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Wednesday September Page A determined Raider team prepare for For the Georgetown Chrysler Raiders or the OHA Intermediate A league what past is past and the prevailing team and management attitude Is Lets make It an even better future Although throughout the club a summer meetings this was the theme that was stressed it was never as prevalent as at last Thur Initial team practice Although the practice was a lowkeyed affair run more in the manner of getting the summer kinks out certain tell tale signs made It obvious that the Raiders were preparing for the upcoming season in a determined maimer The mere fact that training camp has opened at least five weeks before the regular season is set to start Indlcotes the mood of the dub but the key at the opening session was thi appearance of what was termed by Raider executive member Bob Hooper the nucleus of the club Keith Pallet not noted Tor his early donning of the Red and White was roaming the ice In his pads and although obviously not particularly enthralled by some of the physical demon kept pace Mr Speed was In attendance and appeared to be moving In second gear which was amazing In itself Nell Cotton and John the mainstays of the Raider defence lookedfltandeagerto get on with the wars The Quiet One Tommy Gilbert was in uniform and working up a sweat as were Bill Curry Bob Gcndron Bob Brian Hurley To have so many veterans out on the opening night of is a sure sign that the arc setting deadly aim on the league for the season ahead Aside from the veterans Bob Moncton and Mac Kor lack from the league were working out as were other local hopefuls There were two players at the camp who deserve special mention One is familiar to Raider fans and the other soon will be Jack Kemshend who because of its talent could look his role as coach very practices will be held October toiled for the Raiders two likely sweep up In Senior A seriously There was litUe 9 B and Until further years and was a local circles kibitzing with the players and notice practices will get un favourite is attempting a A promising start for the they In turn deferred to Tib- derway at m comeback while the new Raiders and a lot he credit belts In his new role The Raider prospect la one George jc due to the change in Tibbett status was Gregor who could be a key selection of Junior Tlbbetts as made clear to all when on a factor In the Raider title coach Certain players who break the players retired to hopes Gregor played in had been thinking of leaving the dressing room and he took Austria last year in a top flight Inlcnr hockey returned the rest period elsewhere International league and this because of Tlbbetts and It was Future Raider workouts will summer was a part of Carl obvious at Thursday a workout be held September A 11 Brewer s team which that he meant business and 17 and The October Geminis have a tough tradition to keep up Merchants show how to change your style Expansion marks the opening of the 187576 Central Ontario Junior B Hockey League with the addition of the newly formed Georgetown Geminis to the former six team league The Green Gold and White clad have joined the Dixie Venturers Derby Brampton Vic Woods Oakvllle Blades Milton Continental Flyers and Burlington Mohawks In for the enlarged loop for Georgetown as a com has strong background in the Ontario Hockey Association Although this Is the Inaugural year for Junior hockey In A titles were won In 1957 1072 1973 and 1974 and the Junior Georgetown entry won the provincial crown in 1968 The Central group will play 38game schedule this season with regular season play commencing on Thur September when Dixie will host league champion Oakvllle The campaign is due to close Friday 1978 Six of the clubs will enter the first round of the playoffs which will be a series The three first round win ners will participate In a 12 game round robin playoff beginning by Friday February Each team will have four home games The two top clubs will then meet in a bestofeeven league final to begin by Tuesday March 1S78 A group winner will bo decided by Sunday March 14 The playoff with the Niagara District representative should be underway by March 1G Regular season play will not see tho overtime format used However will come into play in the playoffs in the form of a tenminute period followed by sudden death periods after regulation time has ended The Ontario Games representative will be tho club selected after the first round of games in all to be completed by Thursday November 1975 The team in first has right of refusal over the other teams This means In effect that all teams will have to play In a playoff mind from the opening whistle rather than waiting and building up potential slowly For the Georgetown Geminis It would spell Instant success if they could open their Initial hockey season with a winning streak Selection of the league representative will be finalized within two of November The reprcscn will then play off with another group representative likely Niagara District to determine which group will appear in the Ontario games There are no Canada Games scheduled for this year The Ontario Games will be played February IS and 16th Should the Central group take port in the Gomes the club would be away from February thro ugh the IS and would resume league playoffs February 17 Participation In the Ontario Gomes should have little effect on the playoff format The Central Ontario Junior B League will be holding an All Star game again this year with the game to be played In the home rink of the Ontario Games representative As yet no datehas been set for the All Star gome From all appearances It will be a banner year for the Central Ontario Junior League and there is little doubt in thlB corner that the Georgetown Geminis will contribute tremendously to the league success The addition of the Geminis means a revival of the Georgetown Minor hockey rivalry and this in Itself will enhance the health of the