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THE HERALD Wednentoy January Page NOTICE 15 GEORGETOWN HONDA 203 Guelph SI 8731818 Phone for Details 8460913 Sports and I Recreation the HERALD ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Mark a seven- yearold right winger with the tyke house leagues Masonry team ts the first Herald Athlete of the Week for Mark turned in a spec tacular performance in two house league contests over the holiday break with a pair of sixgoal games for an im pressive total Raider resolutions Pauls Call Paul Svoboda Herald Sports Editor Raider coach Pete Sturgeon will be a happy man in if his junior B charges continue to score as they did in the latter half of 1988 for second best in the west and work at lowering their goals against second worst in the west But yours truly is wondering if some members of Sturgeons standardbearers havent made these resolutions for 89 The I resolve to make more enemies in pledge made by Kevin Dance The Raider centre can be heard exalting the troops with his fiery utterances on the bench when the chips are down Theyre usually followed by a foray onto enemy ice where anything that moves is fair game And dont let Dances diminutive appearance fool you He knocked a couple of kingsized on their butts last Fri day before threatening another on the way to the dressing room The I resolve to win my fights pledge made by close- cropped rookie Trent Cull Young Trent looked to be in trouble when Marty Wells dropped the gloves in the third period of Fridays en counter but the rangy rearguard quickly found those long arms and easily turned the tide guess it helps when the hair doesnt get in your eyes too The I resolve to score more nifty goals pledge made by Brent The steadilyimproving winger scored the niftiest goal of the week against Milton when Des Brown banked a off the right boards that came directly back out to a streaking who made no mistake in parking the puck past a paralyzed Milton Phew The I resolve to score more and more and more pledge made by Chuck Six goals in two games said HOURS S MonFrL9 am9 pm LTD Saturday pm Adams Apple Adam Bennett is on a lot of hockey peoples minds these days The Georgetown native and former B Gemini has been ranked number two among OHL players eligible for the NHL en try draft next spring and The Hockey News dedicated one of its predictions for to the 17- yearold Sudbury Wolves blueliner The Jan 6 issue of The Hockey News featured rankings for the top 20 players in each of the OHL Quebec Major Junior League and Western Hockey League by the NHLs Central Scouting Bureau The CSB ranked Bennett behind only Scott Thornton a 6foot2 200pound centre from the Belleville Bulls Steve a staff writer with The Hockey News penned this somewhat humorous predic tion for the 6foot4 206pound Bennett Adam Bennett of the Sudbury Wolves will be the first chosen first overall since Gord Kluzak Boston in 1982 New York Islanders the worst team in the league will take Bennett and then im mediately trade him to the Rangers Bennett will become a big star and Gotham City will have a new nicknameAdams Apple Bennett with three goals and seven assists in 37 games so far was the first picksecond overalby the Wolves in last summers OHL midget draft Loreto hat tricks revive Raiders Peter Sturgeons words were prophetic We cant take anyone lightly said the Georgetown Raider coach last week as his squad prepared for a twogame home stand against the Central Ontario Jr B Hockey Leagues western division cellar dwellers The Raiders did take three of four possible points but it wasnt that easy A fiveminute penalty hurt the Raiders on Friday night as they blew a lead and had to settle for a tie with the sixthplace On Dec before a packed house during Kids Night at Arena the lastplace Milton Mer chants gave the Raiders everything they could handle for two periods before Georgetowns guns finally exploded for a seven- goal third period as the Raiders took a win The threepoint week left the Raiders in fourth place in the west with 28 points just a single point behind Streetsville Derbys and a comfortable six points ahead of fifthplace Oakville Blades Chuck Loreto led the Raider at tack on Friday notching his se cond hattrick in as many games while Travis Cole scored twice one while Kevin Dance potted the goal On Dec 27 Loreto had three and Dance tallied twice with Brown Brent Dim Cruise and Davin netting singles RAIDERS 6 MIMICO It looked like the had Georgetowns number especially after Mimico nailed the Raiders 80 in Mimico during their last en counter But Sturgeon disagreed with the summation saying his squad slowed to their pace We didnt do a good job penalty- killing said Sturgeon referring to a fiveminute call to Chris Lee in the second period During the manpower advantage scored three times to draw even with Georgetown at By the time we got back in the game their goalie was hot Sturgeon added Chuck Loreto had scored twice and Kevin Dance and Travis Cole had scored to give Raiders a 41 first period lead Mimico went up midway through the second stanza before a strong shift by the Kevin Dance- Brian GendronBrent line helped fireup the Raiders Dance went on a destroy mission as he nailed a pair of with stiff checks and captain Mark Pries made his presence felt with a couple of solid hits Travis Cole lifted the Raiders to a tie with less than two minutes left in the period as he finished off a nice with Chuck Loreto by scoring a shorthanded tally Raiders went up at 332 of the final frame as Loreto earned his second hattrick of the week A sliding Monarch defender blocked a Loreto slapshot but the veteran Georgetown centre picked up his own rebound and slipped one under netminder Mark Cavallin Kevin beat Curtis Green with a slapper from in front to give Mimico the tie and Cavallin made some big stops to preserve the score Chuck added a pair of assists for a fivepoint night Rod Pasma had three helpers and assists went to Travis Cole Brian Gendron Mark Pries Ciglen Don Cruise and Rob Continued Page it by Paul Svoboda Herald Sports Editor A GDHS graduate is hoping the remainder of the 198889 US col legiate track season wont cramp his style Dave Paul a freshman at Pur due University in West Lafayette Indiana was plagued by stomach cramps towards the end of the 1988 crosscountry season and hes hop ing to have the problem hurdled before the outdoor track campaign begins next spring It was frustrating Paul said of the cramps he experienced at the US Big Ten conference cross country finals two months ago in Iowa I was running well and fast until the cramp hit then I almost ended up crawling on my hands and knees to the finish line Meanwhile Paul found the ill- timed cramps to be about the most painful experience he has en countered in his first year as a scholarship athlete at Purdue Continued on Page 18 Balancing act Former steeplechase champ Dave Paul balances studies anil training at Indianas Purdue Herald photo