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Barrie. 2. Pill Rollers 0 The Pill Roller Tykes travelled to Barrie Saturday night and came away 2â€"0 losers. This game ended the schedule, before the OMHA playoffs. The game had no bearing on the standings as Barrie had a three point lead with the Rollers ending up in second place. This game featured defensive style. as each club failed to acquire their shooting eyes‘ It was a close-checking game. Pill Rollers 5, Newmarket 0 TYKES Madaieno admits that coach- ing junior hockey is quite a bit different than minor hockey. In a word: Pressure. “It’s just that much pressure puck out of our own end. We keep getting bottled up and it's costing us goals". Madaleno hopes he has help- ed ease that problem with the recent signing of Barry May of Daryl Rice. now playing out of the University of Michigan. Young Rice is teamed up with two other products of the Richmond Hill minor system. They are Bruce Hipkiss on left games are at 8:30 pm. Playoff time is just around the corner. Drop in and see some excit- ing. rough hockey. Then keep going back. d'iiiiliiiliiiliilIliliiiliiliiliilllliiii“liilii“lliii“!liillimlliiliill“lmmlliiiinllIiillllimmlmlmmllinlllmlll“millillm“!ll“mililllll“llliiil“llll\llllllllllilillilliiil‘ IlilIiiilllililliliiillilllllliililllllllillliillililiiiiliiiilliliilllillli\illiilliIlll1mliiiillilililiiliiillmillilillliilliilllliillliilliilllliillliilllillillimlliiillullliilllilllllillllliiil-P Moe and Skip really had the club up for the first game of the OMHA Playoffs as they handed Newmarket a 5-0 ’beating. With only one minute and 48 seconds play- ed, the Rollers netted the first of the five goals. with Adam Cox scoring from Glen Apps and Paul Harrlotha. Three minutes later Brian Cox scored on an end-to-end solo effort. 14 The second period saw the Rollers playing a cloce-eheck- ing game with the defence hitting everything that mov- ed. Mike Smith added to the lead on a good pass from Hockey Kings: Short 0n Science High On Action Carlo D'Antimo. who played his best game this year The third period saw the Rollers back to their offenâ€" sive game with Harrietha scoring from Peter 'VIillis on a good play‘ Adam Cox scored again with assists going to his linemates Jen- son and Harrictha, Brian Gates and Tm) Mitchell played outstanding games with Doug Macklin earning the shutout. Next game in the playoff will be played Saturday in Newmarket at 5 pm. Twin Hills 3 Burlington 2 The Twin Hills team travelled to B u r li n g t o n January 10 and defeated their hosts 3-2. Scoring for the Hillel‘s were Doug Eld- ridge and Brian Buchan 12). Assists were by Nielson. Bar- rett. Madden and Main. Richvale 5. Twin Hills 0 The Twin Hillers suffered a 5-0 defeat at the hands of Richvale January 12 at Oak Ridges Arena. Twin Hills 4. Burlington 0 A rematch was played against Burlington January 20. and Twin Hills was again victorious to the tune of 4-0. Scoring for Twin Hills were Kevin Kernohan I2l. Bill Madden and Ken Main with one each. Assisting were Barrett. Nielsen. Main and Shannon. Roberts and Mulv- hill did an excellent job in the nets. NOVICE NOVICE “B” Perry Hill 3. Newmarket 1 Perry Hill Wood Products the town‘s novice entry. de- feated Newmarket in the opening game of the OMHA Playoffs 3-1 Friday evening at the local arena. This was a hard-fought game but the Hillers came with a solid team effort. Ian Ball opened the scoring for the Perry Hill squad assisted by Hend- erson. Dan Henderson not- ched the winning tally un- assisted then added a clinch- ing goal also unassisted. Goalie Ed McCleave was practically unbeatable in goal. missing but one shot headed his way. Perry Hill 1. Newmarket 0 The local novices took the round in two straight games by defeating Newmarket Saturday evening 1â€"0. Rich- ard Guppy netted the only goal of this game with assists going to Matt Knight and Henderson. Goalie McCleave notched this shutout. Up front the Hillers re- ceived good efforts by Me- Gregor. Tuck. Dunford, Ball and Buchan. while back of the blue line. Ed- Richmond Hillers Take First Round OMHA