Newmarket Public Library Digital History Collection

The Era (Newmarket, Ontario), April 2, 1975, B04

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The Era Newmarket Aurora Newmarket brings Municipal Trophy home Newmarket Peter St John Later St John made a spectacular is save on penalty shot with just with Four seconds remaining to clinch tl a minute left in the championship game Newmarket The final score was JOHN COLE PHOTOS clinch title NEWMARKET Peter St John faced what was perhaps the challenge of his young life Saturday afternoon Newmarket give the and he Ihc Ninth Annual Newmarket Mouse League Tournament The pecwee cham pionship and the consolation titles won by Die Newmarkel tournament bantams and atoms brought back to Newmarket the Municipal Trophy a trophy given each year the town that achieves the most number of overall tournament points In the cham pionship game the club pressed the attack from Ihe drop of the puck and finally connected on a power play effort with Taylor scoring from Hick Peel and Andy Wilson evened the count on another power play Kelly Leveigne the of the tournament team scored it with Jim Green and Richard assisting Willi one minute left in the opening period Ray the lead Chris Elliott scored the third power play goal of the contest in the middle period to make it St John played an out standing game in goal but it wasnt until the last moments of the game that his efforts became heroic Taylor scored his second goal of the game in the last with only left in the game a mix up in a Newmarkel line change brought about a delay of game penalty Under the rules when a team delays the own end picked tip the puck at centre and skated in hard on St John The Newmarket goalie held his ground giving Taylor nothing to shoot at The shot hit the post and bounced into the corner Newmarket supporters exploded with cheers but the game was not over and was desperate for that tying goal With four seconds remaining it was Taylor again who threatened This time he stick handled his way into the clear and drove for the net He let a high hard wrist shot go that St John snagged with his glove What can you say said Newmarkets jubilant coach Peter Rust after the game What about that save and that penalty shot As coach of the but he admits the t still gets lo him The game Saturday remaining then won in overtime It gets a little exciting at times he understated The bantam contest in which Newmarket defeated Lindsay for the consolation less exciting with The game went scoreless through regulation time and a three minute overtime period Then in the shootout managed only goaltender Chris Dumas Louis Joey and Don Smith scored for Newmarket In the atom consolation game carried the play at the beginning but again power plays figured strongly as Newmarket scored on first penalty of the game Mike one of the Newmarket atom house league notched his first of three goals on a deflection Rew and Philip Harrison both scored unasssisted goals to put Newmarket on top and from that point per sistent checking by the home club frustrated offense Finally Rew put the cap on it scoring his third and the final goal of the game Steven Ingott assisting The atom championship was won by while in the bantam and midget divisions it was and Lindsay respectively Midget Consolation went to while he title was won by Si reels villi In overall standings was second to Newmarket with Peterboro third Lindsay last years champions was out of the running this year Bill who headed the 12man tournament committee described the event as successful Im glad it though he said Saturday

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