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Holiday deadlines The Free Press will publish one day early next week so the deadline for score sheets and reports will be Monday at 12 noon instead of the usual Tuesday 12 noon deadline The deadline for the December paper will be Tuesday at noon Redmen Lords of lake Acton it a the Lord of tho pool when it comes to high school swimming Last week the club Lord Elgin in a swim meet at Acton Lions pool Junior boys Mark was the hot est In the water winning three He was best in the 100 freestyle will a time of 1 quickest in the 100 I with I and tops in freestyle with Senior Edwin Ninaber was best in two races the freestyle in the butterfly Tim Baker was in the Individual Medley with his time of 1202 Norm won the freestyle in 107 Baker 1 was good enough for a first in the 100 Brill ingei captured firsts in the senior girls individual medley and backstrokes with times of and respectively Karen Coats was fastest in the free style with a time of Heather Thatcher was fastest In the 100 breaststrokc in 134 Jim McVeigh swam the fastest junior backstroke in a time of Laura won the Junior girls in time of 1 Acton also was best in four of eight relays The team of Thatcher Coats and won the senior girls 200 medley relay Baker Ninaber Dave and Brian Patterson were fastest in the senior boys version in 7 Coates Arbic Jarvis and were fastest in the junior giris Brian Patterson Dave tnt whistle and won the freestyle relay in 24 sports and recreation One hundred and seventh year Issue 23 ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 1PR1 Second Section One hundred and seventh year Issue 23 ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 1981 Russiani is still chasing that old hockey flame Ever since a trip to Burlington some two months two weeks and two days ago It seemed Acton Sabres have been battling just to keep their heads Sabres have played games since that fateful season opener a dismal 13 5 loss to Cougars They lost another dozen matches won eight tied one and have been out shelled 110150 This record gives the Sabres the distinction of being eighth In a league of 12 ahead of such power houses as Milton Georgetown and Dixie Nonetheless coach Jules Russiani is chasing the same championship he was at the beginning of the season Sure the team play has gotten him depressed at limes but their rare sparks of brill such as last week relit the mentor flame Thursday night Sabres travelled to Dixie and stung the hapless Beehives Maturity In Dixie we played really well we controlled the play played we showed a lot of maturity said the mentor I don think we played that fast but we controlled the tern poof the game Sabres Paul Stark scored early in the opening frame from J ard Ken Dixie came back In the second period to even things up Wade Viekery found the opening on a pass from Tony two minutes later Denis Kir ton added to Sabres lead with a goal three minutes into the last period off a pass from Dixie fired another tally at the 15 minute mark butfalledtofindthenctafterthat Dave McGilloway scored a pair and Gary Williams had a single to give Acton win Mike Monihan Don Brown and Mark Duval had the assists Near end of the game Dixie started getting scrappy said coach Two brawls broke out and Sabres Ken Relf and were thrown out of the game and given suspensions for the next night game against Barrie tolls Friday match could hardly be described as In spired hockey as Sabres fell heavily in a loss to Colts I thought we out and played really well for the first eight minutes of the first period The players got a little discouraged after they had ty of chances but capitalize In the beginning it looked like we were going to blow Barrie right off the Ice said It was who were eventually blown off the surface of the Community Centre pond Acton got off to a lead a minute and a half Into the game when Paul Stark scored off a pass from Don Brown Bar hurt Sabres keeper with four tallies on 11 shots 0 take a 4 lead going into the dressing room at he end of the frame look advantage of a opportunity to close Colts lead just seconds into the Acton fire again died as quickly as it started Colts scored a goal Sabres replied then Colts broke loose with another pair Net minder Williams was pulled after facing five shots and allowing two goals In the second period Chris Martin came and turned back of 10 shots In the third period Sabres and Colts traded each other goal for goal to end the game at The games may not have inspired Die fans but coach feels his club has turned yel In the goal to postseason success I ve really felt strongly about the last two and the last two games The players have shown a lot of confidence and their immaturity Is vanishing it going to be taken over by con he said I think they re becoming self motivated so I won have to get on them