucs The Stingers blasted the Nor diques 73 Friday night at Cin cinnati in the first of five games against the division leaders during the final three weeks of the schedule In other games New Englanc Whalers defeated Calgary Cow boys ZH Houston Aeros dumv ped Phoenix Roadrunners of and Winnipeg Jets outlasted Iri dianapolis Racers 76 Right winger Blaine Slough ton scored two goals in game that saw the Stingers wipe out 31 disadvantage following brawl in the second period Cincinnatis Bryan Maxwell and Quebecs Jean Bcrnier Collingwood downed 107 GUELPH nt CPlGuelph Platers took lead in their bestofsevcn Southern Ontario Junior Hockey League final Friday with 107 win over Col lingwood Blues George McPhee scored three goals for Guelph which led 31 at the end of the first period and 83 at the end of the second stared the brawl at 337 of flu period As soon as they wert pulled apart Stinger captain Rick Dudley and the Nordiqucs Jim Dorey squared off The big change in the gamc for us was the fight said iii cinnati coach Terry Slater They started thinking and wt started doing most of the play ing Iaude Larose Gregg Carroll Richie Leduc anti Ron Plumb scored in span of two minutes and 22 seconds later in the period to give the Stingers 53 lead going into the final period Leagueleading scorer Real Cloutier fired all three Quebec goals giving him 39 for the sea son Veteran centre Dave Keoii scored powerplay goal with 10 seconds left in the second pe riod for the games final goal as New England beat the Cowboys at Hartford Conn The victory enhanced the Whalers chances of nailing down the fourth and final play off spot in the Eastern Division They lead Birmingham Bulls by seven points and the Bulls have only nine games remaining At Houston Gordie Howe scored his let goal of the sea son and added two assists to lead the Acros to their 20th con secut ivc home victory The Aeros broke 32 game open late in the second period on goals 75 seconds apart by Cam Connor and Ted Taylor Anders Hedberg and Bobby Hull scored two goals and one assist each Ask us aboutyou Come and tell us what youre looking for in jOI Tell us what you are today and what you want to be tomorrow Ask us if we can offer opportunities and challenges to match your needs No obligations on either side Well be glad to talk And we may have just what youre looking for But youll never know until you ask Visit our Mobile Recruiting Unit Conodo Manpower Centre BARBIE THURSDAY 310 24 3l March l0000m 300 pm thought two periods was enough tonight Capitals coach Tom McVie said of removing Crozier didnt think he was challenging the shooters and he wasnt coming behind the net to clear the puck Guy Charroii started the scor ing for the Capitals as he grab bed pass from Bob Sirois and put the puck past goalie Doug Favell Hartland Moiiahan scored ari other goal after taking the rebound of shot by raig Pat rick lhe apilals third goal came on power play as Pat rick picked up the rebound of harroii shot Jim Roberts scored on 33 footer midway through the third period to give Minnesota its tie with leveland tleveland jumped to 20 lead as Wayne Merrick scored just 248 into the first period and Ralph Klasseii added powcrplay goal less than two iiiiiiuteslater WINNIPEG CP Paul Gowsell didnt like the way he won the Canadian junior mens curling championship Friday but the Calgary skip couldnt quarrel with the results It bothered us to be one game behind almost the entire week said the lsyearold Mount Royal College student Waiting isnt very good feeling but when you win in the end guess its okay The Alberta skip won the title for the second time in three years when he defeated Nova Scotia 105 in the final round while British Columbia was upset 85 by Newfoun dland Alberta which lost to Gary Smart of North Vancouver in the fourth round Monday fin ished with 101 record and BC was 92 after losing its last two games Lead Kelly Stearne is the only holdover from Gowsells rink which won the Canadian Canadian junior mens curling Alberta skip doesnt like way he won title junior title in 1975 at Edmonton and the world Junior championship last year in Aviemore Scotland Stearne like Gowsell uses the push room NEWCOMERS Gowsell added third John Fer uson and second Doug McFarlane to his rin this sea son after he won the Calgary superleague with his old rink Alberta defeated Nova Scotia by stealing two in the second end and springing four in the fourth against Scott Saunders of Lunen burg The Lunenburg foursome finished with 56 record Gowsell made the shot of the tournament when he executed difficult raisetakeout for his four ender Jeff Thomas and his St Johns foursome went ahead 64 with two in the