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mr organizer xuas shoppers everything for golfers at discount prices open 11 am5 pm dally c 4784211 or toll free 18002633222 newmarket golf c club on woodbin 4 u h oi owb sportjk classified d community newspaper wednesday january 8 1986 some skiers at dagtnar ski resort north of claremont just cant get enough attention brett macleod of pickering far left does some hotdogging while airborne sporting a red bandana and a black ski suit the 20yearold daredevil did some breathtaking not to mention legbreaking manouvres however- the skier above was not so lucky when it came to landing kelly connelly midgets applaud revenge against scarborough team peewee clippers win double championship when a team fires 42 holes into the opposition in six games and allows only 12 responding bullets that team deserves to win the championship and the grand championship if there is one the stouffville peewee clip pers collected both crowns in an impressive twoday onslaught at the 15th annual richmond hill in ternational peewee tournament dec 2627 although the double b hockey team sponsored by stouffville district credit union ran up against a and double a competi tion it still managed to outscore the opposition by an average puck ratio of 35 to one to sweep all six games the clippers blasted brampton 90 for the cowan division cham pionship and the oshawa red wings 41 for the grand finale centres scott mckinley and jason underwood did most of the damage throughout the tourney collecting 17 and 11 goals respec tively underwood was selected most valuable player in the cowan championship and received a watch goalie basil luciano play ed impressively in the final two matches mckinleys most not able performance came in game two against newmarket the agile centre scored a staggering seven goals in the 114 romp note for complete statistics on individual games in the tourna ment see b2 by kelly connelly sports editor sometimes avenging an old foe in an earlier round makes everything else after that seem less exciting for stouff villes credit union midget girls beating rival scarbor- ough 32 in the semifinal of cobourgs hockey tournament dec 2728 was the ultimate advancing to the championship fin al and capturing runnerup honors no big deal the dec 28 semifinal upset was unquestionably the high point of the weekend tourney for the stouffville girls and for laurie taylor who scored the winning goal with three minutes left on the clock only three weeks ago stouffville had been whipped by the same scar borough team 41 however the emotional and physical energy that prevailed in the scarborough game just wasnt there anymore when the local girls faced peterborough for the cham pionship a few hours later stouffville having only eight players in uniform for the final col lapsed in the third period under the weight of peterboroughs 13 ska ters the petes won 50 and stouff ville captured runnerup midget coach ted lowery had no regrets when we saw scarbor ough there that was it so often you key on one game upsetting them in the semifinal made the tourney for us said the stouffville skipper and his midgets were certainly pumped up for that one after eradi cating host cobourg 90 in the open er highflying centre shawn morri- shawn morrison wants rematch son scored a hat trick and team mates vicki smith and taylor most valuable player scored a pair each linda whiteside and jennifer altilia who were noticeably absent in the tourney final rounded out the tally missing key players in the cham pionship was felt by the entire bench said morrison especially when fullstrength for the midgets is two full lines and thats on a good night if we had a rematch we could have beaten peterborough espe cially if our key players were there contended the stouffville secondary grade 9 student she added the rep team hasnt practised once this year due to con flicting school and work schedules and the fact that many members on the team are from out of town goalie dorothy tscheng who captured mvp in the scarborough tangle lives in thornhill she felt peterborough was better prepared in the final than her club fi they were very well prepared against us they did a lot of passing back to the point and their wrist shots were good too praised the 15yearold netminder tscheng let three pucks by her in the third period and admitted she and her teammates ran out of steam lowery explained that his girls have been forced to adopt a spinal cord strategy where defence and centre strength takes precedence over winger fortitude we dont have that many girls so we try to strengthen our team down the middle he noted we key on a strong defence and a strong centre and goalie its the wingers who do most of the work and the digging the midgets could only field a line and a half against the strong peter borough team centre vicki smith won mvp for her undaunting efforts said lowery we just didnt have the legs left in the final period note the stouffville girls hock- ey league hosts a rep night on jan 12 the midgets play keswick jan 25 and newton feb 6 hockey school stresses less glamorous skills by kelly connelly sports editor the youngster looked no more than three feet high with his blades on he pursued hockey school in structor doug todd around the pylons for a skate ex- ercise while some other schoolmates trailed behind passing the secondlast red cone the instructor threw bis right glove to the ice to replace the final missing pylon- the youngster amusingly threw his little glove down too thinking it was part of the routine no sooner bad the tiny gretzky imitated his teacher be bashfully picked it up realizing the mis take during the christmas break instructors todd john barnett and peter fitzpatrick ran stouff villes first ever hockey school the course consisted of seven morning sessions for two separate age groups from seven to 14yeafolds participated there was a lasting impression one acquired while watching the three men conduct a class at stouffville arena it was was the keen attention span though limited of a group of kids sprawled on the ice for a breather their oversizedlooking helmets bent back wards as they peered up at their giant teachers its not easy coaching a bunch of zealous hockey mites the basics of skating puckhandling and check ing some kids are a little bit of trouble when it comcs to listening admitted todd a former calgary flame draftee the first day we taught them to listen its the most important thing but how do you get through to todays generation of youngsters who watch national hockey league games and the goon sideshows religiously on tv todd doesnt deny that the nhls dramatic and often overlyaggressive style of play has an influence on kids but he did qualify that a childs keen and aggressive energies are not necessarily negative attributes if channelled in the right direction by proper coaching stouffville resident dave reesor gave his grand- son jason the hockey school membership as a christ- mans present the elder reesor who built family hockey rinks in his backyard for 25 years felt it was money well spent the ice time is spent with qualified people and the hourlong action is continuous he pointed out but jason is only nineyearsbid i think maybe hes a little young to be in the school because at that age they dont retain the knowledge as well as an older person steve boyd figures the more ice time his son michael 8 puts in the better hes going to get and the hockey school gives him that opportunity when both men were asked if hockey schools like the one in stouffville will ever modify north amer icas inherently grinderstyle of play for the euro peans open fashion of finessehockey they expressed cautious optimism i think well always be diggers said the senior boyd the instructors are trying to teach them fines se but the kids are still pretty small now if it were atomaged boys you were trying to teach thats a whole different ball game barnett who played four years of pro hockey in hamburg west germany feels players in europe and north america are becoming less polarized in their playmaking styles both parts of the world are moving towards a compromise i think theres a role for both finesse and aggression in wellplayed hockey he contended but how do you convince a nineyearold kid that an agile skater is more important than a brawny checker who instigates a massive cheering howl every time he or she claims another victim on the boards we try to tea ch these kids that a rugged style is not an end in itself barnett cautioned of all hockey instruction fundamental skating skills are probably the least interesting to learn yet the most compli cated part of the game few coaches have the time to implement these skills properly barnett believes theres too much emphasis on scor ing goals and not enough on the less glamorous roles of setting up plays his hockey schools out to dispel the myths and instill some sound hockey sense barnett and company hope to give it another whirl next year bommtaassmabmas ffisssste ok guys never make a blind pass hockey school instructors john barnett far left calgary flames draftee dong todd and peter fitzpatrick discuss the fundamentals of cana das number one pastime with stouffville youngsters kids participated in the school dur ing the christmas holidays and according to one grandparent of a little tyke it was money well spent kelly connelly