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Talking Sports bes by Tom Shields CKMP Sports Director Nothings happening This past week has seen a brevity in the world of sports. There I was, in the middle of last week thinking that I could watch the Wednesday night hockey game and relax, but once again Alan Greedy, (Eagleson) has got another contract into the world of hockey. In the NHL, they had the week off to be with their families. This doesn't distress me too much as they should be home on Christmas along with everyone else. Which also means that there was not much happening to report on. Rocket Moreau returns Back in our area after a year and half absence is Rick the Rocket Moreau from Penetanguishene who is pursuing a wrestling career. Rick rassled in the area in the summer of 73 and since has been travelling in the United States where he was quite successful. Rick wanted to return to Canada and that's exactly what he did back last fall as he met Stu Hart, who led him into the Stampede Wrestling circle in Calgary Alberta. At this point, Rick said that he was on the losing end more often than winning simply because of a weight factor. Now Rick has put on some beef to bring him up to 220 pounds. But against an opponent who outwieghs him by about 50 pounds and has considerable more experience than Mr. Moreau, Rick has found the going tough if I can be a little phoesicious or however you spell it. Shot at the belt Stu Hart did give Rick some good news in that he is going to start a Junior heavyweight class again in Canada and Rick should be in the top category making him eligible fer a shot at the belt. Stampede Wrestling has been popular for a few years on the TVs in our area, but these are apparently old films in black and white. If the TV stations buy the new films from Stu Hart, we should see Rick the Rocket on TV. If we don't, Rick 'said that he hopes to'return to the area this spring to wrestle the summer months around Huronia. Struggling Colts On the local scene in the past week, it has been quiet. The Midland Flyers played one game on Friday night at the Midland Arena and lost to the Barrie Colts by a 6 to 3 score, proving that the Flyers are still having trouble with the Colts, who are struggling to make the playoffs in the Junior "B" loop. Playoffs are coming Santa was pretty good to the Garrisons. They played on Sunday night in Bracebridge, but unfortunately, this column had to be done before game time. Any way I hope the Garrisons came up with a win. They'll probably be battling Bracebridge for first place, or they will meet in the playoffs. The playoffs are now only one month and one week in the future as all OHA league hit what is known as the stretch drive to - plavelts in the month of January. Happy New Year Thope that Santa was good to you over the holidays and that the rest was a welcome change after, a hectic fall period. In the coming year I would like to wish you all the best and hope that 75 can be alive for you and yours. Although many people are predicting economic problems in the future, we must look on everything with lots of optimism, even in the world of sports. If we all get that '"'beaten" feeling, .that's exactly what we will be...beaten. I can make one prediction for the coming year, and that is that there will be drastic changes in many sports from rules to salaries and the whole ball of wax. Smash your glasses My reason is a logical one as it seems that people playing the games are making tremendous amounts of money and in more cases than not, fan support now appears to be on the down-swing, not only locally, but on the National level. Have a toast for me on New Year's Eve. Remember, that You're New Year's wish only comes true if you smash your glass. Minor hockey scores Bantam B New York 6 Montreal 2 Mario Moreau and John Lefaive scored two goals apiece to spark New York to a 6-2 drubbing of Montreal. Andre Quesnelle and Bradley Pike rounded out the New York scoring. Montreal's goals came off the sticks of Donnie Legault and John Brunelle. Toronto 8 Chicago 6 Two goal performances ' by Mark Stevens, Terry Schell, and Dan _ Cote powered Toronto to an 8-6 victory over Chicago. Cote also picked up a pair of assists in the game. Mare Marchildon, and Pierre Genier picked up single goals: for Toronto. Marchildon was _ also awarded an assist. © Chicago's goals came from - six different players. Danny O'Hara, Pat Duval, Michael Price, Allan Ladouceur, Stephen Zoschke, and Vincent Garrertt accounted for Chicago's markers. Detroit 3 Boston 2 Bobby Day's two goals provided the extra edge for Detroit in a 3-2 squaker over B 'Pierre Therrien Fpeted the,other Detroit marker. David Laurin and Maurice Roi popped in Boston's goals. Junior B Barrie 0 Newmarket 6 __ Dennis Patenaude played perfect hockey in recording a 6-0 shutout over Barrie. Mike Rustin and James Grozelle led Newmarket's scorers' with a pair of goals each, Two players notched singles; Denis Leroux and Don Twist. St. Kitts 2 Weston 0 Victor Leblanc and Greg Marchildon scored a goal" apiece