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the HERALD Sports I and AVAILABLE COPY and Recreation SECTION B THE HERALD Wednesday February 10 Page 1 For 30 Years is a J NM OS We Have Delivered to speak at Heritage dinner The name Bill is well known In hockey circles and has become even more bo In the last few days To begin with Watters has negotiated more hockey contracts as a player agent than anyone in the business today And as If that werent enough Walters name has been bandied about the last few days as a possible successor to the fired Gerry as general manager of the Toronto Maple Leaf At any rate Watters likely to be at a loss for words when he takes pie podium as guest speaker tor the nth Annual Georgetown Hockey Heritage Council Dinner on March Watters first began his full time association with hockey in when be was appointed the director of the Bobby OrrMIke Walton Sports Camp Around that time he became In volved in player management at fairs negotiating his first contract following the NHL draft Since then the professional hockey contracts he has negotiated have included over first round selections Watters was also extremely active in the International hockey scene for a time In addition to being business manager of the first Canada Cup championship team In 1976 he also served as coordinator for the Junior World Tournament hosted by Canada In December of 1977 appointed General Manager Team Canada for competition and twice was Moscows Izvestla Tournament Being an acknowledged expert in the game of hockey has become a popular medioflgure In addition to being a regular panelist The Sports Networks weekly Toronto Maple Leafs games Master of ceremonies for the Hockey Heritage Dinner will be Ron MacLean of Hockey Night In Canada During the course of the evening Walter Red Asseltine will be honored as this years recipient of the Georgetown Hockey Heritage Award for his contribution to hockey in Georgetown Winning goal scored at buzzer Gems loss easier to take Georgetown Racquet Club New tourney format to boost interest The Georgetown Racquet Club Is hoping to generate more interest In their group both Inside and outside the club with the revamping of their annual The motto currently being bounc ed around the club Is Rejuvenate in 88 And in keeping with this outlook the board of directors has approved the unique format for the club championship tournament put forth by Don Crocker and the club championship committee An enthusiastic kickoff was held Thursday night when about members were treated to an ex citing and entertaining squash match between Carl Hopkins and Gene Duval In five matches It was Duval who finally prevailed He is an Ontarioranked player from the Regency Racquet Club and the club pro In Georgetown Preliminary games have already have been made this year Rather than have players sign up far the tournament their names have been entered to compete in one of four categories according to their on the regular competition position By MIKE TURNER Herald Sports Editor Joe Washkurak scored once and assisted on two other Georgetown Gemini goals to set a new club scor ing record but It wasnt enough as the Gems dropped a decision to visiting Monarch at the Arena Friday night The three points he picked up gave an even loo on the season according to club stats and eclipsed the mark of points set by Wayne Morrow Just last season Washkurak finished with goals and assists The record was tied on Thursday night In when scored the lone goal in a loss to the Colls And at the mark of the game Friday he picked up an assist on a powerplay goal by Adam Bennett to set a new mark The fact that the Gems lost to the in their final regular game In the Central On tarlo B loop was virtually lost amid the excitement It 1 appear the players were too put out anyway despite giving up a goal with no time on the clock to band the Monarchs the win think everybody was concen trating on helping Joey said Georgetown coach Peter Sturgeon following the game We had the game In the bag and lust let down lor 10 minutes in the third But Sturgeon doesn t plan to take the loss too much to heart and doubted the players would either There are more Important mat ters to dwell on The guys are looking forward to getting Into the playoffs Since that game with on Jan theyve been looking ahead to get ling at them again That game was a loss to the Blades But despite losing the Gems put on a good show with an extreme ly short staff on hand The Gemini and the Blades were to open their bestof seven quarter final aeries in last night Tuesday and the second game Is set to go this Thursday at the Alcott Arena at p m took a lead after the the net by making It 53 The Gems appeared to be well in control of the game until the final few minutes The Monarchs took advantage of a opportunity at 13 28 when Tuccl took a pass behind the Georgetown net and circled around to beat Gemini goalie Todd King on the long side Mlmlco tied the game with exactly one minute left when James scored It seemed everyone was figuring on the game ending In a tie when scooped up a loose puck on his side of the bludlne and went In atone on King put a move on the and slipped the puck by him just as tne buzzer sounded The Gems put up a halfhearted objection claiming the puck went over the line after time had elapsed but the goal stood going down of ficially as being scored at Defeated as they were though the Georgetown players at least didnt have to go hungry Prior to the game club president Dave Kentncr vowed to give ptaa money for ram and his team mates if he broke the record during the game A hasty collection was taken up from executive members to honor the commitment Joe Washkurak obviously doesnt like to leave any odd ends Friday night against Mlmlco Monarch he rounded off his scoring output for the season to an even 10O with a goal opening peijod Friday on goals by Jim Candleana and Wendei Dayal Brent had the lone reply for the Gems scoring on a effort from Kevin Dance In the second the ex tended their lead to 31 when Pierre James scored a powerplay goal at The Gems got that one back with Bennetts powerplay goal at set up by Greg Brazeau and Washkurak with his assist to set the record Then tallied at IB on an unassisted effort to leave the mayfW take the initiative to enter the com petition but most would undoubted remain in the tournament once their names had been entered for them scheduled for March 34 and the championship finals are to follow on Saturday March The public Is invited to take In the semifinals and final matches at the The