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The Acton Free Wedneiday February QueteA from world of by Denis Gibbon Possibility of a dead heat for Brat place In the South Central Junior hockey league loomed large as the league began Its final week of regular season play Sunday Hie Fergus Green Machine and Bradford assumed identical records alter the Machine whipped Siskins Sunday afternoon and Vaseys could manage only a tie on Schomberg Ice Both teams have two games to play Bradford travelled to Monday night and will wind up its schedule at home tonight Wednesday against Alllston Fergus visits the Acton community centre to take on the Sabres Friday night then returns home to play Sunday afternoon Race for third Equally Interesting la the race for third place which has developed between and With all Shelburno default points accounted for the two clubs began the week with points apiece hosted Bradford Monday night and will play In Sunday at before closing out Its schedule at homo against the Sabres Monday February Alllston on the other hand has only two tough road games remaining against the clubs battling it out for first place Hornets play In Bradford tonight three point lead aver Acton with only one game to play on home Ice against Sunday To rise to fifth place Sabres would have to boat Fergus here Friday and next Monday and hope for a Schomberg loss Sunday Meeting Sat Church has called a meeting in Saturday afternoon to playoff arrangements At present It looks like either Bradford or Fergus against or Stayner In a best of seven semi final Bradford or Fergus against In a boat of five quarterfinal and Alllston or against Acton Innbcstofflvequarter final The leagues seventh team disbanded last month RL Vikings scourge of cage loop against the disbanded Bluebirds washed out Sabres dropped a close exhibition decision to the University of Junior varsity team at the community Wednesday and In Fergus nn Frld The Sunday afternoon h Unless league convener Bill Church reverses his decision about awarding Cougars two points for a December date Sabres failed to keep becauso of adverse weather conditions the Acton club chances of beating Cougars out for fifth place seem slim With those two points and all default points Included Schomberg holds a practised Sunday and had Monday a regular practice night off Sabres will be at full strength for their final two league games except for winger Pete Morrison who Is still HI Friday night game against promises to be a real barnburner Green Machine coach Paul Cook vows his club will settle for nothing less than first place Niagara here for twin bill tonight A minor hockey at the community centre tonight Wednesday wifl kick off second round playoffs for two Acton teams Mens and midgets will host their counterparts from Nlagaraon the- Lake In the opening games of best of five series Peewee game starts at and the midget contest wfB follow Immediately The Niagara teams came out on top of BeamsviDe and Merritton In the Niagara district league Both Acton clubs swept their first round series against New Hamburg In straight games Following tonights twin bill the teams will return to Niagara Friday night Tor the second games In each set A coin toss prior to tonights opening games will decide the site of the third and fifth games If Acton wins the toss the series will return here Wednesday February 21 Survivor of each series advances to the OMHA quarter finals against one of Ave teams Aylroer Port Dover Delhi St Marys or Exeter Peewees advance in OMHA play llrdfrd All It a IBS 12S 112 HO Acton Men ad to the second round of the playoffs against Lake by bunking New Hamburg here Saturday afternoon Vs Men swept the best of five series straight games s Men scored once In each period and goalie Gary Medland backed up his teammates with a solid effort in the nets Scott Malcolm cashed in Dave McGUloway pass for the first goal at 10 of the opening period Jeff Shields netted his first goal with help from Malcolm and Wade Vickery to make It early in the second stanza Shields lit the lamp once again late in the third period to ice the Acton victory Malcolm and McGUloway drew assists on the play New Hamburg served nine of the games 15 minor penalties Poll Randy Randy Vn Fleet Shane With en Wade Vickery Charlie Kim Scott Malcolm Dave McGUloway George Brown Mitchell Bradford All Hon Bradford Bradford 10 J JV a Acton Bradford at no report Remaining Game la at Acton Sunday Feb IS at Monday Feb IS Point warded by INDUSTRIAL IFACUE S3 IB I 9119 17 I Blow Ken Auto Heller Remaining Sunday Feb IB va Unknown Ken Auto Blow va Heller SCORING RACF llllller Gibbons D Pap lion 3 TOP GA AVG Derek Hell mostly corn By Bob Mac Arthur Ontario has a new Briar contender the Scarboro rink skipped by Paul Savage Paul and his rink went nine games without a defeat in the Ontario at Orillia last week Ekfon of Ottawa and Ken of London former winners fell by the wayside as Savage swept to the title Here is a note from the Canadian Curling Association that applied to the Ontario as well Umpires are to be used at the Briar on the hog lines This is to enforce the rule that no curler or any part of his equipment may cross the hog line or the shot will be disallowed The The Sweetheart was held at the club last Saturday Ten teams took part in two 10 end games Here are the winners first place went to the team of Mick Holmes Ethel Holmes New and Mellon with points Second best team was that of Ted Tyler Val Drlnkwalter Stan and WesBeatty They earned 384 points Third place team with pourts in one game was the team of Tony Stapleton Mary Watson and Brian Robertson After the curling a pot luck supper was served Rebchedule burg clinic An O H A hockey coaching dime originally scheduled for the Hillsburgh arena Sunday January has been rescheduled for the burg Sunday February at 11 30 a m A in arrangements forced cancellation of the January 21 clime club Lucky winners In last week s club draw were Bloch T Perkins Oehlnch R Goodwin and Parker Neit Sunday the Colts