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THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2005. THE NEW TANNER 13 Bantam Tanners suffer first loss in round-robin After starting the Tri-County play-off round robin series with two wins, the Acton Home Hardware Bantam AE Tanners suf- fered a disappointing 3-2 los to visitors from Milton on Tuesday, Feb. 22. - The Tanners took an early 2-0 lead on goals by David Elop from David Tysoe and Dylan Creasey assisted by Elop, before allowing three consecutive goals by the visi- tors. Poor defensive coverage by the Tanners in their zone allowed Miltons forwards to get open in the slot in front of the Tanners net resulting in two goals by the opposition. Later, a two-on-one by Milton turned into a partial breakaway allowing the visitors to Despite outshooting the opposition by a wide margin, the Tanners failed to beat the Milton goaltender who played particularly well in the third period when the Tanners tried to tie the match. To their credit the boys pressed hard near the end and almost tied the game with goaltender Dirk Van Soelen on the bench in favour of an extra attacker. The Tanners failed to play as a team in this game. Once behind on the scoreboard there were too many solo efforts. Better ef- forts in upcoming games will be necessary to advance to the Tri-County final. _ The Tanners are scheduled to play in Elora, Hespeler and Woolwich to complete take a 3-2 lead. the round-robin playoff. DEADLINE IS MONDAY AT 12 NOON (House League Hockey| TYKE Jescan Power --4 MK Masonry -- 2 Jescan goals: Craig McAskill (2), Brendin Shannon, John McKee. Assists: Tyler Schouten (2), Tyler Carisse, Daniel Stub- bington, Jason Goodfellow, Jillian Banks, Shannon Oul- ton, Brooklyn Kutasienski. MK goals: Bradley Karat (2). As- sists: Brennan Mitchell, Bradley Koperdraad, Melora Andrews, Nicholas Cole. soke A&S Engraving -- 6 Select Trailer -- 3 A&S goals: Adam Coltson (3), Rilee Brown, Neil Mowatt, Brenden Geim. Assists: Spencer Evans, Coltson, Justin Gear, Bryce Claeys, Jordan Rowsell, Patrick Conlin, Myles Pratt, Kyle Robinson, Zachary Snow, Logan Walker, Nicholas Renaud. Select goals: Matthew Moore (2), Liam O'Connell. Assists: Malcolm Davidson, Zachary Rowe, Mat- thew Brooks, Trevor Haines, Garrett MacMillan, Ian Early. NOVICE Hot Line Electric -- 3 Yourway Auto --1 Hot Line goals: Scott McLean, Drake Andrews (2). Assists: Scott Clark, Adam Warrington, Tyler Tremblay. Yourway goal: Alexander Guoth. AK MacMillan's -- 4 End Zone Sports -- 4 MacMillan's goals: Michael Kri (3), Brett Allonby. Assists: Avery George, Kri. End Zone goals: Carl Lindo Jr., Phillip Bath (2), Joey Gallant. Assists: Alex Cardosa, Lindo (2), Taylor Leonard. EK Daniel Varanelli -- 6 Giant Tiger -1 Varanelli goals: Stephen White (3), Logan McNabb, Thomas Lupinacci, Matthew Tomlin- son. Assists: Patrick Scorcia (2), White, Mark Crha, Lau- ren Saelzer (2). Tiger goals: Mitchell Weber. Assist: Matthew Grabauskas. ATOM Georgetown Chrysler -- 3 Halton Power Line -- 2 Chrysler goals: Travis Tancoo, Josh Campbell, Eric Victoria. Assists: Dylan Crofts, Jennifer MacKenzie, David Borg. Power Line goals: James Dziepak, Clayton Black. Assists: Justin Nadon. ATOM City Limits -- 6 Sobeys -- 5 City goals: Jordan Luceri (2), Matthew Stubbington, Brad Reynolds, James Seymor, Kevin de Lestard. Assists: Seymor (2), Reynolds, Tyler Barrand (2), Kurt Hughes, Armyn Ashrafi, Williams Richards. Sobeys goals: Connor Hitchcock (3), Jesse Me- Fadden, Matthew Goodfellow. Assists: Christian Begin, Jesse McFadden, Hitchcock, Jordan. Milne, Steven Weaver, Braden Phelan, Megan Adema. RE Ron's Burner -- 3 Best Transfer -- 2 Ron's goals: Paul Kutasienski. Vincent Marciano, Tyler Gallant. Assists: Jacob MacPherson, Shane Saunders, Kutasienski, Ryan Payne. Best goals: Nick VanderEyken (2). Assists: Mitch- ell Godak, Tyler Kirkpatrick. PEEWEE « R&M Construction -- 2 Lincoln Freight -- 2 R&M goals: Tyler Colby, Jes- se Mortensen. Assists: Matthew Kutasienski, Cameron Coady, George Kennedy. Lincoln goals: Jordan Duin, Gregory Wells. Assists: Cody Fram, MacKen- zie Morrison, Chris Chiasson, Michael Shortt. eK Acton Subway -- 6 Nellis Construction -- 0 Subway goals: Dayne Black (3), Taylor Buchanan, Kyle Ade- ma, Alex Barry. Assists: Alex Barry, Bradley Dawe (2), Black (2), Alex Venneman, Adema, Victoria McAfee. Shutout: Dillon Greco. ot Acton Precast -- 3 Berkshire -- 2 Precast goals: Tyler Bell, Dil- lon Couture (2). Assists: Phillip Conlin, Jacob Dougan, Mitchell Webster. Berkshire goals: Mitch- ell Lewko, Luke Van Dinther. Assists: Matthew White, Daniel Cooper, Scott Elphick. BANTAM Acton Kinsmen -- 6 St. John's Trophies -- 3 Kinsmen goals: Kyle Payne, William Poirier, Chris Wilkinson (2), Curtis Marcoux (2).