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Acton Travel advances to final yanks Hellers out of playoffs Acton Travel earned the right to compete in the industrial hockey championship playoffs after eliminating in two straight games Travel bombed Heller 1 in the second game Sunday at the Community Centre They won the first match of the bestof three series Heller who ended he season in second place finished ahead of Travel In the final standings of the regular season by three points Travel must wait however before they get a crack at the industrial title since first place Family Cleaners extended their series with a win over Lake view Centre Sunday Lake view and Cleaners have tied the scries one game apiece Henry Tocbes and George figured greatly In Travel s victory Each potted a pair of goals and Tocbes picked up an assist as well Ken Slaney opened the scoring at of the first period assisted by George McPhail Toebes made it 20 at 33 and Artem added a third marker at Fred Crawford Slaney and Clare Snow earned the aids Heller a finally got on the scoreboard 13 of the second frame when Brent Irwin connected on a pass from Wayne Nose- worthy Their Joy was shortlived however as Ar tern capped his second goal at 17 to moke it 41 Mike scored at 1 of the third followed by Crawtord at and Toe at unassisted McPhail Snow and John Ashley assisted Family Cleaners returned to form alter being upset last week by They tied the scries by dominating the second game Sunday at the Community Centre Penalties were costly to both teams with lone goal coming on the power play Mike Miller opened the scoring at 1322 of the first period for the Cleaners Then at IS Chris Tennant made it Dave Morris added to the total early in the second scoring a goal from Kent Kcntner at while teammate Wayne Deforest was sitting out a slashing Infraction Although Steve Atkinson replied for on an unassisted powerplay fort at 16 Cleaners had the game sewn up Ken Owens closed the second frame with his goal at 17 Wayne Allen potted the fifth goal at 10 but before Rusty Miller could wind up the game with his goal at 19 both Cleaner and ex some pent up steam The result was double minor roughing to Mike Fields and single minor for the same offence to Ran Mellon of at 18 Mike Morris Joined his teammate eight seconds later for tripping Deforest kept Fields company at for interference while Bart Jacobs Joined Morris and Mellon or elbowing Tennant Morris Owens and Wayne Allan picked up brackets for the Cleaners The deciding game of the semi final les between the Cleaners and will be played Sundoy at the Community Cen Game time Whichever team wins Sunday goes on to meet Acton Travel In the best of three championship series Cuciph Curling Club walked off with the Acton Pharmacy trophy after Saturday Ladles llonsplcl Acton Curling Club Hewitt centre presents the trophies to Judy Kerr left Helen Hilda Peterson and Helen McLean Vol Cunningham piped the two draws onto the ice ports and recreation and 1 Wednesday March II 1981 McKSmith comeback foiled in eager drama boys wearing AHS Red men Jerseys lost the North I championship In a thrilling contest Thursday at the High School The girls of the championship In the semi finals boys lost the North Hal ton Basketball championship In a dramatic final against day at Acton High School Only three points separated them from victory something they had almost gained after leading by one point with only 32 sec onds left In the game But Stewarttown Nigel Pickering nectedon a 15 foot Jump shot to put George town ahead A few seconds later Pickering and Jim Ash teamed stealing the ball from McKen lieSmith and Ash scored to snatch the championship ployed poorly in the first quarter after dominating W I Dick of Milton in the semi final despite the close score But they steadily improved finally taking the lead with just over two minutes remaining in the fourth quarter SUlt the final seconds determined the champ- ionshlp Steve Wagner led the scoring for Acton netting eight point3 Joffy Sllcox also had an outstanding game scoring six points In the semi finals Tim led the offensive effort with 13 points Brad You mans netted 12 while Bruce hooped six Thegiris championship was also decided Thursday with Centennial getting the nod over Stewarttown 19 This too was a dramatic conclusion with the championship decided in the final minutes McKenileSmlth girls were eliminated in the semi finals losing to the eventual champions Boo Tufford was leading scorer with points Gall Hughes and retch en Lathrophe each netted four Stewarttown W I Dick in the other girls semi final The Centennial