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PAGE 12, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1979, WHITBY FREE PRIESS Soccer ies a fast7growing sport for Whitb osadgirl Soccer is a "1really musbr- oomlng" sport ln Whitby says Rein Verrydt, Pres- ident of the Whitby Iroquois Soccer Club. This year the club has si teams of boys and girls aged 7 to 18, compared to 44 teams ln 1978. This includes il youth girls' teamns and one senior girls' teamn. According to M4r. Verrydt, there are 750 boys and girls and more than 150 adults involved lu socter in Whitby. This represents a consider- able increase from the time soccer got'started in town with two teams in 1965-66, he said. The Whitby Iroquois Soc- cer Club is the new name for the former Whitby Minor Soccer Association. Last winter al of Durham Region from, Pickering to Bowmanvilie formed an as- sociation called the Durham Region Youth Soccer Assoc., with each community haviug a local club,, or uumber of clubs as in the case of Oshawa., The young soccer players play 45 gamnes a week on il soccer fields in the town, with games scheduled for 6:15 p.m. on the unlighted fields and 8 p.m. on lighted fields, Monday through Thursday. The two lighted soccer fi élds are at Peel Park and Iroquois- Park. The Iroquois Park field wiII go into serv- ice for the first time this year. An officiai opening is tentatively scheduled for July 7, says Mr. Verrydt. The unlighted soccer fields include two at St. Leo's School"in Brooklin, two in West Lynde, 'and one each at Willow, Hutchison, Blair and Annes Street parks, and one beside St. John's Ang- lican Church on Victoria St. There are both competi- tive and house league games. in the soccer season, which runs from May to the end of September.' Whitby teams play teams from Ajax, Pickering Town and Village, Oshawa, Bow- manville, Peterborough and Uxbridge. Both home and away -games are scheduled throughout the soccer sêason, The house league teams players can be on tearns with their friends and one area playes against another area in the town. Besides the regular coin- petitive and house 'league play, there are a numnber of special events planned this year by the Whitby Iroquois Soccer Club. The County Town Carnival competitive tournamnent will be held Aug. 3 to 6 with 32 teamns in four divisions. Teams wiil be coming from. the United States, Quebec and Northern Ontario as well as from closer to home to take part in this tournament. Whitby's twin' city, 'Longueuil, Quebec is tent- atively scheduled to send Mosquito boys' and girls' teamns to the officiai opening