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TIIK I ems on track despite Flak By JACK HANDY Herald Special The president Is away and I have been asked to write an article or this edition Guess what I am going to write about the hockey operations the Gemini The vicepresident or hockey operations is the only voice for the cam operations staff the ex ecutive lever In other words am one vote of thirty so my recommen dations have to be valid At every ex ecutive meeting operations are discussed The vicepresident gives his report on whats happening with team management and players If things are not going well if the Gemini are losing expect criticism and rightly so After all they the money raisers and every right to the facts My drat recommendation to the executive to have Bob Hooper as general manager was passed Few know that Boh was a director and shareholder of the first Gemini team He has past general manager experience and showed great leader ship with his business oriented mind Bob immediately selected Jules Russian as assistant general manager in charge player person Jules went through countless hours of tracking down leads with his assistant Larry While They chased after hockey players every spare minute beginning in June It is really a year round commitment Bob announced to me the head coach would be Hudson recommended to board and he was approved Jules Bob and 1 worked on Ice lime scheduling Bob went to work and selected the rest the operations crew headed by Don Glen Shoebndgc and trainers John Tompson medical Norm Lockhurst and Brian James announcers and driver Lou Our objectives to build a team around discipline respect and a win nine attitude would attract players to the area Providing a scholarship fund was another objective Our aim Is to build a championship team in three years The team got off to a start and ployed up and down until the end of November Hockey operations came under heavy Ire not only from board members but from fans We stood together and would not budge We believed we were on the right track and It wua only a mutter of time before the team would blossom During the past two months the team has blossomed Fans are on Joying top notch Junior Hockey once again Critics have probably lit a lit tie ire under us If that what it takes to keep the flame going don Playoffs are just around the cor TV draw winners Don Buckles of 23 Court in Georgetown won a black and white television set this month He was a participant in the HeraldGemini spon sored ticket draw Milliere TV provided the television Wcneedyoursupport I hope I have given you the fan some insight into the hockey opera side of the executive 1 very Cud to bo a Gemini executive rd member and among fine peo ple on the board I am exceptionally proud of the operations staff the hockey player and coach Gary Hudson Team operations is one of the four facets of e Gemini executive board We arc looking for more ex members If would like to be part of this team tome to a meeting as guest alt contact me at gjme And to my friend we call him Charlie who bet last Augvul that Milton would beat us in the stan dings by at least ten paints I am ready to collect The bet was he would me breakfast including transportation to the place of my choice Charlie I have found a great place with a buffet breakfast all you can cat for US Palace Las Vegas Nevada Thank you so much Charlie Kids Night is Jan Bame will be playing Georgetown at JO After the game in the booster club will be giving the player awards It a chance for some fun laying the Gemini Free pin served after the game In the booster club Fans are real winners at Gem games Adult tickets are seniors and children get in or On the back every ticket is a coupon for a large at Hut or off a medium pizza The team will surely miss the vices of defencoman Craig Shaw You will see him rooting for us at the games with his crutches received after knee surgery We rooting for our speedy Craig KHIHMhH K Just missed this ml hut hi llu Ijii In piirm Hi lui as Hid IjM 1 Sr- IK an lost mi In Gentleman Morrow scoops award An enviable record of no fights and only IS minutes of penalties In hockey games helped Georgetowns Wayne Morrow scoop up the Most Sportsmanlike Player award this The 19ycaroId captain of the Cen Ontario Junior Hockey Leagues Gemini team Morrow also In second for the Most Valuable Player award He won that trophy Morrow was chosen from among the League eight luims of players and will be presented with his awards the playoffs They told me they want me to at the beginning of the season I get into once in a while but I havent gotten Into fight this jcar he Georgetown District High School graduate said The Junior League Is a rough league says the blueeyed Morrow Hes not the kind of player who looks for fighti but when goad on Morrow doesnt necessarily turn the other cheek Once in a while there II be some Idiot wholl do something to start a fight with me Like last year against the coach set his players after us You have to fight or youll get beat up he says We wont back down If the other team Fights dont spoil the game but they add excitement to It Morrow says Hes never gotten badly hurt In a game fight and says Its rare a player docs Fights are half the coachs can have a big effect on what kind of game is played on the Ice Morrow was asked his opinion on the recent international news story about the brawl between the Rus sians and Canadians during a game They Canadians had to do that The Russians left their bench I would have done the same he declared Morrows dont use the let a fight them lactic but be says other teams do for psychological to get their opponents off their game so that theyre conccn rutins more on fighting back than on playing Sometimes it works says Morrow This is Morrows first season as team captain of the Being team captain means the young man is spokesman or his teammates He tells the coach the players arc unhappy and have complaints and he also gets his players ready or a game building them up You soy Its very important game It usually works Morrow The have played games so In the season and of the last 15 games the team has only lost two We lost Friday night playing against Burlington They re pretty good We didnt play that well It was one of those days when goes right Morrow said The Crescent resident has been playing hockey for 12 years He was seven when he began Morrow says he likes the excitement the game Its fast dont know I lust like it he said The game a lot different from the minor hockey level he used to ploy Morrow says Its much more aggressive and he hits lot harder now than he used to