SALES SERVICE LEASING HWY. #25 & 401 878-4137 MILTON Halton Hills This’ Week, Saturday) January 1,'1994'— Page 21 NORTHEND J 7 By Mike Zrostek * What appeared to be a possibly improved and promising year for the Georgetown Chrysler Raiders in the newly-formed Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League, hath t turned out that way, as th Es woes continued last Sunday, whwn they lost 8-6 to be "Gureetsville Derbys at Gordon Alcott Memorial Arena. With many people picking the Raiders to be the sleeper team of the West division it might better be put they have definitely been sleeping. The Raiders turned in another inconsistent effort, finding themselves down 3-0 after the first nine minutes of be first period and 4-2 after othe Raiders than poured it on in the — second. Unfortunately, playing to their potential for a whole game ma a 2 one Georgetown enjoyed en capertunitica tense in the second and popped in three goals, including a beau- ty by Trevor Elinesky who scored as he was falling down in front of the Derby net, reducing the. Streetsville lead to 5-3. Both teams scored late in the second leaving ‘the visi- tors with a slim 6-5 lead. However, sloppy play early in the third by the Raiders resulted in a Streetsville goal at 2:23 and the Raiders never couldn’t come back. Elinesky | (2), Dean Roberts, Chris Monk, Kevin Lamb and David Bouskill scored for the Raiders, whose winless streak has reached eight. Ian Ellis and. Doug Sheppard eacin had three assists, Trevor Brandt and Raiders slide continues 4 \ Dave Milek had two while Kris Arro and Shaun Healy each had one. With 11 games left in the regular season, it’s a sure thing the Raiders will fe seventh in the West divi where they presently sit at 6- Raiders trip By Mike Zrostek Some weird things took place in the Ontario Hockey ation Provincial Junior “A” Newmarket Showcase Tournament opening rounds. (The tournament continued through Thursday — at press time, final results weren’t available). In the opening round, teams from the East division won seven of eight contests against the West, including two wins Lindsay Bears — 2-24 on the year. Lindsay defeated the Georgetown Chrysler Raiders Tuesday morning 6- 4 and then upset the high-fly- ing Oakville Blades 3-2 later that same day... * Oakville has been hot as of late climbing the West divi- sion ladder sitting just five points behind the second place Burlington Cougars. Streetsville was the only team to defeat an East squad in the first round with a 5-0 win over Collingwood, Another upset saw the Ajax Axemen, who came in barély over .500 edge the West leading Hamilton Kilty B’s 7-5,.who.are.24-4 on. the. regular season. Heading into the semi- by the lowly . 25, 15 points behind Streetsville and 12 ahead of last place Royal York. Next league action for the Raiders will be Tuesday in Hamilton, 7:30 p.m. against the West division first-place Kilty B’s. The Raiders next home game is this Saturday, 7:30 p.m. at Gordon Alcott Memorial Arena against the’ Brampton Capitals. at tourney finals three division winners had been determined. ost Newmarket, Hamilton and in a bit of a surprise Markham took their division beating out favoured Burlington, who continue to stru The last division was still up for grabs as of Wednesday, the champi- onship game went Thursday i=5 ight. The Raiders didn’t advance as they lost their second game to host Newmarket 6-1 and then their final game 6-2 to Oakville. The Raiders did receive some good news as David Bouskill and Jason Parks were named_to the Rookie- All Star game for the West division that was played Thursday. Georgetown was still awaiting word to see if Shaun Healy was voted to the team. z Tan Ellis will be the lone Raider going to the OHA Junior “A” All-Star Game that goes Jan. 8 in Markham 1:50 p.m, g Ellis, in his last year with the Raiders is enjoying a _. gteat season offensively, net- ting 64 points (34-goals and 30-assists) in 30 games. GEORGETOWN MIDGET TOURNAMENT dan 2 — Jan. 9, 1994 ‘AAA’ ‘AN’ Halton Hurricanes York-Simcoe Express | Newmarket Georgetown Acton Oakville Milton Parry Sound Burlington Guelph Streetsville Aurora hn Chinguacousy Hillcrest Summits Thomhill Islanders East Enders (Toronto) Don Mills Express SUN. JAN. 2/94 FRI. JAN. 7/94 1. 1:00p.m. Georgetown vs. Thomhill ‘AN’ | 18. 6:00 p.m. Milton vs, Hillcrest ‘AN 2. 2:30 p.m. Chinguacousy vs. Guelph ‘AAA’ | 19. 7:30 p.m. Streetsville vs. Newmarket ‘A 3. 4:00 p.m. ‘Hillcrest vs. Streetsville ‘AN’ 1 20. 9:00 p.m. Georgetown vs. ParrySound © “AA” 4, 5:30 p.m. Burlington vs. EastEnders ‘AA’ | SAT. JAN. 8/94 5. 7:00 p.m. Acton vs. Vaughn ‘AA’ | 21. 7:30am. Vaughn vs. East Enders ‘AN 6. 8:30p.m. York-Simcoe vs. Guelph’ ‘AM’ | 22. 9:00 a.m. Halton vs, Don Mills ‘DAW’ MON. JAN. 3/94 23. 10:30 a.m. York-Simcoe vs. Oakville ‘AAA’ 7. 6:00 p.m. Acton vs. Burlington ‘AK’ | 24. 12:00 p.m. Parry Sound vs. Thomhill ‘AN’ 8. 7:30 p.m. Aurora vs, Thomhill ‘AN’ | 25. 1:30 p.m. Chinguacousy vs. Don Mills ‘AAA’ 9. 9:00 p.m. Newmarket vs. Milton ‘AA’ | 26. 3:00 p.m. Halton vs. Guelph ‘AAW’ TUES. JAN. 4/94 27. 4:30 p.m. Aurora vs. Parry Sound ‘AN 10. 