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1 THE HERALD Wedneuk 11 1K TBirds take top title with win over Ching Continued from Page named Georgetowns outstanding player of the game On Saturday despite being bolstered by the addition of junior starters Rod Pasma and Trent Cull on defence the Georgetowners looked scrappy in a 21 loss to eventual consolation finalists Chatham Maroons The visitors built up a lead before Georgetown pressure late in the game gave Darren Lang a chance to score But that was as close as the Sunny Acres crew would get with Chatham weather ing a last minute storm and six Georgetown attackers to earn a trip to the semi finals Robbie Boyle was Georgetowns player of the game MIDGET MEMOS coach Rossi was impressed with the strong opposition provided by in Sundays final Theyre the best team I ve seen this season said Rossi whose own carry a tripleA ranking We wanted to put them away early and I tboughtl we controlled the first period When we got on the right track wej Just wanted to play up and down for the next two periods Rossis reasons for the above strategy were influenced by the fact bis Birds left Georgetown ly after the final game presentai for a scheduled match at pm inBurllngton While team captain Amodeo skated off with the prestigious MVP award he was joined by two teammates on the tournament all star team was named to the centre position with left winger Mike and defenceman Greg Buckler also making it from the Birds lineup Hillcrest right winger Shawn Chatham defenceman Rob Cudmore and Chinguacousy John Graham rounded out the dream team Graham also grabbed the tour nament s most valuable honors while Mlssissaugas Mike took the most gentlemanly player award Chatham bench boss Den nis Babcock was named all star coach 1M8GMHA MIDGET TOURNAMENT GAME RESULTS Preliminary roond 5 Mississauga 2 Chinguacousy Newmarket 1 Hillcrest Wood bridge 7 Burlington 0 Waterloo 7 Simcoe Thornhill 5 Tillsonburg 3 Port Perrv 7 Georgetown Belleville 5 Chatham 3 Second Round A 4 Guelph 2 5 Markham Thor nhtll Waterloo 2 Belleville 13 Port Perry Second Round Newmarket 2 Burlington 5 Simcoe 2 Chatham 2 Georgetown Semi finals A 8 Woodbridge Thornhill Belleville 1 Semi finals 4 Burlington Chatham Simcoe l By DAVE BEA VAN Herald Special On Jan 8 Georgetown Major Novices travelled to Milton to take on the first place team with Milton claiming a 63 win Georgetowns rookie goalie Scott Herbert was home with the flu and veteran Kevin Humeniski was playing although he was under the weather as well Kevin showed no ill effects however and was one of the game stars stopping 26 tough Milton shots Georgetown opened the scoring in the first minute of play when Curtis Hoogendam won a and passed back to Steven Smith shot the puck to the blueline where Wesley Blight beat the Milton point man for it Wesley turned on the jets and left the two Milton defencemen behind before scoring on a hard wrist shot low to the stick side Less than a minute later Brown intercepted a pass out and carried the puck from in front of his net to the redline He then fed a beautiful pass through the legs to Blight who was already at top speed and car a hot stick Wesley bulged the twine again and for the first time since these boys got together nearly three years ago they had Milton down 20 For the rest of the first period and part of the second Milton swarmed around our net a good part of the time but Humeniski made excellent use of his new blocker and trapper and continued to bold a hot hand Four minutes into the second period Ryan Bell intercepted a clearing pass at the blueline and fired a quick pass to Allan Rasmussen in the slot Allan relayed the puck to Brad Davidson in front of the net and when the goalie went down Brad went around him to give Georgetown a lead Right around this time two things started to happen Our boys some of whom are just getting over the flu started to tire and Milton started double shifting their stars We escaped the second period up but the third frame was all Milton and they were victorious The game got Very physical and Shane Thompson Brad Davidson Ricky Clark Curtis Hoogendam and Kevin Humeniski all suffered injuries of varying degrees and will be carrying assorted bruises to OakvilleonJan 12 Back in October Ma jor Novices defeated Georgetown mainly on the strength of three goals by one player On Jan 3 the same player scored four times to Raiders trim Milton lead bis team to a 52 win Georgetown hasnt yet recap tured the spark that gave them three wins in days before Christmas but the game was not without some highlights for the local supporters Steven Smith and Wesley Blight continued their recent fine play as they combined to set up Curtis Hoogendam for the opening goal of the game Allan who is really coming Into bis own this season went end to end before split ting the defence and debng the goalie for a memorable goal Shane Thompson broke up rush after rush and only a hot kept him off the Rookie Fraser Brown played his strongest game of the season as he was around the puck all night and when his shooting skills catch up with his skating ability the goals will surely come Our two Brads Davidson and Kouyoumjian passed the puck around all night and were just unlucky not to put one the net Continued from Page 15 week Brazeau had left the Raiders last month to return to school in Ste Marie but came back to Georgetown last week when he was unable to gain immediate entrance into Lake Superior State Universl Raiders were never behind in Milton maintaining a 10 first period lead and ahead 21 going in to the third Georgetown led before Milton scored to make it close Curtis Green made his third straight start in the Raider net RAIDER Raiders host Mimlco Monarchs on Friday before facing off against first place Etobicoke Capitals at Alcott Arena on Saturday 26QuetphSt Georgetown Onl The snow is here Tune up your gear Alpine Tuneup 995 Binding Installation Oakley Now In Stock MAIN STREET SOUTH QEOHQETOWN Championship hud Thornhill Chinguacousy 1 Consolation final Mississauga S Chatham l Ruling the roost Tbornbill captain Chris accepts the Town of Halton Hills championship trophy after leading bis club to the annual GMHA midget tournament title last Sunday with a 41 win over Tournament chairman Rick Hume presented Amodeo with the hardware SALE Save Up To 50 OFF Sportswear Ganl Colours by Julian i Cooper Casual Slacks Riviera Outerwear Far London Fog Jcno Pans Dress Shirts Suits Sport Jackets- J Country Squire Chaps Merit DROP IN fetf