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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1998 THE NEW TANNER Lumber, Hardware, SILT Pain Sports 264 Main St. N. 519-853-1970 Acton, Ontario _ Tor. Line: 416-601-1259 L7J 1W9 Fax: 519-853-2542 WE WANT YOUR TEAM REPORTS! DEADLINE IS MONDAY, 5 PM. Professional design | 4 as and printing. 5 Tel.-(519) 853-5615 Fax. (519) 853-5731 a | \ 56 Mill St. East, Acton igi TY Nothing got past goalie Thomas Harding in A & S Engraving's 3-0 blank- ing of J.T. Young Power Contractor's in Tyke House League playoff action on Sat- urday at Acton. A & S goals were netted by Jessy Kuenzig who scored twice and Tyler Bandy who had a single. Assists went to Dylan Creasey and Brandon Masini. A & S is in third place in playoff action, J.T. Young is fourth and last. RK Tyke points leader Stephen Bennett con- tinued his hot streak, scoring four goals to power first place Best Transfer to a 9-5 win over Acton Auto Tech. Third place points holder David Carscadden had a hat trick while teammate Taylor McNabb had a single. Patrick O'Connell, Brandon Bennett and Michael McKeon each had two assists for Best and single assists went to Gordon McKeon, Evan Colvin, Lucas Fraser, Shane Carr and Aaron Hnatin. Second place in points, Riley McGilloway had a hat trick and an assist for Acton Auto Tech, second place in playoff action, while teammates David Wingman, Dayid Gardener and Tyler Kruk each had single assists. NOVICE Both House League leaders MacKenzie Chapman and MacMillan's Frozen Foods had wins in playoff action on Saturday. Points leader Jeremy Stevens could do no wrong, scoring eight goals to power Mac- kenzie Chapman to a 10-4 win over M & M Pro Sports. Timothy Tysoe had a single and two assists while David Moore scored once and had an assist. Matt Pettipher, Anthony Goueia, Ellis Patrick and Marcel Vanhelden each had two assists for Mackenzie Chapman. Michael Kellas had a hat trick for M & M while teammate Liam Heelis had a sin- gle. Assists went to Ian McLean and Joshua Essiembre with 2 each, Conner Carr and Brendan Schatti. Ett Kevin Deforest had deadly aim, scor- ing five goals in MacMillian's Frozen Food's 8-3 win over Legion Branch 197 on Saturday. Dylan McPhail found the net twice and had an assist and Trent Copeland hada single to round out MacMillan's scor- ing. Assists went to James Wilkinson with 4, Adrian Schroeder with 2, Clark Murray, Anthony Luna and Clark Buchanan Legion goals were scored by Steven O'Donnel, Matt Diegel and Matt Jones with assists to Joshua Ceccotti and David Garvie. RK The Novice Select team started slow and was down two goals but rallied for a 3-2 win over Hamilton Coronations in Hamil- ton last Thursday. Michael Kellas, Josh 'SS e e Harding earn KE ie S tyke shutout Essiembre and Matt Jones all scored for Acton while teammate Timothy Tysoe had two assists and Dylan McPhail had a sin- gle assist. ATOM First place R & M Construction doubled last place Georgetown Chrysler 4-2 on Sat- urday. League points leader Mike Kuipery had a hat trick for R & M with help from Elliott Shrive, who also scored and Rich- ard Island. Jimmy Berry also had an as- sist. Denis Hunak and Neil Armstrong scored Georgetown Chrysler's goals. ie Fifth place Nellis Construction blanked Halton Powerline 5-zip in the first game of Atom playoff action on Saturday. Luke Harris gets the shutout for Nellis while teammates Joel Graydon and Bradley Durocher each scored and Trent Toeletzka had a single and an assist. Nellis' Kyle Toeletzka and Powerline's Andrew Friolet each spent two minutes in the penalty box for roughing. Power Line ended the regular season in second place in goals scored with a 3-2 win over fourth-place finisher Allostra Cater- ing. Goals from Matthew Sebastian, Brandon Ceccotti and Kyle Murray helped Allostra to a 3-2 win over The Graphic Shoppe in Atom playoff action at Acton on' Saturday. Allostra's Joshua Stevens had an assist. Ryan Gatner and Jay Lalonde had Graphic Shoppe's goals with help from Ryan Stroud and Daniel McLeod. PEEWEE Regular season champs Daniel Varanelli edged Georgetown Apple Auto Glass to a 3-2 win on Saturday, Blaine Murray found the net twice for Varanelli while teammate Mike Chapman had a single and assists went to Jacob Kentner and Dylan Jacobs. Mike Vanderhoek had a goal and an assist while teammate Matt