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V Dennis Pizza Toros Head for Game at Maple Leaf Gardens The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, March 28,1990 9 "Maple Leaf Gardens, here we come". That was the talk after the game as our home town boys, the Dennis Pizza Novice Toros defeated Streetsville and paved the way to the Grand final in Toronto on April 13. Upon entering the 15th Annual Timmy Tyke Tournament Tournament in Toronto, our boys were forced to compete in a double "A" Division, and they rose to the occasion. ; Losing their first game in a shoot-out against, Etobicoke Etobicoke 3-2, the Toros had their backs against the wall as they were only allowed to lose one game. Later that day, they met the Toronto Areo's and came away with a 1 6-2 victory. I The following weekend, the Toronto Terriers "AA" \yere their competition and they handily defeated them 9-3 and advanced to the next round. J This set the stage for Sunday's contest at North York Centennial arena as they met the Streetsville Hounds. The hounds struck first as they buzzed around the Toros' goal in the first period period and took a 1-0 lead. At the 2:40 mark in the 1st period, period, Jason Lange took a pass from Andrew Wraith and feathered it home to tie the game. The second period began with end to end play with both goaltenders making superb superb saves. Finally, late in the period, Mike Maynard jammed it home with Chris Pot assisting, and gave his team a 2-1 lead. In the third period the Toros seemed to be taking charge of the game. At the 8:05 mark of"the third period period Jason Lange broke in over the blueline and blew one by the Hounds' goalie to take a 3-1 lead. Craig Sabine Sabine and Colin MacDonald earned assists on the goal. Streetsville scored late in the game, but Bowmanville hung on to win the game 3- 2, and earn their chance to compete at Maple Leaf Gardens Gardens against Woodstock on Friday, April 13/90. This is a nice way to end the season for these boys as they left the Central "A" Championship round to play in the "AA" Round Robin playoffs. They defeated all the double "A" teams and were only beaten by the two triple"A" clubs, missed the finals by just one point. This team has improved greatly and is representing our town in a very sportsmanlike sportsmanlike manner in every game they play. Our two centers, Jason Lange and Chris Pot have been playing great as they have been shadowed throughout . the tourney. Wingers Chris McKenzie, Mike Maynard, Mike McCrory, Andrew Wraith, John Armishaw and Craig Sabine all have been digging hard in the corners, and along the boards. Our defensive defensive core consisting of Jeff Shmyr, Steve Ewles, Erik Griffin, Colin MacDonald, and Brett Pakosta all have been playing strongly in both ends of the rink. Finally, our goal tending duo. Nick Adams and Greg Koenderman, have been solid solid thru-out the tournament. Mr. Sub Wins 2 On Tuesday, March 20, the Mr. Sub Peewees started their round robin portion of the playoffs with Dykstra's' being their first opponent. The Dykstra team scored the first goal of the game but Darren Allin tied up the game for Mr. Sub, with Chad picking up the assist. The 2nd Sub goal was scored when Les McCrory passed up to Darren Allin, who got a shot off that Steve Sargent in Dykstra's net stopped, but couldn't hold, allowing Brian Thornton to knock the puck into the net. The 3rd Sub goal was also caused by some heads up passing as Rick Swale passed over to Ryan Kohn who slipped around the defence defence and picked the upper corner of the net. The 4th Sub goal was scored when Les let a slapshot go that Steve couldn't control an uncovered uncovered Rick Swale to put the puck into the net. The final Sub goal was scored when Rick took a shot at Dykstra's net that Alex Walcer picked up and ' easily put it into the net. The final score read Mr. Sub 5, Dykstras 1. The score could have been higher except except for the great play in the Dykstras net. Early Sunday morning of March 25 the Sub boys faced off against McRobbie Photo. The Sub boys got on the scoreboard first in this game when Ryan Kohn scored on a pile up in front of McRobbie's McRobbie's goalie with Rick Swale and Alex Walcer getting the assist. Later in the first period period Brian Thornton scored on a great set-up from Chad Veinot. The 3rd Sub goal was scored on some hard work when Brian Thornton mm McRobbie Photo Wins 'B' Title It's March Break, and this saw 32 House League Peewee teams from Bowmanville, Bowmanville, Oshawa and Brooklin-Whitby take part in the Annual Oshawa Times Tournament. j The McRobbies'" 'boys were hyped up to come out of this week with a trophy of some kind. And that they did. The opposition in the first contest was provided by Simcoe St. of Oshawa. The McRobbie boys came out flat and the only scoring done in the first two periods was by Simcoe