Playoffs “You could say I‘ve become a little superstitious,” said Madaâ€" leno. “It was last season that Cobourg finished in fourth and they ended up going all the way to the finals. That's why fourth place doesn't seem all that bad to me". It may not be the most scientific or smoothest but it may definitely be the most ex- citing hockey around these days. "When you consider it’s our first year in an old established league and the fact that we're going with a team consisting of mainly local players you have to be pleased with the way we're going. I think we sur- prised a lot of teams." The Kings have put together 12 wins and two ties against eight losses in the 22 games they've played to date. League leader is Lindsay with 37 points off 17 wins, three ties and three losses. That's the hockey now being played by the upstart, first year Oak Ridges (vho are presently holding down fourth place in the nine-team OHA Central Junior “C” Hockey League. “I'm very happy with the way the team is going", states Coach Dan Madaleno who is also something of a first-year man himself although he was one of the starters of the Oak Ridges Minor Hockey Associa- tion in the early 60's. This sea- son is his first asva junior hoc- key coach having handled minor league teams for years. By FRED SIMPSON THE LIBERAL, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Thursday, Jan. 25, 1973 | Lions 4, Newman-ket 2 : Fighting for playoff posi- gtions the Lions won two of ‘three starts, first against Newmarket January 10 for 3a well-earned 4-2 win. The Kings fared better in ‘their Sunday game at Pene- 1tang which saw them beat Ithe latter squad by a 4-1 | margin. ‘ Despite Monday's loss. the Kings find themselves sol- ‘idly entrenched in fourth place in the league with an eightâ€"point margin over [South Shore Rangers and ionly one point away from g Bowmanville and third place. ATOM Orillia 3, Wilson-Niblett 1 Friday. January 19. saw a very lacklustre affair when Orillia played Wilson-Niblett in a re-scheduled game and went back to Orillia with a 3-1 win. The only local goalâ€" getter was Richard Vermeulâ€" en assisted by Bruce Buchan and Danny O'Sullivan. Barrie 4, Wilson-Niblett 2 The atoms journeyed to Barrie January 20 for the last league game before the Ontario Elimination Playoffs. This time. however. the locals made a good showing despite the 4-2 deficit. The game could have gone either way until Barrie got the clinching fourth goal. W-N pointgetters were Tom Reaume assisted by Buchan and Steve Plaxton and Buchan from Dave Plax- ton and Rich Hughes; Oak Ridges Kings Lose 5-3 Port Hope, Whips Penetang 4-] The first goal was scored by Norman assisted by Nigro. the second was an unassisted effort by Bowers. Leger got the third assisted by Queren- gosser and Nigro and the Coming Upâ€"The draw for the first series of the playoffs is Barrie who played here Wednesday night. The second game is on Saturday at 4:30 pm and the third game. if necessary, will be played in Barrie Sunday. PEEWEES Unfortunately. they didn't outscore them. The Oak Ridges Kings out- shot their opponents Monday night and outhustled them. Port Hope skated away with a 5-3 OHA Central Jun- ior "C" win at the Bond Lake Arena. wards, DelFabro, Halliday and Jones checked solidly. The Perry Hill Team now meets Aurora. in the second round, the first game scheduled for Janu- ary 29. The game was a see-saw affair with Oak Ridges com- ing from behind several times to tie the game only to see the visitors come right back and go ahead. They outshot the visitors 59â€"35 on the game but were either outlucked or simply beaten on a number of scor- ing opportunities by Goalie John Johnson. Oak Ridges got off to a quick start as Kim Mabley opened the scoring at the 45 second mark on a pass from Bruce Hipliss. Port Hope came back at 7:54 as Roger Lees scored and then took the lead at 11:02 of the second period on Lees‘ second goal of the night. It was tied again at 15:45 as Rick Hartwick scored from Barry May only to see Port Hope again taking the lead on the first of two goals by Bob Hickson. Mabley scored his