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This year's Halton Hills Minor Lacrosse Association Weekend of Champs for its house league teams was named after a longtime volunteer who conducted the official faceoff to get the action started last Friday at the Alcott Arena. Gord Lyons, who has coached many teams over the years and was instrumental in amalgamating the Georgetown and Acton associations into the HHMLA, is joined for the draw by Nolan Witter (left) and Colton D'Amico. Check our website over the next few days for results from the Weekend of Champs. Submitted photo Georgetown's John Elliott Theatre played host to the eighth-annual Halton Hills Sports Museum Hall of Fame's induction ceremony last week, with five names added to the honour roll in 2014. Pictured above (front, from left) are: David Kentner (builder), Kaitlyn Andrews (athlete). Top row: Dan Ralph (builder), Tim Murdock (athlete) and accepting for his vacationing brother Brian Hayward (athlete/builder) is his brother Bruce. Photo by Eamonn Maher 'Dogs face Gloucester After some more controversy about the Ontario Lacrosse Asso- ciation's tiebreaking formula, the Halton Hills Jr. B Bulldogs will have to make a long bus trip for the first round of playoffs for the third year in a row. Three East Conference teams -- Halton Hills, Oakville and Ak- wesasne -- finished the OJBLL regular season with 16-4 records the behind front-running Green Gaels of Clarington, forcing the league to revert to a tiebreaker to determine the first-round match- ups. The fourth-ranked Bulldogs must travel to the Ottawa area this weekend for the first two games of their best-of-5 matchup against the fifth-place Gloucester Griffins. The remaining games of the series will be played next week- end in Georgetown. 11-9 Glouces- ter defeated Halton Hills 12-9 on the opening night of the season with the Bulldogs putting out a depleted lineup. Coach Blaine McCauley's side has won 13 of its last 14 games. Hall of Fame's new inductees Getting Weekend of Champs underway