in St. Kitts 2-0 whitewashing of Weston. Ken Leclair picked up the shutout for St. Kitts. Junior C Tigers 3 Panthers 1 The Tigers mauled the Panthers 3-1. Brent Pubeau, Vincent Brunelle, and-Peter Dion scored single goals for the Tigers. Charles Cut- tineau replied for Panthers. Peewee B Vancouver 3 Philadelphia 1 David Pattendaude drilled home two pucks for goals in Vancouvers 3-1 win over Philadelphia. Kieth St. Amant scored the other Vancouver goal. Philadelphia's lone goal came from Andre Gignac. David McConkey earned an assist on Gignac's marker. Buffalo 1 Oakland 8 Brian Robitaille went on a scoring rampage against Buffalo and when the smoke had cleared young Robitaille had picked up five goals to lead Oakland to an 8-1 win over the herd. Robitaille also recorded an assist in the game. The other Oakland goals were scored by Maurice Quesnelle,.David Desroches, and Paul Hartley. Assists went to: David Desroches (2), Bobby Buttineau, Paul Hartley, and Ken Corriveau. 1,000 fans view Maple Valley snowmobile races An estimated 1,000 spectators and 69 com- petitors braved the un- characteristically warm December weather Saturday as they turned out for the first snowmobile races of the season at the Maple Valley Club near Lafontaine. With the exception of one corner that was getting "a little worn down" by the end of the day, the quarter-mile track of packed snow held a reasonably solid surface. Joe Woods with 354.32 points and Dave Desrochers with 347.77 took the top Overall honours for the day, followed by Harold Peterson of Toronto with 257.15. Woods and Desrochers both com- pete for Central Sports and Marine of Midland. Presenting the trophy Desrochers is from Penetanguishene. A total of $4,500 in purse money is at stake in the five- race card this season, with $860 earned on Saturday. The races attract drivers from across Ontario. Saturday, one man from Ottawa competed. Club members worked hard over the summer, grading the track and widening the bend at the number four corner, and according to one spokesman the track "is way better than last year." The club also added registration and concession booths to the grounds. And it appears that the fan support is also on the up- swing. Of the estimated crowd of 1,000 last weekend, 890 paid the $1 admission charge -- "our best at- tendance yet", said the spokesman. And he added that the club is looking to an increase at the gate with each future day of races. The Maple Valley Club again this year will super- vise races at the Penetanguishene Winter- ama. The future club race dates are Sunday, January 12, Saturday and Sunday February 1 and 2, and Sunday, March 2. This weekend at Peter- borough, January 4 and 5, the A-sanctioned Kawartha Cup International meet is being staged. It's billed as the biggest weekend of the season for snowmobile racers in Ontario. Reg McKerracher, president of the Midland Minor Hockey Association presents Penetanguishene Midget Captain Mare .Duquette with a trophy for winning the regional Silver Stick Championship after four days of hockey at the Midland arena. The team beat Midland 3-1 on Saturday, expecting to meet Owen Sound later for the championship. Neither of the two teams learned until after the game that the Owen Sound team had eee out. Local Midgets win Silver Stick The Penetanguishene Midget all-stars won the West Central District Silver Stick Hockey Tournament by downing their cross town rivals from Midland 3-1 over the weekend. The Penetanguishene Midget team skated onto the ice Saturday afternoon hoping for a win and the chance to meet Owen Sound for the championship later that day. Neither they nor their competition, the Midland team, knew that Owen Sound had dropped out and that they were playing for the championship. They played a fast, close checking and very rough game which saw Penetanguishene take a 3-1 win and top honours. Brian Pilon took the first Penetanguishene goal early in the opening period unassisted. John St. Amant with the help of Larry Cowan gave the team a 2-0 lead in the second before John Beauchamp came back for ~ Midland's only goal in the final period. He was assisted by Jerry Lalonde. St. Amant popped in the final goal with assists from Ken Marchildon and captain Mare Duquette. In the Atom game Penetanguishene downed Huntsville 3-0 and they played again on Sunday for the championship. Details were not available at press time. In the Saturday, game, Chris St. Amant slipped in the first goal from David Robillard and Albert Gignac. Paul Robillard claimed the second one on a pass from Mark Dubeau and then David Robillard needed no help for the final goal. The Midland Peewees found themselves the con- solation winners after losing to Collingwood 4-0 on Saturday afternoon. In a very tense Bantam final, the Midland fans let out a real cheer when Andrew Zurowski took a beautiful pass across in front of the net from John Reid to finish the sudden death overtime period after two minutes of play. It was a very despondant. Huntsville team one of the referees directed his comment