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Marco If Pin a A Hockey Mom tells all Never a dull moment for Acton Atoms intriptoNashvme By COLEMAN What wen forty y sane adults from doing on an bus with bunch of excited children for fifteen hours Answer a hockey game In Nashville where five percent of the think that playing hockey is the Northerner funny way of say playing Indeed a hockey game in lie Tennessee where there are only two very new arenas in the entire city Moat boys rent their or drive all the way to Kentucky to purchase gear that can I be found anywhere In Tennessee This unusual Minor Atom trip began on March the It d I take parents long to realize that unless the seat arrangement was alter Marvin the bus driver moat certainly drive them into the Detroit while pull hair out by the root one by one The children were moved to the back of the bus somewhat out of Mar earshot IN the bus rolled into the of the Holiday Inn on Br ley Parkway lie Ten A beleaguered ex group of grown stepped off the bus to that t was only eleven a Nashville time and check in me wain until two Mom glared at the pile of suitcases beside her and wondered why she I thought to put bathing suit was neatly packed a I Iho bottom of a suitcase Into her purse S nee was mom cntanl out of the question there aJ a mad rush to he electron c games room Around noon I asked docs an one want to go on a threehour bus tour of Nash ville in my director voice At the sound of the word bus I as met with looks thatcouldhavek lied several Luckily there any loose gravel around the hotel lobby was tiled or I sure I would have been the first hockey Mom ever to be stoned death One of bus parent Jean Jo us on our sight seeing tour of the c but many of he other are stlU wondering evening at I had no idea my nineyearold was going to spend the night with but cerU nly wanted to talk to I chatted for several minutes th a lady who introduced me to her son Robert When Fred Buchanan our coach began pairing the boys off I started to rush over ohm Intending to make sure that my son would end up Robert mother Altera 1 1 1 almost knew her Too late Some strange wo man who even said hello to nabbed my son and another boy Sean She was a short woman with an ve complexion and her Jet black hair done up in a bun I looked around hoping to see her son I wanted to make sure be looked happy but he didn be around I rushed as she stood wh le our two lads got their things together Hi said to her My name is He That my ton I to the blonde kid weiring a si dirty Acton hockey jacket and a confederate cap he had bought earlier that day Hi she replied the Tennessee drawl I Rita Do you live far from here I inquired No she answered Just ten minutes away Oh that good I said trjlng frantically think of some way to get more mat on out of her She was dangerously close to the open door I don see your son here I comment No Rita replied He stayed at home What your son name 1 asked quickly NO TIME honey she said with wonderful southern Ah got seven kids at home and I sure haven got all their With that she was out the door hustling the two boys along in front of her I had no Idea what she thought of Ronald Reagan how she took her coffee or her views on Iho metric system I even know her last name The next morning at I rushed Into the dressing room at the Ice Memorial Arena where my son was getting ready for his first of three hockey games Hey ma excitedly when he saw we approach The people we stayed with were really They had two houses Sean in and they hid a vdeo player too Yen my son added we got to natch The Empire Back until we fell It obviously t matter to the kids what Rita on the metric system were They enjoyed themselves GREAT TREASURES Him did eventually list off the names and ages of her seven children She warmly and sincerely accepted the meagre gits that Sean a mother and I had brought her as though they were great treasures The Acton Minor Atoms swamped the Nashville team in their first game Satur day morning Our boys were full of confidence and brag openly about how they going walk ad over the Southern teams in Ihcir next two games on Sunday morning However they barely scraped by with a tie when they played Nash ville the second lime The Nashville boys were ecstatic To be able to play that well against a supposed superior Northern team where minor hockey has existed a lot longer than one or two years was certainly a cause for great celebration At the end of the game the whole Nashville team fell Joyously in a heap on lop of their goalie Acton third and final hockey game turned out to be the climax of the entire trip He were pitted against a minor hockey team from Alabama a neighboring state This learn was rated virtually unheal able the best We were warned by the Nashville coach His wife came and cheered for us As look a twogoal lead in the second period we heard these coming from the Alabama parents It Show them Northern boys how to ploy hockey DESPITE THE FACT Despite the fact that our boys had very little sleep over the past three nights despite the fact that our nineyearolds were playing a earn of ten and eleven- yearolds despite the fact that these Acton Minor Atoms certainly 1 the best In area they were eliminated in the second round of playoffs at homo these youngsters settled down and played their best game of the year beating HunUville in a hockey dame that had more to our head cheer leader Warren the wereall hoarse from cheering the Acton team on There was a certain a mount of satisfaction In this overhead comment from a parent after the If y want your kid to really learn how to play hockey all better send em North Was It worth It To the Cents who endured a frigid ride home Sunday night when the healer broke down to the parents who shared the hotel with BOO noisy Baptist youths to the parents who averaged four hours of sleep a night during the whole weekend because we up at live In Ihe morning natch ours sons hockey Was It all worthwhile You bet It wis an experience that will be talked about and remember ed It was a lime of and gelling to know one mother well the Nash ville parents The people who live in another country hundreds miles tram Act on were some of the warm eat friendliest folia wave ever encountered and we certainly hope they take us up on invitation that we ve extended to come North for a rematch Thank you Marvin our patient bus driver for being such a good apart and firing us all over NaahviUe to dinner on shopping sprees and to Grand while managing with very little steep Thank you Jim Larry McAfee Bob and Gary for your extra efforts And most of all lhank you Fred Buch anan our Infamous coach for making Ihe whole thing possible Our Busk Campbells Lime Service to tut HwijiStnToSmYiBKti LIME NOW I CALL 51 6473448 NORTH CHAMPS Minor Atoms King the semifinals of the Halloo basketball after winning the North Halloa the boys can be proud of Ihrir season Seen here are front row left to rignl Terry Dixon Adrian Brake Trevor KmJaasatn Ken McDennot Chris left lo right loach Sara Mark Pries Anthony Don Crowe Jon Brown Pal Simon Evans manager back row lefl lo right Rich Chlovllll Dale Bell Jim Manning Stanley Al Darren Shaw Heath Continued fr Page to hang onto the lead for the rest of the game It was an entirely dlfferenl story for the Georgetown Minor Atoms In crucial fourth game The locals took control from Mark two goals and then they never looked back REPS After a scoreless first per iod netted two goals from help by Mike McElroy Mike Barnes Wade and Mike Barnes then made the score 30 with his goal from Roddy Pasme and Mike Mc- Burlington spoiled George town shutout with sec ends left in period The Big Game for the Minor Atoms now takes place this Friday I tonight at 5 at the Burlington Sky way arena Come out and support the Minor Atoms if BONSPIEL WINNERS The team with the travel bug are Steve and Shirley seen here with George and Joan Shapcotl They went Windsor recently and won the Rose City Married Couples Bon pie I GEORGETOWN WATERBEDS 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