St. At the end of two periods of play it was Simcoe Simcoe St 1, McRobbie's 0. Simcoe St. were the first to score in the third and it was now a 2-0 game. With 4:01 remaining in the game. McRobbie squad started their scoring spree. Mike Ta- lotti let a blistering slap shot go from the point to start the ball rolling. This was an unassisted effort. Jerry Johnson came out a minute and a half later and scored one of his own. This marker was assisted by the hard work of Nicky Katsikis and Andrew "Red" Williams. Talotti decided it was time to break the 2-2 tie and this was the game winner. Mike's goal resulted from a rush that started from behind behind the McRobbie blue-line. This came with 44 seconds remaining in the third. Craig "Killer" Taylor decid ed there was lots pf-time to chalk up an Insurance marker. marker. Adarn'Simeunovich and Shawn Whalen drew the assists assists on this goal. There was six seconds left on the clock. This is how the game ended, McRobbie 4, Simcoe St. 2. Ryan Polly was called upon to make several key saves and he played an integral part in this victory. Second Game The next game was against St. Andrews of Oshawa. Ryan Polley, the regular goal tender, would be Florida bound and the call to Jerry Johnson was made to play goal in Ryan's absence. absence. Jerry, who had goal experience m the past, did a fine job in replacement. The 401 Esso Plays Exciting Hockey in Round Robin passed the puck over to Darren Darren Allin who passed to Chad on the slot who let a shot go that the goalie had no chance on. The 4th Sub goal was scored when Tim Forret let a shot go that hit a McRobbie McRobbie player and into the net, Les picked up the assist. Rounding out the scoring early in the 3rd period was Brian Thornton with Darren Allin and David Vernon getting getting the assist. Brian Thornton Thornton was sent out to shut down big Mike of McRobbies which he did, but his two goals were the bonus. The final score was Sub 5, McRobbies 0 with Jeff Crawford Crawford getting the shut-out. Later, on Sunday the Sub team travelled to Newcastle to play St. Greg's from the C.Ÿ.O. The Mr. Sub team scored first when Rob Watson Watson skated through the St. Greg team then deked the goalie before putting the puck into the net. The St. Greg's team tied the game while on the power play. The St. Greg's team scored early in the 2nd period period to take the lead. Alex Walcer scored for the Sub team to give them the lead with David Vernon getting the assist. Alex notched his second goal to give the Sub boys the lead. Ryan Kohn scored to give the Subs a two goal bulge with Clayton Guest and Chad Veinot get- tingassists. The Sub boys gave up two goals to allow the St. Greg's team to tie the score. The final score was Mr. Sub 4, St. Greg's 4. The Sub boys will have to play better than this if they expect to win the "A" Championship in the B.R.H.L. After finishing in fourth place during regular season play, 401 Esso drew the top three teams in the Atom division division as their competition in their first three games of the round-robin play. After an exciting and very close 3- 2 victory over the Carnation team, ESSO's next competition competition was Remax. This game took place on Monday, March 19 and proved to be another entertaining matchup. matchup. Although first period play was very close, Remax had the better scoring chances. If it hadn't been for five or six excellent saves by Brandon Renton in the 401 net, the period would not have ended in a 0-0 tie. 401 got off to a shaky start in the second period, with some tense action around their own net. However, However, following a penalty to one of their players, Esso seemed to pull their play together together and Scott MacKay scored a shorthanded goal. From this point on Esso started to take greater control control of the play. But just before before the end of the second period Paul Hollingsworth scored a goal for Remax to tie the game at 1-1. Darryl Cook scored only 48 seconds into the third pe riod on an assist from Ian Robinson and this proved to be the winning goal. Shortly after Esso took the lead, Brandon Renton made a game-saving stop when his outstretched goalie stick went right along the goalline goalline and blocked the puck. With about five minutes left to play, Scott MacKay walked in from his point position position on the power play and beat the Remax goalie to make the final score 3-1 Esso. In their most recent game on Sunday, March 25, the 401 Esso boys and J&J put on a display of very entertaining entertaining hockey. J&J opened the game by putting the Bowmanville Minor Hockey Association Toros The B.M.H.A. is accepting applications for the following teams for the 1990-91 season. 