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Returning high school foot- ball players in the region will be able to get a jump on the '93 sea- son with the first Headstart Football Camp Aug. 30- Sept. in Oakville and Burlington. Open for players going into Grades 10-12 next year, the camps will be held at Oakville grafalgar High School in akville and M.M. Robinson High School in Burlington. Coordinator Gary Crocker says the concept was dreamed up at a pre-season coaches meeting and received overwhelming sup- port. Fifteen coaches from Burlington and a dozen from Oakville will give instruction. Crocker said the impetus behind the camp was the Lack of time during the season itself for coaches to develop players. . "The coaches have concerns that because the season is so compact they don't have time for preparation," he said. High schools get head start White Sox field boss Rob Fisher was pleased with the sharpness of his pitchers and infield. No errors were committed and of the 27 outs, 17 See SOX, Page 16 Opening day, new uniforms and a warm, comfortable evening. It seemed only fitting that the Oakville senior White Sox should open the 1993 Central Ontario Baseball Association season with a convincing win, Monday at Oakville Park. Ken Fee, Blair Stewart and Lance Dibble combined on aneight-hittet as the Sox belted Sheridan Royals 9-2. Fee went the first five innings, giving up one run on six hits and a walk. Stewart tossed the next two innings. allowing a run on two hits. before Lance Dibble came on to work a perfect final two frames. The trio combined for eight strikeouts. Offensively, veteran second baseman Ken Collett wielded the hot stick, going 4-for-5, including a two-run homer and three RBIs. First baseman Pat Noonan went 2-for-3 with two RBIs. Sox sock the Royals Sports trivia. . .Box No. 5239 Sports picks“ lot No. 5240 Sheridan Collago. ' _ Jo come ammo Bladas......To come Gunilla Lima Laeoun...To come Another reason why SLEEMAN Silver Creek Lager, Cream Ale and Premium Light tastes so good is because we use only Guelph's celebrated I, ,.n A7“;-.--..ICI DIMMAYU tt'i?rlt'"'1 _'i!"i'"'"r_ I _ [RUN] Lam- M2-..“ IODA fl ,:rr5/", V 'h" ". V 'N Tt' ti(vcR 'ill > 'ti' if ’ KN ' *- ' I ,.x 3mm” . EN all Natural SLEEMAN "We definitely went there with a medal in mind," said starting power hitter Dan Lewis, a Grade ll stu- dent at Blakelock High School. But after entering the 12-tearn event as the No. 2 seed, the Oakville-based Ontario champions were given harsh lessons on slick and fast volleyball. West Side finished third in its pool with a 3-2 round-robin record and then saw their medal hopes go out the window when they fell to Limoilou of Quebec in the quarter- finals, 15-ll, 12-15, l5-12. West Side did salvage some pride by beating Winnipeg Wesmen in a game for fifth place, 15-l, 15- 12. West Side Volleyball Club was confident. perhaps even a little cocky, heading into the Canadian Juvenile Championships in Oshawa over the weekend. "But the talent on the other teams was unbelievable. We were really surprised. West Side sputters at nationals ER "-1 I 'SPOR TS Lewis said the team's brightest moment came in the quarter-final loss to Quebec. West Side was down 12-l and 14-4 in the deciding game but rallied to make a game of "We had the best offence there but our serving and passing was off." Lewis, 17, said West Side had a few breakdowns here and there at critical points in matches. " "We had a slight height advan- tage on teams like Saskatchewan and Alberta, Although they were smaller they ran a faster offence and their digs were just unbelievable. Their passing and setting was so fast, we had no time to get up our blocks." The talent on the other teams was unbelievable " HE OAKVILLE BEAVER l In pool action, West Side lost to eventual champion Saskatchewan 15-9, 15-13, defeated New Brunswick 15-7, 10-15. 15-5, lost to eventual silver medalist Grand Prairie of Alberta 16-14, 13-15, 15- 9, defeated Sherbrooke, Que. 15-T, 15-7'and London Source For Sport 15-8, 15-10. . It is an army of nearly 4,000. They run, they scream, they carry bats and they wear official-looking uniforms-some of which will even remain clean for an hour. And that'sjust the parents.... Just kidding. Every night, beginning this week, for the next three months, this group of unlikely soldiers will stake out every piece of property that can possibly pass as a baseball diamond. For fun is the operative word, as the Oakville Minor Baseball Association and Oakville Little League will tell you. Take away a dozen rep teams--those 200 odd elite youngsters who take on the best from other area towns and cities-and you'still end up with well over 2,000 OMBA players giving their all just for the sake of giving their all. Add to this 1200 Little Leaguers and 2l0 girls softball players-competing under the OMBA umbrella-and a couple hundred more softball play- ers more playing in the Kinsmen organization and it means about one out of every eight children is going to be out on a diamond twice a week this sum- mer. These really are the boys (and girls) of summer, singing their songs and wearing their rally caps. They are going to Strikeout and they are going to drop pop flies but, really, what does it matter? Peter Kissel (left) delivers a pitch during the Baseball's Back in Town tournament between Oakville and Burlington over the weekend. Below, a Burlington player applies the tag to an Oakville runner at second base. Photo by Emma Venom) The 12 teams were divided into two pools of six for round-robin play. Top three teams in each pool advanced to the next round. Beaver sports editor "lt took us 30 minutes to get eight points. West Side are not quit- ters," he said. The other local player on West Side was “jay Vyas. 17, who was back-up setter. With only two players leaving this year - Jason Fehr and captain Travis Wintjes-- next year looks bright for the juveniles. By JIM WILSON "We really bonded together this weekend," Lewis said. "Next year we'll be awesome." So is everybody happy? Well. no -s) Good beer since 1834 -- TOM MIC HIBA TA WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1993 PAGE 15 Snooker ace finally gets perfect game '0 There remains just this slight problem with-what else?-damonds. Unless you're that Russian cosmonaut stuck in a space station for a year, you don't have to be told that the shortage of diamonds in Oakville has caused a headache for recreational slo-pitch teams and the town's two big baseball organizations alike. But a few shoddy fields are "the only fly in the ointment," Rankin says, noting that Little League junior and senior teams have the benefit of lushly-sod fields at Shell Park-complete, even, with pitching mounds. "We certainly don't have as many as we'd like to have," said Michael Homing, president of the 164- team OMBA. "In some cases, there is no room for rain delays. (The schedule) is very, very tight." The OMBA does have the use of 25 diamonds, which isn't bad except that several of these happen to be on school yards and "don't seem to be as well maintained as other town diamonds," Homing says, openly questioning the safety factor. He won't receive an argument from Little League's Ian Rankin, whose 77 teams must make do with a dozen diamonds, some of which on school yards are "disastrous." After being assigned diamonds, Little League om- cials went out to inspect them. The verdict: Several of them were "unfit to play on." Parents have since had to volunteer to double as the grounds crew. The problem is that many diamonds are Halton Board of Education property and are loaned to the town, says Homing. Consequently, he said, they do not receive the town's typical attention to detail. OMBA season began Monday for rep teams--cho- sen from a series of recent try-outs-- and for house league. Little League, which is only in its second year here, completed its tearn-by-tearn draft of play- ers on the weekend and throws out the ftrst pitch this weekend. From these come tme all-star team of its 16 top players ready to challenge the region's finest. l