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to cave in Once the smoke On this case it was fog had cleared had scored four goals to pocket the win The where defeat was from the Jaws of potential victory was in Georgetown season opener two weeks ago at the Arena Gem led Burlington Cougars 1 early in the second period before the Visitors left Georgetown with win To date Georgetown record is 13 In all three losses Georgetown was In command of the game and descrv the lead But once a good lead was attained the Gemini players sat back and allowed their opponents to dictate the play and thus make a concerted effort at making com Nowhere was this fact more evident than In Saturday contest where Georgetown allowed Milton Robin who appeared out of shape become a dominant factor mainly through trying to stickcheck in stead of playing the body on him Its unlikely anyone was more Jr Rebels finally going to play football Georgetown District High School said he would like ti junior football team will finally open one person oversee the operation Its season today after having to wait football in This person would be employed and would Georgetown was to have opened ultimately prevent such a late the year Sept 24 when the Rebels scheduling change to hosted C Drury However change In the days on which Tier II teams like Georgetown play fore ed the Rebels to scrap plans for the Perdue opener Prior to the start of the season It was decided Tier II teams would play their games each Thursday while the Tier 1 clubs would in turn hit the grid Iron the day before In years gone by the situation had been reversed but this year it was ed In an attempt to give Tier II schools a chance at playing a day later Thursday Is seen as a better day for both obtaining officials and giving coaches an extra day for game preparation The week before Georgetown was to begin play Rebels coach Rick received a latter saying Tier I schools would now be playing their games on Thursday and Tier teams would have to reschedule their games for Wednesday No of iclal reason was given for the move other than the letter saying it was decided upon As to who decided the change again that t mention ed in the letter The change presented a problem for Rebel officials Their first game couldn be rescheduled as last Wednesday the Georgetown field hockey team had made prior or rangemewa for a league game with Bishop Reding Also the game couldn be played at E C field because It was literally under water The end result was the game was postponed indefinitely and Georgetown will host to day The contest E will be played when a convenient date can be arranged The twotier system is set up put teams of equal ability together and prevent mis matches ultimately Each year the top Tier club is moved up to Tier I while the bottom Tier I team is moved to Tier isn pleased with all the delays his team has had to work around In addition it appears re scheduling of the missed games wilt be up to the coaches involved and not the league convenor is also of the opinion this present move could have a negative Impact on Tier II football in Halton If the lower league is continually given second and third best alter natives those Involved will even tually pull out of coaching and play If we re going to develop football In Halton and the lower ones are always getting dumped on we will lose football said Our kids changed hockey practice times and work days to comply with the Thursday setup The schedule change too will l vide a few problems for the other than players leaving Continued on page The with Saturday loss than Gemini assistant general manager Jules Russian Alter the contest Russian made It a point to inform his troops of the disappoint by holding a closed door meeting in the Gemini dressing I told a few of the kids I too happy with their play and I told the team as a whole 1 hap py said Saturday was a complete and total lack of effort This game is won on heart guts and desire and that what is hurting this team When you should be and you arc 1 3 it Georgetown can blame the losses on the play of their goal lenders this season Mike McNiven has been Suite solid between the pipes us has Halliburton Halliburton ployed the better part of twoarid a half periods In Oakville after starter caught a shot in the Jaw Russianl sola Halliburton perform well despite losing two long shots in the fog in the final period Russian added if Georgetown future fortunes continue lo decline in a similar fashion changes may be in the works If they players don t produce they will sit the bench or be out the door said had two goals for Georgetown Saturday while Joe had the other Steve had two goals for Milton including the winner Paul and an unidentified player had the other Milton tallies Friday night in Jim McCabc and Todd Cull had the goals Saturday also marked the return former Georgetown Chrysler Raiders Gerry coach of Intermediate A and Senior A teams and Ron Raiders player are coaching the new Milton franchise which the Merchants name this summer after having been sold who is the head coach said it will take another few wins before his club gels that winning feeling I think it will because of last year Milton won five gomes last season said What I 1 is these kids have been fantastic We gotten away from the swear on the bench and these kids want to leam and play Inglis said there t more meaning for this game because it was against Georgetown For Inglis a win is a win I like Georgetown but I beat them If 1c in he said Like Georgetown Milton has had some hard Tuck early this season Merchants lost to Oakville to open the year but the two teams were tied j5 late in the gome day night Milton overcame a vcr diet against Burlington Cougars to notch a tie But Burlington won the contest on a very bad goal late in the final period With four ports cards remaining said it might be tough to make plajer dec oils because he feels his club Is playing well now This weekend will feature pair of home games for the Georgetown club Friday night Mimico is in town while the undefeated Colts arrive here Saturday night Hopkins runs well atETSU Herald Special JOHNSON CITY Dave Walker coach of East Ten State University cross country team Is facing a season as defending Southern champs with an almost completely new team Only three members of last year championship squad return for com petition this season It up to the new kids on the block to take over Walker said recently One of Walkers new kids Is freshman runner Erik Hopkins of Georgetown Walker said it will be between Hopkins and Ray Jones Dublin Ireland as to who will assume the second and third tlons on the team This High School girls field hockey player shows what an happen In this sequence of photos when a field is as wet an the eorgeiown field lam week due to all the rain thii area hud recently Iril of all Ihc fooling is bad and subsequently a lol of can cur Then comes the wet re a lit a lion of the situation upon Impact ilddlr then of course that funny feeling that results once the whole incl It our Georgetown won this game over Reding and lied While Oaks 1 earlier for a 1 record so far this Herald photos by Dan Ralph STRATUM Rebel player I on the football that coming his way during practice last week a couple weeks of delays the Rebels will ploy their first gun of the season today hosting The delay cane a liisl mil changing of Hie schedule Herald photo The official season opened Sept in Lexington Kentucky where Hopkins was ETSU second finisher In the eight kilometre course He placed 39th in a field of over ZOO run ners The next week at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga In vita tlonal Hopkins was once again ET a second finisher wilh a seventh filncc effort in a field of 174 runners Eighty per cent of the runners I now compete against are on scholar ship so it like running On Federation of Schools Athletic Association provincial champion ships every weekend Hopkins commented Hopkins also ran in the Clemson Invitation which was held Saturday In 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