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But Harrigan feels the talâ€" ent is there to turn it around during the Siskins‘ stretch run. "We lost to Stratford and Elmira twice. Those are the teams we have to beat in order to get ahead and we didn‘t." "That really hurt," said Jerry Harrigan, doing double duty with the club as both head coach and GM While the Waterloo club has been knocking on that door, they haven‘t been invited in to join the upper echelon clubs like first place Elmira and second place Owen Sound. And their nine road lossâ€" es have proven to be the difâ€" ference. Even if the Siskins had won four of those games they would be a point out of second place behind Owen Sound. here‘s no place like I home for the Waterloo Siskins as the Junior B hockey club tries to secure home ice advantage in the final 15 games of regular season play. And they don‘t need to ask the Wizard of Oz for answers on how to improve their chances. They just have to show more courage on the road and display more heart when going to the net. Using their brains to stay out of the penalty box wouldn‘t hurt either. The lack of timely goal scoring and poor road play caused the Siskins to stumâ€" ble into the Christmas break with losses to Elmira and Stratford. That dropped the team to fifth place in the 10â€"team league with a 17â€"12â€"4 record. When the Siskins started the season the club thought it would be battling for the top three positions. The Siskins‘ slide began at the start of December and continued for most of the month as the team won only three of eight games. Siskins hit the home stretch Instructional _ #P" ; "W@ > UV »UPDUC® courses Your Mshin‘ headquarters Accessones 10 Wyman Rd., Unit 4, Waterioo _ 746â€"2650 Large selction ‘PORT y g AINBOA SPOR7( ‘We have a better skating ppmpprmmemmemmmmemen l UUUUAAUUUSY ROYAL LEPAGE IDopppooeet )11 )1011)11 SCHARF REALTY INDEPENDENTLY OWNED AND OPERATED. BROKER 5D0 WESTMOUNT RD N. WATERLOO 747â€"2040 Bos Vréanac Chronicle Staff Fiyâ€"tying & fishing supplies "Until they start putting numbers on the board, we‘re just going to be an average hockey team," said Harrigan. "Every line has to score, and they have that ability. "Good teams find a way to win and we haven‘t been able to find that way to win, simple as that." The biggest problem, according to Harrigan, has been his young club‘s inconâ€" sistency. ~. Most of his alder veterans are doing the job, like capâ€" tain Simon Watson who is eighth in league scoring with 49 points. But the meat of his lineup has been disappointing as second and third year veterâ€" ans have failed to step up. "Maybe we don‘t have the right mix of veteran players to carry the load," said Harrigan. "We‘re young but I don‘t want to hold that as an excuse." Harrigan needs veterans like Brent MacDermid, Chris Drexler, Matt Schnarr and Nathan Kloet to contribute if the Siskins are to secure a topâ€"three finish and homeâ€" ice advantage for a firstâ€" round playoff series. And the play of rookies like Eric Grenier, John Mitchell, John Thiel, Derek O‘Malley and Richard Weiler has been a surprise. team than we did last year, and at times we really play well," he said. "Sometimes we‘re specâ€" tacular and other times we‘re just mediocre. That pretty well sums up our team." Jerry Harrigan For all your real estate needs call Royal LePage â€" Scharf Realty, Ted Scharf, Broker The Waterloo Warriors‘ Amanda Kieswetter looks to take her defender off the dribble against Concordia last Thursday. The Warriors avoided the early morning Egg McMuffin game on the last day of the tournament with a 61â€"56 comeâ€"fromâ€"behind win over the Concordia Stingers. And â€" Bluevale Knights‘ grad Nicole Consitt has become the constant in that winning equation. Getting the shooting guard the ball was the key to the Warriors‘ first win in two years â€" at their â€" annual Christmas Shootâ€"out tournaâ€" ment last week. And _ the _ Waterloo Warriors women‘s basketball team have proved to be no exception. As the program continues its rise to prominence, it‘s looking for a catalyst to take the team to the next level â€"a berth in the national finals. The â€" thirdâ€"year health studies major leads her team in scoring and is sixth in the nation in scoring with a 17.7 game average. uccessful _ basketball Steams are all about findâ€" ing the winning formula on the floor. Nicole Consitt Warriors‘ constant By BoB VRBANAC Chronitce Staff Consitt helped take the sting out of the Stingers by leading all scorers with 21 points, including a sevenâ€" forâ€" seven performance from Warriors‘ shooting guard Nicole Consitt blows past the Stingers The Warriors eventually earned a berth in the bronze medal game of the threeâ€"day tournament, losing a 65â€"63 the freeâ€"throw line _Choosing a hometown school has worked out well for the former high school squeaker to finish in fourth "Looking for my shot has become my role," said Consitt. "And I try to fill it as best as possible." The biggest adjustment for the scrappy Consitt has been to the physical play. But _ the softâ€"spoken Consitt hasn‘t let that stop her from becoming Waterloo‘s own silent assasâ€" in league play, sinking dagâ€" gers into opponents with a wellâ€"timed threeâ€"pointer, or some cluth free throws from the charity stripe. "You end up getting knocked around a lot, and the referees let things go a lot more," said the 21â€"yearâ€" old. Consitt was an immediâ€" ate starter for the Warriors, and has played key minutes for the black and gold in each of her three years. "It‘s been a good experiâ€" ence," said Consitt. "Right off the bat he‘s (head coach Tom O‘Brien) given me a lot of opportunity to play and develop my game."