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WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28,1987, PAGE 15 w SPO RTS WEEK Atoms.winAA silver stick titie Brooklln-Whitby minor atoms won three straiglit games over the weekend in Newmarket to become 1987 AA international silver stick champions. Whitby had qualified for the in- ternational silver stick by win- ning the regional silver stick in Ajax over the Christmas holidays. Whitby's silver stick record remains unscathed by losses as Whitby won a seven out of seven games in both Ajax and Newmarket. Coaches Brian Dillon and Jim Young credited the players for team effort, enthusiasm and s portsmanship througliout the tournament. ARl team members contributed to Whitby's *success tlirougli goals, assists and good goaltending. Ini the first gamne, Whitby defeated Stratford 5-3. Paul Brooks began the scoring with a goal assisted by Wayne Primeau. Paul Dillon, Andre Marois, PrimeaU and Brooks once again, fired four more goals. Jon Racicot and Derek Young each earned an assist. Stephen St. Amand, backed up by the team,. guarded the net un- dauntingly against a persevering Stratford team. In the second game, Whitby overwhelmed Guelphi 11-2. Whit- by's il goals and 15 assists were shared by varlous team mem- bers. Marois, Primeau, and Young had two goals each, while Craig Talent, Brooks, Jeff Mon- taigue, Dilon, and Jim Brown had one each. -Double assists came, from Dillon, Brooks, Mike Hogan and Racicot, while singles came from, Talent,' Mat'Muir, Brown, Tim Chai, Primeau, Young and Marois. Whitby's goaltender, Jamie 'Hogel, played solidly tliroughout the game. The third game brought Ajax and Whitby,- both - undefeated together once again ini the silver stick championship match. Ajax remained a scoring tbreat tliroughout the game, but Whitby combined offensive thrust and defensive strength, backed by St. Amand's superb goaltending, to win 4-0. Tim Chai put in the first goal on assists "from Marois, and Mike Wye,-as well as the last goal on an assist froni Racicot.' Two more goals came from Mai'ois assisted by Talent and Brooks, assisted by Young. Whitby's minor atoms, spon- sored by Checker's Variety, will be travelling to Barrie this coming weekend for an inter- national AAA minor tournamént. Peewees hng on to win in Blenh.eim* .Brooklin-Whitby mi- nor peewee ail-stars withstood a furious late- game attack by Milton to win the final and the cliampionship of a tour- pament in Blenheim recently., Whitby entered the third period of the final With a 2-0 lead. Milton ,evened the score before Whitby got two more >goals to lead 4-2. Witli tiine running out and Whtby already shortlinded after a penalty cail, Milton puiled their goaltender to add another attacker and narrowed the score to 4-3 wth 44- seconds left. But Whitby h eld on to daim the champion- ship. Z. Hayden provided clutch goaltending for Whitby. B. Stella scored what. proved to be the winning goals on a setup by D. Copeland, while P. Allison, B. French and K. Vipond had the other Whitby goals. Whitbycruised to a 7- 2 win over Woodstock in the first game of the tournarient whicli in- cluded A,*AA and AAA teams. M. Brillinger scored twice for Whitby witli singles to J. Mclvor, Allison, Stella, Frenchi and Copeland. McIvor and R. Shanahan. eacli liad two assists while S. McAdam was in net for the winners. -Whitby reached the final by upsetting the tournament favorites, Chatham, in a thrilling overtimeganie. Stella scored the win- ning goal for Whitby with two minutes remaining i the over- time period. Vipond assisted. Cliathami took a 2-0 lead in the game but Whitby charged back to even the score at 3-3 before the end of regulation time. Copeland scored two goals, and Alilson had the other . Mclvor had two assists while W. Stevenson, J. Jolinston, Stella and Vipond also had assists in regulation time, whicli featured fine goaltending by Hayden. C. Stillar was strong defensively for Whitby- in all three wis. Currie in national1 swiLm meet At the recent Ontario Cup swim meet, Whitby resident Janice Currie qualified ' for the national senior dham- pionships to lie held in Winnipeg *froni Jan. 31 to Feb. 3. Currie, a member of the Whitby ý'Iroqu ois Swixn CluL made, the qualifylng -ftandard for the 200 individual medley but she had to do it the liard way. After , .narrowly missing the qualifying time during Friday's competition, she was entered in a time trial on the final day of the meet where she bet- tered the national stan'- dard. withý a time of 2:29.17. Competing at the senior nationals, is a result of liard work and dedication to the sport, whicli requires lier to put -in'14-16 hours of pool traiing and an ad- ditional three to four hours of weight traininig each week. Sucli stanidards have made the i5-year-old Grade 10 student an A student at Trafalgar Castle Scliool. Whitby team hot in cold January Whitby 0s major atoms have lost only one game since returning to regular season play af- ter. the Christmas break. The atoms, coaclied by Wayne Lylyk, have wins over Oshiawa, Newmarket, .Orillia, Tliornhiil and have twice beaten Pickering. King City lias lianded Whitby its only loss in pegular play in January thusý far, a 54 decision Jan. 12. The Whitby team, sponsored by Algoma Orchards, also . tied Unionville 1-1 Jan. 20. In a tournament i Napanee Jan. 17, Whit- by downed Belleville 3-1 before being bouned from furtlier action -by 'Kingston, 4-3, in the second game. Brett Rayne, Scott MacDonell and David Lylyk had goals in the Beileville contest while Jason Bonnyman scored twice and Paul Moore once in the loss to Kingston. Whitby lias a well- balanced scoring attack that lias made the team one of the more .domtinbant in local AA aàtonxply.- , ROB ARGALIS goes in the air to net two points agamnst the Vanier Vikings during a tournament at Central Collegiate Institute in Oshawa last Thursday. Anderson won the game. Anderson loses Argalis Anderson CVI's senior boys basketball team has, got, off to a good start this season thanks in part to the play of Rob Argalis. But the team, with two wins and no losses, will now have to play out the remaining schedule witliout the taîl centre who- just completed sehool at the conclusion of the past semester. "It liurts when you lose your centre," says coadch Dave Phiilips. "He's fairly big, strong, and lie's got brains. " Anderson has wins over Uxbridge Secon- dary School and Central Collegiate Institute of Oshawa. There are now six games to play SEE PAGE.17 future, are to earn a swimming scholarship from a university in the United States and swlm at the- internati'onal' JANICE CURRIE »level. More immedi ate, she hopes to. make the national standard in the 100 and 200 backsteoke. Head coach, Lucie Hewitt - Henderson of the Whitby club, feels Currie sliould qualify' for these events in time for, the ,next senior national championships which take place in August. Currie wili be making the trip west with teammate Heather Ar- mitage who is coni- peting for the second time at the national --cliampionships. Juveniles clinch sécond with win The juvenile hockey team froni Whitby cli- clied second place in area league play with a 3-0 win over Markham Saturday niglit at Iroquois Park arena.' Peter. Tyms, Dan Love and Brad Ashby scored for Whitby with Andy Barnard getting the shutout. Whitby liad earlier defeated Markham 10-4 and last Tuesday, lost 5- 4 to Richimond Hill. "'ne guys- have picked up a lot since the beginning of the year,"l says assistant -coacli Jim Mason. In international silver stick play in Mooretown (near Sarnia) recently, Whitby wonone of three games. Whitby outshot Richi- mond Hiil 40-23 but lost 8-2 in the first. game. Whitby edged Stratford 5-4 and then lest 5-2 to Grimsby, the eventual champions, in the semi- final. The teani, çoached by Pat Sears, iil likely meet Pickering in *playoffs. l' ý ý-