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Sean Milligan cleared a perâ€" sonal 1.60 metres to win the silâ€" ver medal in the bantam boys high jump at the fourth annual Massey Indoor Games, last week at York University. « The 13â€"yearâ€"old member of Athletiques International track and field club of Oakville also finished ninth in the shot put with a personalâ€"best 8.90m. Michael Karas, 13, also set a personal best as he finished third i# the bantam boys 5Om hurdles. The University of Toronto stuâ€" dent, formerly of Queen Elizabeth Park, cleared 2.24m, eclipsing the mark of 2.21m he set in 1991. . Zaliauskas was using the meet as a tuneup for the World Indoor Championships this weekend back at SkyDome. Oakville‘s Alex Zaliauskas broke his own meet record in winning the high jump at the Canadian university track and field championships at Toronto‘s SkyDome, Wednesday. Making their first appearance in the worlds, Rice and Higgins were 13th after Tuesday‘s short program. They moved up to 10th with a steady performance in Wednesday‘s long program. Fellow Canadians Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler won the event. RECORD JUMP SEAN STARS Oakville‘s Sean Rice and Stratford‘s Jodeyne Higgins finâ€" ished 10th in the pairs event at the World Figure Skating Championships in Prague of the Czech Republic, Wednesday. She‘ll be looking to top that at the NCA A indoor champiâ€" onships, slated for Indianapolis, this weekend. She was 11th last year. RICE CAPADES Her best time this season is a 9:17.61, run in Ames Iowa two weeks aco. And Velsen, an Oakville native, came through, winning the gold medal with a time of nine minutes, 31.60 seconds. "It seemed harder to finish second or third in other year than it did to win," the senior nursing student said. "This year it seemed so simple." So instead of having her run three or even four races at this year‘s SWC championships in Baton Rouge last weekend, Florida coaches had her concenâ€" trate on just one, the women‘s 3,000 metres. University of Florida coaches thought Corena Velsen deserved the chance to win a Southwestern Conference title before her colleâ€" giate career was over. CORENA‘s TOPS ARM "Sports," said Millo, "Are becoming more acceptable for women...It‘s really a mirror of the rest of life." It‘s a mirror that reflects the imbalance of life, too, as illustrated by the few professional opporâ€" tunities open to women players. Which means most of them have that old Cindy spirit: They‘re in it for fun. Not including late registrants, OSC will have some 1,800 female players this season, representâ€" ing close to 50 per cent of its entire membership. "With the boys teams, there‘s more emphasis on winning and results," says Millo. "Girls can play a game and lose and 10 minutes later, it‘s all forgotten. It‘s more of a social thing for them." Lynda Rennie, an 11â€"year veteran of the game who runs the OSC‘s overâ€"30 team and coaches its underâ€"19 rep squad, agrees. hen Cindy Lauper sang about girls s’s/ just wanting to have fun, the good times seemed to consist mainly of wearing bright clothes and dancing a lot. . But if Oakville is any measure, feminine fun today can be summed up in one word: Soccer. What else explains how Oakville, with a popâ€" ulation of only 100,000, has come to boast the largest girls soccer league in Canada, perhaps even North America. And, says Oakville Soccer Club president and girls coach Tony Millo, "It‘s still growing." By IRENE GENTLE Special to The Beaver Girls soccer just keeps growing and growing "You get hooked on it," says Rennie, whose Just last year the senior girls rep team won the Ontario champiâ€" onship and Millo estiâ€" mates about a dozen Oakville girls have more physical game, the girls play a more "finesse" game, explains Millo. "There‘s more passma, it‘s more strategic." explains Millo. "There‘s more passing; it‘s more strategic." "People ask me why I coach girls and I say it‘s because they want to play. From a coach‘s standpoint, they‘re much more receptive to teaching." s Just last year the senior girls rep team won the Ontario champiâ€" onship and Millo estiâ€" mates about a dozen "There‘s no pressure," says Rennie. "If a lady says to me, ‘I can‘t run any longer, then all she has to say is, ‘Coach, take me off the field.‘ Eventually, she will be able run." While boys are bigger, stronger and play a _ The emphasis on fun extends even to spectaâ€" tors. Parents of girls, Millo observes, are "more willing to let the girls play...there‘s less chastisâ€" ing the referee and whatever else goes on at the boys games." Even the game itself changes when girls stream on to the field. daughters also play. "I find it exhilarating. You get to meet a lot of new people...a lot of teams go out together after a game." FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1993 PAGE 26 Millo says about 75 per cent of OSC girls have family members who play and another 25 per cent have friends in the game. And they‘re‘ all just having fun. While most of the converts are maleâ€" Oakville, after all, has most soccer players per capita in North Americaâ€" it ultimately helped expand female teams as well. received scholarships from U.S. universities. So why is it so popular in Oakville? Soccer here, as it has across the province, has benefited from parents, tiring of hockey, wanting to enroll their children in something cheap, easy to learn and fun to play. Robertson, the twoâ€"time defendâ€" ing champion, and Rusnov are the locals slated to compete in the slam dunk competition. Taking part in the threeâ€"point competition from Oakville are Alex Wolder (QEP), Jake Werstuck (TAB), Grinbergs and Baddeley. Filling out the Volpe squad are Tom Diardichuk and Todd Fuller from Bishop Reding, Kevin O‘Donnell from E.C. Drury and Mark Dowell from Milton. The team will be coached by Jim Noble of Blakelock. Held as part of the competition are a threeâ€"point shooting event and slumâ€"dunk contest. Selected from Oakville to play against the best from the Richardson Division were: Rick Grinbergs and Andy Robertson (Oakville Trafalgar), Steve Bryant (Loyola), Russ Fieldhouse (Queen Elizabeth Park), Rob Rusnov (T.A. Blakelock) and Rob Baddeley (St. Thomas Aquinas). Six local players will help make up the Volpe Division squad in the 16th annual Halton Classic high school allâ€"star basketball game, March 26 at Blakelock. stars set to come out Basketball