at. "It's almost a shame you have to have a winner," he said. Ken's Esso leads league Ken's Esso moved into a first place tie with Penetanguishene IGA on December 22 by downing the leauge leaders 4-1. The win leaves IGA and Ken's Esso deadlocked with 10 points apiece, three more then runner up Penetanguishene Marine. Emery's Electric remanis in the cellar with four points. These are the standings as of December 22. Sunday's games on December 29 are not included. Penetanguishene IGA took a 1-0 lead in the first period on a goal by Kenny Edgar at the 17:58 mark. Edgar continues to lead the league in scoring with a total of 22 points on nine goals and 13 assists. However, despite Edgar's early marker Ken's Esso came back. Paul Loughran's goal at 10:45 of the second period tied the match less than two minutes later Dennis Lemieux fired what proved to be the winning goal. The goals by Loughran and Lemieux increased their scoring point totals to 15. Loughran has ten goals and five assists while Lemieux has four goals and 11 assists. Both players are locked in a third place tie in the leagues scoring race. Bob Deschambault and Peter Arbour rounded out the scoring for Ken's Esso in the third period. Arbour's goal provides a good in- dication of just why Ken's Esso are now on top of the industrial hockey league. His goals against IGA gives him a total of nine for the season which along with eight assists leaves him with 17 points, five back of Kenny Edgar. Of the top five scorers in the league, three are from Ken's Esso; Peter Arbour, Paul Loughran, and Dennis Lemieux bunched together in second, third, and fourth spots respectively. Kenny Edgar and Mike Pud- dicombe of IGA hold down first and fifth place in the leagues scoring parade. ' Emery's electric and Penetanguishene Marine fought to a 2-2 tie in the remaining industrial league hockey game on December 22. Dan Dubeau and Ken Popple popped in the goals for Emery's Electric. Larry Marchand and Bill McQuaig replied for Penetanguishene Marine. The scoring statistics given above are unofficial. While the goal totals are definately correct the total points statistics of the top four scorers may be out because assists were not included on the score sheets for December 22. A 8 tne Rn Tearing through a corner Snowmobilers tear around the track at the Maple Valley Raceway during the club's first meet of the season. Four Only one challenger more meets are planned during the winter season. The next is on Sunday, January 12. Staff photo Ruth ta kes table tennis championship The sports scene has been relatively inactive during the Christmas and New Years break. Skiing and pleasure skating have been on the rise but competitive events have been cut to a minimum giving players and fans alike a chance to rest and enjoy the holiday with their friends and family However, there was one major competitive sporting event which took place over the holidays - the North Simcoe table tennis championship. Sports calendar On Thursday, December 26, Jay Michael Ruth retained his championship by downing Gerry Light, another Penetanguishene resident, in the tri-yearly championship match. Ruth used a_ crisp backhand combined with a hard effective overhand smash and a bit of lady luck to edge Light 21-18 in the deciding game played on Light's home court at Robert Street East. The North Simcoe tour- nament is an exclusive af- fair. In his post game comments Jay Michael explained that 'although we gall the match the North Simcoe Championship it's actually a closed league so that no one else can get into it."' And the victor had words of praise for his vanquished foe saying that although his opponent lost 'Gerry still retained his over 50 cham- pionship." "He just doesn't do as well when he competes with young blood," Ruth said of Light LORNE RANCE GULF STATION ELMVALE BUY Gas x Oil Batteries Tires Mechanic On Duty PSS Boys Basketball Wednesday, January 6,3p.m. Twin Lakes at PSS Bush League Hockey Thursday, January 2, 10:30p.m. Perkinsfield vs K.1.L. Industrial League Hockey Sunday, January 5, 9:30a.m. Penetanguishene Marine vs Arbour's Esso 11 a.m. Emergy's Electric vs Penetanguishene IGA Junior C. Hockey Sunday, January 5, 2:30p.m. Stayner at Penetanguishene Garrisons Hockey Tuesday, January 7, 8:30p.m. Penetanguishene at Bradford All-Star Hockey Minor Atom Saturday, January 4,2p.m. Penetanguishene at Wasaga Beach Major Atom Whatever the job... (=) ----Y) D7 If it's electrical, call us. Our expert electricians have (the Know-how to do every job right! MINNINGS ELECTRIC ELMVALE 322-1307 Saturday, January 4,7:15p.m. Penetanguishene at Owen Sound Sunday, January 5,6p.m. Base Borden at Penetanguishene Peewee Friday, January 3,7p.m. Penetanguishene at Owen Sound Sunday, January 5,7 p.m. Base Borden at Penetanguishene Bantam Friday, January 3,8:15p.m. Penetanguishene at Owen Sound Sunday, January 5,8:15p.m. Base Borden at Penetanguishene Midgets Saturday, January 4,7:45p.m. Midland at Penetanguishene House Leagues Junior B. 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