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WHMTBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1988, PAGE 15 Maulers bring end to Whitby season Whitby Warriors were- last wêek eliminated from further lacrosse play this season, losing four straight games to the defending champion Peterbo- rough* Maulers in the Ontario Lacrosse Association Jr. A final. Wariors dropped their fourth game of the series 11-8 at Iroquois Park Saturday night. "We had our ups and downs in the series. Injuries hurt us, but we are fairly satisfied with the Redmen, Lakers begin series Brooklin Redmen have advanced to the best-of-seven Eastern Canadian championship against Peterborough following a perfect 4-0 record in round- robin play. Redmen will meet Peter- borough Lakers in the final, the winner to host the Mann Cup. Redmen completed their round-robin games with a 14-13 score over Lakers at Brooklin's Luther Vipond arena last Friday Redmen's other three wins were 13-1 and 21-7 over ~Brampton Excelsiors and an 11-10 win over Peterborough. In Friday's game, Jim Mere- dith, Andy Perroni, Eric Perroni and Doug Deschner each had two goas apiece. Meredith, one of the league's top snipers, played for Huntsville over the past season but bas now joined Redmen for playoffs. Meredith played the entire season for Redmen last year, helping the team capture the Mann Cup. SEE PAGE 23 series. The team showed a lot of character," said general manager AI Garrard. Warriors lost their leader Jason Richards in the first game after he was rammed into the boards by a Peterborough player, according to Garrard, who said Richard's loss hurt the team. 'On the bright side, Warriors will be returning next year with virtually the sanie teani, losing only captain Dave McWhirter and Greg Lepine who are ineligible because of their age. While Garrard has not asked any of the players if they are returning, he is confident "most" will be back. "Lots of our players have four years of eligibility left. They are a young team with a good mix. That is what you strive for," said Garrard, who bas also not made any official decision on the return of first year coach Bill Eyre. "That (decision) won't be made for a while, but as of now he is stili the coach. I still haven't decided if inm coming back. I have been around a while now."- In contrast, Garrard notes that Peterborough will be losing four players this year due to age eligibility, including Jamie Batley who bas been one of the league's top scorers for the last few years. In Thursday's game, the losest of the series, Warriors stayed close to Peterborough for most of the game, tied 5-5 at one tume, but could not sustain the pressure. Adam Foote had three goals on the night, with singles going to Steve Dyment, Lepine, Derek Jones, Jef McComb and Jeif Whittle. A WHITBY WARRIOR attempts to stop final Peterborough won the series and Peterborough's' Scott Rogers from get- now heads west to play in the Minto Cup. ting shot on net during t he thfrd game of Free Press photo the Ontario Lacrosse Association Jr. A Wh itby sen iors iin EOBA final After eliminating Oshawa in three straight games last week, the Whitby senior basebal team begins ,a- playoff series with Peterborough on Friday this week to determine who will go to the upcoming provincial B finals -in Dundas. It's coming together for us," said Whitby player/manager Harold Moore, after Whitby got the big hits and solid pitching in the late innings of their last two games to pull out victories. The series decision over Oshawa continued -a late season surge for Whitby, now winners of 12 of their last 15 games. On Tuesday last week, in the wild second game of the best-of-five semi-final series against Oshawa, Whitby scored four runs in the sixth inning to win 15- 14. John Turner bit a bases-loaded triple with two out in the inning to drive home the tying and winning runs. The game was called after the sixth due to the league's 2 V/2-hr. playing time limit. Home runs by John Heffer and Jody Turner had given Whitby five runs in the flrst inning. But Oshawa came back with seven runs in the third. Wvhitby scored two runs in their haîf of the third -to tie the SEE PAGE 18 Whitby's Clark in TOM CLARK discusses the 'feel' of the car with a member prepares to take the car for a test drive. Clark, 21, from Players /GM e ompetitio n Starting with go-karts when he was six years old, Tomn Clark bas raced aIl the way to the PlayersIGM series which annual- ly includes 10 races throughout Ontario. The Whitby resident, now 21, joined the racing team of Randy MacDonald of Oshawa this year, after having driven in the 2000 series last year. "These cars are a bit slower," says Clark of the Camaros and Firebirds in the PlayersIGM series. "But you have to be gentie with these cars, it's easy to oversteer." Clark spent one season in the 2000 series wbich features open-wheeled cars, similar to, but smaller than, the Indy-style cars. He said he had to move wvhen the series became too expensive. In bis first race in the GM series, Clark qualified at Cayuga l6th and finished the race lOth. At Mosport raceway last weekend, in bis second race *on the circuit, Clark qualifled 33rd, afrer having problems with his car. H1e was l7th heading into the last lap but hit a wall and finished the race 2Oth. ot I~an.y Âiaconai5 zlivig mani ~.ii~i>îîuu VVA1I3,J'5IIuma~A.FJAI<A~A~UAA~AAEJE PASEGPAE19 f fe 0. mou 0 N;ý-là.4