league No one expects that the will set the world on fire as they embark on 197578 venture Into Junior B hockey but it Is safe to say that the combination of hockey talent and the efforts of team management will provide Georgetown with on exciting and colorful addition to the local hockey scene Geminis draw first blood in intra- squad Long Island to Georgetown for It amaiing Just how far young athletes will travel for A an opportunity to display their talents in of making a team any team In the majority of sports the decision tWenute afar docs not to be made until high school Is finished This Is not the case in hockey as for the most part if youngster has any hopes of career his bags arc usually packed by the time be is IS and in some cases even younger A case in point is John Marckesano who at sixteen although not the youngest player to attend the Georgetown Geminis Junior B training camp can make the claim of having travelled the furthest as he arrived In Georgetown from Long Island New York Although John has not definitely set his sights on a professional hockey career the lure of a chance to perhaps make It a career brought him to this area He baa only been playing hockey for the past two years but bis talents caught the attention of Gary Green an assistant coach of the Peterborough Petes when attended Tarn Hockey School Green recommended him to Paul Bobinson Gemini coach and John was extended an invitation to attend camp For a young man who had travelled this distance to at tend a camp John was very frank about his chances of making the team Ha felt that the calibre of hockey he had seen in nil few sessions was vastly superior to the type of hockey he had been exposed to In Long Island and even commented that the Junior A teams from his area would probably be comparable to a Junior C team In Canada He felt that the brand of hockey In the training camp was much rougher than back home but expressed respect for the Gemini management and especially coach Paul Robinson who he felt ran a tough but excellent camp John spent two weeks In Georgetown but his Inex and small stature played against bim as he was cut from the squad over the weekend Before he learned he had been cut John had said that if he make the team he would use the year to sharpen his skills and return to Georgetown the following year for another attempt To some people John Marckesano quest might seem foolish and his awakening to the hockey facts of life a bit cruel That however Is the stuff of which dreams are made and also Incidentally hockey players Saturday September Brampton at Georgetown Saturday October at Georgetown Saturday October 11 Dixie at Georgetown Saturday October 18 Milton at Georgetown Saturday October at Georgetown November 1 Burlington at Georgetown Saturday November Dixie at Georgetown Saturday November IS Oakvllle at Georgetown Saturday November Brampton at Georgetown Saturday November Burlington at Georgetown Saturday Streetsvllle at Georgetown Saturday December 13 Milton at Georgetown Saturday December Burlington at Georgetown Saturday December at Georgetown Saturday January Dixie at Georgetown Saturday January Oakvllle at Georgetown Saturday January 24 Brampton at Georgetown Tuesday October 7 Georgetown at Streetsvllle 7 Thursday October Georgetown at Dixie 7 45 October Georgetown at Oakvllle pjn Sunday November Georgetown at Brampton Friday November 7 Georgetown at Milton Tuesday November IB Georgetown at Streetsvllle 7 Friday November Georgetown at Burlington pm Friday November 28 Georgetown at Milton Sunday November 30 Georgetown at Brampton 7 pjn Friday December Georgetown at Oakvllle B Thursday December IB Georgetown Dixie Sunday December 21 Georgetown at Brampton 7 pm Friday December Georgetown at Burlington Friday Thursday Januarys GeorHetownatDixie7 45pm Friday January lfl GeorgetownatMilton Tuesday January Georgetown at Streetsvllle pm Friday January23 Georgetown at Burlington The Georgetown Geminis will be holding their Green and Gold game this Saturday night at is at the Gordon Alcott Memorial Arena and it promises to be a boisterous rousing affair If the action at the Gemini workouts to date are any yardstick The team will be cut to players shortly after the squad game and for some of the hopefuls this contest will prove the make or break point An intra squad game can sometimes be pure hell for the players who are desperately trying to make a team but It is a In making final team selections and it gives the fans a chance to see their team in what is very close to a reolgamcsituation For many of the Geminis this will take on the stature of a championship final The lineup for the intra squad game Is as follows Goal Brian Laird Ken Bryan and Rick Defence Kent Kcntner Paul Allison Lrry Peterson Joe South Dave Glen Lyons Bud Buchanan Steve Bill McGillowoy BUI Allison and Bob Hill Centre Kevin Reeks Chris Milne Gord Lyons Grelg Fleming Dick and Terry Turner Lett Wing Dale Mlezajiicc Doug Barnes Randy Bergeron Marty Weaven Dave Chapman Charlie Knoepfll and John Welch Right Wing Rick Becker Rob Hamilton Bob Ray Love and Bill Klrby The Gemini management has also lined up two exhibition games to test their charges the first will be played Sep tember at 2 p m against the Junior A Windsor Spitfires and the second game Is scheduled for September at 30 against the Junior A Dixie Beehives If there question that just great how well the Intrigues sports fans writers team got on together this year and players perhaps more both on and off the field and than any other It has to be perhaps this really pinpoints How do you turn a losing the Merchant revival Be that team into a winner Theories as It may the Merchants are in have been expounded and no the enviable position of being doubt many sleepless nights assured of their final league endured in search of the standing and with one game elusive formula but as yet no remaining against Hornby foolproof plan has been ad vanced three teams namely Hornby Another fascinating aspect Glen