'A" Classification Novice Atom PeeWee Bantam Midget 'CC" Classification Novice Atom PeeWee Bantam Midget The girls hockey program will run at a later date. All coaches will be selected by a special selection committee. No member of the selection committee is a member of the B.M.H.A. or has a boy/girl now involved in the B.M.H.A. program. Please submit a complete resumé to Box 191 by May 15th, 1990 For further information contact: Paul Robinson 623-3884 Terry Lynch 623-9205 Dan Doyle 6234867 pressure on the 401 team. For the first few shifts they dominated the play and had the better scoring chances. With just three minutes of play left in the first period, Esso took a penalty. After withstanding a strong J&J power play, Esso started to take the initiative and began began to play more offensively and confidently. The play was much more balanced in the second period. period. Both teams had chances but didn't get the puck in the net in the early going. Ryan Brannigan at centre, and Scott MacKay on defence defence showed good puck control control for 401 Esso and helped in keeping the pressure on. With only 1:54 left in the period, period, Darren Crawford scored an unassisted goal for J&J when he broke down the right side, picked up a SQ rty n J&J again took the lead loose puck and found an opening to beat Brandon in the 401 net. Typical of the closeness in plw throughout the period, J&J didn't hold the lead for long. With only one second left in the period, Scott MacKay on an assist from Darryl Cook, beat the J&J goaltender on a screened shot. The 1-1 tie at the end of the period was quite representative of the play throughout the first thirty minutes, igai when, with 12:17 left in the third period, Greg Master- son scored a nifty goal on a nice setup by Philip Gushu- lak. Play was quite even throughout the remainder of the period with both teams exchanging puck control. With 3:12 remaining in the third period, Scott Lambert scored the important game- tying goal on assists from Scott MacKay and Jeff Carter. Carter. Both teams played an excellent excellent and entertaining brand of hockey. Congratulations Congratulations on a fine effort! Perfect Season for Skylight Skylight Donuts Tykes have finished their regular season off with four more victories to record a perfect 20 and 0 season. In the first game on Saturday, Saturday, March 17th the Skylight Skylight team played Rotary defeating defeating them 7-0. The defence, Robert Milford, JJ Worden, Tyler Kohn and Michael Michael Shrives played an excellent excellent game allowing Darren Darren Powell to secure another shutout. Inn Gleeson led the way with a four goal performance performance and Stephen Hoar was right behind with three goals. Drawing assists on Ian and Stephen's goals were Murk Ferris with two, Kent Missions, Michael Shrives and Tyler Kohn with one each. On Sunday, March 18th Skylight proved to be too much for A&R Flooring be defeating them 15-1. An overall team effort with many excellent passing plays allowed six different players to score goals. Skylight's two top scorers Stephen Hoar and Inn Glee- son recorded five goals apiece. Mark Ferris playing his strongest game of the season, added two goals from fine set ups in front of the A&R not. Single goals came from Kent Missions, Brandon Baker and Colo Linfoot who scored his first goal of the season with a breakaway from the blue line. Jeff Reynolds and Scott Maxwell each recorded assists assists because of their fine passing and hard work in the corners. The lone goal for A&R was scored by Tyler Cook. The conches would like to congratulate all team members members for the great passing performance throughout the game. On Sunday, March 25th the Skylight team had two tough games ahead of them. The first game against an improving Y.I.P. team saw Skylight come out with a 3-0 win. Again, our defence kept V.I.P. from having very many scoring opportunities throughout tno game. Stephen Hoar notched two goals and Inn Gleeson scored one for Skylight. The second game of the day, the most difficult of the season, Skylight won by a hard fought 3-1 victory against l.D.A. The game was very exciting with the play going hack and forth checking and back-checking is game. throughout the game. , This game proved to be a goal tending duel from start to finish. Many outstanding saves were recorded by both goaltenders, Ryan Ponto of l.D.A. and Darren Powell of Skylight. Skylight's two goal scorers scorers came through again with Ian Gleeson scoring two goals and Stephen Hoar with one. l.D.A. s goal was scored by Darryl Steele. Now that the regular season season is over, the Skylight team looks forward to the Round Robin and Championship Championship games. Good luck,boys! V&G Nationals Continue to Win Playoff Games The V&G Nationals arc continuing to hold on tight to their hopes of winning the Championship trophy ns they meet the opposition face to face without backing down in the stiff competition. competition. So far the Nationals have played three playoff games in their round robin series, winning