Halton Hills Newspapers

Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), October 24, 1979, p. 20

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THE HERALD Wednesday October Mark Sports Editor Putting us on the sports map came from In Ohio may have been known to some people even up here In Georgetown When no one responded to It it still ring a bell for me he said that his hometown was well known for producing many class athletes It was he said a town A town that revolved around That reminded me of this community Sports here have a high profile With over I boys and girls In soccer on excess of 1 girls in hockey and over participating in high school sports and another or so in swimming skating and the several other small local leagues like basketball it la safe to call this a training camp for future athletes The effect of these youngsters on their parents and brothers and sisters aunts and grandparents friends and officials probably means that one out of every two people here has some interest in sport Breeding ground That may be seen in the number of high calibre athletes who have been are here and will come here This is a breeding ground for future Olympic stars and paid and under paid talent of the flesh They come from all walks of lite and all types of sports Like field hockey Who would have ever thought that someone would a in field hockey I didn So I was amazed to hear that Beth Kewley is down in Ohio on Just such a thing Perhaps she has heard of Chuck Ealey home town Anyway who has a brother Herb playing or the Gems and another brother Ted playing for the Waterloo Warriors university hockey team is the leading scorer on her tLam She has seven goals in seven games with only one loss She comes from a sports family where her father Herb played on a Canadian hockey team that won the world amateur title in 1IH9 Mrs is a school teacher who can t skate but did coach both soccer and field hockey Destined around town who ore destined to make a sports name for Ha It on Hilts arc the likes or Ian Clark a high school running sensation who is running away with a victory In every race he enters Already he is being wooed by American schools to come and ran for them when he finishes high school this year Kris Barber of Glen Williams and his partner Kelly Johnson are ranked as International figure skaters They arc to Moscow in late November to represent Canada In the Skate Moscow competitions in he dance section And needs no program to mention the associated here Dave Burrows a stalwart of the Toronto Maple Leaf organization Mike Forbes and Dick Popeil with the Edmonton Oilers Peter Sturgeon Is enjoying his first term with the Colorado Rockies and Ron Twiss is with the New York Rangers club Several local men are NHL officials including Brian Those arc just a few of the many people who arc making a name for this community in the sport world No record Another person who almost made Glen a Guinness Book of World Records name was Jeff Haines lost a inning pitching battle In September At the recent season ending banquet for the Inter County teams Haines and he opposing pitching Larry Griffin of were presented with commemorative plaques of I he occasion An inquiry into gelling the game into the Guineas book was turned down saying that the longest recorded baseball game was hours a marathon The number of innings is not taken into account Delrex Smoke Shop wins championship By TIM TOLTON Sometimes the only differ between a contender and a champion Is that a contender waits for some thing to go wrong whereas a champion waits for some thing to go right Such was the case In Sunday George town Flag Football League championship which saw Smoke Shop come from behind to snatch the game away from Dairy Queen Dairy Queen took charge early in the game and had the Smoke Shop on the ropes leading 157 midway through the third quarter Another score and might have been finished but the Dairy Queen couldn put it togeth and momentum slowly shifted to the Smoke Shop favour STRONGLY The opened strongly and marched the ball to an eight yard touchdown by John on their second possession or the day Jeff Lock wood converted Smokers came back when Werner Mikoleit spun his way yards for a major which Bruce Cartwright con verted but from that point on in the first half it was all Dairy Queen Their defence gave up very lit lie and Ihcir offense connected In he se cond when Mitch went yards for a again con verted The got what turned out to be their last point of the day on a yard single by Jeff Lockwood In the second half the defence continued to domin ale their offense began to When came on with a seven yird strike from to Jerry Neil and a two point convert to Wemcr MiJt the game belonged lo whichever team could take control POISED It was at this point that to make the final score 2915 THIRD TIME WIN This marks the third con that Delrex has won the championship this year was their most Impressive win This year not only the best champion ship game ever but also the best year ever The leagin wishes to express Its sincere thanks to the team sponsors without whose help the league would not function Pop the victory he game Dairy Queen became visibly nervous The Smoke on the hand were final play Ing poised football and it seemed they were just waiting for a break The break came when Werner picked off an errant pass and sped yards for a touchdown That was the game breaker as Cart put them up by seven Later in the fourth iced it when lnglis hit Jerry Neil on a yards pass and run touchdown which again converted Someone an the their talent edge was not the deciding factor Dairy Queen had a fine team and could won the game but it was that After the game Jerry Neil of was named Most Valuable or the play for his outstanding idual ploy in vie Thus the season ends with have been A thank you to Tim who cover each week games for both papers In lownTim played lach week and did some of tin off cut A good and a credit the Reaching fur hit victory close no cigar for the Dairy Queen Receiver tmntlerhUflagwaigonewway

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