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Karas staged a seeâ€"saw battle with defending champion Scott Price of Guelph. Price won the hurdles (10.87 seconds to 10.92) and high jump. Karas took the shot (7.47m) and then won the title by clockâ€" ing a time of three minutes, 24,89 seconds (to Price‘s 3:40.49) in the 1,000m. Combined events competiâ€" tions are decided by a points table, with preâ€"established points for each performance. Karas totalled 1,509 points, 60 better than Price. Joseph Karas won the first championship of the new year for Oakville‘s Athletiques International Track and Field Club. Competing at the Ontario Indoor Combined Events Championships at York University, Karas, 14, won the midget boys quadrathlonâ€"â€"conâ€" sisting of the 60â€"metre hurdles, shot put, high jump and 1,000m TRACK TITLE MONDAY: High school basketâ€" ball: _ Oakville Trafalgar Tournament (ends Wednesday); T.A. Blakelock Tournament (ends Tuesday). TUESDAY: Central Ontario Jr. A Hockey: Milton vs. Oakville Blades (8p.m.) at Oakville Arena. OCAA Basketball: Mohawk at Sheridan. 7 p.m. THURSDAY: Burâ€"Bear high school hockey tournament at Appleby College. Ends Saturday. Registration for Oakville Minor Baseball Association is Feb. 6 and 20 (9 a.m. to 4 p.m.) at Blakelock Hich School... The Men‘s Senior Baseball League of Toronto is inviting Oakville players. Call Lorne Albaum (416) 368â€"7881... Cawthra Alleycats women‘s fastâ€"pitch junior (22 or younger) softball team is looking to fill out its roster. Call Mike Hall at §22â€"1729.... op tickets ulletin board THE OAKVLILLE BEAVER . Right out of college, Steve Christie signed with Tampa Bay as a free agent. Four years later, he‘s going to the Super Bowl with Buffalo Bills. Still, there‘s ‘still one trip left before Kylie Booth will be completely satisfied: The World Junior Skiing Championships in Italy at the end of February. Right now, though, it‘s a bit of a "longshot," she says: The Canadian team, to be be determined at Mt. Tremblant in two weeks, will mostâ€" ly consist of 18â€"yearâ€"old relative veterans and, as a rookie, she‘ll always have next year. And it‘s not as though she‘s lacking for action. The winter is filled with excursions in three difâ€" ferent series of races: The Norâ€"Am. Cavendish Farms and Eastern Cup. Points, based on finish, are totalled for each to determine FIS rankings. This is just one of the perks of being a member of the 16â€"person Ontario alpine ski team. Let‘s see. This year alone, there was Whistler, B.C. in June. Chile in September. Colorado in November. Not to mention monthly excursions to Quebec and various other points north of here. At the age of 17, Kylie Booth has already travelled more miles than your average Volvo. Let‘s see. This year alone, there was Whistler, B.C. in June. Chile in September. Colorado in November. Not to mention monthly excursions to Quebec and past spring after four years on the Southern Ontario juvenile and junior squads, says she‘s particularly happy with her past four races. This includes a win in the slalom at Craigleith, and a first and second in the ciant slalom at Georgian Peaks. Skier hits the road with Ontario team Booth, who made the team this FAMILY SIZE PIZZA or 2 for $10! Eight years ago, he led his Oakville high school team to a championship. Today, he hopes to do the same for the Buffalo Bills in the Super Bowl. * By TOM MICHIBATA « "I‘m more of a technical skier," she explained "The speed events are not my favorite." Booth comes from a skiing family. In fact, she was bare]y out of diapers when her parents, members at Beaver Valley, put her on skis. From ] age two through 13, she went ]| through traditional ski programs ) before trying out for the Southern L._.] Ontario Development Junior team "on a whim." Bring your family or friends to a participating McDonald‘s and treat them to a delicious Family Size Pizza at a new value price. A Family Size pepperoni Pizza is just $5.99! A Family Size Deluxe Pizza is now only $7.99. Large family? Lots of friends? You‘re lucky! Because you can get two Family Size Pepperoni Pizzas for just $10, or a second Family Size Deluxe