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Streetsvillestops Sabres season The Acton Sabres probably wanted to for get the regular of Ontario Junior Hockey League That being the case tbey probably don want to think about this years playoff It was DISASTER hi capital letters The fact that the last placed Sabres got a crack at post season play may have been enough of a Joke but their being matched against the first placed StreetsvUle Derby was an even bigger Tbe Derby wasted no time and gave the local talents no mercy as Ihey swept the best of seven series in four games the Sabres by an average of over the set After losing the opening pair of games of the series the Sabres dropped decisions of 124 and 111 giving the Derbys an easy win and the right to meet the winner of the and Milton set In game three In Acton on Wednesday night Ihe local side looked Impressive for toe opening minutes they even bad the on the ropes leading but the got a second wind in the middle stanza and outiocred the white orange and blue by a count to take total control The continued to dominate in the final 20 minutes the Sabres SO to win the contest 124 took an early 20 lead but Mike pulled the locals to within one with help from Ken Kavanaugh to get the ball rolling Roy Spear evened the count a short time later with an unassisted effort and then a goal front Hark Symes gave the locals their brief and only lead of the series Brian Demoae and Mike Yalowica earned assists on the play The Sabres had the crowd buzxfng in the middle stanza when Demon netted the twine with aids going to Symes and Randy Smith It would be all the Acton fans would have to cheer about as the Derbys stepped into high gear scoring the next 10 goals without allowing the Sabres a sniff Rob Ruffino bad a busy night in the Sabres cage blocking shots while the netmlndlng pair of Williams and Randy Exeiby stopped 31 Williams a former Sabre nettninder faced 13 shots In the opening frame before giving way to Exelby for the final two frames There was little doubt about the result of the final game as the Derbys were simply too powerful for the small town Sabres built up a 30 first frame lead and extended it to after minutes before pouring it on netting six in the final frame for an 111 triumph and series vic tory Denis Kirt goal at the 4 mark of the middle frame was the only time in 25 tries that the Sabres would beat Williams while blocked shots in two frames for the Sabres Chris Martin tended the pipes in the final period of the These Acton figure Uteri have shone in re cent competitions Front row left to right Kara bronic medal winner at the Great Lakes competition Kerry bronie medal winner In pre- juvenile ladles at the Sim one silver medal winner In prenovice ladles in InterClub Michele Perry bronie medal winner In ladles Interpretive at InterClub Colleen Petty winner of a gold and silver medal at the Great Lakes competition Back row Gillian Brain fourth place in Juvenile ladies at bridge Cheryl seventh spot senior solo dance and medal in the Inter Club Michael junior mens competitor at Inter- Club Michael and Chrlstensen advance to the region a Is March at Camp Borden Absent Jennifer a silver medal winner at InterClub GeorgetownActon Wednesday Feb 23 9 Juveniles ousted from OMHA The Acton Free Press Juveniles were knocked out of further action last Tuesday at home when they dropped a decision to Fergus giving Fergus the best of three series Acton scorers were Wayne McMillan with a trio and Brian Demone with a pair Don Thornhill contributed two assists for the juveniles Paul helped out with one On February the juveniles defeated Fergus by a score in playoffs at the Community Centre McMillan had another hattrick for Acton with Dean Hughes netting a pair of goals Assists went to and Vermeulen with two each Gary White Hughes and McMillan added lone aids Last Sunday in Fergus the Juveniles lost by a score of Rick Chapman netted a pair of goals for the locals in the match with Hughes and Vermeulen hitting for one each had three assists in the losing cause while Barry McNabb Vermeulen and Chapman passed for singles Atoms out Last Tuesday at the Community Centre the Acton Major Atoms were defeated by- in Hub League playoff action Actons goal was pocketed by Eric Matt son unassisted Grimsby and West Hill win Legion crowns Dominion Legion President Dave was on band for the finals of the Annual Acton Legion Tourney and presented the A Division champion ship A wariTto Grimsbys captain Mike Kay Grimsby edged out for the Acton Legion Peewee Tournament chair man Harry Easing presented Series Consolation Championship Trophy to Dray tons defeated In overtime to earn the title The action was fast and furious at the Acton Community Centre on the weekend as teams competed in the Annual Legion House League Tournament When the final dust