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THE ERA Second Section Newmarket embarrasses floundering Tigers the visiting Aurora dub before about 800 fans in Provincial Jr A hockey action Rick Humes paced the Flyers with his third hat trick in four games and set up three since being laid off with an eye injury against the Toronto Nationals on Dec played steadily between the Flyer pipes Paul Cowboy Westcott a lanky 16 year old from Beaverton notched his first marker of the season The Tigers as opposed to the Flyers team effort played the entire contest as individuals They were not passing and Win they did the passes went astray Tiger owner John Sikura who took over the coaching duties from Bill for the contest didnt attempt to ex plain the loss Theres nothing I can tell you Its just what you manager Jim Williams After a close strongskating and hardhitting first period the Flyers took a lead and ex tended it to 81 after two frames The wind was taken completely out of the Tigers sails Rick opened the scoring in the first stanza blasting a shot off Tiger Bill Drewerys toe and into the left corner at the 246 mark Steve Novis relayed the puck to Bince in the circle and Craig Chandler also assisted on the power play marker with Tigers Ron off for Scott Rombough was called for cross checking and Mike was sitting out a holding infraction Atkinson tipped in Kim Underwoods low slap shot from the point into the short side with Paul assisting Jim gave the Flyers the lead for good when he pounded the rebound of a Humes point shot past on a power play Novis earned an assist Scott Rombough potted the Flyers third marker when he took the puck from his own blue line and made his way toward the Tiger end with some fancy stickhandling He finished the play putting a low backhand shot into the short side at the 1454 mark Chandler was given an assist The second period was all Newmarket Some bad breaks but mostly bad play on Auroras part allowed the Flyers to take slap shot from the blue line for his first of the season from and Steve Payne was allowed to skate in unmolested to pick up a rebound of a Steve Thompson attempt to make the score at the mark the right aide to give the Flyers Bagshaw sliding the wrong way a five goal bulge assisted Thompson was given credit for were given assists Humes completed the secondframe barrage when he put a fake on the Tiger net- minder and dumped a low wrist shot Into the left side at the goaltender Bill didnt have protection like this the Tigers did protect the front of the net they ended up backing in for the whole game on Friday afternoon and the Flyers took ad- on Brewery and screening him Here two Tigers attempt to clear vantage of that fact pumping 14 markers Into the Aurora net When Flyer Scott llombough while Jim and Steve Payne look on mark with Payne and setting it up Newmarket drew two penalties near the end of the middle frame to set up Auroras second tally Mark Connelly potted the marker from Atkinson at second mark of the final frame with Flyers and Payne sitting out infractions Humes notched his hat trick five minutes later when he was left uncovered in the slot Chandler sent a perfect pass to slipped it In the right side Palmer then went on the attack grabbing two goals in 16 seconds Masin won a in the Tiger zone and drew it to the mark Palmers second marker was set up by and Payne Palmer blasted another slap the left side to make the grabbing Masins rebound at the mark Humes was an assist on the play Newmarket took an goal margin on a beautiful passing play from the Flyer end Humes caught at the centre line Since took the puck over the blue line forcing the single Aurora and out of position sent a perfect pass on the right suit- to give the Flyer captain an open Tigors edged 64 for fifth consecutive loss AURORA Aurora Tigers slump continued on Sunday night as they were dumped 64 by the Royal York Royals before games of the schedule hosting North Bay Wexford and North York and visiting North York in the next two weeks All three teams are battling close to the top of the standings while the floundering Tigers are begin ning to look for the lower teams who are searching for the playoffs We played well really That was a game that should have won said Tiger coach Bill the contest The Tigers seemed to rush their plays This was extremely apparent in first period when the Aurora club had quite a few chances on plays from the corner to the slot The slot man did not seem to be able to get his slick on the puck and Aurora didnt manage to score in that frame Mark Connelly got the first Aurora tally in the second stanza when he faked a Royal defenceman out of his skates and then did the same thing on Royal Yorks Dennis Blair Connelly flipped a backhand into the right corner for score with Brian Marrett assisting Bantams take Silver Stick title the Silver Stick Regional Hockey Tournament in Owen Sound on Dec and by defeating Owen Sound Aurora 130 and Barrie Steve Galloway and Robert Schmidt were both outstanding in the nets collecting a shutout for Newmarket during the tourney were Glen Cutting with eight goals and four assists Greg Ferguson with five goals and seven assists Mike Ruby with three goals and two assists Brown with five assists with three goals and one assists Ross with one goal and two assists Emerson with one goal and three assists Fitzgerald and Mac Donald with Macoun with In regular season play the major bantams bombed as Cutting potted four markers Ferguson with two Brown Macoun and Ross handled the rest of the scoring The Quaker Hill Schickedanz Brothers Novices extended their win streak to eight by defeating Sharon and Bolton Smalley paced the novices with three goals and Murphy and Fitzgerald notched the others while Knappett and Sprung collected assists against Sharon Murphy connected went to Sprung and Wilson against Fitzgerald and Sprung handled the scoring against Bolton with assists going to Sampano Murphy and Knappett Arts Variety major atoms have been on the tournament trail for the past two weekends On Dec and they had one win and one loss in the Regional Silver Stick tour nament in Owen Sound Knight potted two goals and J Card netted a single with assists going to with two and Elliott as Newmarket downed Aurora in the first contest Courts and McKnight potted markers in a losing cause as Owen Sound edged Newmarket in the second game Elliott and were given assists In Ajax this weekend Card led the major atoms with two goals while potted a single as they edged West Hill in game one Assists went to Elliott and Knight