sixth and stole two more in the seventh when Smart rolled The Barrie Examiner Saturday March 19 1977 13 out with his shot after looking at three News foundland stones Sure we felt the pressure and missed couple of shots should have made said Smart layearsold railway laborer kept looking over at Gowsells score and guess was kind of nervous The miss in the seventh was the key to the game because that left us four down with three ends to go BREAKS STREAK Newfoundlands win broke fourgame losing streak and allowed Thomas to finish with 56 record Manitoba had provided Alberta with an earlier break when Bob Sigurdson of Winni peg defeated BC 53 Thursday night In other finalround games Manitoba defeated New Brunswick PEl downed Northern Ontario 93 Saskatchewan edged Ontario 87 and Quebec got past the Territories 53 Manitoba finished third with an 83 record with its win over Emery Robidoux of Fred ericton leaving New Brunswick at 38 Peter Jenkins of Charlottetown got PEl into fourth place at 74 with his win over Greg Rietze of Northern Ontario dropping the Capreol rink to 47 Rick Schneider and his Kronau rink won its last four games as Saskatchewan finished at 65 while Brian Derooy of Tilbury was at 47 for Ontario Quebec won its fourth game when Alain Guy and his Trois Rivieres foursome beat Sonny Greenland of lnuvik leaving the Territories with only one win Lead Gordie Ell of Saskatchewan was voted by his fellow curlers as the most po ularplayer he 1978 championship will be held in Charlottetown with the world final next year BC rink defends Canadian title HALIFAX CP Tony Eberts of Williams Lake BC who won the 1976 Canadian mixed curling championship with his final shot in playoff returns to the national event Sunday to defend that title Garnet Campbell of Avonlea Sask the veteran skip who watched glumly at Lethbridge Alta year ago as that final Eberts shot took away the title also will compete in this years event The comeback of Campbell 50yearold farm owner whose outstanding curling reputation was built in the 1950s and 1960s sets up the prospect of another ELKSaskatchewan battle for the Seagram trophy But before the lZrink coin petition closes next Friday number of rinks led by veteran curlers with plenty of ex perience probably will have something to do with deciding the championship Harold Tanasiehuk of Winni pegs Civic Caledonia club rep resented Manitoba last year and has brought his experience in national tournaments to help improve 74 record and last years fourthplace finish His wife Rose the rinks third twice had been provin cial womens champion and twice Manitoba mixed cham pion Second Jim Kirkness has been on 10 zonowinning entries in Manitoba The Northern Ontario rink is skipped by Bill Grozelle of Hail eybury who twice has been to the Canadian mens champion ships The Ontario entry is headed by Bob Woods of To rontos Royal Canadian club who has ackground that iii cludes being member of the Swedish team at the 1969 world championships EAST WINIJISS No team east of Manitoba has won the mixed event since its inception in l9trl but besides the tWo Ontario crews some other eastern provinces are sending experienced teams to the ice at the Mayflower club Prince Edward island is skip 32d by John Fortier who has en to the Canadian mens championship three times and to the national mixed coni petition three times before Third Diane Blanchard was skip of the PEI womens championship team in 1975 and l976 and was at the mixed event in l971 Tiant ready Boston lied Sox pitcher Luis Tiant unpacking his personal items at his clubhouse locker in Winter Haven Fla Friday after he arrived at the spring training camp Tiant had been in dispute with the Red Sox over his contract AP Photo slated for Grindlewald Switzerland Garners debut lacklustre but Pirates still Win 106 By THE ASSOCIATEI PRESS Phil Garner played third base for Pittsburgh Pirates on Fri day and third base lost By no stretch of the imagina tion could Garners debut with the Pirates be termed aus picious although they beat De troit Tigers 106 in an exhibition baseball game second baseman with Oak land until the nineplayer trade between the As and Pirates earlier this week Garner was handed the third base job Pittsburgh manager Chuck Tanner also his boss in Oakland In five innings Garner heaved one ball over the first basemans head and butchered two other grounders He han dled two balls cleanly As you can see Im not ready Garner said havent even taken ground ball at third base for two years aint gonna do it in day didnt anticipate ever playing third again The day wasnt total loss for Garner 26 He delivered 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