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THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday February 10 1990 Page 21 Novice House GFSC Juvenile Precision Skating Team GEORGETOWN FIGURE SKATING CLUB Juvenile Precision Skating Team the Ice Dreamers From left to right Rachel Hep burn Julie Watson Holmes Brown Rene Kitchen Christine Dawson Katie Stansfleld Linda Peter Johnson Jenny Smith Leslie Watson Beaumont Tim Baker Seabrooke Erin and Scott Bentlcy The Ice Dreamer will be competing in the Precision Team Skating competl tion which will be cohosted by the Georgetown Figure Skating Club and the Central Ontario Section of the Canadian Figure Skating Association March and at Georgetown Gordon Alcott Memorial Arena Herald photo Championship cities Thanks to Oilers Edmonton in top three By John Grabowski Which la the most successful city in pro sports Lately its been Los Angeles Dur ing the the City of Angels took eight pro crowns the Lakers won five NBA titles the Dodgers earned two World Series championships and the NFLs A Raiders triumphed in one Super Bowl Second among sports cities in the past decade was New York with six pro crowns four for the NHL Is landers one for baseballs Mets and one for the NFL Giants Next on the list of successful cities comes Edmonton with four NHL crowns during the 1980s and then Boston with three NBA titles and San Francisco with three NFL titles Of there are other ways to judge the leading cities in pro sports Counting baseball football basket ball and hockey different cities or locations were represented by big- pro teams in the 1980s The city with the best overall regu lar season winning percentage was Edmonton with the 623 mark of the Oilers However with only one major franchise Edmonton played just games Among cities represented by more than one pro team the top spot went to Boston In the 80s the Red Sox Celtics and Bruins combined for 1 wins 1251 losses and 101 ties for a winning percentage of Which city actually had the most regular season pro wins As you might expect the honor went to New York where seven clubs the Yankees Giants Jets Rangers Islanders and Knicks won a total of 965 contests But they also lost the most 2 New York which also had 200 ties wound up with a regular season win ning percentage in the 1980s of only good for place among the cities Just In Case Anybody Asks Department There were a total of 314 regu lar season big time professional Championship Cities They won the most pro titles In the 1980s team that also won the most Super Bowls The were the only NFL club to average better than 10 wins per year compiling a 1 record good for a 688 winning percentage Second place belongs to the Wash Redskins with a 638 mark 97 games back of Joe Montana and Company The Redskins and Raiders won two NFL titles during the 80s one fewer than the number won by San Francisco Basketball had the closet race for decade honors among the major sports During the past 10 seasons to 1988 89 the Boston Celtics had a record of and Their winning percentage of was the best for any team in any sport over that time Only one game behind them at 591 and 721 were the Los Angeles Lakers The Lakers won five titles the most by any franchise in the de- cade the Celtics won three games played over the past sea with the best winning percentage for The secondclosest race was in sons The totals baseball 20 315 bas the decade hockey and earned No l s in the 8 with wins based on 708 losses losses and ties were the Ed Which was the winnmgest sports One of the other eight baseball Oilers winners of four franchise of the past years teams that won a world championship Stanley Cups Right on their tail were A good guess would be the Los An the decade Nope The surprising the Philadelphia Flyers 620 also pies Dodgers the only club to win answer is the New York Yankees 446 ins but with four more two World Series crowns during the Not so surprising is the club with losses4nd four fewer ties 1980s A good guess perhaps butbaseballs worst mark The Seattle ibbonfwspaffr enterprise wrong Manners ended and 893 or The Dodgers won games while games behind the Bronx losing 741 for a winning percent Bombers age Four other baseball clubs sur passed that mark In fact the Dodgers In the NFL the decades dominant JOHN finished 31 games behind the team club was the San the jf GRABOWSKI Cily Winning franchises Los Angeles Lakers5 Raiders New York 6 Giants Edmonton Oilers4 Boston Celtlcs3 San Francisco 3 Detroit Oakland 2 Raiders A Philadelphia Phillies 76ers1 Washington 2 Nelissen pots four Andrew Nelissen slammed home four goals and added an assist to lead the Kinsmen Club to a triumph over A and S Engraving in a Georgetown Minor Hockey Association House League hockey game last Saturday Ryan Gledhill was not far off his teammates prolific performance as he notched the hat trick and col lected an assist for the winners Adam Bowman had a fine game as well scoring twice and picking up three assists Joshua had two assists for Kinsmen while single helpers went to Aaron Greer and C Ander son Sean Currie converted a pass from Geoff to count the lone A and S Engraving counter In another GMHA Novice House League contest Brendan Alexa scored twice to pace Youngs to a win over the Lions Club Richard Desjardin Kris Noonan and Jan Howell rounded out the Young s Pharmacy scoring Kris Richard Desjardin and Ian Cartwnght each collected a pair of assists for the winners Jesse Ward carried the brunt of the Lions Club attack by counting two goals Singles went to Brian and Andrew Boyce Patrick Hulber Roddy Heinz and Jason Douville collected assists for the Lions Club In the third GMHA Novice House League encounter A and F Johnson topped and Pro Sports 5 Peter Veltman Mike Knoepfh Corey Forbes Simon Saulnier and Ryan Inglis were the marksmen for A and Johnson Greg Tales had two assists for the winners with single helpers go ing to Riley Greg Mike and Brydon Mathew counted the single reply for M and Pro Sports on a nice fed from Chris David Medvedt in top three On Sunday Milton Heights Ski Club White Team raced against at The final score was Milton Heights 93 Pinendge 102 The top three girls for Milton were Meghan Powerll from Burl ington finishing third Heidi Heckman from Oakville finishing fourth and Yvonne Martin from Milton finishing fifth The top three boys for Milton Heights were Real Oakville finishing second David Limehouse finishing fifth and Michael West OakviUe finishing seventh Also on Sunday Milton Heights Ski Club Red Team raced against at Glen Eden Milton The final score was Milton Heights Caledon 97 The top three girls for Milton Heights were Allison Sterling from Brampton finishing first Maryanne Doyle from Oakville finishing fifth and Angela from Georgetown finishing ninth CRITICS CHOICE VIDEO Rentals Service Open Every Night Till 10pm Any Carryin VCR Microwave top With Ad 235 Guelph St J 8730754 LOW LOW CARPET PRICES WML 8736002 Guelph Street Unit 25 Georgetown In the Knolcrest Centre Penny