second goal of the night at 17:14 on a beautiful solo effort as he stole the puck inside the blueline and went right in on goal. “Another problem with us has been our inability to get the puck out of our own end. We keep getting bottled up and it's costing us goals". “Our big problem to date has been our inability to make the power play work and in this league you have to have a good power play. You have plenty of opportunity to use it. "I guess you could say we're mainly an offensive club rather than defensive which puts the pressure on the goalies. They’ve got to come up with those big saves at the right time and we've been getting them more often than not. “We're very strong in goal with the two boys we have. Terry is a Richmond Hill kid and Clews came up through our Oak Ridges system. No com- plaints here. In fact, Clews is high on the negotiation lists of other junior clubs”. The Kings are particularly well off in goal with the play of both Terry Haviland and Danny Clews. The players on the Kings all hail from either Oak Ridges or Richmond Hill minor hockey system with the exception of Dave Van Nostrand who is an "import" all the way from Gormley. all around and it takes up a lot of your time but I'm enjoying it." He enjoys it because “it's ex- citing hockey. The kids don't have the finesse around the net but it's.the kind of hockey you stand up at. The boards take a beating and it's hard-hitting. You don‘t go to sleep at our games." fourth was by Nigro. assisted by Wood. Lions 2, Aurora 1 In the second game at Aurora the Lions earned a close 2-1 win. Leger earned the first assisted by Nigro. Wood popped in the second with the help of Bower, in- suring the team third place in the league standing. Barrie 3, Lions 2 In the third game of the week the Lions were paired against the strong Barrie team, which ended up 3-2 winners in a very close game. The Lions' goals were scored by Nigro who was assisted on both by Nye and Leger. MINOR BANTAM Aurora 9, Richmond Hill 3 Richmond Hill Minor Ban- tams suffered a 9-3 defeat January 17 at the hands of Aurora. All three of the locals' goals were netted by Roy Russell for a true hat trick. He was assisted on all three by Larry Trottier, on two by Dale Strang and on one by Randy Martin. Woodbridge 6, RH. 0 The next door the Hillel‘s suffered a 6â€"0 disaster de- livered by Woodbridge. Barrie 5, Richmond Hill 3 Barrie defeated the local lads January 20 by a 5-3 score. Scoring for the Hill were Ron Dysart with tw0 coun- ters and Strong with one. Earning assist points were Dave Forster with two, Randy Martin, Roy Russell and Brad Lloyd. Richmond Hill 4, Thornhill 0 He faked a slap shot from in front of the net and then sliped the puck under John- son as he went down to block the expected Sizzler. When the chips were down the Richmond Hill lads trounced Thornhill 4-0 in the first playoff game played January 21. Hickson's second goal of the period at 19:26 was pro- tested by the Oak Ridges club who insisted he had kicked the puck home. The goal came during a Scramble with Hickson apparently well-checked at the time the puck went in. The goal counted. The score remained 4-3 until the last minute and 18 seconds when Neal Puberton put the puck past Larry Clews to clinch the game. Oak Ridges was missing three players for the game due to injuries. They were Rick Sackfield, Biil Gun- aine, and Pete Stuart. They are expected to be back in the lineup for the next game. Rick Hartwick led the King‘s offensive Sunday night with a two-goal effort with singles going to Bruce Hipkiss and Jeff Wood. The Kings have a chance to slip into third place past Bowmanville this Sunday when they play that team in Bowmanville. Monday night they travel to Cobourg for a game and are at home to the same team Wednesday night at Bond Lake Arena at 8:30 pm. Hartwick's first goal was a particularly beautiful ef- fort as he achieved a clean breakaway while his team- mates were playing two men short. Terry Haviland played a strong game in goal for Oak Ridges and was only six minutes away from a shut- out when Robert Dion man- aged to