will be at the local dub TOs la for the district Should see some good curling at this playdown beginning curlers started at the club last week They are from the Public School and are under the direction of the school principal VateattM spiel Today the ladies division are holding a Valentine Invitational There are a full quota of rinks signed for this popular spiel Saturday will see the annual Kiel at the local club The and Ridley Cartage anna are cosponsors of is the rule of the day when the Truckera is CHATELAINE LIGHTING 240 York Road Guelph Bright Ideas for all your Lighting Needs EXTENSIVE SELECTION OF HOUSE FIXTURES Tabta Lampi Door me Swag Vanity Cabinets Electric Heat Baseboard and Portable Central Vacuum Cleaning Systems Devices Fixture Parts etc Vent I tat on Hoods Fans etc FREE PARKING Thurs Tl9pm Sat am 5pm Robert Utile Vikings edged Burlington on a homo court lust week for the Acton school win without a loss In North Hal ton schools Vikings won four games and are unbeaten In four conference games Centra Matt who has scored over 33 per cent of the team points in their last three games topped scorers with 10 points against Irian added eight points Dan Webster netted nix and Hick Van Fleet two Strong games and Webster played particularly strong games in a 12 Robert Utile romp over arch rival M Bennett recently scored points and Webster contributed Other RL points In that game went to Brian Larson Hick Van Fleet Jim Matthews Paul and Scott Oakley two each and Delphln Itoach one Ford Alton led M Z Bennett sharpshooters with eight points Walter Kwlatkowskl and Warren counted two apiece Bomb Against Robert little scored a win with and hooping 14 points apiece BrookvUIe pays a return visit to the Viking gym tomorrow Thursday afternoon Coach John Kavanaugh feels his team Is capable of making a good showing In the upcoming County schools playoffs Robert 1 has already beaten Georgetown Centennial a senior school In tournament play this Novices reverse playoff tide After dropping the first two guinea of their zone playoff scries Acton series two games to one fourth gumo Is scheduled for the burg tomorrow Thursday with the super just when they were being elimination brink of Nlw Hamburg here afternoon tvn with three regulars out of Niw Hamburg leads the the lineup A came up with a New Hamburg bantams sideline REBOUNDING in the recent Robert Z Bennett game are Jim Matthews 45 of the Vikings and Ford Alton of the M Z Bennett team Vikings defeated their archrivals with the a strong performance by Matt Spehar Photo by J Jennings Firefighter bantams bowed out of OMHA playoff action losing 10 and to New Hamburg on the weekend New Hamburg won the opening game of the best of five series 30 Guy one of the smallest but most effective New Hamburg forwards scored with five minutes left to play here Saturday afternoon to break up an exciting goaltendcrs duel between Acton Robin Inscoe and Tom of New Hamburg Inscoe blocked close to 20 New Hamburg shots In the first period Earlier Legate and John McCutchcon had all failed to connect on excellent scoring opportunities Following first period goal by Peter Moir of New Hamburg Acton rebounded to scored twice in the second frame Todd Mdntyre netted the first goal on pass from Dave Brown Brown scored the winner with help from John Both goalies Andy of and David Martin of New Hamburg played exceptionally well New Hamburg won the game of the scries 10 on their home Thursday night Sunday night In New Hamburg managed to score the only Acton goaf of the entire series as Firefighters went down tothelr23rddefeatoftheseaaon Primarily a minor bantam club Firefighters lose only six of their IBplayers to overage this year They 11 now return to WaterlooWellington league playoff action Gary Me addon won the first prize in the Acton Sabres super puck draw Second prize went o Nelson Barber and third to Gory McEachern Lions fall behind in series New Hamburg juveniles have grabbed a two lead In their best of seven Juvenile playoff scries with Acton New Hamburg edged Acton 43 here last night Tuesday after winning the series opener on home Ice Thursday night must now win twice on New Hamburg Ice to take the series Lions held a lead heading Into the third period of last night game and still led with six minutes to play A pair of foolish penalties to Dave Lee and Bruce Co ok si led to lions downfall of New Hamburg scored the game winner while Lee was off and were forced to play short handed for the final two minutes Rip Acton High junior were swamped by Burling ton Robinson in an basketball game here last week Redmen fell behind at and were never in the gome after that Dave Galbraith led Redmen scorers with points Terry Davidson three Jeff Rlbble and Hick Baginski two each and Glen Lee and Rick one apiece of the gome after was nailed for hooking John Joclc Bob Pearson and Tim were the other New Hamburg marksmen Lion scorers Henry Toebes and Jim McNabb scored for Acton Gary Fisher earned a pair of assists Single helpers went to and Don Ken Hurren was the lone Acton in Thursday s series Third game Is scheduled for New Hamburg tomorrow Thursday night with the fourth back In Acton Tuesday February at Coach Ken Hcarns and manager Carl Timbers remain confident of victory in spite of the early set bucks OHA Junior D Hockey final scheduled home game ACTON SABRES vs FERGUS GREEN MACHINE league leading team AT THE ACTON ARENA Friday Feb 16 at 830 CANT FIND A GOOD USED CAR UNDER THEN YOU BEEN TILKING TO We have a bakers dozen of such units In stock Including 2 Ton Pickups from up AH units carry our GW month warranty CALL TODAY Andrew Murray Motors Limited Mountainview Road Georgetown Ontario Your Chev Oldi Dealer A new way to really get your mail moving four local Postal Code By now you probably received And if you haven t received your new Postal Code And mi Code by December the By now you probably received your new Postal Code Andjourmj have seen or heard telling in big cities how and 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