cleared on Sunday afternoon Grimsby and Westhill had copped the A and division titles respectively with Jordan and Drayton coming up with the consolation crowns In winning the A division title Grimsby played a very game Preston squad in the championship match coming out on the top end of a thriller Grimsby reached the final by disposing of NiagaraontheLake 3 Grimsby defeated Gait lll In the second round of the event while they opened the tourney with triumph over Preston reached the A division championship coming from behind to defeat Ancoster and Jordan by a count In the B division West Hill romped to the title with wins over New Hamburg and Acton Then they topped Gait for the B title Gait 2 reached the championship game defeating Erin and In a 32 thriller In the A consolation Jordan came up the winner after losing their opening game to to Preston After the tough loss the Jordan squad came back to trounce Erin l and then defeated Barrie in the championship encounter Drayton lost their opening match of the tourney to but then got act together defeating Erin and Hespeler In overtime for the silverware Sault Ste Marie is always a favorite with the local fans and usually go a long way towards the tourney championships but this lime out they fell against a tough Niagara- squad In the second round They won their opening game over Acton was also a winner in their opener defeating Hespeler 30 before falling to the eventual division champs from West Hill In first round action at this years event Gait topped Clarkson stopped Drayton Grimsby outdid Barrie 71 Preston edged Jordan and An easier shutout Erin 1 Gait routed Erin while the came back to double Beams ville Acton shut down 30 while Nlapra6n topped Tottenham In the final game of the opening round West Hill dumped New Hamburg 112 In second round action Grimsby continued their trip to the championship with an win over Gait while Gait edged Hills burgh Barrie got by Clarkson in a 1 overtime thriller and Drayton topped Erin Acton ousted by West Hill Actons entry in the 14th Annual Legion Tournament ran Into some tough competition in the second round of this years tourney falling to the eventual division winners from West Hill but not before they did some damage of their own shuttingout Hespeler In that opening game the Acton team took a 10 lead in the opening frame added another in the second and then rounded out the scoring in the final period Todd Lazenby netted Ihe initial Acton marker with Phillip Pumphrey assisting The second tolly came off the stick of Gareth Marks with Lazenby assisting and the third came from Tim Oakley unassisted In the second game against West Hill Ihe local side fell behind in the opening frame but rebounded with a goal from Mike Butler with Kevin assisting The locals hold on however as West Hill pounded home two more in the second and three in the final stanza to eliminate the local favorites Arthur Mitchell and David Thorpe shared the for Acton in the tourney by a count Preston rallied from a deficit to top while Jordon filled the net on Erin 170 Acton as eliminated with a 1 loss West Hill while the was sidelined with a defeat to the Lake Beamsville got by Tottenham IB seconds into overtime for a 1 win with coming from a three goal spread to catch New Hamburg in overtime In the only two semi final matches Barrie topped Beamsville 30 and Grimsby tangled with Niagaraon theLake winning AHS swimmers fourth On Friday the Acton High School Swim team competed in the Hal ton Swimming Championships at the Acton finished fourth out of 13 schools participating Just 35 points behind third place Nelson in the senior girls division Karen Coats placed in the ZOOM freestyle sixth in the 100M freestyle and was a member of the 200M medley relay team which placed fourth Laura Brillingcr placed ninth in the butterfly 11th in the 100M backstroke and was on the reloy team Brillingcr swam seventh In the 100M backstroke 10th in the Individual medley and was a member of the relay team Heather placed 10th in the while Andrea was also in the medley relay In the senior boys competition Brad finished sixth in the 100M I M and was on both relay teams the 200M medley which placed sixth and the freestyle which was Tilth Bill McKenzie was fifth in the free style ninth in the freestyle and was on the medley relay team Ninaber swam to seventh place in the MM buttcrful and was on both relay teams Tim Baker was third in the MM butterfly and was also on bath relay learns Ross Turner finished seventh In the freestyle 10th In the 100M freestyle and swam In the free relay Dave swam in the 100 1 M the 100M backstroke and the 100M brcaststrokc and placed in each event In the junior girls division won the 50M butterfly Was sixth In 1O0M I and swam on the medley relay team which came first and set a new record in the process came seventh in