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toast of Ha I ton Hills Acton irefighter bantams arc the toast of Hills this week following their championship victory in the C division of the George town International Bantam Tournoment on the weekend Firefighters rebounded from deficit to Valley Last in the C di vision championship gome Saturdoy morning and very nearly pulled the biggest up set In tournament history in their grand championship semi final against the A vision champion Detroit Bos team in the afternoon Although they had control led most of the play the American team which in eludes some of the best 14 year olds in the city of Detroit plus suburban and St Clair Shores found them selves in a 2 tit with the spunky Firefighters at the end of the second period Crowd The highly partisan AUon crowd nearly raised the roof off Georgetown new Memorial Arena when De troit defenceman Al Tour deflected tht puck into his own net giving Acton lead with only se ven minutes left to play in the game Dave the closest Acton plover to the play was credited with the goal Faced with the possible humiliation of losing to a team from a town of the slick Detroit team bore down and scored three times in the 101st Year No ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY MARCH 31 197G COACH TOWNSLEY whoops it up with happy Acton players Firefighter Bants oust Bowmanville 139 The Firefighter Bants ousted two teams on their way to the level C champion ships at the Georgetown tournament last week They eliminated Bowman in the two gome total goals one day series The Firefighters won both games Previously the Firefighters removed Streetsvillc from playoff contention In both the games played in the Gordon Memorial Arena Bow took early one goal leads The Firefighters how ever poured on the rubber In the first game put the rubber past the goalie five straight times and in the re encounter six times before the opposition fired their second goal captain Scott Malcolm led the teams scoring with five goals Dave McGilloway hod four Steve Van a pair and singles from George Brown and Bruce McPhail top ACTON FIREFIGHTERS were C series Eyken Standing 1 to r are coach Harold champions Team members are front row 1 to Townsley Trefor Gardner Bruce McPhail Rick Gibson Shane Withers Chris Swetman manager Holmes Wade Vickery Pete captain Scott Malcolm Steve Mitchell Dave Muselius Randy Van Fleet Rick Widmont McGilloway George Brown Steve Van Der assistant coach John Goy marksmen were captain Wayde Preston with three and Bedard a pair DETROIT captain Todd Gardiner accepts the Georgetown championship trophy from Halton Hills Councillor former mayor of Acton which gave the Detroit club their toughest tussle in the tournament final seven minutes to win The Acton gome was the est of the tournoment for De troit which went on to des Iroy B division champion Belleville Kinsmen 102 in the grand championship gome night The Amen cans led that game at the end of the first period and at the end of the second The third period originally sche duled for minutes was cut to 10 presumably to save the crowd of 1 the boredom of watching more one sided hockey Lead Detroit took a 20 lead in the first period of the gome against Acton Rick Gibson and McGilloway scored power play goals for the Fire fighters in the second period to tie the score Pete Muse Wade Vickery Scott Malcolm and Randy Van Fleet earned assists in The best player on the ict however may have been Acton s pint sized goalie Steve Mitchell who never shied away from the heaviest Detroit Mitchell was mainly responsible for keeping Acton in the game F delivered coach Harold Townsley his first ever tournament pionship against Valley hast in the division title game Townsley took Acton ban lams to the first Georgetown tournament in and has been at the tournament every year since with the exception of last winter when he look a year off from coaching Be fore Atlon teams had never tone the di vision finals Acton had numerous good storing opportunities in the first five minutes of the gome but Last scored first following a tripping pen ally to Withers The visitors from the north made it on slapshot from the point which went mover Mit hells shoulder Second In the second period took advantage of a penalty to Valley Fast and got on the scoreboard on a goil by Pete The northerners regained their two goal leod however when the Acton fence allowed to completely circle the net and stuff the puck post Mitchell on the opposite side and Luc Va lade scored the first two goals for Volley Last When Dave intercepted pass in the Valley Fast and stored on a picture dekt Fire fighters fire Minutes later captain Scott Malcolm deflected s shot in mid air into Valley Last cage to lie the score J McGilloway and Malcolm teamed up on the winning goal which drew a lot of and from the crowd in the third per faked a Volley Last defender out of his pan Is and passed to Mol who gave the same treatment to the northerners goaltender McGilloway who finished the game with two goals and four assists made wrapped up Acton s first ban tarn tournament title with a long drive later in the period Coach Townsley threw his arms in the air in celebration at the final buzzer and raced on ice to congratulate his charges Captain Scott Malcolm accepted the Georgetown Dairy