Halton Hills Newspapers

Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), January 17, 1979, p. 21

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Sports Week Wednesday January IT Page Joe or the wrestling Rebels bad a great day the Georgetown Meet on over Bob gall op finisher Saturday So did his teammates as they won over opponents at the meet Ibukl his goal who has been chosen week a Athlete of the Week Is shown above during bid win I last year Ibukl has in championship Photo by BUI Humphrey Wrestling Rebs flex muscles By BILL HUMPHREYS ThcGDHS Rebel Wrest ling team showed over the weekend that they are tinl Ontario Champions as they won the tenth Annual Rebel Wrestling tournament with a team total of points The faced 12 other lopquality schools In the tour that coaches around the league says is second only in calibre The atmosphere generated by the audience and the wrest themselves made the quite dramatic with many matches providing great excitement throughout The Rebels went tournament feeling like they had little chance as they were up against such teams as Smith Falls and Newtonbrook who both placed well In last yearsOSFAA meet The feeling almost became a reality as just nosed out by two points when the final tally was made Grey Highland finished third with points followed by Enndale with points FIRST wrestler Brian placed first for In his weight class It made me fee lit when 1 saw Brian In a different form Rebels coach Bob Kay said He worked so hard for us last year and we hod high hopes for him this year When his parents moved to Raiders romp to easy win page 23 Town skaters do well page 30 Geminis lose two to page 30 I considered it very bad news to our team Central Tech was fifth Win Churchill sixth s surprise Smith Falls ended up seventh For the Rebs out of IS wrestlers placed In the top six of their catcgoncs This is what won the lour the team depth We only had two first place finishers but the rest of the team placed so well that we picked up enough points for win McKay said SURPRISES Chuck Ander son surprised everyone except himself he finished first in the M pound weight class The other first went to Joe Ibukl who had an excellent victory over toprated Bob McDougall in the 112 and a half pound group The Ibuki win was one of the most exciting matches of the tournament Peter placed second in the class to Bob Parsons of Central Tech in another action packed contest had beaten Par sons earlier in the year but lost 32 in weekend matchup was wrestling in a higher weight class than he normally does and will probab ly go the 119 lb group at the OFSAA meet later this year Coaches McKay and Ray Smith also made up a B team for the tournament and were pleased with the showing of tbe rookies Other A wrestlers who Continued on page IS

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