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THE HERALD January I 1876Page Raiders look good outscore opponents It must bo new year for the Raiders They surely squashed doubts thai hod been arising during the Latter part of among their fans that Just possibly our entry In the local Intermediate A league had peaked too soon This past week however such problems as overtime losses at home losing streaks even dlf were all put to rest as victories together notching a total of goals themselves and allowing only one by their opponents The turnabout came v expense of totally humiliated lasl Thursday a drubbing a struggling llle crew who were downed at the Gordon Memorial Arena In Pallet re his as perhaps Ihe league best if and when he psyched into producing the extra effort such honors require Despite the score the squad still peppered shots at the Georgetown nets and some were definitely of the tough to handle Throuh It all held his ground to up with his The win was definitely a morale booster for coach Junior Tlbbetts and the rest of the Raiders who hove suffered some tough blows to their egos these pant few weeks They once again reset ihclr sights on place level they re just short of Intermediate standings being rather hard to come by Raiders executive con only estimate that tliey re son between the first place last they heard Fort Erie Mavericks the third place ditto Port got In on the scoring against wllh Pat Moloney and Art Webster leading the way Webster hit for two goals and two assists while Moloney got his four points setting up other s goals Tom Gilbert hit for two goals plui an assist while Neil Cotton blasted home one goal and two Bill Wheeler and John Boy CO rounded out the Raider scoring with single goals With one assist apiece Dill Currle Ray Peacock and Pete Fen completed the polnl cumulation Raider earned their wild Gems look for more players If you were quick enough to catch a glimpse of coach Paul Robinson heading out of the Gordon Memorial Arena Saturday night you might have mistaken him for a bystander fleeing the scene of an accident or a robbery Because what a fairly full house of local Junior fans had witnessed for three hours Saturday had been discouraging mixture of two thirds robbery and one third accident The Dixie Ventures had been the instisators of both and the the hapless victims suffering a loss at the hands of a not all that great Dixie The only comment that could be dragged out of Robinson as he fled was a blank No comment His after all have had better moments In fact Saturday nights venture was perhaps their worst outing- cither home or away they ve come up with this season Totally powerless from goalie to forwards the Gemlnis could only grit their teeth and promise themselves and their fans better days ahead Manager Bob Tost always on optimistic voice In the crowd even muster a bright note His duties in act were blackened during the past few days by the news that an un Junior C ployeithey had been eyeing for a possible signing prior to the 10 cutoff dote had broken a leg during a recent game Which leaves Tost and the rest of the Gemlnis management on the lookout for two extra players and as of Saturday they have now less than a month to do It The have three extra cards walling to bo signed to bring the team up to lis limit As yet Tost has not any definite players in mind in fact he admits that he doesn even know which of the three squads defense offense or goalie lie going to be shopping far The alternating goalie system crumbled for a good port of Saturday night s game Marling Hick Tomklnson pulled at the 15 minute mark of the first after the Ventures had Saturdays action Geminis face the Dixie Ventures Georgetown skater in Canadian Championship come from a deficit to a draw on one good and two undeserved goals But regular backup goalie Ken proved to be no sharper and after the Dixie visitors had edged ahead late in the opener Tomklnson was sent back onto the host spot for the second and third periods However It t all matter of goal tending that was proving costly The Gems defensive corps normally the steadiest segment of the Gems gome had their and dawns When they were up the Ventures had their troubles crossing the blue line when they were down the Ventures had trouble not scoring The some went for the Gems offensive Their goals were nice ones but there Just weren t enough of them The height of the offense problems getting on the right track come midway through the third Given a full two minutes wllh o two man ad vantage the best the Gems could do was a hard shot off the post rifled by Larry Peterson The game Is going to hove some costly repercussions for both the Gems and the Georgetown Juveniles Joe South the fine Juvenile defenscman the Gems base been making good use of wni taken to hospital after a painful back injury It appeared that he would be out of action for some time The Gems actually pulled a bit of a deception on the good crowd of loud and loyal Fans pulling ahead within