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i I 10 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanvillc, Wednesday, November 30,1994 Canadian Freestyle Skier Emphasizes Goal Setting Midget Classic Returns Toros Attempt to Defend Title in 16-Team Tournament by Brad Kelly During a shy and quiet childhood, childhood, Ashley Herod found it best to express herself through a combination combination of dancing and skiing. Years later, after having broken away from the nickname of "Bashful," the 22-ycar-old expresses expresses herself before international audiences. audiences. She is one of 35 members of Canada's National Freestyle Ski Team. Just prior to packing her skis and poles for a gruelling season of international international competition, the 22-ycar- old spoke to students at Lord Elgin Public School about the importance of motivation and goal-setting in one's life. It was her involvement with skiing skiing that helped Herod break away from being shy, enabling her to stand in front of a captive audience and relate her experiences. "At die first competition I ever entered, I came home with two medals. medals. I don't know who was more surprised, surprised, me or my parents," she recalled recalled of her early beginnings in the sport. Herod is one of the growing number of female athletes who speak on behalf of the FAME (Female (Female Athletes Motivating Excellence) Excellence) program. Former and current athletes speak to students about their athletic careers, as well as stressing the importance of setting goals and being motivated enough to try and achieve them. "For me, skiing helped build self-confidence. I found the more effort effort I put into it, the better my results results were," said Herod. Competing since the age of 12, and for the past five years internationally, internationally, Herod's freestyle skiing specialty is the ballet. A combination combination of movements from dance, figure figure skating, and gymnastics, done on skis to music, is the best description description of her sport. The other two disciplines of freestyle freestyle skiing, aerials and moguls, have gained status as full-fledged medal sports in the Olympics. Though ballet hasn't reached that level, Herod is hoping her specialty will be accepted in time for the 1998 games. In the meantime, there is a never- ending lineup of events planned on the World Cup circuit that will have her jet-setting all over the world. Stops in France, Austria, Germany, Norway, Sweden, and the United States are just a small sampling of the hectic winter schedule. Her best finishes to date on the World Cup circuit have been a fifth and an eighth. With another year of experience, she is hoping to improve improve on those results, and quite possibly slip into contention for a medal at a number of the events. If not, she won't be discouraged. In parting, she encouraged students to "have fun with life, and be happy." happy." Regardless of one's results. by Brad Kelly . Organizers of the 1994 Midget Classic hockey tournament arc beaming after convincing the champions champions of one year ago to come back to defend their title. That may be a little over-stated, considering that the winners of the 1993 tournament were the hometown hometown Bowmanvillc Toros. For the first time in the history of the Classic, the host team emerged as the champions of the annual 16- leam tournament held each year during during the first weekend of December. The Bowmanvillc Toros, based on the strength of five successive wins, copped the championship banner banner a year ago. Considered one of the top teams entered, they reeled off wins over Burlington, Caledon and Lindsay during the round robin. In the semifinals, semifinals, Bowmanvillc disposed of Owen Sound, and duplicated the feat in the finals with a 3-1 victory over Vaughan. Though it is difficult to repeat as champions at any level, coach Howie Howie Dart isn't discounting his team's chances this season. "It will be a lot tougher this year because there are a lot of teams in the tournament that weren't in it last year," he said in a preview of this Division A Pickering Brampton North Toronto Goulding Park weekend's tournament. "Last year we had a better overview overview of the teams, and knew that if we played to our potential, nobody could beat us." The 16-team tournament will open on Friday afternoon, and continue continue throughout the day and evening evening on Saturday at both the Garnet B. Rickard Recreation Complex, and the Darlington Sports Centre. The semi-finals will be played Sunday at 10:00 a.m. and noon, with the finals getting underway at 5:00 p.m. All three of those games will be played at the Rec. Complex. Bowmanvillc has been grouped in a pool with Chiguacotisy, London and Ottawa West. On Friday afternoon, afternoon, the defending champions will open against Chiguacousy, followed by games on Saturday with London and Ottawa West. Teams will play three divisional games during the round robin, with the top team in each division advancing advancing to Sunday's semi-finals. A point-scoring system is used for each game to determine the final standings. A maximum of five points can be earned for each victory victory in the round robin, based on two points for a victory, and one point for winning each period. No points are awarded for a loss or losing