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by TED WATSON Midland Stoneleigh Centennials won the Georgian Bay Junior "C" League Cham- pionship last Friday with a decisive 9-3 win over Oro 77's. In the first period Oro took an early 2-0 lead on goals by Dave Hogben at 2:54 and Dennis Cleroux at 4:59. Midland scored at 8:12 when Owen Quilty diverted Al Whidden's pass past Bruce DeGeer. Al Whidden tied the game at 15:58 on passes from Owen Quilty and John Walter. There were no penalties in this period and Midland outshot Oro 13-12. The second period was all Midland as they once again showed the scoring spurt they have become famous for throughout the season. They got three goals in a little more than five minutes in three different ways. First, John Johnson from Marlon: Gieseler and Darryl Belcourt at 1:05 while the sides were even. Then at 3:20, while killing off a penalty, Darryl Belcourt scored from Marlon Gieseler. John Walter scored a power play goal at 5:09 with assists from Owen Quilty and Chad Wiebe. Al Whidden scored at 17:11 from John Walter and Chad Wiebe to gave Midland a 6-2 lead at the end of the second period. Each team took three minor penalties and the shots were 23-11 in favour of Midland. In the third period Midland continued their scoring ways with their 7th and 8th unan- swered goals. At 1:30 Darryl Belcourt from Marlon Gieseler and Tom Hook (replacing John Johnson who re-injured his groin). This same line scored again at 9:10 with Tommy Hook pulling the trigger. Oro finally scored at 10:29--Dean Edwards from Dennis Hickling and Tim Victil. The Cents Wilson Cowan scored a power play goal at 15:10 from John Walter. In this period Oro took 5 minutes and Midland 3 plus fighting majors to Dennis Hickling of Oro and John Witzke of the Cents. Midland outshot Oro 18- 12 in the period and 54-36 in the game. The Cents now await the winner of the Orangeville-Bradford series with Bradford currrently leading the series 2-0. The Cents have now won 12 of 13 play-off games and appear to be at the top of their game. Oldtimers in action Neil Joyes of the Simcoe County Selects pots a neat backhander behind Midland goaltender Brian Lemieux in last weekends Over 45 Tournament at elimination Midland. the Midland Arena. Simcoe County went on to win this game 4-2, thus It appears the problem of geese at Little Lake Park does not enrage residents during winter months. This was quite evident at a meeting held in Midland's municipal building last week on the question of geese in Little Lake. If there had been a few more people sitting at the head table they would have out num- bered those on the floor. Alex Smith, Fish and Wildlife Supervisor for Huronia District had the right idea, "your goose problem is not something you look at when they're landing on the beach, you lay out a plan before hand and stick to it. Some ideas may work and some may not, the ones that work are the ideas you use."' As Smith sees it, geese are attracted by grasses present on beach areas and handouts from people, as long as they are getting freebees they'll be back. Geese have no reason to fear anything in the park. At long last it was finally agreed, geese were not the only problem when it came to fecal counts in Little Lake. Gulls infesting the lake were finally put in their proper place as another contributor. And, although there was agreement, other possible pollutors such as storm drains, leaking septic tanks and run-off were quickly dismissed as too costly a problem to rectify. So, geese and gulls will be prime targets. Possible solutions were much the same as those brought up at a meeting held last fall. Swans, trained dogs, trained birds of prey, reseeding lawns with grasses that are un- desireable to geese and the famous solution, hunting. However, Smith was quick to say, hunting would only help after the tourist season but if continued for a few years geese would eventually get the idea they weren't welcome in Little Lake Park. The question of dusting eggs was brought up but its a known fact very few pairs of nesting geese use Little Lake Park as nesting grounds and this method would serve little purpose in solving the problem. And the question of geese in the park continues. Bob Whittam, from the Wye Marsh Wildlife Centre has the problem solved, if the geese will cooperate. He volunteered the grounds of the centre to all geese. There is also another solution. Turn the park over to the geese and the fishermen. I haven't heard a fisherman complain about the geese yet. Beth Murphy dazzles The waiting game begins for Minor Atom pucksters Gervan and Davy Minor Atoms travelled to Elmvale on Sunday night for a Georgian Bay