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Port Perry Star, 17 Aug 1999, p. 23

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22 - PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, August 17 , 1999 "Scugog"s Community Newspaper of Choice" po the Tr D ~The feature event proved to be a scrambled affair with five different drivers taking turns leading the After four weeks of soggy weather, racing action resumes at Mosport with Canadian Vintage Modified Cars as this week's special guests By John "Wally" Nesbitt From Corner Five After four rained-out race weekends, Mosport » Speedway is pleased to finally present a race recap, instead of a soggy weather report. The Canadian Vintage Modified cars were the guests of honour on Saturday, and these classic, open wheeled Stockers put on their usual entertaining Previous Mosport winner Mike Podd and series ints leader Gary Elliott scored heat race wins with rophy Dash being claimed by Craig Downey. rry, Mike Podd, Gary Elliott and Craig ook turns at the head of the pack before 1937 Dodge made the final pass for the e penultimate lap. Podd managed to the victory, chased to the line by Downey, okie Kyle Donaldson is making a strong case for himself as he pursues the Bob's Towing ThunderCar championship. D ~The 17-year-old Queensville native added two "heat wins to his season's totals on Saturday and then completed the three race sweep by taking a hard won victory in the feature race. Oshawa's Brian Strawn earned the runner-up position ahead i of Terry Shaw, Mike Rusher and Joe Anderson. ing ones from Peterborough, Whitby, Oshawa, and Also enjoying the thrill of the sweep was defending Port Perry. All those competing have played for h five years or less. Here, Jan Young of Peterborough CHRIS HALL / PORT PERRY STAR LET 'ER GO: The Port Perry Lawn Bowling Club was busy once again last Friday as the local club hosted the Canadian Tire Novice Open Triples Challenger champion, Steve Knab. | Knab easily took both Challenger heat races but - competition. There were 16 teams entered, includ- lets one go during club play. The Brooklin Redmen and the .Brampton Excelsiors played game three of their best of seven semi- final on Sunday, Aug. 15. The Redmen tied the series at one game each with a win in Brampton on Friday, Aug. 13 by a score of 8-5. The "highlight" of game three was the return to Iroquois Park of ) Excelsior Kevin Dance after his ) ban from the arena for an incident } - a couple of years ago. The Excelsiors came to the game to play and quickly set the tone with a 3-0 lead by halfway through the first period. The home team got a goal from Steve Toll with six minutes to go in the first frame and went into the dressing room down by a score of 3- 1 The Redmen came out of the gate with a quick goal by John Fusco just 40 seconds into the second period and then Tom Hawke tied the game at three at 12:58 of the second. The teams traded goals through the second period and the RE NE ET A RE TO I Sa Excelsiors took an 8-7 lead into the second intermission. In the third period, Brampton capitalized first with a Troy Cordingley goal at the 11:39 mark as Brampton regained their two- goal lead. Steve Toll scored the only Redmen behind in the count Brooklin trails the defending Mann Cup champion Brampton Excelsiors 2-1 in the their best-of-seven semi-final after a 10-8 loss at home goal for the home team in the third to cut the lead again to one goal. However, with 4:53 left on the clock, the Excelsiors scored and that was all they needed as they went on to win the game by a score Turn to Page 23 Register on Sept. 9 at the Scugog Communty Centre The coaches are hired, the ice will be in at the end of August and the only piece missing to make our picture complete is our skaters. New members are invited to register on Thursday, Sept. 9 at the Scugog Community Centre from 6 to 8 p.m. At this time a skate and accessories exchange will be held. Skaters may pick up Only thing missing is skaters for 1999/2000 figure skating program 8018. registration forms at the Scugog Memorial Library. Last year's members will receive registration forms in the mail. These can be completed and mailed back to the club. For more information please contact Kate MacDonald at 985- 4577 or leave a message at 985- featurewin. Gallant was awarded second place ahead of Bruce Knapp, Nestleton's Dave Lee and Trevor Veitch, who - was guesting in Bob Kish's #78 Challenger car. . The evening's final race proved to be the most spectacular, The official record of the Late Model Feature race will show that Port Perry's Rod Sauder held off a determined Pee Wee Evans for the victory, followed by West Lee Talons, Brad Corcoran and Jamie Hale. For witnesses, the 20 lapper will also be remem- bered for a serious incident on the back straight involving Bob Kish and Terry Snyder. Kish had crashed his car into the wall when Snyder, spinning to avoid the melee, slammed into Kish's stationary car. : 'A fuel line in Snyder's car ruptured and a disas- trous looking fire ensued. Fortunately, the blaze was quickly extinguished and both drivers emerged. shaken, but unhurt. Because of the weather related scheduling prob- lems, two new dates have been added to the Mosport Speedway calender. | This coming weekend there will be regular Saturday night racing but also a full card of action on Sunday, Aug. 22. The ThunderCars, Challengers, Modifieds and OSCAAR Super Late Models will run had to battle track newcomer Charlie Gallant for the on Sunday. A double-header weekend is also planned for the Labour Day Weekend (Saturday/Sunday) with the final appearance of the OSCAAR Cars as the head event, rh 4 " + Contact Mosport (983-9141) for further details... EA ------ aa

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