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HERALD Wattndiy M lm Handled with caution Acton Sabres goalie Jim protects the puck as captain Steve Locke looks on during their game against Grand Valley Friday Sabres won also taking the other two weekend games and improv ing their chances at finishing in place Herald photo by Ben Atom Star Fuels split three Star Fuels Major Atoms split three of their most recent games against Milton and Flamborough Thursday night Star Fuels Ma Atoms hosted a much improv ed squad from Milton and escaped with a tie Michael Crawford opened the scoring for Georgetown halfway through the first period as his long shot from the blue line fooled the Milton Crawford has been a solid per former on defence for five years and this was his first goal in a couple of seasons Two minutes later he ed with David to send Steven Smith in alone on the right side Smith drilled a shot off the far post to give Georgetown a 2 Head Georgetown failed to score in the second period but just seconds into the final frame Smith scored to put Georgetown up 3 2 Assists went to Papadopoulos and Crawford Milton came right back to tie at three but when counted a short handed goal late in the period it looked like the winner Milton refused to quit though and they scored the final goal with just 54 seconds on the clock Saturday Georgetown to Milton for a rematch and came up flat for a defeat An drew scored Georgetown s only goal unassisted Sunday evening the boys were looking to break out of their slump with an evening contest in The team pumped in four unanswered goals in the opening frame and then cruised to an easy win Scott Herbert was solid in the net and recorded a shutout Brown opened the scor ing two minutes into the game unassisted Three minutes later Brown set up Beaven for the game second goal With just under two minutes left in the period Rick Clark and Beavan combined to send Smith in on the right side and he neatly tucked the puck between the netminder s pads Beavan then completed the scoring from Clark and Smith Minor Novice Georgetown loses 21 toStreetsville team By BEVERLEY BIGGS Herald Special Georgetown AA minor novices played Streetsville Jan 7 and lost a tough game 1 The game was scoreless until the third period Georgetown s Martin popped in the first goal early in the third period while Streetsville was busy tackling the rest of Georgetown s team With five minutes to go Streetsville tied up the score and with 22 seconds remaining squeezed in the winning goal Wednesday night the minor novices travelled to Burlington for a tie game Burlington scored and Georgetown t seem to get the game together with the home team scoring again early in the second period Georgetown came back and tied up the score with two goals Simon Saulnier got the first assisted by Ryan Inglis and Peter Veltman at 31 Corey Forbes got the other assisted by Ryan and Andrew at l The third period was also close ly played Justin scored a third goal assisted by Greg Bidwell but then Burlington tied up the score Thursday night s game In Milton was another tie game The first period was scoreless as was the middle period until the last second when Milton popped in their goal Georgetown got in their goal with six minutes remaining in the game credited to Ryan and assisted by Matt Walinga Next Saturday the Georgetown minor novices play their last regular season game against Stoney Creek In February the minor novices enter the playoffs Industrial Lea Curlin Fiddlers win 10th straight With consistent shot making throughout their roster the Fit AsA Fiddle foursome sponsored by Work That Body seems to be working its way to an unscalable lead in Industrial Curling play Their tenth straight victory on Jan at the North Halton rink was a decisive 151 shellacking of the place Boxers The Box under Dean were only able to capture one of the game s eight ends A showdown with the third place Hog Liners in their next contest should prove to be foretelling of the Fit As A Fiddle squad potential to hold their lead to the end of regular season action The Hot Liners tuned up for the showdown by winning handily over their Vanan confreres the Challengers by a margin the Mark Hyttinen rink built a lead after four ends of play and then coasted to the win over the game s second half The Dunlop Insurance Rocker team managed to hold on to se cond spot with a nail biting vie tory over Steve Foster Automatons The Rockers with Rob Crichton filling in for vaca honing Bert Osborne missed several opportunities to take con trol With the house set up on a number of occasions skip Barry could not close the door on the Foster team Missed shots by Dunlop andor great shots by Foster saw this seesaw game come down to last rocks But with the hammer in the eighth end Foster could not manage to eliminate both of the counting stones placed by Dunlop s front end As a result the Rockers squeaked a win Curling always seems to have th as players andor teams rise to an occasion one of the things that makes curling an interesting game to play and to watch And such a surprise oc in the Thursday game played between JAWS and Ken dale Hackers The place Hackers ed the surprises They stayed focused the game close and in fact had a single point lead after six ends of play against their fifth place rivals In the final end with the game tied at the Hackers s skip Ken Buck made two perfectly weighted in turn siots The crowd of spectators cheered as his last rock bumped the JAWS counter out leaving his squad counting two and realizing a sweet win Among other games the most noteworthy was that played bet ween La Guys and Swim The line was a six end 123 thrashing by the team and only the second setback suf fered by La Guys this season La Guys were missing their regular skip Tom Reed in this contest In others Brad Smith skipped his to a win a rare event thus far this season His prey was the cellar dwelling Dead Enders and the final tally was 7 3 Eight had a relatively easy time of it with The Sign Shoppe Sliders posting a final Lastly The Senators found their form after close play in early ends to down The Norval Boys by an count The schedule of match ups for excitement at the North Halton club on Jan is as follows At 6 p m Hog Liners vs Work That Body Fit Fiddle The Norval Boys vs JAWS Insurance Rockers vs The Sign Shoppe Sliders Bill Smith Auto vs La Guys At m The Senators vs Kendale Hackers Dead Enders vs Lopers Swimmers Challengers vs The Boxers The Automatons vs Eight Acton High School Athletes Acton senior girl s volleyball player Heather and midget boy s basketball player Devon Am were chosen as their school athletes of the week a member of the girl basketball team earlier this year continues to work hard for her school and is one of the leaders on the court Her effort was there Wednesday but was unable to prevent Redmen from losing 15 to Bishop Reding Ambrose according to coach Dave Boycott is one of the team s most dedicated players and the staff is hopeful he will return to 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