Maple Grove turned in three top-four finishes to win the tyke division (eight year old) pennant at the Halton District School Board Lamb Relay meet at Nelson Stadium Thursday and missed a second pennant by the narrowest of margins.

Maple Grove's pennant win was led by the boys' relay team, which won a close race against Sheridan. Maple Grove posted a winning time of one minute and 7.37 seconds, just edging Sheridan's time of 1:07.73.

Maple Grove was third in the tyke girls' race and fourth in the tyke mixed race to finish with 18 points, well ahead of second place Park, which had 12.

Gladys Speers edged Chisholm by two-tenths of a second to win the tyke mixed race in a time of 1:08.37.

Maple Grove narrowly missed a second pennant in the atom (nine year old) division where Burlington's Dr. Charles Best topped the Oakville school by a single point, 18-17 - but it was actually much closer than that.

Dr. Charles Best beat Maple Grove to the finish line in the atom girls' race by one-one hundredth of a second to win in 1:06.38- one of four races on the day decided by less than a tenth of a second. The victory earned Best 10 points while Maple Grove got seven for second.

Maple Grove did win the atom boys' race in 1:03.00.

In another near dead heat, Oakville's Brantwood edged Best by one-one hundredth of a second to win the atom mixed race in 1:05.61.

Pilgrim Wood and Gladys Speers had a good battle in the midget girls' (11 year old) race. Pilgrim Wood's winning time of 1:01.37 was six-one hundredths ahead of Gladys Speers.

Results from the meet, including winners, top-six Oakville finishers and final standings were as follows:

Tyke girls: 1. Park 1:09.74; 3. Maple Grove 1:13.67.

Tyke boys: 1. Maple Grove 1:07.37; 2. Sheridan 1:07.73.

Tyke mixed: 1. Gladys Speers 1:08.37; 2. Chisholm 1:08.57; 4. Maple Grove 1:11.38.

Tyke standings: 1. Maple Grove 18; 3. Gladys Speers 10; 5. Chisholm 7; 5. Sheridan 7.

Atom girls: 1. Dr. Charles Best 1:06.37; 2. Maple Grove 1:06.39; 6. Sheridan 1:08.90.

Atom boys: 1. Maple Grove 1:03.00.

Atom mixed: 1. Brantwood 1:05.61; 4. Gladys Speers 1:06.90; 6. Chisholm 1:07.20.

Atom standings: 1. Dr. Charles Best 18; 2. Maple Grove 17; 3. Brantwood 10.

Bantam girls: 1. Glenview 1:02.01; 5. Pilgrim Wood 1:05.66; 6. Chisholm 1:06.69.

Bantam boys: 1. Glenview 1:01.41; 4. Maple Grove 1:03.32.

Bantam mixed: 1. Glenview 1:02.56; 4. Gladys Speers 1:03.12.

Bantam standings: 1. Glenview 30; 6. Gladys Speers 3.

Midget girls: 1. Pilgrim Wood 1:01.31; 2. Gladys Speers 1:01.37; 4. W.H. Morden 1:02.90.

Midget boys: 1. Glenview 59.61; 3. Munn's 1:02.45.

Midget mixed: 1. Brant Hills 1:01.32; 3. Gladys Speers 1:01.80.

Midget standings: 1. Glenview 22; 2. Gladys Speers 12; 4. Pilgrim Wood 10.