the first mlnutei of the gome Seven minutes into the period Doug made a couple of quick moves at the Dixie blue line to keep the puck In play He fired a pass to Bob Fothcringham who ended up making a swan dive Into the Dixie net complete with puck credit for the goal has to go to team Rick Becker who scrambled along the board to come up wllh the puck Spying Allison racing Into the slot from the right side Becker made a beautiful pass right onto his stick After Dixie had come back with two answering goals the Gems pulled ahead once again at the mark on a powerplay goal by Doug Barnes from Dale Miecianlec Becker With Dixie ahead late in the second period Lorry Peterson hit for the Gems final goal a effort set up by Barnes Dixie added their final in touch at 51 mark of the third Their big guns for the night were Miles Forget and Jim Baker with two each Both of those players are new additions to the Ventures lineup The Gems powerplay dif were deflnetly the deciding factor in the loss The Ventures were togged with penalties while the Gems were caught for only 10 yet the Dixie offense managed to the Gems two power play goals With the loss the Gems hold on second place was shaken quite seriously Third place were rejoicing the outcome as they now still retain some hope of moving ahead of the Gems but the team happiest with the out come had to be first place Burlington As Bob Tost commented We had a real victory rather conservatively adding three goals in each of the periods The squad displaying mounting frustration or the score mounted against them became rather chippy finishing the game with total of 13 penalties Raiders were togged with 10 The game was definitely not of regular Intermediate A mi In the lack of finesse shown the rough play and the high score night the Oakville Adanacs arrived in Georgetown and all the rumours that have been floating about the league about their problems proved to be true The are definitely teetering on total collapse Interest In the this year is Oakville has been next to nil The team even had to go out of town to find sponsors Most gomes In the chilly Oak vlllc arena see town spectators out numbering local fans twotoone The Adanac staff too has been suffering having undergone a change In command two weeks ago The morale of the team as a result of all these off ice problems has taken a pretty sharp dive It a bit of a gamble from one game to the next see if the Oakville Intermediates are to have enough plajcrs on hand to ice a team Friday night they arrived In Georgetown with a minimal 13 man unit Including the two goalies They had barely enough to put together one set forward line But giving credit where credit is due the Adanacs who did show up certainly came to play They provided a good accounting of themselves despite being at an obvious disadvantage right from the first They managed to pepper Raider s competent backup goalie Brian finally got a weekend off with shots while Brad Prophet s nit minder had to face shots The Raiders came out storming in the first period to notch five goals and the win but the Adanacs were the ones to hit first Just Just one minute Into the period Ray Chlaholm hit from Kim Grant to give a brief 10 lead From that point on however the game was all Georgetown They answered back with goals during the final part of the first and then coasted during the last two periods adding their sixth with less than three minutes left to play Paul Burger scored twice as did Craig Simpson Pat Maloney and Doug rounded out the goal getting with singles B ill Wheeler drew two assists as did Ray Peacock Single assists were handed to Mike Maloney Art Webster John Boyce Tale and Bill Currle Considering their definite disadvantage in manpower even at full strength tho stuck strictly to playing hockey as did the Raiders Georgetown drew five penalties and the Adanacs seven The Raiders season is drawing steadily closer to its completion Only eight games remain being evenly spill between home and away forts This Friday night for one of the few times this year the Raiders will not be playing home Instead they be on the road to Dundos for a late game there But Raiders fans will still have something to watch this weekend Georgetown has set up an exhibition match against the Flyers reigning champions of the OHA Senior A league That game Is scheduled Tor Sunday night and should be an Interesting test of just how well or how poorly Intermediate hockey mutches up gainst the higher Senior level of play Minor Pee Wees capture AA crown in Milton up him mehov Today Wednesday at approximately 3 30 in the afternoon a young Glen Williams figure skater will perform one of the most portant routines in his still very young skating career Chris Barber son of Mr Mrs Paul Barber will be In the Canadian Figure Skating Championships being held this week in Lon don Ontario He and his partner Patty Fletcher of Scarborough have made it all the way to the finals of the Novice Pairs Dance category in the Canadian competitions