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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1989-03-14, Page 23IrA a4; it It rW YI: 3t >'SILVER MEDAL WiNNIERS a Madlll e '404:f•4 ►wknarnant, hosted b� "Urlhtllll,.�?��t�� medal=a� re;,Ce�.x�: The Mustangs lbs to.London, but.mmanaged a d in liver the' silver and end :ars exoeptional hockey seaso, Kotsanis s In WOSSA hockey se IF1'F I�Rx �T..r r By Kevin Smith The F. E. Madill Mustangs' h ey season ended on a bitters note last week at the WOSSA Ho Tournament. The Mustangs home the silver medal wi convincing 7-4 triumph over Sarnia St. Pats last Wednesday But a heart -breaking loss to minster Wildcats of London, as as the subsequent Westminster tory over Sarnia; gave the 'W the WOSSA, gold medal and a in: the OFSSA Hockey Tourn at FortFrancis. 'Sarnia lost 6-4 to Westminster Tuesday.to. set up the silver -m contest between F: E. and St. Madill scored early and often this contest and led 5-0 at o point. Unfortunately, the Mustan coasted the rest of the way as th hung on for a 7-4 triumph: It rather an uninspired effort fro both teams for the most part London already had captured t gold. However, the Mustangs can proud of their acconnplishatent they bounced back from a ve enmotionatioss on Monday to t what few teams ` can a claim: .WOSSA sillier medal. Rod Cayley again led Mai with two goals and one assist. Tete . .of John.Greig; Dean Whitfie ' ,and jarret Henhoeffer had Sarni ruining around in its'own end most of the day, as Greig and Whit- field each picked up a goal and Henhoeffer added two assists. Defensemen Craig King and Steve Michie tallied a goal apiece ock- and Captain Tom McDonald ac- weet counted for Madill's other score. ckey The highlight of the WOSSA took tournament was the Monday night th a game played in the adequately a - the cious.:Lockridge Memorial Arena in West- Wmgham` It featured the match -up West- well between host F. E. Madill and minster eats -. Mad.E lumped p oyt. to a x-0 lead il deats a -in the T 5 1 i 1S. 31 (}S 1 berth in first fraitie ori a power. y ameth goal by K '' DeJong as he picked up his own ;rebound. and tucked it last Szabo. sl Cayley and Jeff McKee picked up behind Westminster .goalie Bob the assists. for Madill. However, in that was Gill the scoring the Mus- ne tangs could muster on this night. Westminster found its touch early gs in the second as Ed Krukowski tied ey the game, also-on•'a power :play, was Madill came very close to victory m not once, but twice, as its shots as rung off the goalpost, but the score he remained tied for the rest of regula- tionbe time, forcing . the two teams to play a 10 -minute overtiMe. as - Only then could Westminster ry claim victory as it sired goals' 15 eke seconds apart late •in the period to a eke out a 1 •wih c ver Madill. Even Matti tnore:disa : porntitfor' Madill was -the fa 't, oth goals went in off ': deflectionsas; they were credited to �a Dan Brand and Geoff Arthurs. .a Many superlatives could be used to describe this physical, tough, emotional and exciting tilt between two evenly -matched teams, but 1 think only two words are necessary to tell the story of this game: Mario Kotsanis. Kotsanis, the Mustang goal - tender, was nothing less than bril- liant On this night. Though West,. minster kept the action in Madills end for much of the game and chal- lenged him with several outstand- ing shots, time and again Mario was there to shut the door andkeep. the Mustangs in.t' cont... . WestMi sten tota11 ' shots [; the gamma and c Made 44 saves ht -11114 before the two overtime sneaked throgh. Even the :wildcats. had to a that he was the btst goalie the ad. Player c hie ab n the pads, challenge shoot snare shots that sge belled for the atm PeeWees lose series to Blyth The Belgrave PeeWees were elim- inated by Blyth in a close 3-2 match Feb. 25. Blyth won the best -of -three series two games.to one. The first and second periods of this deciding game were scoreless. In the third; frame, :Mark Robinson scored from Brandon Coultes to put Belgrave ahead. However, Conrad Bos tied the score from J Button and Brian Vanstellandt. Peter Gusso scored an unassisted goal for Belgrave, but Button replied with an unassisted, marker fbr 1h to even the count. ssisl taus. nit: rtr t yr Esta ►cu* and probablycouldn't have played any better. In fact, as the NHL was idle on Mondaynight, it is possible that Kotsanis played the best game in goal in- North America. Think about that one for. awhile+ Kotsanis and a number of other Mustang regulars will hopefully re- turn to high school hockey action next sea§on:. About one-half of Ma ire's orad• t tt . wad tnacie up of' Grade it students, wni n retakes the future orht* atm" E' look'very promising. Who knows, maybe next year,,. even though it is only .their fourth- year of existence, the Mustangs will be celebrating a GOLDen anniver- sary. ..st BI p,y- — .-.I. r,bi xy ''lE{�,c i;.,+.+..YM I •rL a "' �}'. Pa ncake 'am. to W ekertd, r ye gn call 0 Si.:• ?aridir�a b �ct. ' ;mgha to rnouries spo t+; stied y -S t F0 Choir, 4:30. �o��nce,.,� .00�p.rn. , yth Memorial MIL 2 p.m.,,•J fea- turing Ron,. d s, proceeds to Birk Festival capitatfcMon. ampar Mar. 20 Euchre Fatty ' ing $' :Jon;, 8:00 ono +►elcom p . ,every Mar. 21 Whitechurch Water g stem • AnnualMeeting r8 . Am.) Whitechurch ,Comm. Hall. All shareholders . urged to :attenr oirs r moTtu nberry Township Council Meeting,'7:30 ,b�p .01unicipA•! 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