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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1989-01-04, Page 16PAGE 16. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1989. Sports lyth Atoms play .500 hockey BY RUSTY BLADES ■ Bulls find holidays a winning season The Brussels Jr. D. Bulls won two of three games played over the Christmasbreak improving their record to 14 wins against 11 losses. The Bulls again defied the odds and upset the Tavistock Braves on their home ice Friday night. The victory was the second in three tries for the Bulls in possibly the hardest arena in the league for a visiting team to win in. Trailing 4-1 late in the first period a Marty Rutledge shorthanded tally sparked the Bulls to a come from behind 7-6 win. Brian Campbell enjoyed a two-goal, two-assist game while Rutledge added three goals and one assist. Jeff McGavin stopped 52 shots for the victory as Tavistock outshot Brussels 58-47. Wednesday, an extremely over­ confident Bulls squad lost to the visiting Wellesley Applejacks 4-3 in a game the “Jacks” simply out hustled the Brussels squad. Bill Kinahan and Jason Coulter each had a one goal, one assist game. Shots on goal were 29 apiece with Jeff McGavin taking the loss. The following night the Bulls “took no survivors” as they crushed the visiting Seaforth Centennaires 8-2.Thegamewasneverin doubt as the Bulls took leads of 3-1 and 5-1 tothedressing room outshooting Seaforth 47-26 in the game. Marty Rutledge added four goals and three assists tohisleague leading total with Fritz, Campbell, Vincent and Coulter each adding a goal. The biggest concern to the Bulls coaching staff at the moment is the powerplay. At one time the power­ play was scoring 60 percent of all the Bulls goals but in the last five games has clicked twice. Fortunately in that five-game span the Bulls still managed four wins. Friday night Brussels will be in Mitchell for an 8:30 start. Sunday’s rematch has been cancelled. The Bulls next home game will be Sunday, Jan. 15 against the first place Lucan Irish. The Blyth Atoms played .500 hockey over the Christmas break as they won one game, lost one and tied another game. The Atoms hosted Elma-Logan on December 21 where they built a 7-0 first period lead on their way to a 10-0 whitewashing. Brian McNichol led the way with a hat-trick as well as two assists. Ryan Chamney notched twogoals andfour assists. Christopher Howson also counted two goals as well as three assists. Henry Bos picked up a pair of goals and a pair of assists. Scott Arthur notchedthefinal goal and also picked up an assist. Brad Anderson garnered three assists while defence partner Rob Johnston added one assist. Goalies Chris Lee and Michael de Jong finally recorded that elusive shut-out as they stopped all the rubber that was fired their way. Included in this offensive onslaught were two shorthanded goals 17 seconds apart as Blyth was killing a penalty. After this blowout Blyth travelled to Brussels on Friday, December 23 where they came from behind to secure a 4-4 tie. Blyth opened the scoring one minute into the game as Ryan Chamney deposited Scott Arthur’s lyth Overloads win 2, lose 1, tie 1 The Blyth Radford Overloads Oldtimers played four games recent­ ly. The Overloads defeated the Hen sail Oldtimers by the score of 4 to 3. Gary Courtney paced the scoring attack with three goals. Wayne McDougall scored once. W.O.A. INTERMEDIATE STANDINGS GP W-L-T gf GA PTS. 1. Wellesley 13 11-1-1 95 42 23 2. Seaforth 10 6-3-1 59 49 13 3. Brussels 11 6-4-1 68 56 13 4. Drayton 10 4-5-1 52 63 9 5. Milverton 10 1-8-1 40 65 3 6. Arthur 10 1-8-1 40 79 3 The Overloads travelled to Kin­ cardine for a game against the Kincardine Bullshooters. The Over­ loads started strong and built up a 5 to 2 lead only to run out of steam and eventually suffereda lOto 5 setback. Gary Courtney scored twice with singles going to Tom Black, Wayne McDougall and Barney Stewart. The Overloads hosted the God­ erich Old Deck Hands. The Goderich team, considered one of the strong­ est Oldtimer teams in the area, built up a 5 to 1 lead entering the last period. However, the Overloads foughtback. Tom Black’s second goal of the game with 18 seconds to play made the final score 5 to 5. Gary Courtney also scored twice and Bryan Black, once. The Overloads travelled to Clif­ ford for a game against the Clifford Oldtimers. The game turned into an offensive battle with Blyth winning by the score of 9 to 7. Barney Stewart scored four goals, Wayne McDou­ gall, three, Gary Courtney one, and Tony van Bakel, one. The Overloads will play Wednes­ day, Jan. 4 in Blyth at 9 p. m. again st the Clinton Colts. Blyth Tykes lose to Clinton Cranbrook native Paul Engel second in world in arm wrestling The Blyth Tyke hockey team hosted Clinton last Saturday and suffered an 8-3 loss to the Clintdta team. Clinton jumped out to an early 3-0 lead and coasted to thewin. Allan Gibbons played well in net for Blyth facing many shots. Blyth goal scorers were Tyler Stewart, Chris Carter and Johnathon Kochis. The Tykes travel to Goderich next Saturday. centering pass into the net. Poor defensive work by Blyth and strong forechecking by the Brussels’ squad resulted in four straight goals by Brussels as they took a 4-1 first period lead. Ryan Chamney completed his hat-trick in the second frame as Blyth closed to 4-3. His second goal of the game was an unassisted marker off a face-off while his third goal was ably assisted by Brian McNichol and Jonathan Collins. Blyth finally tied the game midway through the third as they notched a power play goal. Christo­ pher Howson had the honours after Ryan Chamney won a face-off to the right ofthe Brussels goaltender. The teams played scoreless the rest of the way as the game ended 4-4. Blyth finally had their league undefeated streak snapped on De­ cember 28, as Huron Park shocked the home team 5-4. JasonRutledgescored theonly first period goal as he was set up by linemates Ryan Chamney and Scott Arthur. Huron Park tied the game early in period two but Henry Bos gave Blyth the lead later in the period with an assist to Brian McNichol. Ryan Chamney gave Blyth a 3-1 lead early in the third with help from Scott Arthur. Huron Park scored again before Brian McNichol and Henry Bos teamed up to give Blyth a 4-2 lead as Henry knocked in Brian’s rebound. It was all Huron Park the restof the way as Blyth tried to hang on. They first scored a shorthanded goal and then tied the game with a power play goal. The lights finally went out for Blyth with six seconds left in the game. The visitors pulled the plug with a goal thanks to some hard work on their behalf as they shaded the home team 5-4. Some intense practices are sche­ duled before Blyth’s next game tonight, Wednesday, January 4, against Elma-Logan. QUOTE OF THE WEEK: Toronto Maple Leaf centre Darryl Sittier, after his 10 point game against Boston afewyearsago: “Iunder- stand their goaltender went out and tried to commit suicide by jumping on some railroad tracks but the train went between his legs.” Canadian national arm-wrestling gold medalist Paul Engel is now the second-best Lightweight arm­ wrestler in the world. The native of Cranbrook placed second in the 151-165 lb. weight class at the World Stand-up Arm­ wrestling Championships in Holly­ wood, California on November 19 to take the Reserve Championship title, after winning the right to advance to the competition by winningthe Championship in his weight class at the Canadian National Arm-wrestling Champion­ ships in Toronto on October 15. Debbie Engel, Paul’s wife, says he was pleased with the world-class win, noting that the Lightweight Championship in Hollywood was captured by a Quebec arm-wrestler whom Paul has defeated in other competition. “That’s just how it goes,” she said. Mr. Engel’s next goal is to take a shot at another title at the World Sit-down Arm-wrestling Champion- shipsin Swedenlaterthis month, although time is fast running out as the 25-year-old searches for a sponsor to help defray travelling costs. “We’ve got a couple of people who are definitely interested (in sponsorship),” Mrs. Engel said. ‘ ‘ But the problem is that arm-wrest- ling as a sport just doesn’t have a high enough profile to attract really big money.” To this point in Paul’s career, the Engels havehadtocover allof his expenses to competitions across Canada andintothe USA, an item which they figure costs about $10,000 a year, while cash prizes from his wins could total “about $2,500 in a good year.” Both partners in the marriage work in Kitchener, where they now live, but with an addition to the family expected next summer, raising the necessaryfundsontheir own will soon be much more difficult. Arm-wrestling is gaining popular­ ity as a world-class sport, however, having received a big boost from the 1987 Sylvester Stallone movie * ‘Over the Top,” as well as from a number of high-profile meets held in many locations throughout the year. It’s becoming a popular sport, as well, with many athletes who have realized it gives them an opportunity to compete without devoting their entire lives to training, and without much regard for age. ‘ ‘ Basically all I do to keep in shape is arm-wrestle with other guys who's techniqueladmire, andthereare lots of them around,” Mr. Engel says. His job, installing aluminum siding, is also pretty physical and help keeps him at wrestling weight, he adds. Mr. Engel began arm-wrestling seriously in his late teens, after taking part in a competition sponsor­ ed by the Brussels Lions Club at its annual Polar Days celebration in 1981 or 1982. He was spotted at the time by arm-wrestler Paul Gross of Blyth, who began taking him to competitions where he was consis­ tently on the list of winners. ‘‘Another benefit of the sport is that it’s something that a small town can take on as a fundraising event, ’ ’ he says. ‘ ‘It doesn’ t take much in the way of facilities, and any competi­ tion will attract wrestlers from all over the country just for the chance to compete.” He adds that Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan and Amos, Quebec, both villages with populations of under 3,000, sponsor annual tourn­ aments which attract thousands of wrestlers and their fans (and their dollars) every year, and says he’d be delighted to see Brussels pick up on the idea. ‘ ‘ I hear (Brussels) is looking for an annual fund-raising event, and I’d be glad to help out if they want to try a tournament,” he concludes. Sprouts lose 2 games The Brussels Sprouts (four and five year olds) played an exhibition game against Wingham on Decem­ ber 28. Brussels lost 6-1 with their only goal scored by Matthew McLellan in the last period. The six and seven year old Sprouts played Wingham immediately fol­ lowing this game. It was a very close game. Wingham started the scoring with Brussels continually tying the game. The Brussels team played good defensive hockey only to lose 5-4 with Trevor Wilson scoring the four goals. PRINTING IS OUR BUSINESS Colour Printing Posters Letterheads Envelopes Business Cards •Business Forms • Brochures • Flyers • Carbonless Forms • Labels THE BLYTH PRINT SHOP” We’re located Main St. Blyth Phone: 523-9211