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GEORGETOWN HONDA the HERALD Sports and and Recreation SECTION THE HERALD Wednesday April laa Page OS For 30 Years We Have Delivered MTHL team comes out on top Hillcrest takes Bantam title with win ByMIKETURNER Herald Sport Editor The Summits went undefeated through four games to capture the Ontario Hockey Assoc a Hon AA Bantam championship crown on the weekend In the title game Sunday noon the Summits downed the Valley East Renegades to take the championship A consolation game saw the Georgetown M and M Pro Sports Bantams claim the brome medals wilha64wlnoverSt Thomas The tournament proved to be a showcase far some fine Bantam hockey talent and all the teams were evenly matched In fact the only game to be decided by more than two goals was the champion ship contest the Metro Toronto Hockey League champs beat Georgetown and Valley East In the round rob scries and led St Thomas to lock up first place and earn a berth n the final Valley East was second In round robin play with four points while St Thomas and Georgetown were third and fourth respectively and were relegated to the consolation round The championship match up pro duced a few surprises particularly In the late going when Valley East trailed and pulled their goalie when there were more than five The to narrow the Summits lead to but gave up two empty net goals Valley East coach Jim McLoughlin says he was looking for some of lift by taking the goalie out so early and he felt the odds were with him Sudbury of the Tier II A league had scored times In 13 attempts under simitar Our gome plan was to beat them In the comers but they beat us the corners said We hadn scored goal n two- and a half periods so I had to do something H coach John Scolt admits the strategy caught him a tittle of fguard I did feel we were in control most of the way When It was and It stayed that way because we were playing so steady I guess he had to try something Scott said he expected the game to be much tighter than it actually was We were com on strong at the first of the game and were the type of team that tends to relax with the lead so I tried to tighten tup McLoughlin said the final outing of the season for his team by any means their best We had a better game against St Thomas Ken Rogers or the bum named the Most Valuable Player in the Bantam provincial championship tournament boated by Georgetown on the weekend Roftera teen here being presented with a sterling silver ling by vice president of Ball Irm Canada which produces these hip rings he said referring to their victory Saturday night which put them In the championship We had to com eback We were In a must win lion with St Thomas and a must win situation here today Us tough to get all 15 players going Hillcrest got off to a quick start scoring a pair of goals less than a minute apart Dave Shiftman and tournament MVP Ken Rogers ac counted for the Summits goals to give them a lead after 3 of play The Renegades fought back to close the margin to 1 when Trevor Tremblay scored a goo with six minutes left In the period In the second it was all Hillcrest as they scored three unanswered goals Elliot Vardln scored from a rebound at he 1 mark of the period and then Shiftman scored his second of the game on a shot from the point Rogers made it when he beat Valley East goalie Junior with a snot Just past the nine minute With about five and a half minutes remaining In regulation time things gat interesting as the Renegades pulled their goalie They already had a man advantage which gave them a six skaters on four advantage Jay Morris gave the Renegades a little life when his long shot beat Summits goalie Reuben Moses with 22 remaining Valley East continued to get the penalty calls going their way With Labelle again on the bench and the Renegades going six skaters against four the strategy backfired when Adam Scott crossed centre and pumped It into the empty Renegade net making It Then with Just over two minutes remaining Jamie stole the puck in the Valley East end His first shot hit the side of the net but he managed to steer the rebound In to the empty net for the 2 final Shiftman twogoal performance earned him game MVP honors for the Summits while Tremblay with goal was the Renegades MVP The Summits were presented with the championship trophy by the immediate past chairman Bob MacKinnon When was said and done It come as somewhat of a surprise that the Summits were quite subdued In their revelry after winning such a prestigious honor I dont know why they were so subdued said Coach Scott But last year the team had a great year but they gat blown out of the playoffs early 1 guess they Just wanted to do better The Summits of the Metro Toronto Hockey Jamie