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THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday October 21 1989 Page 11 Sports INBMN Herald Sports Editor Rebels star at Haltons By COLIN Herald Sports Editor Cold wet and blustery weather plagued the Halton County Cross Country championships staged Wednesday at the Kelso tion Area near Milton but the ef forts of runners from Georgetown District High School and Acton High School warmed the hearts of the respective coaches and team supporters The overall combined boys and girls championship pennant went to Milton High School In the com bined overall standings the GDHS Rebels were second just eight points behind Milton while Nelson High School of Burlington was third The GDHS Rebels won the overall boys title ahead of Milton High School and another Milton squad Bishop Reding The overall girls championship was taken by Milton High School with the GDHS Rebels claiming se cond place and Nelson High School settling for third The Rebel runners took team championships in senior boys junior boys and junior girls categories The Rebels midget girls team placed second Coach Bruce Andrews who helped convene the meet was pleased with the efforts displayed by the Acton runners In team competition the Redmen midget boys squad placed fifth The Rebels Bob Donker won the senior boys event Other members of the championship team included Dan Campbell Martin David son David Scida and DwightSpencel7 Kevin Tanas paced the Rebels junior boys team championship fort by finishing seventh Other team members included Ryan Trant 10 John Manning 11 Paul Steve Fontana and Kevin McMurray Megan led the way for the Rebels junior girls team triumph with a second place finish Other team members included Sara 3 Alexis Kerr and Leslie Scarth 9 Knsty Johnson finished second boys competitors are off and running at the County cross country championships held Wednesday at Kelso Area near Milton The Rebels junior boys team won the in their category The Rebels teams claimed the championship Milton Herald photo to lead the midget girls team Other team members included Emma Gelok Nany Reid 12 Diane Manning 20 Julie Tanas and Copeland 29 For the Acton Dave Osborne was second in the midget boys race Other midget boys team members Included Matt Wigston 24 Julian Stark and Bob An Karen was the midget girls race while Reynolds was 11th in the senior girls eent Lam Nguyen was he top junior boys finisher for the Redmen plac ing Jason Dunn finished 31st and Kevin placed 32nd The GDHS Rebels senior boys cross country team warmed up prior to competition In the championships staged at Kelso lion Area Wednesday The team won the senior boys championship Team members include from left to right Dan Campbell Dave Scida Martin Davison and Bob Herald photo ACTON cross team members warmth for each at the Halton cross championships staged Wednesday at Kelso Area Despite the cold and damp conditions the Acton team stuck together Pictured aboe front row left to right Dae Marc Osborne and Julian Sark Back row left to right Matt Wigston Big Bob Andrews and Herald photo Major Bantams M and M Pro Sports drop a pair M and Pro Sport Bantams came out on the short end of a home and home series against Orangeville this past week dropp ing both games by one goal Friday the locals went to Orangeville for a late 30 game start and quickly fell behind by three goals before Tim put Georgetown on the scoreboard late in the second period with assists to and Thompson Presswood scored again early In the third period from a pinpoint pass from Thomp son to close the gap to one Orangeville went up again by two on a powerplay goal but Georgetown came back less than a minute later when Steve Wright scored on a perfect passing play from Curry and Jake Mashinter to bring them back within one scored another goal and again with time running out Wright scored with assists to Curry and mark At the final buzzer the score was 54 Orangeville with Georgetown all over the hosts net We just ran out of time said coach John Wright Orangeville has a very good team here and we were ail over them at the close of the game We just couldn overcome that three goal lead we let them have Sunday at home the M and Bantams opened the scoring when Jake Mashinter took a Chris Bar row pass at the mark of the first and put it past the goalie That lead held up until the four minute mark of the second when Orangeville took an errant pass and tied it up but less than two minutes later Barrow put the locals ahead again with Steve Wright picking up the assist along with Mashinter Jake Mashinter picked up his third point of the night when he converted a lead pass from Wright to make the score 3 1 in Georgetowns favor Penalties to Georgetown allowed Orangeville to slowly run up the score and with only 52 seconds left they scored the go ahead goal while Georgetown was short handed The clock and a couple of dumb penalties cost us this game said Wright But overall I was pleased with the way the team played Wnght also had praise for the way the large defence played and singl out the sparkling performance in goal of Tom Raiders host Oakville Blades Georgetown Pontiac Buick Raiders are hoping a pair of Cen tral Ontario Junior B Hockey League tilts scheduled for this weekend will see an upswing in the teams fortunes Friday evening Raiders made the short jaunt to Milton for a game against the Merchants At press time the score was not available Tonight Saturday 7 30 m at Gordon Alcotl Memorial Arena Raiders face the always dangerous Blades Sporting a 161 early season record the Raiders need some sort of a break for things to finally start going their way Unfortunately their weekend op position just might heap more abuse on the hometown favorites Blades have collected seven points from four games to date while Milton Merchants are proving to be the surprise team of the Centra Leagues West Divi having garnered 10 points to share the division lead with Burl ington Cougars Raiders expect rugged team leader Kevin Dance back in action on the weekend following a four game suspension Dance should provide some much needed spark tothe harried Raiders Similarly Craig Cooper should be back on the ice Cooper suffered an early season shoulder separation In the senior boys category Redmen runner David was 28th while Mark Vanderakker placed 29th All teams taking part in the Halton championships qualify for the Golden Horseshoe Athletic Conference championship cross country meet to be held day at Hamilton s Churchill Park Minor Atoms take to ice Herald Special Georgetown Minor Atoms Burlington After splitting the first two games of the season Georgetown travelled to Burlington for a Satur afternoon contest Our bo s came out a little flat and Burlington was cruising along with a lead near the end of the second period until Sam Butt in tercepted a clearing pass and deflected it to Shane Thompson Shane took one step r the and fired a hard tlu startled Burlington netimnd for his fifth goal in just three games If Shanes shot gets any harder the Raiders will be calling him up That goal woke up our boys and they started to press One minute into the final frame Curtis dam won a faceoff in the opposition end and pulled the puck back to Steven Smith Smitty relayed to Thompson who shot from the blueline Brad Kouyoumjian slid the rebound over to Hoogendam and he buried it to tie the game Georgetown dominated the final period but had to settle for the tie Monday we travelled to Orangeville for a late game Our boys must have been up past their bedtimes and by the time they awoke they were down after on ly five minutes From that point to the end of the game the two teams were almost dead even with the opposition Georgetown broke the ice late in the third period when Ricky Clark scored bis second goal of the young season on passes from Brad David son and Wesley Blight Then with only a minute remain ing Brad Kouyoumjian scored on a nice threeway passing play with Curtis Hoogendam and Andrew Beavan The final score was 7 2 and Georgetowns record now stands at 121 Coach Brian James was pleased with the effort the boys gave for the last two thirds of the game but he echoed the sentiments of the Georgetown supporters If they don start passing the puck It will be a long season