the top rung of competitions for Novice pairs in Canada To get there Chris and Patty last month finished first In the Eastern Canada divisional held in Salle Quebec They topped 13 other pairs representing the best novice pair In eastern Canada In the Canadians Chris and Patty face the top pairs from across Canada The local hopefuls left for London Monday afternoon to spend the next two days practising The competitions ore taking place in the Winter Club on the campus of the University Western Ontario Win or lose the Canadians mark the final competition of the season for Chris and Patty Unlike the older categories the Novice division champions do not move onto the world competitions They do however move up next year to Junior competitions which will permit them to if they re successful bounced loose and onto the waiting stick of Steve Buchanan who just hod to flip it Into the wide open net Just over one minute later affiliated player Bill Allison came up with a real Howie Meeker Special Most of the Burlington but t do It But we still hove two games with Burlington One of those is away Jomiary23 and the other is at home on a date that still has to be decided Next game for the Gems Is this Friday when they travel to Milton and then they re back at home sort of The Gems will play host Saturday night to in old Georgetown Memorial Arena a result of the Midget Hockey Tour nament at the G rdon Alcott Goalie Rick Tomklnson was voted December s Labatt Sports Award winner Curry hoops 20 to lead Barb Curry led the to a well played victory over the in last week s Georgetown Ladles Basketball league action The game offered a great display of defensive work by both teams Curry hit for of the Knlck total of points while Sinclair and Debbie Stone added four points each and Jill liaskaync were top shooters for the hooping ten points each Joanne Arnold added six more Pizza Kings put works to Thompson Don count the Royal PUia Kings out They re fourth today but who knows about tomorrow The Kings came up with the upset of the week Sunday in Georgetown Industrial Hockey League action as they shut out behind the fine goal tending of Grant the third ranked squad iking third Hay broke the ice on a play with Al Arnold Five minutes later Arnold did It again setting up Mike Coffee this time for the In sura nee marker Kings showed that they are among the contenders once for the playoffs The other two games of the week GIHL action produced few surprises First place in the first game of the day dropped the last placed el Clair Sunoco squad 3 The Kings victory came after two periods of back and forth scoreless hockey Finally at then mark of the GEORGETOWN INDUSTRIAL HOCKEY LEAGUE such a close game of It The first period was a scoreless effort by both sides but then opened up the action in the second coming out of the minutes witha2llead Steve and Don Parsons hit for Guelph Cloir with assists going to Jim Robertson Steve Waters John McKcen and Dave Irons The lone second period tally for Norval was scored by Larry Bradley from Benny wasted no time In the third pulling Into the front Brian Beaumont and Bob Monckton scored within the first four minutes to put Norval on top to slay Benny assisted on both tallies while drew an assist on score At the 15 mark Beaumont added what eventually proved to be the winner on a nice solo effort Dave Irons drew the Clair crew bock into con lent ion with nine seconds left to ploy but that was as close as were going to come to pulling off what could have been the upset of the season Second place Sandhill held onto their position with a 42 victory over Total Sports During the first two periods the Sandhill squad racked up four unanswered goals wllh Alan Craig notching two of them and Terry Burke and Rick getting Ihe others Burke assisted on one and Don Glass ford assisted on two of the Sandhill goals The best Total Sports could do In he third was register two goals with Brad Edgar hitting for the first from Dave Holmes and Don and Brian James notching the other from Warren Chard and Marty Weaven This weekend Thompson Construction have an op either to make it or it as they push for top honors They have an op portunlty lo knock off Norval at Falling that they likely be relegated lo or fourth place for the rest of the season In the 15 game Sunday Royal Kings meet Total Sports and then at 11 15 Sandhill will take on Clair Sunoco The Canadian Tire Minor Pee Wees brought home a lot of honor to Georgetown following their victory two weekends ago in the Milton Beaver Minor Tournament three consecutive vie lories the local Pee Wees captured the A Minor Pee Wee Championship and all the laurels that go along with It It far from an easy accomplishment as Georgetown ran Into some extremely tough competition In the semifinals and final Their first victory however was not particularly that tough as they whipped Shooters In that game were No II Kevin Frank wllh a hat trick plus one plus two assists Geordic Adams notched one goal and two assists