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Acton residents decide in favor of Junior C hockey franchise ACTON Acton residents hove taken the first step towards getting a team lo replace the now defunct Acton Sabres About people voted In favor of applying for a Junior C franchise for upcoming hockey season The residents turned down the applying for either on Intermediate B or club The meeting was called by former Sabres president Prank and the main reason for It was to decide on what way Acton would go In obtaining anotherhockeyclub The Sabres folded twice last summer and had to leave tho Central Ontario Junior League The Junior franchise will be made up of players aged and will be allowed five imports if the community not exceed Acton population Is Ontario Hockey Association president Brent was at the meeting and was hanpv with the turnout said the budget for a Junior team la anywhere from HO to and would reach a maximum figure of about He also cautioned ie Aclon res den prior to their vote to Ihlnk about what the future would hold for their decision You have to try and look to the future he said You will be making a decision for players years from now answered questions from the people attending and left about a half hour arriving Former Acton Minor Hockey Association coach Ed Thomson Ihen presented a proposal on behalf of the tentative Junior earn executive and its already ID directors Junior would bo more compel live and would provide an outlet for the players peers he said We have an executive directors volunteers and Ihe support of community and last but not least wo have tho talent When posed the question All In favor of a Junior C club show by a raise of hands all but one person voted In favor had wanted an Intermediate club in Acton but said he will go with the wishes of the people If people support a Junior team then it Is the best thing that could have happened The people have spoken and hope they give the new executive the support they are looking for The decision will benefit players Ed In and Out Variety midgets who will lose 14 or the IB players next year Team manager Bruce was happy with decision Coach Steve Marshall said the move to go Junior C was a good one I think It Is the way to go The quote of boys sitting out next year Is a close estimate and it Is the only logical way to go he said A meeting has been called for March 21 for the transfer of the team to the new Junior C executive No time or place has been named The Junior application must bo In before April 15 vounci Open I Until PHONE 2761 the HERALD HAZEN SALES SERVICE LAWN GARDEN EQUPMENT NSAWS MOTORCYCLES DEALER FOR BR QQS TECUM9EH HO MEL TE CANADIANA decides on protests TORONTO Georgetown Chrysler Raiders will be able lo use former Olympic team player Darren Lowe the remainder of the Senior playoffs Thai decision was made Thursday at the Hockey Association office here The ders had two protests deal Thursday and had another coming from in works The two were from Colllngwood Shipbuilders and Cambridge Hornets Both learns said Lowe should be able play unlil Georgetown won its way out of Ihe Senior A playoffs They said Lowe was an import plover because he played in the National Hockey League last year After Ihe Olympics Lowe played eight games on an amateur for Pittsburgh However the form allows Lowe to keep amateur status according to the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association Both and Cambridge said league rules a team can only ploy the first three It sign although a team is allowed to sign six An import player Is one who has played In a professional league or university team the year before after Dec 31 Right now Georgetown has signed six including Lowe and if the league rules were to be Interpreted the manner the two protesting teams sought the could only play Tom and John Gibson and goalie Rick Wilson even though Wilson is currently In the Internatio nal Hockey League and has never played a game Tor Georgetown this year The other two Imports are Fred Bolmistruk and Dan Meloff The Raiders Interpreted the rule as saying a team could play any three of its six imports and so Lowe has played nee signing In early December The decided Lowe to be an Import because he played with the NHL las t yeac but also said Georgetown could play long as only two other imports be dressed and playing dropped its protest voluntarily before the decision was made partly because It d not pay the 100 fee required to have a protest lookedalbythcOHA Cambridge went ahead with its protest and lost The Bolder contingent that went to Toronto consisted of president Finn sponsor Barry tworth coach general manager Gil Eyre and execut ve members Bob Hooper and Dave Kentner along with Stan For the most part they were not happy the dec Ion The league rule stating only three of the six imports signed con play is not In ihe league consilium on and at best Is a gentleman agreement among team members We will submit a rule the floor of the meeting lhat only rules in Ihe OHA manual be enforced by the OHA Poulstrup said i re go to push this so we don t have any of that type of stuff anymore For the short term we re happy we get to play Lowe but for the long term the OHA has Just taken a large step backwards and the future of Sen or hockey Is not sunny They re trying to keep parity by weakening the front runners said According to Eyre had two learns gotten their way and Lowe was found Ineligible the would have stopped everything Oh yeah we would have put an injunction In and stopped everything he said The bottom line is they wanted Darren Lowe out I m not happy with it but at this point and time there has to be a ruling and we were prepared fight it right to the end has withdrawn its protest ties opener Georgetown Minor Atom opened their TriCounty playoff In Dundas Saturday playing their hosts to a 1 tie The teams played a scoreless first period as Georgetown goalie Trevor Knight made several fine saves to keep the score even Randy Bond put the locals up 10 early In the second while Andy Jones and Jason Walker assisted stood up until the middle of the third when it up on the power play Late In the game the man advantage both Steve and had point blank chances for the winner only to be stopped by the Dundas goalie The round robin series continued Tuesday as the locals hosted Team s final standing not true indicator Raiders go ahead of Squires 21 By DAN RALPH Herald Sport Editor Petrolia Squires might have ended the Ontario Senior A regular season in sixth spot but you would have a tough lime convincing George town Chrysler Raiders coach general manager Gil Eyre they are sixth place team The Raiders currently lead best of seven league quarterfinal 1 but