Pizza for $3.99! Now that‘s a deal worth sharing. Amazingly, she still maintains her schooling at Oakville Trafalgar high schoolâ€"thanks to split semesters, correspondence courses and summer schoolâ€"and promises she will graduate with her class next year. "It‘s tough," she says, "But it‘s worth it." Low and behold she made it, setâ€" ting off an itinerary that would keep a travel agent busy. "It‘s (media attenâ€" tion) all part of it. You just got in there and take the questions as they come. Any quesâ€" tion worth answering, you answer." The thing he gets asked most? The pressure of stepâ€" ping replacing Scott Norwood. Known now as "Wide Right," Norwood missed a potential gameâ€" winning field goal in the 1991 Super Bowl against the New York Giants. The 25â€"yearâ€"old Oakville native and placeâ€"kicker extraordinaire for the Buffalo Bills is experiencing the traditional media blitz leading to up the Super Bowl, today (Sunday) against the Dallas Cowboys in Pasadena, Calif. "It‘s a zoo down here," Christie said a telephone interâ€" view, Wednesday. "It‘s pretty wild but we were forewarned. "What I say to everybody is that that was two years ago and it has no relevance to me. I have to concenâ€" trate on what‘s in front of me and look forward to the next came." Hearing and reading all about the hoopla growing up, Christie never dreamed he would ever be tossed into the circus. Eight years ago he P*§%or ‘Steve Christie, the game itself will be the easy part. He figures being in a scrum, fielding questions from all angles, is more taxing than lining up for the snap, taking his threeâ€"step approach and launching the ball upward with his richt foot. â€"â€" JIM WILSON "The kids would stick around after . practice to see ow far back he would go on field goal attempts. It was the highlight _of the night" SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 1993 PAGE17 was just one of the guys on the 1985 Oakville Trafalgar high school championship squad Christie kicked a little for the team in 1984 but was torn between playing soccer (he made assortec. provincial teams as a fullback) and football. "He could kick it deep or short for us...When you have a kicker of his ability in high school that could do as many things as he did, it becomes a weapon and makes you a better team." See CHRISTIE, Page 20 Even when he was booting the pigskin for the Division Iâ€"AA College of William and Mary for four years, and then the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for another two, visions of playing in the big game were still afterthoushts. "When I was at OT, I thought more of just making it somewhere than being in a championship,"*he said. "I didn‘t think it (Super Bow!l) would be realistic. I would have laughed if someone told me I‘d be in it." 011 field Christie helped the road to a npts. It thirdâ€"straight Super ll,,hhght Bowl _ appearance nght" when he kicked the es gameâ€"winning field goal in Buffalo‘s amazing comeâ€" fromâ€"behind win over Houston in a wildâ€"card playoff last month. But in the summer of ‘85 he dedâ€" icated himself to becoming a bonafide punter/placeâ€"kicker for the following season. "He was certainly a boy who had a future in terms of an ability to kick the football,;" recalled Johnson. now a viceâ€"principal at Blakelock High School. "He had a very strong leg, which came from playing socâ€" cer. Johnson says Christie "improved dramatically" in the ‘85 season. He kicked two field goals in the final game against Nelson â€" one from 34 yards and the other from 43. He was not facing the pressure he is now, "but it was still a pressure situaâ€" tion." * To boot, Christie will become only the fifth Canuck to play in a Super Bowl. "It‘s different for a Canadian. I was fortunate to end up in an American college and look at the NFL. But I remember my first camp in Tampa, not knowing what would happen to me. I really didn‘t know where my life was heading." Tom Johnson, coach of that ‘85 OT team, had an inkling Christie would go on to bigger and better things. Those notions took a 180â€"degree turn with a stroke of a pen when he signed with the Bills as a Plan B free acent.