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The Acton F Press Wednesday February 1971 Huskies chew up Tanners Durham Huskies clobbered Acton Tanners 101 In the opening game of the best of seven Central A Intermediate B group semifinals In Durham last night Tuesday Arrangements the Free Press sports department made Tuesday afternoon to have the games scoring plays brought back apparently broke down somewhere along the line However one fan who attended the game reports Tanners stood around and watched the northerners skate circles around them for the last two periods Second game of the series will be played In Acton Friday right at with the third game In Durham Sunday afternoon at Centreville bantams defeat Kitchener Centreville bantams edged the Acton Legion squad In an exhibition game in Ayr Saturday The loss was only the fourth in 12 games for Acton The two teams played to a standoff in the first period and traded three goals In the second but Centreville the towners 21 in the final 20 minute Terry Holmes accounted for two of the six Acton goals Other Acton marksmen were Charlie McRac Pete George and Paul Daley Top playmaker for Acton was Mike Ferguson who earned assists on two goals Paul Daley Bernle Taylor Wade Knight Chris Tennant and Tim Mclntyre collected one assist apiece Centreville goal scorers were and EUls and Zorn with two each and Gregory with one Acton served five of the game a seven minor penalties Banfs drop dose games Acton Firefighter bantams have dropped the first four games of the second half of their schedule but all four games have been close Kent Kentner scored for Acton In a 31 loss to Hespcler Gerald Barden tallied both goals in a loss to Preston and Van Fleet and John netted one goal apiece as Firefighters bowed to Sunday afternoon Preston shut out the locals here Saturday afternoon on goals by Dave Art Sonnenburg Glen and John Donna chic Bantams host Streetsville tomorrow Thursday night at EXCITING ACTION to the ActonMount Forest Junior game Thursday Men edge 4towners Acton Men nipped their Legion 4 town counterparts In an exhibition game Saturday Jim Hurley scored both goals for Men B J Legate and Steve Buchanan picked up ATOMS Guelph edged Dixie In Saturday atom opener Ricky Gooyers Jamie McDonald and Clint Girdwood scored for Gooyers and David drew assists Derrick and Murray McNabb handled the Dixie scoring Adam Swetman Gordle McArthur and Anderson scored for Weston in a victory over Brampton Frank Geng and Gary picked up assists Scott Timbers tallied a goal and an assist for Brampton Mike Marshall potted the other goal and Todd Cook earned an assist NOVICES Steve Van Der hat trick sparked to a win Hamilton In the first novice game Ron Guest netted the other General goal Danny earned one assist Todd Mclntyre counted both Hamilton goals unassisted Niagara Falls downed St Catharines in the other game PEEWEES Springfield shut Cleveland 30 on goals by Ron Nathan Fields and Ray Kingsmill in the first game Rochester blanked Baltimore in the second game and Gidden potted a pair of goals apiece for the winners Morris and Shultis earned assists BANTAMS Four goals by Terry Holmes paved the way for Pittsburghs 74 win over Buffalo George Artem also scored twice and Billy once for the winners Wayne Allan and McGUloway earned a pair of assists each Holmes Steve Bennett and John Pink collected one apiece Paul Daley triggered a hat trick for Buffalo Ken Withers tallied one goal Mike Ferguson earned two assists and Pete notched one MIDGETS St Louis downed Los Angeles In the midget game Rene fired a pair of goals and John Ken Jordan and Ted Muehlbacher netted one apiece for the Blues St Louis assists went o Bruce with four Blair with two and Muehlbacher Ron and Sid Barens with one apiece For Los Angeles Gary Masters scored a goal apiece Masters John Jordan Glen McKenxie and Armstrong earned assists Delhi lads win novice opener Acton A B novices ran Into a one man wrecking crew and went down to a defeat at the hands zone semifinal series here Saturday afternoon Stefan who racked up goals in the regular season Southern Counties league schedule scored three of the Delhi goals set up two others and was a constant scoring threat throughout the game Hat trick