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the examlnor Wodnooday April 1071 eciding game Friday Round six is won by Flyers 74 spo shorts Three players seek top award Hy HANDY MCDONALD lZxaiiilner Sports Editor Still alive You bet Andkicking Barrie Itlyers arent ready to roll over and play dead for the Ilraiitford Alexanders in the Ontario Hockey Association Senior League final luesdays it ytti 1w ltarrie forces 11 seventh and deciding game 111 Itraiitloi lllllfl Its down to one game now lllll Sly mused Flycrs playingcoach iuiytlitngeanhappen And it anything IN going to happen on favorable for the ltlytis lriilay its going to lie plain iard work which is going to lo tlttldctll It worked lot the llyers Inesday Iwue in the first period llilll lt 1iid to come back to tie the game Iilyers scored two unanswered goals in llic second period to carry 11 42 edge in lo tlictliild pet tod VANCOUVER CP Defencemen Kevin McCarthy of Winnipeg Monarchs and Robert Picard of Montreal Juniors and centre Dale McCourt of St Catharines Fincups have been named finalists for the Canadian major junior hockey player of the year award The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association said Tuesday the winner will be named here May 14 during the Memorial Cup playoffs involving teams from the Western Canada Hockey League the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League and the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League Previous winners of the award were goaltender Ed Sta niowski of Regina Pats in 1975 and forward Peter Lee of Ot tawa 67s last year Staniowski now plays for St Louis Blues of the National Hockey League and Lee is with Nova Scotia Voyageurs of the American Hockey League farm club of the NHL Mon treal Canadiens We just wanted it irclty hail tonight Sly said McCarthy Picard and McCourt were selected from 22 The line at net arlcton Les Burgess and iary Lytc ioil players nominated by major junior teams in the three cd any hopes of champagne party by the Alcxant ers Zigues The mahSts were pleked by group or Sport Altlwltgli iIrt put together three games ago the line counted toi ot the xcycii Barrie goals liaeh player scored two SET FLOR Itnl tti lltultlll had the other Itlyers marker Willi Steve ltetiuisc lloli ttosellc lteiiny McLean and John Held scoring lttt lltt ltitltilttgt taptaiii tailctoii tlllSttltlttl the game played before mere tltitl spectators at the ltarric Arena as one of the better ones of tlicscrics He and llltigess were joined by Ler three games and com bination worked to its fullest lnesday think were playing quite well he said iary plays his posit ion ycll Les has got the good legs He can motor pretty good It was to and tarlcton for Barrie in the first period Detiiirsc openul the scoring at 4311 converting good pass lIOIIl IIgcrs only to have Lyle change the direction of blueline sliot by Bob Baird Botli were powerplay goals Alexanders had couple of chances before McLean was able to squeeze shot between Ernie Miller and the goalpost to restore the Brantford lead Less than minute later Carleton got stick on low jxnnt shot by Darryl Sly to deflect it by icrry iray Flycrs Iiad been accused of coming out strong in the first period then letting down in the second and third periods That was not the case Tuesday filycrs oiitshot Brantford 21H in the second period minute to final 11L9edge The spark which greased the Flycrs momentum was provid ed by Phil ltranston and Paul Regan The two had goal taken from them yhcn iray got pad in front of Braiistons drive The pair got second chance Seconds later almost rcrun of the first try This time Regan set up Hranston with slick behinrlthc back pass which Hranston ripped by tray The goal canic when Barrie was man short Alexanders have been checking arleton closely in the latter games of ihc StlltS Theyre not letting inc wind up with the puck asmuch hcadiiiitted lhc tall ccntrc Used quick shot from in front of Gray with 32 seconds left in the second period to llllISli off sustained drive tlic ltIll viStlli was left to manoeuvri in front of Miller with the result Hraiittord moving it ithin goal of Harrie The good legs