In the second contest McKnight notched a hat rick Knight scored two and Reevie and Carey had singles as they dumped Wexford Knight and Courts Hans Motors minor tied 22 recently on goals by Caspi and Macoun Walker got an assist In an exhibition contest Macoun and Ertl potted markers with Hatt assisting twice and Ruby getting one assist as Newmarket tied The minor midgets took consolation honors in a tournament at this weekend Cutting potted the lone goal In the opening contest as Newmarket was dumped who was named the Most Valuable Player netted two goals in the second game and Collier potted a single as Newmarket edged Collingwood patted a tally each to allow the minor midgets to tie Thornhill in another contest The Construction juveniles got markers from Budd Porter and to dump Woodbridge just before Christmas Thompson paced the juveniles scoring twice and and finished the Aurora for the title In regular season play defeated Aurora Pytlik and Baerthel potted goals in a losing cause against before again facing Richvale and bombing Thompson and Smith netted a hat trick each while and connected twice apiece and Porter and Govis rounded the scoring in that contest Aurora continues win streak AURORA The Aurora Travel Centre minor bantams have a win streak going that includes three wins and a tie in their last four contests in York hockey action On Dec Darren Mac- Donald paced the Travel squad Aurora hosted on Dec 18 and beat the visitors on Goobies hat trick per formance and singles by OMahony and MacDonald MacDonald also assisted on three of the goals and single assists went to Nielsen and Hamilton notched a hat trick on Dec as Aurora dumped 82 David Klaassen with two Shaw McQueston and MacDonald with singles apiece were the other Aurora marksmen Royal York had taken a lead In the first period on a marker by Dave potted his second of three goals pounding in a rebound of a Nick shot at the mark of the middle frame to give the Royals the lead once again Goaltender Blair also assisted on the tally The lead was shortlived as Barclay blasted a slap shol Atkinson and John assisting to tie contest Barclays tally gave the Tigers a lift in the middle frame as Connelly netted his second of the night finishing off a good threeway passing play to give Aurora squad a 32 lead at the 1116 mark of the frame set up the play on a three on one rush by passing to Paul Cappuccio on the left wing slap shot from the top of the rang the right goal post but Connelly was there to shove the puck in Dan tied it up again for the Royals four minutes later riding a low wrist shot past Tiger Bill on the left side had grabbed the in the Tiger end to set up the unassisted marker The allAurora line of Craig Chapman Scott Coulter and Larry struck at the 1829 mark when Coulter grabbed the puck at the side of the crease and slipped it through the Royal legs Chapman and and Coulter was one of the Tiger bright spots in contest I was very pleased with the kids Its good to see so many Aurora players on the team Those kids went out and checked that line well said Purcell referring to Royal Yorks scoring line centred by Patrick and Jason Shaw netted a goal and an assist apiece in that contest with the final marker being taken by Glen Mcintosh Paul Hamilton collected two assists and Dennis Goobie Rob Smith Lars Nielsen and Hyde got an assist On Dec 21 MacDonald and Shaw potted two markers each to allow the minor bantams to tie Steve Rudakas and Dave McQueston set up Iwo goals each and Hyde Jim stanza Packers dropped 85 BRADFORD Hawks took a 42 firstperiod lead and extended it Bradford took a shortlived margin in the opening frame markers by Andy Don put the Packers within two goals of before the Hawks tallied twice to put the contest and Hugh McEvoy before the out of reach club came back with Purmals notched his second three tallies before the end of the of the night to round the scoring of he net through legs seemed to have the net covered but somehow the puck squeezed through On the fifth goal he seemed to be covering the post completing his trick banging in a rebound at the 1659 mark of the final frame There were times during game when the Tigers seemed lo have mentallapses causing mistakes Thats basically whats Ihe matter Theyre not thinking explained The Tigers passing was not up to par as well During two power plays in the third period the Tigers passes kept going in their skates making them hard lo handle and easily checked The checking game however improved vastly after their 145 thrashing by the Newmarket Flyers on Friday Aurora had trouble hitting the net with their shots as Royal Blair was called upon to stop only blasts while the Royals pumped at the Flyers again were caught twomen short and were in the sin bin when Barclay connected on a shot from the point Brian Marrett was given an assist John tipped in Barclays point shot for the Tigers fourth marker Hick Ultley completed the Flyer scoring with an unassisted marker with four minutes when ho blasted a slap from the right circle through legs Kim Underwood netted Auroras final ally from Con nelly For the fourth game the Flyers have pumped more than shots at op posing This time hey he Tigers Were finally pulling it in he net said Flyer coach Brian Million with a slight twinkle in his eye Flyer snipers have netted goals in the last four games giving Inein an average for those games of 9 markers per contest Town league Hockey Dixon grab hot tricks in win grabbed two assists and Hubble set up one marker Stephen and Del assisting on four of the markers while Glenn Townsley potted a single and Craig Brown collected an assist Tor the Bruce Russell dumped the only K tally from Ken Sturgeon and Al St John with seconds remaining in the second In other action two third- period markers by Gary Bellamy lifted Sports to a victory over Shell Bill Scott also got two goals for winners Bellamy and Scott collected two assists apiece in the contest while Bob White Murray Blight and Bob Boyd had one assist apiece for Sports Shell assists went to Brian Sauve Rick Allen and A hat trick performance by Hook allowed Giles Drillers to come from behind to a win over Terry Riley potted other wo Driller goals while Bob Bears connected for a single and Colin Stewart had one assist for Burlings Playmates connected for grabbed singles John set up wo goals and Jim Gary and Dave had one assist apiece for Playmates Barry Bellamy Gary and Barry handled he Colonial scoring with assists going to and Smith Gerry Gary Murphy and Bob Dave Mount Bill Don Brian Ross Garth Johns and Stu Young all