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the HERALD Sports I and and Recreation For 30 Years We Have Delivered SECTION THE HERALD North York takes title By MIKE TURNER climactic but the Annual Georgetown Internationa Bantam Hockey Tournament still lived up to its Wiling as a premier showcase for Bantam hockey teams The North York Civics claimed the tournaments grand championship with no questions asked they thumped the upsturt Acton Firefighters In the final Satur day night Dont expect the Acton players to Ihe Firefighters pulled upset of Ihe tournament defeating Division winners Waterloo in the The Civics earned their break in the grand championship Earlier Saturday they needed overtime to take a 54 decision from Niagara Falls In the A Division final Then they scored three times In the third Wally Bishop coach of the Civics was understandably pleased with his teams performance We had a really good tournament be said following Ihe championship It was be high point of our season We played some tough teams Bishop s Civics qualified for the A Division final by downing 10 Friday night That Kit them In the final against Falls a team they had beaten earlier The problem was we beat Niagara Palls by such a big score played a lot belter the second game ana took us to overtime With a tour anyone can win Acton pro ved that against Waterloo But Bishop maintains he was tak log nothing for granted going In against Acton We learned from Niagara Falls not to take anyone lightly We stuck to our plays and made sure no one bogged the puck Acton coach Ray was In high spirits despite what the scoreboard said after the grand championship Im very proud of the kids they played super he said They gave everything they had The score maybe didnt show it but the heart and spirit was there Its been over years since Acton went as far as they did In the Georgetown tournament One of the reasons for their ap pearance In the final was Actons ability to frustrate Waterloo in their semifinal contest They hit us hard but they forgot about their plays said of the Waterloo strategy We on the breaks But with hese couldnt the time and they hit well Both coaches had high praise for the organization of the tournament You can tell Georgetowns quite a town for tournaments Jarbeau said Anything we wanted the peo ple went out of their way to help Bishop praised the tournament for being well balanced and excellently Ken Guilford scored the first goal of the championship game at the 13- mark and there was no look ing back for the Civics at that point Guilford and Derek Robinson finished the game with three goals each while the rest were spread out among Vito Cortese Mike Watson Dimitri Scott Bay ley David McLean Rob Bishop and Jason Crane The high point of the game for Ac ton came when Mike Kinnon put one by Civics goalie Paul Totlno in the third period after North York had stacked up a 100 lead Sean Col and Sean VanKesteren drew assists on the play John McLean accounted for the other Acton marker Totlno went the distance for the Civics while Caswell replac ed Paul Glass In the Acton net In the third with the score In semifinal play North York trailed after the second period as Cory Ames pulled the trigger on both goals for Lome Park But the Civics regrouped In the third and came back with goals by Guilford McLean and Don DelMonte to send them into the grand championship In the other semifinal Acton led 10 after the opening frame on a goal by Mike and went ahead 20 fn the second on a Paul marker Waterloo came back to tie the match with a pair of goals by Kevin late in the second But In the third McLean put the Firefighters ahead for good with a pair of goals Jason Marciniak add ed the final Waterloo marker The Red and Jean Am el tine Georgetown He is seen here Tropby for the Most Sportsmanlike lag hli sward from Mr and Mrs Player la the tournament was Aueltine awarded to Dale of Civics named most valuable player Vlto Cortese of the North York Civics was named the Most Valuable Player of the Annual Georgetown International Bantam Hockey Tournament which wrap ped up Saturday night after a week of hockey action The Civics won the grand cham pionship by drubbing the Acton Firefighter 132 in the final game Cortese had a goal and two assist In the championship game and In the Civics six previous games at the tournament be col five goals and five assists The best of the tour nament and the recipient of the Georgetown Referees Association Award was Kevan Caswell of Ac ton Caswell badtftopped wins of 92 over Erin and over River aide in round robin play and was in net when Acton upset Waterloo 93 In the tournament semifinal Caswell also made an in the grand champion ship game replacing Paul Glass with the score Red the original organizer of the tournament and his wife Jean were on hand to pre sent the trophy for Most Sport Player to Dale McNIven captain of the Georgetown M and M Pro Sports Bantams The Award for Coach of ihe Tournament went to Fred Alex ander and John of River side Several other presentations were auto made in conjunction with the s ccrem Ross Sproule was named the recipient of the Paul Memorial Trophy as Referee of the Year ana the Broken Skate Award presented to the referee with the most pratfalls during the tournament went to Shawn Jenkins The North York Civics were In good spirit Saturday Georgetown International Bantam Hockey Tournament night after they defeated he Acton Firefighters 1M to player hoist the championship trophy for the win the grand la the Annual traditional victory lap Irvine pleased with fourth Dean Irvine skied what he con siders to be the best race hes ever had on the weekend to take fourth In a 20km event at the Ontario Cross Country Skiing Championships on the weekend Irvine was competing at the Lubrfderm Cup held at Harwood Hills near Barrie when be turned In his personal best performance I expected to be fifth or sixth judging by who I was racing against Irvine says I was really happy I beat the fifth place skier by nine seconds and be skis on the On tario team Player shortage hurts team Mand M runs out of steam The Waterloo Falcons sank any hopes the M and M Pro Sports Ban tams had of keeping the champion ship title of the International Ban tarn Hockey Tournament In Georgetown Saturday morning In the sion final the Falcons registered a win over the M and M squad eliminating them from the running for title It was a long and tiresome road for Georgetown as the Waterloo contest was their third game in less than hours Friday afternoon they had beaten Scarborough 32 in overtime to earn a berth in the Division final and Friday night they took on Burl in the deciding game of their County playoffs They lost that one For coach Keith Bennett It was simply a matter of running out of We werent flat Bennett said following the loss to Waterloo Everyone was keen Buta lot of the could had a