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PAGE 16. WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1987 TARA EVANSHEN of Brooklin, a Falkenham, Lehman and Norman member of the Durham Pony Club, Farms north of Myrtle over the guides her mount over a jump during weekend. She finished second. novice girls' competition in the Free Press photo tetrathlon hosted by the club at the By MIKE JOHNSTON After just 16 games behind the bench as assistant coach, Bill Eyre has resigned from the Whitby Warriors junior A lacrosse team. He informed general manager AI Garrard after last week's 19-3 loss to the Peterborough Maulers. "After the game I told Al I of- ficially resigned. There is just not enough commitment from the players so why should I waste my time?" said Eyre who was in his first year as a coach following a five-year run as a player with the Warriors. During an interview with The Free Press, Eyre painted a messy picture of the Warriors club. "The veterans weren't pulling their load and they weren't associating with the rookies. There are too many little groups on the team,"he said. According to Eyre, when he placed a rookie on a line with a veteran, the rookie wasn't given a chance. "I was useless behind the ben- ch," he said. "The players weren't doing what I told them. Sometimes Two riders qualify for national event Two members of the Durham Pony Club have qualified for national level competition after running, shooting, swimming and riding their way to victories at the Central Ontario regional tetrathlon held at Log Cabin Stables in Myrtle last weekend. Kelly Kime of Brooklin acquired the highest total score in the junior boys division (12-14) at the end of the two-day event which qualifies him for the national tetrathlon in Red Deer, Alta., next month. Bobbi Lehman, also of Brooklin, placed second in the senior girls' division (15-21), and will also head to Alber- ta. Other senior girls from the same club who placed were Karen Burt, fifth; Jodi Gray, seventh and Don- na Brewer, eighth. In the novice girls division, Tara Evanshen placed second; Kathleen Piehl, third; Vicki Robinson, fifth; Jen- nifer Evanshen, sixth, and Tanya Dervent, ninth. Dervent had the fastest time in the swimming com- petition overall. Keith Reid placed eighth in the junior boys' division. The point totals of Kime, Tara Evanshen, and Piehl earned the Durham club the overall challenge trophy, for the top competing team. Durham also received the shooting challenge trophy for the top shooting scores of Lehman, Jennifer Evanshen, and Kime. This is the first year the Durham club has won either of these trophies. Both Kime and Lehman have competed nationally in this com- petition in the past, Lehman as a junior in 1984, and Kime in the same division last year. Kime managed a sixth-place finish at the event in Milton, Ont., and the Cen- tral Ontario team placed second in Canada. Over 90 competitors from pony clubs as far as North Bay, Guelph and Baltimore Hills tooks part in last week's event which was hosted by the Durham club. they would do just the opposite to bug me, hoping they would get the last laugh. "Well I hope I have got the last laugh now," said Eyre. One of the incidents with the team, that led to Eyre's resignation was the death of player John Pipher. Pipher died at Sunnybrook Hospital recently following injuries he received in a motorcycle ac- cident. "John's twin brother Jimmy came to me and asked if he could finish John's season," said Eyre recalling the conversation. "That was one of the bravest things I have ever seen and they (the Warriors) won't make any room for him." Eyre said Pipher attended a practice and looked good enough to join the club, 'but he was never given a chance. Eyre said the Warriors have an abundance of talent if only they would listen to coach Bryce Jordan. "Bryce knows what to do but the players just won't listen to him,9I think they have been spoiled all their lives." Eyre said when he played with the Warriors every member of the team was at the warm-ups. Now Eyre said the turnout at the warm- ups averages about seven. "It is just hilarious. You would go into the dressing room where they were sitting and yell at them to get out to the warm-up. All they would do was look at you and smile." . According to coach Jordan, Eyre's resignation was not unex- pected. "I don't blame him for leaving," said Jordan, who admits there is a lackadaisical attitude among the SEE PAGE 17 Complaints made over diamond maintenance Managers and parents o a Whit- by baseball team say they're becoming "frustrated" over Town maintenance of a Peel Park diamond. "They just make one hell of a mess of the diamond," says Doug Grylls, coach of the peewee rep team which plays home games on the north diamond at Peel Park. He says builder's sand, con- taining larger-than-normal stones, has been dumped on the infield and then raked. The stones are hazar- dous to players whò slide and to in- fielders because of bad bounces, he says. Home plate and the pitcher's mound have been ripped out of the ground during Town maintenance, says Grylls, involved with baseball for more than 25 years. He says that managers and players also have to lime the diamonds before games, time that could be spent in pre-ganie warm-up. "They spend al their time fixing up the diamond rather than preparing for the game. It's ridiculous," says Randy Doner, a parent of a player on the team. He says he is most disturbed that a Whitby rep team "has to play in conditions like this. "Irregardless of rep or bouse league, they're sliding out there," says Doner. "Nobody's been hurt yet. But it's going to happen." "They couldprobably use this for a moonscape," says Grylls. "We're afraid someone is going to get hurt. I don't know what we have to do." Tearm managers and parents have called the Town about the conditions. "Therecreation department doesn't give us any answers," says Grylls. He says the diamonds in other . communities within the league are all "well-groomed. "It looks bad when out-of-town teams come in here," he says. Ron Maples, a parent of a player on the Ajax team which played on the Peel Park diamond last week, said the stones could pose problems for players but that the diamond could easily be improved. "It's a good facility. It wouldn't take much to make it work," he says. SHOWING home plate and pitcher's mound ripped out of the ground from Town maintenance of the Peel Park baseball diamond are peeweerep tein coaches Doug Grylls (1), Bill Puchalski (middle) and manager Jim Andrew (r). Free Press photo *SPORTS Eyre resigns as assistant coach