Stefan scored his first goal at the 45 second mark of the first period added another at 10 and completed his hat trick with a pretty goal at 37 of the third period A B s shut Stefan and his teammates out In the second period when they played their best hockey of the entire game Lawrence Handsane Brian Walters Ken and Gilbert Jansenns tallied the other Delhi goals We only played one period of hockey coach Barry Inscoe THATS FAR ENOUGH Referee Jim King warns Tanner defenceman Kevin Hall to cool It as the linesman holds him back Hall and a Fergus forward nearly came to blows In the dicing minutes of Friday nights Tanner victory Jan keeps the situation Staff photo Tanners make playoffs trounce Fergus Flyers Determined to make the playoffs Acton Tanners went out and did exactly what they had to do to enter postseason play when they chalked up their first win in four starts against Fergus Flyers a victory at the community centre Friday night The two teams were tied for the final playoff spot going Into game Grab lead Tanners grabbed a first period lead and built it to 80 before Flyers potted a pair of quick goals late in the second Tanners counted four more goals in the final frame including a blast from their own blueline by Harold Townsley into the empty Fergus net midway through the period Fergus coach Fred apparently felt he had nothing to lose and yanked goalie BUI Clark with the score 102 Clark returned to the cage after Townsleys goal Tanners were In control of the game from the opening whistle Fergus battled hard to stay with them but ran out of steam Flyers dressed only players plus Clark for the big game Andrews stars Rookie Bob Andrews played a brilliant game for Acton bagging three goals Harold Townsley ana Kevin scored two goals apiece and Fred Buchanan Larry Gregson Gordie Ed and Bill Barbour potted one apiece three assists HaU Hauler and Don collected two each and Buchanan Gregson Bell and Brian notched one apiece For Fergus Fred Kauk Larry Weber Norm Lels Doug Wiltsle Harper tallied singles Lcis also earned three assists A crowd of about fans Ed netted the Legion goal with John Scoyne assisting Thursday night In Georgetown Ford Alton tallied the lone Acton goal in a loss to Georgetown major peewees Central OH A Intermediate B FINAL STANDINGS GA is FERGUS FLYER goalie Bill Clark la left unprotected as Tanner forwards Ed Hillier 141 and Jan close In on him Flyer rearguard Gary Jefferson Is behind Hillier as referee Jim King keeps a dose eye on the play Staff photo Durham Acton 92 IS TO IBS Rams in Western loop Friday Score Acton 12 Fergui 2 Durham Chelienhar Durham v Acton H A Intermediate C Semifinal Cheltenham Fall Acton Junior Rams will play In the OLA Western Junior B lacrosse league again this summer team officials learned at a conveners meeting In Brampton Sunday teams from Whitby Scarboro Rexdale and Peterborough Mimico HuntsviUe and Peterborough are new entries lamented after the game Russell Lee and Gary Medland chores for the locals Ken recorded the shutout for the Delhi squad who lost only one game season Remaining dates A will attempt to square the series when they journey to Delhi for the second game Sunday at 3 30 Remaining games in the series will be played in Acton Saturday March at in Delhi Sunday March at 3 30 if necessary and in Acton Saturday March 13 at Winner of the series advances to the zone finals Six teams Lake Ancaster and Waterford are in the other bracket Acton Russell Lee Gary Medland Ricky Gibson Billy Manes Scott Malcolm Jeff Shields Wade Tom Randy Van Fleet Bert Post Bruce Tom Ryan Shane Withers Dave Larry Brown Harv Hillier industrial champ Harv Hillier scored six goals and assisted on another Sunday night to nose out Ron Mellon for the industrial league scoring title watched the onesided contest which the Fergus team almost turned Into a complete farce with their goaliepulling strategy In the third period Tanners now meet Durham Huskies In a best of seven group final Lucan and Elmlra square off in the other best of seven semifinal Heller J IS Lakevlew II Nlelten Blow 11 Keller I Playoffa Beat of three Lake view Blow vi Heller to meet In beat of three final Float year but bowed to in the finals Harv miller Ron Mellon N JohnCimninghim I