while Peter hit for one goal and one assist Bob Morrow earned one goal and on assist while Scott and Mike Marcollnl each earned a goal Anthony Oram garnered one assist From that point on however Georgetown hod to work to corn every goal they received In the semifinals they battled to a 3 win over Preston In an ex good game for both Georgetown opened the scoring In the first period when Kevin Frank found the range with a pass from Rivy Ken They moved ahead by two goals in he second when Hatcher hit from Adams and Mike Marcollnl That eventually proved the winner The final Georgetown tally came from the stick of Kennedy with an assist going to Kevin Frank Preston put on a final push late In the match but It was too little and too late The championship game for the section pitted Georgetown against an im crew from Burlington Through three periods of rough tough hockey the Georgetown squad managed to build a victory and a hold on the silverware Burlington however were the first to hit the but the Canadian Tire reps wasted no time In ad ministering pressure on Ihe Finally Bobby Morrow found the target on a pass set up by Kennedy The first period ended deadlocked 1 1 In the second period the game opened up with end lo- end rushes keeping Burlington and Georgetown fans alike sitting on the edges of their seats Suddenly Kennedy got a breakaway Making no mistake about what he had to do he blasted a hard shot post the Burlington goalie Burlington opened the final with similar goal tying the game The teams buckled down and stuck with hard hitting hockey Kennedy finally broke the pressure on another breakaway goal which eventually proved the winner Down by one goat the Burlington team let up slightly and Georgetown made good use of the letdown Mike Doueette slipped a much needed goal into the Burlington net on a pass from David Norton Jeff played an outstanding game in the nets for Georgetown stopping a lot of hard drives With the victory under their the Georgetown Minor Pec Wees received the championship plaque and gold medallions from the tour hosts The Canadian Tire Minor Pee Wees have been playing well these past few weeks both in regular league play and exhibition matches On December they dumped Burlington in TriCounty action Kevin Franks scored two goals and two ass Lab Adrian hit for one goal and two assists Adams Bob Morrow and Dave Norton got one goal apiece Duane Hatcher earned two assists while Kennedy Mike and Mike garnered one assist each In an exhibition match at home against Hespelcr the Georgetown squad managed to squeak out a victory with David Norton and Peter Haller combining on a great play to set up Adrian Vugts for the winning tally Bob Morrow Mike Mnr Kennedy and Jamie South all hit for one goal each while and Kevin Frank drew two assists each David Norton was credited with one Rebs host Ontarios best wrestlers This Saturday the GDRS wrestling team put their title on the line as they host the fourth annual Georgetown Invitational Wrestling Tournament Top teams from all over Ontario participate in this prestigious event in hopes of walking off with the attractive Tough competition is ex pected to come from Smiths Falls where former Rebel wrestling coach Lew Martin Is two months now building a strong team Under the watchful eyes of Action gets underway at coaches Bob McKay Ray approximately a Smllhand Mike McMahon he into the high school and see local wrestlers have been some of Ontario finest working out hard for well over wrestlers In action 12 Sandhill 4 Thompson 12 Kings Total Sports 12 LEADING SCORERS NAME TEAM Brian Beaumont Nor 12 12 JohnMcKecn GC Dave Holmes TS Steve GC 10 Benny Nor TS 11 Dave Irons GC GC 10 BobMarchand TC Doueette 7 GA What a weekend This Is going to be a busy weekend for local sports fans as they are faced with some hard decisions on what to Hockey Football or Wrestling The highlight locally of the weekend will be the tenth annual Georgetown Midget Tournament which will be taking place throughout Ihe next five days Play began last night at and will continue through to Sunday championship matches Play takes place tonight Thursday and Friday nights from to 10 15 and Saturday from to 10 The two championship consolation and championship crowns will take place Sunday at the Gordon Alcott Memorial Arena at 1 and in the af temoon Meanwhile up at Georgetown District High School perhaps the best recognized high school wrestling tournament will be taking place Saturday Teams representing schools throughout Ontario will be competing in the GDHS tournament Sunday night some more fine hockey will be offered as the Georgetown Raiders one of the best teams in Ontario Intermediate ranks take on the Barrio Flyers the definite best In Canadian Senior hockey circles That exhibition game Is slated for the Gordon Memorial Arena If that enough to moke a sports fan begin to go a little nuts trying to divide time there the Super Bowl on TV TA Blakelock too much 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