The Canadian Champion, Friday, June 30, 2006 - A17 SPORTS SPORTS EDITOR: STEVE LeBLANC e-mail sleblanc@haltonsearch.com Forgione confirms Hawks up for sale DEREK WOOLLAM / CANADIAN CHAMPION DENIED: Milton Maverick goaltender Richie Fuoco turns back a Mimico Mountaineer attacker during regular season-ending play at John Tonelli Sports Centre Sunday afternoon. The Mavericks lost 13-10 - hitting the dou- ble-digit mark for just the second time this season - to close out the year at 1-19. Campbellville' Rick Heinz expected to buy local club By Steve LeBlanc CANADIAN CHAMPION STAFF he Milton IceHawks will like- ly fly under new ownership this coming season. While remaining tight-lipped about any specific details, owner Mario Forgione confirmed yesterday after- noon that hes in negotiations to sell the local Tier 2Jr. A club. "All I can say is that we're entertain- ing offers from a number of individuals and we anticipate having a deal com- pleted withIn the next week or two," be told The Champion. Campbellville resident and well- known hockey school operator Rick Heinz is believed to be the leading con- tender to take over ownership, and there's been talk that he already has a Jr. Red Sox put brakes on mini slump Upstage Brampton with well-rounded perfonnance The Junior Red Sox broke out of a mini "We were in a bit of a funk there last week, mid-season rut in dominant style at Brian Best but we bounded back against Georgetown. Park Sunday afternoon. That got us our confidence back, and basically However, efforts the following night pro- it just canied over to last nigbt (Monday)," vided a much bigger source of encour- said Turer. agement for manager Glenn Turner. Mondays win marked tbe first Up against a far more formidable game of the season for local star opponent in Brampton Monday Liam Tennant, wbo'll sec spot duty evening, Milton delivered one of its with tbe local juniors when hes not most fundamentally-sound perform- competing with the Senior Red Sox. ances of the season to topple the Without question one of the best Royals 5-2. junior-level players around, be came in Coupled with Sunday's 12-2 shellacking of to get thc final two outs after the Royals the less-than-stellar Georgetown Eagles - threatened to tu tbe tide wih a couple of which followed a pair of sub-par outings - runs off PJ. McColl in the ninth. the Red Sox now sit at 7-4-1, half-a-game up Otherwise, Milton was in topnotcb form, on Burlington for fourth place in the COBA as witb Scott McTracb working seven innings of of last night. sbutout bail - surrendering just three bits and striking out seven batters - and catcher Nick Mazzorato driving in four runs on two hits to continue a potent 2006 campaign. Chris Shadlock also had a pair of hits, while Brian Hunter reached base four times and scored twice. At Brian Best Sunday, the Red Sox faced minimal resistance from their North Halton rivals and mercied them in eight innings. Mazzorato and Sean Mathé had back-to- back homers to highlight a fifth-inning upris- ing - Mazzorato's a two-run blast and Mathes a solo shot - while Lee Mathé went 3-for-6 to help fuel the onslaught. Aaron Mark picked up the victory with five solid innings on the mound. The Red Sox will look to build on their recent wins Sunday afternoon, when they play host to third-place Stoney Creek at Brian Best. Game time is 1 p.m. tentative deal in place. Addressing the matter yes- terday, Heinz - a former NHL puckstopper - would only say that he is indeed one of the inter- ested parties. "Yeah, l'm a Rick Heinz prospect," he remarked. There's no word yet on what the probable sale would mean for either the IceHawks' recent affiliation with the OH's Mississauga IceDogs - which Forgione also owns - or for Jay Anderson, who was brought on as Miltons new head coach in mid-April. Ironically enough, Anderson had parted ways with the Georgetown Raiders just a few days earlier, shortly after Heinz was believed to have bought the neighbouring Provincial Jr. A club - a deal that eventually fell apart. "I'm completely in the dark, nobody's contacted me," said a clearly- frustrated Anderson Wednesday after- noon. "I have no idea what's going to happen." Under his short-lived and unofficial reign with Georgetown, Heinz said he wanted to focus more on developing local talent and move away from having OHL overager-stacked teams. He also indicated he'd be a hands-on owner, and possibly assume the general manager post as well. One way or another, the IceHawks are in the midst of their biggest rebuild in recent memory - with no returning players on board for the 2006/07 sea- son. Forwards Matt Read and Adam DeJong were the only two players orig- inally expected to return this coming season, but Read has opted to play with Des Moines in the United States Hockey League (USHL) and DeJong bas been traded to Georgetown for Alex Paiement. ~a~L