all three. Great passing plays by the forwards backed up by steady netminding ana nn unpcnctratenble defense have been the key to their success. The scores of the first three games were ns follows V&G 7 Young Drivers Drivers 1; V&G 4 All Canadians 1 and V&G 8 Bonded 0. Scoring 19 goals while only allowing 2 is a record the whole team can bo proud of. Coming up the Nationals must face two teams that have trtick records like theirs so lots keep up the great team effort to finish the season with the Championship Championship trophy. On March 22nd the Nationals Nationals faced off against the C.Y.O. Selects from Oshawa. This was a fast paced, hard fought game that very easily 3 ft El igii _ could have gone the other way if the defense had eased oil' at all in the National zone but as it turned out the Nationals won by a 4-2 score. Scoring a lint trick for the V&G team was Andy Griffin while Joel Osborne got the other V&G goal. Assists going going to Ted Eovtwes, Andy Griffin, Chris Poldlak, Joel Osborne and Greg Patterson. Patterson. Roller Coaster Ride Ends For Reporter and Eagles McRobbies' team weren't quite in this from the start and their only goal came in the third, a solid, unassisted effort by Mike Talotti. McRobbies' last 3-1. This relegated McRobbies to the B section of the tournament. This was do or die. If they win this they advance to the next game before the 'B' championship, if they lose, they're out. MacKenzie Park were the opponents in this quarrel to the 'B' championship championship game. The boys were flying this time. The strong defence of Niall O'Donnell, Owen Taylor and Mike Talotti Talotti were key parts in the O part of the 3-0 victory. The fiesty offence of Andrew Williams, Williams, Craig Taylor Shawn Whalen, Adam Simeuno- vich, Ronnie Leger, and David David Boudreau were called upon to do some strong fore- " ng £ to win this _ The scoring started late in the first period when Shawn Whalen set up Mike Talotti to bring it to a 1-0 game. Midway through the second period Andrew Williams Williams got his second goal in this tournament. Shawn Whalen made a solid pass to defenceman Owen Taylor who's powerful wrist shot penetrated the five MacKenzie MacKenzie skaters to the goal where Andrew pounded home the rebound. It was now 2-0 McRobbies. It was time for Andrew Williams and Mike Talotti to pair up on the third and final goal of the game. Andrew put a nice pass right on Mike's stick and Mike put it away behind behind the MacKenzie net- minder to put the game out of reach and advance McRobbie's to the semifinals semifinals of the 'B' champ section section of the tournament. McRobbies fourth game in this tournament was scheduled for Saturday, March 17 at 11:30 a.m. Big 'E' Roofing from Bowmanville Bowmanville were facing off against the McRobbie team, who were ready to beat this team. Big 'E' opened the scoring and at the end of the first period it was Big 'E' 1, McRobbie's 0. Andrew Ferguson Ferguson scored the Big 'E' goal with assists to Mark Read and Ryan MacKenzie. McRobbies didn't rebound with one of their own until midway through the second, when David Boudreau netted netted this tying marker. Craig Taylor and Ronnie Leger set the score for David's goal. With 6:20 left in the game Mike Talotti decided to put McRobbie's into the lead, on a lone rush that started at his own blue-line, Mike deked out Big 'E' goalie goalie Brian Pickard. That's how the game was to finish. The- addition of Scott McAleese to the line-up was a great asset in this victory. It was now time to play the 'B* Championship game. The McRobbie boys wanted a win and they wanted it bad. St. Greg's of Oshawa tried hard not to let this happen, but their efforts were to no avail. This game was McRobbie's from beginning beginning to end. Jeff Johnson was again called upon to make a number of key saves and he did lust that ns he earned a well-deserved shutout. shutout. The McRobbie squad was flying so high at tnc beginning beginning of the game, they scored their first goal just 13 seconds into the game. Adam Simcunovich landed a ass right on the stick of 'ike Talotti who let fly with a slap shot from the blue- lino that overpowered the St. Greg's nctmindor. Mike Talotti was so hyped up after after this goal that he decided to do it again. Owen Taylor head-manned the puck and Talotti pounded it home. But Mike's work was far from over. Midway through the second period Mike rounded off his hat-trick. David Boudreau and Shaun Whalen worked to assist Mike with this effort. One minute later Craig Taylor decided it looked like fun, so he chalked up one of his own. Ronnie Loger made a pass to Talotti who planted one on Craig's stick who was perfectly positioned in front of the goal. Craig tucked it neatly away and this now put it out of reach. After a scoreless third the final score was McRobbies 4 and St. Greg's 0. The