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THE HERALD Wednesday September 1969- 17 ONLY PER WEEK 1989 HONDA CIVIC GEORGETOWN Hoy iowcost leas no SALES SERVICE 8731818 Sports and Recreation COLIN GIBSON Herald Sports Editor DOWNTOWN FAX SERVICE Evenings Saturdays Too VOUflG I D A IIP Downtown Georgetown 8772761 Junior B exhibition Raiders blunt Blades 82 IN GIBSON IN GIBSON Sports Editor Georgetown Pontiac Buick Raiders look the edge off the visiting Blades with a con vmung win in a Central Ontario Junior B Hockey League exhibi game played before an estimated fans Saturday night at Gordon Alcott Memorial Arena Saturday s game was the first exhibition contest for both clubs and opposing coaches Peter Sturgeon and Ken Moodie natural ly viewed the game from different perspectives Oakvilles Moodie termed the game sloppy but typical for exhibition play while the Raiders mentor Sturgeon was very pleased with our overall team effort Sturgeon on to say Our guys came to play hockey The young guvs showed intensity and the older players showed leader ship which s what you want OakviUe made a game of it through minutes but faded over the final two periods of play mainly because of unsteady goaltendin Blades coach Moodie wasn about to lay the blame on the however as both Chris Louisa and Jesse Robertson were getting their first taste of Junior B action Over the course of the game Georgetown 40 25 proof positive that breakdowns occurred in a number of areas The game was tied 2 2 after 20 minutes with rugged Raider veteran and team captain Kevin Dance and another veteran Brazeau counting powerplay goals Mark McWhirter on the powerplay and Mark Jones replied for OakviUe That as they say was all she wrote for the visiting Within a six minute span early in the second period the Raiders scored three times to open up a lead and that how things stood after two periods Trevor Ehnesky Kellv Foster and Robb Doucette scored the Georgetown goals Three unanswered third period goals salted away the Raider Greg Brazeau collected I se goal of the game the final 20 minutes with Bill McDonald on a short handed fort and Adam Hagan round nt out the scoring Brenl madt his presence felt on the by collecting three assists Raider coach Sturgeon singled out Bill Steve Trevor Ellnesky Adam Craig Hooper and goaltenders Craig Belfer and Shawn for special praise While generally pleased w th his team overall effort Sturgeon felt work needed to be done in one area getting the puck out of their own end mounting an at tack The transition game should around however as the players get used to each others style of play Netminders Belfer and Re s each worked minutes Belfer faced shots and allowed both goals withstood 13 blasts in stonewalling the OakviUe sharp shooters Georgetown look minor penalties s 9 minors Six plaers including Raider Curt Green sat out Saturday s game By this t me next week howeer Raider roster should stabilized for the upcoming 1989 Jun or Hockey League regular season Ra play the second exhib on game tonight against play n Milt evening then host to Milton Saturda p at Gordon Memorial Arena The exhibit on season w up Sept 22 with a game against Carr Crusaders m at Gordon Memorial Arena Raiders open 198990 regular season play on the road with a game scheduled for Sept in Streetsville The season home opener is set for Sept 30 7 p at Gordo Alcott Memorial a Blades once aa n pi viding the ion By COLIN GIBSON Herald Sports Editor It s all systems go and running smoothly as exhibition play looms for the Acton Sabres of the Mid Ontario Junior Hockey League Training camp activity moved up a notch on the intensity scale Friday evening at Gordon Memorial Arena with the staging of an game The entertaining lively affair saw the White team edge the Blue team 7 The Whites scored two goals in the final 30 seconds the last goal into an empty net to seal the win Rich Bond and Steve Henderson each scored twice for the Whites with Bond adding an assist Single markers went to Rob Wilson Tim McDonald and Jason Lucas Lucas had two assists with McDonald picking up a single assist Jeff Shevalier paced the Blues attack by notching a hat trick Single counters were scored by An Gilray and Jason Ross For the Blues Bob Watson and Kevin Ritchie each bad a pair of coach Ken Steen with the way training camp is progressing and although 30 skaters including are still being assessed the two ex games scheduled for this week will help determine a good portion of the team s opening 198990 roster Friday 30 at Gordon Memorial Arena Sabres wilt challenge twotime and defen dmg