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I t 8 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, Wednesday, November 6. iq 91 Champion Archer Offers Instruction for Enthusiasts by Brad Kelly The sport of archery has afforded Louie Van Mcyl many of life's luxuries. He has been able to travel ..the globe to compete against the test shooters in the world. Stops in Brazil, Russia, Mexico Mexico and Poland arc just a few . of the places where he has represented Canada at international international competitions. While in his mid-twenties, he captured provincial and national championships. Af ter a sabbatical from the sport, he returned six years ago. It took a year to shake the rust off, but he once again rose to the top of the sport. In 1986, he won the National National Championship. At this year's provincials in Niagara Falls, he finished a respectable respectable third, and followed that up in July with a fourth place finish at the Nationals in Calgary. Calgary. Now, after 35 years in the sport, he is giving something back. And residents in the Town of Newcastle are to benefit. He plans to operate a seven-week seven-week instructional course at the Brownsdale Community Community Centreon Golf Course Rd., east of Newcastle Village on Thursday nights beginning November 21. "It's not a bow hunting or target course. This is an archery archery course," he said from inside inside his store, The Best Archery Archery Shop, which opened in Newcastle in the spring. "I'll teach you how to become become harmonious with your equipment. Everyone can hit a plate, but only a few can hit a quarter. "Whether you're shooting for $50,000 or a world gold medal or a 20 point buck that you've sought for 10 years, you'd better be ready for it." And that shot, in his opinion, opinion, is much easier to make than when he was introduced to the sport in Cambridge at the age of 12. Since that time, one of the most dramatic changes to the sport has been the equipment. Not only has the price range widened, the degree of the quality of equipment has also improved to the point, where an average shooter will enjoy some degree of success with very little instruction. "Twenty-five years ago when you picked up a bow and arrow you really needed someone to help you," he re called. "You would stand 10 yards away and not hit thé target. You would never hit a three-foot square." Another of the more recent recent changes that the sport caused was the enforcement of a Town by-law. One of his neighbors complained at a recent recent council meeting, and a by-law was passed to eliminate eliminate the discharge of any weapon within 100 metres of a residentially-zoned lot or road allowances. Impressive 52-2 Record 9 Knox Girls Capture Title 10 The decision hasn't hampered hampered his business at all. In fact, the whole issue was blown out of proportion, according according to Van Meyl. The odd person would shoot an arrow from 5-10 yards away at a piece of paper. The hole the arrow leaves in the paper indicates if there is a problem with the bow. The shots were used as a tuning method. "I was the only one who would shoot with any degree of seriousness," he said. "The worst shot I would have from 50 yards away is six inches outside the middle of the bullseyc. "I tear no malice, though," he added. He is hoping to work out the situation during the course of the winter. He had shot continuously for the six years he has lived in Newcastle, Newcastle, but it wasn't until recently recently that anyone objected. Looking at the sport, Van Meyl compares it to that of a marathon runner. His discipline discipline could be likened to the lonely hours and days spent training alone out on the road. In archery, the road is replaced replaced by a field. But, the hours remain the same. So, someone who has reached the level Van Mcyl has, needs to look at the sport in a different perspective. "When you're a real serious serious target shooter, you have to transcend the sport," he explains. explains. "I have a passion for this sport that exists far beyond a good score here, or winning a tournament there. The passion passion comes from being able to participate in probably the most mundane game in the world." His accomplishments and knowledge of the sport are anything but mundane. Phone Brad Kelly at 623-3303 REDMEN ELIMINATED -- The Bowmanville Redmen senior boys' soccer team came one goal shy of entering the LOSS