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Page4B THE HERALD Wednesday June Long haul begins towards Ontario Cup Alex Tough By ALEX TOUGH Herald Special This past weekend saw the beginning of the Ontario Cup and the long haul towards the finals in September follpwed by the Na Championships The Georgetown entry was expected by some including me to have a rough time in Niagara and had exactly that although the result was in our favour by 1 The lads hit the woodwork a few times and missed two penalty kicks and were the team by far Last season semi finalists Bramalea Thistle in old Partick Thistle red adn yellow by the way lost at home to Hamilton Sparta This was almost a travesty as Thistle had most of the play throughout with no goals to show for all the pressure and Sparta stole the winner on a breakaway Next Sunday Georgetown are away to Scarborough not an easy task Soccer is a game ac cording to the legendary Jimmy Greaves who played for Tottenham Chelsea and West Ham together with Atlanta He was also a star for Alf Ramsey s wingless wonders who won the world cup for England although not playing in the final game against West Ger many I stray CRSC United ladies lost heavily to Brampton Brampton lost to Georgetown laides or No United defeated the Georgetown by last Mon day Funny old game if After comes John Fitzgerald Who represented Canada some times in his career as a strong running midfielder Recently he tested twice for an legal substance and has been reported to the CSA The player has the right of appeal from the findings after a test in Quebec The player is automatically suspendall soccer activity until his case is heard by CSA The substance appears to be steroids of some nature It is a regretful development and the CSA wish to have it known that they are against the use of this kind of performance assistance Some 27 players have been tested in the past couple of years and this is the first find Hopefully this will be the last Periodically there is news of image damaging items In the past years we have had bribery scandals in England ly China and others We can do without it all The Ontario Soccer Association members in their wisdom have denoted the coaching develop ment system as its number one priority This decision was reach earlier this year at a meeting of district associations in to My personal opinion is that game officials or lack of is the real priority For a number of years there has been a fair number of new entrants who take the course pass and register However in the following term more than per cent drop out for many reasons The drop out rate is not the only problem on its own The resultant loss really means that the load on existing officials becomes tremendous Locally we have a very few qualified and ed officials and they are busy like most parts of the province We need all the help we can ob tain and ideas on how to recruit and how to retain Meteor and Mersey continue to lead the Inter County League with three wins apiece Meteor defeated fellow club players of United by the only goal of the game Mersey took a 1 result over Eagles defeated visiting Marlin by 1 with a was it or was it not a goal A shot from Marlin was heading and appeared to drop under the crossbar After discussion with the linesman the referee declared in favor of the defence Mariners earned on with their rejuvenation with three super goals to one over Ac ton Villa and now he third in the Absent Atom soccer players leave many girls redfaced The girls under Atom soccer players were short of substitute players this week as many team members had a busy week of school and extracurricular tivities It was hot playing the whole game and there were many red faces from the The May 28 game with Dutch Nurseries Blue Sharks versus White Team number five was a very tight game with a score of lO for Sharks Team number five started off well but Sharks were biting and Danielle Weese scored late in the second half to give the Blue Sharks the victory Laura Page Page and Mmdy Culbert played well for the Sharks while Erin Shill Lindsay Sproule and Sheena Weinbeck were thy for the Number fives Jen Apgar did a fine job referr ing this close game The Purple Municipal Trust players and the Red Tim Hor ton Donuts team rolled down to the final quarter before a goal was scored Charlene Roche scored with a hand ball penalty kick The ball went over the heads of the Purple team who were correct defensive posi tion Roche shot the second goal too for a final score of Also playing well for the Red team were Faith Malmosky and Tara Rafferty The Purple team had three players cited Angela Sykes Shanlyn and Leah The third game of the week also had a score of 20 this time in favor of the Green team who were playing the Yellow TV team Green Hornets shared goal scoring with Janine Taylor and Crystal O Reilly each kicking one into the Yellow net Rebecca Culp Karen and Bnanne Evers Jordan did a good job of challenging the Yellows Yellow players who hustled the Whole game were Joey Paula Gougeon and Julie Thompson Steph O Bnen blew the ref s whistle for the lat two games The close scores this week indicate some well balanced playing and organizing by the coaches and managers Georgetown Youth Soccer Burgundy Squirts run down Machines UNDER SIX SQUIRTS Burgundy Green Machines 1 Goal Scorers Burgundy Eric Euteneier Brady Malchin Green Jordan Armstrong Noteworthy Players Ryan Sinnaeve Ken Sippell Green Joel Hamilton Tristan Cook Young Pharmacy Goal Busters 1 Georgetown Wolves I Goal Scorers Young Other team scored on own net Wolves Jason Vantol Noteworthy Players Young Chris Mike John White Wolves Tyler Kelman Alex Matthew Cntchell Georgetown Wolves Armstrong Insurance Goal Scorers Wolves Jason Vantol Noteworthy Players Wolves Justin DeAth Scott Kinsmen Michael Armstrong Todd willson Todd Brock Anderson UNDER SEVEN MINI SQUIRTS Shadows Dutch Nurseries Green Hornets 2 Goal Scorers Silver Bryan Smith Green Mathew Fielding Allan Humberstone Noteworthy Players Silver Robert Whitman Matthew Lee Desmarais Green Jason Richardson Michael Cor David Bodig Barrie Communications Red Racoons l Goal Scorers Racoons James Patton Noteworthy Players Red Eric Thompson Wyman Byron Racoons Justin Bruce Michael Walsh Daniel Schultheiss Racoons Andrew Murray Bullets Results not provided by team managers UNDER FIGHT Red Rockets Burger King Bullets Goal Scorers Bullets goals by Timothy Mansfield Noteworthy Players Red Mathew Wellman Bradley Holmes Jon Booren Bullets Ryan Carter Lee Bannister James Partridge Team No TwoO Goal Scorers Craig Ashton Joe Mark Fantegross Noteworthy Players Nmjas Daniel Noah Malmosky Paul Team Two Allen Sykes Mat Richard Welsh BOYS UNDER Blue Bombers Terminal Warehouse Noteworthy Players Terminal John Boutasis Scott Thurlbeck Jonathan Apgar Green I mo Pizza Goal Scorers Green Michael Noonan Noteworthy Players Green Jason Hull Derek Mitchell s Adam Key Andre Lcfeb Michael Joga standings Stingers and Milton surprise in the second division with each having three wins credited Stingers defeated Celtic in Mississauga by and Milton defeated fellow Miltomans the Gunners by 32 Blazers handed down a five goal loss to Brampton Old Triangle defeated Laurentians 32 to round off the games This evening Wednesday at Meadowglen Meteor vs Merscyside the big one Alcott Eagles vs Manners Cedarvale vs McKenzie Acton vs Marlm Milton host Old Triangle at Thomson Road at 8 30 m Say I saw it in The Herald Soccer relay race Children of all ages participated in several activities including relay races during the Presbyterian Church All Day Picnic Saturday held in celebration of the church Anniversary Nor resident Chris Henderson 7 was one of several children who par tic pated in the soccer relay race Herald photo Three little steps to a happier pool Make your pool more fun less work and healthier to swim in with the Program ft s simple as 1 1 3 Sanitize with stabilized chlorine the longer lasting bacteria fighter 2 Shock with Burn Out or Burn Out to remove 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