Georgian Bay Junior C Hockey League champion Staynor Sabres return the courtesy Saturday evening against Stayner with a game in Colhngwood Steen and other Sabre team brass are looking to ice a rugged nononsense squad this year to take advantage of the smaller ice surface at Actons Prospect Park Community Centre and the rearguards still In camp certainly fit the bill Mike Adams ball team challenges Ontario title This past weekend Georgetown Bantams travelled to Tillsonburgh to contest the Ontario Baseball Association Bantam champion ships division On Saturday Georgetown played two games In game one with Brent leading the way with a homerun and three singles Georgetown defeated Greg Dobbin also had a double a single and Troy Gardiner had a double and a single Other hits went to Joe Beaver with two Adam with two Ryan Pell s had one and Kevin one Chris Barrow pitched four strong innings for the win while Adam Poyntz finished up Game two saw Georgetown defeat Bolton by a 2 score Top hitters for Georgetown were Derek Ellard with a as well Steve Wright chipped in with a and a single Other hits for Georgetown were recorded by Chris Barrow with one Joe Beaver with two Brent Couling two Troy Gardiner two Kevin Latchford- one Adam one and Ryan Pells with one Tom Diardichuk made a great defensive play plus a well executed bunt Adam Poyntz went all the way and recorded 10 strikeouts In game three Georgetown played got off to a bad start could not catch up and lost 125 Barrow Beaver Couling and Gardiner hit safely for Georgetown Adam Poyntz started for Georgetown and went three in mngs Derek finished up Game four saw Georgetown play Bolton once again and Georgetown came through with a 105 win Chris Barrow a single and Derek single led the Georgetown hitters with Greg Dobbin one Joe Beaver one Brent Couling three and David Vanderbvl and Tro Gradmer with one each Steve Wright had a strong game behind the plate also helped out with a hit as did Warn Povntz Chris Barrow went the distance recording 12 KOs This win sent Georgetown to the final against One inning decided this game as Georgetown gave up six runs in the fourth inning and losl the game Adam Poyntz pitched a strong game for Georgetown Steve Wright led the hitting with a double and single as did Adam Ryan Pells chipped in with a dou ble and Couling had single and Greg Dobbin had two jingles and a walk The entire team played all five games very well with very few er rors and some great plays Coaches At Gardiner Phil Dob bin and Hal Pells thank all the parents for the help and support they gave this year Sabres ready for Stayner RAIDERS CELEBRVFE A GOAL This was just one of the mam Georgetown Ponliac Buick goal celebrations in Saturday s game win Oakllle Blades This Saturda 30 m at don Memorial Arena Raiders hate an exhibition game schedul against Milton Herald photo Frank Bruno collects gold B GIBSON Herald Sports Editor Frank Bruno didn let down his mam fiends and sup porter- at the Nat oi al Games for the Disabled held Vancouvei Aug 202 If am thing Ik surpissed and in so doing earned the right to represent Canada interna tionalK Bruno who has and of ficiated in the Georgetown Men Flag Football League suffered a head in an industrial just over three years A 20foot tumble off an order picker left him in a paralytic coma with doctors fearing for his life At the time of his accident he was the leading scorer in the Georgetown Mens Flag Football League Bruno beat the odds survived the lifethreatening injury and at tempted to pick up the pieces of his shattered life Physically and mentally Bruno estimates he is about per cent of what he used to be but this has not deterred him from his lifelong love of sports Representing the Mind Coop a social therapeutic group Bruno won five gold medals in the Vancouverbased National Games for the Disabled in the Cerebral Palsy Class 8 division Previously at the Ontario Games for the Physically Disabled held in August Bruno won four gold medals and set four national records His record recognition is on hold Frank Bruno for the present pending a neurological classification Bruno gold medal bonanza in Vancouver in the 100 and 200 metre dashes the long jump the shot put and the metre relay resulted in him being named to the Canadian Cerebral Palsy team which will Journey to Holland next summer for world competition Unable to hold steady employ because of his head injury Bruno pays his own way to com petitions The Georgetown Men Flag Football League executive and league member teams donated over to help defray expenses for Bruno s national gold medal quest