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The Citizen, 1998-01-28, Page 8Gliding by This Brussels Novice shows the technique that helped his team to an 8-1 victory over a visiting Hensall squad on Friday night. They also tallied a loss and a win against Mitchell teams this past weekend. Bulls start playoffs Friday .ttr Stars on Ice Ife1r PLAYOFFS Game 1 Best of 7 FRIDAY, JANUARY 30 IN KINCARDINE - 8:30 P.M. BRUSSELS BULLS JR "C" vs. KINCARDINE BULL DOGS SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1 - 2 P.M. Brussels, Morris & Grey Arena MARK DURAND Age: 17 Number: 20 Position: CentrelRight Wing Sponsor: Ryan Construction Where From: Zurich Played Last Year: Clinton High School Season Goal: 15 Goals Asslsts20 +1- +10 Favourite Hockey Team: Montreal Favourite Hockey Player: Joe Sakic Future Destination: College Workplace: High School, IGA in Grand Bend PAGE 8. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1998. Brussels Novice Rep team finished the regular season on a high. Friday night, Hensall travelled to Brussels and played an action-filled game. In the first period, Matt White scored twice on assists from Greg Bowers and Chase Chapman. In the second period, Hensall managed to sneak one shot past Brussels netminder Andrew McDonald then Adam McClure scored on a pass from Chase Chapman for Brussels. There was no looking back as Bowers scored one on a pass from White and McClure to start off the third period. The other line then got in on the scoring action when Christopher Jutzi scored on a pass from Cory Chapman, who then scored on a pass from Chris Corbett and Jutzi and White added unassisted goals to end Brussels' scoring. The final score was 8 - 1. Saturday night, the novices met up with the Mitchell Rep team. By Jim Brown Wingham Advance Times staff The Western Junior 'C' Hockey League held its annual awards banquet at the Davidson Centre in Kincardine, Saturday evening with the Wingham Ironmen earning four individual trophies. Three members of the team were also selected to the first or second all-star team. For the second consecutive year, the Ironmen goaitenders allowed the fewest goals against. That was helped this season by a total of six shut-outs. In 35 games played this season, the dynamic duo of David Bartman and Greg Ritchie gave up a mere 87 goals for a 2.48 goals against average. A strong defence also helped the Ironmen allow the fewest goals. In that regard, three-year veteran Brad Anderson was named the top defenceman. He concluded the season with 10 goals and 22 assists for 32 points. Second year player Troy Dosman was the recipient of the most sports-minded player award. During the year he had nine goals and 30 assists for 39 points and only picked up 12 minutes in penalties. The fourth individual honour bestowed upon Ironmen was coach of the year. First year coach Todd Bender was the recipient, but some of the credit was given to assistant coaches Doug Neil and Louie Livingston. , Corey Hayter of the Walkerton Blackhawks was the most valuable player for the 1997-98 regular season. Brent McDermid of the Kincardine Bulldogs was the recipient of the rookie of the year The game was quite evenly matched and the action travelled quickly from one end to the other. White, on a pass from Chase Chapman was finally able to lift one past the Mitchell goaltender to score one at 5:13 in the second period. The Brussels boys tried hard to hang onto the lead but at 6:10 in the third period, they were scored' against and were unable to break the tie. The team played an excellent game and went home feeling pleasantly exhausted with a 1 - 1 tie. Sunday night, the Rep team travelled to Mitchell to play against their additional entry team and came home with a shut out. Corbett scored an unassisted goal in the first period and White scored in the third period on a pass from Adam Corbett. The final score was 2 - 0. The Novice Reps start their playoffs against Howick on Feb. 13 at 6:30 in Brussels. award. Jason Howes of the Hanover Barons was the league scoring champion with 72 points on 32 goals and 40 assists. Jeremy Beatty of Kincardine was the goalie for the first all-star team. On the defence are the Ironmen's Anderson and Troy McDermid of Walkerton. Walkerton's Hayter is the first team left winger, Curtis Pinder of Mount Forest is first team centre and Chris King of Kincardine is the right winger. Wingham's Bartman is the second all-star team goaltender. Playing .defence are Kyle Mitchell of Kincardine and Aaron Small of Mount Forest. Playing up front are left winger Brett Sangster of Wingham, centre David Galbraith of Kincardine and right winger Kyle Boulton of Kincardine. Three $350 league bursaries