eet @. Terrace Review — Wednesday, April6, 1988 13 | The four teams on “B’ side for round: robin play at the B.C. midget hockey champlonships In Terrace lined up for operning ceremonies on March 27. Game by game Flodin, Chris Fallis, Garnet Ryall, Bill MacGillivray and - Scott McGeachy hit the scoresheet as well. Dawson Creek’s Jason Rand broke the shutout bid. Terrace went out in the day’s third game seeking their first win, and they were still in the game after two periods. But three unanswered Prince George goals in the third killed Terrace’s chances. It was Prince George up 3-0 in the first, 4-2 in the second, and going to the dressing room with a 7-2 win. This game was costly to Ter- race. Rookie defenceman Doug Stewart was knocked out of the series with a knee injury, and forward Rod Epp wound up with a broken shoulder. Two Jasons — Krug and Wiley — scored for Terrace. Brad Smith and Troy J ohnson - had two each for the winners. Also scoring was Gary Vallent- goed, Jamie Heard and Jason Vanbuskirk. Thirty-one minors in this con- test. Prince George also picked’ up a misconduct. Hockey and ‘the Jasons’ The ‘‘Friday the 13th’? horror movie series has a killer named Jason who keeps reviving in film after film to add to his list of vic- tims. Weil, the 1988 midget | ‘AAA! hockey championships had a lot of players named Jason, and overall the 11 hockey ‘Jasons’ came up with 23 goals. Here’s our ‘Jason’ scoring tally, with the number of goals they scored in brackets. Terrace — Wiley (1), Krug Prince George — Zilkie (1), Vanbuskirk (3). ’ North Shore — Calla (0), Jen- nings (8). | Dawson Creek — Rand (4), Tuckes (2) Fimrite, Nelson — Ward (2). Victoria — Walton (0). Surrey and Kamloops had no ‘Jason’ players in their lineup. Game seven was expected to be the best game so far, and it was by far. _ North Shore battled Surrey in the day’s fourth encounter and came up with a 4-2 win. Hard-skating and hard-hitting described the game out front. It also featured solid netminding on both sides. Surrey took a 2-1 lead to the dressing room after 20 minutes, but North Shore rapped in the only two markers in the second frame to hold a 3-2 margin heading home. Their only goal of the third turned out to be an insurance effort, The North Van lads got most of the minors — 11 out of 16 — but displayed a solid penalty- killing effort, Andrew Wilson, Rob Tadey, Derek Lee and Brad Kyllo scored for the winners, while Garnet Ryall and Brian McNie tallied for the losers. North Shore won all of their round-robin games. The last game of the day saw ‘Prince George run their round- robin record to 3-0 and a first- place finish in their round-robin continued from page 12 side as they downed Kamloops 7-5 in a top-notch contest. Prince George went ahead 2-0 in the first. They added two more early in the second before watching their 4-0 lead collapse when Kamloops scored the next four goals. Near the end of the third period, Prince George was up 6-5. With about one minute left they added the final goal to ice the cake. It was a three-goal effort for George’s Eric O’Brien and a pair from Jamie Hearn. Kevin Mal- gunas and Troy Johnson also netted markers. David Bond had two of Kam- loops’ goals, Sean Nolan, Mike Porco and Davis Payne scored the others. The conclusion of this game set up the semi-finals for the next day. North Shore (first on ‘A’ side) would go against Kamloops (second on ‘B’ side). The other semi-final had Prince George (first on ‘B’ side) against Surrey (second on ‘B’ side). It also meant that the final two round-robin games on day three’s morning session involved Chairman Jean Paul, left, presented the ‘Falr Play’ trophy to Surrey cap- taln Ryan Seldler during final presentations for the B.C. midget triple ‘AAA’ Minor Hockey championships on March 30. « the four teams that would event- ually finish from fifth to eighth positions. © The first two games on day three would determine the: winless teams in each round- robin section. Dawson Creek got that unwanted honor in the first matchup when they lost 10-7 to Nelson. In. a rather-mild first period, Nelson took a 1-0 lead, then held a 4-3 lead going into the third. In the third, Nelson moved into an 8-3 lead and it appeared to be ‘game over’, But the Dawson boys scored four in a row and suddenly we had a challenging game. As it turned out, the Dawson outburst was all they could muster as they fell three goals short. The first and only five-goal performance was turned in by Nelson’s Brian Boates. He got support in two goals from Rick Lindstein and singles by Steve Pol, Dwayne Derouso and Dean Centrone, Jason Rand and Jason Juckes each notched a pair for Dawson Creek, Aaron Montgomery, Ri- chard Reid and Clint Switzer potted the others. Dawson had 12 of the game’s 22 minor penalties. The game gave Nelson third and Dawson Creek fourth spots in their divi- sion. Terrace needed a win to stay out of the basement on ‘B’ side of the round-robin, but such was not the case in the final round- robin game of the series. As in their previous two en- counters, Terrace was in the game for two periods before folding. Victoria went up 2-1 in the first and had a 5-4 lead start- ing the third. They added three unanswered tallies and posted an- 8-4 victory. Each team picked up 12 minor penalties. Eric Ojalla and Harvey Stev- enson hit the double mark in goals for the winners. Victoria _ also got singles from Craig and Scott Didmour, Ken Phalen and ‘Dale Wilson, Shane Maitland, John Alm- gren, Derek Phillips and Mitch Shinde handled the Terrace scor- ing, continued on page 14 Midget finals trivia The number ‘seven’ came — up in final game scores 10 times in the 18-game midget ‘AAA’ hockey champion- ships. It was the score on the winning side nine times. Dawson Creek also had a seven-goa] game, but it was a loser. Midget hockey has been noted for fighting and miscon- ducts, but the Terrace series was relatively quiet. Officials, who handled the series in a most efficient manner, called 12 five-minute majors, six 10-minute misconducts, six game misconducts and two match penalties (five plus game), They also called 368 two-minute minors over 18 games, for an average of 20.4 minors in each contest, Surrey won the ‘fair play’ trophy as the team having the best game-average with fewest penalties. In five. encounters, Surrey was fingered only 36 times. They also had one misconduct. Surrey averaged 7.2 minors per game. Top goalscorer for the ; series was Nelson’s Brian Boates with nine. This in- cludes a five-goal game against Dawson Creek. Runnerup was Jason Jennings of North Shore with eight. Jennings, Boates, Brian _MeNie and Craig Johnson of Surrey and Eric O’Brien of Prince George managed the only hat-tricks in 18 games. The Cromie Cup, symboliz- ing the triple ‘AAA’ midget supremacy in B.C., was 50 years old this year. It was first won in the 1938 season by Merritt, Terrace won the trophy once in the early 80’s. North Shore Winter Club takes over as champs from the 1987 winner from Richmond. The North Shore lads played an impressive 65 games over the season, They won 58, lost six and tied one, Nearly all the special souvenir items on sale during the four-day tournament were gobbled up by local and visiting fans. They sold hats, mini-sticks, special pucks, shirts, pins and $2 programs. Fans also spent time in the banquet room which was set up for a quiet brew and view through the new bay windows out onto the ice surface. Organizers felt attendance overall was quite good. Some thought more fans would have turned out if Terrace had been scheduled for a night game. But the schedule was set up by B.C.A.H.A. vice-president Al Mathews two weeks prior and | couldn’t be changed despite pleas from Terrace organizers. Organizers and linesmen were all graded = by B.C.A.H.A. officials in each game. Their work (not subject to public scrutiny) was discuss- ed at later sessions as an im- provement measure.