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and from tin world of sport By Denis Gibbons Watching Acton Legion bantams in action in Saturdays tournament I couldnt help but be reminded of that old that has plagued the Acton minor hockey scene for years Minor hockey in Acton is supervised by two separate organizations Acton Minor Hockey Association sponsors the towns five 0 M A entries while all house league hockey is under the jurisdiction of the Acton Legion Minor Hockey Association Both organizations are doing a reasonably good Job in their own right but theres an obvious lack of understanding between the two on some Important points 0 teams were established to give players with superior ability a more competitive brand of hockey than they can get in house leagues The purpose of house leagues is to provide recreation for those who either dont have the ability to play 0 hockey or for some reason or other prefer not to Theyre not Intended as a place for 0 HA calibre players to dominate play and fatten up their points totals at the expense of other innocent players with less ability Anyone who saw Saturdays tournament could see that the Legion bantam team had at least six players who have the ability to play 0 M HA hockey Of the 16 players on the team are second year bantams Pour of them have had previous O HA hockey in a younger age bracket The two teams they beat for the trophy were strictly house league calibre and made up of a mixture of first and second year bantams The paradox of the situation is that Actons 0 M HA bantam entry suffered through a year in which they won only one league game out of and were eliminated in straight games in the playoffs Only one of that teams 13 players had previously played 0 M H A bantam hockey One had played bantam house league hockey two had played nothing but house league hockey previously and the remainder were graduates of last years pee wee team playing their first year of bantam hockey Players should not necessarily be forced to play for the 0 team for the sole purpose of winning a provincial championship at all costs Neither should good calibre players be loaded onto a house league team just to win a trophy In a one day tournament Good competition should be the goal of all minor hockey executives Winning championships is nice but its not everything Players with superior ability who dont wish to play O M hockey should be asked to move up to the next age bracket in the house league where theyll be playing against boys of their own calibre and not depriving house league calibre players in their age bracket of the same competitive brand of hockey The tournament is a great thing if its used for the right purpose to give house league calibre players a chance to play against boys from other towns of the same calibre Acton Legion bantams were not entirely a house league calibre team It appears the problem never be solved until minor hockey In Acton is controlled by one governing body instead of two TnCounty and Legion have cooperated by holding Joint registrations the past two years but theres a lot of work to be done yet Theres plenty of fault on both sides its true The 0 M bantam team was kept from having a more competitive brand of TriCounty hockey than theyve been used to against triple A cities by lack of action by their own executive Something has to be done in Acton to make minor hockey competition more balanced If its not Acton can look forward to many more years of early elimination from playoffs a trophy every two years a real shellacking in the tournament in the off years and whats most frightening of all an increase In the rate of minor hockey dropouts The Acton Free Press Wednesday March Tanners will be back Wi Rock and Broom mostly corn Last Wednesday evening five teams from the local club visited the Erin club for a friendly game The Erin club were almost the perfect hosts They permitted the Acton mixed members to win four of the five After curling the visitors were treated to lunch Arrangements were made tor the men to visit the Acton club on April and a mixed membership to visit the local club on April 13 Most of the leagues wound up their schedule last week This week the playoffs started Monday evening with the mixed teams Hopefully most of the playoffs In the mixed leagues will be run off this week and winners declared The competitive league has another game to complete the schedule If you were on one of the teams that did not make the playoffs it might be interesting to Just sit behind the glass and watch how the top teams play Of course you can always win while skipping from the arm chairs but it Is quite different to go out there and throw