Halton Hills Newspapers

Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), September 17, 1980, B1

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sports and recreation One Hi and Sixth Year Number JO Wednesday Sentenbern Sir One Hi and Sixth Year Number JO Wednesday SeptenberU We are the champions takes trophy The Tornadoes won Ihe squirt championship after cup day Saturday for the Acton Soccer Club The championship team j rrom to right front row Duff Sheldon goalie Centre row Michael McRae Shayne Rod Leach Jason Piper Lincoln Robert Rich Back row David Bender on Chris VanDam Sean Van Kcsteren Chris 0 Steven John Wall Coaches Peter Wall James Richmond MUilng Is Mike McDonald v The Rovers won the mosquito championship alter downing the Raiders The winners are front row left to right Richard Vanderwal Brian Evans Paul Kilpa trick JoffySllcock Jamie Colin Lewis Randy David Vaiock Steve Peter Tim merman Scott Mitchell coach took Brown Tom Griffenbam Ricky atom championship Tie team Dave Malcolm Chris Drummood Dwayne Phillip Rob Love Paul Restlvo Stefan Schewelghofen Brad Robert Murison Jeff Brown Mat thew Manb Chad Mance Brad Neave Chris Manb Coaches Paul and Chris ml ife a The Celtic woo the Front row left to rick Jamie Thatcher Bean Tarai Tom Kronandotik Richard right Simon Hugo Brian Steven Byres and another Richard KUpatrick Rick Dodds David back row Paul KUpat- coach Acton Industrial Men Softball champion after downing In two straight games In the finals last week at Prospect Pork Earlier had knocked Station Hotel out of the running also in town straight games enjoyed an romp over In the first game of the finals with Dan Arbic banging a home run Rick Boycott was the star of the second final match swatting a grand slam homer to a 104 Freadom victory Tho first final game was played Sunday September 7 at Prospect Park set the pace right off the bat with six run first frame Mike McGregor Rick Dan Bob Little George Wall is and Doug Ford on a triple all reached home A double by Arblc brought In McArthur in the second frame then Arbic homer knocked In two runs by Boycott and In the third Unlsal finally got on tho scoreboard In the fifth frame when Rick Roy Bosch and Ken Pilgrim rounded the bases Coe added tho fourth run in the seventh Inning after a triple by McArthur added run In the fifth off a single hit McGregor and McArthur crossed the plate in the seventh then McGregor McArthur Lloyd Smollwood and Camp bell trotted around the diamond in the eighth for the four runs The second game started out on a more even keel although Boycott chose the first frame for his grand slam performance thanks to an error Wally Ella and Bousfleld touched home In the opening frame for spread out their next six runs with Campbell reaching home in the second McArthur and Boycott touching the plate In the fifth and again In the seventh and McGregor adding a run in the bottom of the eighth after batting a single runs reached the finals by eliminating the Firestone Oldtlmers in two games disposed of Station in the other semi final best of three series They won the second game convincing enough 13 Dave Allen scored Stations only run in the top of the third Boycott and Arblc touched home In the first for Paisley Ruddy Holmes Doug Ford Little Boycott scored the other run3 The season remained close until August when started pulling away from Firestone Oldtimers which at point were holding second place came on a strong finish in the regular season pass the Oldtimers to finish second The other spots were also closely con tested towards the end or the season with only a few points separating last place and four and final playoff spat Hills Electric Station Hotel and even Van Welding which suffered through a dismal season battled hotly for the fourth place Station finally securing it The may have been decided but the reason isn over The league Is hold ing a day long tournament September 27 to wrap things up The banquet and awards night Is scheduled for October Roadrunners upset The Acton have been eliminated from Georgetown Industrial League playoffs after falling to Akers Clark Realtors In three games The who finished the sea son in top spot in the standings thus receiving a bye In the first round of play were upset by Clark In the best of three semi finals two weeks ago Clark took the first game Wcdnes day September nipping Acton Jim Murphy and Randy Coulson shared pit chlng duties on the winner mound Acton came back In the second game Thursday whipping Akers Clark Joe Deforest who went the distance on the Acton mound was the key to the vie tory He whiffed IS sluggers and allowed only vo hits throughout the entire game In the third and deciding game Sunday Clark held on to a four run lead it racked up early In the game to w the match Don Richards of the was ejected from the game along with son of Georgetown club after a con play at home plate Then a superb catch by Dave Ward of the Realtors took the steam out of the Coulson went the distance for the Realtors Intheothersemi final match Hornby up set the favored Publishing In