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B2 The Acton Free Press Wednesday Doc 13 1978 Playoff picture dark for Sabres as Cougars claw Beehives sting Acton Business Centre DECEMBER Acton Sabres chances of making the playoffs are slowly slipping away The early points the Sabres picked up this season have slowly dwindled away and Acton Is now back almost to the bottom of the league For the first time in more than a month the Sabres played two games in one week Burlington topped Acton for the first time in three tries as the Cougars skated to a win over the locals The next night the Sabres held a lead over the Dixie BeeHlvcs but their legs gave out and they fell Burlington opened the scoring of their Friday night match with the Sabres at of the first period as a mlscue left the Cougars alone in front of the net tied the score at the mark as Scott Team Burlington Oakviile Oak Ridges Onllia Brampton Thornhill Dixie Barne Acton Milton Georgetown SABRES STANDINGS 26 23 2 21 2 24 14 10 13 11 25 25 10 12 9 24 7 15 25 3 20 F A 181 144 111 136 128 28 127 28 104 106 118 23 124 141 19 16 16 84 8 GAP 27 68 32 23 33 25 44 21 20 21 41 Jeff Shields Acton Sabres has dropped to thirteenth in the overall sconng race with goals and 27 assists LAST WEEK Streetsville Ridges 5 5 Brampton Burlington Acton 3 Milton 6 Thornhjll 4 Dixie Acton Streetsville 6 Barne 3 Brampton Onllia 2 Thornhill 5 George town Onlha 6 Dixie Brampton 3 Burlington Milton 1 Name and Team Frank Carnevalle Mark Litton Burlington Burlington Bruce Onlha Campbell Streetsville Jim Streetsville BOWL for BOWL for Acton Bowling Lanes Mambar Mam St N Malcolm found the range from Kelly and Wade Vickcry The tie remained for only seconds with Cougars determined to stay on top The period ended with the Sabres trailing 1 In the second fltama the Sabres ran out of steam Burlington scored three goals in seven minutes before Acton got a marker from Kelly Malcolm and Bob assisted on the play After the period break the Sabres again held the Cougars even for the first half of the period We re not in shape said coach Fred Buchanan a junior hockey team needs more than two one hour practices a week The Cougars scored four times in the last half of the period compared to only Drew goal from Kelly Shaw and Jeff Shields for the Sabres Coach Buchanans com ment was in reference to the one hour the team gets to practice on Monday and Wednesday nights After the Sabres get finished with their loosening exercises and get set to practice there is no time for hard skating The Sabres compensated for this in the better weather with on hour of dry land raining and running before each practice Positional play helps Novices A good positional game by the Acton Alton Concrete Construction Novices lifted them to a 1 victory over Fergus in league play last week John Van Dam opened tin scoring for Acton in the first period before netted the Fergus in the second Goals by Frank from Ian Johnson and Greg Leather land unassisted in the third frame gave Acton the win Coach Dan McGilloway was pleased with the performance of his tenders and was vtry pleased with the per Not In shape It was evident the Sabres wcren in shape Saturday night as they hosted Dixie The Sabres led 2 after the first period but allowed the visitors six final frame goals Paul Henderson opened the scoring for Acton at from Kelly Shaw and Kelly MeArthur Jeff Shields scored a powerplay goal from Matt Lambert Dixie pulled to within one with their first of four power play goals Kelly Shaw netted one from Jeff Shields and Drew with a minute remaining in the period to give the Sabres a 3 l lead after the first game Acton picked only minutes in penalties in the game including a five minute fighting penalty to Glenn Murray It was one of the best fights I have seen In Junior hockey said referee Jim They must have stood toe to toe for over three minutes and when they tired the linesmen stepped in and they went straight to the penally box The only scoring of the second period was a Dixie powerplay 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