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SPORTS & LEISURE Anderson off to UNCG After representing Canada at three international tournaments this year as a member of the Junior National Team, Georgetown's Adam Anderson (left) gets a bit of a break from the baseball mound, while also having the peace of mind about where he'll be going to university next year. The 16-yearold left-handed pitcher helped the Canucks finish second at the recent World Junior Qualification Tournament in Cartagena, Colombia, earning Canada a berth in next year's IBAF World Junior Baseball Championship in Seoul, South Korea. A Grade 12 Christ the King student, Anderson also signed a National Letter of Intent and Scholarship with NCAA Division I school University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Photo by Adam Morissette 25 Independent & Free Press, Thursday, December 1, 2011 Rebels host Bermuda in b-ball home-and-home The senior boys' basketball Rebels from Georgetown District High School visited Bermuda for a tournament during the U.S. Thanksgiving and will continue the cultural exchange by hosting a team from the North Atlantic territory this weekend. For the second year in a row, the Rebels participated in the Bermuda Thanksgiving Classic, which featured some U.S. high school squads. Starting off with a 57-38 victory over the Bermuda National High School All-Stars, GDHS's seniors downed Florida's Boca Raton Christian 68-40 before falling to Northwood of Shreveport, Louisiana 56-34 to complete the preliminary round. Coach Steve Pettit's Rebels faced Northwood again in the championship game and held the lead into the third quarter, but ended up losing 71-65. Georgetown's Alex Garvey and Sebastian Beckett were named to the tournament allstar team. Bermuda's CedarBridge Academy has a team entered in this weekend's Tip-Off Classic at GDHS and will take on the host Rebels Friday at 2:30 p.m. Georgetown's Christ the King, Orangeville Westside, Richmond Hill, Aldershot, Brampton's Cardinal Leger and Peterborough are also in the tournament, with the final set for Saturday at 5:30 p.m. As well, the Rebels begin Halton Tier I league regular-season play today (Thursday) at Christ the King against the cross-town rival Jaguars beginning at 3:30 p.m. Bike father, bike son The father-son off-road motorcycling duo, Keith (in action right) and Kyle Bichard (below right) from Georgetown, both completed the 2011 World Enduro Canada season on the podium after their finishes at the Ontario CrossCountry Fall Series's finale at the Gopher Dunes track near London. Keith won the Vet Senior (45-54 yrs.) age group, while 13-year-old Kyle was second in the Mini Senior (12-14 yrs.) in the final standings. Keith also collected $100 for posting the fastest lap of the day. Submitted photos Albany 10th at Florida tourney Storm warning Chelsea Dixon (left) and Tarea Heshka of the Silver Creek Storm get set for a block during last week's North Halton elementary school volleyball Tier I girls' championship match against Milton's Hawthorne at Georgetown District High School. The Storm prevailed 25-21, 25-16 and moved on with Hawthorne to compete in tonight's (Thursday's) Halton championships at E.C. Drury in Milton, along with Tier I boys' North Halton finalist Stewarttown. Matches are scheduled to run from 4-9:15 p.m. Thursday at E.C. Drury. No Halton Hills teams qualified for the Halton championship tournament in the Tier II girls' or boys' divisions. Submitted photo Players from Ontario swept all of the division titles at the Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour's Boston Pizza National Championship held recently at the ChampionsGate Golf Club in Orlando, Fla., with Georgetown's Joel Albany placing 10th out of 24 competitors in the boys' 14-16 age group. Albany, 16, recorded rounds of 85-76 to earn the Day 2 Comeback Award, finishing 18 shots back of winner Keaton Jones of Kitchener. STAYING HOME THIS WEEKEND?... SHOP LOCAL SHOPLOCAL SHOP SMART... SHOP HALTON HILLS Shopping local saves you money. Out of town shops have done a good job of convincing us all that sole traders = expensive, but the evidence just isn't there to back this up . If you add in travel, parking costs, fees to transport larger items home and your time, the overall cost is often much higher. SHOP LOCAL, SHOP HALTON HILLS! YOUR LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER 905.873.0301