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PAGE 16 uî-i on Fi '., ie \WEDNESDAY, AUGUST5, 1987 SPORTS Seniors faIlin playoff final' The Whitby senior baseball team battled all the way to the league playoff final over the weekend before being upended 10-0 by Port Hope. Port Hope, fourth-place finishers among the closely-matched teams in the Gilmer division of the Molson's Senior league, captured the championship with their second win over Whitby out of three games played between the two teams over the weekend. Whitby lost 7-5 to Port Hope in the opening game but advanced with an easy win over Little Britain, a 3- 2 decision over Oshawa and a 1-0 squeaker over Port Hope. As was the case~ throughout the season, Whitby pitchers - John Turner, Mike Welling and Harold Moore - proved the difference. Then in the semi-final, Turner threw a no-hitter as Whitby erased Peterborough 3-0 to advance to the final meeting and showdown with Port Hope. Whitby will meet Peterborough in a best-of-five semi-final series to begin another playoff to determine the league representative in the On- tario senior B championship to be held in Cambridge over the Labor Day weekend. In the other semi-final, Port Hope will face Oshawa. Melien earns spot on Canadian swim team A Whitby swimmer has earned a spot on the Canadian team which will compete in the Pan-Pacific Games in Brisbane, Australia this month. Lori Melien, 15, won the 100- metre backstroke in the senior nationals at Calgary recently to qualify for the team. She also had a bronze in the 50-metre freestyle and was eighth in the 100-metre butter- fly. Melien, a student at Anderson CVI, is a member of the Ajax Aquatic Club and trains under coach Paul Meronen. She is now off to Hawaii to practise and train with the Canadian team which includes Olympic-medalists Alex Bauman and Victor Davis. Another Whitby swimmer for the Ajax club, Derek Phillips, 16, has just returned from competition in Germany. He was seventh in the 100 backstroke at the nationals in Calgary and will be part of the eight-member combined Ontario and Quebec team going to Japan for a competition. Meronen will coach the eight swimmers. Phillips will be entering Gr. il at Henry Street High School in Sep- tember. Checkers rep team holds lead atop Durham soccer league COACH SAL ARGANTE and members and members of Joanne's Flowers, a Whitby girls' slo-pitch team, celebrate their second straight regular season championship. Enjoying the moment before playoffs get underway are team members Lesley Doran, Charmaine Nelson, Jenny Treleaven, Jennifer Bickle, Kelly Foote, Robin Foote, Darlene Gallant, Chris Waddell, Anna Argante and Heather MceCullagh. Free Press photo The Whitby Iroquois Soccer Club minor atom rep squad sponsored by Checkers Variety strengthened their position at the top of the Durham Region Youth Soccer League (DRYSL) with two recent victories against teams in Oshawa. On Tuesday Whitby played a closely fought game against Oshawa Turul and two first haf goals by Shane Terry were the dif- ference between the teams at the outset. Mark Burns earned the shutout. Wednesday's game against Oshawa Italia was more one-sided as Italia could only field nine players. Goals by Jonathan Allen, Jeff MacLean, Shane Terry, Mark Burns, Andrew David and Mike Tucker gave Whitby a 6-0 victory. The shutout was shared by Jonathan Allen and Daniel Holmes. Redmen in round-robin after undefeated season Brooklin Redmen completed their 20-game Ontario Lacrosse Association (OLA) major-senior league regular season undefeated, albeit by the skin of their teeth. During last Wednesday's match up between the home Brooklin team and Peterborough Lakers, Redmen got their first scare of the season. Lakers took control from the opening whistle and carried the play for the following 57 minutes. Leading Brooklin 4-1 after the first period and 5-4 heading for the final frame, spectators at Luther Vipond Memorial Arena were obviously in a state of shock as the final minutes of the game ticked off. With three minutes left in the game, Brooklin was actually losing by a 9-6 margin. The old saying, you can't hold a good man, or in this case team, down, rang true to form as Redmen popped in four unanswered goals to rally to a narrow 10-9 victory. It was obvious watching Brooklin coach Peter Vipond behind the ben- ch that he was anything but happy with his squad's performance. And you could see the sigh of relief as the final and winning goal was pop- ped into the nets. Gil Nieuwendyk was tne manl o the hour for the third straight game, picking up six points on two goals and four assists for the night. Most of the goals actually came in pairs with Andy Peronni, Dale Kernoham and Derek Keenan each scoring two. Ken Colley and Jim Merideth rounded out the scoring with singles. Lakers played their hearts out with Andy Shaughnessy and Dave Succamore each netting a pair of goals, Dave Evans, Wayne Batley, Joe Masterson, Jim Vilneff and Frank Kylie hitting for singles. Although defeated, Peterborough left a message, loud an :i clear. They are not to be counted out of the round-robin series in which they are participating with the Redmen and Fergus Thistles.. The series began last Friday. Brooklin gets into action on Thur- sday travelling to Peterborough, followed by a game withh Fergus in Brooklin on Sunday. Next week Redmen travel to Fergus on Tuesday and entertain Lakers at Luther Vipond Arena on Thursday. Bacchiochi eighth in Canada Andrea .Bacchiochi had an eighth-place finish and Steve Yor- ston ran ninth in the Canadian senior track and field champion- ships at Terry Fox Stadium in Ot- tawa over the weekend. Bacchiochi competed in the women's 100-metre hurdles. Her time was 14.34 seconds. Winner Karen Nelson, another member of the Oshawa Track and Field club, had a time of 13.35 seconds. Bacchiochi will join Nelson and Yolande Jones on the Canadian senior espoir team that will com- pete in Britain Aug. 20 to Sept. 1. Yorston had a time of 15.09 seconds in the men's 110-metre hurdles: Mark McCoy of Toronto won the event in 13.52. ..............~ . g- i 'w, f 1:? I 2