arlcton talked about when referring to lincmatc Burgess was evident when the winger burst through pair ofdcfendcrs for picture goal at Jltti of the third period tarlcton init iatcd the play by blocking shot at the point jllgtl pushed ll out in front of me and went after it cxplaiir cd Burgess It was little morecomplicatHl than that He had two Alexanders defenders trying to slow down his progress turgch shrugged off the llthkS to go around tray for the goal It was his eighth goal in It playoff games Burgess got anotliir chantlt at 141t1tlicii hcrctricycd puck iindcrthc nosc o1 tray stepped back and flipped it into an exposed coir McCarthy 19 is fouryear veteran of the WCHL and this season became the first defenceman in major junior hockey in Canada to earn more than 100 assists in single season He had 22 goals and 105 assists in 72 league games Picard19is native of Verdun Que who was named the QMJHLS most valuable player this season in addition to making the first allstar team He had 32 goals and 60 assists for 92 points in 70 league games Ministry tournament in Oro Ministry of Transportation and Communications annual mens invitational hockey tournament is at the Oro Com munity Centre April 2324 Ten teams will be competing including two from Toronto one each from Ottawa Kingston Chatham Port Hope Schomberg Hamilton Edgar and Orillia Orillia won the tournament in 1976 in Morrisburg The toumament is open to provincial civil servants with each team allowed to pick up three noncarded OHA now civil servants Juveniles claim YSMHL victory OlinThe Oro Partridge juveniles meet the Allan Cook juveniles in exhibition hockey action tonight at the Oro Township Community Centre Oro heads into tonights game wearing the York Simcoe Minor Hockey League division crown They earned it by whipping Maple 70 Sunday Oro led 10 at the end of one period and 30 heading into the third period Larry McCuaig and Brian Cole led the way with twogoal performances with singles from Mark McCuaig Dave Gourley and Doug Shelswell ro took the series three games to two Gametimetonight is9pm Oro midgets win YSMHL title ro Byers Equpment Midgets shutout Nobleton 30 Mon day in Maple to win the bestoffive York Simcoe Minor Hockey League championship 31 Hugh Wilson Paul Partridge and Lorran Cooney scored the Oro goals Howard Simpson recorded the shutout ro outshot Noblcton 2214 in the game Les Burgess steps over Brantford goaltender ierry iray in third period action of Tuesdays Ontario Hockey Association Senior final at the Barrie rena Burgess and iray met on few other occasions with the Flycri winger scoring two goals Ilycrs won 71 to force seventh and deciding game in Hrantford Fri day Jim Thompson lit and Denny Mclxan nine in to help bray Ev aminer Pliotot sports Junior team CoOps face must game tonight Barrie oOp Major Midgets must win tonights Iltl lytt latci powered low shot by tray Held scored the final lrantford goal at 111 37 IIIItS NOTES Ians wanting to take in Fridays game in tranttord are asked to contact Steve ripps at 7201131421 to reserve scat on the bus Iillcr got break in the third when shot by llcld rang off the post He was hot in the final pcriod in cluding good aics on Hince and orby dams tinucs to be the edge in the series Home con lhc game was last with ltvaiiders getting numerous breaks on Miller Ilycrs defence had its hands full kccpmg the avciiiic in front of lllfll nct ficc of packs and players ltlycrs lcrry gnew and lltncc of Brant ford exchanged clutches late in the game Watch for their con tinucd pairing in the final each wcrccallcd in the game Only 11 ptflliilllt$ tone major to summary FIRST lliltltll traiittord Iciursc it Srnith ljgcisi iii Carric ytc It arliton itlllr ll 17 irantford ton lhonipson IBSH Harrie arlcton ll tl Sly 1153 PenaltieslIarnmond 1154 senior playoffs Iinal series iranttord 12 Barrie Barrie Braiitfordl Brantford Harrie It Barrie11liraiiltoidi Hrantford ti Barrie Harrie Brant ford Hestofscvcn HA Senior final tied 345 Seventh game in Hrantford Friday McLean 22 ttiof Southwick lirant Hrant 41 Sllttlklllllltltlll tarric lirantsoii ll lagan Smith 1420 ti Itarric arleton 11 tBiirgess Lyle 1905 PenalticsAgnew