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f SPORTS AND RECREATION ARM UPS DoOG FOODp Jeff Toms wasn‘t the only lqcal person who played a big role in Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds‘ Memorial Cup triâ€" umph, Sunday. Oakville Trafalgar High Schoolâ€"â€"and Guelph Universityâ€"â€" graduate Gigi Farrall is now a clinical dietician for a hospital in the $oo. And she was called upon twice to aid in coming up with a good diet for Greyhound players. It paid off: The ‘Hounds, led by Toms‘ three assists, defeated Peterborough 4â€"2 in the final of the Canadian junior hockey tourâ€" nament, held at Sault Ste. Marie‘s Memorial Gardens. Also with the Greyhounds was Oakville‘s Peter MacKellar. SELLING SOCCER _ As marketing director for the Toronto Blizzard, Oakville‘s Nick Jelinek admits he has a difficult job. The Blizzard is now playing in the new American Professional Soccer Leagueâ€"â€"but that hasn‘t help lure fans. Sunday, the team played its home opener before only 500 spectators at Varsity Stadium. Blizzard won 2â€"1 over Tampa Bay Rowdies to up its record 2â€" 2â€"1. Jelinek, a former student and teacher at Appleby College, admits professional soccer is a "tough sell" in Toronto but remains optimistic the country‘s legion of soccer fans will discovâ€" er the team. STAR OF JAPAN Mike Morningstar is back from the Allâ€"Japan Cup taekwonâ€" do competition in Tokyo. And the head of Oakville Morningstar‘s Taekwondo once again wowed the locals with thirdâ€"place finishes in both the pattern and sparring events. Morningstar was one of five Canadians invited to compete against the best from Japan and Malaysia. DoYLE‘s BACK Doyle Baseball Academy holds its first clinic for Oakville players this weekend. OMBA players aged 7â€"19 are invited to participate in one of four sessions taking place at Oakville Park, Saturday and Sunday. Doyle, one of North America‘s largest baseball schools, recently set up a permanent satellite office in Oakville after several years of teaching area youngsters the finer points of the game. Call 842â€"1695 for more inforâ€" mation. St) Thomas Aquinas here inp (to score se ts Park local in , Wednesday‘ Raider boys suffer setback... BURLINGTON â€" For the second straight year, a stroke of misfortune befell the St. Thomas Aquinas senior boys soccer team. Tied 1â€"1 with Assumption Crusaders in the Halton high school champiâ€" onship game Wednesday at Sherwood Forest Park, the Raiders were called for a controversial foul in their penalty area., The ensuing penalty shot goal by Richard Price with under three minâ€" utes to play in regulation time gave the Crusaders a 2â€"1 win, sending them to the Golden Horseshoe Athletic Conference championship against the Hamilton champion today (Friday, 4 p.m.) at Sherwood Forest Park. The Raiders, meanwhile, were left with another bitter aftertaste. Right after the final whistle, star midfielder John Sola fired some nasty verbal volleys at the referee. A couple of his teammates weeped openly. "It‘s a tough loss," said Raiders coâ€"coach Mike Hendrikse. "I thought it was a bad call...their guy (Nelson Costa) might have taken a dive. "In the last three minutes of the game, I question why the ref can make a call like that when it was not that blatant. In a close game like this, the players should decide the outcome of the game, not the referee." Costa said the call was a right one, although he admitted he gave the Aquinas defender "an elbow" while the two were jockeying for position." Last year, the team was victim of a workâ€"toâ€"rule threat by Halton sepaâ€" rate board teachers. Many players made other commitments thinking their quarterâ€"final playoff match would be cancelled. But when an 11th hour setâ€" tlement was reached, the players weren‘t available. Aquinas lost the game. This time, the Raiders‘ pain could be greater. Aquinas was impressive in finishing first in the Volpe Division with a 