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*7% It appears that Andre Champagne of Welland, Ont., took a turn for the worse Race Championships, Sunday at Puslinch Lake. Rider Chris Evans narrowly by wipingâ€"out in the third lap of the junior race at the Canadian National Ice misses Champagne in the turn. â€" Page 14 â€" Waterioo Chronicie, Wednesday, February 21, 1979 By Rick Campbell 4 To beat Stratford Cullitons, you have to play the way Waâ€" terloo Siskins did Sunday nightâ€"for the first half of the game. _ Limit the oppositions chances, skate like the blazes, check relentlessly and make the most of any chances that come your way. S ~ Siskins did exactly that in taking a 1â€"0 lead midway through the second, but couldn‘t stand the prosperity and adopted a philosophy of letting the Cuillitons bring the play to them. In Festival City tonight Which, as most people know, is akin to slitting your throat. In all fairmess it was two powerplay goals which gave Cullitons a 2â€"1 lead entering the third and although Waterloo rallied to tie early it was really Stratford‘s ball game as Sisks suffer needâ€"aâ€"push complex â€" DANA SAUNDERS ...goal a game *"What was unfortunate was I thought Stratford dominatâ€" ed us tonight, especially in the second period. Conversely we were on even terms with them Friday in Stratford." The line of Brad Schnurr, Grant Musselman and Dana Saunders continues to play redâ€"hot hockey for Waterioo but Sunday the other two forward lines barely worked their way up to lukewarm as far as scoring chances were concerned. Saunders opened the scoring and Musselman closed it for Waterloo with Al Boileau sandwiching a powerplay goal in between. Dan Forget‘s shorthanded goals with two and a half minuâ€" tes remaining put the icing on the cake for Stratford. Other Culliton goals went to Frank McCarthy, Terry Manning, Dave Petronski and Doug Kerr. they pulled away for a 5â€"3 win. The victory gives Stratford a 4â€"0 edge in the eightâ€"point semiâ€"final with the key game three in the Festival City tonâ€" ight. Game four is in Waterloo Friday. ‘‘*We‘re not dead yet, I can assure you we‘ll be up for Wedâ€" nesday‘s game," said a brave Siskin general manager Pete Brill. ‘"All I can do is look back at last year wheri we were in a similar situation and went into Stratford and won 5â€"2. ‘*We had to get more scoring out of our other two lines, they have to start producing too,"" said Brill. Dave Barrett appeared rather tentative in goal early in the game for Waterloo but when the going got tough he sparkled. making several outstanding saves. What killed Waterloo was that three of their five goals against came on second or third rebounds. One of the stories of the game was the play of Stratford goalie Rick Petrie, whose thievery demoralized several Sisâ€" kin snipers. o In the past three games against Petrie, Waterloo has pepâ€" pered him with 121 shots yet have only four goals to show for it. f Brill and Siskin coach Jack Egers talked before the game, deciding that the rough stuff is not the way to beat Stratâ€" ford. "He (Petrie) has come up big every time for them"‘ said Brill. "We‘ve certainly deserved a better fate than we‘ve received against Stratford this year. But Davey (Barrett) made some exceptional stops tonight too."" +‘We (Egers and Brill) figured that we‘d have to skate Notes: Saunders, Schnurr and Craig Frank scored in Friâ€" _ day‘s 7â€"3 opening game loss...Both teams started to run at each other and suffered in the sin bin department...Siskins _ are in a can‘t win situation with Frank. His muscle and scorâ€" â€" ing punch are needed ‘sorely at left wing, yet he has been invAluable on defence. Brill indicated soime front line chanâ€" ges might be in order tonight...In the other semiâ€"final, Elâ€" mira has taken a stranglehold over New Hamburg by virtue of their 6â€"3 win Sunday. The teams were tied 2â€"2 heading into the third but New Hamburg started laying on the lumber which cost them in the end. Elmira leads the series 6â€"0. right with them for 60 minutes and lay the body on,"‘‘ said the Waterloo GM. ‘"*But when we stopped doing that, they startâ€" ed to freewheel. We have to change that Wednesday. **Just remember, this series isn‘t over until one team gets eight points.‘"‘ CRAIG FRANK ... defence or forward