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Che HERALD Sports I and and Recreation SECTION THE HERALD Wednesday March IS IMS Page 1 For 30 Years fllllll II oe S We Have Delivered Gems left in deficit but executive digs in Gemini hockey club suffered a Ion of over for their 1S67H operating season but no ones standing around crying over split milk In fact one of the moat spirited discussions of the evening during the cluba annual general meeting last losses in short order Total expenses Incurred for the club during the past season came to 12 And while the team came in under its speculated budget of set last December there was a shortfall of as the In come was shewn ai f5B3I3 as of March l The picture brightened somewhat when It was learned that about collected for program adver Using had been added to the club coffers since the treasurers report was drawn up at the first of the month Dave Kentner who was returned as president of the club by Hon for a third consecutive term looks ahead to the hockey season as one which holds much pro mise In his report to the membership Kentner noted the Inside changes that have been made to the clubs administration which have resulted hi smoother operation One of the moat significant factors In the Geminis leu than fruitful season loss of players who went on to Join higher level teams which Kentner sees as a compliment to the 196647 team But some of tbe veterans who remained had developed attitudes and habits nur tured by past team personnel That situation was Improved somewhat with a change In the coaching staff says and he feels the club should have an ex cellent nucleus of players for next year When began president of the organisation be came in with a threeyear plan which was to culminate in the team winning the Ontario B hockey Things of course havent gone ac cording to plan and here next year and talk about how we struck out Along with Karen Har rison was reelected as secretary treasurer by acclamation One of the first orders of business was to address the format for up coming awards night scheduled for March And the general concensus of tbe membership was that there was time like the present to begin looking at ways to majte the club money Finn started the ball rolling when he suggested that ex members they should look at attending the annual team social not only as a privilege but with a commitment in mind In the past members of the Gemini executive have been admit ted to tbe year end dance free of charge a small reward for the hours of volunteer work they do on behalf of club But suggested the members pay their way to tbe event and help bolster the teams financial situation We have to squarely face the facts said We all have a common understanding that we have to start somewhere Cost of staging the awards evening la expected to be approximately Tbe membership agreed with completely and It was agreed each of them would pay the per person cost of the ticket to attend tbe function There will also be a drive sell as many tickets as possible for tbe event thereby bettering their chances of making some sort of pro fit awards evening will be held Friday March at the Alcott Arena auditorium The awards presentations will be made about with a dance and buffet lunch to follow Tickets are available from members of the Gemini executive NEW new ex- treasurer Back row of tbe Georgetown Gemini Ponfttrap VP administration for tbe upcoming season consists of Barry WUtworlfa finances Front row from left Joan Anderson Wayne Pries fund railing and of operations Jack Handy hockey opera Dave Kentner president and lions Herald photo Karen Harrison secretary- Aeros surprise locals at tournament M and rebounds for win The and M Pro Sports Bantams held on to edge the Toronto Aeros Monday night in their third game of tbe International Bantam Hockey Tournament But it was the first game that will actually count Playing in B Division the M and M squad was pooled with Niagara Falls and the Aeros for round robin play Saturday in what was to be their when Markham was forced to honor commitments to the OMHA playoffs they pulled out of the tournament and their games were wiped out Since teams are guaranteed three games tournament organizers set up an exhibition game for Niagara Falls with tbe local Bantams which M and M won handily Monday afternoon That set the stage for Monday nights encounter with the Aeros which was essentially the first game of any Importance for and M And It turned out to be quite an entertaining contest partly due to a little on Georgetown behalf and partly due to the Aeros fired up performance I give the Aeros full marks said Georgetown coach Keith Bennett following the game Monday We beat Niagara Falls earlier in the day and they beat tbe But they played a tough game Georgetown rallied from a 31 deficit at the start of the third period to eventually lake a lead A big part of their success in mak that comeback was their timing according to Ron the assistant coach Prior to tlces and games the players run up and down the back stairway at tbe arena a dozen times based on an honor system Its been paying off on a regular basis Lefehvre says In the third period we seem to be able to wear down teams Hooper back as Gem Georgetown Jr B Gemini hockey club dldn waste any time In renaming Bob Hooper as their returning general manager for the season At the clubs annual general meeting last Wednesday Jack Handy vicepresident of hockey operations put forward Hoopers name for the position and the membership unanimously agreed upon his choice This will be Hoopers third season as general manager of the Gemini Georgetown was slated to play Niagara Falls last night Tuesday In their other preliminary game and despite the win against them Mon day Bennett expected to see ferent team I think Niagara Falls will be up and theyll want to beat the hometown team Bennett said they seen us once so they 11 pro bably change their style and use their other goalie The Acres scored the only goal of the opening period Monday night as Mark beat Georgetown goalie Chris Cambourfs on the stick side after M and M had just killed off a penalty Georgetown evened it up In the se cond when Rich Bond came out from behind the Toronto net and stuffed the puck In on goalie Steve torn pklns glove side on a op portunity The Aeros regained the lead with a pair of goals In the final five minutes of the period as Wheldrake and Peter Graham allied In the opening few minutes of tbe third period Eric Long made It 32 at the 1 OS mark when he slipped the puck bet ween the goalies legs on a re bound white and M enjoyed a two- man advantage Less than a minute later Dale fired a shot at the Toronto net that Tompkins got a piece of but Dave Watts put