Halton Hills Newspapers

Halton Hills This Week (Georgetown, ON), 5 January 1994, p. 15

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HHTW 1994 opens with the Ed Paterson,, Sr. Memorial Tourney, Saturday, at the Georgetown Legion from 9 a.m. onwards. More than half of the available 64 places for doubles entries are already Players are due in from all over the province and some darts should be on view. of entry is $35 per double. ‘The vent is in aid of the Heart and Stroke Foundation and is a very worthy cause. Players and spectators alike are wel- come, as well as your dollars, so please support. In addition, this year there is an evening cas from 8 p.m. until 1 at $5 per person, with all proceeds of dance and darts to the Foundation. On Sunday at the George and Dragon is the second round of Darts Ontario quali- ing from 11 a.m. This is for mixed doubles (male and female) and singles. Local player, Paul Kirby, is the director for the day. Hopefully, there will be a few more out than in the first round. Points are at stake to the main rounds at the provincial and national championships. If nothing else, a good time may be had all. The Halton league closed down for a two week break and resumes next Monday. Legion Three leads Brackys Boys by four points, the gap Ed Paterson Sr. tournament welcomes 1994 three 180s to lead that catego- - perseet them having nar- Tow ‘ably in the last three ecke: This should ensure more than a little inter- est in the run in to.the finish. Lurking in the wings for any slip-ups are Legion Four, McGibbon and Charleys One. Leading the individual stats is Paul Kirby with 137 points. The nearest challenger is Pete Pickering with 123 points. Dave Nicholls is the only other player with more than 00 points, with 107. Bruce Hope, Neil Olmstead, Jeff Henderson, Mike Pepper, Dave Scutt, Kent Davis are the other in the leading nine places, tied for 10th are Erwin See and self - for the moment. Darlene Wheeler, Kim Smid and Diana Zawacki are the leading girls from 31st, 40th and 44th places. Paul Kirby and Tan McDonald both have Hurricanes lose heartbreaker One win, two losses and an exciting semi-final game was not enough to boost the Flux Cored AAA _ Halton Hurricanes to victory during the Milton Beaver Tournament held Dec. 26-30. The first game against a Barrie team ended in a 7-2 loss for the Hurricanes, who were lacking jump on the puck. Hurricane scorers were Todd Gilmore and Adam Kemp. Jason Russell provid- ed an assist. The second game, against Streetsville, was more suc- cessful for the Hurricanes. Todd Gilmore scored again, as did Andy Alarie. The Hurricanes played more aggressively during this game, but the strong: goal- tending of the Streetsville team kept their loss at a mar- ginal 2-1 for the Hurricanes. Todd Gilmore scored the only goal for the Hurricanes during the third game against Peterborough, assisted by Jason Russell and Danny Powers. The Peterborough team displayed st tronger skat- ing and scoring, and gained six goals. The Flux Cored crew showed its strength during the semi-final game against Barrie. The score was tied at 2-2 until one minute before the end. The Hurricanes pulled their goalie and put more pressure around the Barrie net. The plan did not work and a Barrie player was able to cut through the Hurricane defence and score the final goal. - Both goals in this game, scored by Todd Gilmore, warranted his curstanding player status at the end of tournament. ‘Wurvicane defence player Danny Syvert and goalie Ian Boiceau were ae named outstanding play- An end of an era: Greenwood Raceway hosted its final horse race on New Year’s Eve marking the end of an era in Canadian harness racing that included such champion horsemen as Keith Waples, Ron Feagan and equine ath- seis: like Niatross and Cam : ne 39 years, harness rac- ing has operated at Greenwood. The record attendance stands at a crowd of 18,389 who ‘saw Hambletonian winner Speedy Crown in 1972. The record for wagering stands at $3,024,630 on Boxing Day, 1988. The fastest hors- es to grace the 5/8’s mile oval were Odds Against and Staying Together, who clocked 1:50.4 miles. In 1991, Dave Wall guided Odds Against to his record in a leg of The Molson Export Pacing Series. This year, Hall of Famer Bill O'Donnell guided Staying Together to his impressive mile in the same event, enroute to his victory in The Canadian Pacing Derby, Canada’s oldest harness stakes event. The 1993 record books close with Doug Brown tak- ing leading driving honors in both wins and money, notch- ing 357 wins and driving horses to purse earnings in excess of $3,960,000. Bill Robinson once again dominated the trainers charts sending 182 winners post- ward and training horses to over $3 million in purse arnings. Friday’s 10 race matinee harness racing program attracted 7,281 fans who wagered $1, Steve Condren and pacer Kirk Henley will go down in the history books as the final winners at Greenwood. as they combined for a 1:58.1 victory in the $6,000 event. harness racing made programs on Saturdays and Sundays at-1 p.m. d ty. Brian Ward heads the high finishes with 155. Jeff Henderson has six high fin- ishes altogether the highest being 143. Legi Brackys Boys each have four players who have achieved the finish list. aca league Uae am 9 - Fires 0; icone 5 - Hustlers ay Gasketman Cutters 8 - Aces 1; Westenders 6 - Ensigns 3; Stecro 6- Independents 3; ian Pools 4; Bullsiters 9+ Bandits 0. Bandits were unable to put a side to the board and lost by default. Dream Team handed out a lesson in finishing to the available Firemen in their match. Hotshots were hot and out-hustled their more illustri- ous opponents. Gasketman luced form to trump Aces. Westenders lowered Ensigns’ flag on this occasion. Panthers just sunk the Pools and no more. There you have it! Panthers and Aces each had four players which enabled every set to go with the three player format. The “cats” purred their way to a three-set lead to open the match. Pools refused to be entirely dampened and won the 4th set. Panthers took the next two and Pools stomped ing three sets to make the. match a lot closer. Paul saa opened six sup- Ported by Al *s clos- ing three. Mike Pepper opened four and Chris Corbett opened three in oppo- sition. Henry Graham fin- ished 101, scored 125 and on i Sues scored 137 in the ie other matches, Dennis Thorogood and Todd Axford scored maximums. Ron Vallance scored 165 to lead the other high scoring. Shawn Warwick scored a 112 open, 140 high and 124 finish in the same set! Other 140s were Gord Bottoms, Bruce Hope and self. Stan Rhynold had the high close with 120. Ron Scarlett had opens of 108 and 102 tono avail. Good darting for all, except when in soe to me, of course, for 1994. 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