break through and beat him. Martin contributed two Terry, incidentally, is the younger brother of former Richmond Hill Rams' Star, Daryl Rice. now playing out of the University of Michigan. Young Rice is teamed up with two other products of the Richmond Hill minor system. They are Bruce Hipkiss on left Heading up his forward lines is the Robbie Sackfield one with Greg Woloski on left wing and Bill Gunaine on the right side. “Sackfield is one of the most honest hockey players I’ve ever coached," said Madaleno. “He always give you a good effort all the time he's out there. He blends in well with the other guys'. Another line is centre Terry Rice who is “the smallest play- er on the team but has a lot of guts going for him. He’s very intelligent and helps make the team go with his inspired play. He‘s not afraid of anyone". The rest of the defensive corps consists of John Ranieri of Richmond Hill (he played for the juveniles last season), Bill McIlwaine, Richmond Hill. and his own son. Paul Madaleno of Oak Ridges. Paul also takes a stint on forward and is another aggressive, hustling-type player. The defence rounded out by Jim Roffey in untidy fashion (untidy as in rugged) who Madaleno describes as the “hardest hitter on the team by far." “May and Graydon can gut the puck out of their own end and both are very aggressive. May, in particular, is a real hustler. Mike is still out of shape but he's a big boy and we need some bounce on our real-guard". Richvale and Mike Graydon who played last season with the Richmond Hill Legion Midgets. goals and an assist. Forster a tally and a helper, Dysart a counter, Brad Lloyd an assist to this decisive win, Bond Steel travelled to Barrie January 16 only to drop a 5â€"1 decision to their nemesis in a league contest. This was an exciting game in which the Steelers played their hearts out. Barrie went into a 2â€"0 lead before Bobby Russell fired home a Richard Campbell pass and Barrie led 2â€"1 after two periods. The Hillers refused to quit. but early in the third period, two Steeler penal- ties at the same time result- ed in two rapid Barrie goals. Sensing the kill. Barrie add- ed another counter to prove they were the class of the league. The second game of the playoff series will be played Saturday. MINOR MIDGETS Barrie 5, Bond Steel 1 The game featured good two-way action by both teams with both goalies comâ€" ing up with some fine saves. Don McPhee sent the locals ahead 1-0 at 2:20 cf the first period with Ricky Sackfield drawing an assist. Thomhill scored their only tally early in the second and both clubs went scoreless in the third Ito send the game into over- I; became obvious to all the spectators. in order for Bond Steel to defeat Barrie in the playoffs, they must play 60 minutes of perfect hockey. and stay out of the penalty box. Bond Steel 5, Orillia 3 Bond Steel defeated Orillia 5-3 in the new arena last last Friday night in a crucial league game. Bond Steel coasted mo- mentarily, and Orillia scored two goals. Russell however, scored the winner unassisted. and reliable Tony Robinson finished the scoring from Jeff Miller. This was a “must” game for the Steel- ers, and the result brought smiles of appreciation from the faces of Coaches Sil Steffan and Bill Rice. as well as Manager Bob Oakley. OMHA Semi-Finals A combined team effort paid dividends as Bond Steel went into the Orillia Arena last Sunday night and skated away with a 3â€"0 victory, to give them a 1â€"0 lead in the best two out of three semi finals. The Steelers potted a goal in each period. Hustling Steve Hodgins, who has been getting stronger each game with his precision passing, was set up perfectly by Tony Robinson. and Steve shot the Hillers into a 1-0 lead. as he scored his third gameâ€"win- ning goal. With the realization that a win would lead to second place in the North York League. the Hillers stormed onto the ice. Russell slam- med home a goal from John Oakley and Richard Hopson, Campbell scored from Rusâ€" sell and Dave Berseth fired a goal from Campbell and Oakley. Russell snared an Oakley pass and went in on goal