the rock where the strip wants it And your weight has a lot to do with where the rock will eventually stop The ladies In the kitchen have had a busy few Saturdays lately And the meals they serve are top notch Have you turned In your stubs for the TV draw yet One of the teams will be liable for duty when all the results are tab ulated So better get the sales polished up and sell those tickets allotted to If you run out I m sure there are others available Here are the results of the various draws as tabulated by the bonspiel committee In case of tied points the ends count in the standing Mixed Mod a Mine Jordin 11 Robinson 13 T Tyler ACTON AB novice captain Scott Malcolm Novices edged Fort Erie in admires the trophy the team won in Port overtime to win the series championship Colborne Sunday along with assistant of the tournament Staff Photo captains Bert Post left and Wade Vickery U Fort Er bring home cup from Port Colborne After dropping their opening game to Lake 1 Acton novices bounced back to knock off Cayuga and Fort Erie and capture the series championship at the sixth annual Port novice hockey tournament on the weekend Dave McGtlloway scored at 15 of sudden death overtime to provide the margin of victory in the 32 championship win against Fort Erie an A team by standards Bruce McPhail tallied the first two Acton goals Rusty shines Outstanding netmindlng by Russell Lee helped the locals eliminate Cayuga in their semi final game which coach Barry described as a real nip and tuck battle all the way The teams were tied 33 the end of regulation tune Neither team was able to score In a minute overtime period but the locals Cayuga 10 OUR READERS WRITE Hockey bouquet Dear Sirs I would like to express sincere thanks to Messrs Harold coach Jan assistant coach and manager Steve of the Bantam Firefighter hockey team These men gave many hours towards the betterment of the boys and hockey The boys who remained with the team deserve a lot of credit although few in number and under great odds they never quit till the final whistle and sometimes after Acton should be proud of the men and boys who carried the double blue colors In County hockey action this past winter It would be a shot in the arm If the remaining teams not In the category could play in that series next season Special thanks to Denis Gibbons for covering the teams at home and away and reporting fairly I wish every success to the TriCounty organization and the hockey teams for next Signed A True Hockey Fan North York Hydro holds Acton spiel Monday J Buck mm G A Irwin S Dubois 11 B 10 If iMd J lo Drink II A Elltrbjr I New Cook I Anderson Tyler Sr I Moon M Blow V Patrick Men Competitive C Davidson W Jordan A 12 Moore I La diet Thursday Hurl Shirley Hunter II Tyler Patrick Hat Helen Ruth KaeKankto Hewitt Sorry no report for the Draw of the men High School is the school did dot play this past week Industrial league Ron Mellon N Jim Bard en L Dave Ryder Steve Town by Bob MacArthur Members of the North York Hydro Recreation Club curled at the Acton club Saturday They played two games starting after dinner and wound up early In the evening There were members curling and the rest of the teams were filled in by Acton members who were allotted to various teams that not have a full complement Ernie McKim a member of the Acton club was the means of getting the Acton club and the North York Club together He claims he only introduced the principals and left it up to the Dart league ends season The industrial dart league finished the season on March 16 with the soccer team in first place MikeDavisDave Dawson Kevin Lumbers Bill Gentles Earl and Grant Allen High start was Dell Page 126 high score Dave Dawson and high finish Kevin Lumbers 115 Playoffs On March playoffs were held with Superior Construction winning On the team are Julian Zajac Ted Jack Dryadale Les Trevail Jack Couture and Gil Malcolm Doubles went to Dave Dawson and Page Mick Davis won the singles members to arrange the Ernie has quite a few years service with the North York Hydro Ladies of Acton Curling Club served a supper in the evening to curlers Award Trophies and prizes were awarded the winners in the two event affair Trophy winning team was skipped by Keith Hood with Myrtle Hood Dave and Liz Beetle throwing the other rocks Second high was the team skipped by Allan of the local club with Peter Newman Sue Newman and Ken Ross as other members of the team Third prize winners had another skip from the local club Davidson Nick Robinson Isobel Robinson and John Wright made up the team Fourth top team was composed of Ken Scott Barry Scott J Webb and Miss Webb Each of the trophies and prizes were engraved with