A finals last week. In their semi-final game against Paul Dwyer, John Lawrence was the only goal-scorer for the Redmen in a 2-1 loss. In their quarter-final game against Dennis O'Connor, Steve Mills, Trever McDonald and Dayne Lycett scored for Bowmanville in a 3-0 victory. BHS finished the season with an overall record of 12-3-1. SCHOLARSHIP -- Bowmanville's Lisa McLeod was the recipient of a student/athlete scholarship from Durham College during a luncheon held at the college yesterday. Lisa was instrumental in the Lady Lords capturing the OCAA softball championship in October, and is now making contributions to the varsity basketball team. Last year, three area students, Traci Hanc, Diane Hornsby and Stephanie Axford received scholarships. GEOGRAPHY LESSON -- We received a letter addressed to the editor this week, pointing out a mistake we made about the location of Dalhousie University in reference to a volleyball. tournament Clarke High School participated in. Dalhousie is not located in New Brunswick, as we published, but in Nova Scotia. It's a port and is the capital city of Nova Scotia, to be more precise Gust a little of our geographical wisdom). We apologize for the error. FISCHER FINISHED -- Former BHS grad Richard Fischer and his University of Toronto Blues football team were eliminated in the semi-finals of the OU A A playoffs on Saturday. Toronto lost to the number one ranked team from Western, 48-35. It was a good year for Fischer, who was named to the OUAA all-star team for the second consecutive season. TRIVIA -- Which NHL expansion franchise had the fewest wins during their first season of play, and how many wins did they get? ANSWER -- Washington Capitals, 1974, eight wins. Sports Shop Earns Win Against Young Drivers by Bob Teefy Sports Shop played a good defensive game against Young Drivers on Saturday, October 26, and came out ahead 3-1 when it was finished. Ryan Hill of Young Drivers scored the lone first period goal at 5:15, with Chris Laton getting an assist. Mike Sellers of Sports Shop livened the game up for his teammates at 10:27 of the second period when he scored on a breakaway breakaway assisted by Brandon Buck- ley and Jason Smith, Jordan Bate picked up a lose puck and showed great speed when he scored what ended up to be the winning goal with 5:54 remaining in the second period, unassisted. Sports Shop defencemen, Tim Swan, Brandon Baker, Steven King, Rob Milford and Brandon Brandon Buckley made goaltender Tyler Teefy a little lonely by not allowing the Young Drivers Drivers many shots on goal. The same could not be said for goalie Jason Kewell of Young Drivers as he made key saves on good scoring chances by Clint Krummenacher, Chris Dehamias and John Leppert. Jason couldn't stop them all as Matt Crawford put one past him with 4:51 remaining in the third period. Brandon Baker picked up the assist. Little Brother Corner... "It is much easier to be critical than to be correct." 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However, Whitby was able to steal a breakaway only to be foiled by the combined efforts of Stephen Hoar and second half goalie, Ryan Pon- to. After a great opportunity by Mark Gunter, Nick Stacey and David Griffin combined to feed the puck to Jared Greening Greening to put the Toros ahead 1-0. In the third, Whitby scored three times while Bowmanville countered with one by Jay Henderson from Stephen Hoar, ending the game 3-2 for Whitby. Whitby. . Against Peterborough on Monday, October 21, Ryan Ponto played the first half of the game and faced more shots than he had in previous games. But he held them off until the Toros shifted the pressure to Peterborough's end of the rink. Finally, at 6:31 of the second, David Griffin sent a pass forward forward to Sean Pudlis who scored. Several minutes later, Ian Gleeson fed Nick Stacey who put a great pass onto the stick of Mark Gunter who scored. At 7:20 of the third, Sean Pudlis scored on a great rush, assisted by Jay Henderson for a 3-1 victory. All Kid's Night at the Oshawa Civic Centre featured a game between the Oshawa 'AAA' team and Denis Pizzeria Pizzeria Toros. Coach Rick Stock- man called up Darryl Siècle from the minor novice team to round out the lineup. It proved to be a great addition as Darryl played well. The Toros had a territorial advantage going into the third period, but Oshawa broke away to win 2-0. Both goalies, Darren Powell and Ryan Ponto, Ponto, were