Georgetown ahead 43 with a goal at 3 23 and then Jim English cashed in after Chad Bailey worked the puck around In the Toronto end to set up the goal Bailey scored what proved to be the winner with just over six minutes remaining Bailey had post tioned himself In front of the net when a shot by Craig Cooper was knocked down in front Bailey looked to be tied up by a defender but he managed to get free and slip the puck by Tompkins and Mike Slaught scored to dose the margin to but that was as close as the would FLYING HIGH The and M Pro though the team came alive In the further competition and the game Tuesday between Georgetown and Niagara Falls was for first place In their pool The other B Division pool has Gudph Newmarket Waterloo and Scarborough battling it out for the right to advance The semifinal format will have the first place team from each of the the opposite pool 28th annual tournament gets under way The Annual Georgetown In Bantam Hockey Touma got rolling Saturday and despite a few snags things seem to be running relatively smoothly This years version of the has been scaled down to 38 teams instead of he usual due to many teams being unavailable The number dropped to on the weekend when was forced to pull out to honor commitments to their OMHA playoff schedule A total of eight teams are com peting in each of the A and C Divi sions while in the B Division there are seven teams following the departure of Markham The Divi sion has a total of four teams D Division final has been slated for Friday morning at a and divisional semifinals will be held throughout the remainder of the day for the other categories The remaining divisional finals are Saturday beginning at 30 a m with the Division 10 15 a m for the C Division and noon for the A Division The B and D Division winners will square off at pm Saturday and the A and Division winners play at pm to determine the touma ments grand championship op ponents The final game for the over all tournament title will be played at TOURNAMENT SCORES as of Monday night A DIVISION Chinguacousy 3 Misslssauga 3 Hamilton West Barrlel Barries Guelph4 Markham Waterloo Niagara Falls 7 Waterloo Newmarket l Georgetown Newmarket 1 Toronto Aeros I Scarborough 1 Toronto 3 GuelphS Scarborough Toronto Aeros DIVISION Preston Toronto Olympics Lome Parka Toronto Olympics Preston Toronto Olympics Preston Lome Park Lome Park 13 Gemini Juveniles take series lead against Kingston Coach Hanman hopes for split this weekend It wasnt by any means picture- perfect but a win Is a win and the Georgetown Gemini Juveniles are nappy to be on top in their bestof five Ontario Minor Hockey doubled Kingston in tbe series opener despite a less than formidable showing series resumes this weekend In Kingston where games are scheduled for Saturday and Sunday Georgetown woo the coin ton for borne advantage and will have two game back borne the following weekend should they be Decenary Tbe two teams began tentatively in tbe match Thursday as though they were feeling each other out Understandable since they knew tit tle about each others capabilities In tbe procaine meeting we decided we wanted to take it right to them said Georgetown coach Charlie Hanman following the match Theyd bad a four hour bus ride ButUJust never happened was bleated with tbe per formance of Terry Dixon and Pat McCarthy who was used both At centre and on defence But the defence In general was not of the calibre tbe team Is capable Fortunately goalie Joe Bolson was in fine form Joey played an excellent game for us Hanman said Our defence did not play well They the puck and didnt move It crisply Dennis Doucette and Steve Turner are stay at home kind of defencemen But they were would be happy to take a split in the games in Kingston this weekend but admits home ice Is not a big factor In the teams fortunes since theyve played to near empty arenas virtually all season Georgetown kept the play In the Kingston end for the first few minute of game Thursday but came up with few quality scoring op portunities Kingstons Don Hut ton had the best scoring chance in the early go- Wlth just over three minutes re maining Brian finally put the locals on the scoreboard Doner ty made a good effort to keep the puck In at the and blasted a shot that banked off the right goalpost and Into the net It didnt take Kingston long to res pond though Jim Kish carried the puck In on the right side and put shot past on the short side to tie It at one Georgetown again took the lead in the first minute of the second period side and fed a pass across to Kennedy who slipped It past net minder Steve McMillan But again Kingston came back With both teams a man short Kingston pressed It looked as though Turner had Kingstons Paul tied up in front of the net but he managed to get free and backhanded a shot past to tie It at two To that point in the game things had been quite tame But mid way through period Turner caught a Kingston player looking the wrong way and laid a solid check on him at centre Ice From then on things Sicked up considerably in the hitting epartment Georgetown had a good chance to take tbe lead again with less than a to go when Bill Herman floated a shot In from the point The puck was knocked down but Dixon gathered it in and tried a wrap around play from behind tbe net Somehow McMillan got across to stop the shot Less than two minutes Into the third Georgetown scored what prov ed to be the winner when Dean Morgan drifted a screened shot from the blueline that went over McMillans shoulder to make Then Rob Cooper scored an In surance marker assisted by Morgan to make the final Cooper finished the game with the one goal and two assists Georgetown Kingston and took ID of the 18 minutes in minor penalties that were called lsn t looking at the over night trip to Kingston as any kind of holiday and hes sure his players wont be either Theyve proven they can take care of business on the road after claim ing the North American Silver Stick Championship in earlier in the season And with an OMHA title well within their grasp Its sure to be business as usual The winner of the Georgetown Kingston matchup will advance to the finals against a winner from the west That team is ex pected to be Grimsby who the Gemini Juveniles defeated at the Silver Stick Tournament by a margin FANCY FOOTWORK The Georgetown Gemini Juveniles took a 10 lead in their five semifinal playoff series Thursday night at the Arena with a decision over visiting Kingston Here the Kingston goalie lunge for the pack at the feet of a Georgetown attacker Herald photo SPORTS Terrion Talks goes with flow B2 Baseball signup B2 Scoreboard B3 I Its still cricket B3 Soccer prep B4 Blue Fins shine B4 Defensive atoms J ENTERTAINMENT B6