-Assists: Marcoux, Aaron French, Cam- eron Shortt, Wesley Drexler (3), David Many (2). St. John's goals: Cody Rowsell, Matthew Mills, JT Cooper. Assists: Michael De Santis (2), Cooper, Rowsell, Justin Bravo. SCAREDY CAT: Devon Hunter (centre) of MS the W.L Dick Wildcats' No. 15 in recent action at the MSB gym. Hunter contributed a strong effort in the loss to the Wildcats. - Chuck Tysoe photo B Mustangs blocks the baseline-versus Novice Tanners win three of last four playoff games Acton's Novice Tanners, heavily engaged in both the Three tough losses for Acton Atoms Acton Atom AE had a very busy week with three games and three tough loses. The first game against Flam- borough was a tough loss. The boys played hard and just couldn't get the puck over the goal line a couple more times. Carter Ebbinge got the first for Acton with Nick VanDery- chen getting the assist. Nick and Carter were on their game tonight getting a point with every goal. The second one was scored by Nick VanDery- chen from Carter Ebbinge and Michael Fatrdla. Mason Galway took a seat for slashing then came out strong for the third goal. Gal- way got his goal on the power play from Carter Ebbinge and Nick VanDerychen. Jacob Mcpherson also took a two- minute rest for boarding. The game ended in a 5-3 victory for Flamborough. Game number two found the Atoms in-St. Jacobs on Continued on page 15 Bearcats into AA finals The Acton Bearcat girls' volleyball team lost the AA Halton final to Burlington's Lester B. Pearson last Thursday. Acton won the first game 25/21, but dropped the second 25/22 and the third 15/7. Coach Joyce Finlay said the team just stopped attacking in the third game -- partially because it is a very young team with two Grade 9 starters and only one Grade 12 player. "There's lots of room for growth and our younger players got a lot of valuable experi- ence for next year," Finlay said on Sunday. The Bearcats were 9-1 in league play, and tied for first place in their division with Georgetown. 4 "Just to go nine and one with such a young team was great," she said. Although Finlay had praise for the entire team, she said Ashley Nixon, a Grade 9 stu- dent, had a tremendous match, scoring a lot of Acton's points and making great blocks. Setter Melissa Bigg also played well. "We served one hundred per cent. We didn't miss a serve the whole match and that rarely happens," Finlay said, adding the team tensed up in the third game and stopped hitting. The win over Acton advances Pearson to a match with Peel to determine who goes to the Ontario Federation of Secondary School Athlet- ics championship on March 8/9. OMHA and Tri-County play- offs, took victories in three of their last four games. The Tanners beat Woolwich, Elora and Hespeler before losing their last game against Elora 4-3. Acton Novice Tanners played their second Tri- County playoff game against Woolwich, in Elmira on Feb- ruary 19 and came up with a 2-1 win. The Tanners played well with goalie Joe Romh- anyi securing the win. Tanners goals were scored by Ian Thompson and Jake Corpe. Assists came from Jasson Lockyer, Jacob Lehm- ann and Bradley Bollert. On ice contributions came from Travis Baker, Liam McNaul, Dylan Schouten, Connor Jean, Angus Agnew, Brodie MacFarlane, Quinn Harding, Josh Kalbhenn and Taylor Pickering. Edge Elora On February 24 the Tan- ners continued their OMHA Playdowns in Elora. It was a very tight game for all three periods but the Tanners were able to pull out a 4-3 win. Goal- ie Joshua Karat made some key saves near the end of the game to en- sure the-win. Tanner goals were scored by Dylan Schouten with assists from Josh Kalbhenn and Liam McNaul. The second goal came from Josh Kalbhenn with assists from Quinn Har- ding and Ian Thompson. Third goal came from Ja- cob Lehmann with an assist from Bradley Bollert. The last goal came from Bradley Bollert unassisted. On ice contributions were from Travis Baker, Connor Jean, Angus Agnew, Brodie MacFarlane, Taylor Picker- ners played their third Tri-County play-off game against Hespeler and won 3-0. The Tanners came out flying and dominated this game from start to fin- ish. Goalie Joe Romhanyi stoned the Hespeler play- ers and earned the shut-out. Tanner goals came from Ian Thompson unassisted. The second goal came from Jake Corpe with an assist from Quinn Harding and the third came from Jake Corpe with assists from Quinn Harding and Bradley Bollert. On ice contributions were from Travis Baker, Liam MeNaul, Dylan Schouten, Connor Jean, Angus Agnew, Brodie MacFarlane, Josh Kalbhenn, Jacob Lehmann, Jasson Lockyer and Taylor Pickering. Elora Shades Tanners On February 27 the Tan- ners hosted Elora for their fifth OMHA playoff game in Acton. Elora played a very strong game and took it to the next-level, winning 4-3. The first two periods be- longed to Elora, but the Tanner forwards picked it up in the third and had many _ chances to steal a win. Goalie Joshua Karat and the Tanner defense did their best to keep the puck out of the net. Tanner goals were scored by Bradley Bollert with an assist to Quinn Harding, Dylan Schouten unassisted and Quinn Harding bagged the third goal assisted by Jake Corpe. On ice contributions came from Travis Baker, Liam MeNaul, Connor Jean, Angus Agnew, Brodie MacFarlane, Josh Kalbhenn, Jacob Lehm- ana, Jasson Lockyer, Ian ing, Jasson Lockyer, Jake gagbggmpson. and Taylor Pick- "ering. Corpe and Joshua Karat. Blank Hespeler On February 26 the Tan- The Tanners head back to Elora on Thursday, March 3 for game No.6.