really sharp. Nat Fair and Jonathon Ross were called up from the minor novice team to play a game against Newmarket. At 9:23 of the first, Bobby Withcridgc scored the first of two. Sean Pudlis and David Griffin collecting collecting assists. In the second, Darryl Stock- man intercepted a pass at centre centre ice and forced his way in. He fired a pass to Stephen Hoar who made no mistake for the Denis Pizzeria third goal. This was a great all-round effort, with special mention going going to Jared Greening and Mark Gunter as well as the call ups, Nat Fair and Johnathon Ross, for a superb effort. Denis Pizzeria Toros played their first tournament of the season in Orangeville on November November 2. The first game against Agincourl Lions saw the return of Tyler Cook after a three-week injury. Although only about 75%, Tyler played well. Sean Pudlis opened the scoring on a play that Tyler started in the Toros' end. Andrew Andrew Smalc and Mark Gunter assisted. At 5:46 of the first, Nick Stacey scored while short-handed from Stephen Hoar and Jared Greening to make it 2-0. In the second, the Toros were caught pinching in a little too often and found themselves tied 2-2. But with a good effort, effort, the Toros were able to score a 5-3 win. Bobby Withe- ridge scored two and Andrew Smalc scored into an empty net. Andrew and Nick Stacey also drew assists, Having played Whitby several several times, coaches Rick Stock- man and Ivan Griffin knew they were in for a tough second game. Jared Greening opened the scoring from Andrew Smalc but Whitby tied it up before before the end of the first. In the second, Whitby went ahead 2- 1. The Toros fought back and finally, with 3:31 to go in the third, Ian Gleeson was credited for a goal that was scored when a Whitby defenceman slid into the net, carrying the puck over the goal line. The first overtime featured some great hockey. Stephen Hoar was forced to take a penalty penalty on a great defensive play to stop a breakaway. Then, with 1:13 left in the first overtime, overtime, Darren Powell made an excellent save but was injured and replaced by Ryan Ponto. In the second overtime, both teams were forced to play without goalies and midway through, Whitby scored. A tough loss, but the fans and players had been treated to some thrilling hockey. A lot of credit goes to the manger, Dennis Gunter and trainer Dan Ponto for making this a great tournament. The major novice Toros would like to thank their sponsor, sponsor, Denis Pizzeria, for a great pizza evening. (Also for their patience with an active group of boys.) Harrison Fuels Likes To Trick Opponents Harrison Fuels minor pee- wee Toros like to lead their opponents opponents into a false sense of security security the first period of play. On more than one occasion, we were behind by a couple of goals at the end of the first period period before we let loose and started scoring. October 21, Harrison Fuels travelled to Pickering for an exciting game. At the end of the first period, wé were losing 2-0. The Pickering team and their parents thought that we were going to be easy prey. But, in the second period, we started scoring and couldn't stop. Jody Thorsteinson started us off by scoring on his former team. (Jody and his family moved to Bowmanville from Pickering and we're happy that they are now part of our team.) Jody's goal was assisted by Scott MacDonald and Nicky Zdravkovski. Mark Frampton scored the next two goals for us. He was followed by Guy Tousignant with two , goals. Greg Masterson, Nicky Zdravkovski Zdravkovski and MacKay all scored one |oil apiece. Picking Picking up'-the assists that night were Chris Paquette with four, Greg Masterson with two and one each for Scott MacKay, Scott MacDonald, Brian Ball and Mark Frampton. Final score of the game was 8-5 for our Toros. October 26, Markham travelled travelled down to Bowmanville for 401 Esso Atoms Skate to 11-6 Victory Over C.L.