girls and Stewarttown boys now advance to the County semi finals Tuesday night In The finals will be decided next day March also In Invitational offered peak at east Haltons Series tied Energy shortage costs overtime The Invitational gymnastics meet at Acton High School last Wednesday hinted at what from the AHS novice junior and intermediate girls teams at the East finals Thursdays In AHS hosted the annual meet for White Oaks Georgetown and Trafalgar as a practice run for the divisional championship Team scores were not re corded but had five firsts and three seconds arid an exceptionally strong show big in novice bars capturing all positions but third place In novice glris Carey Martin finished first on the bars at 7 followed by Andre Arblc in second Natalie Russiani tied for fourth and in fifth 5 0 The first five finishers were given awards White the first two spots In the vault event out placed fifth with a score Sandy Muir Judy Mary and Cathy Beecham also entered vault but place Grandy did place in the novice floor event coming fourth with a 7 score She was the lone Acton competitor in floor event White Oaks took lop honors in the event Grandy also did well in beam placing second to White Oaks with a 43 score White Oaks had the rest of the places sewn up but Bahr finished sixth with 0 fol lowed by and Vetricek both at Grandy was highest scorer for Acton novices amassing points Bahr had 16 Vetricek 11 13 Martin and had 1 Robin took two firsts In the junior bars and floor both times topping W with a 7 score in bars and in Gaskill also finished behind McClure in the floor with a 7 score Teresa Dunn placed fourth on junior vault followed by Actons McClure 6 Goskill6 7 although none placed Gaskill won first place on the beam 8 with Silcock nabbing third McClure finished with a score but did not place That left her with points total Gaskill had 13 and Dunn Irish was top intermediate competitor for Acton with total points Continued on No one is exempt from gasoline shortages these days including Ed In mid gets who ran short in the overtime period of the first game of the OMHA quarter finals against Glanbrook last week Ed lost the first match in Glanbrook last Tuesday March But they came back to the Community Centre to capture a 7 3 victory Sunday and tie Ihe series one game apiece Ed s were expecting to wrestle with in the quarterfinals since Merriton was up two games in their playdown series with But proved themselves a comeback learn something they did last Tuesday Glanbrook opened the scoring in 4 Gord McArthur tied It up for Acton at Then Roy Spear put Ed ahead scoring two minutes later Tim Evans picked up a pair of assists while Dell Mohammed collected a single But fought back scoring early in third period on the powerplay to tie the game and went ahead at 41 That required a tying goal by Evans to keep Ed in the game Tim Ferguson aided Ed s played well in the overtime but with only left to go in the over time Glanbrook scored They clinched It with only seconds left A strong team effort helped Ed s to even the series with a 7 victory Sunday the Community Centre McArthur opened the scoring in the first period but Glanbrook came back to tie It up A few seconds after their goal Wayne McMUllan connected from Randy Coverdale and Gary White Tim Ferguson made it 3 l at and wilh 13 seconds left In the frame Spear scored and Acton traded a pair of goals in the second period Ferguson collected his second goal of the afternoon Evans was the other marksman Evans scored his second goal in the third to clinch the victory Coverdale assisted Mohammed Evans Spear Brian Demone Ferguson and White picked up the various assists Midgets next home game is Friday at the Community Centre Game time is p Novices place third Acton High School placed third in the novice boys gymnastics champion ships at Trafalgar School day Feb The host school was first with 152 points Georgetown second with 1449points while had 76 points Mike placed first on the rings wilh a score of He also competed on parallel bars nabbing a 90 score Norman also took a first place ribbon in the with He placed fourth in vault with and tied for fifth in floor at He t place on the bar with a score of Norman Harris placed sixth on Ihe side- horse at and behind on horizontal at Mike Soper also placed sixth on vault with 55 but didn place on floor The next highest Acton competitor on the horizontal with a mark of 700 Rick bars Georg I t place with her CliapmanplaccdsixthontherlnpswithB2j 8 score but came sixth score Laing ahead by two in OMHA semifinals Laing Construction major atoms took a twogame lead in the OMHA semi