Soiitliwick ltrant iurgcss It 11123111 lllllll IIIltlttl Hrantford ltoscllc 2f tHincci 137 it Barric Burgess tfarlctoni 12 Barrie Burgess lCarleton Lvtci ItiBti ltl 1arric Lytc 1t ttarleton Lynn itszsii 11 Brant ford Donahue 1037 ltli11llllsvlllll Hrant 818 141254 tziglitv Agnew 141214 341 Adams 301 1112 Held 16 fight tcgan It 859 Burgess lliiOZ Shots on net Barrie 41 Hrantford 29 ioalMillcr Harriet Gray tHrantfordi Attcndancetttitt Continental league won by Woodstock Illl€ltltli Ont tP Woodstock Itoyals Won their firr st Ontario Hockey Association ontincntal Senior chain pionship Tuesday defeating LiicanIldcrton Jets 85 in the fifth game of the league final before 10m spectators The Itoyals won the bestol scvcn final +1 and now meet the winner of the Ontario Hockey Association champion liip in playoff series leading to thc Allantup tarrie and liranlford Alexan ders are tied 1155 in their OHA Senior playoff series The dc tt If III ttlfi in 11 15 in Ii 745pm 8pm sports calendar IIOtKIZY Ncwniarkct To Ops vs Ncwniarkct tbcst of livc YSMHLlinal tied 2i Slaynci Iawstmk vs Stayncr best of seven Junior semi final tied it lllmvalc Itcnclon Iallr vs llhnvale Merchants lcarl licst of live OIIA Intermediate final HARNESS ItM INti at Barrie Itaccway HASKIZIBALL IJast vitw Secondary School Stayncr vs UlSpOStIS tStayntrlcads County Basketball Leagucfinal Itll ciding game will be in Brant ford on Friday Brian Paton and Rick Kclly each scored two goals for the ltoyals while single goals went to Jim OBriglit Jim Vanni Toni Glover and Jim Cochranc Hill lianncrnian scored two goals for the Iets lack Thiplt chase and Steve Proctor each scored onc goal The Royals fed 41 at the end of the first period and 72 after the second Ihcy finished in fifth place after the regular schedule llderton is just north of Lon Ion is shaping up Oro will have new Iunior hockey team next year unless something unexpected happens within the next two weeks according to director Don Fralick The second organizational meeting was held Tuesday at the Oro Arena to pick an executive for the upcoming year Toffan is the president first vicepresident is Maurice Partridge second vicepresident is Bruce olc Paul Ilplett is the secretary Keith Lees is the treasurer and Doug Wilson larcncc Smith Mort Hutchinson and Iralick are the new directors The club will be eligible to draw players from 25iiiilc radius of the Oro Arena but will try and use as many Oro players as possible The team would he entered in the entral Ontario League against Stayner Schomherg Hracebridge Mealord and rangevillc The teams home games would be either on Monday or Tuesday nights Fralick said the executive is still trying to set up meeting with Ontario Hockey Association tOIIAt conventr Danny Pollard about team colors and other ground rules for the new club The team is still in the hunt for coach manager and trainer but have had one inquiry about the trainers posi tion Neptunes place third at invitational meet Harrie Ne tune Swim Club finished thirt at the Huronia In vitational Swim Meet Satur day and Sunday in Midland but Tracey Paddison won every thing there was to win in her agcgroup In the girls 10 and under catagory Paddison won the Ztnmetre freestyle 100 metre breaststroke ZOOmetre in dividual medley loometre backstroke 100metre free style 100 metre butterfly 200 metre backstroke and the 200 metre breaststroke Or to put it another way everything she wasin Peter Lorn won the 2IXantre backstroke in the boys It and under category Mary Daniels won the 100metrc breaststroke inthe senior girlsdivision The senior boys finished first in the medley relay and the It and under girls won the 200 metre freester relay Tracey Schell finished second in the overall 10 and under girls catagory behind Pad dison Mary Daniels was runnerup in the senior girls event Seven clubs participated in the twoday event Strong twoway effort Darryl Sittler Leafs open Minor baseball league has made some changes Barrie Minor ii1ftl1iill Lcaguc licld its annual spi 1111 meeting Tuesday night at the Sunnidale tommiinity iiitiv and announced number of changes in the optration oi the league for the 1977 season arl