now Sabres left Gary Williams and Don Gaudreault sitting In the stands in the Beehive game The coach thinks both players have been playing much better since their short rest Don is very young and very good its just a mat tor of him gaining Some day he s going to be a good all round hockey player He has a tremendous future he got all tho equipment to be a good hockey player Russian feels Wllllms might Just have been try too hard He tries to do everything perfectly It s slowing him down becoming selfconscious He was just being a little overcautious Gary is a very strong individual he s the type of person you tell him something It done he lias a lot going for him Physical The coach said Williams may be teamed up with Roy Spear to add a little punch to Sabres defence Both are capable and physical players Sabres are probably going to be seeing a new face on the squad when Acton hosts Streclsville Friday night Left winger Ken Is going to bo trading his Derby Jersey for one of tho Sabres said The coach guided Whetham when he played on the AltOntario Midget team Ho played with for the past couple of seasons and said he picked him up for Another player a native was to attend practice with Sabres Monday night The coach said he show but will be contacting him to see if he II sign with Sabres The player was with Waxers of the Tier II A league but retired this season Sabres host Strcetsvllle at 8 then meet Brampton Saturday night In an away game day they play Milton at home at Sears makes a high scoring Mark Cant win em all Senior Redmen find bball lows with the highs About the only thing worse than through a tight game Is buffering through a Acton High School senior had both last week Lost Wednesday the edged White Oiks in their own court in a nervewracking decision Paul hooped 22 points had IB Bob scored eight Glen Scott had four and Matt Vuk a pair Things go as well for the the night as Acton was thumped by Things were so bad coach Dave Boycott put In the second string after the first fifteen minutes John had nine points had nine Seniors have a heavy week ahead of them Today they play at Park Friday travel to On the weekend they host the annual Redman Invitational Senior Basketball Acton battles teams from Orangeville Monarch Park Assumption Milton Georgetown Midlind and Acton faces at I in then piny at either or JUNIORS Adon junior Redmen lo capture the laurels of their own Redmen Invitational Junior ment for the second year running but came up on sports the bottom end of a J decision with J Ross in the finals George and Bob Little scored points or Acton In the opening round beat Pi arson and Paul Nolan had seven Cliff six In Hie round junior beat George town Rebels had 12 points and Mike Smith scored eight Robinson bettered Pearson in the con finals In regular juniors beat and dropped White jfUG MIDtTS mldgtl lo have iheir problems but coach Bob ftes the club is proving lost a against Being a novice mean you can make your Mark on the ice GueJphs Mark Sears made his mark In the Legion novice hockey league last week when he fired five goals to lead his club to a 7 2 win over Burlington scored Guclph other pair Chris McGeragle had two tallies for Burling ton Tom Nolan found the opening four times as his Brampton club edged Dixie Chad rounded out the Brampton scoring Troy Mac had two Lincoln Cassio and Danny tags one each for Dixie Craig Stuckey and Robbie Harden each had two markers as beat Weston Derek Johnson scored lone Weston goal ATOM The St Kills atoms are no Saints In the eyes of Scan Fitzgerald had a single MIDGETS Ted Lindsay had two goals Martin Krcutzber Darren Mike and Nick had singles as Buffalo thumped Montreal in midget action Danny and Rob Allen had two goals after winning a 4 1 decision George Auger Shawn Dry den Paul Simmons and Marks scored for St Kilts George awisiiad the single for It was a Sandy storm Sandy scored four times to lead his Ion club to a win over London Danny Robertson had a pair Paul Sanlcy and Jay Hunter scored each as their Vancouver team beat Toronto goal each Gibb and Vince had the other pair Wayne Gerry and Philip Lan had two goals Troy Naught man and Bob singles forToronto BANTAMS Brad tallied three times to help his Tide- Eddie Wilson didn t do anything unusual at least water club beat Baltimore I Ronnie Baker had nolforhim tho other goal Mike Peters scored for Baltimore The Whaler bantam scored his usual four goals Avery was good for a hat trick as to help in an win over Jets Ron had a Rochester thumped Cleveland 1 John Beaule had pair Richard Lilly and David scored one in the finals This weekend the Invitational Acton apalr WaynePaulandDovldPaulscoredonoeach Saturday Acton Bob Little jumps up to block a Georgetown Rebels shot In the annual Junior Basketball Invitational lout weekend beat Rebel in the second round but lost to J 4937 In the opening