defending champions of the A C and D categories for the mens competition are Lloyd Newman David Redman John Anderson and Keith Ashby respectively For ladles competition the defen ding champions In the A to D ore Jans Gale Manhlre Nancy DIeroff and Emmy Volson respectively and two assists set ting a new dab coring record for the Georgetown Gemini He finished with goals Herald photo teams tied at three after the second The Gems took the lead with a pair of goals in the opening few minutes of the final frame Dance a puck to Travis Cole who carried it In and then returned a pass to Dance In close Dance picked the top corner to make it at Mark Pries also drew an assist Washkuraks 100th point came at Ihe is mark with the Gems enjoy lng a man advantage Don Cruise shovelled a pass across to Washkurak at the point and he let go a blast that was redirected into n EonornwN 1 Tim Feb at Oat Gum Sat Fab 1 in Garnet 111 Mashinter goal gives series win The Mai Dodge eliminated Streelsville in the first round of playoff action last weekend Georgetown did it the hard way losing the first game of the bestof three and winning the final two In the first game threatened to make It a runaway series routing the Georgetown squad Kenny Kosziwka scored the only goal for the ReMax team on assists from Shaun Curry and Chris Borrow as they were thoroughly outplayed by the Streetavllle club The second gome was a different story as the Georgetown team came out skating and scoring Jeff Pet and Andrew Elliott scored first period goals for with Shawn Pearson and Jake Mashinter adding the assists With the score 21 Chris Barrow scored from Ryan Kurnell and Shaun Curry Brent made it as he rapped In a catering pass from Jeff StreetsvUte scored with Just seconds remain ing to moke the score but Georgetown prevailed In the end In the deciding contest at Streetsvilie Kenny Kosziwka played a very strong game for the Georgetown club registering a hat trick on three hard slapshots from close In His first goal was assisted by An drew Elliott and the second and third markers were unassisted ef forts Kosziwka added a fourth point on the night as he and Randy Bond assisted on Tim second period goal But the man of the hour for the squad was Jake With the score tied and 33 seconds remaining In the game Mashinter scored the winning goal from on almost Impossible angle Tim Presswood assisted on the whin ing tally With that win Georgetown ad vances to the second round of playoff action New broom sweeps clean Discrepancy found in statistics A discrepancy seems to have arisen as to whether or not Joe Washkurak of the Georgetown Gemml has reached 100polnt plateau for the 198788 season According to statistics kept locally by the hockey club Washkurak had points heading Into the final two games of the regular schedule On Thursday In he pick up a goal and Friday against Mlmlco he had a goal and two assists which should give him an even 100 points on the season But according to statistics kept by the league Washkurak only had points heading Into the game with and the four points he registered in the two games last week would give him a total of Paul Wilkinson statistician for the Centra Ontario Jr B League says the figures will have to be double checked to ensure no error been made At any rate Washkurak has had a banner year and Is likely to finish fourth in the league scoring race Keith of the Barrle Colts has all but sewn up the title followed by Steven Boyd of Aurora Chris McEachem of the Oakvllle Blades and Washkurak The official count la not expected to bo complete until the end of the week Sabres take twogame lead BBPIbSP A team from look top honors In the annual makes save during the game Tournament at the Georgetown Fairgrounds against the Rat Patrol of as they went on to Saturday A total of 14 teams played In the bitter cold but things heated up on the Ice Here The Acton Sabres won a 107 shootout on homo Ice Friday to take a lead In their bestofseven Mid Ontario C Hockey League playoff series with the Caledon Flyers After the victory Friday and a 53 win In the series opener at Caledon the Sabres appear to be well In con of matters But Acton general manager Jules Russian isn t exact limping up and down Were not playing playoff hockey Russian soys Were allowing too many goals for playoff hockey If theres one bright spot In what Russian seen so far In the series Its the play of Tom Hill who was between the pipes for both wins Russian contends It was sloppy work In their end of the rink that allowed Caledon to score seven times on Hill and in no way reflected on the efforts Tommy let a couple of cheap ones in Russian I says But he made some saves that kept us In the game loo If It hadn been for him the results of the two games could easily have been reversed Hill has been forced to stop a number of closein shots from the slot and came up big to foil a couple of breakaway attempts Friday The Flyers changed their game somewhat for Fridays outing taking a more aggressive tact par tlcularly with the Sabres top scorer Tom Fisher As a result they picked up a number of penalties and Sabres were called for retaliatory measures The teams played to a 22 draw after the first minutes and in the second Acton took a slim lead Peter Carglll Steve Wagner and Fisher led the scoring for the Sabres with a pair of goals each Singles went to Trevor Mike Dloron Todd Cull and Rod McClure Carglll and McClure also came up with three assists In the contest and Fisher Dloron and Mark French had a pair of assists each Andy Eric and Pat Daly all had a pair of markers for the Flyers while the other marker went to Doug aggressive nature shown by both teams resulted in three players aside being ejected for fighting throughout the contest Game 3 of the series was slated for lost night Tuesday In Caledon and Game goes this Friday at p In Acton A fifth game if necessary will be Saturday also at pm In Acton while a sixth game Is scheduled for Tuts Feb and a seventh would be Wed Feb SABRE TIPS In the other two playoff series the Orange Crushers have taken a lead over Alllston and the Bradford Bulls led Schomberg in their series final tallies In the leagues scoring race showed Tom Fisher of the Sabres narrowly being edged by a single point by Jamie Lilt of the Crushers INSIDE Taw- SPORTS Matter of Us B2 Rocky going for atoms B2 Player of the month B2 Oakvllle sweeps title B3 SPORTS I Ladies take one point B3 Sports briefs B3 Sharpshooters B4 Scoreboard B4 ENTERTAINMENT A friendship betrayed B5 Grant for arts cottage B5 Couch Trip reviewed The search for talent B5