Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), February 4, 1989, p. 13

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THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday February IMS- Page Sports Latest Hogtown NFL bid much ado about nothing Good evening fans and welcome to the SkyDome Tonights Monday Night Football telecast features the Toronto Towers and the AFCleading falo Bills in a matchup between two fierce geographical rivals Sound crazy Yes At least for now it does But theres a group of would be promoters in who would dearly love to hear Faultless Frank Gifford deliver those words sometime in the near future An NFL expansion team in Toronto Sure sure Weve heard it all before But there it was all over agam last week Someone talking about persuading Pete to bring his pigskin up north for the good people of Toronto Only this time a group headed up by the Toronto Suns Paul Godfrey and supposedly backed by suds money from Carting OKeefe was going public with an announced bid to lure an NFL ex pansion franchise to TO First of all aside from the fact that the NFL has a host of appeal U S cities to consider when it does expand somewhere in the vicinity of 1992 according to in siders the announcement was a rude slap in the face to the poor old and much maligned CFL The NFL has always maintain ed it would never invade the Great White North so long as the CFL existed and at last look while the vital signs were weak the Canadian loop was still breathing With the myriad pioblems besetting the league these days an announcement of an NFL franchiseseeking group was all CFL cocommissioner Roy McMurtry needed to hear Its especially insulting when a major Canuck brewery is involved Call it sports treason And another thing So wheres the federal government When the late Johnny tried to bring Larry and the Toronto Northmen of the shortlived World Football League into CNE Stadium the federal Liberals immediately came to the aid of a then healthy CFL by introducing legislation to bar foreign football leagues from crashing the border Today of course with an American loving P C govern ment in office not one word would likely be said if Toronto did fluke an NFL franchise But in the end the Toronto groups bid is really nothing more than an exercise in futility owner Harry Ornest also owns the exclusive rights to foot ball at SkyDome Maybe so meone forgot to remind Carling OKeefe of that little problem Old Bill Shakespeare said it best Much ado about nothing M and Ms sweep The Georgetown M and Pro Sports Bantams werent long in disposing of Chlnguacousy in the first round of playoffs as they swept the bestof three series The local Majors hosted Ching in game one and despite outplaying their opponents by a considerable margin could only manage a victory All the Georgetown scoring curred in the first period with Adam Hilts figuring in all the scor ing Adam netted a pair of markers with help Elinesky Amato and while notched the third from Hilts and Lewis Ching found the mark midway through the final frame to round out the scoring at 31 Peter Downs looked after the duties in game one and was equal to the task The M and Ms travelled to Ching for game two of the series and lead by a sparkling performance by John Katsllieris between the pipes they easily disposed of their hosts by an score The M and Ms got off to a slow start with one goal in the first period and one in the second before exploding with six markers in the third The lack of scoring in the first two periods was not for lack of effort by our lads as they con tinually peppered the net with shots However the was spectacular as he continually stoned the Georgetown sharpshoots In period one Ken Kosziwka scored on a fine pass out from the corner by Mark Mcln- tyre In the second period M and Ms lone marker came from Lewis assisted by Hilts and Hagen In the big third period Sean Guistini scored the first of many M and M markers with help from and Lang scored his second of the match less than two minutes later with the assists going to Mclntyre as the flood gates opened Midway through the period Lewis scored his second of the game assisted by Hilts and Hagen and shortly thereafter Adam Hilts net ted a pair while Amato Curry and contd on page GEORGETOWN DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL COURSE SELECTION INFORMATION NIGHT FOR PARENTS THURSDAY FEBRUARY 9 1989 645 pm 800 pm Grade specific presentations will be made at 700 and 730 A backward glance Don Cruise has a look back as the puck trickles will host Blades tonight Raiders are still in behind a bewildered Mark during recent a heated battle with Streetsville Derbys for third Jr B action between the Raiders and place in the Central leagues west division Outlook Mitmco visited Georgetown last night photo no report available by press time and the Raiders Ski team takes mild weekend split Despite the mild weather the Milton Heights Ski Team manag ed to find some snow on the Jan 2829 weekend as they split four downhill competitions On Jan 29 at Glen Eden the Milton Heights Green Team sad died the Horseshoe Valley while the Red Team clob bered Caledon 117 at Osier Bluff Milton Heights Blue Team cried the blues on Jan 29 as they took a defeat from Skee HI at and on Jan the Milton Heights tain League Team was bedevilled by Devils Elbow at Snow Valley 10947 At Glen Eden Mike West of Oakville led Milton Heights toys with a second place finish Ryan Page Oakville and Ian Vice Burlington were fourth and sixth respectively On the girls side of Norval continued her strong skiing by placing first overall with Heidi taking second and Michelle Sutherland of Milton in fourth Marc Hoewing led the Reds at Osier Bluff as he earned gold in the boys division and Milton Heights completed a sweep of the top three spots in that category as Marc Cornwall Oakville took second and Real Latreille placed third Top local girl was Holly of 2 with Maryanne Doyle of Oakville 3 and Jennifer of Burlington rounding out the final dings Campbellvilles Stuart Green 3 Oakvilless Alan Gordon 6 and Burlingtons Marc Riddell 7 placed for the Blues at The Mountain Leaguers were led by Mark Hooper Burlington m first overall with Kevin Mar tin in third and Mat Macintosh Milton sixth Top girls were Burlingtons Meghan Powell 4 Oakvilless Siobhan Doyle 7 and Miltons Andrea Kawserraann MORE CAR FOR YOUR MONEY 84 HONDA CIVIC 2 Door Hatchback 4 Sp STCAS SR 86 DODGE CARAVAN LE PW Air Auto SSCAS 87CAMAR0IR0C Auto 5 Black With Red Leather Interior 85 VW GOLF 2 5 Speed Navy Blue Complementary Interior 84JETTAGL Turbo Diesel Sunroof STCAS 5 Speed 82 JETTA DIESEL 5 Speed Sunroof Air Con Autohaus Georgetown Inc 199Guelph St Hwy 7 at Mountainview Halton Hills Georgetown L7G 8775285 Tor 8460910

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