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Jones joins in Western romp here are so-called winning dynasties in sports, and then there's the relentless domination for over two decades that the University of Western Ontario Mustangs have enjoyed in varsity men's squash. The Mustangs have won 23 consecutive men's titles in the Ontario University Athletics championships and Georgetown's Andrew Jones was a member of the most-recent Western team to achieve victory. The 24-yearold Jones was one of six Mustangs to win his match during a 6-0 sweep of the host McGill Redmen of Montreal in the final. ANDREW A fifth-year student at Western JONES who is looking to earn his teacher's college degree, the kinesiology program honours graduate always kept his squash game sharp and warmed to the thought of winning another provincial title. "I had taken a year off school and when I was planning on coming back for a fifth year to Western, the idea of playing on the squash team really got me excited," he said from his parents' Georgetown home. "Obviously we've got a pretty good stranglehold on the OUA Cup and I'm confident we can do well at the nationals." The Mustangs have qualified for the CIAU championships at the University of Toronto on March 10 and Jones has begun training in earnest. Winners from the national championships will gain a berth at the World University tournament in Budapest, Hungary later this year. Western's men dropped only five sets during the OUA tournament, even without all-stars Iain Crozier and Michael Auer. --By Eamonn Maher, staff writer Raiders fail to take stranglehold fter netting six goals in the opening game of the series, offence has become an area of concern again for the Georgetown Raiders in their first-round playoff series with the Streetsville Derbys. The host Raiders had an opportunity to take a commanding 3-0 lead in the OHA Provincial Jr. A Hockey League best-of-7 West Conference quarter-final on Wednesday night, but lost to the determined Derbys, 2-1, on a third-period Steve Tamaridis marker. Georgetown outshot Streetsville 26-24, and while Derby netminder Tyler Gordon was spectacular in his first appearance the series, the Raiders once again had many odd-man offensive breaks that didn't result with attempts on goal. There was also some controversy with 21 seconds left in the third period when the Raiders felt they had scored the equalizer, but referee Darren Price waved it off and didn't punish a Streetsville defender for intentionally pushing the net off its moorings. "The officiating wasn't why we lost the game," said Raiders' coach Jay Anderson. "We've put ourselves in a position where we're not finishing off our plays around the net and what ends up happening when you let a team like Streetsville hang around, you give them a chance to pull out a win. So we'll try to start another two-game win streak Friday night in their barn." A brilliant wrist shot by Georgetown's leading scorer, Mike Gurtler, in the first period was all the offence the Raiders could generate on the evening. The Derbys struck first on a rare softie surrendered by Georgetown goalie Ryan Gibb. Game four of the series is slated for tonight in Streetsville, with game five at Georgetown's Mold-Masters SportsPlex on Saturday. Both contests have a 7:30 p.m. start time. In game two Tuesday at Streetsville, defenceman Ryan Hirtle-St. Denis tallied early in the first period for the Raiders, and although they had several more scoring opportunities than Streetsville-- including a woeful 0 for 10 with the man advantage-- the visitors weren't in the clear until another blueliner, Erik Lundmark, and Jeremy Whelan scored within a minute late in the third period to close out a 3-0 triumph. Gibb made 24 saves to record the shutout. Anderson said the prognosis doesn't Georgetown Raiders' Greg Lovatsis (55) puts a subtle grab on Streetsville Derby's forward Ryan Silveira as the pair battle for a loose puck during the Derbys' 2-1 win Wednesday at the Mold-Masters SportsPlex. Despite the loss the Raiders lead the teams' best-of-seven quarter-final playoff series 2-1 with game four tonight in Streetsville and game five in Georgetown tomorrow. Photo by Eamonn Maher look good for Raider defenceman this league are scared of us when we play Andrew Dennis, who suffered a leg like that," said Termini, 20. "As a team injury in the third period of Tuesday's lately, we've been at the top of our game game. The 20-year-old assistant captain and what happened (Wednesday night) and two-year vet with the OHL's Barrie was just a lapse at the end. We'll be fine." Colts is out indefinitely. RAIDER RAP: Raiders' director of "It looks fairly serious and we don't player personnel Peter Mavroudis sufknow if he'll be back at all," said the fered a badly bruised hip after falling in Raider head coach. "He's going to be an aisle of the Vic Johnston Community reassessed and we just don't know. It's a Centre on Tuesday night. It took several shame because he's been a huge chunk of minutes for paramedics to help our team all year." Mavroudis out of the rink during the first Referee Price called just five minor period...The Burlington Cougars defeatpenalties during game three, but ed the host Oakville Blades 5-4 in double Georgetown forward Kyle Termini said OT Wednesday but still trail that West he expects the next two games of the Conference quarter-final 2-1. Milton series to be a punishing test for both swept Mississauga 4-0 and Hamilton led clubs. Brampton 3-0 heading into Thursday "We play our best when we're physi- night's game four. cal and hard-hitting and most teams in --By Eamonn Maher, staff writer