Minor Hockey Association Playoff game winning 5-3 thus eliminating their hosts. This series win puts Midland in the Con- solation Finals. In the first period, Midland took the lead with a goal by Darryl King from Mark Lar- mand. Elmvale tied the game with 55 seconds left in the period but Gervan and Davy jumped ahead with 31 seconds remaining with a goal by Jeff Doughty assisted by Mark Leonard and Vincent Hrizo. The second period saw Midland go ahead 3- 1 with Jeff Doughty's second of the night assisted by Jonathan Deacon. Elmvale closed the gap to within one to end the period. Minor Peewees clean up On Friday, March 8, French's Dry Cleaners Minor Peewees team travelled to Bolton for the first game in its best of five semi-final series. Despite a con- siderable territorial advantage, the Midland team could only out- score its opponent, 4 goals to 2, the last goal being into an empty net by Craig Dempsey, unassisted. Br. 80 down visitors Midland Legion Branch 80 Midgets eliminated Penetang two games to one in Georgain Bay Minor Hockey Association Playoff action Friday night in Midland by a score of 5-1. Rod Larmand and Pat Bolton opened the scoring and _ Scott Cooper was able to tie the game before the end of the first period with assists from Mike Boyd and Randy Tippin. Midland took the lead early in the second period on a goal by Chris Bales, assisted by Christian Diesveld, only to have Bolton come back in less than a minute to tie the game again. The Dry Cleaners took the lead for good in the third period on Chris Bales second goal with an assist from Chris Both teams came out flying in the _ third period, as Elmvale knotted the score 3-3. Midland continued to apply the pressure when Jeff Sauve finally scored what was to be the winning goal. Jeff Doughty recorded a hat trick to make the final outcome 5-3. The Minor Atoms are also waiting to play in the O.M.H.A. Zone Championship Finals. on Bolton Kinnear. As had been their custom, the Midland players picked up the tempo in the _ third period rarely allowing any serious attacks on their own goal and out- shooting the Bolton Braves 18 to 3. Jason Nicoll was strong in net until replaced - due to injury - by Terry Waltenbury half way through the final period. Next two games in the series will be played in Midland on successive Wednesday _ evenings, March 13 and March 20. SportStats TEAM AND INDIVIDUAL STANDINGS MIDLAND INDUSTRIAL BOWLING opposition in Barrie Commodore - Malubus travelled to Barrie; Wednesday night to play Collingwood in the S.C.W.V.L. finals. Malibus were slow to get started in the first lost the Malibus game but with good Page 12, Wednesday, March 13, 1985 power hitting from Sue Lamers and Jennifer Meesters, the women won the game 15-10. Poor communication, poor court movement and lack of aggression second © game," 9-15, inspite of some of the best rallies of that match. The final game was slow with neither team doing anything inspired until Sue Lamers made a_ blistering hit which Newhouse. Marchand gave TEAM . W L PTS ienterea"acers immer ee Wewmeiiueeaaias Gamna Signs 43 35 101 y PESIATOINS sot amners Sports 44 34 99 scored with just 24 auied FineSafety 42 36 98 seconds remaining in BandanaiGnnet: 40 38 88 ne period. Ladouceurs Const. 20 58 45 arby Toutant put WEST Midland up by two with TEAM! W L PTS the only tally of the RD Ivens 51 27 119 second period. Archie pyabant Const. 43% 34 101 Meridis and Guy quronia Auto Glass 35 43 80 Jeanotte finished off the -- hon Sherk Const 32 46 75 Manian scoring in the @ wijlicers ; 29% 48 66 third period. | : 1 On Sunday night, they O!¥™p!@ Sports hoki aa 2: opened their next series TOF 1) AVERAGES f with Elmvale, dumping Maurice Lacroix 249 Jules Marion 230 them 14-1. Archie Phil Southon 241 Howard Woolner 229 Meridis led the way with Ray Staunton 237 Don Spring 227 a seven point night (four Rodney Todd 233 Pete Lacroix 226 goals and three assists), Leo St. Onge 233 ~-- Bill Lalonde 226 Pat Marchand added a TRIPLES seemed to rally team pair of goals and MauriceLacroix 952 Bob McMann 788 but the credit for the win -- assisted on three others. DaveLatondress 16 Patrick Duval 782 to go to Beth Steve Bressette scored Leo St. Onge 798 Bill Lalonde 748 Murphy who went on a_ twice each with single Gerry Borsa 797 Len Lesperance 738 serving streak of eight tallies coming off the Larry Dion 794 Len Desjardin 729 straight points to win sticks of Peter Lalonde, ALLIED FIR«#® sar BE TY the Malibus the game Guy Jeanotte, Chris HIGH SINGLE AWARD j and the championship Duckworth, and Steven Patrick Duval 336 Saas inl na Ao RE ete CHU" 2S © rr SO SOS. SE (Sig Seg ere ay SS. Te eT, nonmseoognh HM s |} Tw DD ao