Harry Phillip Jim McDonald Jim Barden Gibbon Gerry Van Der Eyre Chick Milne H Stu McDonald Cut Holm Tow niter N BUI Coon N Boo Schmidt Bob Waller B Garr Ritchie H Dave Ryder John Ma too Gary MnaleiH Grant N Ron Heller H Ernie Waller La He Alee KenMcIiaaeN Cliff Cord Van Gil Steve Coy B Run Mat a let Alan Jeff Gov H Larry Porte George Cook Ed Dan Fred Buchanan B Max Howard Barry on Fred Fllmlk Doug Allan B Dan Arblc Kevin HaU John DaveSproitonB Alan PenneU Frank Anthony league 3D 19 IB 17 13 IB 12 13 Farrcil Ren for to 10 IT IS IS Centennial 15 10 11 IT 11 10 Sports 11 11 Corner 11 IS Mill St E Acton 12 IS 8532160 3 10 13 12 SEE OUR 1 12 11 TREMENDOUS 10 SUPPLIES 14 of all 1 3 1 SPORTING J 1 1 2 1 EQUIPMENT 1 1 1 0 1 1 I 1 20 OFF j i Formation of a brand new Rams will be classified Junior C although they 11 be playing In I TOP SCORERS Ikeplche BUI White Jack Nairn Joe Ed Wilton Cheltenham Dale Rata Durham Jim Nixon Durham Dick Doughty Lucan Laverne MUler Elmlra Jamie Robh Lucan Barry Irwin Durham IT 13 IT ST IS IS the junior group along with Niagara OakvUIe Mlssissauga Brampton and Kitchener all returnees to the league and two new entries Hamilton and Windsor The Windsor team also classified will play a home and home series with each of the other teams in the league with each game worth four points Central loop Midland Hurons the only other junior team In Central Ontario will play in the 0 Central Junior B loop with Ontario was also announced at Sunday s meeting Included in the new loop will be Belleville Kingston Cornwall and two teams from the province of Quebec Valleyfleld and Verdun Winners meet Following their regular season schedule Rams will enter a playoff with Midland and Windsor with the survivor ad vancing to the provincial Junior C finals against the winner of Ihe eastern league Rams ousted Midland in the semifinals last MEET THE TANNERS Gary has been a trainer with the team for the past four years In addition to his hockey duties Gary has been president of the Figure Skating Club for the last six years A plant supervisor at Flowerlea Dairy in Brampton Gary lives In Acton with his wife Peg and their three daughters Colleen Marilyn and Jack returned to the Tanner lineup Friday night after being sidelined since December with a leg injury Jack Is in his second year with the team A member of the Georgetown police force Jack his wife and daughter Annette live to Terra Cotta This week Scoro is worth Niagara whips midgets deciding game Thursday midgets whipped Acton C F A midgets in Virgil Thursday night to force a third game to their best of three OJvI midget B playoff series The deciding game is scheduled for Virgil tomorrow Thursday night at Acton won the first game of the series Acton were never in Thursday game after captain Pete Morrison won the opening and circled the Niagara defence to net their only goal at the eight second mark of the first period Tie score tied the score just seconds later and the banana belters proceeded to score six unanswered goals to skate off with an easy win Other Niagara marksmen were Wlebe Weiss and Gordon The winners led 21 at the end of the first period and at the end of the Second Although he was beaten for six goals Dan McGUloway did not play badly in the Acton nets Lack of protection from his defence contributed to some of the Niagara goals Coach confident The team practiced Monday night and coach Jim James is confident of victory in tomorrow nights big game However he admits his boys will have a real tussle on their hands They got a big club but we can take themifwehustlefor60mlnutes coach James commented A win tomorrow night would put Acton into the provincial quarterfinals against one of three teams Caledonia Port Dover or St Marys Acton Dan McGUloway Steve Webster Steve Mclntyre Dave Lee Pete Morrison George McPhail Bren Irwin Ken Hurren Randy Gary Henry Roland McCuUoch Dale Fisher Gory Fisher Harry horns Friday Ftbraary 26 va Dnrham Playoffs Home Team la ACTON MEADOWS GOLF CLUB OPENINGS NOW AVAILABLE for a limited number of new members Take advantage of our Low Rates and become a member of a pleasant rapidly expanding Golf Club PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT JIM TIMLECK at 8530052 MO HOOT OUR RITES OP TO 1