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Page THE HERALD Ottawa breezes to tournament win The talent ladden Ottawa were clearly the class of the thirteenth annual Georgetown Midget Hockey Tournament and emerged as champions with a victory over Richmond Hilt in the final The a team gearing up to take run at the Canada Cup championship were only really seriously in one of our games In the second round they had lo squeak out a win over a tenacious group of young hockey players from Bow LOST COOL The game was only one In which the poised lost their cool They got Into penalty prob lems which enabled Bow to fight back after trailing late in the second In final against Rich Hi there was never a doubt as Ottawa built up a lead before their foes finally got on the board For Ottawa who arc run ning away with the league title in the Ottawa Valley District it was their second tournament win Earlier Ihey had won their own International In that tournament here were 16 lop teams Including the Toronto Marlboros St Michael a Detroit team and the best midget team from Buffalo In another big tournament in Timmons Ottawa went to the final where Sault Marie beat them out The will now play In several tournaments Hull and Richmond Hill as they ready themselves for the Canada Cup series The Canada Cup the replace ment for the Wngley will be In April at Winnipeg Ma nit We will have a tough time gelling out of our own district or the Canada Cup said manager Bert Brookes There are some very good teams up there Brookes said the top mid get learns he has seen so far this year are Buffalo Detroit and Oshawa Only the lost one is a potential opponent for Ottawa in the Canada Cup play downs Ottawa s main strength is team balance Every player coach Doug vail sent out io take a shift gave it his oil They also have good team and speed Cent reman Geoff Derv in a big smooth player in the Jean tradition was named the tournament Moat Valuable Player BEST PLAYER OUT Brookes said thai Junior scouts have expressed much interest In but he said ihcplayer attracting Ihe most attention did not even suit up here Andy la said to be the team a most talented player and Brookes said he would be very surprised if he is not playing in the Junior A loop next year A horse kept him out of action here Another strong player on the team is Roger Cloutier who is one of the four minor midget aged players The others centre Jim Byrne and winger Brian Tromb- lcy All arc very talented and should be certain future lor A players This tournament was very reminiscent of last year in which Peterborough ran away with the championship side There was much debate around the arena as to whet her this Ottawa team could beat Peterborough That matchup would certainly have been very interesting Peterborough had a belter skating learn but Ollawa has more size Peterborough had excellent goal scorers and so docs Ottawa A game bet ween the two powers would certainly have been a show case of midget hockey Its best At beginning of the tournament It was thought Brampton Triple A would be able to give Ottawa a battle The two teams met In the semi mat and Ottawa took on easy victory The Brampton squad who had Jus relumed from a lour at Czechoslovakia were Ihe dirtiest and team in the Their only competitor in that category was the Double A learn same city A member the team said ihcy picked up a new bag full of dirty tricks In their tour of Czechoslovakia where sever al of their players were cut and bruised by their Euro pean opponents In any event they were even in the same league as the when it came basic hockey skills and team play Ottawa was named winner the Bill Tournament chairman Bob Zeke presents Chapman Memorial Award as the tournament Most Valuable The Lady Trophy donated by the referees was won the championship trophy to Ottawa captain Brace The He is shown above accepting the trophy from Wayne He accepts the priie a clock radio tournament was sponsored by Sunny Acre Farms Chapman rem reercc Gerry Perkins Local midgets go to second round The Georgetown Sunny Acre Farms Midgets ad vanced lo the second round of Georgetown Invitational Tournament l hey were defeated by Bramp ton Triple A In the first round Georgetown defeated mpton Double A by the In thai first game Bob Dean play minor midget stole the show as he was a oneman gang or Georgetown The period of the game went scoreless as both teams played It tight Brampton got on the score board first in Ihe second period as Corcoran beat Greg Dean then tallied from Dave Pilote and Dan nolds to notch the score for Georgetown Later in period Dean broke in alone on the Bramp ton but was tripped from behind by a defcnseman The tourna s only penalty shot was called on play On the penalty shot Dean in and tried deck but was foiled in his Shortly afterwards Dean ton net This lime the centre- man did not fool around with like Georgetown Sunn Acres I- arms Bob Dean has an easy one during this rarely any decks as he rifled a shot called penally shot but lie Brampton goalie slid over and made the slop though Dean missed in the post 1 1 was one of on the penalty shot he scored two goals to lead Georgetown to a I win In the tint round he tournament prettiest Herald photo goals Georgetown went up early in the third period when Greg Thompson scored from captain Her by Kewlcy and Steve Bobbins Hugh Ward brought Brampton back within one goal later in the frame but on a play set up by Kcwley to give George the win It wis a chippy affair with Brampton taking minors Georgetown six The game was a good for Georgetown as the Triple A side continually look runs at homes in ihe second Rarely did play at full strength in the contest as they took minors and had two their players ejected Georgetown had on ourminorb called against them It was Georgetown j in ability to capitalize on abundant number of lions committed by that cost them the game jumped ahead when Rob Montgomery and Tim Wilson tallied in the first SIMPSON BLAST In the second period Tom Simpson blast from the point on a power play brought Georgetown back to within one goal Deansetup the play Later in the period Mont got his second of game and Brampton was up by two again Simpson got his second goal of the game early in the third period with John Thorpe and Kevin Thompson earning assists on the play With 14 left to be played bob scored give Brampton its edge Although Georgetown did not advance past the second round It was a good showing on their part It was the second lournnment in which has come up big They won the consolation section at the Silver Stick in Brampton Coach Neil Cotton had his maintain Ihcir com in the two games as the Brampton teams tried to physically manhandle Geo owners