llaiipikcr will replaci lon oulson as president of thc league Larry ttltricn IS the new ItIlStltIll and Willard llvcrton is the treasurer and parkcontrollcr oiilson resigned the presidency due to personal reasons but be said he will stay on as Illilllttllitt past president to help with the operation of the league for the 1977 season With the liliic Jays loioii to now there should be an in crease in hardball internst tittlstili stittl been great past llic lcagiic has llf in the oiilson said that tlic league will havetlicsanicpaiksaslast year The city is very firm on thc enlarging of lcagiics because there is great dc mand tor parks in this city It enthusiasm is lllt key to good president llanspiker should do good job replacing toulson With good leadership we could make our league com parable to the Harrie Minor Hockey Association hc said Ill work Im worker and ltitt With OOpttilltOII think can doa good job The league announced an 111 crease 111 their rcgistratioii fee for lllt upcoming season This Sixpin difference of tournament end Jack Symcs won the Sunday Night Singles bowling touriia ment at Sheas but close behind was John Topliss Their consistent high scoring enabled tfic pair to finish one two in the tournament with the margin of victory six pins Theres special Ilastcr toitir Hy ROSS IIUIKINS The anadian Press The one thing Toronto Maple Leafs fought for during the lat tcr stages of the National Hockey League season and ended up losing didnt matter Tuesday night Despite having to open their Stanley Cup series on the road the Leafs came up with strong twoway effort to down Pit tsburgh Penguins 412 Toronto was the only visiting club to post victory as bestofthree preliminaryround series opened on four fronts In the other games Huffan Sabres defeated Minnesota North Stars +2 while New York Islanders downed Chicago Black Ilawks and Los Aiigcles Kings trimmed Atlanta Flames by identical 52 scores Toronto coach lted Kelly started Wayne Thomas in goal over Mike Palinatecr who han dled most of the Leaf goaltend ing in the final weeks of the regular season Thomas came up with stan dout effort thwarting the Penguins Pierre Larouchc on nainent scheduled for Sunday with at least $50 prilc going to the winner Icannc Marten of Barrie was elected to the position of direc tor with the ireatcr Ioronto to Pin Womens Bowling Associa tion at the annual meeting Saturday two breakaway attempts Hoth he and Pittsburgh goalie Denis Ileron made 29 saves Hob Kelly gave the Penguins 10 firstperiod lead at 1325 when he caught Thomas out of the net after the Leaf goalkcer per had lost his balance making save TIES SCORE Don Ashby tied the score for Toronto 12 into the second pe riod Darryl Sittler fed Lanny McDonald to put the Maple Leafs ahead at 1211 of the sec ond and Dave Williams with an assist from Siltler scored the eventual winner at 1032 of the third Mario ltaubert scored for the Penguins to narrow it to one goal but Sittler put the game away with an emptynet score with eight seconds left Ituss Anderson of the Pen guins was ejected from the game in the opening period for being third man into an altercai tion between Pat Houtette of the Leafs and Pittsburghs Lowell MacDonald At Buffalo Jim Lorentz and Jerry Korab scored less than two minutes apart early in the years registration fee is $12 for single person and $21 for family When you consider the price of hockey eqmpment today that price isnt too high for sum mcr of baseball Hanspiker said We are going to offer trophies for the winning teams so we have to lift our sights bi With bit of work we can offer the same kind of program the city offers in lacrosse soc cer and hockey We are having full uniforms this year so sponsorship is $200 The price is higher this year but the sponsors are coming forward and trying to get into the league and this speaks very highly of ouroperation The umpiring last year was one of the major problems Much of the time they didnt show up for games and it was hard to count on them The league is working on system to assure good unipiring for every game this year The league is divided into four divisions atom pecwec bantani and midget Each team