Eyre said Is a lot better team than the r record indicates Certainly the team they have now not a sixth place hockey club he said I don feel they are a sixth place team They are playing th a lot of intensity The Raiders won the series opener last Tues day but had to score four goals in the last period Tor the win Fri day Georgetown came out on the winning end of a score Sunday four goals In The Squires wan their minute span In the gome of the scries second period gave the Sunday in Squires a cushion they M andM team eliminated Georgetown and M Pro Sports bantams dropped three straight games In their playoff set with Stratford Stratford took the three games and 1H Dave Harris Arnold and Danny Lane had the goals Ken Langdon had two assists while singles went to Jain Thlbault Arnold and Pat McCarthy Swim protest will be heard The protests Involving the Peel Ha I ton swim meet will be April 3 by a Board of Reference The Board will look at why the meet was called an official event despite having a number of schools absent due to poor weather conditions Among the half dozen or so protests Is one from George own swim coach Joe Bray Bray elected to have his leam not make the trip to for the event due to severe snow conditions the day of the meet He informed the meet convenor would not be attending and turned down a request from the convenor lhat Georgetown come dawn and compete with the other schools In an bltion meel Those coaches who attended met wilh Ihe convenor and decided meet be held as an official one oven though number of schools could nol attend As a result the protests came In The Board will be made up of 15 executive members of the Peel Ha lion athletic association Bray said the prolest is being pursued so a incident not occur in high school athletics We re hoping to get procedures established so this sort of thing won t ever happen again There isn t a week thai goes by that there Is not an athletic event of some k nd going on and there should be policies and procedures worked out that put the safety of athletes first he said Bray said he Is not sure if any disciplinary action will be involved in the Board eventual decision The people I vc talked to weren t prepared to make any guesses as what could or would happen he said would never rcllngulsh Veteran Raider Tim Amplcford was the standout in the Raiders I Iwo wins He notch cd the tying goal Tues day got the home team going and Friday he notched two goals and turned In a solid Iwo way performance blocking a Petrol In shot from the point wilh just live seconds left to play The key for us will be Tin Ampleford Eyre said He playing belt now than ever seen him play Doug Fry Ray Gary Mc and Dave Walter OIL EYRE had the goals Tuesday night while Friday a pair led the way while Elliott and had singles Sunday Darren Lowe Paul Gallagher and Ron Twiss had the goals The game of this series will have been played Tuesday In Sarnla Action resumes Friday when Game Five will go at the Arena starting at If necessary the game will return to Saturday night and the deciding game will be played in George town Sunday night the other two pi ay off series Flam leads and Dundas edged league leading Cam bridge to lead their series 10 Tim Dixon wins wrestling crown Even a separated shoulder keep Tim Dixon from winning he gold at the Ontario Federation of Schools Athletic Association OFSAA wrestling championships Dixon was leading In the final by one point when with fust nine sec left he separated his shoulder The medic crew at the meet quickly corrected the problem and Dixon eon t wrestling In fact he scored three more points after that point to win the 119pound class The gold medal win ended an eight year TIM DIXON drought by the Rebel team Pete last won a Rebel gold I thought for sure he broke he thing team manager Wayne Dixon said I couldn t imagine what It could be like but it had to hurt like heck Three other George town wrestlers took part In the meet which featu red of the provinces best wrestlers BUI Mur phy finished loth in the 84pound class and Dixon was pleased with Murp hy finish because this was the youngster s first provincial champion ship All things being equal he was respectable Dl said Dave Power finished 12th in the 127 pound class and Terry Dixon had to withdraw after his first match due to an injury Rebel swim squad wins OFSAA title 1 A A Celebration time The Georgetown Figure dialing Club held Us carnival this weekend at Memorial Arena A Celebration was put on three times for special or The youngster above give an indication as to the superb the carnival had Above Is Paula who Is working on finer techniques or handling her ribbon Herald photos Consistent swimming seemed to be George town key in winning the Ontario Federation of Schools Athletic lion Senior swim meet Friday at the The GDHS club had only one Individual gold medal but had a host of second third and other top finishes that counted for points In defeating Park by 100 points The a I crown Friday went nicely with the third place finish Saturday at the OFSAA open event The meet Saturday was open all club swimmers while Friday was limited to those not competing for clubs The crown is a gratifying one lor the team seeing as they never had n chance of competing the Peel championships II 1 weather ihe day of eel forced George town to fordo the event However those teams a I lending the meet met with the convenor and decided the be official despite a number of absences Georgetown is among a halfdozen schools protesting Ihe meel This is more than a small consolation said Rebel coach Joe Bray I can hardly believe it all difficulties no pool and bad weather we have had this season and still do so well The indoor pool Ihe school has been closed for months for repairs While being happy for finishing first Friday Bray was equally happy with his leam perform a nee at the open event I was pleased because there were so many club swimmers there Therewercn many last year because there was a major meet heldal same time Ihe meel was Last year George town leam swept For a list of the winn performances sec sports scoreboard on hot lisl or the winn ing performance see ports scoreboard on paged Bantam tournament The Georgetown Minor Hockey Association will be holding its annual bantam tournament this week Georgetown M and M Pro Spoils Bantams will represent the community while another not as yet named squad will be a second local entry For further Information sec the schedule in Sports Scoreboard THEHOTTBST SELLING AUTOMOBILE STANDARD FEATURES INCLUDE M wlpar Wiihwia notnUlm WW BEFORE YOU DECIDE TAKE A PONY FOR A RIDE Du my Cenclmn 8731694 PRICED FROM 6145 HYUnDRI COUNTRY GUELPH ST GEORGETOWN complete parts and service 8466858