Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), October 22, 1980, p. 13

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sports and recreation One Hundred a id Stxtl Year N Wednesday October Scco i One Hundred a id Year Wednesday October 22 1980 Sabres confidence gives them victory by Diana Wall man The mist rolled off Fairy Lake Friday night and shrouded the ice in the Com munity Centre The Junior B Sabres and Thunderblrds were searching or the puck lost somewhere in the fog Eventually it turned up eight times to be exact In the Thunderbird net The Sab res had pulled off an other victory this time felling Thornhill That their first victory on home ice and their third this year Sabre fans more than of them came out satisfied Soundcdgreat what did they look like The difference in temperature inside and out caused a fog that rivalled London England Sabres left their opponent In the Tog Friday night The heavy dew was thick Sabres could practically cut It with a hockey It helped conceal Ihe Sabres secret weapon confidence Since their first victory less than two weeks ago the Sabres exude the stuff and it shows in their attack Once again they Thomhlll and outplayed them long en to hang on for the win The fog also concealed secret weapon number two- Murray and Relf Centreman Barry Trood and right winger Glen Murray led the attack with three goals and one assist each Ken the other also collected a couple of assists on Murray goals Behind them stood the stalwart defence of goal tender Wayne McDougall Sabres and come out of the first period an even 3 Acton had them by only one Trood picked up two of his goals the first one to give the Sabres a lead at OS Mark Duval and Murray aiding the second an unassisted shorlhandcd goal to make it 1 by Murray potted the first of his three goals a marker that put the Sabres ahead at 37 and Duval earned the assists But the Thunderblrds tied it up with only two minutes remaining in the frame After facing one shot In the second stanza coach Rob Browning led his goal tender Randy Lolfer and sub stituted Tonk Inhat It dldn work The Sabres jumPed into a lead Rob Vermuelen connected on the fourth goal while Rick Buchan was sitting out an elbow penalty Newcomer Paul Stork and Denis Klrton pocketed the assist Stark then netted one of his own at 13 with Kirton and Denis Carboneau earning aids Murray added the sixth goal with Trood assisting With only 14 seconds left in the period the started their comeback Steve Paul connected on a pass from Rick Thornhill came close to tying it in the third period had executed a perfect after he went in alone on on end to end rush at of Ihe third period Bearing the seventh Sabre goal But two Thunderbird goals by Steve Tschlpper at 10 and Rob Humphries with only a few minutes remaining put within one of tying the game elected to go with the extra but Sabres capitalized on the play puck to Murray who took a swipe at It and put It in the empty Thunderbird net clinching the game for Ihe Sabres with only seconds left As the final buzzer went some players started mixing with the crowd be hind the visitor bench but nothing serious The Sabres who 10Bln the third period served six minor penalties and a the minute high sticking infraction compared to who played minutes Two Sabres not in uniform Friday were Pat Fung and Roy Dollman who were both suspended after last Sunday match against Georgetown They 11 miss this day gameagainst the Strcetaville Derby as well The Georgetown Independent published a letter last week from an Acton hockey fan who attended the Sabres Gem match Oct 12 The fan too Impressed with con duct on the ice or in the stands This week the Independent is publishing a reply from the Board of Directors of the Gemini They say they are not responsible for adult conduct in the stands and the referee has control over conduct on the ice Opps I goofed 1 wrote In last week issue the Sabres were meeting Streelsville on Friday They were actually meeting Thornhill which is nowhere near Street This week they re meeting Streets Honest Game tie is p m The music you ear when the Acton Sabres step on the Ice or score a goal is Russian composer Tchaikovsky s Sabre Dance The fog created havoc for Sabre players fans and arena equipment Every five min the referee would stop the game and have all players- skate around to disperse the fog That disrupted the Sabre attack Then the buizer signalling the end of the period kept sounding totally confusing the players refs and fans who couldn t see what was going on anyway A Sabre out goalie Oder Inhat during I- rid ay fog bowl at the Community Centre Sabres won the game Hides pile the heavy cloud in the arena That the first win on home ice this year They are now undefeated In four The fifth this at the Community Centre Industrial league debuts with little surprises Cargili cools foes in warm ups minor peewees warmed up for the regular season by cooling off and In two exhibition mat recently They overpowered Chinguacousy last Wednesday after dumping Guelph Oct 8 Peter Cargili lead the way last Wed nesday picking up a pah of goals and an assist He scored the opening goal of the game followed by a marker from Chris