The Georgetown Raiders were an

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team from Georgetown,

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, Canada. They competed in the OHA Senior A and Intermediate A ranks in the 1970s and 1980s. The Raiders won the W.G. Hardy Trophy, also known as the

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, as the Canadian Intermediate A champions in 1982. They are not known to be connected to another

Georgetown Raiders The Georgetown Raiders are a Junior "A" ice hockey team from Georgetown, Ontario, Canada. They are a part of the Ontario Junior A Hockey League. The team began play in the Central Ontario Jr. B league and was known as the "Georgetown Gemini" u ...

team which is currently a member of the

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History

Georgetown was an entry in the Niagara District Intermediate A Hockey League, which folded in 1979. Georgetown was one of two teams from that loop (the Dundas Merchants were the other) to be accepted into the Georgian Bay Intermediate A league, with which the Niagara league had played an interlocking schedule. The league changed its name to the Major Intermediate A Hockey League in 1980. The Raiders played four years in the Georgian Bay/Major league and finished in first place three times. They also advanced to the playoff final in all four seasons, losing to Dundas in 1980, beating the

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in 1981, defeating the Collingwood Shipbuilders in 1982 and losing to Collingwood in 1983. In 1982, the Raiders became the first OHA team to ever win the

. Only two Ontario teams ever won it, the other being the

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in 1986. The Hardy Cup was the Senior "AA"/Intermediate "A" National Championship. The Major Intermediate A league folded in 1983. Georgetown was one of three teams accepted into the OHA Senior A league. Its fate after this point is not known.

Season-by-season results

References

External links

Georgetown Raiders memorabilia from The Georgetown Vault
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