the free style and was on both the medley and the freestyle relays Andrea Arbic placed third in the 50M and was on the medley relay team Kathy Coats swam to seventh place In the backstroke and was a participant in both relays Jane Scwell placed eighth In I M and was on the freestyle relay team Melanle Johnston was fifth In the freestyle and was a member of the freestyle relay team Heather swam in the MM brcastroke 10th in the lOoM breastroke and 12th in the MM freestyle For the senior boys Jock was seventh In the 100M freestyle eighth In the butterfly and swam on the ZOOM free style relay team which finished fifth Kenny Bowers placed in butterfly and was on the relay learn Scott Nolan was in the 50M freestyle and was a relay team member while Sean McVeigh swam on the relay The swim teams next competition will be the Peel Heltons on Friday at Season ends for Redmen Last Tuesday the senior girls volleyball team hosted EC from Millon losing their match three games to zero Game scores were 1315 Junior volleyballcrs dropped a close match to Drury last Tuesday at home by scores of 1511 and 1416 These were the final games of the season for both the junior and senior squads PeeWees make Acton proud was a hand to A Dlvbuoa Ctawpio Award to members of the Jordan team Members captain Tray Coper and assistants Marfcas Zeiacbsng and Darren Esaa hat treats West with the DhWssi rwiiliiHs West at Acts fas law by Rick Smith On Friday Acton Lions major peewees re turned home after eight days in Quebec City Acton can be proud of their boys who represented not only Acton but Ontario In their classification of competition All the boys were billeted with local fam ilies some of which spoke no English but managed very well Our first game was February against the 1902 championship team from Amos Quebec winning Our puck control and fore- checking dominated the game Carl Yaroschak and Greg each bad a pair of goals with Rob Murray and Craig Cadenhead getting one apiece John Van Dam Mike Simmons and Evan each had two assists with Caden Carl and Murray register ing singles The following day Acton defeated St Georges again playing the same style hockey as the previous day Again Carl Yaroschak potted two with and Van Dam earning singles and Simmons each had two assists with Rob Murray counting one We then bad to wait until Friday for our next Meanwhile we partidpaled the attrac- winter and kept busy week playing exhibition games local and distant teams On Monday Acton played a local Quebec club the Charlesburg Capitals one of our billets teams Again Acton showed finess winning on goals from Leatherland Simmons Cadenhead and Van Dam Assists went to Hayter Simmons and Murray Three hours after this game Acton played St Paul Alberta again chalking up a win Goals were scored by Katstlieris Swinamer Murray and Sim mons assisted by Van Dam Simmons and Tuesday Acton played an AAA club from Anchorage Alaska It was an early morning game and Acton allowed two soft goals on early shots before the team woke up Although Acton outplayed their op ponents we lost Actons lone goal was scored by on a perfect pass from Van Dam and Wednesday Acton played the Terriers a AA dub undefeated in their league Una year After periods of play the score was CM until Mississauga scored Acton lost 10 but played very well Thursday we had practice to prepare for our game Friday The boys were to be in bed by a m Thursday night and up at a Friday so tbey would be wide awake come game time Our was St Marie Beauce In a quarter final match There were eight teams left from Acton started very sluggishly and early la the first period and found themselves down 10 Van Dam tied the score at ll on a pass from Lealherland midway thru Ihe third frame St Marie scored with about three minutes remaining and Acton pressing for the tie An attempt to pull the goalie failed and with only 14 seconds left St Marie scored to win and eliminate Acton from further competition Acton only played to lis potential for half the third period Had they played had all week the learn could have won the tournament All in all it was an experience that many will never forget Our boys put on quite a showing for a small and it was noted by an executive of the tournament committee that Acton Is welcome back anytime Some thanks to the Lions Club for use of their banner and flag the Chamber of Commerce for donating towards exchange gilts the Hide House for key chain gifts Mrs Leatherland for her Acton Banner the Town of Halton for tbeir gifts and Pete and Dave Whiting for their telegrams A special thanks to the parents who spent the week and hose who had to come home early for the help tbey gave us special thanks to Danielle oar tour guide Den Mother organizer and friend Monday and Friday this week Acton plays Gait In league playoffs and Tuesday and Wednesday meets in play offs