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The Era (Newmarket, Ontario), December 5, 1979, p. 9

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\EVAMARKET The worst , in Newmarket Flya history "a to be plagued with tur his first appearance with the team on Friday in a l3~t tlu'ashing by Royal York and got bombed for five goals before being lifted in favor of Brad Steele in that same game, Class. (lord lino, Mike Rwy and Peter Kelly were benched after the second .dtio much time was involved for "indifferent play." according to u a result. Dan Palmer and Forhan who was behind the batch ttltlnl . esdefenceman from It s no secret that Bill Hamill," Red wing mp: Burkholder wants to go back to the , i hockey club. will take over North York Rangers where he tailed M iii the Prownmal Jiliior A More being sent to the Flyers for dub Mike McCluskey wording to general manager Jamie Macoun has reportedly [Mm-m the FIng hgye en r lyed a 1'" W0? CI ! from gfltllallm with the Oshawa AUTO" Tilt" Seneral manager Jim mi Foran. who was to take from tarry Bone as coach after quit decided not to take the job "hire the first practice due "it The Generals traded mums amt" playing do ! "it ,der Steve Bienkowski and tail _ d John (my. |w w . Williams denies the story and says that "Forhan doesn't know a hockey player from a hockey stick ' Ask him how many cham- pionships he's won." was Forhan's reply Burkholder will probably get his wish and return to the M322 Macoun will stay The Ti s : letting the F1st know you players are still signed to aids and management is utll". the deal althos h it is no A the Newmarket team will , wine cash for the players firm" says that the team is the affiliation because of lack irt by the Generals rile Boyer who was a stand :r the yen last year made _ offered Hl h Ala and Brian Clark. among others. lb \s that goalie isn't about to smash Doug of the Newmarket Flyers. but the Flyers ash the Wed Raiders O n Provincial he Flyer tur , . eeps on going Junior A hockey Newmarket Community Centre. forked Williams The turmoil goes on If there was any time dieing this season when the Flycs looked like they might Ill things aroilid. it was in a H Victory over Wexford on Thursday night in Newmarket tongue." Larry Gwilliam Raiders in the first period but Kelly hit from Closs and Blair W to narrow the margin DaveCarruthers tied itupinthe second period from Ian Redmond andBouchershottheRaidlrsahead again hitfuthel lyerstm a power y fran Slaw bid Boucher came back with anotha Wexford goal. Carruthers finished off the seeond with a power-play marker from Biukholder The third period {was all Ftyers as Shaw scored three with Ruby and ( arruthers nailii singles. Red- mond ended up with fat: points on the night The Royalst a 5-1 led after the first and m it tfH after the ' y MN middle frame on tan Hutchinson photo action Thursday night at ay s changing faces MARKET Glen Verge tiying to figure out next year's 'lnitely not be coach of the game plan . "H" R3) 5 Nb It is howeyer pretty well ac 3 " Tam mm W dd {"7 m t eplt'd that Hartley will be the If Huh Kay 5 retired Verge 5 it. .i' a dinner and dance last 1' d7 \ew'markef Community He w til now move up to a co t'dl spot alongside present Bull mlmlf cording to Ritchie. that re essarily mean that long The Kay 5 have also learned that they will he losmg their best pitcher from last season Ding Webster has decided that he doc-ant like the trayelling that goes with playing with the Ray 5 and will retuin to pitching in the Richmond Hill town league WY Dom Hartley will get Webster receiyed the Most is trench boss The team is Valuable Pitcher trophy at the - mg bdiind closed doors dance and the team retired his By IAN Hl'TI HINSON Era sports editor 1th the Christmas season almost upon in. kids enrolled in PINK or hint school are dreading one thing report cards (the guy who can look forward to this time of the year is Aurora NB Coach Ted Tobias When he gets his report card. prihCipal Bill " wn will gleefully hand Terrible Ted a big fat A Old Terrible would probably get an A plus but he hasn t littered ins promise of having the Tigers in first place His class a. at this writing. stand in a three way tie for second place with hill York and North York in Provmcial Junior A hockey standings But Ted doesn't seem to be the kind of guy who will let down hum of a few setbacks The sprim semester is coming up and he " make an attempt to lead the Tigers to the land of milk and honey t then little Teddy entered the Aurora Tiger Public School. no one its quite what to expect from him although he had excelled when 5 was in the Wexford Raider system He met with dasamatm such ad Downtown Brown, Tom and Len mtiriitairy, Paul Ritchie, Lorin Wade, Dave McLaughlin. Darren Donald and others to tell them that it wouldn't be easy to pass 8 course. At training camp. he picked the guys ht wanted on his side and need a lot of people by getting rid of a lot of students from last One need only look arm-id the league to see Victims of the Tobias he Rob Law is with Dixie. Lars Nielson is with Markham. Sandro M 'n with North York. and Gord Eno ll with the Newmarket Us The fumy tlung about Nidson is that he came back from the Wiener Rangers of the Major Jiuiior A loop. but Ted didn t want h'ludent. One drawn-A studait he did want was Darren Mac ' Id ~ aslickforward who was drafted by the Windsor Sputum Thaclass stutadthssanatorlikegangtsiders hit lint as they havetiodtheDixieBodiives irfirstplace. they ran intoa l Ilumpwhichhlewthsirmanoefortopspotdheclasanow ' six points W th Besides. Ted'smarksialndhhare tilytusbmt. lnoshibi'tion play. 