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Which is the way I feel now ‘when I dwell on that just-completed series before the Rams and Wexford Raiders. Especially that third game which saw the Rams go down to defeat in the third overtime iptgrigd. If you're a fan you probably know by now that high-scoring Mike Hartman had the whole world in his hand (so to speak) when he was granted a penalty-shot in one of the overtimes with the game tied. If he scored the Rams would lead the series by three games to one. erick. “We cordially invite Mr. Fred Simpson to to try out the trampoline and we will safely teach him to do a seat bounce.” I Seat bounce? Do it all the time in my Mav- VOL. 97, NO. 35. Not that winning is everything, of course. But it sure would be a good tonic for Spring. Especially since the Rams and the Nats and the Kings ended up losers. There I go again. Dreaming. Anyway, Spring is coming and I know good things, winning things can’t be far behind. Maybe I’ll go out and buy me some marbles and start again. Which is what I’m trying to do. Don’t forget, there’s still one major blast left to winter and that’s the seventh annual Richmond Hill Legion Midget Hockey Tourna- ment which will be the biggest show in town from March 18 to 24. Thirty-two teams will be in town. Here I go again. But wouldn’t it be s'wonderful if our local Midgets got hot and won that tournament for the first time in seven years? I mean, what a way to exit winter. Be a winner. TAKE NOTE Anyone interested in participating and/or viewing the high-flying art of trampolining should turn out to watch the local club in action. Sez the note from Head Coach Frank Juhasz: “The Richmond Hill Trampoline Club prac- tices every Tuesday and Wednesday from 6:30 to 8:45 pm at the Bayview High School Gym- nasium. It’s funny how talking about losing (espec- ially in cold, grim February) sends my thoughts reeling back to that fateful day years ago when I lost 11 straight games. Playing marbles. There I was. One second I had a full bag of marbles, was young, happy. Then I was reduced to poverty. An empty bag. _ History, of 'course, has recorded that Mr. Hartman ended up hitting the goalpost and that the Rams went on to lose that game and the next two. The Rams died after that one and you can’t really blame them. They might have gone on to lose the series in any case but after that mar- athon epic they just had nothing left. [â€"â€" By Fred Simpson Ditto the 'Nvats who literally blew a 4â€"0 lead in a game at North Bay Friday night while leading their best-of-seven series by three games to two. The North Bay squad came back to tie it at 4-4, win it, and then take the final one. Almost a foregone conclusion. The moral of it all? N0 MORAL No moral. The Rams ran out of gas, the Nats psyched themselves out of the series by blowing that four-goal lead. So it goes. But, all in all, it was a very satisfying sea- son and we all can’t be winners. The Rams, under Coach Karl Brimblecombe, did remarkably well and there’s always next season. Carry on. Which is what I’m trying to do. How can I go on? Here it is the end of February and I feel like a discarded old paint brush. Who snowed on my parade? What hap- pened to those green years? _ I could continue on to mention the Oak Ridges Kings who suffered from an overdose of trauma this past season in their first try at Junior “B” hockey in finishing 11th in a 12- team loop. Here's t6 the losers. Bless them all. Which beginning serves to remind me of the rather early demise of our beloved Richmond Hill Rams of the Provincial Junior “A” Hockey League. Not to mention the Vaughan Nats of the same league who also went down to defeat. Think Make Believe Besides, who’s Fred Simpson? PENALTY-SHOT BLUES MIDGET TOURNEY To The Losers FOR FAST RESULTS A classified ad in “The Liberal" is a good way to turn out-grown or unneeded items into cash. It’s easy to order your ad. Just phone 884-1105-6 f or direct-line SEE OUR WANT ADS Sport Spot: RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1974 ’fled Simpson Nigro, Bowers, Girard and Wood potted the greenmen's goals with assists going to Madden with two and Chris Nye with one. Bowers started the scoring from Gentry and Jamie Gropp. Blair Lewis let a beauty go from Jerry Leger and the hard-working Nor- man from Wood got the greenmen's last tally. Tournaments 4, Thornth 1 Then came a weekend of glory with Tournaments set- ting Thornhill back on their heels 4-1 last Saturday. in the best of five series. They now will play against a northern town in the next series but the exact opposi- tion is not yet known. The second game February 1:7 was a heartbreaker as Thornhill edged Tournaments 4-3. It was a tie game all the way until Thomhill went ahead with only one minute left to play. Tournaments Inc took the third series of the OMHA playdowns by defeating Thornhill three games to one In the series against Thom- hill, Tournaments took the first game 5-2 and lost the second 4-3. They won the third game 4-1 and the fourth game 4-3. Tournaments 5, Thornhlll 3 In the first game, played February 16, the greenmen went to Markham and came back with a victory. The red machine couldn't do right, the greenmen couldn't do wrong. This win was really a team effort. Stars for extra effort would go to Norman. Peter Halliday, Dino Capotosto (for his fine job in the net) and Stephen Bowers (for his never-ending penalty killing). Thornhlll 4, Tournaments 3 “Digger” Steve Bowers started the ball rolling with a pretty goal from Gary Gentry. Tommy Pedden from Phil Wood and a lot of hard work from Stan Norman re- sulted in tally number two. A boomer from Frank Nigro unassisted was number three. Another solo effort from Danny Girard was number four. Gentry from Nigro netted number five. The Tramp Champs, fea- turing Jack Weber and Wayne King (Junior and Senior Canadian Trampoline Champs) Will be instructing in basic and advanced tram- polin-invg. Tournaments Defeat Thornhill Third Round OMHA Playdowns Tournaments scored three times while Shorthanded in a passing and skating game which saw every boy work hard. Tamara Bum-pa, Canada's national coach for women in modern dance 'wil be hand- ling the dance aspect of floor exercise. As well as the above in- structors, there will be eight additional teachers with top qualifications in vaulting, The school, under the dd- rectbon of John Laughlin, is unique in that it will feature Individualized attention with one Instructor for every six students. There will be excellent f-a- cilities with 1a double gymna- sium and two additional large teaching areas plus an abundance out equipment. Instructing will be Marilyn Savage, who was Canada’s Olympic Coach from 1968 'to 1972. She will specialize in attendance instructing on the balance team and will also assist the students in routine composition Tom Zivic. 1Jhe head of York University Gymnastics and Men‘s Canadian National Coach. will be instructing in vaulting and tumbling. frampoline. horizontal \ban The calibre and capability of the instructors’ maching at the school will be excep- tional. Nobleton S e n- i o r Public School will be the scene of a gymnastics school March 18 to 22 featuring some of Canada’s most notable in- s'tlructors. At Nobleton School Gymnastic Course March 18 It’s hard to pick stars but It was Jan knocking home two goals again in the 3-1 win with Sue O’Connell get- ting the other one. Assists to Pat Loh-man, Brenda Reid, and Bonnie Bryan. Linda Turnbull got the lone Maple goaL That first game saw Jan firing home two goals in the 4-3 win with Les McCleave and Bonnie Bryan getting the other ones. Assists went to Debby Jones, Bryan. Mc- Cleave. Baxter and Sue O'Connel. For Maple it was Leslie Hood, Terry Tax-ling and Michaela Weidenfeldt doing the scoring. It was a 1-1 game late in the third period, the Tourn- ament goal coming from Madden assisted by Bowers and Gentry. Thorn-hill made it 2-1. With one second to go Good Ole Woodsy from Dig- ger Bowers tied up the game. The fans went wild. And for theâ€"red machine Numbers 10, 14 and 35 play- maLx-gally great hockey. The Richmond Hill Gorm- ley Sand and Gravel girls hockey team eliminated Maple Lions in two straight games Saturday 4-3 and 3-1 scores. Leading the way in the two-game win was Jan Bax- ter__withrfour goals. one would have to be Madden (he never stopped digging), Stephen Price (for his great job in the nets), Bowers (for his penalty killing), Blair Lewis and Jamie Gropp (for their defensive play). Tournaments 4. Thornhill 3 Game number four played Sunday has got to be the most exciting. nerve-racking game the parents have ever been put through. and Toum- aments came out on top 4-3. Overtime was worse. Wood put it away unassisted. Thornhill tied it up with only 40 seconds to go. Then with only 19 seconds to go Peden from Wood put it away. Stars would have to go to Wood (for his two very im- portant goals), Peden (for his winning goal) Price for his great net-minding), Bowers and Madden (their legs never stopped working). Hill Girls Oust Maple By4-3, 3-1 In Older that the ratio of six students to one instruc- tor be maintained registra- tion will be limited to a maximum of 75 students so early registration is sugges- ted to avoid disappointment. Registration forms and brochures‘ giving additional information may be obtained by writing Mr. Lauglhlin or phoning him at Aurora at 727-2043 (after 5:30 pm) or at work 'at 859-4590 from 9 am to 3 pm. The school will run daily from Monday rto Friday dur- ing the week of March 18-22 from 9 am to 12:30 pm. The school is coâ€"educatlo- nal but students will be grouped according ‘to sex and ability. Registration fee is $45 for the week and may be paid in full or with a $20 deposit with the balance due March 11. The school is located on Highway 27, one half mile norUh of the King Sideroad. A bus service will be run for those students having diffi- culty arranging transporta- Lion, However, bus stops and pick up areas are subject to change with registration. There is no restriction on age. a chance to specialize in the pieces of apparatus of his or her choice. Each student registering will be exposed to five pie- ces of apparatus per day with the last 45 minutes de- voted to giving the student parallel bars, uneven paral- lel bars. uneven parallels, balance beam, floor exercise and tumbling. Wednesday's 7-4 loss in Wexford saw the Rams start- ing strong in the first period but gradually running out of gas. They were in the battle until the final minute of the second period when with Wexford leading 3-2 the Raiders struck for two goals in 14 seconds and it was all 0V8!