finals against with a couple of close victories last week Aclon nipped Beamsville in the first game last Wednesday In and defeated them Saturday in Acton II was an exciting game between two evenly matched teams Laing started to pressure from the opening face off John Van Dam opened the scoring at the one minute mark assisted by Greg Leatherland and Frank Katsllleris Rob Murray made it on the at 35 Carl and Troy Foster picked up the aids But came back to tie It scoring- with only seconds spent in the second frame and again all 44 put in front once more on an unassisted goal at 4 38 Once again Beamsville rallied back to lie It 3 scoring early in the third frame But with the of overtime looming Van Dam broke the tie scoring at nine minutes to give Laing the victory and Todd Lazenby assisted Scott Williams made several key saves between the pipes but the real story was the defence which played outstanding hockey It was the key factor in the second game Saturday in Acton as downed 3 l The game was another thriller but this time round Acton both and Van Dam continued his scoring prowess netting the first Acton marker at 7 57 of the first period aslssted by Leatherland and Evan Rob Murray made it seconds into the middle stanza but came back scoring at 1 11 and putting themselves within reach of a tie Yaroschak dashed their hopes however polling a goal at 7 in the second to clinch the victory Hayter assisted on both goals while Murray Craig earned singles Leading the series two games to one travels to tonight Wednesday for the third match Game time is 8 pm Tourney title awaits bantams If Acton Firefighter major bantams are knocked out of OMHA and Hub League playoffs they can still capture a title the annual Georgetown bantam hockey tourna ment crown Firefighters are one of the 44 teams entered in the annual tournament one of the biggest bantam tourneys in the pro vince The tournament gets underway March Continued on Members of the Recreation Department gymnastics courses held a demonstration Sunday at Georgetown District High School Both Acton and Georgetown groups performed more than children in all The demonstration took the place of Ihe annual gymnastics meet us uallyhcld Batter up Saturday Registration for both minor ball and minor soccer continue this week at the Community Centre Minor baseball sign up Is between 10 a and noon this Saturday and March But this is the last week for minor soccer registration between to am The search is underway for recipients of the Hills Honor and Recognition Awards A selection committee made up of Mayor Pete councillors Dave Whiting Miller Walter Marilyn Serjeants on Gretchen Day of the Halton Hills Aria Council Joy Tom Shepard and Jennifer Linton from Parks and Recreation and three area myself Included will be choosing award winners from applications according to selection guidelines Eligible are those who are residents of Hills or a member Halton Ills- based club or organization and have achieved placing In a recognized activity at a provincial level or better in the year 1980 Or those who have served as president of a provincial or national or internationally wide organization those recognized for cultural and recreational achievement of a provincial or better standard or have made a significant contribution to the town as considered by the committee Applications are evil able at either the municipal offices on Mill recreation offices at Gordon Alcott Georgetown Deadline for nominations are Monday April Honor and Recognition night Is Wednesday May 13 Baseball diamonds will be ready for April 17 permitting Works Department reported to baseball groups at a meeting last Thursday The groups met with the Recrea Hon Department to iron out everyone favorite topic diamond time or lack of About people attended the meet at the library from seven differ ball clubs Acton Industrial fastball formerly tht Acton Men Industrial Softball Acton minor ball Acton Ladies Softball Ladies Fastball Limrhouse Ladles Men Softball Acton league and Acton Con dominium League All were trying for nine diamonds including the tbree at and one at Only two dia mo arc under the lights at Pro spect Park and There diamond at Pro spect one at Robert Little M Bennett and Mann There were a few conflicts in scheduling minor ball docs get priority From there its based on the longevity of the league The nee department is billing adult groups no lights per team per season adult groups with lights per team per season and per learn per season for minor groups up through midget age for diamond time fields cost per team per season for minor groups and per continued on B3