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The Citizen, 1987-04-01, Page 12PAGE 12. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1987 Ontario Hockey Association convener Wayne Smith, right, was on hand on March 25 to present the O.H.A. northern division Junior D championship trophy to Brussels Bulls captain Tim Fritz. The Bulls took the f itle by winning the series four games to one against the Exeter Hawks, and are now battling the Lucan Irish for the Junior D title. The fifth game of the series is at Brussels at 2 p.m. Sunday. Brussels Bantams, Midgets wind up season Bly th Novices go out in style This past week wrapped the minor hockey season for the 86-87 season. The Bantam team played in a tournament in St. Clements this past week. They played their first game on Thursday night against a team from Kitcehener. It must have been a good game of hockey because the score was tied at the end of regulation time. They then went to a shoot-out to declare a winner and we through nine shooters before Kitchener finally scored to claim a 6-5 win. The team then returned to St. Clements on Saturday to play their second game and were defeated by the home team 4-2. This eliminated the team from the tournament. It was a great effort against teams much bigger than yourselves. MIDGETS The Midget team also completed their season this past week when they played the Belmore Midgets for the W.O.A.A. group champion­ ship. They defeated Belmore here in Brussels in Tuesday night and returned to Belmore on Friday night where they defeated the home team 6-4 to wrap up the series and claim the group cham­ pionship. Congratulations boys for a good season even though it looked quite doubtful atthe beginning of the year. Special mention has to go to goalie’s John Steffler and Neil Pipe who kept both the Bantam and Midget teams on the ice this year. Your stamina and endurance is to be commended. Thanks guys. Hope to see you all back at hockey again next year. C.A.M.C. -Bookkeeping -Income Tax Preparation -Experienced Staff 9-6 Weekdays HOURS: 91 saturcjayS Alan Campbell 328AJosephineStreet WINGHAM 357-3687 or 887-9451 BY RUSTY BLADES The Blyth Novices finished off their season last Saturday, March 28 as they travelled to Clifford to compete in the W.O.A.A. Novice Grand Championship tournament. It was a round-robin affair with Blyth in the same division as Clifford and Arthur. The other division consisted of Seaforth, Ripley and Palmerston. The winn­ er of each division would compete for the title of Novice Grand Champion. Blyth played Clifford in their first game with Clifford winning by a score of 2-1 in a tight checking, action-packed contest. Benjie Hakkersand Ryan Cham- ney set Peter Craig up for Blyth’s only goal which opened the scoring in the first period. Peter received the pass at the blueline and cut to the net where he put an accurate passintbetopcorner of the net. Clifford came back and tied the game in the second period and then scored the winning goal in the third period with only 3:50 left in the game. Blyth pulled their goalie in favour of an extra attacker in the final minute but they couldn’t get the equalizer. The boys put another good effort into this game but, once again, came up just a little bit short. Blyth’s final game of the season was played later that afternoon against Arthur. Clifford had al­ ready beaten Arthur to advance to the championship game and elimi­ nate Blyth, but the novices went out and had fun to end their season onawinning note as they edged Arthur 3-1. Blyth opened the scoring with a little over one minute left in the first period. Ryan Chamney, who was standing at the corner of the Arthur goal, passed the puck to Henry Bos who was standing alone in the slot. Henry took the big shot thatthe goaltender stopped but Ryan was positioned perfectly to stuff home the rebound. Arthur scored the only goal of the second period to tie the game but Blyth rebounded in the third with two more goals of their own. The winning goal was scored on a play started by defenceman Jonathan Collins. Jonathan clear­ ed a rebound from in front of his goal to centre ice. Henry Bos picked up the disc and skated in on a two on one with Ryan Chamney. Ryan received the pass from Henry and scored on a nice shot to the goalie’s short side as he threaded the hole between the goalie and the goal post. An insurance marker was added late in the game as Scott Arthur made a fine play as he skated in alone from the blueline and beat the goaltender with an accurate shot. Blyth ended their season with a3-l victory although they were eliminated from advancing to the championship game. Well, the hockey season is over in Blyth as the ice is slowly melting at the arena. It has been a long season but a very enjoyable one as far as the novice players and coaches are concerned. Improve­ ment was shown in all the players which is no doubt the result of the decision by Blyth Minor Hockey to split the 27 novice players into two teams. The added ice time that the players received had a huge impact on the confidence and the improve­ ment shown by the players on the W.O.A.A. team. The novice record this year was 22 wins, 16 losses and 2 ties. The team scored 181 goals and allowed only 90 goals with five shutouts recorded. The team never allowed more than five goals in any one game and never lost by more than three goals and they were only shut out once. But the most important statistic is that all the players enjoyed the year and had a lot of fun playing hockey this winter. I am sure they will all be back next October with new enthusiasm and looking for­ ward to pursuing Canada’s nation­ al past time. Although itarrived too late to provide inspiration to the novice team, CoachChamney was thrilled to find a Wendel Clark post card in his mail box on Monday morning. 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