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Raiders win in second gear The Georgetown Raiders playing what coach Gerry Inglis said was second gear were still good enough defeat the second place Merchants 32 In of approximately fans at Alcott Arena Friday night The victory put George town up by five points in the batlle for division pen nant The Merchants got two of those points back Sunday when they defeated the rold Athletics in overtime Both teams have two games left in ihclr schedule said that he thought his players performed well but that they were not in full We were in second gear out tonight said the coach We d dn really hit anybody but we played well enough lo win coach Gil Eyre said he I hough t was an excellent game think both teams played very well he said There Is much separating two clubs Raiders got a vay strong performance from Ray Evans Ihe centrcman did not tally any points he was dominant for ce throughout the game DRESSED Ron was back in the Raider lineup and the Mer chant forwards who arc for Ihe most part on the small side kept heir heads up anytime the big bluelincr loomed near Rookie Chris also had one of his best outings of the year Although some Merchants to goat Mil ne into taking cheap penal ties for the forward kept his cool something he had I do in earlyseason Inglis also showed more confidence in Milne using him to kill penalties though the Raiders had 10 forwards dressed Milne had a fairly busy n getting his fair share of Ice time In the early part of the first period the Raiders totally dominated the Merchants They swarmed all over goal tender Rick Kalchanoski but d get many good shots off SCORES Peter Sturgeon who also had one of his best games since joining scored the games first goal Bill was off serving a penally and Ingl used Sturgeon andJurl Kudrasovs as his forwards to kill off Ihe Iwo minutes Sturgeon look the puck off Ihe and ragged it for about 30 seconds He Ihen fired the puck down Ice He and went into forccheck stole the puck inside Ihe Merchant bluellne and fed it into Sturgeon who went in alone Sturgeon went in fairly close before healing Katcha noskl with a backhand The Merchants came on stronger as the first period wore on They slowly began to dictate the pace of the period The Merchants got the equalizer with just under six minutes left In the period Dave fed George with an excellent drop pass then fired a blast passed McDuffe The Raiders definitely con trolled the phsylcal side of the game in the first period Evans and Ray hand out a couple of very stiff checks in the early going also played the part of policeman when Merc tough guy Ross took a run at After joined in Bussel enthusiasm for a tussle quickly evaporated Early in the second period Ihe Raiders took two penal and the Merchants made them pay the price The goahead Merchant Continued page Wrestlers triumph page Industrial hockey page Redmen end year page