Page 16 THE HERALD Wednesday February lira Acton looks to shake losing spin in Jr C playoffs Its a whole new season for Sabres The old cliche the playoffs are a whole new season is one the Ac ton Sabres will cling to as the Jr club finishes Its Mid Ontario league regular season schedule this week Its been a frustrating season for the locals who could add the prefix hard luck permanently to their team name Sabres lost two more games last wek one of them which they were favored to win We ve been saying all season long that the breaks have to start going our way said Sabre GM Robin Inscoe after losses to I Orangeville and Alhston Maybe that U happen in the playoffs Acton suffered an 114 drubbing in Orangeville on Sunday after an egodamaging home ice loss on Friday to the Alliston Hornets Sabres finish the regular season with a visit to Grand Valley tomor row before gearing up for next Sun days playoff opener in Bradford against the second place Bulls ORANGEVILLE 11 SABRES Todd was the lone bright spot for Acton as he followed up a twogoal performance on day by drilling the hat trick Ac cording to Inscoe the speedy for ward came very close to potting five on Sunday Steve Wagner notched the other Acton goal with Mike Nellis Ian Ellis Wayne Rivers and Tim McDonald earning assists Acton actually opened the ing in Orangeville and held the first place Crushers off the board for over half the first period but a pair of quick goals in period two soon found the hometown club up by 61 heading into the final minutes Alex Piazza made bis first start of tbe season in goal for Acton after signing with the club last week Piazza had been with the B Milton Merchants earlier this season and spent time last season with the Sabres SABRES Todd Shimirak s week began on Friday in Acton as he scored twice once unwJsted and once while the Sabrer were thanded But a Acton lead soon evaporated as Alliston took a margin into the third period The Hornets scored once and stymied a frustrated Sabre offence that just couldn seem to get Rob Wilson assisted on Shimirak shorthanded tally Jim was in goal for Ac ton and was victimized on a couple of bad bounces despite displaying a snappy glove hand on some dif Hornet shots SABRE Sabres open up in Bradford on Sunday and return to Acton to host the Bulls on Friday Feb 10 All Mid Ontario league series are seven af fairs First place Orangeville should have relatively little problem in their series with cellardwelling Grand Valley while Schomberg Caledon and will engage in a round robin set sweep The Georgetown Sunny Acres Farms midgets took the first step toward a tncounty league as they disposed of Brampton in semi final playoff action last week Dale s empty sealed a Georgetown win last Friday and gave the Sunny Acres crew a sweep of the bestof three series Other goal scorers in Bramp ton were Rich Bond and Jim English with Eric Long and McNiven each earning a single assist Chris Cambouns started in goal for Georgetown and was Raiders dump Derbys Continued from Page 15 OAKVILLE4 RAIDERS 2 Despite the loss the Raiders bad to be happy with a strong penalty killing brigade that saw them kill off all seven Oakville powerplays Travis Cole and Kelly Foster were the only Raiders to solve west division MVP Kevin Alcock as the Blades outshot Georgetown 5233 They came right at us said Sturgeon of a concentrated Oakville attack We werent on our game It was just one of those nights RAIDER Newcomers Kevin Burrows and John Williamson made their home Ice debuts with Georgetown on Saturday and also sported the latest in punk haircuts courtesy of some veteran Raiders Williamson saw only a couple of shifts on right wing as still nursing a sore shoulder while Burrows was used sparingly on the blueline Sturgeon had speculated last week thai Guelph Platers of the might send down defenceman Bryan but that move apparently wont happen The OHLs Belleville Bulls may join the Platers in inviting Raider backstop Curtis Green to training camp next fall The Bulls were ap parently checking out young btueUner Trent Cull on Friday in Oakville and expressed an interest in Green as well Kelly Foster was cut for a few stitches m the forehead after he fell on the ice during a third period scrap with Streetsville s Steve Woods on Saturday Raiders have four regular season games remaining with two of them at home this weekend visits on Friday and in town Saturday Country And Downhill Skis Boots Incredible Savings Alpine Tuneup l 71 MAIN STREET SOUTH GEORGETOWN 8732441 Auto master transmission lllllllllltllll AUTOMASTER TRANSMISSION Foreign Domestic Light Trucks TRANSMISSION SPECIALISTS PROFESSIONAL TRANSMISSION TUNEUP Includes Clean sump and pan Naur pan gatkat trans filter trans fluid Adjust band 95 DEAL DIRECT WITH US AND SA -NOMIOOLEMAN- Frant Wheel Wheel Drive Experts 3 15 Armstrong A ve 8776904 replaced by Paul St Pierre Georgetown will now await the winner of the Burlington series to determine who they wdl meet in 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