plays 15 games before the playoffs The leagues opening games are scheduled for Friday May 27 The remainder of the games will be on Monday night Barrie Minor Baseball League is holding registration Tuesday April 12 from to pm at the Barrie Arena layoffs with 42 victory second period to give the Sn bres the margin of victory Rene Robert got Buffalos fir st goal to tie the game 11 after Roland Ericsson had opened the scoring for the North Stars Tim Young scored at 735 of thc second period to make the score 92 but Robert added an empty net goal with five seconds remaining The Sabres Ipl9d Min ncsota goaltender Pete lolresti with 41 drives while Don Edwards faced 25 in the Buffalo net Denis Potvin and Bill Mac Millan scored goals in 135 span during the third period to lead New York to its triumph over Chicago Powerplay goals scores by Grant Mulvey and Kirk Bow man gave Chicago 21 lead en tcring the third period But Pot vin tied the game and Mac Millan deflected rebound into the net for 32 New York lead Bob Bouriie added an insurance goal and Iarise slid his second of the game into an em pty net with 18 seconds re maining game against Newmarket Newmarket tied the best offive York Simcoe Minor Hockey League series 22 Monday with 32 victory at the Eastview Arena Game time is 830 pm in Newm arket Murray Hadley scored one of theoOps goals oops havent appeared to be as strong in the YSMHL final series as in the Ontario Minor Hockey Association playoffs against rillia MURRAY HADLEY Elmvole could end series tonight Elmvale could wrapup the Ontario Hockey Association UNA intermediate final tonight at home with win over Fenelon Falls Elmvalc leads the sixpoint series five points to one following 56 tie Monday Sometime is 815 pm at the Elmvale Arena Lacrosse registration is on Bame Minor Lacrosse Association is in the process of registering boys and girls for the 1977 season There are number of openings for the tyke and novice divisions For more information call Mrs Stevenson at 7257356 Stroud could wrap up series Stroud Prossers peewees are in position to end their bestoffive York Simcoe Minor Hockey League YSMHL final with Oak Ridges Stroud leads the series 21 ak Ridges took the opener 10 only to lose 94 on home ice Kevin lricmstra Scotty Robertson and Artye Canning along with Tim Bushey into the open net in the last 30 seconds of play Fourth game is in mi tonight as the ice has been taken out of the Stroud Arena North first of indoor meet Final standings of the recent Georgian Bay Secondary School Athletic Association GBSSA indoor track meet con firm Barrie North Collegiates ranking at the top North collected 151 points Second place went to Stayner Collegiate with 104 points with Barrie Eastview third at 86 points two more than Barrie Central Banting Memorial High School of Alliston was fifth with 81 points Twentyseven schools participated in the daylong event OFAH is looking for material Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters OFAH is currently entering its 50th year of conservation in Ontario To celebrate the event the OFAH wishes to publish history book It would appreciate input from past members clubs and associated groups Anyone with information on past history on the OFAH or conservation in Ontario is asked to send it to the Ontario Federation of Anglers and limiters Box 1269 Camp bellfordntKOL1LO Cardinal lose consolation final Harrie Cardinal Cash and Carry Minor Peewecs won one of three games at the Ancaster Peewee Hockey Tournament on the weekend They lost the first game 31 to Oakville won 10 over Sim coe in their second game and lost the consolation champion ship game to Penetaiig +2 Sean Kirkpatrick scored two goals for Barrie Doug Ar chie and Danny Worrod got sin glcs Favorites eliminated in first round IINEIIUHST NC AP Defending champion Carol Seniple was among the favorites eliminated Tuesday in the raindelaytxl first mund of the 75th North and South Womens amateur golf tournament Other casualties included medallist Carolyn Hill and for mer champions Nancy Roth Syms and Alice Dye The first five in Mondays qualifying round fell the wayside Overnight rain caused twohour delay at the start