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PAGE 22, WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1987 SPORTS Lynch aims for a place on national shooting team By BRYCE COOPER Whitby's Lisa Lynch emerged as the key performer for the Canadian junior cadet team in the final round of the recent international prone shooting championship in Bigsby, England. The 18-year-old had the winning shot as the Canadian team edged the British cadet team. Lynch made the Canadian team after a strong finish in the national championships in Ottawa. It allowed her to qualify for the finals in Vancouver, British Columbia. .There, the top junior shooters from across Canada competed for a spot on the team. Lynch finished ninth overall. Born in Jamaica to parents of Scottish heritage, Lynch spent most of her life in Canada. She lived six years in Toronto and later moved to Pickering where she began shooting with the army cadets. The Lynch family has been living in Whitby for-the past two years. Lisa continues to practise shooting in Pickering. She is coached by Pat Vanplew, who won gold for Canada at the Pan-American games in In- dianapolis last summer. Lynch hopes to join Vanplew on the senior national team next year as she will be too old to qualify for the junior team. She can continue to shoot with the cadets at no cost but will either have to raise money herself or find a sponsor to pay for the expensive travel costs as a national team member. "I'd like to keep shooting but it is very difficult," says Lynch. "You have to keep asking for sponsors. I'd like to make money on my own first." A graduate of Pickering High School, Lynch would like to go to university or college but for the time being she is working in Pickering and taking night school courses at McLaughlin CVI in Oshawa. "Hopefully next year I'11 go to university," she says, adding the would like a career in psychology. For now, she continues to refine her aim in preparation of the nationals next year. LISA LYNCH shows the form that helped recent prone shooting championship in the Canadian junior cadet team win a England. Free Press photo Midget age participants up as hockey season begins A switch to a new league and double the number of midget age players are among the changes KAYAK INSTRUCTIONS STARTING NOV. 8 IROQUOIS PARK POOL for further information Call 668-0474 SHRIMP SQUIRT ATOM MOSQUIl PEEWEE BANTAM ON SAT. OCT.: from last year as the new season begins for older-age all-star players in the Brooklin-Whitby Minor Hockey system. Charlie Mason is at the helm of the juvenile (age 18, 19) team which will face stiff competition this year as it joins the Metro Toronto Hockey League composed of AAA teams. Whitby lost its first two regular season games by scores of 8-3 to Toronto Hawks and 11-3 to 6 yrs oldlborn in 1982 7&8 yrslborn 1980181 9&10 yrs/born 1978179 o 11/12 yrslborn 1976/77 13114 yrs/born 1974175 15116 yrs/born 1973174 24TH, 9:30 a.m. - 12 noon at the Whitby Public Library Cost only $45 00 per youth '• For further Information i call Chris Goode 668-4193 Sam Coppolino 668-9235 Pickering, but Mason expects some initial difficulty as the Whitby team adjusts to AAA calibre. "It will be rough until the guys get into the pace," says Mason, who was assistant coach of the AA team last year. The team has a few midget age players as well as Pickering players. Mason says an average of 14 to 17 players are tur- ning out for games, and that com- mitment is encouraging to Mason at the unpredictable juvenile age level. The league is made up mostly of Toronto teams as well as Pickering, Oshawa and Markham. Home games for the team are Wednesday night, 9:30 p.m., at Iroquois Park. Whitby's major midget (age 16, 17) AA team, with players from last year's powerful major bantam team, is expected to be a strong contender as it moves back into the lakeshore league after play last year in the Durham-York league. "It's a very big, strong team," says manager John Moore. "We'll be competitive." Most of the team members are 16, so Moore predifts an even better team next season as players develop under the tutelage of coach Swim meet here on Sunday About 125 swimmers are expec- ted to take part in a swim meet at Iroquois Park Sunday, Oct. 25. The meet, hosted by the Whitby Iroquois Swim Club and sponsored by Whitby Optimists, will include teams from Port Hope, Newcastle and Uxbridcge. Whitby club members recently returned from a meet in Longueuil, Quebec. Individual and team results were not known at press time. However, the club's public relations director Virve Kukk, says "They did very well." Judo :Confidence v. Muscle Tone builds • lncreased Coordination It's also especially good for giris as self defence. School, scouting and club demonstations upon request Registrations now being taken Call Mon.-Wed.-Thurs.6P.M.-10P.M. 430-2925 D1'_Kiichi-Sai Judo Club Unit 2-600 EucilId St r'trance off of Maple st Whitby Umil one ad par person Larry Windover. "It's very promising," says Moore. "Obviously there's poten- tial for a future team. It'll take time for the boys to knit together." The team tied Ajax 6-6 in its first league game. Kingston, Belleville, Peterborough, Oshawa and Pickering are also in the lakeshore league. Whitby didn't win a game in a recent AAA tournament in Thor- nhill, but Moore says all the games were close. He expects the major midget rep team will also be invited to several tournaments this season, including Lake Placid and Quebec. A big addition to the team is Mike Watters, who played junior C last season, while David Mitchell and. Tom Gosley provide solid goalten- ding. Home games are Wednesday, starting at 7:45 p.m., at Iroquois Park. Moore, who was vice president of Brooklin-Whitby Minor Hockey last year, also says that midget hockey appears alive and well again in Whitby after the team folded last year due to insufficient interest. There is also a second midget team this year in Whitby, a B level entry coached by Pat Sears and managed by Jim Mason which has won its first two games. "We shouldn't fare too badly," says Mason, who coached the juvenile team last year. The midget B's will play Markahm and Pickering B teams as well as minor AA teams from Pickering, Kingston and Peterborough, all in the lakeshore league. The Whitby team, composed mostly of 16-year-olds who were members of last year's bantam B team, received a defensive boost when goaltender Scott Strigley decided to return to rep hockey af- ter an absence of a few years. Meanwhile the scoring attack will be evenly divided, says Mason. "They all want to win," he says of the buoyant team attitude. Kevin Washer, Brad Chalmers, Mike Gratton Sof t Fairbrother SEE PAGE 25 WA TCH- FOR MONSTER SLASH OCTOBER 30th PEACHES*N*JEANS Whitby Iroquois Soccer Club IS HOLDING INDOOR REGISTRATIONS FOR BOYS & GIRLS FOR THE FOLLOWING: