Halton Hills Newspapers

Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), March 28, 1979, p. 25

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Week THE Wednesday March Page is Clark finishes fifth in worlds Ian Clark of Georgetown district high school finished a fantastic fifth in world junior crosscountry championships held Sunday in Limerick Ireland Clark who has been having an amazing year covered the 7 4kilometre course in minutes 29 seconds He was only seconds behind Eddy of Belguim who won the event Clark was the most successful Canadian runner at the meet His nearest rival was Bellevilles Dennis Stark who finished twenty second Clark and Stark have had several thrilling duels in the last few years but it ap pears now that the Georgetown runner is in a class by himself among Canadian junior run ners Clark was the winner of the OFSAA cross country title in September and then be went on to win the Canadian Junior title in Victoria British Columbia He has also run very successfully indoors throughout the winter Mike Dixon another Georgetown native ran in the senior mens division and he finished ninety seventh Dixon was among the top Canadians as only three of his countrymen finished ahead of him Peter Butler of Calgary was the top Canadian as he finished fiftysixth The senior race was run over metres Bants lose 101 tPlwto by Bill Humphreys Bantam Tournament Michigan the game and went on to lake the overall title Brian Hayward second team allstar in Ivy League play Brian Hayward of George town who now attends Cor University and is first string goalie on the school hockey team was named to the second team of the all star All Ivy squad The freshman had a season s record of IB wins and losses Also selected for the first squad were Lance of Burlington Brock of Highland Creek and Rob Gemmell of Mississauga The Alt Ivy squad is chosen every year by the league coaches The young surprising overall record for the season and finished third in the ECAC playoffs beating defending NCAA champion Boston in the ion game Coach Dick Bertrand took 13 new faces and molded them into hard skating team one that excited Cor nell fans all season long Seven members of the team were freshmen It was the ninth consecutive time that Bertrand has led the Red into the playoffs In as many years as head coach at Cornell tended the nets in games and allowed goals for a 3 average He made saves for a percen tage or The fresh Render compiled an 186 record and recorded two shutouts the senior center who was named All con for the second time in 1979 led the team in scoring with points on 18 goals and assists playing in of the s games With paints In his four year reer he Is the Division I all time leading scorer 180 career assists Is also an ECAL record 200pounder scored career goals to lie the school record was the team second leading scorer with points His goals was tops on th and his 16 power play tallies set a new school seasonal record live hat to lie the school seasonal best mark Gemmell was the Big Reds third leading scorer with 15 goals and 37 assists for points He scored a hat I nek against Northeastern and got the winning goal Tour minutes into the overtime period in the quarterfinal win over Providence On the the Red scored goals In 119 tries for a percentage while lowing the opposition just Utiles in 135 attempts for an 1B5 mark Gemmell led the team In short handed goals with two The hottest scorer at the end of the season was junior winter Brian Marrett of Tor onto scored nine goals in the team last seven games including ine hat trick against In the final contest of the year In looking at the season Coach Bertrand said This team developed a winning attitude and played extreme ly well together When you think of how many new faces we had it was amazing We re going to miss our six seniors but we feel that we still have the makings of a fine team With the experie nce gained by our returnees plus hopefully a number of talented freshmen earning in we are already looking for ward to an excellent season in 197980 After two dose exciting wins the George own Stationery Bantams were de feated 191 by Richmond Hilt to be knocked out of the Bantam tournament The fact that Richmond Hill went onto win the B division had to be some consolation for coach Jack Gudgeon and his Georgetown troops Before the tournament be gan Gudgeon said thai he wanted to get further in this year event than his squad managed to get last year In the 1978 event George town was knocked out in the second round in overtime by Woodstock They went to overtime before losing This year the bants went to the third round The match against Richmond Hill was the division semi final After Richmond Hill took a 20 lead in the first period of the first game it appeared Georgetown might come back Early In the second period Mike tallied from Mike Marcolinji and Oram to get Georgetown back to Within However before he first game had ended Richmond bad pumped home four more goals and they had a big Gl lead heading into the evening match In the evening Richmond Hill scored one in the first period two in the second and one more in third and took the 101 lead Raiders busy The Georgetown Raiders will be a very busy team during the OKA Intermedia A southern division final against the Thorold Athletics The series started last night here in Georgetown The second game will be played tonight in Thorold The third game will be back here on Friday and after thai it Is four games in four nights IT they ore all needed The fourth game will be Sunday night Thorold Monday they will be in Georgetown Tuesday they will be back in Thorold and on Thursday the seventh same would be in George town The fifth sixth and seventh games are alt played only if necessary It will be the first team to take eight points The teams will play one overtime period if the score is tied after regulation play If the teams are still tied they will both bo awarded one point

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