three games Hornby defaulted the first game as only seven players showed for the opener returned to down them in the second match Thursday and fought deficit to win the third That set up the finals for the GIFL with Clord Clark who ended the season in the sixth and final playoff spot meeting fourth place Hornby Merchants The finished the regular season games with 2 wins and one tic tucked under their belts They I ad pa nts three ahead of secondplace Akers Clark the downfall finished the season with 14 wins and IB losses for a point total of Hornby ended w 18 wins 12 losses and two tics for po Soggy soccer finals It rained on their parade A torrential of flood like pro- fell on McKenzleSmlth and M fields Saturday but It didn put a damper on the teams competing in the Clubs cup day The games were to determine the teams of each division squirt atom mosquito and President Richard Vandwerwal said the day would go on rain or shine since the club was ploying under English rules The Tornadoes won tho squirt with a victory over Eramosa Chris netted three goals and picked up an assist on the fourth scored by Scon Von Kestcrn Van Kestern also earned two assists and Chris Van Dam pocketed a single assist Coach Peter Wall singled out Lincoln and David Henderson for except ional defensive play Despite the score the game was close Tornadoes had to struggle for victory took the atom championship with a victory over Ajax in their final game The Rovers nipped the Raiders to cap ture the mosquito division championship Paul and Colin Lewis netted the goals for the Rovers Robert Splinter scored both goals for the Raiders The won the champ ionship after downing Jamie Tarns and scored the Celtic goals Club to rate players The 107980 Acton soccer club executive passed one final motion before stepping down from power Thursday during the Club general meeting at the Legion On a suggestion from a couple of coaches who attended the meeting the executive decided to draw up a purpose rating system to assist coaches the league and the executive In building and selecting the next season teams Players would be rated on a scale of one to five for different aspects of the game In eluding attitude and ability to better each team next season The feeling is more balanced teams would provide better competition within house league which was included In this year season has already incorporated this sort of system A spokesman for the group said It was effective way for choosing all star teams as well However the executive pointed out each boy or girl who w shed to try for may do so no matter what his or her rating and each boy girl would be judged on his her accomplishments during tryouts The club went on to elect their new exe cutive despite the poor turnout Richard Vanderwal who stepped into the post of president this spring after Bill Brown re signed is returning us president Pat Graham who served as treasurer on last season executive is also returning Peter Wall was elected first vicepres ident while James Richmond wa3 elected second vice Butler rounds out the executive as secretary Vaderwnl said during the president s re port his term as head of the club was both disappointing and rewarding Trojans top remarkable season The Acton Trojans Junior soccer club have advanced to the finals after Georgetown Barracudas lest night at Cedarvale Park The Trojans will play in the final game Saturday at Last week the Trojans topped an incred ible season with a 1 tie over the George town Metros in the final game of the regular season That gave the junior squad an unbeat able record no losses and one tie 10 games For only that the Trojans scored a remarkableflO goals in Just 16 games while only conceding IB unheard of feat In Optimists in final tomorrow A shutout Monday night put Acton Optimists In a do or die situation tomorrow night Thursday when thoy face Lime- for deciding game of the Rural flnalB The Optimists won the first game lost Tuesday Scott Williams batted a homer in the first game with singles coming of the bats of Shawn David Haynes Peter Carglll Wayne and Williams Williams also went the distance on the mound for Acton fanning nine sluggers Williams and shared chucking duties in the second game whiffing batters Car gill and Williams all hit singles in the game Llmehouse had the homefield advantage Monday and will again tomorrow Game time Is m In Thursday match the blonde bomb shell Derek Hodgson scared Acton s tone goal In the first half CoochBrianSaxonsald the win was the result a strong despite the fact they fielded only He also said any support Saturday would be welcome Game time been con firmed Winners of the Acton Tennis Club men doubles championship left Don Greet and Kovao are congratulated by John Kavanagb and Peter Marks right The doubles cham Gregg won the Hilton Hills ladles singles championships Monday night downing Asia Allison In two seta The singles championships both men and women were delayed from Sunday because of the rain The men final were played last night with results 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