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Week THE HERALD Wednesday March lM Page Clark forced out of world race An irritated leg injury and the desire to be competitive forced Georgetown Ian Clark drop out of the World Junior Cross Country Cham pionship race after running only one mile of the four and half mile course Sunday in P ins France I could have finished the but it would have in he of the injury Clark told The Her aid minutes after he arrived luck at his Chipper Court home Monday evening I would finished if lhat hod been my goal he Hut it i good hid injured leg ks be ft re and was doubtful until race the left kg After finishing in the simc After finishing fifth in the net in Inst the 13 GDlib student is expected to do heller perhaps even win As one of six memben the junior men Cinadnn team his finish hove helped tcim move even further up m their eighth place finish yejr to six position the team achieved this year in the 18 country competition won by Spaniard Jorge Garcia In minutes 17 seconds Times arc Irrelevant said Clark because each course is different This one run a racetrack called Long Champs llypodrome similar to Woodbine was pretty flat said Clark Sunday morning was irm The Cinadian juni ir said he ac illy fell lousy before the rice Tht first half mile I Mirth It leg didn rt illy hurt it wis just sort of After 1 metres of ihe7XK it his leg started to hurt in 1 figured it wisn worthwhile finishing Pretty near my movement irritated Clark fit into Pons ly did i bit of sightseeing not much training the race In di he moved into i tors village whire he re a few friendships he 1 id devtlopcd at the 1979 mite Dennis of Belli finished fiiurth Boss Chilton of Vin was 15th Ted Murphy of Toronto was 32nd Kerry Penncr of Winnipeg was and Dave of Toronlo was In held of more than 100 runners The Cana senior men s team fin ished nth and the women team Clark will now move up to the senior men class open to all men over As for his junior career and his big chance to be a world this year Clark says quite matter of factly that it wis better to give a shot thin not Now Clark intends to rest further treat mint ind training later Then it w ill likely be off to University of California at win re he expects his career to peak per haps just in time for he 1981 Olympics if they in Los Hurley is nearing Ontario tennis title Willi singles and doubles wins on the provincial Grand Prix tennis circuit this past weekend in Kitchener Hurley of has come within points of the current leader and may be to overtake her win he under championship The young 15 old fnied doubles partner Kowalcski on her winning he singles crown before earning up with her to take the doubles elumpionship The pair Hurley points for a tail of 120 wilh just luoofllu seven tourmn tin In inn ng he slices title Hurley itu 62 62 in he quarter finals and in the semi finals to advance to the finals Here she beat out Wilkinson of London Along her doubles parincr from Cambridge Hurley and J Johnson in the semis In Ihe final milch Wilkinson Hatch went down The last two competitions the provincial Grand Prix circuit to determine the all champion go in llurhnton at Cedar Springs Club April and in Mis Hurley obi Courts Care had finished behind Clark in Ire land wink he second place winner of hat race an Am dropped out and he two others who finished head of him mined up Haiders in playoffs The begin a whole new tomorrow night when they he Port Elgin Sunocos in the first of he playoffs The Georgetown team ended in place and will be o relam their Georgian Bay Intermediate A hockey championship After beating second place there Friday night and giving Dundas the league seasonchampionship Saturday wiih a loss he Raiders weren sure who hey would meet in he first round of he playoffs until Sunday game between en Sound and Port Elgin was over These two teams came down to one game sudden death pi a ff for the sixth ind final playoff spot against Georgetown The Sunocos Raider coach Steve said didn really matter which tarn they played We beat them both throughout the sen son He said Port Elgin is a scrappier club tougher in own rink and play a more rugged game did concede that he would liked to have played the Greys ore and he likes their arena better However he said we have he team and we re ready for anyone Port Elgin coach John key If you put the two on paper we arc Ihe underdog But you never know in hockey ve got lobe realistic They George town have more experience but we have a lot or spirit from the Owen Sound win Sunday admits that Georgetown has a good team and we have to play hockey against hem We II just play hem one game at a lime It should make for a good scries The Raiders have only lost once in the six limes they have met the Sunocos On their last meeti here at Gordon Alcoti Feb the Raiders shut them out Georgetown finished season a record of 19 wins losses and one tie in I- HP In retrospect Blundy says things could have been better for the team this season We had a lot of new players o form our nucleus with this year And we had a lot of centres We really suffered In left win Maybe three for third place is our lucky number Everyone wdl be on knocking of Colling wood and Dundas I got a pretty good reading on guys now as a coach I have seen the combinations and can see what wc need The coach says he first playoff game is extremely importint in he of five series Get he first win and then emotions can play a big part With he Inconsistency of the players on he Raider team his year in terms of play and dedicadon he could be a surprise to I Herald photo a soft landing during a practice looks kind f fun This vouhr got a hand over lie horse by her coach during at More details on BANTAMS Son of the future stars of the hockey world will be con to town this week as more than 700 boys from ill Ik- here to plaj in the annual Georgetown Intirmt oml hockey ladies prepared Hockey siouls will be watching the games looking or prospects as learns from oil over he province two from Detroit vieingfor the Michigan slate th in this weekend will also be here Several noLibk plaven played in his event including the Toronto Miple Leafs Sillier and Marcel of tin kings The 10 dass of play from Friday to the following will have the divided mo Tour divisions A to I from which will determine a winner in the double r knockout The four winners will play off in a r ind robin series tie final Sunday at All other panics will be played arena Local teams entered The Major and he Optimist Minor Bantams will be re presenting Georgetown in the big International tournament that gets under way this weekend and goes for he next 10 days Both teams played in last year tournament neither coming out a winner Junior says his major team could do well this year play so much better in tournaments If only played as well In regular season play He says he figures mat Ihe players like to play against new faces They play in the same league against he same kids all the way grow up very The DRG team will meet Owen Sound in their first game We play Milton In our league and we lost to them and they lost to Owen Sound We just hope to make a good account of ourselves says Bob Webster coach of he minor bantam team says he As long as the learn plays well that all anyone can ask We re only 13 and the others will be 14 yearolds the coach They arc getting ready for further playoff action this week and will play this lour nam cut and one in Sudbury laic next week So it could be a long week for Ihe boys The main thing is the experience says Webster Wc could surprise someone in the first round