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Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), March 25, 1987, p. 15

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Burlington rink wins Sports Calling hockey coaches The Georgetown Minor Hockey Association in seeking coaches In both the rep and house league ranks to take over positions in preparation for the next season Coaches arc needed mediately lo conduct trjouls as the first step in heading into the 19B7 SB hockey season Anyone treated in a posl tion with the association should contact Wayne Pries at or Carson at Minor ball sign up This Thursday is he final day players will be lo register for the Georgetown Baseball Associations season without having a late fee The registration on is being held Holy Crow School from to p day night Registrations filed prior lo the deadline will cos J4j f T ball and for other categories the there Mill be an additional added foes Teams ire expected to be organized for the upcoming season in April is Club seta I raising draw with the lop a Milton nun Frank was the winner of a video cassette recorder in the draw The second of a tape machine and radio to of Georgetown white the third prize of a Fisher Price radio went to Ken Alexander of Burlington Money raised through the draw will be used to assist In the operation of the figure skating club Football team needed The Georgetown Mens flag Football League Is looking for team to round out their for Ihc upcoming season At a recent meeting it was found nine of the teams from last season will be reluming and one more is being sought to round the total out to The only stipulations are flayers must be residents of Hills and they must be at least 19yearsold The league will begin play ing the end of May Gomes are held each Sunday Anyone Interested in enter a team is asked to Don at c Tournament recap SECTION Wednesday March Paget Skatersplan c carnival 6 BrooklinWhitby wins title over Michigan Nationals 42 Whitby claimed the Krai d p Ik it the Annual Georgetown International Hockey Tournament as they downed the Mich gin 42 Saturday ghl the even It was the of the week long tournament the third of the day for both squads Brook Ion Whilbv advanced to the grand championship game by m Division title in a vie over Milton and then In the semi finals they cruised an H win over winners of Division For Nationals it a slightly more difficult road lo the champion ship In the A Division final the Weed overtime periods lo in what was probably the meat exciting game of the entire tournament Michigan also found a formidable opponent in Ihc Kitchener Kodiaks who had earlier taken the Division Li lie to advance to championship semi finals against Nationals Michigan on to beat the In that match up It could be thai the Nationals tough games earlier had some bear ins on the outcome in champion ship game according to Michigan coach Bob Brown They got off to a fast start on us he said In the second we had pressure on and we had the penalties In our favor But our lion of shots was not good At this level of hockey you cant afford to Whitby Larry Lan agreed Ihcir quick start was one of the keys to the win We started very quickly and played with intensity Landovcr said And we maintained intensity for the whole game It always helps to play Both teams praised the Georgetown tournament for the quality of compel it ion it provides Brawn termed it a class act while and co coach Mike agreed it was a super lournament Whitby is Bantam AA team but competes in many AAA tournaments They finished first In their league but were knocked out of competition Tournament More photo from Ihc toumar i nth Annual Georgetown I The Whilby squad got off to a quick start scoring a pair of markers In he opening five minutes of the championship game Brian and Paul Wlndovr tallied make It a game after open frame In the second Michigan was given kinds of opportunities lo get back in game as Whitby took a rash of penalties At one point there were four players from the Whitby squad serving minor pens Hies The nationals did manage to score once on goal David Mitchell whin John Kemeiis found on opening with a shot from he point Pie opportunities lo present themselves but when make the save ding I twogoal lead was restored with under a In the period when Brian Munro tied n Greg Kerr shot that Michigan goalie The Nationals fought back in and closed to within one again when Doug Olds picked the corner on Mitchell with over The lifted Ihcir goalie in the final minute but Munro pumped one into the empty net for Whitby round out the 4 final with seconds on the clock Following ihe game the were awarded the runners up Several individual awards were also presented following the game Keith the captain for the Brooklln Whitby squad was named the Most Valuable Player in the tournament The Most Sportsmanlike Player Award went to olds of Nationals Crawford of Barrie was named Ihe tournament top tender Crawford played four of rle five tournament games and hod a record of wins a loss whilcallowlnglDgoalsagalns Michigan coach Bob Brown was named the recipient of the Coach of the Tournament Award

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