The sport of speed skating is making inroads in the North Halton area and the local club recently organized its first-ever competition in Milton, which included a half dozen athletes from Halton Hills.
Seventy youth competitors from seven clubs around the region took part in the Milton Speed Skating Club’s inaugural Mini Meet at the Milton Sports Centre and skaters from the host team turned in some record times.
Georgetown’s Sam McEachran, 15, broke the one-minute benchmark in the juvenile boys’ 500m race in a time of 0:59.68, the second fastest time for a Milton club member over that distance. He also had second-place finishes in the 777m and 1,000m races, as well as a third in the 500m.
Phillip Geng of Georgetown took top spot in three of his events in the junior division, including a personal best in the 500m in which he nearly cracked the minute mark, clocking in at 1:00.25.
Abby McEachran raced to a second-place result in the 500m, while fellow midget division teammate Lydia Geng placed third in the 333m.
Acton’s Karenna Haefner posted a victory in the bantam girls’ 222m event and was runner-up in three others. Charlotte Geng, a peewee competitor who has registered times fast enough to qualify for Ontario Cup races, won the 333m race in Milton and was third in the 222m and 111m.
Another member of the Milton club from Georgetown, Kelsey Carr, competed at an Ontario Cup event in Belleville on the same weekend that her teammates were skating...

Midget AE Raiders win Stoney Creek tourney
Tuesday December 30 2008 Georgetown’s New Solutions Capital Group midget additional entry rep Raiders won the 23rd-annual Ace Bailey Minor Hockey Tournament in Stoney Creek with a 4-3 overtime victory over the Georgina Blaze in the final.
This weekend, the Georgetown... GSC hosts Skates Alive for first time in 25 years
Monday December 29 2008 The Georgetown Skating Club hosted the Skate Canada- Central Ontario Skates Alive competition recently at the Mold-Masters SportsPlex and several of its athletes turned in medal-winning performances.
A dozen clubs from the Midway Area West... Minor Bantams to play U.K. squad
Monday December 29 2008 The Georgetown Minor Hockey Association will host Britain’s under-14 boys’ national team for an exhibition game Friday (Jan. 2) morning.
The Brits will face George-town’s Buy Wise Windows & Doors minor bantam AA Raiders in the international... Raiders clawed
Monday December 29 2008 Anyone who thought that the quest for the Ontario Junior Hockey League’s MacKinnon Division title was a two-horse race forgot to include the Burlington Cougars in the mix.
The Cougars took three out of four points from the first-place... Midget AA Raiders heading to Europe
Tuesday December 23 2008 Eamonn Maher Just because the city of Ottawa is hosting this year’s World Junior Hockey Championships, it doesn’t mean there won’t be groups of Canadian teenagers rampaging through Europe during the holidays, and one of those teams will come from Georgetown.

Getting a grip on the situation
Tuesday December 23 2008

Graham Paine

The annual E. C. Drury Invitational Wrestling Tournament  was held recently at the Milton high school and included both boys’ and girls’ divisions in various weight classes. (Above) Amy Pond of Georgetown District High School (top) grapples...

House league squads take over SportsPlex
Tuesday December 23 2008

House league hockey action takes over the Mold-Masters SportsPlex and Memorial Arena beginning tomorrow (Saturday) as the Georgetown Minor Hockey Association’s (GMHA) Christmas Tournament 2008 hits the ice.
GMHA teams ranging from the junior...

Peewee AE Raiders qualify for Silver Stick

A balanced attack offensive attack, along with stellar defensive play and goaltending, led the Toppers Pizza peewee AE Raiders to their second consecutive regional Silver Stick qualifier tournament title in Chatham. They have advanced to the...

Raiders-Blades tilt a playoff preview?
Monday December 22 2008

Eamonn Maher

Playoffs for the Ontario Junior Hockey League don’t start for another month and a half, but the 350 or so spectators at the Alcott Arena got a post-season preview Saturday night when the host Georgetown Raiders squeezed out a 3-1 win over the...

Nominate now for sports museum
Monday December 22 2008

The Halton Hills Sports Museum is looking for athletes, teams or builders worthy of being inducted into its third-annual Hall of Fame in 2009 and the deadline for nominations arrives next month.
The museum, located in the Mold-Masters...

Peewee AA Raiders movin’ up
Monday December 22 2008

With a 12-8-2 record, the Georgetown Toyota peewee AA Raiders continue to make their way up the Tri-County league standings.
Georgetown 3, Guelph 3: Cory Highfield (G, A); Blair Vander Glas, Matt Simpson (G); Marty Burwell (2A); Cody...

Raiders gift-wrap win for visiting Crushers
Thursday December 18 2008

Eamonn Maher

The Georgetown Raiders were in a gift-giving mood in their home rink Wednesday night and the Orangeville Crushers were the thrilled recipients of the pre-Christmas benevolence.
The Crushers jumped on loose pucks that usually have been hard to...

Truscott closes out year with second-place fly finish
Thursday December 18 2008

Georgetown’s Tasha Truscott closed out her 2008 race schedule with an impressive second-place finish in the 100-metre butterfly at the Paul Bergen Junior International Championships swim meet this past weekend in Portland, Oregon.
The...