unâ€" molested to tuck the puck inl the net in the middle period. and Defenceman Hopson‘s: the net in the middle period.l Satu;day‘s game had 11 of and Defenceman Hopson‘s I the Lions getting points in a goal put the game beyond 5-4 game. Wood scored two reach in the third perriod; |with Norman, Nye and Nigro MIDGET Legion 2. Thornhill 1 After dropping a 3-1 de- cision at home the Legion- naires travelled to Thornhill last Saturday and evened the series at one apiece, with a 2-1 victory in overtime; Ironman Gerry Tipold played his 116th period in the Steeler net as he fac- ed his 668th shot‘ while picking up his fifth shut- out for a 2.61 goals against average. wing and Kim Mabley on right wing. His third line consists of Van Nostrand at centre. Pete Stuart on left wing- and Bill Kenny on right. Stuart is currently out with a broken hand. Other players who round out the team include Midgets John Lenneville and yet another new- comer in Paul Banks. “Paul comes from Richvale and has been playing with the Toronto Nationals’ “B” Club and he should help us greatly on left wing. “Prior to this, our local boys were forced to go out of town to play their hockey after grad- uating from the Midget ranks. Now they can stay right here. I just wish more fans would come out and support them. The charge is just a $1 and I know they‘ll get more out of these games than will some of the so- called higher-classed ones." Manager of the club is Bill Woloski, trainer is Bill Bing- ham. The executive comprises Ken Blyth, Peter Youtoff and Jack Pincombe. “The team plays most of its home games on Monday nights at 8 pm with a few Wednesday games also slated. These latter games are at 8:30 pm. Dan. who lives on the South Road and is the father of two boys and two girls, is slightly unhappy about one thing. “We‘d like to see a few more fans out to our games. I think they’d come back again if they came once. This is a local club and it's something we've want- ed to have for a long time. Rob McDonald came up the hero in the overtime. firâ€" ing the winning counter on a screened shot at 3:45. assist- ed by McPhee and Sackfield. The Lesionnaires managed to keep Thornhill off~stridc for most of the overtime as they managed only one shot on Paul Boresford during the 10 minutes. Thornhill 3, Legionnaires l The Legionnaires bowed out of OMHA playdowns Sunday, losing 3-1 to Thorn- hill in the final game of the best of three series. Thorn- hill opened the scoring in the first and it wasn't until 16:03 of the second that the locals evened the score. Don McPhoe drove home a per- fect pass from McDonald to tie the game 1â€"1. time Thornhill scored the go- nhead marker ar 14:54 and the clincher at 19:06 to put the game out of reach for the Legionnaires. The Legionnaires had some excellent scoring opportuni- ties in the first two periods but were unable to capi- talize. in the first round of the OMHA piaydowns in two straight games. The first game in Newmarket on Thursday ended with the Lions on the right side of a nice 6-1 score. Not only did they drop out of the playoffis but they received another set- back when Steve Morrison left the game in the late stages with a fractured wrist. He will he lost to the team for approximately six weeks. Steve. who very seldom has a bad game. will be missed on the blue line. The Legionnaires have entered the Georgetown Tournament with the first game scheduled for this Thursday night at 9 pm against Guelph. PEEWEE Eliminate Newmarket Richmond Hill Lion Peeâ€" wees eliminated Newmarket Netting the puck for the Hill were Wood and Nigro with two each, Leger and Byers with one each. Leger. Bower and Nye each had two assists and Gropp and Joslin single helpers. The second game Friday was Richmond Hill all the way with five counters for the Lions and one lone goal for Newmarket. Halliday accounted for two goals with singles scored by Wood. Norman and Nigro. Assists went to Cates. Peden Leger, Bower and Nye. Take Two From Farmington The Lions hosted the Farmington Flyers of Detroit for the weekend and played two games with their guests, winning both. getting one apiece. Leger earned two assists and Nigro. Nye. Peden, Gropp, Halliday, Bower. Querengesser and Lewis one each. Straight shooter in this game was Nye with four. foilowed by Wood with two and Byers and Peden with one each. Leger tallied three assists. Nigro and Gates two each and Nye. Lewis, Halliday, Byers, Queren- gesser. Gropp and Bowers one each. Sunday it was the Hill again. Norman scoring twice,' and Cates and Gropp once.