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Page 24, Whitby Free Press, Wednesday, Septomber 28,1994 isoner The Whitby mosquito select hitting a dotl bail team's run for a drive in two championship fell one run short thegap to 5-4 as they lest a tight series to Cotter, ti Markham two gaines to ene. strandod on Whitby was on the wrong end Markham gan of two of the three ono-run gaines. Gaine two Gaine one was two gaines in good defenc once. Markham scored five in the pitching. Lac second, as Whitby showed early McLellan th gaine jittors. with Weir thr Whitby bats came to life in the innings for tig third. Ryan Sisson singled to right Chris Si m: and stole both second and third mun with Fry bases. He scered on a Greg two-ruri sec( Johnston hit. Sinets kopt t] Sisson thon threw throe sevoral fine st shutout innings te, keep Whitby Trevor Shel in the garne. more runners In the top of the seventh, Ho would thi Brendan Pool and Mike Weir hMt in the series. back-to-back singles to start the The gaine Wihitby comeback. Alex Lacey bottom of the drove in Peel. Kevin Fry thon agin got i drew a walk. Nathan Cotter thon Branfdon Glo continued .his clutch hitting by left field wil .. 0 - edSice19 0 FAMILY GOLF COURSE 14 Holes e Par 3 Fun for the whole fa iy RENTALS AVAILABLE ý 'unshort uble te centrefleld te, inmore runs te, close 4. he tying run, was )n third te give Lme one. :was highlighted by ice and excellent ýey, Weir and Tyler hrew a five-hitter, irowing the last three he win. kpson scored the first fellowing hini in the 'end inning. Tyler the gaine close with ;tops at second. eppard threw eut two ,attompting te, steal. row eut five runners ewas1 won in the ie sixth whenCotter n scoring position. ver's bloop single te th two eut brought 44 HOLES.fôr onIý-$5î,00 come! Large grôups.wel 'Freih Vegétables & Farm . Bakery 5 miles north of Whitby on Lakeridge Rd. rFor more information, call 655-3091 11994 INTR.EPIný, - ----------- IB 1411 DONT BE FOOLED!1 Cotter in for the 3-2 victory. Gaine three saw only seven hits from beth teams. Leadoif inan Sheppard scored in the first on a Weir groundout. Markharn came baek with two in the second. Pool beat eut an infield hit in the fourth, stele two bases, and then scored on Weir's second run-batted-in of the day. Markham scered an unearned rua in the bottomn of the fourth te take a 3-2 lead that would hold up for the rest of the gaine. Pool inade many neteworthy catches in centrefield te hold Makhrnat throo runs. Smith leads atom Hawkeyes The Oshawa-Whitby Hawkeyes beat Pickering Doîphins. 20-6 in recent atem football action at Kinsmen Park in Pickering. The game was a lot cldser than the score indicates as the much improved. Doîphins refused te quit. Late in the first quarter, Ashton Smiàth broke several tackles and scampered 60 yards fer a teuchdown. Doîphins fought back and ted the score at 6-6 just before the hall'. But another Smith (45-yard) touchdown run with one play. left in the half gave Hawkeyes a12,-6 halftime lead. The second haîf was strickly a defensive struggle as both tearns failed te move the baIl with any censistency. But with three minutes left in the gaine, Craig Parkes returned a punt 40 yards te, the Doîphin 15-yard lino. Whitby's David Nermnan thon rounded eut the scoring on a 15- yard sweep and Smnith made the twoe-peint convert atteinpt te secure the win fer Hawkeyes. TRAINER LORI MCINERNEY with 'One Easy Dash,' which set a new track record in winning the rment $33,000 'rags to riches futurity' at Picov Downs. Racetrack in Ajax. Photo by Mark Reesor, Whihy Free Press Locals' Dash' 'One Eay to -ricehes' By Mark Reesor Racing quarter herses is just liko drag racing cars, says jockoy John McInerne4r, one of the top riders in North Amorica. "As seon as the gate s opon, they take off. "Thoy're s pïinter-s; ,the second stride out 1the gaotey'ré at full spoed,» adds wife Leri, who grew up in Brooklin and holps te train the 10 herses the coupIle manage at Picev Downs in Ajax. Quarter herses are short-legged. and stocky, brod te, race short distances. Unlike longer races, in which strategy and holding serne- thing in reserve plays a big part, quarter herses let loose right from the gate and den't lot up unti I the finish line, John s'ays of the quarter-mile races. Abdyig part of a quarter herse jockey's job is building up his steed's confidence, says.John.1 "Herses road humans botter than humnans read humans... if you have confidence, thon they have confidence.» Trust between herse and rider is another important factor. "They have to trust you before they do anything .e] se... a four-year-old herse is like a-four-year-old ch'il d." To build up that trust, John spends a lot of tino with his herses. He's generally at the stable by 5 a.m. and, aside from a daily two-heur or se shift galleping theroughbreds at Woedbine Racetrack, is at Picov the, entire day, stayring-as late a s 10:30 p.m. The long heurs pay off. Last year ho became the first Canadian te win, theArnerican Cengress -Futurity,, one of the richest quarter'herse races. The race was held tho saine weekendl the Toronto Blue Jays wen their second World Series, says Lori. Thie World Series was on the Saturday night and the race, Sunday -- and Ainerican fans weren't tee impressed. "Oh yeah, first win the Werld Series and tho *n corne back eut and win the futurity. 'You damn Canadian, gohome,' that's what they wore yelling at us," she says. John attributes inuch of his success te the high quality herses hie and Lori are given te ride and train, many of which are owned by Durham Region residents. "We have a lot of geod breeders... (and) goed herses make good trainers. » Lori, who grew up inl Brooklin and Works at Ivan's Hairstyling in Whitby, aise sponds a lot of timo at the track. In fact, that's where she first met John. Twe of her, charges, 'One Easy Dash' (ridden by <John) and 'Downtewn Dash,' were first and second respectively in the richest quarter herse race in Eastorn Canada, the $33,000 'ragys te niches futurity' race at Picov. John and 'One Easy Dash' aIse shaved more than a tenth of a second off the track record, which was set by another Mclnerney-trained herse. It was the second straight year thiey had the top two herses in the race. Their herses aise finished first ('Choques in Tixne,' aIse ridden by John), secend and third in the 'rags te riches' consolation race. The secret te, training a herse is "a lot ef love and care, that's the most important t ~ng,"ILori says. - "Just like an athlete, a herse has a lot of leg preblens," she says. One important part of lher job is bandaging a herses legs with a poultice -- like a mud pack -- te draw heat frein the leg. "It relieves pressure and pain in the leg,» she explains. The Mclnerneys will be ia action at the final two races of the soason, the next two Sunday afterneens at Picev Downs, off Highway 2 east of Harwoed Road in Ajax.. Pest time is 1:30 p.m. Brock, St. -Se Whitby (just south of 4 corners) SAY'vHELLO'-'TO A GOOD BUY 'OR A' GOOP LEASË! BOND STý m KINGST,-a-È GIBB ST. 3 1-pi m 1 OVER 20 YEARS OF EXPERT SKATE SHARPENING EXPERIENCE 1