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The SPORTS Thursday Ian Jr A teams find selves in gambling mode Stingrays Seeman hitting stride at Australian youth swim meet At some point this month the teams that once played together in the Ontario Junior Hockey League are supposed to gather around the table to discuss vol untary contraction and franchise mergers in an effort to transform themselves into a 24team league So Team A is thinking to itself that Team B is a candidate to simply up and disappear Meantime a selfsure Team B is whispering an aside that learn A ought to pack up its gear and depart sooner rather than later All of this in an effort to avoid being part of the Ontario lockey Association vision in which junior hockey would be realigned into three levels including a premier divi sion under the Tomorrows Game banner Recall most of the teams in the former provincial league took a stance last month to withhold applications for the new concept and launched an appeal with the Ontario Hockey Federation confident their actions could scuttle the project in fact 33 of the 36 initially jumped on board Some including the Newmarket Hur ricanes have one leg on board and the other dangling in the waters covering their interests yet still supportive of the OHAs plan Others could be thinking the same and keeping their options open too And dont underestimate the appeal of teams following each other either way hop ing to revive abandoned rivalries In short its complicated just like the movie title says Contractions and mergers ought to be finalized by the end of January to permit the progress toward the 2010- season whether it is as the Game or the 24team Junior A league proposed by members of the former Extending that time wont be positive for either approach When it comes to contraction the pro cess is intended to be civilized and respect ful said Marc Mercier owner of the Cougars and the appoint spokesperson for the group But you might wonder how cleanly that comes off when franchises are threatened with extinction There are indications Tomorrows Game is gathering support within the Junior B ranks and the whole process of going on its own may backfire for teams that dont forward their applications Would it be surprising as the application deadline gets closer to see teams that threw support behind the application boycott change course and get on board with the John Cuddy Shark Another swing Nice to see biting a feeding hand in vogue for some programs in the alternate baseball community While some programs respect Baseball Ontario community organizations and thereby keep their players in good standing with the provincial body some just cannot help themselves and continue to act like foul balls The gentlemans agreement between teams in the Premier Baseball League of Ontario and Baseball Ontario has been to leave alone younger players in community programs But once again certain programs are advertising for the to 15yearold One day perhaps these moneymak ing organizations will twig to the notion by the younger ranks they will run out of sources from which to recruit players On a similar note while these outfits dont hesitate to advertise how many players move on to post secondary schools none point out the cost to land a spot in some of these programs or the shoddy treatment players often receive once they arrive find ing vague promises are rescinded On another baseball note the Dodgers of the Imercounty Baseball league suspended operations for the 2010 season This is notable because the Dodgers cite difficulty locating players after the senior league at long last moved to curb the over use of junioraged players and stop its teams from affiliating with junior programs outside its home communities In other words it appears to be the demise of a that became too depen dent on filling its roster from the junior ranks Lindsay Seemann is hitting her stride After struggling with a difficult fall season the Newmarket Stingrays swimmer captured her third gold medal in as many days at the New South Wales under- 18 swimming championships Wednesday with a victory in the womens 17 to 18 200metre freestyle event Seemann who competed in the back stroke at the 2008 Beijing Olympics won the event in a time of two minutes seconds ahead of Vancouvers Savannah King in a onetwo Canadian finish Seemann also won the individual medley Tuesday after winning the free style Monday The event runs until Saturday Express minor atoms ring up Cup title Five players shared in the scoring as the York Simcoe Express blanked the Cleveland Barons 50 in the minor atom tripleA cham pionship game at the Bell Capital Cup tour nament in Ottawa on the weekend Calvin Hydes goal midway through the first period was the winner as Rhys Max Ferrari Dante Giordanella and Matthew MacDougall also connected The victory capped a spree of seven con secutive wins in the 22team division for the including a 32 semifinal triumph over the Philadelphia livers and rout of the Reps in the quarter- finals Redmen tykes set to host 16team Cujo tournament Sixteen teams will be in the hunt for championship hardware when the second annual Curtis Joseph tyke hotkey SHORTS ON SPORTS faces off Friday afternoon at the Magna Centre The host Newmarket are sched uled to compete in the tournament opener when they face off against the Orangville Flyers at noon The West London Hawks and Stoney Creek Warriors round put the four- team roundrobin pool In all three Magna rinks are in use throughout the weekend Play continues and Saturday start ing at 830 iin with championship round play Sunday afternoon The platinum division ft ampionship final caps the threeday event a 1 pm face off on Sunday Log on to for additional information Hurricanes host UC Patriots fresh off Hamilton win The Newmarket Hurricanes seek a sec ond straight win tonight when they host the Upper Canada Patriots in a Central Canadian Hockey League West Division clash at the Ray iwinney Complex Newmarket is coming off a 30 victory over 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