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Page 16 the HERALD Sports Wednesday December Local gymnast takes sixth at first qualifying meet three qualifying meets for the provincial championships in the spring Ashley Johnson Soria Tracy Ainslee Emerson and Knsta Meads com in the PreArgo category and captured the team champion ship Jennifer Robertson was not able to compete due to illness Ashley Johnson emerged as the top local gymnast with a first in bars 19 35 and a third in floor 20 These scores combined with her scores in vault and beam gave her a sixth place showing overall Daniela Soria had a se cond place showing in bars 30 Other excellent scores were achieved by Trac in bars and in bars and floor 90 and in bars Kristin Boyle competed in the B category Kristin ed a third place medal in the vault with a score of 8 This combined with her scores in beam bars and floor gave her an eleventh place showing overall Each of the gymnasts trains hours a week under the coaching of Paula Geniole They will now be preparing for their second meet in February Senior mens basketball rebs lose home opener Hurricane Peewees reach semis in Buffalo tourney gymnast Ashley Johnson represented Halton Hills well during first qualifying meet in Burlington taking sixth place overall finish Six Halton Hills Gymnasts competed in Burlington on December 1st their first of The Leaver Hurricane won three straight games in the popular Buffalo Tournament to reach the semifinals with the Mississaufja Reps Amherst and Barrie teams Due to the luck of the draw their first two games were against league rivals On November 29 the Hurricanes played their first game against the Oakville Rangers Halton scored first on a pretty goal by Todd Miller Justin Davis minutes later finished off a Peter pass to make it 20 closed off the period on a hard wrist shot from a Jon Alley rebound to gve Halton a 30 lead The Hurricanes took an even greater lead when Davis made it 10 Jamie Walker with a minute left in the second took passes from Miller and Darin scooted behind the net and deposited a wraparound On a power play with his second whacked in a rebound from Davis and Curtis Carr to take an insurmountable 60 edge before Oakville scored its only goal Halton kept up the pressure however and defenceman Richard Trotter fired a blistering slap shot from Carr which clanged off the post to close offa7lvictory In the afternoon Halton played regular Brampton and won a hard fought contest Justin Davis scored on a solo effort minutes into the game to give Halton the lead A minute later Todd Miller stole the puck from a Brampton and flip ped it over the net minder s shoulder to go up Brampton scored seconds later Davis with his second from and gave Halton a lead early in the second period Davis completed his hat trick later in the period to give Hurricanes a A 1 lead Steven Roy flicked a neat pass from Garry into the net near the end of the period to make it 1 Brampton scored goals in the third to tighten the score but to no avail Saturday game against the New York State champion Buf falo was one of the most exciting games of the year The had to win it since a tie was insufficient on a points foragainst basis In the first two periods the outplayed the locals scored two goals and held the lead until five minutes in the game before the Hurricanes came storming back Doug Jan took a pass from and Roy skated across the goal mouth and whipped a wrist shot under the goalie A mere seconds later one handed a Miller rebound past a sprawling Regal goalie to tie up the game The crowd went wild in the last minute as the Regals pulled their goalie and hammered pucks at an unbeatable Jeff Langille An empty net goal by Davis with seconds remaining put the Hur into the semifinal The Sunday semifinal game was as the eventual tournament winners the Reps beat the Hur 30 to advance to the championship final Two of their goals were scored on power plays Overall it was an ex performance for the year old Peewees as they added more lustre to the Halton Hur reputation Say it lit Tile REBEL REPORT By STEVEN The Herald Despite a strong effort during their home opener last Wednesday the senior men s basketball Rebels were overpowered and outgunned by the Oakville Trafalgar Red Devils If Georgetown plans to avenge their defeat the next time the two squads meet on the court they will have to do two things one shut down offensive star Andy Rober and two know where Red Devil playmaker Ryan Taylor is at all times Oakville Trafalgar took the early lead in last Wednesday s games with some strong offensive passing particularly by Ryan Taylor The Red Devils were par ticularly effective with their rebounds The Rebels seem to make their way into the key in the first quarter Georgetown came back in the second quarter with some sue cessful dnves to the net but during shots inside the key weren t able to capitalize on their offensive reboua ds the way O T was The score at the half was for the Red Devils Oakville Trafalgar kept up their strong offence in the second half led by Andy Robertson who scored 25 points in the game The Rebels were more intense in the second half breaking up Red Devil dnves to the net and coming out on top during several fights for posession However the Red Devils pulled ahead in the fourth quarter with three by Robertson and great passing by Taylor Georgetown was simply unable to mount any type of comeback and took the loss High scorers for the Rebels were John Cruise with 22 points Adam Poyntz points and netting points was John J Icklng The Rebels next game is tomorrow Thursday at St Thomas Aquinas and their next home game is Dec vs White Oaks A day at the rink Georgetown hockey youths Joshua Hunt left and Travis cheer on their big brother Jason and Ryan during the older brothers Novice game Saturday Both are members of Kin No 5 Despite a strong effort the team was edged out 3 by Team Right picture Select player Matt Tales gets help with his skates from father Dave Tales before the team contest 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