Gardener scored once for Apple Auto Glass with as- sists from Lance Morin and Dan Payne. Auto Glass's Dennis Theriault played an outstanding game in net against the regular season champs. aK A 2-2 tie between Acton Terminal Ware- house and Acton Precast Concrete turned into a battle of the goalies on Saturday. Brent Chapman made a great glove save late in the game to hold onto the tie. Nick Mastro and Tyler Chapman scored for Precast with help from Adam Mills and Jeff Thompson. Shane Drexler and ow Zamernik scored ATW's goals with help from Tyler Veness and Adam Horvath. BANTAM/MIDGET Frank's Bunch ended the regular sea- son in first place with a 4-3 win over third place Galvcast on Saturday. Ryan See FRASER, page 12) Olympic curlers in town By MAGGIE PETRUSHEVSKY The New Tanner ympic silver medallist Mike Harris will be among the curlers on 32 teams par- ticipating in the 23" Annual Major League Curling Championship this weekend in Acton. Games will run at the Acton, North Halton and Milton Curling Clubs from Feb. 27 to March 1. The fi- nals are set for 1:30 p.m. Sunday in Acton with a $5,000 prize for the first place team. Harris, who will be play- ing his first game since re- turning from the Olympics in Nagano, Japan, skipped the winning rink in the 1996 championship and promised to return long before he be- came a celebrity, said Ken Armstrong, secretary-treas- urer of the Association for Competitive Curlers. He plays at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Friday at.the Acton club, The competition used to be hosted by various clubs around the province, Anderson said, but distance sometimes proved a problem. "When we held it in out- lying places teams often found it was too far to travel. Acton is a good central loca- tion and has good ice. They also have a great host com- mittee," he joked, Acton has hosted the event for four years with Georgetown and Milton joining to provide extra ice. Fred Archibald, a 25-year veteran of the sport, will skip the local team against two- time world champion Ed Werenich's team at 12:30 and 5:30 p.m. Friday in the Acton Curling Rink. Neo a Archibald is receiving his share of good-natured jibes over the challenge but he isn't revealing the strate: planned against his high- powered competition. "I'm just going to beat him," he said. The public is welcome to come and see the action, Anderson said. CURLING HERO: Vice-skip Peter Vidler , left, and Skip Fred Archibald get a few practice shots in before tackling the team lead by two-time World Champion Ed Werenich at the Acton Curling Club this week- end. - Maggie Petrushevsky photo Ice stock teams train in Acton By FRANCES NIBLOCK The New Tanner A game that looked like a highbred cross of curling, lacrosse, shuffle board and bocce ball drew a curious crowd of spectators to the lei- sure rink at Acton arena on Saturday. What they were watching was the Men and Women's Canadian Ice Stock Sliding teams tuning up for the world Ice Stock Championships in Austria beginning March 3. The national teams have been training in Acton for the past month. Once a rich man's sport in the Alps, first recorded in 1 LANE - 1 HOUR - MAX. 6 PEOPLE - $15.00 SHOE RENTAL INCLUDED - TAXES EXTRA SUNDAYS 3:00 P.M. TO 6:00 P.M. CALL (519) 853-0470 FOR RESERVATION the 12th century, ice stock sliding was an Olympic event before WW II and it will be re-instated as an official Ol- ympic event after the 2002 Salt Lake City games. Ice stocks have a wooden base with a tall, thin handle. Like bowling or curling, ice stock players aim the ice stocks at a target at the far end of a sheet of ice, slightly smaller than a curling rink. The local connection with the national teams is the Pfahler family of Limehouse. Dad Gerhard Pfahler plays on t he Men's team and coaches the Women's team, which includes his wife Uschi and daughters Karin Scicluna and Irene Pfahler. "Our chances are really good this year," Gerhard Pfahler predicted in an inter- view on Sunday. . "The Women's team is th best we've ever had and all it would take would be one upset for them to win a medal." The other members of the national teams are from the south-central Ontario area and many, like coach Pfahler grew up ice stock sliding on the frozen rivers and lakes of the Alps. Canada has sent Men's and Women's teams to the world championships for five years.