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Continued from pg. 33 For several years Murdock show- cased his driving talents at Ransomville, winning 10 feature races in the Sports- men's Division there in 1993 and copped rookie of the year honours for the modi- fied class in '94. He now serves as the chief mechanic for his 14-year-old son Steven's burgeon- ing go-kart racing career. Dan Ralph Along the way to becoming The Ca- nadian Press's authority on football both north and south of the border, lo- cal resident Dan Ralph was the sports editor at two newspapers in Georgetown and helped foster the gridiron sport at the youth levels. The North Bay native covered his first Grey Cup in 1981 in Montreal as a jour- nalism student at Durham College and has written about 21 more Canadian Football League championship games since then. At the 2012 Grey Cup in Toronto, the 53-year-old was taken completely by surprise after being inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame on the morning of the 100th anniversary con- test, which was won by the hometown Argos. Ralph was a running back at Scollard Hall Catholic High School in North Bay and his passion for sports and writing found him employment at newspapers in Timmins and Stratford before stints at the Georgetown Herald and after the latter folded, the Halton Hills Indepen- dent. He began as a general assignment re- porter at CP in 1990 and took over the football beat a year later, where he re- mains today, covering the CFL, NFL and university football extensively, along with horse racing. Ralph began coaching minor football with the Halton Hills Wildcats in 1999 and was with the program for 13 years. He took over presidency of the Ontario Minor Football League in 2011. DAN RALPH Part-time driver Murdock possessed need for speed