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PAGE " - warmoggnoucu. “WY. game" 21. was Siskin captain Terry McCutcheon (left) and Todd Loveday lead the team around the ice in victory ceremony after winning Midwestern Junior B Hockey League champion- ship. r""""""--.""'" Delected Stratford Cumton teem membere watch Steklne celebrate. Thle wee the eecond straight yeer they Ioet to swans In a chemptonehlp eeriee. Cullitons won their only game Friday in Stratford by a 9-3 score in a contest that turned into a tiresome display of fights and cheap shots. Prolific scorer Terry McCutcheon had Siskins' other goal in Sunday's game, but the night belonged to Johnston and Geminari, who traded shifts on a line with Scott McCulloch and Steve Aebersold. and Carlaw, a utility forward. Johnston, a IT-year-old student at Bluevale collegiate, scored on McCulloch's rebound with just 6: 29 remaining to clinch the victory. - _ A right winger, Johnston had been called up in the playoffs last season. However, he played in just one game because he suffered a shoulder injury in Brantford. _ 'Kew been starting to get the ice time and come through," said Johnston. "Mike's was a big goal, too." - diiminari had scored at 3: 53 of the third period to brezgk a 2-2 tie. Two minutes later. Walt Morris scored to put Cullitons back in a tie situ- ation. _ Pat Schooley and Nelson Emerson had Cullitons' other goals. - Siskins were once again without injured forwards Chris Archer, Mike Barbeau and Tim Sittler. Then at 16: 39 of the first period Ron Pearson was crawling off the ice after a hip check from Emerson as McCutcheon was giving Siskins a l-0 lead. The hip check aggravated a knee injury and Pearson went to the dressing room for treat- ment. He returned later to take a regular shift although he was obviously in pain. "I thought for a while it could have gone either way," said Siskin coach Gerry Harrigan. "it was the kids off the bench who made the dif- ference. "We weren't fancy. We're not a fancy hockey team. We have to work at both ends of the ice." Paul Berger scored three goals for Stratford and Pat Schooley added two. Single goals went to Emerson, Boyd Sutton, Mike Peluso and Steve Dickinson. Johnston. McCutcheon and Wayne Barnard scored for Siskins Friday night in titratford, _ Sisklns have a bye into the Ontario Hockey Associatin semi-final series. They will meet the winner of a quarter-final series between St. Catharines Falcons and St. Mary's Lincolns. Richard O’Brien photos