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Sports Recreation March 15 1978 103rd YearNo 37 Second Section Major atoms in finals Parisians beaten in 6 Acton major atoms beat a pesky Paris squad by a nose into the Ontario Minor Hockey Association OMHA zone finals here last night Tuesday A crowd numbering between to 300 spectators cheered when the Acton major atoms broke the deadlocked series with their 32 victory Mike Hudson netted the winning goal his second marker of the night when he rifled home a Tony Van Dam pass late In the third period From then on the Acton team did what was necessary to ward off what appeared to be a hex of ties over the series Tuesday nights encounter for the ParisActon teams was their sixth in what started as a best of five game series Paris and Acton went into the fifth game with two wins each Game- number five finished In a fourall draw even after each side scored in the overtime period That was on Saturday On Friday Acton blew Its chance to polish off the Parisians Paris evened the series at two games each by virtue of a 21 nipping of Acton Had Acton won it would have advanced earlier to the OMHA finals and still have taken part in the Centennial Tournament here Saturday and Sunday The minor atoms filled the senior teams skates for the tournament Tuesdays game demonstrated the evenness of the ActonParis series In the first period Acton scored then Paris In the second period Acton scored then Paris In the third period Acton scored then Paris NEVER scored Although Paris came close It up for Paris when he shot high Into the net In the second frame major atom captain Mike Hudson lobbed a shot which tumbled by the Paris goalie Hobby Miller replied for Paris less then four minutes later The Tony Van Dam pass was converted by Hudson Into a game clinching goal at the 321 mark of the final period If Paris forced overtime th boys may have had to go three extra periods Penalties cost no goals in the game The scoring of that fifth game at Paris went something like this Acton as usual opened when Bruce connected on a pass from Berry Acton also scored the last goal of the game the match when Tony Van Dam flicked on the red light by himself with some 32 seconds to play on the clock Mike Hudson was again responsible for two goals Berry and Van Dam joined farces to set up the first then Hudson pulled the trigger by himself Miller paced Paris with two goals while mates Philip McLeod and captain David sank single markers The series fourth game was also at Paris where the home team shaded Acton The sides entered the middle period in a scoreless draw Acton Inked the first goal of the game an unassisted Mike Hudson marker The Ontario Parisians put themselves on even terms with their visitors when Philip McLeod scored A tenminute overtime period looked like a sure thing but for Keith goal at the 24 second mark of the third period The major atoms head into a tuneup tournament at Port Colbome this week end Busy weekend ahead for basketball players Acton High school Is host ing the annual AllOntario basketball tournament March through to March IB The school has also been busy planning different social activities for the weekend of the tournament The first game of the tourn ament will start a am on Thursday A tournament banquet will be held In the school for the players and their coaches A semiformal dance is also planned by Student Association at the school for Thursday evening While the dance Is going on coaches will be attending a strategy session On Friday March the games will begin at am and continue until pm After the games the high school movie club wilt show the films The Harlem Globetrotters Highlights and The Other Side of the Mountain Lack of OT stalls min bant The opening game of the ActonHespeler minor bantam Wellington- Waterloo semifinals ended in a three- all draw because no overtime was booked for the rink Monday New Hamburg and are engaged In the other half of the series which leads up to the league championship Beaumont cops title Former Acton Sabre Brian Beaumont captured his third consecutive scoring title in the Georgetown Industrial Hockey League Mark Duval of Acton tied the same with an unassisted third period marker After wards the Acton forwards Just failed to put the puck Into the net Hespeler grabbed a 32 lead from Its second period rally Richard netted both Hespeller goalswithin a 13 second span Earlier in the middle frame Acton Captain Rob Vermulen regained a one goal lead for his side when he capitalized on a Jeff Gill pass Each side managed a goal in the first period Tim Evans tallied on a solo play for Acton Bob replied for The semifinals con solation and championship will be held on Saturday March At halftime of the consolation game the gymnastics club will en tertain spectators with a rihbon routine During the final game at halftime the Mini from will perform their basketball handling exhibition Coach Rick McArthur said the problem of billeting the town players had been taken care of by adults and students in town who have volunteered to take one or more basketball players in for the weekend Tickets for the basketball games are Money raised through ticket sales will go to cover ihe costs of officials souvenirs awards advertis ing printing and entertain ment About in donations was collected from local merchants and others to help defray Ihe cost of the tour nament Jake Kutken the owner of Hills Furniture has donated the use of the sign in front of his store to advertise the tournament Representing Acton high school in the tournament axe Dan Webster Mike McGregor Rick Van Fleet Mike Morris Martin John Brad Buchanan Don Coats and Gord Bruce Coaching the team Is Rick McArthur Acton girls sparkle in meet town gym Acton and district girls carried off five firsts from the second annual Hills Gymnastics meet at Acton High School Sunday Approximately 100 girls competed in the town recreation department meet A first place title is awarded on the basis of a girl accumulating the most points from the four events vault beam floor and uneven bars Barb Lamon won the Argo class while Robin finished right after her in second spot Craig took place In the Tyro and Novice grouping Smith copped first place Cheryl Greenly captured a second and Susan a fifth Lisa Mitchell finished on top of the Cadet class while Lynn