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best available copy c7 f rekai johnson banisters solicitors 49 main street east 2nd floor stouffville ontario 6408100 or 6493555 ports leasing todays easy way to drive larry cotter leasing 6404541 ai makes and models a merroland community newspaper wednesday february 15 1989 six wins for uxbrid bruins roar back to extend winning streak by bruce stapley the uxbridge bruins playoff train continues to roll along as thei junior c club took two more games last week to run their unbeaten streak to six games the bruins bested lindsay 94 on the road monday then came home to top trenton 95 friday night they now trail cobourg by a mere two points in the race for the central ontario leagues final playoff position the uxbridge defence ac- counted for six of mondays nine goals with gord roblin and fellow rearguard gregg pierce leading the way with three and two goals respectively john steeves another defenceman added a single as i did dwayne parrott greg cook and john long goaltender barry wade made some key saves early while the game was still close to set the stage for the bruins victory friday it was john long leading the bruins attack with a hat trick trevor clark scored twice pierce and parrott added solos as did stouffvilles chris winn and jason underwood winn contributed three assists as well the bruins found themselves behind 20 in the early going but treated a capacity crowd to their best period of the season in the second scoring six unanswered goals to take a 72 lead each team scored twice in the final stanza the bruins have four games re maining compared to cobourgs two the mood of optimism displayed by the bruins was sum med up by winn after fridays win the spirit is real good we havent lost since jan 27 general manager chuck phillips has also sensed the new atmosphere the guys are star ting to realize they can make the playoffs they are playing with more confidence the bruins are at home to lit tle britain friday night at 830 at the uxbridge arena in what pro mises to be a lively affair the last time the two teams squared off the bruins were edged by one goal in a fiercelycontested tussle midgets dropped from playoffs by haliburton by bruce stapley in the end their best just wasnt good enough for the stouf fville midget clippers the beckers milk crew was eliminated from the playoffs in the first round going down four straight to haliburton the series wound up on the weekend with haliburton winning 51 friday at the recreation centre then com ing from behind to earn a 106 seriesclinching victory saturday in clippers coach al mcnaught felt it was simply a case of being outgunned haliburton had five or six highlyskilled players who could make things happen our guys had desire but that 1 just wasnt enough keith piette was the only clip per to find the range friday scoring from ted stonehouse in the third period the clippers gave it one last gallant effort saturday coming back from a 41 secondperiod deficit to take a 54 lead into the third but haliburton turned on the jets as they had when press ed any other time in the series they finished walking away scoring four unanswered goals in the final 10 minutes of the game to beat the tired clippers stonehouse and chris burkholder led the stouffville of fence with a pair of goals each piette and dave mcnaught had one goal apiece lee scaife had two assists pholojiu thomas- g julie left and chrissy henderson walked away with a handful of medals from a recent swim meet in st catherines the uxbridge swim club members tore up the pool at the meet and both j won high point trophies for the effort julie chrissy hendersoi shine at st kits meet still a little cold for playing baseball creature comforts won out over the desire to be number one at the annual stouffville sno- pitch baseball tournament this weekend the stouffville royals and the wizards of oz from markham decided to forego their champion- bmns are making hockey interesting the seemingly unending- frustra ion has suddenly given way t the confidence and buoyar y that accompanies a sixgar e unbeaten streak for fheux ridge bruins the iruins who are on the verge f writing the classic cinder ha story as the season wears down have whittled awayitwhat was a 10point deficit just two weeks ago in their c ase for the central on tario ji nibr c hockey leagues final pi tyoff position they low sit two points away from t e coveted eighth spot and yi uve got to like their chance four arties left to play com pared jo two for cobourg the team mey must displace the bruins are home and home again 1 little britain this weeke d and the uxbridge club willbe ut to settle a score after a toug loss to the scugdg crew in a si gfest back in january the a seasonending home- aridhi me set with port perry with i le fire power the bruins have been exhibiting lately ithey hould have the momen tum t grab a few victories out offth se four contests which shoul be enough to pull ahead of thafaltering cobourg outfit jtim bruins lhave averaged just h er 10 goals a game over their last five outings albeit again f somesubstandard op- positi n for the most part but their sixgame unbeaten string has helped erase the highti larishf memories of all those oneioal losses that them v for sport notes bruce stapley group of youngsters and now that they are star ting to taste victory on a regular basis they have rediscovered their confidence as team general manager chuck phillips points out they are playing with a lot more confidence and phillips claims hes not sitting back waiting for cobourg to roll over and die in their final two games we dont want to back into the playoffs we want to go into them winning according to phillips his on ly problem is one that a lot of his counterparts would like to have his defencemen have discovered the joy of scoring as of late rearguard gord roblin counted a hat trick lastmonday against lindsay with fellow defenceman gregg pierce scor ing twice the obsession with offence however has resulted in a rash of twoonone and threeonone breaks for the opposition which can be disastrous however his goaltendingduo of barry wade and wayne pat terson has been coining up aces of late so the situation is not as serious as it might be as for the bruins forwards they are scoring a few goals of