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Whitby Free Press, 18 Feb 1987, p. 15

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W14ITTBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18,1987, PAGE 1 "lu SPOR[TS IWEEK w __ H-enry downs Anderson in fin al It was an ail-Whitby final, Henry Street ver- sus Anderson, at Henry Street's junior girls' voileybail tournament pn Feb. 14, 1987. Twelve teams took part from Fenelon ayside, Queen Elizabeth Oakviile, Brighton, Dunbarton, Donevan and Eastdale from Oshawa, Denis O'Connor of Ajax, Por- ter of Scarborough along with.Whitby Ser- mior, Anderson and Henry St. of Whitby and competed in two pools. Porter Colegiate and Anderson had 7-3 recor- ds i the round robin, with Porter awarded first on the points <1f- ferential. Eastdale placed first in the other pool with a 9-1 record and Henry Street placed second with 8-2 record. Ini the playoff, Henry î treet defeated Porter two games straight with game scores of 15-2 and 15-3. Meanwhile Ander- son railied fromn a 15-5 loss to Eastdale, taking the next two games with scores of 15-8 and 15-12. This set up the *ail- Whitby final with Henry Street wining the gold medallions by game scores of 15-4 and 15-5. Anderson teamn mem- bers received the silver medailions. For the Henry Street juniors, coached by Tom Buchanan, this is the fifth ,wmn of five junior tournaments the, team bas entered. The team bas won the East- dale, McMaster Univer- sity, Wexford and Kit- chener-Waterloo tour- naments along witb their own. In LOSSA league ac- tion the team is un- defeated to date and finishes their last league games with G.L. Rober- ts and O'Neill, Wed- nesday this week. LOSSA "AA" com- petition wiil be held next Wednesday at Anderson CVI in Whitby. VANESSA ALTON goes into the air to spike the volleyball past an opponent. The Henry St. junior team won the tourna ment' they hosted on the weekend, beating Anderson in the final 15-4, 15-5. p Atoms advance in playoffs Brooklin-Whitby mi- nor atoins have won the first two rounds of the OMHA playoffs, eliminating both Markham and -Newmarket. Whitby elimlînated Markham with two wins and a tie. In the first gamne played in Brookli,, Whitby defeated Markham 2-1. Markham scored the first goal early in the gamne. Then Whitby's Wayne Primeau scored, assisted by Derek- Young, to bring the gamne W a 1-1 tie. It was Îtot until the third period that Whitby's Paul Dillon, on assists from Mike Hogan and Andre Marois, scored the win- ning goal. SThe second game in SMarkham remained a 4- 4' tie even after a 10- minute overtime period. Primeau began the scoring with an unassisted goal in the ,first period. Whitby gained two more goals Ii the second period when Marcs, assisted by- Young, 'and Paul IBrooks, assisted by , Primeau, each scored a ýgoal. SBy the end of the third. period, Markham brought the game W a$- li8I.tle andan overtime, period. Then Markham scored early in the over- time period. Wýhtby's offence'and defence neyer gaveup, and n'ot until the last three minutes did Whit- by's Maroîs score on an assist from Young bringig the score to 4-4. In. the third game, back Wo Brooklin, Whit- by needed a tie or a win while Markham wanted a win.. Both teams played well, but Whit- by's desire and drive propeiled the home team to a 9-4 win, and an undisputed position in the second round of- the playoffs. Young, assisted by Tim Chai, scored the first goal. Then Maroîs scored three goals, on assists from Craig Talent, Young, and Jon Racicot. Five more goals were fired into Markham's net in the third period by various team mem- bers; -Primeau assisted by Jeff Montaigue; Matt Muir assisted by Jim Brown and Dillon; Talent assisted by Prinieau and Brooks; then Brooks. assisted by Primeau and Dillon assisted by Brown. Stephen St. Amnand guarded Whitby's net very well throughout the series. Whitby's other goaltender, Jamie Hogel, was recuperating from an injury, mcurred in the Barrie tournament. The Che ckers' Variety minor atoms went on to meet Newmarket in the second round of the playoffs. Whitby defeated Newmarket in two straight games. The first game in Brooklin was a 6-3 vie- tory. Whitby's Jim Brown put two con- secutive goals in the net - the first unassisted, the second assisted by Muir and Primeau. Paul Brooks' unassisted goal followed by Chai's goal assisted by, Dillon brought Whitby's score to 4-0 by the end of the first period. Newmarket came back in the second period with three goals. But Primeau c linched Whitby's victory putting i two more goals - one unassisted and the other assisted by Dillon. The second game in Newmarket was a 2-0 victory. Whitby's Stephen St. Amnand ear- ned a shutout making some keen'and crucial saves. Chai scored Whitby's first goal on an assist from ?rinieau. Then Primeau fired in the, second unassisted goal. The minor atoms wiil meet Ajax in the final round' of the York- Simncoe playoffs, and the winning team wil in the playoffs. AA .Ontario Whitby skater-second Sarah Cook of the Whitby Figure Skating Club was second in the preliminary girls A division of the Pineridge interclub competition at the Brooklin and Iroquois Park arenas Friday and Saturday. Cook was runner-up to Tracy Eames of the Orono Figure Skating Club in the division. There were 150 skaters form 10 local skating clubs in the an- nual interclub event, the second of a three-part series of competitions. Winners in each category, with the ex- ception of beginners, move on Wo the Eastern Ontario interclub championships in Brockville Mardii 7. The Uxbridge Figure Skating Club won the Boundy Family trophy, given to the club gaiig the most points inthe Pineridge'event. Uxbri dge skaters won five of the'13 divisions. Andrea Robinson of the Cobourg club was first in the intermediate girls. Savina Findlay of Ux- bridge won the pre- novice girls class. Samantha Creet of Uxbridge was first in juvenile girls whlle Aicia J7ffl of Ux- bridge edged Meggan Cawker of Whitby, a member of the Oshawa Figure Skating Club, in pre-juvenile girls B. Neil Redknap of Oshawa won pre- juvenile boys B. Jen- nifer Woolner of Bowmanville captue the pre-juvenile girls A class. Sheri K(lawitter of Oshawa finished ahead of two Uxbridge skaters for the preliminary girls B title. .Greg Urwi of Ux- bridge . won 'in prelinuinary boys' B. Michael Greer of Ajax was first in pre- preliminary boys B. Amanda Pollard of Oshawa won in pre- preliminary girls A. In Ailan MacKenzie of Orono was first for the girls and Jeffrey Baker of Uxbridge for the boys. Swimmer third at Ontario age event Heather Armitage of the Whitby Iroquois swim club was third in the 5o-metre freestyle event at the Ontario provincial age group championships held Feb. 6, 7 and 8 i Etobicoke. Armitage, in the girls' 13 and 14 age division, also had fifth-place finishes inthe 100 , 200- metre backstroke even- 100) freestyle and eleven- th in the 200 freestyle. Wendy primneau,,in the same division, was fifth in the 800 freestyle, ninth in the 400 freestyle and lSth in 100 freestyle. ,Scott Currie, in boys' il and 12 competition, was sixth ,i 200 backstroke and seventh in 100 backstroke. Mark Kelly was llth In 50 She -was eighii1tu Pool wilttopen by March 2 The Anne Ottenbrite Pool at Iroquois Park is expected to be open for publie use by Mon- day, March 2. The pool wil be filled starting Monday, Feb. 23 with the Ministry of Health inspecting the pool Friday, Feb. 27. I

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