full bench Bennett wasn too impressed with Waterloos type of game particular ly the stlckwork that Included a few butt ends missed by the officials But in the end it came down to a matter of a short bench Trent Cull was ailing from a shoulder he suffered earlier in the tournament and Dole McNIven and Chad Bailey though they played were nursing throat and ear tions Earlier In the week Bennett could rely on a few minor Bantams called up for the tournament But later In the week they left with their team for a tournament In North Bay To add to their woes Mark Mlnlnch was in Florida and Wade Serjoantson was on a ski trip for the March break something Bennett couldnt understand There are kids in this town dying to play in this tournament Bennett said I can t understand why anyone wouldn want play In It The successes of the M and team this season have been built on a devotion to club At a team meeting Saturday concensus of the players was that those absent without Just cause shouldnt be allowed to play In the finals being hosted by Georgetown next month As host team M and M will be competing Bennett said Saturday he was prepared to stick by the decision of the players despite the risk of action being taken against him If he sits he players If the executive wants to take any action they have to do It shortly he said I dont want to be standing around with an axe over month He had a chance to go to Hawaii for the March break and turned It down Winger Jim English bad the chance to spend the week In Florida and Rich Bond another winger passed on a ski trip to Banff Theres three guys right there Curtis Jones gave Scarborough a 10 lead In opening frame but Eric Long replied for Georgetown early in the second from Rich Bond and Rod to tie it at one Scott Logan put Scarborough ahead 1 In third but again Georgetown responded moved In from the blueline and took shot that was stopped But Dale M J McNlven ihere to put It upstairs Bantam raent wont be said he was happy the team went as far as It did but the results could have been better with a stronger bench It was our third in hours and everyone was ileshifted be said We were losing our legs It wouldnt have been a game if wed had more players Against Scarborough Friday Georgetown had to fight back from deficits twice just as they had throughout the tournament Scarborough came close to taking the lead again in the final few minutes of regulation time but the score remained tied sending teams to overtime The winner came Just seconds into the extra period With a faceoff In the Scarborough end McNIven won the draw and fed the puck back to the point Craig Cooper had time o tee It up and he let go a blast that Irvine finished he course in a time of in the Junior Mens event To add to his achievements Irvine and two team mates Kevin Cloves and Dave Barnes picked up bronze medals In the 3 x iokm relay finishing in a time of A few weeks ago just after the Winter Olympics Irvine competed at the National Cross Country Skiing Championships in British Colum bia Conditions were not best at Hundred Mile House where races were held but Irvine placed lfith In the 15kro skating race and and In two classical races He was also on a Southern Ontario Division relay team that placed eighth out of 33 entries from across North American Championships be ing staged at Whitefisb Montana Depending on bow Im racing at the time may go he says I dont really want to go down there if good races out west I I hope to have Lead series 21 Juveniles split weekend games After splitting a pair of games on the weekend the Georgetown Gemini Juveniles are one win away from earning a berth in the Ontario Minor Hockey Association Saturday in Kingston the locals scored four limes the third period to claim a victory and go up 20 In their bestof five semifinal series Georgetown had a chance to wrap up the series Sunday but the home side prevailed as Kingston took a decision Heading Into Kingston for the weekends action Georgetown coach Charlie Hanman was hoping for a split after his team took the series opener In Georgetown I never expected to beat them three straight Hanman said following the weekend action Wed won six straight games beading in to Sundays contest but we haven t seen a team this good in a while The difference in Kingston win Sunday according to Hanman was the penalties Kingston took IS minors while Georgetown was assessed 14 minors a riveminute high sticking major and a game misconduct We didnt capitalize on our op portunities and they seemed to play better In the threeon three tions Hanman said Kingston showed a few new twists on home Ice with the addition of a few players who hadnt made the trip to Georgetown Most notable among them said was speedster Derrick March who accounted for three goats and one assist in the two games Kingston employed a quick breakout system on their wider Ice surface They had tried to play the same type of game in Georgetown a week earlier but dldnt have the room or the effective manpower they had on weekend said Monday he was hop ing to speak with hockey guru Gerry Inglis and get some advice on stymieing Kingston breakout at tack Georgetown played Its best period of hockey in Ihc series Saturday when they stormed back from a 31 deficit with four unanswered third period goals to take the win Gene Jansen scored the only goal of the opening period to give Kingston a lead but Terry Dixon replied for Georgetown early In the second assisted by Steve Turner Jim and March scored to give Kingston a 31 lead heading into the third but Georgetown was far from finished Dixon scored twice to round out his hat trick and pull the Gemini Juveniles even Kennedy xi on Morgan helped out on the tying is well Tim Bennett scored what proved to be the winner as he was set up by Dixon with 30 left in regulation time Chris Marling added an in surance marker for good measure the final minute to round out the final John Lantz was in net for Georgetown while Tim Lalonde minded goal for Kingston In Sundays outing Kingston was up 31 after the opening frame on goals by Jerome Veenendaal Rich Gallagher and March Georgetowns lone reply came from Rob Cooper assisted by Dixon and Kennedy In the second Don and March scored to extend Kingstons lead to Bill Herman from Dixon and Pat McCarthy accounted for Georgetowns final goal with seconds left on the clock The fourth game in the series Is slated for 8 p this Saturday at the Arena A fifth game if necessary will go Sunday at 2 30 again at The winner in this series will ad vance to the final against a western represents live Grimsby was reportedly ahead In the other semifinal series with Waterloo SPORTS Loon Tunes B2 charged B2 Tourney recap B3 Prize winners B3 NEWS I Versatile artist B5 Play decisions BS Heritage viewing B6 Refugee debate B7 ENTERTAINMENT Switching channels BS Sugar bush trails BS Music for Ralph B6 An artist lobby B6