plagutd them for the better part 6t the season at one point back in january the jbruins their ownthe stouffville con- had- a record of seven wins nectionthe line of chris winn against i5 losses and a tie yet paul sinclair and jason under- ship contest sunday afternoon due to high winds splitting the first and secondplace prize money the royals had breezed through saturdays games tak ing three in a row to advance to the championship round sunday they went up against the wizards who had lost one game the wizards beat the royals but the teams were required to play again for the top honors due to the tournaments double knockout format stouffvilles a and s raiders ended up third in the seventeam tourney with barry welding tak ing fourth spot event organizaer norm dunn reports that 1000 was earned which will be presented to the easter seal campaign by a representative of the stouffville legion during a ckvr telethon march 5 julie and chrissy henderson turned in outstanding perfor mances in the recent trojan in vitational swim meet at st catharines julie captured six gold medals chrissy took five gold and one silver julie headed her class in the 50meter freestyle 200 meter backstroke 100 meter butterf ly 100 meter freestyle 100 meter backstroke and the 200 meter individual medley chrissy won her five gold medals in the 100 meter free- uxbridge swimmers off to ampiohships the uxbridge swim club is sending 29 young people to the provincial triple a cham- uxbridge places second the uxbridge swim club scored a welldeserved second place finish in the 6th annual trojan invitational swim meet at barrie feb 3 4 and 5 close to 400 entries representing 13 clubs participated uxbridge sent 27 swimmer into the competition all had earlier achieved high qualify ing times excellent coaching along with discipline and practice wasi evident in the ac complishments by uxbridge swimmers pionships at st catharines febi7 18 and 19 members qualifying for this high profile event are 10 years and under kelly- bryon julia evans tara han nah chrissy henderson melissa thomas matthew slater 11 and 12 years melanie bryon maggie evans cindy leask krista wasylenky drew ferraro tyler hannah sandy mark doug middleton jason middleton jeff postma 13 and 14 years wendy burrow erin hannah trevor ainger clinton ralph michael wasylenky 15 aiid over jennifer har ding julie henderson breiida leask laura mark annie wolfe mark ferraro ryan henderson and neiimark 3 1 i style 50 meter freestyle 200 meter freestyle 100 meter backstroke and the 200 meter j individual medley her silver medal came in the j 200 meter backstroke other medal winners follow matthew slater 200 meter breaststroke gold 100j meter breaststroke silver 200 meter individual medley bronze v laura mark 200 meten freestyle gold 400 mei freestyle silver 50 meter freestyle bronze neil mark 400 meter free- style gold mark ferraro 50 meter freestyle silver erin hannah 200 meter backstroke gold 100 meter backstroke gold ahnie wolfe 100 meter breaststroke gold 200 meter breaststroke gold brenda leask 100 meter breaststroke silver 200 meter breaststroke silver maggie evans 100 meter breaststroke bronze 200 meter breaststroke silver ribbonwinners were jen nifer harding sandy mark melanie bryon tyler hannah kelly bryon and tara hannah some of the events included as many as 53 contestants with participants coming from all across ontario bowmanville slips by novices 21 tfieuvgkils for and against stood a i lis for and 125 against not the spread you would ex pect of i team that had lost more tji in double the number of gan it had won but pits history now to the teamf credit they never gave splayihgadegreeiof ter not often found in a wood has been prolific of late combining hustle and grit with style and polish y so if would certainly appear that the uxbridge arena is the place to be the nsxuwo friday nights after all everybody loves a winner and the bruins seem to have finally found their way into the winners circle despite the herculean efforts of goalie jason brown the stouff ville novice clippers were edged 21 by bowmanville friday night at the recreation centre that was probably jasons best game of the season enthus ed clippers coach dave turner afterwards the loss on the heels of mon days 55 tie on the road left the bestoffive series tied at one win one loss and a tie atoms bow out early the stouffville atom clippers became the third town team to bow out of the playoffs early los ing a 31 squeaker to port perry wednesday stouffville had grabbed a 10 firstperiod lead on a goal by roger mcmann from chad dickinson port perry tied it three minutes into the third then took the lead on a power play goal at the sixminute mark they ad ded another a minute later to take a twogoal lead the atom clippers will try to stay in tune for the upcoming march break tournament in coll- ingwood by hosting uxbridge in an exhibition game at the recreation centre tonight wednesday at 7 pm the atoms would like to thank their supporters for attending their fundraising dance on the weekend they also express ap preciation to supporting businesses for their contributions towards the event the difference friday was a lapse that saw the clippers sur render two goals in 56 seconds in the second period kevin i lackert connected from robbie spytz with just over two minutes left in the game but the neil patrick squad couldnt mount a serious threat in the games final moments on monday the clippers couldnt hold on to their onegoal lead giving up the tying goal with four minutes left in the third period the clippers put one on the board early in the 10minute overtime period but once again the bulls came back to tie it ryan king led the stouffville at tack with three goals while matt turner and spytz each had one turner is still confident his team will prevail in the series if we play our game we can beat them it will be hard to duplicate last fridays game an 84 clippers win but they are capable of doing it the two teams square off again at the rec centre friday night at 6 pm the stouffville novice clippers may have lost to bowmanville on friday 21 but excellent efforts were supplied by kevin hacked who scored the fone pixxoemicc stapuy stouffville goal and jason brown who played his best game of the season in goal for the novices despite the loss s