§ Two assists went to Peden.‘ Querengesser and Wood and one to Lewis in a game which ‘ ended Lions 4. Detroit 2. I Lions 8, Markham Selects l Sunday evening the Lions played the Markham Selects for a five-game winning streak. ‘ I was very pleased to see a any copy about the juveniles ‘ that pointed out that one icould easily “Forget The lJuveniles" and in so doing ‘ miss some of the finest hoc- lkey around. If I may make ; a prediction Coach Paul iDucharme will find that the 1 time spent with the juveniles ‘is a very rewarding part of 1 his hockey experiences. In the four years I was in- Vtolved with the Thornhill. OMHA Juvenile Hockey Club. many a rough. tough and exciting game was play- ed between your juveniles ‘ and the Thornhill boys. Being such close neighbors there was a natural rivalry which ‘is a healthy part of sport. ‘ Hockey teams play their best when they “play up". In the former North York League it was not surprising for \ teams from Nobleton or Sut- ton. Woodbridge or Bolton (“8'5" or “C's‘W, to knock off ;the higher "AA" or “A” teams such as Orillia. Rich~ {mond Hill, Aurora. Borden or Thornhill. DON’T FORGET THE JUVENILES Dear Mr. Sports Editorâ€" Your comments in the January 11 issue of "The Liberal" “Don’t Forget The Juveniles“ is timely and covers an age group in hoc- key that is usually overlook- ed and missed by the aver- age hockey fan and more often by the parents. In any community you will have about seven or eight good players on a team. Sometimes a ninth or tenth player. rated fair. will show up giving a 50-50 team a conâ€" tender. An 11th or 12th fair to middling player gives the team a good shot at going all the way. To ignore juVenile hockey and to “pack it" after the midget age is simply short- sighted. rather stupid and a waste of talent learned over many years. More important it is a denial of a great deal of fitness and fun for any young man in the prime of his life. To say “That's it" at 17â€"something is wrong‘ ; I guess what I'm trying to ‘say is that juvenile hockey )is food fun for young people and for the fans too, though by the time they hit gone home. Rather than neglect this group more pub- licity should be given so that we are aware it exists. I Besides. if a young player does have high hopes and is playing his last year of mid- get and no one is breaking down the dressing room door to sign him up to play in the great ice palaces of the world â€"just remember that a guy called Gordon Howe played his last pre-pro game as a juvenile. al- j the ice most of the fans have ‘ and wonder where juvenile‘ hockey has been hiding. The OMHA has many small‘ communities which offer con- i sistant fine hockey especial- ly if the juvenile level is the highest category and there is no junior “C” or junior "B". That's where you‘ll find juvenile hockey at its best. 1 l l l Most juvenile players are in high school. some at col- lege, some at work. They drive cars. There’s booze. There's girls (God bless them\. SO DON'T FORGET THE JUVENILES KEN MacCALLUM, 19 Thomridge Drive. Thornhill. If a young man can battle his way through a field like that and still show up for a hockey game ready to play â€"he must like hockey. Possibly more can be done to encourage juvenile hockey. But let's stop making the mistake of comparing the local boys who play for the fun of it, to the very. very small totalâ€"maybe 500â€"who go on to play hockey as pros. More Sports On Page 23 If you’re looking for a VVV, or have a VW that needs looking at, W 8. P MOTORS LTD. 178 Yonge St. N. LEVENDALE RQAI) look no further. St. N. - Richmond Hill Phone 889-7701 ELGIN MILLS RQAD IEUSVTRIAL RD CROSBY AVE MARKHAM ROAD