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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1988-12-28, Page 15Atoms give tt1.rsE. early ChriStniE. pr Wingham's Optimist Atoms gave themse1v some gifts of the season with three straight wins in league action leading up to the Christmas weekend. The locals defeated Mil- verton twice, 4-3 and 10-1 and then downed Listowel 6-1 to make a clean sweep of the week. In a game they should have owned, the Optimist Atoms went to Milverton and played Santa Claus to the Milverton goalie's Scrooge. The Wingham club played much of the game in the Milverton end, but could not seem to capitalize on its many scoring chances, thanks, in part, to a pretty good night for Mil- verton goalie Jamie Roulston. Wingham opened the scoring about halfway through the period on a marker by Arley Pautler, assisted by Travis Baier. But Milverton came right back to tie it less than 30 seconds later, just to keep Wingham from getting too confident. Wingham came out of the first period with a 2-1 lead. Baier scored the go-ahead marker, assisted by Mark Gibson andJeremy Creeden. In the second period, it was all Wingham as the boys cashed in on a couple of their many chances to take a 4-1 lead. Creeden scored the third goal, assisted by Todd Edgar and Josh Johnston notched the fourth, assisted by Gibson and Creeden. However, in the third frame, the Wingham club went into one of its 'notorious defensive shells, the kind where they forget what the other end of the rink looks like and try to play the entire frame in their own zone. It cost them a couple of goals, one at 7:08 and the ether at 5:41 of the 1 fi4i "frai'ne.I T ati1ghe i� ten,.tl Ings' up to 4-3 for ` Wingham. But they managed to hold off a determined `Milverton team and deny them their first win of the season, ending up coming home with a hard-fought 4-3 winti Wingham 10, Milverton 1 It's hard to say whether it was the tough practice or the new sweaters that did it, but when these two teams met again last Thursday night in Belmore, it was like an, entirely different Wingham team on the ice. And the score showed it. The Wingham boys opened up a 2-0 first -period lead on goals by John- ston, assisted by Gibson and Neil Mowbray and Creeden, unassisted. But it was the second period when they really caught fire. The passing and teamwork they've shown flashes of in previous games seemed to all coxae together as they racked up another five goals. Several of these goals were fine individual efforts, while others showed the kind of heads -up passing they're going to need against some of the other teams in the league. Second period Wingham marks- men were: Johnston, assisted by Jeff King; Edgar, assisted by Shawn Walker; Creeden, unassisted; Gib- son, assisted' by Johnston and Creeden, again unassisted. Going into the third period with a 7-0 lead, the Wingham boys gave their fans a scare when they allowed Milverton's Scott Baillie to score a short-handed, breakaway goal just over a minute into the final frame. For a few minutes it looked as if the locals were headed for another of their infamous third -period scrambles. But they put it all back together again and scored three more goals to roll to an easy 10-1 win. Goal scorers for Wingham in the third were: Baier from Johnston and Mowbray; Creeden on an end-to-end rush assisted by Wingham goalten- der Craig Baynton and Johnston rounded it out, assisted by Gibson and King. Wingham 6, Listowel 1 Wingham's always had trouble with Listowel. This particular team has had seasons when Listowel clubs have dominated and others when the best they could , manage was a tie. This year they've lost one, tied one and on this occasion, won one. Baier . opened the scoring for Wingham 444 t�v�•,'o mintus Onto the game, assist by Johnston and Gibson on one of that line's patented three-way passing plays around the net. But Listowel came right back less than 30 seconds later to tie the score. With just over a minute left in the first period, Johnston gave Wingham a 2-1 lead, assisted by Baier and Gibson, again in a fine three-way goal -mouth passing play. In the second period, Wingham got two more goals. Creeden scored at around the three-minute mark, assisted by Walker and Walker also assisted on Wingham's fourth goal, this one, scored by Edgar. Creeden also assisted on that one. And this time the Wingham boys didn't collapse in the third. Oh, they slackened off a bit, but not enough for Listowel to stage any significant kind of comeback. They did, however, put another couple of goals up on the board. Creeden scored, assisted by Mowbray and Walker, and Baier assisted by Johnston: The past two games have shown the Optimist Atoms' followers that this .team can play a very entertain- ing kind of 4iockey. Creeden and Baier are a couple of players who have shown some strong individual effort. Wingers Johnston and Gibson are passing as if they've been at this game for years and the defence is moving the puck out of the zone and challenging the opposition's blueline like old pros. In fact, as the statistics show, everyone's getting into the act lately and we're all hoping the trend continues into the new year. The next game for the Optimist Atoms was Tuesday in Seaforth. 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