details of the event RENT A CASCADE 40 HOf WATER HEATER Just Per Month AT ACTON HYDRO ALICE STREET to earn the win Bert Post bagged two of the Acton goals and Scott Malcolm tallied the other Bruce McPhail scored from Scott Malcolm for the lone Acton goal In the opening game loss to Nlagaraonthe Lake Russell Lee and Gary shared duties for Acton Defence strong Strong defensive play by the line of Bert Post Dave McGilloway and Shane Withers and the defence brigade of Jeff Shields Tom Ryan Rick Gibson and Billy Manes played a large role in the Acton wins It was a good all round team effort The boys really started to click when they were playing for all the marbles Sunday after noon en The Port Colborne arena was packed for Sunday afternoons championship games Besides the Acton contingent that made the trip for the tournament the locals received solid fan support from Port rooters with whom the boys were billeted Friday and Saturday nights Port Colborne novices lost to in the A series championship game Receive trophies Team captain Scott Malcolm accepted the championship trophy and all Acton received miniature individual trophies following the final game During their weekend stay the Acton players were taken on a guided tour of a lake freighter taken swimming in the Port Col borne indoor pool and in the words of coach Inscoe were treated like kings Novices will wind up their with their annual father and son game at the community centre Sunday afternoon Team members include Russell Lee Gary Medland Billy Manes Tom Ryan Scott Malcolm Jeff Shields Rick Gibson Bruce Shane Withers Dave Bert Post Tom Rosenbersky Wade Vickery and Randy Van Fleet Larry Brown was unable to play because of illness Barry is team coach Gus Holmes is assistant coach and Don Van Fleet manager Acton Tanners definitely plan to ice an intermediate hockey team next season team president Jack Marshall told the Free Press this week Rumors circulating that Jets and Durham Huskies would play In another league next year and that Fergus Flyers would fold in favor of a Junior C team In the thistle town aroused speculation Tanners might be left with no league In which to play Preston may Join Mr Marshall mentioned the possibility of Lucan playing in the Southern Counties league next year and Preston this years Southern Counties playoff chomps switching to the Central H A league Chances are also good Hespeler Leg pla Dixie wins atom title Buffalo bantam champs edged Weston 21 Sunday night to wrap up the championship of the Legion House League atom division Dixie won the series two games to none with a game tied Rob broke up a 11 tie with his second goal of the night at of the third period Renshaw put Dixie In front on a from Murray McNobb at the six minute mark of the first period hut Brian tied the score with help from Gary Scoyne at of the second Paul Daley hat trick sparked Buffalo bantams to a win over in Monday nights bantam game Buffalo went undefeated in the round robin playoff series Ron Death Charlie McRae and Mike Ferguson netted the other goals Ferguson and Death collected two assists each while McRae Daley and Ken Withers notched one apiece Wade Knight scored both goals Assists went to Kevin Marcoux and Tim will return to the league next season he said has not Iced an Intermediate team since the season If Preston and do loin the Central group a compact five team league made up of Acton Elmira Cheltenham Preston and could still result Six teams Delhi has already applied to enter a team in the Southern Counties league If theyre ac cepted the southern league would then have six teams Aylmer Port Dover Slmcoe and Delhi Durham could Join one of two groups in their neck of the woods the Western Ontario Inter mediate C league or the Georgian Bay Intermediate A loop Preston a fourth place finisher the regular Southern Counties schedule ousted TlUsonburg and Suncoe in the playoffs face either Napanee or Little Britain in one provincial semi final Survivor of the Durham- Lucan set now 321 in favor of Durham will take on In the other semi final Hespeler midgets win first game Htspeler Legionnaires defeated Acton C A midgets in the first gome of a best of three series for the Midget A championship last night in Hespeler game of the series will by played at the community centre tomorrow Thursday night at Dale scored three of the four Acton goals Pete Morrison netted the other We didn play nearly as well as we can coach Jim James told the Free Press Although he refused to offer it as an ex erne for the team loss coach James was critical of the officiating Midgets advanced to the finals by whipping last 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