a Division B Divison C Whitby Barrie Hillcrest Hamilton Oakville Orangeville Waterloo Owen Sound period. Though there arc similarities between between this year's Bowmanvillc entry entry and the one from a year ago, there are also some differences. Gone are 12 of the top 14 scorers from last year's team, forcing the local local club to be more defensively oriented. Good goaltcnding and defence defence have accounted for the bulk of the team's victories to date. What is comparable is the winning winning attitude that both teams carried into the tournament. The 1993 edition had won 15 of 16 games heading into the Classic, including a championship at a tour-' nament in Ajax the week before. The same holds true again in 1994. The Toros have won 12 of their past 13 games. Their only defeat defeat was by a 1-0 margin. And this past weekend, the Toros went undefeated to repeat as Ajax tournament champions. "If we play like we did this past weekend, and get the goaltending, we have a chance (to. win the Classic)," Classic)," predicted Dart. "I'm not going going to go out on a limb and make a prediction, though." The only prediction he would make is that the entire weekend will provide fans with an entertaining brand of hockey. Division D Bowmanvillc Chinguacousy London Ottawa West Bowmanville Toro Games Friday, December 2, at 4:40 p.m. against Chinguacousy, at Darlington Saturday, December 3, at 11:20 a.m. against London, at Bowmanville Saturday, December 3, at 9:20 p.m. against Ottawa West, at Bowmanville Sunday. December 4 Semi-Finals - 10:00 a.m.: 1st place Division A vs. 1st place Division B 12:00 p.m.: 1st place Division C vs. 1st place Division D Finals - 5:00 p.m.: Winner of 10:00 a.m. semi-final vs. Winner of 12:00 p.m. semi-final. (All games at Garnet B. Rickard Recreation Complex) Wile A member of Canada's National National Freestyle Ski team was a special guest at Lord Elgin Public School last Thursday. Ashley Herod, shown above signing autographs autographs following her presentation, presentation, competes on the World Cup circuit in the ballet. Another OFSAA Volleyball Title For Senior Boys by Brad Kelly For the third time in the past four years, the Clarke High School senior senior boys' volleyball team has won a provincial championship. Competing at the OFSAA 'A' championships this past weekend at Mitchell High School near London, Clarke won six straight matches to claim the championship. In the gold medal match against Gananoque, Clarke were pushed to three sets, 15-2, 14-16, 15-13, before before emerging as champions. "Both the semi-finals and the finals finals were very tense," said Claike coach, Jenny Speksnijdcr. "It made Brown Sets Record Bowmanvillc resident Doug Brown stayed home in 1994, and because of the lack of travel, he set a record at the Ontario Jockey Club track's. Brown broke the record for most wins by a standardbred driver in a year, eclipsing the mark of 374 set by Steve Con- dren in 1987. Normally, the 39-ycar-old spends a lot of time travelling around to various tracks on the continent to drive in major stakes events. This year was different. "I didn't have a lot of stake colls to drive this year, so I got the record staying home," said Brown, who races at Mohawk and Woodbine. Brown credited the work of trainers Stew Firlolle, Rene Laar- inan, and Joe Stutzman with helping him break the elusive record. Over his career, which has spanned two decades, Brown has visited the winners' circle over 5,8(X) times. He is now closing in on 400 wins in a year, which "has always always been a goal of mine." Another Another possibility Ixiforc 1994 closes out is a lifetime earnings mark of $50 million. for a nice win, though, because there was so much emotion involved. involved. It was a lot better than a cakewalk." Clarke entered the tournament as the number one seed, and lived up to that billing. Though unlike last year when they hosted and won the OFSAA 'A' title, Clarke didn't dominate the rest of the field as might have been expected. In the gold medal match, after a 15-2 win in the opener, Clarke led 14-10 in the second game, but Gananoque Gananoque rallied to score the next six points to even the match at a game apiece. In the third and deciding game, Gananoque held a 13-9 advantage advantage before Clarke staged a rally of their own. "The momentum was theirs, and then it turned around in our favour at the right time," said Speksnijdcr. "After winning the first game (15-2), we drought we could do it, but it did get tense." Clarke breezed through the round robin, posting straight set victories over Iroquois Falls, Beacon Christian, Christian, and Post Dover. Defensively, they didn't allow cidicr of the dircc teams to score more than nine points in a game. In the quarter-finals, Clarke disposed disposed of Hillficld Strathallcn in straight sets by scores of 15-4,15-6. Their first test of die tournament came in die semi-finals against Rockway from Kitchener. After winning the first game 15-12, Clarke dropped the second 15-11, but rebounded in the deciding game for a 15-9 victory to advance to the finals. The championship concludes a very successful four-year run for Clarke at the OFSSA level. The streak began in 1991 with a single 'A' title. The following year, tiicy moved up to the 'AAA' level. 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