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Wednesday Sept Local pair on championship Orangeville lacrosse club For Stew Taillefer and Rob Porte win lb 1983 Ontario Junior C lacrosse crown mi especially meaningful That because both young men are well aware of how the very same championship tbe lows of Acton in The pair were put of the Junior Northmen summer The team defeated Kitchener in five games of the bestofveven final to win the title Steve IS can remember being at one of tbe final games seasons ago in the Community Centre He can remember being on top of his father shoulders and was probably as Impressed as any four yearold In attendance interestingly was one of the Acton Rams most loathed opponents of lacrosse loop In 1971 Now they adopted two of our towns tost lacrosse souls The people there were really nice to us says Steve And the coaches were just great Both Rob also 16 and Steve played the sport in Acton until I960 Then when the local club disbanded Rob went to play in Fergus while Steve sat out a term Last year they tried to find a suitable squad to dress with in vain So they re both visibly relieved tohave a found a home In Orange They both plan to return Once you play It for a year youre booked confirm Rob It really fun and it keeps you In shape And Just to refresh the memories or Acton fans It s really a pretty scientific game explains Steve It not as rough as people think Yeah agrees Rob There are a lot misconceptions about lacrosse Both players agree that there are many pi in Acton would and could play lacrosse if there were teams to play for They are working on getting some of their friends out to for next season As oust Maryhill in playoff series Gotcha Danny Allen of the Acton A makes an unsuccessful bid to steal third The Acton A lost to Triple A s Fread loses in tourney final by Robin Inicoe When the Acton Junior A Fastball Club gets on a roll look out Maryhill found out all about the local squad recently dropping a pair to the loco I at the Ontario Championships and then fall ing two straight in Ontario Junior Fastball League playoffs the most recent a last Wednesday evening The As now advance lo the league quarter finals and will meet the winner Waterloo and New Dundee The two were tied at one game each in their best of three series at last report After dropping three straight league mat to the A have found the right combination against their Nemesis After a win in East week the A came home to Prospect Park inning tallies win Acton got on the board first in the match as Cord McArthur singled and eventually scored as Kelly McArthur cracked a base hit by Mark Holmes Acton area residents were treated to an exciting weekend of industrial fastball lhat ended late Monday afternoon In a battle between Construction team and Barlas It was an uneven match between the two as downed Starting Friday evening with Harvey Firestone shutting out the Hawks the battle between the 12 teams swayed back and forth eliminating the weaker teams by late Saturday The second match between Halton Hills Furniture and Barlas saw the team swamp the Acton team late Friday evening Starting Saturday agenda was Construction nipping and S Plumb 10 Came four had Rexdale controlling the game against the Acton Royals Rexdale blasted in four runs in the third inning and held on lo Iheir lead to beat the A s Starting the afternoon was game six between Canadian Tire and the Elm wood Eagles It was a close game ended with the Canadian T re team blanking Second round action followed with Hutton squeaking by Halton Hills Furniture 3 Winners from the first round Harvey s I- rest one and Barlas fought through a scoreless first half but a dominant Barlas finally got their offensive machine going to overrun the Harvey team Came nine was one or the high scoring games on the weekend that saw Ihe Acton Royals succumb for the second time in the tourney this time to C and S Plumbing The final score was and Royals 7 The Fread Construction bats were In full swing in game 10 as the Acton team beat 53 Kicking off Sunday s schedule the Aclon A s slipped past Game 12 saw a well disciplined Eastern A defeat Can ad an Tire Game 13 was unlucky only for the ville Hawks who were eliminated by the Acton I dinners The Oldtimers were playing a high caliber of ball defeating Hul tonville C and Plumbing hung on by Iheir teeth to remain contenders as they snuck by Rex dale 2 I In game 14 Fread Construction kept themselves on a roll defeating the sol d playing Eastern Triple A Canadian Tire romped all over the Acton A In game 16 frying Ihe opposition 1B0 Gome 17saw the Acton Oldtimers go down swing against and S Plumbing won the game 74 The Triple A s eliminated Can a dlan Tire after maintaining a healthy lead early in the game The A s banged in 10 runs while Canadian Tire could only muster and Plumbing were strong contenders until game when the apparently