Williams and to this question Is that once a Misaissauga losing team reverses the trend The final game against and becomes a winner again Hornby was supposed to have oil kind of reasons ore tossed been completed this past out which for the most part weekend but rain and poor only serve to muddy the field conditions forced Its waters cancellation It expected that The Georgetown Merchants it will be ployed in Hornby on have turned things around this Wednesday evening with year after a three win playoff action getting losses record last year and a in Georgetown this two win losses record the Friday night year before and are happily Although last Tuesday perched In third place In the game In Lowville had no Hal Ion County Men Fastball bearing on the standings it League with a record of 14 was on important gome for the wins and nine losses for a total Merchants in as much as they of points were out to prove that they Their most satisfying win of could handle one of the two top the year and one which teams In the league Although typifies the kind of year they their roster was somewhat are having was a win over depleted the Merchants took second place Lowville last the contest and added Tuesday night In In another feather to their cap as commenting on the win over well as a boost of confidence manager Gord so important at playoff time remarked This Is the first Bill Tilt picked up the win time wevc beaten them this for tho Merchants allowing year In fact its the first time I three runs on five hits while can remember ever beating striking out en and issuing but them and thisshows Just how the real story was the fortunes of the Merchants the power hitting of Ray have turned Ingles Ingles belted out two At a farewell party for home runs which accounted pitcher Steve Tor four of the five Merchant Miller lost Friday one team runs and defensively had a member noted that It was hand in six putouts Charlene MacCormack captures CNE prize MacCoVmack of Georgetown Is rapidly establishing the fact that she Is without peers in the realm of ladles five pin bowling in Canada This past weekend won her second consecutive CNE plonshlp and a cheque as she defeated Pauline MacNaught of Newmarket 529439 in the final roll off Earlier this year Charlene won the Ladies National Masters crown En route to the title Charlene led tho qualifying round with fivegome score of 269 and In match play she defeated Grace of Scarboro 417 335 Doris Stewart of Scarboro and Theda of Toronto Hockey group need your help Jdhn Marckflfano Baseball playoffs are a sure sign hockey Is around the comer and the Georgetown and District Minor Hockey Association who are In need of coaches managers and volunteer help are beginning their campaign this week to contact all Interested persons Positions that ore open arc league commissioners timekeepers novice helpers committee members coaches and managers In particular a manager and coach are needed for the 4- Town Midgets and with the advent of girls hockey coaches and managers and a league commissioner are required Some of our older players have been timekeepers In past years and have done a good job We would appreciate hearing from you again fellas At the executive level committee members and a treasurer are needed and only two commissioners are returning definitely If you would like to help In ANY capacity please fill out the form In this newspaper this week and return to Box 16 Georgetown or phone any of the three executive members listed Plans are in the works for a Coaches Clinic to be held on Saturday October IB co sponsored with Cooper Equipment Bill who lectured at a short clin c last year will be the main Remember our registration dates Saturday September Wednesday September 10 and Saturday September 13 Players ages to IB for boys and 6 to 14 for girls Proof of birth and parents signature are required of Georgetown happily displays the cheque she received for winning the Ladles Division of the CNE a fivepin bowling This Is the second year that the CNE has held this championship and so far Is the sole winner as she won also the inaugural event DR R D PETRIE Announces the opening of his Office of Family Practice In the Georgetown Medical Centre A Princess Anne Drive TUESDAY SEPT 2nd Telephone 877 SPORTSMAN BOWLING CLUB OPENING We have Juniors and Seniors Leagues starting again on Sept Everyone gets a trophy at end of season Please call us Give us your names address phone numbers LEAGUES PLEASE MAKE YOUR CALL RESERVATIONS 3570Marfl Spres NOW 877 Prop While the Merchants were limitcdloonlyslxhits three of them went for extra bases and this spelled the difference Bob Marcband collected two singles while Barry Cuthbert contributed a single and The Stutter Phil Dobbin picked up a double Regard cm of how they fare In post seosonplay the Mer chants have to consider this a successful year Still whatever they can garner from here on In would be sheer gravy and no true athlete would ever turn down a taste of the finer things LEASING A CAR OR TRUCK GIVE US A TRY Looking for a complete Industrial Commercial or Recreational building package THE DESIGN BUILDER does it all JOHN WHEELWRIGHT LTD Or Wilton Ontario WEDDING INVITATIONS Main South Georgetown Geminis Intra Squad Game 615 pm Saturday September 6th ADMISSION HOCKEY REGISTRATION Will Be Held At RECREATION CENTRE SATURDAY SEPT Ml A WEDNESDAY SEPT 79 PM SATURDAY SEPT 13TH A This Registration covers Support Group Players Rep Teams House League Boys from years of age at of Dec 31 75 House League Girls from 14 years of age as of Dec 31 Registration will not be accepted without proof of age and parents signature REGISTRATION FEES for player for 2 players In a family Mo for or mora players In a family NOTE It Is the Intention Girls under will participate In boys groups but that Girls years of age and over will play In Separate Girls Leagues If there are sufficient girls registered to make this practical NO REGISTRATION WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER SEPT