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THE HILLS HERALD TOE WEEKEND OUTLOOK Mirth I OK CORPORATE AUTOMOTIVE IWX TKAF A MAPU AVI Fm Maintenance Sptcloliito Tuns- up Special Pickup Delivery Towing FAST Sports and I Recreation ROB RISK Herald Sports Editor 8772201 Athletes Bruins Eliminated Focus on Fitness Acton lanes Sports Calendar 22 Sabres beat Cougars to advance to finals By ROBERT RISK Herald Sports Editor Acton Sabres brought the bouse down Wednesday night by defeating Schomberg 65 in dou ble overtime on their home ice Wednesday night advancing them to the MidOntario finals against Crushers Sabres had given their sup porters a scare late in the game allowing Cougars to score two third period goals to tie it 55 after Acton seemed to have the match wrapped up at the end of two John Van Dam had the biggest night for Sabres scoring twice and assisting on two others in cluding the game winner Van Dam opened the scoring at 6 57 of the first on a set up from Keith Kerf and Mark Tun McDonald increased the lead for Sabres five minutes later with a long outside the blueltne that skimmed the ice and managed to beat the Acton Sabres players celebrate their 65 double overtime victory over Schomberg by piling on top of Mike McEIroy who scored the semi final series winning goal at Acton Arena Wednesday night Sabres play Orangeville tonight In game one of the MidOntario playoff finals Herald photo by Robert Risk Actons scoring came to a tem porary halt at the beginning of the second period when the team was trying to kill some penalties Scoring 39 seconds after the f Schomberg then tied It up 2 at when Sabres were two men Sabres went up 32 when Adam Hilts took a pass from Jesse Nadon and deked out a to go in alone on the Cougar goalie beating him with a wrist shot Actons lead was shortlived as Cougars scored seconds later by stripping an Acton defender of the puck and converting on the breakaway chance Jason Lucas relit the spark for Sabres at 38 moving from centre ice and getting around a Schomberg defenceman to feed Van Dam who backhanded it in for a lead Van Dam returned the favor three minutes later when be went digging in the corner and passed to LucaB in front of the net The Sabre assistant captain had all day to decide where to put the puck giving his team a lead to end the second period Needing a win to return home Thursday for game seven Schomberg refused to give up scoring at 38 of the third frame With just over five minutes re maining a Schomberg forward split Acton defence to score the equalizer eventually forcing overtime Mike McEIroy played the hero for Acton teeing up a pass that Van Dam had slid to him from the left point McElroys slapshot beat Cougars goalie on the stick side at 8 of the second over time period Sabres play at Orangeville tonight at 8 30 p with game two at Acton Arena on Sunday at 1 pm Hockey Heritage Council to honor Gerry Perkins Gerry Perkins one of the founders of the Georgetown Referees Association is the guest of honor at the Georgetown Hockey Heritage Council Award Dinner on Monday night at the it Holy Cross Auditorium Over 300 tickets were sold for the event which also features many special guests such as Hockey Night in Canadas Ron Maclean who is the evenings master of ceremonies Other guests include Bryan Lewis director of NHL of ficlating Georgetown native Adam Bennett now playing for Sudbury Wolves of the OHL and several former Toronto Maple Leafs such as Syd Smith Harry Watson and Peter Conacher Hills Herald publisher Bob Malcolmson will be continu ing the newspapers annual presentation of a picture portrait to Perkins during the course of the evening Georgetown Bantam tournament Organization of Georgetowns Suit annual Bantam Tournament which runs from March is almost completed So far of the 32 teams have indicated they will be taking part The four vacancies will be filled this weekend after the quarter finals of the Ontario Minor Hockey Association have been completed One team from the United States Buffalo area will be tak ing part along with groups from as far away as North Bay pean and Glouchester Several teams from the area will also be playing such as Halton Hur ricanes and Acton Sabres The first game is scheduled to begin at 8 a m on March 9 with the playoffs beginning March 15 at 10 30 a m All games are at Arena Georgetown and Acton face each other at 8 on March Rebel scramble Georgetown District High School Rebel senior volleyball players Cave 12 dives to come up with a save during the Halton cham pkmship game al as Sarah 6 and Natalie Goldson wait nearby Rebel seniors defeated Bishop Reding on Tuesday to take the title Rebel junior team defeated Lord Elgin In four sets to win the junior championship on Tuesday Herald photo by Robert Risk SPORT SHORTS 10000 event at Acton rink Over in prize money will be up for grabs at the Pro vincial Major League Curling Championships being held at Acton and Miltons curling rinks March 13 Twentyeight curling leagues from across Ontario will be represented at the tournament with two of them being from Pat Arbuthnot Glen CbriBtie Brian Scott and Mark Wilcox form Halton H M In surance Major Curling League A team Gary Campbell Gamer Hugh Murphy and Don Powell comprise the Halton team Teams from Southern On tario will play four games against Northern Ontario op ponents beginning March 1 with playoffs March 2 starting at at Acton Arena Canada Games Three local athletes have helped the Ontario team stay close to Quebec in the race for top provincial team at the Canada Winter Games in Prince Edward Island Georgetown resident Angela Stiles 12 one of the youngest competitors at the games helped her artistic gymnastics team win the gold medal for overall performance on Tuea day She also competed in in dividual events on Thursday but results were unavailable at press time Cara Kato a Glen Williams resident won a silver medal in Judos 56 kilogram class on Feb 18 Terra Cotta fencer Traeey placed second in womens on Feb and seventh on Feb 20 Coachs Night The Georgetown Minor Hockey Association is holdings its annual coach appreciation dance March 23 at Holy Cross Auditorium The dance will begin at p and continue until 100 am Cost is per person Tickets are available from any team manager GMHA executive Bridge Club Georgetowns Duplicate Bridge Clubs winners this week were 1 Cora and Mike 2 Tied for second were Harry Arbic and Jack Kaarsemaker with Pat and George Farrow 3 Karol Tobiasz and Rene march Skating cancelled Public skating at the Acton Arena on Sunday has been cancelled due to the Sabres playoff game Sabres defeated Schomberg Wednes day night advancing the team to the MidOntario final series against Orangeville Acton plays game one tonight Friday at Orangeville with game two Sunday in Acton at 30 p forcing the cancella tion of public skating