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THE HERALD Wednesday August ISM Page TO ADVERTISE IN the HERALD CALL 8772201 Sports and I Recreation Sports DOWNTOWN FAX SERVICE Evenings Saturdays Too ill vounci d a PHnnmncv itd Downtown Georgetown 8772761 Bad weather halts final of softball tournament By ROBERT RISK Herald Sports Editor Aside from a clash with biathlon competitors and the rainout of the championship final the an Georgetown Ladies Powder puff tournament went off without a hitch On Sunday morning the Park School Field was overcrowded with approximately biathlon competitors waiting for the start of their race and about 100 softball players trying to complete their games The Recreation and Parks Department must have overbook ed that area I didn t know anyone was using it until they showed up said Andrea Ford the tourna ment main organizer She said things were crowded for a while but it didn affect the playing of the games too much However the rain on Sunday after noon cut short the consolation final midway through the seventh inn ing which happened to be her team that lost 12 to Milton The championship final got started around but was rained out in the first inning As a result the two finalists Fuller Custom Homes Acton and the Jim Dandies last year s defending champion agreed to make up the game at a later date to decide who gets their name on the trophy The Georgetown teams played the polite hosts in the team tour nament with 10 of the 12 local teams losing the first game to enter the consolation round The only two to advance to the pionship side were Awesome and Simply Red he Red team beat Midland 1 166 but lost their next game 17 3 to Burlington and were eliminated Awesome currently in second place in the Georgetown league put up a good fight beating Random Ladies in the first game on Saturday They played the next match at 30 p m beating Orangeville Pharmacy However their hopes of reaching the semi final were dash ed in the next game when they were trounced by the Acton Marauders Participants in the Georgetown Biathlon begin the first leg of their competition at the Furgrounds on Sunday The locil bntlilon part of the Nike Senes Is comprised of a five kilometer run kilometer cycle stage and five run The course wound its downtown and tlirouLli some of the roads i round Georgetown I athlete Doug im finished 10th in the is currentlv in third place in serh r photo Competitors cram fairgrounds for Georgetown biathlon By ROB RISK Herald Sports Georgetown Doug hoped to capitalize on the home town field to move iht id in tin Nike Biathlon Scries but slipped into third after finishing in the local stage of the com petition At the start of the Georgetown Biathlon on Sunday a five kilometer run 30 kilometer cycle and another five kilometer run was second overall in the senes in which the best five results of the nine races are used to determine a competitor s rank Hagensen was trailing Orangeville resident who finished first on Sunday elm the title with his fourth straight biathlon victory first won the Milton Biathlon on June then the King City Biathlon on July 15 and the Hard wood Hills Biathlon near on July native Brian Keast mov ahead of Hagensen in the series by finishing with his third str light third place finish lhgensen best finishes have been a third pi ice finished in the Iondon on June fourlh plate effort in Milton a fifth place finish in Hardwood Hills Biathlon org Gerry Bruce said the Georgetown leg of the series has been the most well it tended this summer with over taking part this past weekend We were expecting and we got There were over last minute registrations which delayed the start of the event by about an hour We usually get only about 5060 signing up on race day Bruce said the biathlon series is in its second year and has grown considerably over its opening season For Georgetown nee next year he is optimistic of get We should be able to handle the number all right The police do realh good job of keeping the clear The Biathlon with a five kilometer stage which began at the From there the com hicycle to Main Street tur ning south to Steeles Avenue and I and then returned to the Fairgrounds The final stage re quired the entrants to repeat the same five kilometer running route Bruce said the only problem ex penenced on the weekend was discovering there was a softball tournament going on at the Fairgrounds at the same time I didn know about the touma until the week before There were a few hundred people there for that so it was really crowded Cindy a player on the Georgetown Blue Lightning team pitches during one of her team s games at the 10th annual Tournament on the weekend Herald photo Rep baseball playoffs More details on the playoff schedules for the Georgetown Baseball Rep teams are now available Since the Georgetown teams hive a home game advantage the follow ing games art the second and third wme if necessary of tin opening series All of the games will be at the airLrounds man baseball til i m The Haiti Hills rout I- arm learn rtcived the impionship tourn due 1 ick of opponents will for the title in the I ah ur weekend The Quick lube team pla against a leim from the little Britain are i 19 nam and will pi a third game if at The ReMax Mike Adams Ban tarn D team plays on Aug 20 at p m and will play the third game if necessary the next day at the same time If the Bantams win this senes thev advance to the Ban lam championship tournament in Corunna on the Labor Day weekend The I ion s Club Midget team on at JO p m and will pi iy the third neccss on at m Juvenile tiam will ice a from the Windsor area it p Aug 19 They will pla again at 7 p m if The Limited Junior A team has completed their season Acton Lacrosse Teams face elimination at start of playoffs The Novice Rams lacross team is facing elimination from its league plavoff competition after losing their first game to Kit last Wednesday Rams coach George Artem knew his team was overmatched bv the Kitchener Braves squad a powerful team that also happened to have the home advantage As a result said the team s goal was to hold heir opponents to single digits in the goals against column The Rams were successful at achieving that objective but a four goal onslaught in the first period the Braves could have made he final score a lot higher s defensive plan wis ex fairly well after that mg three goals the second period and just two in in the third while the Rams got their lone marker in the final frame The next game is tonight Wednesday at the Acton Arena with the match due to begin at p With hardly a breather the Rams are off to the Ontario provin cial playoffs m St Catharines this weekend The Rams ranked the C division play their first game tf In Tyke lacrosse playoff action the Acton team is also on the ropes having lost their first two games of a best of five senes againsl In the first game on Wednesday Acton came up against a strong goalie who allowed just one goal a shot by Jason McGuire which elud ed the Arthur netminder Un fortunately Acton goalie Eddie Hess t so lucky having nine goals scored against him Hess plaj a strong second game on Thursday in Arthur many tough saves but on Iv two extra players on the bench there was a lot of n their he Acton side did man ige to score three markers but it wasn t enough to overcome Arthur won The third and possibly last game of the series is set for tomorrow night Thursday in thur In lacrosse house league play the Mickey Mouse team beat the Bugs Bunny squad 102 in a two game total goals senes Steve Atkinson scored four times and Michael McDonald got the other two and assisted on one to lead their team to the victory