Rogers Craig Hamilton closed the gap for Ching making it 1 by the end of the first netted the third Acton goal on a passing play with Paul pa trick Ching struck back with Kirk Fisher netting a goal making it But a goal by Bants fall short of Fergus The Acton Firefighter Major Bantams opened their season Sunday with a close game against Fergus Fergus nipped them 32 Fergus opened the scoring 24 seconds into the first period Lorenzo Clvlero tied the game for Acton at of the second frame David Milne and Brad picked up the assists Then Fergus jumped into a two goal lead with goals at I and 4 of the third stanza Milne a worker brought Acton to within one at 14 13 but Acton couldn score the equalizer despite an empty Fergus net in the closing seconds Randy earned the other Acton assist Coach Al McKerrachcr said John played a steady game in goal for the major bantams Earlier the Firefighters spilt a home and home exhibition series with Waterloo They lost the first game but came back to take the second match in Waterloo 4 1 Rick Dodds Richard and Coverdale scored the Acton markers in the first game with assists going to Milne Vince Danagher ToddLaing Bill Morrison and Dodds Brad MaePherson and Paul Cargili connected in the second game earned two assists with singles go ing to Coverdale Cargili Laingand Chris Hicks In between the two games the Fire fighters doused Guelph 4 Cargili Danagher Morrison and David McKnlght all scored for Acton Dnnager also picked up an assist before the end of the second and a fifth marker by Taillefer in the third finished off Thing picked up his second assist on the goal Coach Dan out both goalies and newcomer Bartlett Both he says were super and is looking good He whole team played well in the rst game of the season against Guelph Acton jumped into four goal lead in the first period after Scan Fitzgerald Jason O Rogers and Kilpatrlck all con nected Kilpatrick Rogers Cargili all earned assists as well us Ron Robinson and Toth Hill Guelph finally got on the scoreboard in the second frame after O added a fifth goal to the Acton tally David Hurd scored But Kilpatrlck and Fitzgerald doused hope with the final two markers still In the second period Taillefer added two more assists In the game with singles from Fitzgerald and Kilpatrlck There was no scoring in the third period The minor regular season tonight Wednesday when they face off against Woolwich Game time Is p The 198081 Acton Industrial hockey lea debuted Sunday night at the Com munity Centre with no surprises Acton Travel and Hellers battled to a tic in the first game Family Cleaners top ped Clothing in the second match and Centre crushed the third contest A lost minute goal by Lome Gordon tied the game for Acton Travel He scored at of the third period after Hellers ral lied to take the lead Brent Irwin opened the scoring at the four mark of the first period for Hellers But Acton Travel responded with three goals in succession by John Ashley the rst of two for him Henry and Jim A pair of goals by Bill Manes and Russ Van Fleet tied It all for Hellers In the sec period then Acton Travel jumped into lead more time Ashley pocketing his second goal with 22 seconds left in the middle frame It didn take long for Hellers to it again after Bruce Cooksley connected just seconds into the final period Then Hel took the lead for the first time in the game after Cooksley connected just sec into the final period Then took the lead for the first time In the game after Cooksley scored again at 13 32 Van Fleet earned assists on both goals That set up Gordon tying marker for Aeton Travel Toebcs picked up an assist Other Acton Travel assists went to Gordon Ashley and Floyd Wayne Noseworthy and Van Fleet each received a pair of aids for Hellers with a single going to Tim Three unanswered goals led Family Cleaners to their victory over Neilson Cloth The two teams traded goals in the first and second periods Chris Tenant potted the rst marker for Family Cleaners at in the opening frnme assisted by Wayne De- Forest and Mike elds Steve Maclntyrc lied it what turned out to be the only goal for Neilson at 11 25 of the second per Kent Kcntner put the Cleaners ahead a few minutes later though with Tenant earning the aid Ken Owen and Mike Miller wrapped it up for the Cleaners mar kers al and of the third per Tenant picked up second assist on Owen goal with singles go Wayne Allen Sid Barnes and Mike Mitchell and John Snow were with brackets on marker The last game was somewhat less of a contest between Lakcviw and though ATW scored on the only two shots Gary Moore started things off on an Unas effort or Lakeview at 3 43 of the first period Dave Paul pocketed the second Lakeview goal at 18 still in the opening stanza with Jim picking up the assist Haytcr got off to the right start th goal one of his ha trick coming at the one minute mark of the middle frame lie repeated his performance five minutes Infer and again at 19 In between and Paul netted their own at and finally got on Ihe scoreboard in the third period when Dave Thompson a puck past Morrison at seconds Stan Rhynolds made It three minutes later Lakev final goal came at 18 courtesy of Glen Assists were credited