'Ilamadwhsttiathoighta theganiehehadjuatwonthst "W'ctiithugatth-nrmdidsuoaiohanaimtlyuud ltrlinilnbhielnthefourthrow."herapliod Warhol's Ltbn-atiiui thigh not appreciate the mutant. but it 'lotofapuuciaumfromsportsfainandthsrdn-oas. Even waovcallopsidsdT igervictoriasthissoaaon.hahas . y. b number 24 But. according to Hit chie. the team hasn't given up on the chucker "No one Will ever wear the number again but we're still trying to talk him out of it. said the manager Une thing that could be influencing Webster's declsmn is the fact that he has been suffering from bursitis in his shoulder Dale Acorn won the rookieof theryear award and Bob Arias was given an award for his work as a trainer Bob Richardson a top-notch third baseman was handed the Most Valuable Player honors and lies Downing was named best hitter referring to I and Chris Boucher opened thins to for the ,. D The National Hockey League Oldtimers will be playing the Aurora Oldtimers on Tues.. Dec. t8. and some young fans happened to run into ex-pros Jim Harrison trightl and Bob Wall (left) on Thursday night at Aurora Community Centre. The youngs fans are By IA Hl TCHINSON l-lra sports editor NEWMARKl-IT it looked like serious damage to bones but in reality. the most anyone came away with were a few bumps and broises at the Ontario Karate (hamplonships The daylong affair. held Sunday at Huron Heights Secondary School was an overwhelming success ac cording to organizer brad Jones a black belt from Newmarket Between 500 and 6m karate fans showed up at the school's gym naSium and Jones says there's a good possibility that the cham pionships will return to Newmarket next year "We've got to talk about it at an executive meeting before anything is decided." he said The championship is part of a grand prlii circuit where com petitors fight for the right to represent Ontario in the Canadian tournament. to be held in Regina during the first week of June t ) local talent proyed that they could rank right up there with the he from Toronto Glen (Bambell finished first iii the novice iWhll? yellow and orange beltst sparring event Donna \ iggianl placed second in the Ladies intermediate lgreen. blue and yellow beltst Kata ey ent and Debbie alters notched a third Women s Ntiy e Kata Kata is the event where com prtltors show their style Ted gets an A for Tiger s showing come out of the Tiger dressing room as if he had weights tied to the corners of his mouth He just wasn't happy "They didn t play the way they prornisedf' he said after one game They're good kids. but I still don't like them " Teddy's style is to move the puck qmckly out of the Tiger end and into the opposing Lone When the other team takes possession of Ie rondelle, the Tigers are immediately to start on strong back diecking The one area where Ted's report card slips a little is on defence The blueline corps has let down on a few occastons but again, Ted has prornised to change that The one thing that Ted has done his homework on is the bad attitude which enveloped the Tiger classroom last season Players are now smiling after the games and the coach has established a dress code for games Besides his overall A on his report card. Ted receives an A plus for the effort he has put into the team this season He has suc cessfully tramformed a loser into a winner in the space of a few months But don't let Illl i go to your head Ted Your classmates on the we haven't hurt things either and at playoff time. we ll be expecting to be sitting in the Aurora Community (, esitre watching the Tigers on their way to that championship cup you tromlsed If not, that A turns into a big fat D SHOOTINf. THE BREEZE The Newmarket Flyers will be playing the horthan Trappers this Thursday nlyit at 8 p m at NewmarketCmnmunity Centre. Don t forget that the National Hockey League Oldtimers will be in Aurora on Tues. Dec is Last year, the Uldtimers were in Newmarket in order to raise money for the Newmarket Library Fund with the Newmarket \ets. a group of elementary teachers Both teams put on a good show and the kids got a chance to see what their tachers were talking about when they mentioned guys like Andy Ba~ate and Norm l'llman Speakim of that game. the ()ldtimers won't be the only u. traction on the ice that night Guys like AMHA president Lowell McCleany will be try"; their hands agaimt the es-prus The Neg-notes Ray's are sdlihg m 8". tick. Tickets aretl and are availablefrom any team maibee The winter getstogoonaqareeattheNew-arketIGA. ' and muscles could have been inflicted John Walker of hewmarkett took the K and L award for sports manshlp Walker is a brown belt who will soon be trying for his black belt \Aalker placed fourth in the Kata event while Jones ended up in the top Slit in Kata and the top eight in sparring Another New market native Frank Jen nmgst finished fourth in WV? For Jones. person ally, the day didn't go as well as he ex pected l'p until the Newmarket tour na merit he WORSHIP Second Section ' Q "t" from