“ He used Richmond Hill's high-scoring star Mike Hart- man as a prime example of his theory. “Mike Vdidn’t score in the last three or four games be- cause he was simply pooped‘ The Rams scored twice in the final 20 minutes but Wex- ford also rapped home two. W e x f o r d outshot the Rams 32-21 on the game with the first period fairly even although Wexford had nine shots on Brian Stan- kiewicz while Steve Napier was handling five. Cross- Country Skiing “We were fairly free of in- juries.” he said, “while the Richmond Hill team were having their problems this way. Then again we've been coming on very strong since Christmas and it seems to me we peaked at the proper time." The Rams got off to a promising start with Dave Stuart scoring on a power- play at 4:11 off a neat three- way passing performance with Rick Febbo and Mike Hartman. The Wednesday and Friday night loses followed on the heels of a marathon three over-time period 4-3 loss to Wexford Tuesday night of last week and resulted in the Rams losing their best-of- seven playoff four games to two. He acknowledged that the longer the series went the weaker the Rams' chances were. It was the same story last seaSOn as they were downed by Vaughan Nationals by the same four games to two re- sult. Wexford’s Coach Steve Tobias probably pinpointed the results of the final three games when he commented after Friday's final game that: BIG DIFFERENCE “I feel the big difference in those final three games was the fact that we had 18 players all receiving the same ice-time against Richmond Hill’s five or six outstanding players who were trying to carry the burden." Metro Region Conserva- ‘t'ion's manly winter areas axre perfect spots to enjoy On~ tario’s fastest growing snow sport â€" cross-country ski- in‘g. Historic Black Creek Pio- neer Village offers pleasant and unusual surroundings. At Jane Street (and Steeles Avenue rthe village is conven- iently located on the Jlane bus line. The other areas are: Al- bion Hills â€" Five miles north of Bolton on Highway 50; Boyd â€"- Two miles north of Wood-bridge on Isling- ton Avenue north; Bruce's Mill â€" two miles east of Don Mills Road on viihe Gormley/Stoufflee Road; Claireville â€"- On Highway 7 one mile west of Highway 50; Cold Creek â€"- Between Bolton and Nobleton 'tJhree miles north of the King Side- road on Concession 11: Greenwood â€" Four miles north of Pickering on mhe Greenwood Road; Heart Lake â€"« Approximately four miles north of Highway 7 east of Brampton on the Heart Lake Road. T h e r e are refreshment booths and heated shelters at Playoff Trail Ends For Outmanned Rams The Richmond Hill Provincial Junior “A” Rams suffered a fuel shortage in their final two games of the 1973-74 seasonal playoffs with Wexford Raiders. In fact: They simply ran out of gas. End result was a 7-4 and 4-2 loss which spelled doom to the Rams in the first round of the playoffs for the second straight season de- spite their share of thrill providing. Come in and see a completely new Vollflgveagenrrh Wexford got the goal back Rams Lose @ DASHER A new kinJ of Volkswagen. at 11:14 with Big Bill Has- sard beating Stankiewicz on a pass from Rob Trimble. 7 -4 Wexford the second period as the Raiders were content to con- trol the play. In the third period Gra- ham Hall put the visitors out in front 3-0 at 10:42 assisted by Tim Regan. The Rams kept plugging and it paid off at 17:03 as Jim Roffey scored on a pass from Dave Dunkley. Then came Coach Carl Brimbiecombe's big "‘11" or nothing at all" gamble as he removed Goalie Brumwell with about three minutes left fora sixth attacker with the score 4-1. The move backfired 40 sec- onds later as Wexford’s Steve Major sent Paul DeMarco away to slide the puck into the empty net. Back came Brumweil. Then with but 37 seconds left “Digger” Dunkley put the puck behind Steve Napier to make it 4-2. Bob Bangay and Jack Guest assisted on the play. The Raiders open their - best-of-seven series with North Bay Trappers to- night (Wednesday) at Hy- land Arena at 8:15 pm. The battling Rams moved into a 2-1 lead at 3:38 of the middle period when Ernie Takeuchi, back in the line-up after receiving a concussion earlier in the series. broke in alone to score unassisted. That goal ignited Wexford instead of the Rams and they went on to score four straight unanswered goals before the period ended. Bruce Carrigan scored at 12:53; Peter Sands at 17:41 with the Killers being goals by Andy Vince at 19:26 and Graham Hall at 19:40. Dave “Digger” Dunkley got Rams’ third goal of the game at the beginning of the third period at 2:28 with Neil Burns getting that one back at 6:14. Sands got the seventh goal at 10:05 with Febbo scoring the final one at 14:08 unas- sisted. out. Especially in the third period of each of those games. That's the story of the series." That final game : ford’s Dan Tobias the scoring at 12:: first period assisted Vince. Just 24 sect it was Vince be: These areas, operated by the Metro Conservation; Au- thority, are open 10 am to sundown daily. For further information and up-to-d-mbe snow condi: tions please contact Metro Oonsexvation at 630-9780. Admission to all areas except Black Creek is $1.50 per car. Village admission is 500 for adults and 25c for children (under 15 years) with parking free. Albion Hills, Black Creek. Bruce’s Mil‘l. 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