weekender december 6 1986 p29 weekender orts 2942200 0402100 mm fives a crowd unionville netminder greg holohan found a whole pack of friends and enemies including markhams chris isaac centre waiting to see if hed hang on to the puck action took place wednesday night at the centennial centre arena markham took the close lyfought minor novice rep exhibition game 21 on goals by brian cavanagh and greg gilpin john edwards tallied for the jets frank king raiders keep winning st roberts senior boys hockey team bolstered by a contingent of markham and unionville players continues to be the surprise of its league the catholic high school squad playing in the toronto and dis trict catholic athletic association tdcaa upped its record to 60 with a 103 win over cardinal newman unionvilles mark mateer con tinued his strong scoring exploits pumping home a hat trick to lead the raider attack maurice poirier and andy minuti supplied two goals apiece with steve treppo armando bal- dassarra and unionvilles chris mckenna netting singles mckenna also had four assists while mateer treppo collected two each and minuti had one george steiner who coaches the team with markham resident mike fitzpatrick admitted the game wasnt much of a challenge we werent tested very much and it was difficult for the boys to maintain their intensity he ex plained meanwhile the schools senior boys basketball team hasnt had the same kind of luck indeed its at the opposite end of the scale with no wins in three league starts and two tournament games those tourney tangles were last weekend at the kings of the court competition paul fagens charges dropped a 9422 decision to earl haig collegiate with piero palmerio getting 14 points game two wasnt much closer as palmcrios 19 points and oak land knights 13 couldnt prevent the raiders from taking a 6839 beating at the hand of arthur voaden high school league play saw palmerio hit for 26 points in a 6750 loss to st andrews college knight and john baxter had 10 each in a 4338 loss to father bressani markham girls claim top spot four markham ringette teams went to a london tournament last weekend and three came back with medals leading the way were the rl componentscarmen dipaola juniors who compiled four wins one loss and a tie en route to a gold game one saw kara mitchell tracy stewart megan griffin and lori digula net two goals each in an 88 draw with london assists went to mitchell ste wart higgins 2 each griffin and christine leo mitchell digula and melody watson 2 did the damage in the second outing a 43 triumph over kitchener mitchell griffin 2 and sarah anderson assisted the third battle was an easy 81 destruction of ajax with griffin getting four goals stewart two and watson shelley wolfraim singles collecting the setups were mitchell digula andrea flint 2 each wolfraim watson and ste wart markhams only loss was a 75 decision to st catharines griffin 2 flint digula and mitchell sup plied the offence griffin mitchell 2 apiece digula watson wolfraim and leo earned the assists the locals needed overtime to do it but still managed to gain revenge for the loss by knocking off st catharines 76 when it counted in the championship final griffin 2 and stewart tallied to give markham a 21 firstperiod edge griffin stewart and digula connected in the second but the opposition scored four times watson who had three assists finally netted the winner late in the second overtime period mitchell had two assists and sing les went to griffin anderson and higgins meanwhile aggressive play was the name of the game for the camerica salesmarkham lions petites who won three of their five battles to grab the silver medal eighteen minutes in penalties were handed out as markham knocked off london 105 in game one the locals were often shor- thanded in the second match but still destroyed kitchener 102 game three against scarbor ough was a sign of things to come with markham on the losing end of a 61 score that put it in a must- win situation with st catharines and the girls responded with a 127 win the battle was a rough one with 22 minutes in penalties handed out but it also guaranteed mar kham a bronze medal and a shot at gold but scarborough was standing in the way and proved to be too tough gaining a 72 win and giv ing markham the silver kim harding led the goalscor- ers with 11 kira andrews 9 jaime mcdowell amanda stacey 4 each debbie stewart 3 carrie stewart 2 and aman da duncan rounded out the off ence assists came from stacey 6 harding 5 carrie stewart mcdowell andrews 4 each marina schiralli mandy booth ashley hallinan 3 apiece dun can debbie stewart 2 each kristie miller and shelley zack the don hammond uphostery debs won the bronze medal with two wins in their four outings sue and kathleen griffin split the scoring in a 41 win over rich mond hill sue pirie jannine bat- taglia 2 leslie smith and laurie griffin had the assists game two was a different story as sue netted a pair of goals and kathleen one in a 93 loss to guelph smith 2 joanne chomy- szyn and danielle jackson col lected the setups markham came closer in the third tangle but still landed on the losing end of a 98 score against london laurie griffin 3 sue smith 2 apiece and chomyszyn did the scoring assists went to sue pirie 3 each smith 2 kathleen chomyszyn and debbie botherson game four went a lot easier with markham grabbing a 41 lead and crusing to a 134 burial of richmond hill sue 4 kathleen christine hammond 2 apiece smith laurie chomyszyn battaglia and carol humphries supplied the offence the speedy mufflerfuji video tweens didnt win a medal or a game in the tournament but coach vince schiralli was happy with their performance tara mcgeorge supplied six goals wendy candolini four and two each came from simone van gelder and wendy mitchell in league action a sixgoal third period powered the don cousens belles past warkworth 8- 5 karyn duxbury and cindy hall 2 each kathy jorgenson 2 did the damage megan griffin 17 points for juniors wendy mitchell 3 points for tweens