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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 2 May 1984, p. 1

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now You No. " Vim-y. any 2, Waterloo Siokino assistant captain Todd Lovoday (loft) and Scott Bingo carry tho Suthorland Trophy around tho loo Bttr%ttq at tho Watorioo arono in a victory lap Sunday night attor Siokino won tho Ontario junior B hockoy ett-htetstttp with a 5-2 win ovor Strootovillo Dorbyo in tho oovonth and dociding gomo. It woo tho oovonth championship in Siokino' history, ”nothing no other toorn has accomplished. Soo aloo pogoo 22 and 23 for picturoo and story. woman-o Getting himself fit! - SEE PAGE; VICTORY ON ICE THIS WEEK INS'IDEI Seniors at our schools ~SEEPAO¢5 tittats6to>tarhtt "ettrtft11t..t11eetef Richard O'Brien Chronicle Staff Twenty long years. That's how much time passed between Waterloo Siskins' sixth Ontario junior B hockey championship in 1964 and their seventh on Sunday, April 29, 1984. Only four current players - Chris Lang, Tim Fedy, Darren Hupp and Pat Hinne- gm - were even Born before Siskins won for the sixth time. But the seventh championship, the re- sult or a sa home ice victory over Streets- ville Derbys, makes Siskins the airtime Ou- tario leaders with one more championship than Sarnia. The win also prom- ises to make the 1% players the focus of attention when Sistins hold their 50th anniver- sary reunion June no 17. It could also help coach Gerry Harrigan realise his ambition to coach a major junior A team. However, Harrigan and manager Pete Brill didn't bother the players with talk of the reunion during the playoffs. - "We wanted them to worry about what they had to do while we worried about the "th," said Brill. "We didn't want them to get caught up in the Sistins had a chance to take the champhn- ship Friday night In Streetsvme but lost " after letting In early " lead shinny. “I was jinn! unhappy to will at home'," Har- Hail, hail our' kings of hockey rigan said. "It was a super crowd. What bet- ter way to win after 20 years than in your own building." Celebrations began on the ice after the final buzzer and contin- ued in the Siskin dress- ing room among trails of champagne and beer spray. Someone even jok- ingly suggested going to Streetsville‘s dress- ing room to take their champagne. Par-tying continued at the Bing Cr. home of After a night of outlying, Whit droppod Into Mayor lunatic Carroll's one. with their trophy Monday. --ttEE PAGE " Tigers look Siskin executive Greg Beaupre. where players watched the te- levised highlights of John Mekerrow scor- ing his third goal of the game into an empty net with just 44 seconds re- maining. Celebrations contin- ued Monday morning with a drive through Waterloo in Harrigan’s pickup truck (complete with siren) and a stop- over at mayor Mar- iorie Carroli's offtee with the championship trophy. '

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