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Whitby Free Press, 2 Aug 1995, p. 11

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Whitby ro. Press, WednoscaY. August 2,19M6 Page il Whitby players promlinent hM national chamipionship Troy Anne Santos of Whitby and former Witby resident Anne Windover eacii had four goals as Ontario.. roiled over Britishi Columbia 14-3 to win the senior Canadian championship ]Ln wmnsfield lacrosse on Sunday in Oshawa., Santos, an attacker who had 12 goals in four games, was named to the senior Canadian ail-star team. Ontario's Audrey Kelly, a defender, was alo named to thi. team. Ontario won 9-5 over Oxford Univçreity, 15-3 over B.C., 15-4 over Oxford, 13-2 over B.C. ini games leading up to tii.--final. Ontario's junior provincial team also won a - Canadian title, defeatiig Alberta 14-2 intihe final. Jennifer Shannon of Brooklin, who had five goals in one game and four in another, was named to the al-star team, as a midflelder. Tii. Ontario team even managed a 7-6 win over the older and more experienced Oxford t.am. Shannon will play for the. junior Canadian teamn in the. flrst ever junior lacrosse world cup to soon be held i Philadeiphia, Pa. Kristi Hoît, another of the. six Whitby players on the Ontario team, had four goals i one game. ont* titie The Wiiitby Optimist bantam basebali team completed a great season the. past weekend with a 21-6 victory over Cobourg. FInishing with 24 wins and two busses, Whitby will battle tiie top triple A teamn in the. province next w..kend for the. right to represent Ontario at the. Canadian ciiampionships iFredericton, N.B. Against Cobourg, winning pitcher Scott Thompson led the. way witii four bits, four ruma scored, four RBIs and four stolen bases. Sean Tremaine and Josh Huether eacii had three b its inceluing a triple anld double. Ryan ,Vopni, Triantafilou and Grahiam ail added doubles te the onslaught. Whitby's first opponent at the. elimination tournament is HIigii Park from the. Metro- Toronto League. arriors TORONTO BLUE JAYS outfielder Mike Hutf gives a few tips to youngsters attending the Academy Basebali School at Iroquois park. It was the second Urne this sum mer that Huif and teammate Mike TimIin served as guest instructors at the sohool, which is ln its fourth year. Photo by Mark Reesor, Whitby Fre. Press Junors close to league f tie Wiiitby's junior basebaîl team won four of five games lasit week and wiil withe. regular season league titi. with a victoryi Kingston tonight (Wednesday). *17i. Witby t.am, isponsored by the Brooklin Legion, was siiaky defensively last Wednesday night in a 6-5 loss te Peterborough. But Whitby then reeled off four s3traight victories - doubleheader victeries of 8.ý2 and 12-2 over Kendal on Thurday, and doubleheader wins of 8-2 and 10-O over KCingston Township on Saturday. Againot Peterboroughi, Tim Puddister pitched strongly for five inninge before leaving witii a stiff -shoulder. Blair Hardy iiad three bita. Brad Newport was the winner in tiie 8-2 win over Kendal as Steve Woods iiad three bita and Tim Curran- knocked i three runs. Steve Horsley and Jerzy Aronowicz combined on 'a three-bitter in the. 12-2 win wbile Adamn Thompson drove i tbree runs. Against Kingston Township - the. team tiiat defeated Wbitby in the Wbitby teurnament - Tim Imeson tossed a three-bitter in the 8-2 win wbile Josh Miller bit a three-run home run and a run-scoring double. Milîs did not alIlow a bit in the, mercy-siiortened, flveinning 10-O win. Hardy -drove in three runs and Thompson and Newport each bit home ruma in Whitby's 15th win of the season. l1ose i Whitby Warriors have fallen behind 2-0 te, St. Catharines in their best-of-seven semi-final series in Ontario junior A lacrosse. Warriors, who eliininated Kitciiener-Waterloo last week four gaines te two in the quarter-finals, are finding St. Catharines mucii more formiidable opposition. Playing at Iroquois Park last Friday night, St. Cath armnu dominated from the start and led 10-2 aft.r the first period on their way te a 19-9 win. Steve Toîl, on. of the. league's leading scorers, bad four goals and five assista while Jason Luke had four goals and two assista and Pat McCready two goals and four assista for St. Catharines, who finished in third place, bebind second-place Warriors, in regular season play. Lwo, SMarty OBrien had two, goals and tiiree assista for Warriors, Steve Voituk and Mike Fryer two goals eacii. On Saturday, Warrnors improved but were edged 9-8 in