Herman got the fifth In the Tinyn group Acton girls captured the top three positions Heather Ormsby took first Susan Craig second and Kerri Gudgeon third Fifth place went to Jennifer TINy GUDGEON of Acton bounces off Becky Armstrong headed the spring board into a waiting pile of thick foam class while Deanne as warmed up for the Halton Hills recreation Berrt came second Andrea department gymnastic meet Sunday in the high Gudgeon got the sixth place ACTON MINOR ATOM Brent Connor smothers the puck while Steve Wagner checks a Cooksville forward and teammate Gary MacEachern swoops in on the play Minor atoms replaced the major atoms In the tournament because the older team is involved in OMHA playoffs Sixteen teams competed in the 4th annual tourney ATW Lakers bid in industrial finals and Acton Terminal Warehouse ad vanced to the finals of the Acton Industrial League by edging their respective foes to the sidelines Sunday in the Community Centra nipped Blow Press 32 to take the best of three game semifinals in two consecutive games old likewise with its 54 puck tussle with Family Cleaners and start the best of threegames final round Sunday Bill Field netted the winning goal In the Press game Bob Jarrett and George picked up assists figured in all three goals He also assisted with Jerrett on John Ashleys first period then he banged one in or himself off a Ron Schmidt pass Lakevlew took a one to zip lead Into the middle frame but later had to rally for the win because Blow Press popped in a couple of markers while keeping guns spiked in the second period Gary Masters scored first goal from Ken Owen Owen then tallied on a E Hayter Mike McMahon took the first game of the series by a margin the week before Cleaners by Virtue of Bill Sunday Severinskis solo goal in downed Family Continued on Page Fitz leads novices to 101 Fergus win Sean Fitzgerald paced the Acton novice squad to a win at Fergus in the first game of the Wellington- Waterloo con- sola tionseries Saturday Fitzgerald battered the Fergus minder with three goals and helped set upa couple more Acton parlied a lead In the first period prior to Fergus Greg Selby goal which robbed goalie Doug of shutout Peter Cargill and John Van Dam each found the mark t- wice and assisted on two goals by their mates Paul trick also netted a goal and an assist while other Acton goals came off the sticks of David Haynes and Chris Rogers Mates Kirk McNabbandMlkeBaker earned assists The novices suffered two defeats in a row at the hands of to be pushed out of the championship series Elmlra which has a perfect league win record for the year blanked three game series The novices are showing steady improvement and lately come up with strong efforts according to team manager Dave McKnlght The novices are the most improved team in the group McKnight contends Acton team captures Elmira championship second place and the brother team of Bruce and Murray of Elmira got third place Stouffville cops top crown in Atom Centennial Tournament Two Acton men took first place In the North Waterloo Doubles Shuffleboard Championship held in on the weekend Geoff Denny and Tony Lambert both of the Dom inion Hotel team captured the first spot trophy and prize money Dave and Rich of Milton took Nine teams competed for the trophies from Milton Acton and The championship was sponsored by the Steddick Hotel AFTER A HARD FOUGHT game against Beamsville Stouffville atom hockey team emerged victorious winning the championship title in the tournament on the weekend Two goals in the last minute of play clinched the title The winning goal came at the four second mark Stouffville emerged as champion of the annual Centennial Atom Hockey Tournament Sunday Bradford took the consola tion round of the threeday tourney The tournament Is normally for major atom squads 10year olds How ever because of Ontario Minor Hockey Association playoffs and other difficulties some changes were made Instead of Acton using Its major atom team It went with the minor atoms nine- yearolds Waterloo sent Its minor A squad to take Miltons minor atoms place and the Milton house league selects took Leamingtons place Leamington was disqualified by the according to tourney organizer BUI Knight Orangeville iced Its house- league select team which was fresh from taking the 4- Town Tournament crown the previous weekend at George town made it to the consolation round against Bradford Acton major atoms were engaged with the OMHA semifinal playdowns against Paris when the atom tourney started Friday Ironically ft the majors lost they could have played In their own tournament Observers rated the major atoms chances as excellent to win the tour nament The Acton minor atoms appeared eager to take on the older However twice they discovered the margin between the age groups was five goals or more In its second game Satur day the minor atom squad found Itself again up against a major atom team this one from Etoblcoke won The first Acton goal came In the third period Kevin tallied with Brad and Steve Wagner assisting Demone later Inked a goal from Gary MacEachern and Wagner In the first game of Saturday Acton minor atoms against Cooksville Cooksville blanked Acton with five goals Minor atom team coach Dave said he was happy the team got the Ice time Its waiting to take on a yet unnamed foe in the championship round of WellingtonWaterloo play- downs Attendance during the sanctioned tourna ment is difficult to calculate however the gate was a bit better than last years ac cording to BUI Knight We were very pleased We had compliments about the tournament Knight said The Acton minor atoms who played against the senior teams include Mike Brent Connor Philip Wedge Kevin Randy Mclntyre Gary MacEachern Scott Stephen Campbell Mitchell Kevin Brad Demons Steve Wagner Mike Cunningham John Lloyd David Clint McMillan and Tom The coach Is Dave MacEachern assistant coach is Jim Warren and the manager is Jim Mitchell Results Orangeville Park 3 Waterloo Martlngrove l Acton Valley 4 Bradford Milton 1 Waterloo Warren Park Martlngrove Acton 7Cooksvffle Humber Valley 1 Bradford Burford ft Orangeville Martlngrove Warren Park Valley Beamsville Burford Consolation Bradford fl Championship 4BeamsvUle 3 GEOFF DENNY right and Tony Lambert took top spot in the North Waterloo Doubles Championship at Elmira last weekend