Morshead and Adam Scott accept the champion League won the Bantam provincial champion ship trophy from Bob MacKinnon Immediate past ship after defeating Valley East in the title game chairman of the Ontario Hockey Association Sunday Here team captain from left Elliot Vardln photo Locals arent outclassed and M proves worthy host By MIKE TURNER Herald Spoils Editor The M and M Pro Sports Bantams only came up with one victory In the provincial championships on the weekend But at least they picked the right game to win Georgetown defeated St Thomas Sunday afternoon to take the con title in the Bantam championship and earn the bronze championship medal Both series tied in GLBL Both the championship and the consolation series of the Georgetown Ladles Basketball League have been forced to a third and deciding game Last Wednesday at Centennial School the Mustangs took a decision over the Trojans to square their best of three championship aeries at one game apiece In the consolation round the Cougars outlasted the Caprlcoms to force their series to a deciding game The Mustangs were paced by the 20 points of Chung Kim as she con tributed 10 in each half At the mid way point the Mustangs were ahead Other scorers for the Mustangs were Lorraine Brown with Carol with seven Wendy Moore and Diane Gardner with six apiece Mel McCracken with four and Mariano Lott with two KrtstensenIrvine and Cor fine led the Trojans attack with 10 each while Pat chipped in with eight Anita and June Nicholson added six each Zelek and Alice Ogden had four apiece and Mary Kelly con tributed two In the consolation match up the Cougars enjoyed a 3426 halftime lead Boo worked well Inside for the Cougars and led their scoring with points Linda helped the Cougars cause with 14 The Mustangs back to their best or three champions with the Trojan goes up or a over a Mm tang defender The deciding game In the scries Is slated for Georgetown Ladles tonight Wednesday at Centennial League action last week Here a School Jy Thomson had 12 Wendy For Kelly Forsyth and Nat all had four and Jen Reynolds and Sue Cooke added two points apiece For the Caps Marie Smith paced the scoring attack with points while had IB Maureen Kerr added eight Laurel Heinz had four and Sandra Cousens and Kerry Gibson added two each The deciding games in both aeries are slated for Tonight Wednesday at Centennial School beginning at The other teams In the the Hillcrest Sum who won the championship the Valley East and the OMHA St Thomas all reached the Bantam finale by winning their respective association titles Georgetown was there as the host team but they were anything but outclassed We never embarrassed ourselves said M and assistant coach Ron We played at a high intensity level throughout the tournament In the preliminary round Georgetown lost all three games but by close decisions defeated them St Thomas edged them 31 and Valley East held on for a win Since the consolation provided them with a second shot at St Thomas and the chance to salvage something from the tournament were well prepared There was no difference in our strategy said coach Keith Bennett We just tried to stay out of the penalty box We told the players you never want to lose your last game The and M squad never rolled over In any of their games on the weekend In all the games came back in the third period Lefebvre said So when the guys went Into the third period with a lead against St Thomas they were confident they could hold onto it The team was bolstered by a pie of minor bantams Duane Lewis and Adam who added to their over all depth And Bennett says there wasn t a single weak link on the team through the entire tournament There one player who wasn producing- which made It tough when we had to choose who went out for power plays Mike Gllmore scored first to give St Thomas a 10 lead near the three- minute mark of the opening period But Rod got that one back for Georgetown when he went in with a teammate on a twoonone and drilled a low shot past goal tender Dave Gunn BUI McDonald the count to 2 1 when he took a pass at centre and broke in alone to beat Gunn while Georgetown was a man short scored his second of the period with 1 left after he found himself alone In front of the St Thomas net Georgetown managed to get an extra attacker on the Ice as a delayed penalty was being called against St Thomas The puck came free from a pileup in the comer and McDonald worked it into who had time to tee It up and score Trent Cull the count to on a opportunity early In the second when he scooped up a wlr INSIDE mis SECTION J SPORTS B2 B2 B3 B3 SPORTS I Scoreboard B3 Seven records B4 Dart finals Local bowling B4 ENTERTAINMENT Mike Entertainers BS GLTs stimulating story BS The Last Emperor B6 auction guest B6