invin able Eastern Triple A defeated them Game saw the only two undefeated teams go at it semi final piny that could very easily have gone cither way It was strong pilching from both teams that held the nearly scoreless game through nine Inn ings ler pulling up an Incredible fight the team finally lost out to Barlas Having lost only one game apiece the next two combatants were the Eastern Triple A and Construction The team proved to be stronger of he two defeating the The final between Barlas and was over before t even really began Barlas powerful hilling rocketed them into a lead early In the game and could do nothing narrow the gop The final score was Barlas All in all it was a terrific weekend for baseball fans Perfect weather and an abundance good baseball made for a thro enjoyable three days tied the count off Aclon starter Roy Spear in the seventh and took the lead n the eighth but the local side dug deep coming up with four runs In the home half of Ihc inning Dick Spear led off inning getting hit by a pitch and scored as Rusty Elliott lashed out a single was then hit by a and Tim Baker walked before Glenn Scott single the big lead Maryh 11 tried vain to get back in the match in the- ninth eking up a couple of base hits but the A prevailed lo take the game and the series two games straight Elliott carried the hot bat going two for two at the plate Gord McArthur Kelly Baker and Scott adding single hits Roy Spear went the distance on the mound striking out 13 and allowing hits A coach Steve Marshall is hoping to get the next series started on Saturday night or possibly Monday lo get the home game in before the Fall Fair moves into the AMHAsells71 3 tickets for hockey lottery About of the 1 AMHA lottery tickets have already been sold passing the breakeven point of 525 Since June the Ac ton Minor Hockey Association has been plugging the Lottery tickets in an effort lo raise money to buy new sweaters and Cooper alls for the 150 novice to juven le level hockey players Carol Robinson secretary of the commented We have lo sell all the tickets to achieve our objective We the AMHA have already ordered the blue orange and while sweaters but we cant order the Coo rails know how much money we re going to bring in Mrs Robinson explained Coo per alls arc one of the best protective suits available Covering a player from the breastbone to the knees in a rigid system of padding Cooperalls are characterized by long pants of the ram liar shorts If all tickets arc sold the association will gross Of Ihc will be given away in cash prizes leaving a net profit of 45 As well us pay ng for the new sweaters and the money will also be used keep registration fees the same as last year and to help pay for ice time The first draw to be held on October will he kicked off by Mayor Pete Pomeroy There will one draw each week for a SI prize the lickct holder and a CO to the seller of the winning ticket There II be one draw each week for Ron Robinson president of the Is hoping lhat all parents of Minor Hockey players til support lottery and Us Cassaszar junior champ It s been several years since a junior golf club has been organized a I the Acton Meadows Golf Club and spring it look like there was going to be one this year either But thanks to Ruth Sorter a junior team has successfully established themselves Last week the Juniors held Iheir first tournament This year said Soder we Girls soccer had a lalrl good turnout Seventeen people played and next year should be even bet tcr Club Champion this year was Pete with f nit low gross score of Taking second place was Jamie Thatcher with a f rst low score of Bud Kentner of Bud Hobble Cellar donated and presented the trophies Tourney this weekend Over girls will be competing in the second annual GIRLS playoff tournament to be held at several local schools on Sat to day September and 11 The tournaments w II be held on the M Z Bennett and Acton High School fields The Acton teams will be playing at the following times Squirts Red Saturday at and Sunday at and 12 the Gold team at 9 and 12 Sat urday and I on Sunday Whiles will play and 2 15 Saturday and 12 45 Sunday Moms at and 12 Saturday and 11 and 2 toes 1 15 and Saturday and 10 15 and Sunday at and Saturday and on Sunday Last ear the tournament drew over people a lo New reporter at Free Press Adsaamls Ike the stealer sat At gam Mark Holmes has joined the Free Press as a general assignment repor photographer working primarily In sports A graduate of the three year Conestoga College Journalism Program Mark is a native of Kincardine and worked for time with the Kincardine New Coming from a small town he says he appreciates the Importance residents in Acton place on sports He Is looking forward to meeting and getting to know local sports people Mark Is planning to move to from Kitchener in near future An avid sportsman Holmes says will sec him jogging around town