McRobbie squad should bo congratulated on an excellent tournament. The coaching staff of Jack Boulionno, Scott Brunt and Gary Taylor are proud of the effort and results that the team put forth this week. Way to go, guys! by Brad Kelly I love to go on rides. There isn't anything more exciting at a fair than a three minute ride on a roller roller coaster. But, there has only been one_roller coaster ride that-'léft me with a Squeamish feeling in my stomach. I'm referring to the one the Bowmanville Eagles took me on. As Todd Taylor drifted in alone to score the go-ahead goal for the Mojacks in game seven, the emotional rollercoaster rollercoaster pulled away from the platform, taking Eagles fans on an unforgettable ride. After fighting back from a three goal deficit with less than 13 minutes to go, Port Perry had accomplished the unthinkable. The players and their fans began a celebration celebration of New Year's Eve proportion as the Mojacks took the lead for the first time in the game, 4-3. But, keep in mind, the roller coaster was just beginning beginning to rattle up the hill. With goaltender Cooper pulled for an extra attacker, the Eagles swarmed the Mo- jack net in search of the equalizer. In a frantic state of desperation, the Mojacks gained control of the puck and sent it down the ice towards towards the middle of the Eagles Eagles net. Take the zoom lens off the camera and get ready for the trophy presentation to the Mojacks, I remember thinking to myself. As the puck made its slow, methodical way towards towards the Eagles' net, it flipped up on its edge, rang off the inside of the right post and ricocheted out the other side. It was at that point that the roller coaster began to make my stomach really churn. The ride had just completed doing two consecutive consecutive loop-the-loops but there was more to come. As we let out a collective sigh of relief that would have blown out the Haggers- ville tire fire, the Eagles frantically scrambled for one final rush. The final rush would've captivated a fiction writer's imagination. Shawn Rek- ker's goal with 21 ticks remaining remaining on the clock sent the capacity crowd of 1500 screaming down the highest peak of the ride. I'm obliged to say only 1500 people were in attendance attendance that night as Facility Manager, Fred Horvath, said that the capacity for the Recreation Complex is 1567. We wouldn't want to have an inquiry by the Town Fire Department into the game, now would we? It was now our turn to go into a state of hysteria, and with good reason. The Eagles found themselves themselves within one game, of elimination two nights earlier, earlier, and won what was then, the most exciting game of the series. Two goals in the third period gave Bowmanville Bowmanville a much deserved 4-2 victory to force game seven on home ice. But home ice doesn't usually usually account for much of an edge when you're in the seventh seventh game of a play-off se- - ries. And if the same pattern was going to continue, it wouldn't make a difference for the final game of this series. series. Both teams had won twice in the other team's building during the series. Unheard of when you take into consideration that the Eagles rarely lose at home, and just as rare are the victories victories they've accumulated in the Scugog Arena. The Eagles were desperate desperate for a win in the seventh game, and chose to wear their road uniforms. Winning Winning two games of the series in them, the Eagles were hoping that Lady Luck would be with them just more time. She wasn't. Only 30 seconds into the overtime, a bad bounce at the Eagle blueline resulted in what proved to be the series series clinching goal. An empty empty net marker by Brad Men- zies with a dozen seconds remaining only helped to increase increase the decibel level of the delirious Mojack fans. For Eagle supporters, we remained motionless after nnai buzzer. Shocked looks on our faces, the final outcome could only be termed as unbelievable. Nine veteran Eagle players took their last strides in ' uniform' when they.went to centre ice to shake hands with members of the opposing team at the conclusion of the game. For them, hopes of obtaining the coveted All-Ontario Championship Championship had been dashed. As the building cleared, and staff began the monstrous monstrous task of cleaning the debris scattered around the Recreation Complex, two of the graduating veterans returned returned to the bench for one last time. Dressed in t- shirts, the players sat peering peering out onto the ice, trying to absorb what had taken place. Not more than 20 minutes ago, following Rek- ker's tying goal, the same players were falling all over each other in an elated celebration. celebration. Now, the only celebration taking place was echoing from the Mojacks' dressing room down the hall. 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