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14 THE GEORGETOWN GEMINI WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1996. ' WE WANT YOUR TEAM REPORTS! DEADLINE IS SUNDAY NIGHT Meteors 1 v. Forest 0 Hockey = Raiders Soccer = men Raiders 4 v. Owen Sound 6 Lions 0 v Caledon 7 Hockey = Raiders Football - Flag Raiders 2 v. Newmarket 5 Sports men 32 v. Hawgs 19 Soccer = Men Football = Flag Bandits 26 v. Bighorns 1 PEE WEE CHAMPS! Consistent Cooling were the Gold Champions in the Pee Wee age group at the Georgetown Baseball Association Day of Champions last Saturday. Front row, from left: John McGuire, Kevin Peuker, Jason Vincente, Cory Hageman. Back row, from left: Frank Funk (coach), Kevin Dubreuil, Stephan Jaskulski, Greg Tales, Scott Allison, Mike Esteiriro, Neil Hageman (coach). Absent: Brent Beaumont, A.J. Ellison, Steve Warren. (photo submitted) Offending page removed from ref's manual BY ALEX TOUGH Special to The Gemini The Georgetown Soccer Club recently removed an offending page from their internal referee training manual and replaced it with a less offensive language alternative. The club had received protests from current coaches, parents, members and several prominent former and life members. At a recent meeting, within the club, it was agreed to remove offensive language inserts in the examples of reports. I understand that the replacement is somewhat amusing, which is better than the prior more explicit version. As one of those responsible for the original constitution, coaching and training manuals I was surprised by the changes, arriving at the' version presented to the younger aspiring officials. Hopefully that will solve the problem to evéryone's satisfac- tion. (And, yes, 'gold card' was involved in this matter, I believe.) The Inter-County League program concluded witha flour- ish last Wednesday. Meteor pulled off the first division championship with a narrow, hard fought, 1-0 decision over Forest. Nearest challengers, tied going into the night, Britan- nia, faltered with a 4-4 tie at Meadowvale and had a player ejected. Caledon finished in third-place after walloping Lions by 7-0. Caledon also lost six points by default for playing ineligible players in a couple of matches and still finished third. Eagles defeated troubled Merseyside by 4-3. Mersey temporarily escaped discipline, on a technical point, for another week. Forest and P.R.P.A. finished in the bottom two places and are relegated for next season. Mariners came through on the last day to pip United for the second division championship. Mariners defeated S.H.L. 4- 0 atacost ofinjuries and an ejection for retaliation to leap frog the leaders United. United managed a tie, 2-2, with visiting Harps who finished on a high note in third-place. Villa, tied S.M.T. 2-2 and closed in fourth-place. Raiders felled in exhibition games BY JAMIE HARRISON The Georgetown Gemini Despite starting out on the right foot and staying away from stupid penalties, the Georgetown Jr. A Raiders went down swinging inacou- ple of weekend games. Friday's tilt against Owen Sound started out as a defen- sive gem in the first period but soon after degenerated into a penalty filled debacle with five Owen Sound play- ers given the gate before 60 minutes had expired. After failing to convert on several opportunities in front of the Owen Soundnet, Raid- ers' Ryan Odette was able to lift a shot over the shoulder of Gray's goalkeep Ollie Lahtenen to put the Raiders on top. Sadly, it wasn't to last. In the second and third frames the Raiders' defensive play broke down, leaving wide open rebounds in front of the Raider goal which the Grays quickly took advantage of. Raider goalie leftthe game after the first game with a perfect record, handing the netminding duties over to Mike Fox, who was quickly rocked for four goals in the second period. Sean Robertson took to the pipes in the third, allowing two shots to best him. The game was filled with fights and cheap shots, re- sulting in:three game mis- conduct penalties for fight- ing, spearing and checking from behind. Saturday's match-up with Newmarket was a much tighter affair, though the end result didn't favour the Geor- getown squad, leaving them with a 5-2 deficit. For the second time in as many nights the Raiders opened the game playing a tight checking style of defense matching the New- market squad goal for goal until the late going. Saturday's game saw the return of Jonathan McCarthy, last year's brightest Raider light. McCarthy saw two first period power play goals slip past him, but kept his team in it. Robertson took over in the second stopping all the shots he faced. Andrew Craig was shelled for three in the third. Adrian Vienneau.scored the first Raiders marker late in the second stanza while Dave Lageusse potted the second marker to tie the game at two, before Newmarket's relentless attack finally be- came too much for the visi- tors, ending with a 5-2 going to Newmarket. Sunday night action in Owen Sound saw hostilities renewed between the Raid- ers and their hosts. The resulting brawl(s) re- sulted in several ejections and the Raiders having to spend nine minutes short-handed. The end result was and 8- 4 loss to the Grays. Head coach and GM Rick Bince was upset at the loss, but took it in stride. "You have to remember that we have a young club losing games, not on a lack of effort but on a lack of know!- edge of howto play the game. These guys aren't 18 or 19- years-old, these guys are still learning." "Home of the Park Plan!" 2% |)\(1N-VERCURY 877-2261