to Poclsk Bruce and Gary Moore each wllh two John and Steve Bart Jacobs earned aids on both markers Ted Saltz or ATW got himself ejected midway through the game after getting an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty Sunday ATW faces in the first game Lakeview and Travel square off and Hellers battle Family Cleaners at Juniors top Tabbies Midgets finish second in Haltons midget boys have the second best crosscountry team in the county after the championships were held last Wednesday at Kelso Conservation area They finished with 38 points First place finisher was Georgetown with 15 White Oaks came third with 71 Nelson finished fourth with 100 points MM Robinson come fifth with Mlltonsixth with Assump tion seventh with 132 and Trafalgar finished lost with 140 points Rick Dodds was top finisher for the mid get boys He crossed the line In fifth place with a time of Glenn Archer was right behind him In sixth place with a time of OS The junior and senior boys do as well The Juniors finished fifth in the metre run with 104 points Again Georgetown came first with 31 points Nel Bon came second with Milton finished third with White Oaks finished fourth with OT was sixth with 112 EC Drury was seventh with 160 Robinson came eighth with 167 Lord Elgin was ninth with Burlington Central 192 points and finally Assumption with George was the fastest runner for the junior boys completing the run In 19 07 good enough for 19th place Scott Mc Donough ran with a time- of Georgetown was the top team in the senior boys coming first with 13 points followed by Milton with 47 then Alls with 77 W 0 was fourth with while was fifth with 123 Dave McGregor was top runner in the sen 15 Inthcjunlorglrls metre Acton came fourth with points Georgetown Rebels came first with points followed by W 0 Captain traded The Mil Ion Flyers have traded their cap tain Marty Venncr a twoyear veteran the club to the Blades In exchange for centreman John Hicks and future considerations The trade came on the heels of a 53 loss to the Georgetown Gemini Friday In Memorial Arena in Milton It part of an overall youth movement on tho Flyers Hicks is only 17 years and has four years left of Junior hockey whereas has only two The Flyers next match Is Friday in Mil ton against Oak Ridges The Gemini split their games over the weekend After downing Milton Friday they dropped a 76 last minute decision to Sunday at Gordon Alcott with 72 Milton with 74 M M Robinson came fifth Pearson was sixth with and E C came seventh 145 points Heather Thatcher led way for the AHS junior girls She finished with a time of 13 The AHS crosscountry team is competing today Wednesday in the Peel Halton championships at Heart Lake in Brampton Complete AHS results Junior girls 4000 metre Heather Thatcher Kinal 14 28thJeanette Gieson 15 16 32nd Ziea sig 43 Karen Brill 44thJanet 08 Midget boys metre Rick 1j Glenn Archer Brian Bollert 16 40 Richard Kilpatrlck 32ndScott 17 47 Ken Jcspersen IB Ken Knvnnagh IB Rhys 19 35 Junior boys metre George man IB Scott McDonough 18 Tony Wright Tom McDonough Mark Staley Senior boys 10th Dave McGregor IS 13th Bill 20 27 Allen 30 Sec photo AHS girls basketball team Is un defeated in their first two games of the ular season They Milton in the first game last Tuesday and then topped of 30 in the second game day both at home Yesterday Tuesday they faced Oakviile Trafalgar but results were unavailable at press time Judy Vetrlcck led the way In the game against Milton netting 14 points Loci Drys- and Phillips were also high in the game shooting eight points each Phillips and Teresa Dunn were top in Thursday match Phillips netted 15 while Dunn collected eight points Saturday the juniors travelled to Colling wood for the annual Invitational They lost first game against a strong St Mary team from Kitchener But they did come out consolation champions after dousing the host team CoUlngwood and then Central Barrie 53 Phillips netted points In the game against while Marlon Case sc nine Sandra and Andrea Ar each collected points In the conso final Linda ThomPson was also a high scorer with eight points The senior girls lost a heartbreaking game Thursday in second half of the Blakelock doubleheader They were leading for part of the game but TAB A missed layout in he final sec by the AHS seniors game tho gome to TAB Linda Robinson was top seorerinthegame netting and points The seniors did dump Milton however in the first game last Tuesday Osso and Robinson were again the high scorers each shooting 14 points The seniors also met yesterday Saturday at AHS the Juniors are holding their annual basketball tournament Eight teams have been invited to play but the schedule Isn t finalized However plays in the first gome against Erin at a m The tourney runs all day Saturday The following weekend Nov the sen Ion will hold their tournament but their next game is Thursday at when they face Georgetown More photos B2 Dayle Robinson blocks a shot anyway she can The AHS senior basketball player was one of the top scorers netting to points But her team lost the game a close hard fought match to Tho Juniors won their game

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