leftl Jeff Harding. Brad Lawrence. Justin Harrison and Kevin line. The game is being played to help the Aurora peewees raise money fa their upcoming trip he the Quebec tournaent. Karate tournament a big SMASH was one of the top competitors but he still thinks that he will be among the top loll in Ontario ilnly the earn the right to represent ttntarie competed in the tournament BRAD JONES _. - . black belts can Besides Jones 29 While the black belts certainly hate the power D httt someone there are se efe penalties for making contact With a competitor If someone makes contact there will be a warnim handed out on the first offence A second offense will result in disqualification Any severe mntact to the face and body results in disqualification The dth are the result: from the Ontario Karate (harry pionships Melts Black Heft t atmen f- orgione Tkacz f ort ( redit sum-it Toronto Domenic Pintto Toronto .ack Belt Kata have Tsuruoko Toronto Kim Dunn Toronto Malcolm Fisher Toronti Intermediate sparring (icoff Backwell Port Credit tolin Nln \allei Toronto Jim Milford I'urt (redit Intermediate Kata l-ri-d \onekura. Toront tum Kyrrakopoulous Toronto the H. Toronto \once Sparring tilt-n (iambeil \I l \osef Kwamie Torunti Wayne Moody Toronto ladies Intermediate Kata lllaf \tllta Toronto [ ()nl.i \lgglatii \ewiilarket Him! Bellei lllt' omens \inite ~lt Adam Ttift'f ? kingxttir ltrflttlt \ltier .ltt\tt li ixh .lansvr . nun? kata lhtf! W it"t'ry Williams gets tough break NF MARKET A tough break for Dr (i W Williams Secbndary Sihool caused the team to lose the championship of the Referee's Basketball Tournament last week by . i 5 39 count to W \Mth less than two minutes remaining in the game. Williams was charged with I foul (It Markham's Bryderl Millet! Millett sunk three points on the ensuing foul shot but Williams was charged with a technical foul and Millet! sunk the needed three paints Despite a 17-point game from Toni Forster in the final game against Bayvlew Huron Hf hts Secondary School lost also tr. 'iie finals of the junior dixmon {lair [Friscoll shot it points tit 'haf me and Andre Smithe through with eight Forster prtWt'fl 4 {it the big gun on offence .l. he \ho. )9 pointi- in three games it llr tournament Huroi: had llrrthttlhly downed langs'aft 4r :8 and went on to defeat l d l" Thurnlr'a 0' 1 h lust hufh games they played :l l 'llllfi to Thornlt-a amt to in to Langstaff Aurora lllgf' won its first game of the liturndlfit'f.l l3)? against St Rubens and lost the sel ilnd all"? 56 . 9 King i ll imit 5128 ) King and unf' 3 to til-r langstaff to take the K Mg wins consolation at Court of Kings tourney KING CITY The King tity Secondary School senior team sqtieezed by HumberSlde ll 30m win the consolation championship of the Court of Kings Basketball Tour nament held on Saturday at King City Secondary school The King City team had lost to VA A Porter 7142 to move into the tonsolation side where they downed l pper ( anada College ll 33 before dumping Humberside John bands was the out standing player for King City as he hitl fill ptltnlh A lack of bench strength hurt the litirni xiiiiml lit the ionsolatiori semi finals wot M 43 try Hunlherside Huron had only one player on the bench What really hurt was the loss ill \l'ltlrf' Simpson who was out tie-i altar of an asthma problem Rut the lack of players didnt \mp lilntitr player Tom Forster who \A .it brought up for tins tounament llllfll excelling Forster hooped 27 points on Friday night in a 6 58 loss to watertoo and came back strong against llumherside with a l2 pomt garm- llt hl' Secondary School Peewee Bs lose in finals t tile-n Knappett and [tau llt t'kiilay M ttrt'd twice In the finals of the t obourg PNWN Tournament against Markham but the Newmarket Boyd I eewee B hockey club came out on the short end of a 5 score last week \i-wmarket fell behind 5 t in the lil ~1 iii-t ind but came back to tie it up ll . the final frame Markham es plotted for three unanswered goals in the last four minutes of the game to finish things off i hrts Sent-y New market goal N lrm lm athl f' l'f'llNllsdllU l title for that tlryislur. Jude Jones sank it [Ilith in the WW games for King t lty and \l Sutherland came thriigh with 19 In the midget diylsiori Williams lost by a close 2722 score in the mnsolatior: finals against Bayview Williarns had earlier defeated King 2726 after losing 2:20 to Aurora High a wort the championship with a 26!: inc tlyf'T Iangxtaf Huron girls ousted f ISHI-ZNE The Secondary School Junior and senior girls basketball their llf'flrul n Huron .iieights loamy lost out in opemng Bay \ecivndary School \SHK lalitm finals on the weekend dnlr'x if the The lilme girls were downed it 19 by lnntsdale in the opening game ltebhle Dorrlan and Michelle l chipped in with 12 paints each in the game against Innisdaie who eventually lohl the final game t2 33 to Midland hue Portengen shot 16 points It! Huron in the senior division but tk girls still came out on the dbrt end of a 42 score to (2)"th Wanda Riegart no.1! ts points and Midielle Mud: clue tlrwgh with nine Allison lieu notdied two points in the loss for Hm tine emulation for Hiron is thattheypdigisuchagoodfight ( ollingwood evmtualiy lost in the finals by a close H cot-it to (trillia

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