were presented to deserving players who were members of the all-star team which played the Stratford Cullitons. The players were Chris Buchanan of Kincardine, Ryan Hollister of Hanover and Paul Brown of Mount Forest. The 18 players who received CKNX Radio 'player of the week' awards were also honoured. Three members of the Ironmen and one member of the Brussels Bulls earned awards. Netminder Bartman was the recipient for week three with defenceman Anderson earning the award week four and left winger Sangster earning the award week nine. Brussels goalie Dan Balog was the recipient for week six. Kincardine's Boulton received six nominations, won the award for week 16, and was named the player of the year. The Bulls played their last regular season game last Friday against Hanover who humiliated them the Friday before. Brussels seekiug revenge came out hard and played well in both ends of the rink to be rewarded with a goal of 4:48 of the first when Dan Williams scored assisted by Josh Cressman and Dan Sinclair. Hunts get PBs The speed skating season is well underway for the Hunt family of Ethel and "personal best" times are being wracked up. Kathy, daughters, Carla and Cayla and son, Brett, started the season on an up note, Nov. 16-17 at the Hanje memorial meet in Water- loo, hosted by their home club, the Kitchener-Waterloo Sertoma Club. Cayla earned a second place fin- ish in the PeeWee Girls (ages seven and eight) division while Brett took third in the Bantam Boys (ages nine and 10). Cayla skated three personal best times, with comparable skates at all her meets this season. Brett achieved personal bests at the Kitchener-Waterloo meet as well as several at a later Cambridge meet. Though Kathy did not place in the top of her class at the Hanje Memorial, she said she was happy with her seventh place as other commitments have cut into training time this year. Kathy did take first in a Master's race in London, Dec. 6. The Hunts travelled to Belleville for a Jan. 17-18 all-points meet. At an all-points meet, competi- tors are divided into heats depend- ing on their times, rather than age group. Carla recorded personal best in the 500 and 777-metre races and achieved some Canadian and North American qualifying times for the national competition at the end of the season. She has now attained qualifying times in four races, the total num- ber required, to allow her to enter. An interesting occurrence at the Belleville meet was the grouping of three parents with their children, in the same category. As well as Kathy and Carla Hunt racing together, two father and son teams also competed. The Hunts will skate in Bramp- ton, Jan. 31, and in Kingston, Feb 7-8. The Bulls took that 1-0 lead into the first intermission. The second period was all Barons as they scored three goals, one short-handed, one on the powerplay and one even strength to make the score 3-1 Hanover after two periods. The Barons added one more goal in the third period to make the final score 4-1. The Bulls record for the season is five wins - 23 losses and eight ties which allowed them to finish in sixth place and take the last playoff spot. The Bulls play in Kincardine against the Bulldogs on Friday After a season-ending loss to Bayfiejd on Jan. 21, Blyth Atom Bulldogs split the first two games in their best of three playoff series against Hensall. In Bayfield, Nathan Wither- spoon, Brett Bean and Darren Austin notched the Myth points in this 6-3 effort. Assists went to Cody Anderson with two, Tyler Kernighan and Witherspoon. Jan. 22 Hensall stormed into town for the first playoff game and night to start their playoff series at 8:30 p.m. for game number one in a best of seven with game number two back in Brussels Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. Game number three will be in Kincardine on the following Friday, Feb. 6 at 8:30 p.m. with game number four in Brussels at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 8. Tentative scheduling for game number five (if necessary) will be Feb. 13 in Kincardine. Game number six (if necessary) will be Saturday, Feb. 14 in Brussels with game number seven (if necessary) in Kincardine Sunday, Feb. 15. blew away their hosts 4-2. Ander- son and Bean notched the home team's markers with Kemighan and Witherspoon pairing up to assist on the latter goal. Jan. 24 was turnabout as Blyth travelled to Hensall and showed up their hosts by a score of 5-2. Witherspoon got it started in the first period, with an assist going to Kendall Whitfield. The defense held off the home squad so Blyth Continued on page 17 ,Sports Brussels Novice Reps end season on a high Ironmen get trophies at awards banquet Blyth Atoms split playoff games