Ç. The 401 Esso atoms played another strong game on Saturday, Saturday, November 2, skating to an 11-6 victory over Computer Learning Centre. Fraser McArthur McArthur started the scoring early with two quick goals on his first shift. Colin Maude earned an assist. Esso netmindcr Andrew Andrew Laton made some nice stops early in the game. Defenceman Defenceman Brock Baker connected connected for two goals, with assists assists to Ryan McKnight, Fraser McArthur and Colin Maude to make the score 4-0. In the final minute, Computer Learning got on the scoreboard, but the Oilers quickly replied with an unassisted goal by Luke Denison Denison to make the score 5-1 at the end one. Five minutes into the second, second, winger Kevin'Kennedy notched his first goal of the game, assisted by defenceman Tyler Gibson. • Things .changed quickly, though, when Computer Computer Learning connected for three unanswered goals in three minutes to narrow Esso's lead to 6-4. With five minutes remaining, Esso got one back when Luke Denison put the puck in the net, assisted by Nick Swerdfeger and Michael Harper. Computer Learning's Chris Watson scored his third of the game to again narrow the lead to two. With 42 seconds seconds left in the second, Matt Meadows made the score 8-5, assisted by Ryan McKnight. The end-to-end action continued continued in the third period. Five minutes into the period, Computer Computer Learning scored again. Our boys knew they had to work hard if they wanted to keep their lead and win this one. The Oilers put the pressure pressure on and scored three unanswered unanswered goals in the final ten minutes. Ryan McKnight, Fraser McArthur and Kevin ■ Kennedy did the damage, Final score, 11-6. Great work guys! an exhibition game. They beat us 6-3. The first goal was scored for Harrison Fuels by Greg Masterson assisted by Ryan Jackman. These guys then decided to reverse the honour when Ryan Jackman scored the second goal assisted by Greg Masterson. Our third and final goal of the game was scored by Mark Frampton, unassisted. unassisted. On November 2 we met Markham in Oshawa for an exhibition exhibition game. We tied 1-1. Our only goal was scored by Ryan Jackman assisted by Trevor Trevor Baker. The same afternoon, we were at home to play Pickering in a league game. The score was 1-0 for Pickering after the first period. Ryan Jackman put us on the scoreboard at the 3:25 mark in the second period assisted by Mark Frampton and Scott MacKay. By the third period, period, Harrison Fuels minor pee- wee Toros were skating hard, passing the puck around and scoring goals. Guy Tousignant, Jody Thorsteinson, Ryan Jack- man, and Scott MacDonald scored goals in the third period. period. Picking up some assists were Jody Thorsteinson, Chris Baumhauer, Scott MacDonald, Ryan Jackman, Mark Frampton, Frampton, Scott MacKay, Josh Bonnette Bonnette and Trevor Baker. Final score of the game was 5-3 for Bowmanville. v : ; iLsyi: . • X .Il After 35. years in the sport of archery, Louie Van Meyl is. giving something something back. The Newcastle resident will be running a seven-week course at the Brownsdale Community Centre beginning on November 21. Louie has represented Canada at the Pan-Am Games, World Championships, and various other international tournaments during the course of his career. McRobbie Keeps Winning McRobbie peewees remained remained undefeated with a 6-3 victory over Dykstra's Deli on Saturday, November 2. McRobbie opened the scoring scoring with an unassisted effort by Randy Auld, giving McRobbie a 1-0 first period edge. Darryl Felstead made it 2-0 early in the second with an unassisted unassisted effort of his own. Dyk- stra fought back to within one before McRobbie made it 3-1 on a goal by Kevin Seiffert, assisted assisted by Darryl Felstead and Craig Schumacher. McRobbie made it 4-1 with time running out in the second on a goal by Randy Auld, assisted by David Moriarity. Dykstra opened up the third period with a quick goal to make it 4-2. McRobbie made it 5-2 on an unassisted goal by Rob Jeffers. Dykstra make it close with 56 seconds remaining, remaining, scoring to make it 5-3. McRobbie got the insurance goal with 26 seconds left with Grant Eslcr scoring and Rob Jeffers picking up the assist. Jesse Anger put another win in his belt with strong goaltending. goaltending. Y ou Make The Call Hockey A team has only one goalkeeper dressed and he/she is injured during the course of the game. A player on the same team is given the goalkeeper's stick and gloves, but does not wish to wear the pads. Can hc/shc do that? Yes. Once the player has been given full goalkeeper's privileges, then they cannot return to the same game as a player. They must remain classified as a goalkeeper, even if the original goalkeeper returns to the game. 328 RITSON RD. N., OSHAWA 725-4744 ifbuty caU 725-2831 U HULLS \l I : A lit: I Mi. 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