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SportWaterloo Page 18 â€" Waterlqo Chranicle, Wednesday, October 10, 1979 Bbommmmnpemmmermmemmmrmmmrmencrmnemmmeemeen ns en en e e e e en i t C C C Sa c c cto c th o. as4ha atav ie Sullitan defan CiOSE CAUl _ Waterloo Siskin centre Brad Lund (11) moves in for a reâ€" gan. Moving in on the play is Culliton defenseman Brad Walish. Siskins outâ€" bound as a shot from the point narrowly flies by Stratford goalie Mark Flanaâ€" played Stratford but wound up with a 2â€"2 tie. By Rick Campbell â€" Chronicle Sports Editor What a difference a week makes. Within that short time span Waterloo Siskins have gone from a club that looks like it just put its golf clubs away to one rarin‘ to hit the ice in midâ€"season form. No one can complain about Waterloo‘s effort too much since they are undefeated after four games (3â€"0â€" 1) atop the Midwestern Ontario Junior B standings, but Sunday night against Stratford Cullitons Siskins gave ample proof they intend to be a league power One has to go back a long way to remember a game in Waterloo Arena between the two clubs when Culliâ€" tons have all but raised the white flag in the final period â€" but except for one or two dangerous dashes Sunday, that‘s what happened. The game ended in a 2â€"2 tie, and in fact it was Sisâ€" kins who recovered to gain the split in the late moâ€" ments, but nowhere does the score indicate the three posts hit by Waterioo players in the third period, the 37â€"27 shots on goal in favor of Waterloo, or the fact that outstanding goaltending by Culliton‘s Mark Flanâ€" agan kept his club in the game. Siskins were by far the dominant attackers, and their coach Jack Egers said the club played a similar style in a 42 win in New Hamburg FAriday ‘‘We played two bad games, and now two good games, and we‘re still undefeated, that‘s a good sign,"" said the Waterloo coach with a grin a mile wide following the game. ‘"But the best thing was we came back to tie tonight after falling behind. Now our team knows they won‘t be going into Stratford Friday thinkâ€" ing they can‘t beat them. We know we held the upper hand tonight. True, they did. but Siskins did not receive tangible evidence of that until Roy Russell looped in behind the Stratford defence at 16:41 of the third and took a goalâ€" mouth pass from Brad King at the point to beat Flanaâ€" gan for the equalizer "I was trying to draw it back like this," explained Russell drawing his elbows in close to his side, ‘"But he (Flanagan) got a piece of it with his stick. Luckily it came back to me and I was able to put it past him." For Russell, it was his second goal of the season, both extremely important markers. Last Sunday the WCI student. who skates like a housefly trapped in a window pane, chopped in the winner against Cambridâ€" ge with abd@tr‘theé"sameé amount of tifte reffiaining Waterloo‘s other goal Sunday went to Grant Musselâ€" man who converted Craig Frank‘s pass for a powerâ€" play effort in the first period. Frank made a tremenâ€" dous play in the Stratford end,. holding onto the puck until the last moment when both Stratford defenders in front of the net committed themselves Doug Kerr tallied both goals for Stratford. He broke in all alone on John Conrad in the first to fire one low to the glove side and then in the third let a 50° shot rip from the right boards along the ice to put his team up 2â€"1. But aside from the occasional scramble, Cullitons were but a shadow of the club which dominated the league the past two years. Their forwards, particularâ€" ly returnees like Scott Skinner, were practically nonâ€" existent on offence, and their defence was awkward and slow getting the puck out of their end, which is the opposite of the Culliton trademark. Slippery Roy Russell (7) of Sisikihs attempts to manoeuvre the puck around Stratford defenseman Darâ€" rell Christo (6) during the second period Sunday. Russell scored the tying goal later in the third period. Acutally the lone shining star on the visitors was Flanagan, who made several outstanding saves, but also got help from lady luck on shots from King, Brad Schnurr and Russell in the third. Schnurr‘s golden opportunity came on an outstandâ€" ing individual effort by Dana Saunders, who chased the puck into the Stratford end and showed his usual hustle by diving to sweep the puck across the crease to the slick centre who pinged one off the post. w'fi;;o;éiiz)u-( -trfifefgame the Siskins defence, especialâ€" ly Wilf Rellinger and King, played with poise and a‘ z> C Chronicle Sports Line 886â€"2830 authority in keeping Culliton snipers at bay. And the one time in the lplrd when they did let down. Conrad made a sparkling diving save on a twoâ€"onâ€"none. Notes: Siskins are in Stratford Friday at 8 p.m. and return home Sunday at 7:30 to face Owen Sound...Craig Frank with two,. Brad Schnurr and Grant Musselman scored Waterloo goals Friâ€" day.. Mike Mader was just getting over a bout with inâ€" fected wisdom teeth Sunday and so coath Jack Egers went basically with two lines for a good portion of the game.. Ed Takamatsu was slated to start in goal Sunâ€" day but received a nasty gash around the eye when hit by a shot during preâ€"game warmâ€"up. John Conrad played a solid game in net as his replacement.. The jury was always out as to the intelligence of Stratford fans but the guilty plea was returned Sunday when a reporter overheard some Festival City supporters cursing the fact that the Arena now has glass behind all benches. ‘"They won‘t even hear us if we scream, complained Culliton clappers. Hopefully not.