championship trophy from Councillor Miller in a post game ceremony asked for the floor for a moment in the noisy Acton dressing room later and paid his tribute to a classy group of hockey play I want lo thank you buys for one helluva good season said the Firefighter coach who d been on Ihe losing end of the handshake line at every other tournament Mind you we should have still been the playoffs but this helps moke up for that Assistant coach John Goy Jr and manager Gus Holmes ire among the many former Acton bantam players who played for Townsley in past Georgetown tournaments A third Peter Marzo was in Denver the same day helping his Boston University team finish third in the NCAA hockey championships Although they I score in Silurday action Ihe bants second line of Bruce McPhail Wade Vickery and Irefor Gardner played fine defensive hockey Behind the Shane Withers George Brown Randy Van leet and Kick Gibson dished out some heavy checks Wingers Steve Van Der Ey ken and Pete their share to a total learn effort had to play both without defenceman Rick Widmont who received a suspension in semi final action Winger Charlie and rearguard Ralph also missed the tournament since they were holidaying in the south The bants have one more tournament before they hang up their skates They travel to Beach for that one 10 and It Bants dont fear teams reputation ACTON captain Scott Malcolm accepts the Georgetown Dairy championship trophy from Councillor Miller Junior Sabres OHA for rating The Junior Sabres are submitting an application to the to move up the hock alphabet to level A decision from the lotion will come from the annual meeting April 24 in Toronto Team president Milt Ball said the main reason for changing the team status is a desire to upgrade the brand hockey in town Its the first time the team has applied to go on the B level Bronze for Dave passed his bronze free skating test last Friday at Milton Dave who is a forward with the Firefighter Bant cam could not skate for his tests with the Acton Figure Skating Club because of prior hockey commitments Acton held its tests on March If accepted by the brass an Acton Junior squad may be ploying teams from Georgetown and Milton next fall It a wait and see sit Mr Ball said The application has to be in the offices in Toronto no later than today Talks on the switch from C to have been carried on by team officials on and off through the later part of the A decision to make Ihe application came from a meeting at the library last Thursday Cagers show potential at games At the All Ontario Acton Junior squad has gone ball championships for class to the All Ontario A schools Mitchell over the school break Red men FIREFIGHTER BANT Shane Withers races for the puck during the Acton team s first game against Streetsville at the Georgetown International Bantam Tournament The F irefighter bantams dont fool around when it comes to taking on teoms with excellent reputations The Detroit leim which they nearly feitcd in the grand championship semi finds recently won the ban tarn of the of Michigan and this weekend wilt travel to War wick Rhode Island to com pete in the S National championships The Amen eons had won four ments prior to Saturday los only once at the Hurling ton Golden Horseshoe to Peterborough Valley East the team Ac Ion conquered in the vision final were finalists in the team Quebec lournament There they lost 1 to the Rouyn team in Ihe championship game Valley Last a town of Boo located 1G miles north of Sudbury finished first in the Sudbury Nickel District League and will open a league semi final series tonight the lions D division champions the Georgetown lournamtnt tor seven Firefighters winning tournament pionships is nothing new Those boys Scott Malcolm Dave Bruce Wade ickery Shane Withers Handy Von Heel goalie Chris Swetman helped atoms win the grind championship it the Port Colborne tournament in and as in 1974 helped bring Acton a division championship at the presti gious tournament Barry coached both of those teams Junior Sabres Campbell resigns as team manager Junior Sabre manager Bill Campbell resigned his post with the team lost week No replacement has been found and team president Milt Ball said the chore may be left to Ihe new executive Mr Campbell who has been manager of the team or two years cited business pressures as contributing to his decision He sent a letter to the team president Mr Ball said he was sorry Campbell go He Is a good manager who is also respected by the Sabre players and officials of other teams In the Junior and D loop Mr Ball expressed Ihe hope that Mr Campbell will remain on the team executive but lost both their games The team went for the experience pitting them selves against grade age teoms The Iledmen are in Grades 10 and II won Ihe champion ship by defeating In the first game against Erncstown the look their time getting untracked but remained within ten points of Ihelr opposition for most of the gome won Don Coats was Ac tons leading scorer with 15 points The surprised the team by 17 after the first quarter which won took until the fourth quarter to put a lead on Acton Brian Larsen led the Red men with 17 points Coats had 15 and Don Webster six It is only Ihe second time on mm SUPPORT RIGHT from home came from more than fans who travelled to root for the Firefighters