Georgetown District High School's junior boys football team lost the Halton championship game 34-9 to Nelson High School on Tuesday, Nov. 10, at Bronte Athletic Field.
Georgetown reached the final by routing Frank Hayden S.S. 49-7 in the semifinal at home on Friday, Nov. 6, a week after shutting out Iroquois Ridge H.S. 33-0 on the road on Thursday, Oct. 29.
Nelson has now ended two Georgetown football seasons in less than a week. Its senior team beat Georgetown's seniors 45-0 in a semifinal at Nelson on Thursday, Nov. 5.
Also on Tuesday, the senior girls' basketball team's playoff run ended with a 48-29 semifinal loss at E.S. Sainte-Trinite, according to results posted by the Halton Secondary School Athletic Association, which runs high school sports in the region. Georgetown plays in Tier 2, one of the league's divisions for senior girls' basketball.
The girls' last week was a turnaround. They lost 34-28 to White Oaks High School on Monday, Nov. 2, beat Aldershot High School 32-13 at home the next day, then beat White Oaks 38-30 in the quarterfinal at White Oaks on Thursday, Nov. 5, avenging the earlier loss. As of Nov. 6, they sat fifth of 10 teams in the Tier 2 standings, with 10 points.
Even with Tuesday's losses, Georgetown is 5-4 in nine games across three sports in the results Lokul has collected since the school year began on Sept. 1. Christ the King Catholic Secondary School, also in Halton Hills, is 2-6 in eight games.
Georgetown's senior boys' volleyball team is still alive. It won its semifinal 2-1 at T.A. Blakelock H.S. on Monday, Nov. 9.
