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The Citizen, 1988-03-16, Page 11A Blyth shot whizzes behind the Honeywood goaltender in what became a familiar sign games each. Although Bly th has won both home games handily it has yet to win in Sunday as the Blyth Midgets romped to a 13-2 victory to tie their OMHA playoff series at two Honeywood and must finish the series there Thursday night. Midgets swamp Honeywood in 'homer' series BY SILVER SKATES Thursday, March 10 Blyth Mid­ gets boarded the bus once more for game three of their OMHA playoff series with Honeywood. This game was a hard fought contest with the officials standing by and “letting the boys play hockey” only five minor penalties were called throughout the game as numerous stock offenses were ignored by the officials. This made for a dirty hockey game and the Blyth boys came home battered and bruised by the game. Honeywood opened the scoring Sports Blyth Tykes take tournament title in the first period but Blyth responded two minutes later as Keith Verburg stuffed a rebound past the Honey wood goalie. Dan McDougall and Larry Hunking received assists on this goal. Honeywood scored once more to close the period ahead by one. Blyth scored twice in the second period to open a one-goal lead before Honeywood came back to score two of their own. Larry Hunking scored the first assisted by Dan McDougall and Kriss Snell scored assisted by Larry Hunking and Jason Vanderheyden. Honey­ wood led after two periods by one goal. Midway through the third period Honeywood scored to go ahead by two goals. Larry and Dan combined to close the gap with two minutes left in the game. Despite good pressure in the last minute of the game Blyth was unable to score again. They left Honeywood with a loss but were keen to even up the series with a home game in Blyth. MIDGETS CRUISE TO WIN Game four was to be played on Saturday, March 12 but due to the ice storm Honeywood was unable to come. The game was played on Sunday afternoon in Blyth. Blyth came out hard and strong for this game. Blyth goalie Mike Henry was not busy as the local boyskepttheplayinthe Honey­ wood end for most of the game. After one period of play the score was Blyth 4, Honeywood 1. The second period ended with Blyth ahead by a score of 7 to 1. The third period saw more of the same as the game ended with Blyth ahead by a score of 13 to 2. It seems strange that the Blyth boys can play so well in Blyth and so poorly in Honeywood. If Blyth is to win this series they must pull up their socks and play like all their fans know they can in Honey wood. In game four Kriss Snell had three goals and two assists; Dan McDougall had two goals and three assists; Larry Hunking had two goals and five assists; Drew Allen had one goal and two assists; Jamie McDonald had one assist; Jason Blyth Tykes runners-up in Clinton tournament On Saturday, March 12 the Blyth Tykes took part in the third annual Clinton Tyke Tournament. In this 16 team, all-weekend tournament Blyth’s first game was against a St. Mary’s team called the Maroons. Blyth continued their strong play Vanderheyden had one goal; Jeff Vincent had one goal and one assist; Paul Hoggart had one goal and two assists; Allan Hillis had twoassists; and Dean Whitfield had one goal and two assists. The only player from Blyth not getting a goal or an assist was Mike -Henry. Mike had a good game in net for Blyth and deserves a lot of credit for his good play. Kim McDougall won the 50-50 draw. The fifth and final game will be played Thurs­ day, March 17 in Honey wood at 8:30. as they out-skated St. Marys to the score of 11 to 2. Darryl Bromley got Blyth on the scoreboard, only 1:10 into the game withan unassisted effort. Soon after Chris Carter finished a Continued on page 13 The Blyth Tykes had a long, but successful Saturday in Lucknow on March 5, as they played in the Lucknow Tyke Tournament. They were a little confused with the off-sides being called, but surprisingly caught on fast. They skated well, all three games, and played their best hockey as a unit all year. The first game was against the host town of Lucknow at 9 a. m. Blyth skated away with a 14-3 win. All members of the Blyth team netted a goal or an assist in the first game. Game two, was in the afternoon, against Huron, one of two Ripley teams. Huron scored the first goal, but Blyth exploded for 11 straight goals to ice the game. Michael Courtney played net, and made some fine saves early in the game, to get Blyth on track. Corey Shannon and Scott Bromley both picked up hat tricks. Michael Haggitt picked up a pair, with singles going to Darryl Bromley, Amanda Anderson and Michael Ansley. At 7:00 Saturday, Blyth played their third game, for the “A” championship against a strong Howick team. Howick had earlier defeated Ripley and Tiver­ ton. This game displayed great skating and team work, as the play rushed end to end. Scott Bromley did the goal-tending duties and proved to be unbeatable behind an equally, strong Blyth defensive unit. Blyth came out 3-0 victors in a hard-fought hockey game. Amanda Anderson scored the winning goal, jumping on a Michael Haggitt rebound, in the first period. The score remained 1 -0 till the second period, when Chris Carter scored the insurance goal, picking up a rebound on some hard work by Michael Ansley. Blyth put the game away with only five minutes left, when Corey Shannon fired a hard shot past the Howick goalie on a nice pass from Jason Badley. This game was Blyth’s best game, as a team all year, and their smiles said it all. Darryl Bromley accepted the large trophy that will be displayed at the arena. All members ofthe team received a banner from Lucknow Minor Sports. The players on this team from youngest to oldest are: Jamie Black, Chris Carter, Amanda Anderson, Michael Courtney, Michael Ansley, David Craig, Jason Badley, Jeff Johnston, Scott Bromley, Darryl Bromley, Corey Shannon and Michael Haggitt. Blyth Tykes have had two exciting weekends in a row as they brought home the championship from a Lucknow tournament March 6 and lost out in the final in Clinton this weekend. Members of the young champions are: [frontrow, left to right] Corey Shannon, Darryl Bromley, Scott Bromley, Michael Ansley, Jason Badley and Jamie Black; [second row] Amanda Anderson, Michael Courtney, Stephen Bernard, Jeff Johnston, David Craig, Michael Haggitt and Chris Carter. Coaches are Larry Badley and Barry Bromley.