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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2002. Sn orts PeeWees win Silver Stick Friday night the Brussels PeeWee Rep team played Drayton in regular league play and won 10-0. Kyle Gibson earned another shutout. Scoring for Brussels were Matt McClinchey with five goals, Chris Corbett with two goals and three assists, Adam Corbett with one goal and one assist, Brad McKague with one goal and one assist, and Matt White with one goal. Assists were also made by Cory Chapman, Mitch Blake, Adam McClure, Greg Bowers and Christopher Jutzi. The PeeWees also travelled to Howick for a tournament on Sunday and won the A division. They played Ilderton first winning 4-1. Their sec- ond game was against Sarnia and Brussels won 3-1. This sent them to the A final against Clifford and Brussels won this game 9-1. Scoring for the Brussels squad were C. Corbett with five goals and two assists, Jutzi with three goals and two assists, McClinchey with three goals and two assists, M. McClure with one goal and three assists, White and Andrew McDonald each with one goal and two assists, Bowers and McKague with one goal and one assist. Other assists went to Steven Ropp, A. Corbett, Chapman and Blake. Gibson once again did an awe- some job in net letting in three goals on 22 shots. The team travelled to Kincardine over the last weekend of 2001 and won Brussels' first Silver Stick. Thursday they played Shallow Lake and won 7-0. Their second game was played on Friday against Clinton with a win of 8-1. Later that day they took on Ripley and beat them 3-1. This put them in first place for their division. Saturday they played Tara and won 3-2, which took them Local League wins big 1 he Brussels PeeWee Local League enjoyed some big wins at the end of the old year. On Dec. 22, the team hosted Howick and whitewashed their guests by a whopping 12-0. Leading the scoring with a hattrick was Scott Phillips. Steven Ropp, Adam McClure and Chase Chapman each bulged the twine twice, while Shane Cochrane, Brad McKague and James Cochrane got singles. Earning assists were Andrew McDonald, two; Phillips, three; Ropp, three; Chapman, Jordan Campbell, two; McKague and Cochrane with one each. Earning the shutout in this penal- ty-free contest was Zach Home. The strong offence continued the next night in Seaforth as the visiting squad took home an 11-4 victory. McClure and Ropp led the scoring with four goals each. Ropp was also credited with two assists. Scoring singles were J. Cochrane, Campbell and Phillips. Other assists went to Campbell with two, McDonald, Phillips with two and Chase Chapman with two. Beginning the new year at a tour- nament in Howick, Jan. 5 the squad took the A championship. Continued on page 7 to the final game to be played on Sunday against Arthur. The Brussels squad came out fly- ing, scoring their first goal just three minutes into the first period. Greg Bowers scored with assists going to Matt White and Cory Chapman. With a minute and a ,half left in the first Bowers netted his second of the game with assists going to 'Andrew McDonald and White. In the second period Chris Corbett scored just four and a half minutes in, giving Brussels a 3-0 lead. Assists went to Brad McKague and Adam Corbett. Arthur scored in the second period but the Brussels team shut them down from there on. Going into the third with a 3-1 lead, the Brussels boys were not quite done and Matt McClinchey scored the fourth goal with assists going to Chapman and Steven Ropp. Kyle Gibson played net for all five games only allowing five goals on 70 shots on net. Earlier the team played three There are three primary kinds of recreational snowmobiling in Ontario: groomed trail riding, trail riding and cross country powder rid- ing. Groomed trail riding occurs mostly on marked snowmobile trails maintained by local clubs who are members of the Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs. Trail riding happens mostly on unmaintained and largely unmarked routes such as old logging roads, trapper's pathways and utility corridors. Cross country powder riding takes place anywhere there is enough snow and space. All three styles have several fac- tors in common: they are activities subject to the whim and unpre- dictability of Mother Nature. They each can take a snowmobiler far from regular services and emergency assistance. When practised responsi- bly, each can provide hours of incredible fun. -And each style requires a basic level of respect as an off-road, back country experience where the rules, expectations and outcomes are very different than on public roadways, urban recreation games and scored big in all of them. Friday night, Dec. 21 Milverton came to town and Brussels won 10- 0. Saturday they travelled to Mitchell and won 12-0, and Sunday travelled to Hensall for another win of 6-3. Scoring for Brussels were McClinchey with 13 goals and one assist. C. Corbett with seven goals and eight assists, Christopher Jutzi with two goals and three assists, Corbett with one goal and eight assists, Bowers with one goal and two assists, White with one goal and four assists, Chase Chapman with one goal and two assists, McClure with one goal, Cory Chapman with four assists, and Steven Ropp with two assists. Gibson was in net for the first two games and made some awesome saves. In net for the Hensall game was Zach Home, who made many timely saves to keep Brussels in the game. paths or golf course fairways. This is the great outdoors, where Murphy rules and anything can happen, espe- cially in winter. As they say, expect the unexpected. Those who ride snowmobiles for recreational purposes fall into two broad categories: folks who snow- mobile as their primary activity and people, such as ice fishermen, who use a snowmobile to get to their pri- mary activity. In Ontario, most sled owners whose primary interest is snowmobiling ride groomed trails the majority of the time. Groomed trails cost local clubs, who are members of the Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs, a provincial total of about $21 million annually to operate and maintain. Mainly, this cost stems from a transi- tion that has occurred in recent years from purely recreational to tourism trails, and the associated demand from riders for better and better trail quality. Fortunately, groomed OFSC trails are funded by a provincial user pay system that covers some of this substantial investment. No other trail group has the benefit of -its own province-wide user pay revenues, which helps explain why snowmo- bilers have the only boundary to boundary trails in Ontario.- There was a time when most of those who used snowmobiles locally -also resided nearby. But as the winter tourism aspect of snowmobiling has grown, more and more snowmobil- ers are visitors from urban areas or even from out-of-province. Many of these folks have no outdoor skills or know-ledge, and approach snowmo- biling as if it was just one more after- noon past time. They treat back country trails as if elements like sur- faces, grading, maintenance, angles, approaches, corners, inspections and repairs are highway quality. They imagine frequent services, regular traffic, proximate towns and immi- nent assistance. They even assume cellular service. And when they get into trouble, blame every-thing else but their own ignorance, arrogance and negligence. It's time for snowmobilers to real- ize Mother Nature can be one very tough customer. And that means tak- ing survival and first aid courses, packing emergency gear and above all, learning to respect the off-road environment as a place where things can go very wrong very fast. Until next time remember to be a Safe Rider this winter. For trail condition reports check ofsc.on.ca Craig Nicholson is a regular con- tributor to Snow Goer, Canada's Snowmobiling Magazine. The Intrepid Snowmobiler also appears on radio and on Snowmobiler Television. The opinions expressed are solely those of the author. /fit VIREFID .460,001,P; Respecting the trail By Craig Nicholson (©2001 by Craig Nicholson. All rights reserved.) filstrifilaffee CRAIG NICHOLSON