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«y _ PAGE 26 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1987 Chronicle Staff Last Thursday, before Waterioo Siskins won the Midwestern Junior B Hockey League goaltending trophy, John Davenport was keeping his fingers crossed. C â€" o â€" o ‘‘Touch wood, eh!" said the goaltender who has alternated with Scott MacDonald before seeing most of the action in January. Siskins led Stratford Cullitons by four in the goals against department going into the final weekend of regular season play and at that point Davenport was hoiding a 2.88 goalsâ€"against average. _ Richard O‘Brien Before Siskins played host to Cullitons on Sunday, Davenport had started all but two of Siskins‘ games in January. â€" Looking ahead to the quarterâ€"final playoffs in which Siskins will open :geainst Listowel Cyclones, Davenport sees the role of goaltenders taking on increased importance. "*(Siskin coach) Gerry (Harrigan) goes with the hot goaltender until he sees him getting too tired or he has a bad game," said Daveny »rt. "I had one bad game against Cambridge Winter Hawks in November but we won that game." _ **The goalitender‘s job is probably the most important on the ice. The better team could lose if the other goaltender‘s really hot." Last year, Siskins were in a playoff series with Kitchener Ranger B‘s that illustrates this point. Davenport recalls three games going into double overtime and one or two others being decided in single overtime before Siskins prevailec. Catharines, then handed Windsor Lancers a 3â€"0 ufioct&emudfit. As a result, Warriors took over first place in the Ontario Universities Athletic Association. Their lead, however, could be shortâ€"lived because secondâ€"place ‘Western Mustaings and thirdâ€"place York Yeomen each have two Richard O‘Brien Chronicle Staff Considering that you can‘t take home golden goose eggs, University of Waterioo hockey Warriors goalie Warriors dropped Brock Badgers 2â€"0 Friday in St. Bishop zeroes in on perfect weekend Sisk goalies best in Midwest Playoffs with Cyclones open Friday Bishop didn‘t give his opposition anything over Siskins‘ Bob Rintche (9) has a low shot go to the wrong hockey game of the regular season for the two clubs. side of Stratftord Cullitons‘ goalpost in final junior B _ Cullitons won 5â€"4. Mark Bryson photo in them, Bishop turned aside 26 shots from Badgers and 30 from Lancers. Warrior coach Don McKee reports that in each game Bishop made five or six big saves. ‘"We were concerned because our defensive producâ€" tivity had dropped a little bit over the last two or three weeks," said McKee. "We made it an objective this w::uktend to see if we could go out and do something a 16." goalie to record backâ€"toâ€"back shutouts, but Bishop said he believed it was the first time he had personally done so. "I can‘t remember ever having done that before," said Bishop, ‘"even when I was eight years old." The game in St. Catharines was a tough defensive battle. Warriors‘ Danls'ng: scored an early r-l and the 14 lead an People at UW were not sure who was the last OUAA John Davenport Davenport expects Cyclones to be tough in the first round. If and when Siskins have to deal with Cullitons, Davenport isn‘t too overly worried about Sean Heaphy because he has confidence in Greg Munroe‘s ability to watch the league‘s scoring leader. Heaphy scored one goal, giving him 67 at season‘s end, as Cullitons edged the secondâ€"place Siskins 5â€"4. Cullitons also played on Friday and gave up a few goals in a 9â€"4 win over Kitchener Ranger B‘s. _ ‘"‘The only team that bothers me is Elmira. I played them twice and I lost both games. They have a good team." â€" â€" o Heaphy took the scoring trophy with 130 points and was also named the league‘s most valuable player. Stratford teammate Pat Murray won the trophy for sportsmanship and ability. S At final count, Davenport and MacDonald shared the goaltender‘s trophy because Siskins had 125 goals against, seven less than Culliâ€" tons. Rookie of the year honors went to Sugar Kings goalie Mike Parson and two other Sugar Kings were honored. Bill Lane was named best defenceman and Dean Turgeon was named best defensive player.. _ Rob Blake scored twice on Sunday for Cullitons, who finished in first place with 35 wins and seven losses. Pierrick Maia and Colin Hanfeld were single goal scorers. _ e _ The bestâ€"ofâ€"five series with Cyclones opens Friday in Listowel at 8. The second game of the series will played Sunday at 7: 30 at the Waterloo arena. "_M"ivlié_G‘i;lfgél:l_éfiis:cgl"e‘a twice on the power play for Siskins, who also had god&ls from Dominic Niro and Dean DeSilva. _ _ Warriors have now gone 10 games without a loss and Don McKee said the wins on the road overshadowed victories on home ice the previous weekend. "I hope we can come home and play real solid hockey," said McKee, "because I think our perforâ€" mances in our two road games were much stronger than our performances against McMaster and Ryerâ€" son at home."‘ Warriors have two home games at Columbia Icefield this weekend. University of Toronto Blues are mmmw-u:nmcmwerymfln at 2: 30. empty net goal with just four seconds remaining. Wigle also scored in Windsor along with John Dietrich and Jamie McKee. Scott Dick earned two asâ€"