St. Catharines. Jason Crosbie anid Steve Taylor each scored two goals for Warriors. The series, was sciieduled te, resumne la.st night (Tuesday) in Whitby, with game four in St. Catharines on Thursday- night. Gaine five, if necessary, will be played on Friday i Whitby, gain. time 8:30 p.m.; game six, in St. Catharines on Sunday nigiit;, gain. seven in WIhitby next Tuesday, 8:30 p.m. Orangeville, undefeated during the. regular season, la playing Peterborough ln the. other semi-final series. Lose bid for lst place Redmen begpp.,layoffs Brooklin Redmen finisied the. regular season ini second place and will begin a semi-final playoff series, against Brampton Excelsiors tonigiit (Wednesday) at Iroquois Park, i Ontario major lacrosse. Reclmen's bid for top spot was tiiwarted wii.n Six Nations won a thriller, 13-12 ini overtime, over Redmen last Wednesday night. In wiiat was describ.d as probably the. finest game of the. season,. Redmen trail.d by as many as four goals before coming back te, tie the. game and force overtime. .Tii. gaine, whicii f.atured many of thi, top players ithe. sport, gav e Six Nations top spot and a match-up with Fergus in the. otiier serni-final.- Ricii Kilgour iiad tiir,, goals, Paul Gait two goals and four assiste and Travis Kilgour two goals and two assista for Six Nations. John Tavares, battling witii teammate Troy Cordingley for tep honours ithe blague scoring race, had two goals, and Cordingley one. For Redmen, Gary Gait had a goal and four assista and Derek Keenan two goals and two assista. Peter Park and John Fusco ,acii Hawks first in S quirt qunaliier The Wbitby Hawks squirt rep girls' fastball team wc n the. gold medal in the regional qualifier held in Wbitby Juiy 21 te 23. In their fat game, Hawks got a scare froin Newmarket falling bebind 11-2 aft.r two and a haif inninge befor, coming back strong te Win 21-11.1 Becky Bùtzu with two home ruma, Amanda Lawson and Krista Muelier witii a home run eacii led Hawks. Mueller pitciied a solid game in relief of Maria Tennaqnt te get the, win. 'Ini their neit game, Hawks pounded Owen Sound 17-2 in a game: called after four innings because of the mercy rul.. Mueiler pitclied a no-bitter. Birtzu had two bits and five RBIs (wbicii included a grand slain home run), Ashley MacCarl and Mueller two bita eacii. Hawks then defeated unbeaten Aurora Diggers 9-8 in extra . nnings. Consecutive singles by Amanda Lawson, Birtzu and Mueiler drove i the winming runs. In the gold medal game, Whitby lost 12-11 te, Brampton Blazers. Asiiley MJacCarl had four bita, Birtzu tiire. SinceWbitby iiad te loue two, games i the double knockout format to be denied the. gold medal, a second game with Brampton had to b. rescheduled to July 27 because of the latenesa of the day. In the remnatch, behind Mueller's uolid pitcbing, Hawks defeated Brampton 8-5 te win the gold medal. Otheriteamn members are Erin Fraser, Jnnifer Scott, iàndsay Freeman, Lyndsey Mataumura, Shannon Konoby, Kari Van Rossui, Coileen Homen, Amanda Laws;on, coaciies George Mataumura, Junior Tennant and Jim Fraser. Tii. teain wiil be in the. provincial championsbipe in Cambridge Aug. 4, 5 and 6, scored two goals. Redmen completed the. regular season witii a 5" tie in Brampton. Keenan iiad.four assis3ta in tiie rougii conteiat that meant notbing in the. regular standings but served as a playoff preview. Ontario major lacro .sse uadlup eaiJut 28 V L T 9U SA P SU Nations 18 1 0 38 277 151 Broiln 16 3 1 33 269 162 Bausqton il 7 2 24 205 168 Mwus 6 13 1 13 166228 Peturborough 4 15 O0 8136 250 Own Sound 2 18 0 4 179 261 Top 15 MM Troy CordinUo. SixMNations 18 37 65 102 John Tar, Six Nations 18 53 48 101 Chis DriscoII-.MBrnIn 17 25 43 68 Bob Hand.Br.nçàton 17 26 39 65 Kvin BigesPibomugh 17 39 24 63 Tom Wmggit nwmi 17 19 42 el Guy Qit omiin 9 38 22 60 Bob Mcabb.OenSound 17 20 28 64 John Vansingodand. Forgus 18 25 28 53 Duan@ Jacobs. Six Nations 8 24 28 52 PuterPak.BIOMMI 15 24 26 50 John Fusco, Brooin 17 15 35 50 Wilie Arnold. OwoSound 16 30 19 49 PauJ Gu iSx Nations 10 24 23 47 D.r.kKunanBr&w"i 10 18 27 45 Rkch Kigoui. Six Natioiu 14 17 28 45 mni4uaIdPIayoff $"abhi Gaffe1, Aug. 2. koquob us kArwu Wbltby GM 2. Au@. 4. Ve" aPakArm. Bruipton Ganu3. Aug. 7. huquols Pik Atuu. Whtby (bnu 4. Aug. 10. Vcloi Park Amui@.Bruurton Gm ~5. Aug. 12Z uq uAian. Whitby GLMn6. Aug. 14. Victora fPalcAken& 5anfton Gunu 7. Aug. 16. huquois ParkAna, Wbiby Cd n.oessary) AM ganuIu*t nt:30 p.mx

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