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THE HERALD II 1I7 GDHS Athlete of the week The Herald hai decided to have an athlete of the week award presented to various students throughout the year from GDHS The Athlete of the Week chosen by the Coaches of HS for this week from the Girls Senior Volleyball team Claire Galbralth Claire feels that she has improved over last year in per skills Last year Claire was hampered by a injury and worked over the summer in getting herself Into shape Claire dldn start playing volleyball until grade and now she is In grade 13 and near graduation When Claire was asked about her future she slated Well 1 doing well in school my marks are averaging in the mid I have already sent applications forma to Ihree universities and plan on taking Recreation or Sports Administration I also am going to try out for University basketball and volleyball team Claire takes her height to her advantage standing It tallest on the team to master the finer techniques of volleyball the spike and block Claire also remarked on Ihe leam chances for this year the team has a lot of rookies but I feel they hove a lot of potential The team also plays very well together which will help because last year Ihe team was Inconsistent in spirit Claire went on to say that coach Clatworthy has helped her and the team immensely this year and they re looking forward to the big game against on Tuesday Jan 9th So wo congratulate Claire on a fine showing last week Claire Galbraith Girl volleyballers have little trouble The Senior girls Volleyball had lit tie trouble in disposing of he Milton District High School as hey posted scores of 151 157 and in their first league games of Ihe season played last Thursday afternoon in the Rebel gym Coach Clatworthy was par ticularly pleased with the work of his starting six with Monica Pollock as be high scorer Claire showing no weaknesses and Nancy Phillips also played well The other two Gassoer and Carey Wornl both sat out most of last year but have performed so well lately that they earned he right to start When Clatworthy was ask about the goal set for his team this year he stated The last two years the girls have reached Ihe finals and ended up losing but this year the seem hungrier and ihey want win Because of the weak oppo nent was flbfe to use every member of he team for one two games each The team members arc Nancy Phillips Carey Wor- rall Gloria Hamilton Carol Carol Peacock Becky Janet SueArbuckle Linda Houston Sherri Crossman and the manager Blaine Taylor Tuesday January flth is big game of the year for us so far as we meet our arch rivals for about years now The coach of said to me that his big goal is to beat George town Ihe coach said GDHS midget boys lose to Wrestling Rebels take title By BILL HUMPHRIES The Georgetown Wrestling Rebels captured the title tournament held In with a convincing earn total of points In his prestigious lourna ment 19 teams participated including Georgetown The cam to finish second was with a cam total or points followed closely by the host team Grey High land with a total of points Tied for fourth were Roland and with a total of points The team coaches Bob McKay ond Ray Smith were quite pleased with their team performance GOOD The competition was very good and we had to live up our name McKay said Involved in the competition were six wrestlers who arc defending champ- Ions from last year and Georgetown a run for their money The three first place Rebel 121 and half lb weight class Joe saw 10 matches during the day never let up to achieve his first place finish It the best day Joe s had since he been at I was very pleased On Saturday I believe Joe really became a good top tier showing good tcchn McKay said Pete had to top ranked Terry Karn to capture first In the 129 pound class Earlier in the year Pete met and lost so Pete got his revenge with a powerful 91 decision Kevin Brown was the other Rebel first place finish in the 136 and a hair pound weight class McKay was pleased with the work of Brown Yes it was also a good day for Kevin he was in a tough field pad this make his 2nd tournament a row he has won he said Three second place finish era in the tournament were Chuck Anderson In he pounds Frank Medilnski at 114 and a hair and Mark in the 99 There were also the three third place finishers Ron Martin at 99 pounds Kevin Frank in the and a half class and Bill Davis in he and a hair class There were 15 boys sent to the tournament represent Rebels and nine placed in the top three while tour others placed In top six and the remaining two show up well In that respect McKay and Smith were quite pleased cam per formance The remaining wrestlers are Jerry Paul placing In thetl9andahalf class Dean Scallcn wrestling too sixth In the 143 pounds class and Mike again with sixth in the lb class The only Iwo that Humphries new staffer place were Rob Hughes and Pal Jacobs McKay felt thai these luo boys showed very encouraging performances REBEL TOURNEY This weekend he Rebel ploys lo tenth annual Rebel Invitational Tournament wilh a tough field of 13 well known schools coming to compete Ten of the 13 schools were top finishers last year including defending champions Smith Falls whose coach is an ex Rebel coach Lou Martin Smith Falls Is Ihe favourite followed by who finished se cond last year in the OFSAA The Rebels also have never lost this tournament so on this note MKay staled We re taking this one very seriously next loOFSAA this will be tournament of the year Competition starts at 30 a and will go lo ma lei night and the public Is encouraged come out and cheer Rebels on The GD Mldgel Boys Basketball team went down to defeat Friday at High School It was the first game of the season for the who found themselves behind from the starting whistle to half time when score was Coach Phil fell that the made loo many turnovers in the game and this was Ihc reason for loss three minutes left in the game Ihe fought back to within four points of Blakelock trailing by From there on Blakelock would not settle for a loss and played smart defensive bas ketball and Georgetown nev er got that close again Overall the players play well for their first gome of the season said Andrew was he leading scorer on tovn side as he posted 13 points Hut l netted eight points while Stacy Wheeler picked up six The Georgetown players arc Mike Ash John Scott Jack Kennedy Jeff Smith Wayne Manuel Hugh Mike Jones RYDERS TV TOSHIBA QUASAR HITACHI MOORE PARK PLAZA Sirvlng Acton and surrounding RYDER TV MOORE PARK LEASING A CAR OR TRUCK GIVE US A TRY Bill Humphries est member of The Herald tonal staff Bill will predominantly be responsible for covering sports at Georgetown district high school where he grade 11 student Last year Bill was one of three minor hockey playtrs to be drafted In the Major A draft He went on the eleventh round to Toronto Bill Humphries He the and went eight games before Marl les decided to go with two other goalkeepers He then the first half of ihe i with the tier 11 Auro- goalkeeper from last year returned from Ihc and was given his old job back Hill who last storied season with the George town Gemims then decided take the reit of the year off hockey The lime off has enabled BUI pursue oilier interests such as writing and photo graphy Next on getting back In hockey