6:00 p.m. Milton vs. Streetsville ‘AN | SUN. JAN. 9/94 11. 7:30 p.m. Aurora vs. Georgetown. ‘AA’ | 28. 10:00 a.m. ‘AAA’ Semi-final 2nd vs. 3rd 12: 9:00 p.m. Halton vs. York-Simcoe ‘AAA’ | 29. 12:00 p.m. ‘AAA’ Semi-final 1st vs. 4th WED. JAN. 5/94 30, 2:00 p.m. ‘AA’ Semi-final Grp winner vs Wild Card 13. 5:30 p.m. Burlingtor'vs. Vaughn ‘AN’ | 31. 4:00 p.m. ‘AA’ Semifinal Grp winner vs Grp winner 14, 7:00 p.m. Oakville vs. Chinguacousy ‘AAA’ | 32. 6:00 p.m.~ ‘AAA’ Final #28 winner vs #29 winner 15. 8:30.p.m, Newmarket vs. Hillcrest ‘AA’ | 33. 8:00 p.m. ‘AA’ Final #30 winner vs #31 winner: THURS. JAN. 6/94 16. 6:00 p.m. East Enders vs. Acton ‘AN 17, 7:30 p.m. Don Mills vs. Oakville “AAR. Acton _ Nellis ounce Novice Sabres proved to be not very hos- pitable hosts, winning the eight-team, Acton Novice Tournament staged last Monday at the Acton Community Centre. The Nellis Sabres triumphed 6-4 over Haliburton ae in the championship gam The tournament, ne which has been running for more than 10 years, attracted entries from Georgetown, Arthur, Milton, Tottenham, Caledonia, King City and Haliburton as well as the host Acton Nellis Construction ibres. Andrew Pembleton’s hat trick, which gave him the Most Valuable Player game award, and single goals by Jon Newby, Mike Dube and John Field helped the Sabres ae the tourna- ment croy Coach Mike Wolfer, said the boys were very happy with the win and that the tournament altogether was well run. “Tt was great. I think this against Haliburton Huskies in Novice Mike Dube, of the Acton Nellis Construction Novice Raiders, scored the first goal the championship game of the Novice hockey tourna- ment staged Monday at the Acton Community Centre. The Nellis crew went on to down Haliburton 6-4 to win championship laurels. Nellis Sabres take tournament is the first time.in recent memory an Acton team has won the tournament. There were good crowds, with some great participation from the teams and the (mid-day) shoot-out was at.” Acton opened the tourna- ment with an ee ise overtime Tottenham and then defeat. ed King City 6-3 in the sec- ond game, enabling the hometown squad to advance to the final. Members of the champi- onship Acton Nellis Construction Novice Sabres are: Jason Strong, Max Shaefar, Chris Jowett, Andrew Pembleton, Sean Kirk, David Lyons, Mike Dube, Jon Newby, Steve Atkinson, Nick Mastro, Jason Field, Matt Wolfer, Mike MacDonald, Shawn Prentice, Adam Brouillard and Mark Pawlak. Team coaches are Mike Wolfer, Robin Inscoe and Bob ube. The Georgetown Major Novice Raiders also com- peted in the Acton tourna- HHTW photo ment, but lost their first game 4-3 to eventual cham- pionship finalist Haliburton Huskies to drop out of title contention. The Major Novice Raiders rebounded in the f- second game, however, to drop Caledonia, 3-1. Billy McDonald, Andrew McGourty and Brett Velten were the first game marks- men with Velten, Jeff Boyce, Scott Rostrup and Vince Burke notching assists. Andy Burns was the game’s MVP. In their second outing against Caledonia, Velten, Burns and McDonald fired the counters with Matt Knoepfli collecting two helpers and single assists going to Burns McDonal and Brent Beaumont. Goaltender Donnie Lane was the game MVP. The Raiders did collect some tournament honors, however, as Lane was the top goaltender in the penal- ty shot shoot-out, and Beaumont emerged as the top gunner. By Mara Fantegrossi Special to HHTW The Georgetown PDS Minor Atom Raiders ended their regular season play before the Christmas break on a high note, undefeated in the last three games and elevating their record well over the 500 mark to 16-7-2. On Dec.18, the hometown Raiders defeated Brantford 7-2. Although Brantford scored in the first, Georgetown dominated from the second onwards. Ronny Larocque netted the Raiders’ first two goals with Graham McCulloch assisting. Kyle Hotham then added the third goal of the second period from T.J. Monaghan, Scott Pike, Tim ‘PDS Raiders coming Mansfield and Binsell. Ryan LaRose played a steady game between the posts. On Dec. 21 at Alcott, despite having three players sidelined, the Raiders dumped on their visitors from Ching 6-3, Hotham got the first marker from Busby with a shot on the ice catch- ing the far corner. Then Binsell fired in the rebound from McCulloch’s shot, with Black also helping out. Ching got on the board before the end of the first with a powerplay goal, and then they tied it in the sec- ond. In the third period, Georgetown took over with four goals by Alex Durham, Hotham, Busby and Mark Fantegrossi. on strong Adding single helpers were Hotham, Mansfield and Snow. In net for the Raiders fending off the Ching attacks was Chris Henderson, backed up by his defense team of Black, Doug Martin, Busby and Mansfield. In Milton, the Raiders ended up skating to a 1-1 draw. Most of the squad wasn’t feeling 100 per cent and it showed in an unchar- acteristically sluggish game. Fortunately for Georgetown, in the.third period Hotham came up with the play of the game, taking a pass from Busby, rushing down the wing, deking the goalie and burying the puck behind him.