5â€"1â€"0 record â€" despite losing its best player, Eugenio Raso, to a fractured leg in the seasonâ€"openerâ€"â€"and breezed through quarterâ€"final and semiâ€"final games. Wednesday, Aquinas held the edge in play in the first half, taking a 1â€"0 FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1993 PAGE FF20 Q. EP girls movin‘ on BURLINGTON â€" The wait is finally over. The Queen Elizabeth Park senior girls soccer team was able to solve longâ€"time nemesis, Nelson Lords, in Wednesday‘s Halton high school league playoff final at Sherwood Forest. Forward Kelly Conboy‘s three goals and a bendâ€"butâ€"notâ€"break defence lifted the Eagles to a 3â€"1 win over the threeâ€"time defending Ontario chamâ€" pions. Eagles‘ next step to the OFSAA championships is a win in today‘s (Friday) Golden Horseshoe Athletic Conference final at Mohawk Sports Complex in Hamilton. After playing bridesmaids to Nelson the last two years, a more deterâ€" mined Eagles outfit was able to reâ€"write the script. The team made few errors and was able to pounce on any openings given by the Lords. Even after Nelson‘s Kelly Wong opened the scoring on a ball that was accidenâ€" tally put into the net by a Q.E. Park player, the Eagles didn‘t panic. Conboy exploded for two goals late in the opening half to give the Eagles a 2â€"1 bulge. But the Lords, playing like defending champions, came at the Eagles hard in the second half. Q.E. Park ‘keeper Nicole Hunter, filling in for ailâ€" ing Katie Fry, was rock solid, making two brilliant stops off Nelson‘s most dangerous attacker, Joanne Donna Holyman, and playing her angles well. Conboy iced the game when a Nelson defender lost control of the ball deep in Lords territory. She stole the ball and beat Nelson ‘keeper Joanne Chillingsworth with a low shot. Although it was a happy Eagles bunch afterwards, the celebration was rather lowâ€"key. "We were pretty nervous going into the game," Conboy said. "It (winning) hasn‘t sunk in yet." "We played our game. In the past, we‘d be concerned with marking cerâ€" tain players on their team. We just stuck manâ€"toâ€"man, worked as a team and lead on a neat leftâ€"footed shot by forward covered for each other well." Hunter said Ed Stodola, who took a corner kick by THE PL YOFFS she was cool and focused for the game. Mario Saric, dipsyâ€"doodled around one Assumption defender before letting go a shot from 12 yards out. But the Crusaders came on in the second half and were rewarded when Gianni Doddato tied the score, taking a through ball just past midâ€" field, breaking down the left side and beat ‘keeper Frank Fruitti with a hard low shot from 10 yards out. 3 Seventyâ€"eight into 48 won‘t go. Tony Molnar knows this as well as anybodyâ€"and he‘s cerâ€" tainly tried to do it enough times. But that‘s the quandary the Oakville Longhorns head coach faces in preparation for the team‘s Northern Football Conference season opener, tomorrow (Saturday, 7 p.m.) against Scarborough at Burlington‘s Nelson Stadium. Seventyâ€"eight is the number of bodies still is camp. Fortyâ€"eightâ€"at the outsideâ€"is the numâ€" ber he wants to get down to after practice last night (Thursday) and tonight. "We‘re working at it," he says. "(But) the players are making it very difficult." HERE COME THE LONGHORNS! Molnar is vague when asked about who‘ll be on the roster for the team‘s 16th NFC camâ€" paignâ€"only, he insists, because he doesn‘t know. Well, that‘s only partially true. He and his seven assistants have a pretty fair idea who‘ll be starting. Most of them, after all, are veterans. But it is the nearly 60 names on the "quesâ€" tion mark list" that have them puzzled. "It‘s a luxury," he admits. "But it‘s also a luxury we don‘t necessarily want." A partial solution will be to carry an extra dozen bodies into Saturday‘s game and hopefulâ€" ly several will play themselves off the roster. The problem, of course, is getting them game Being switched from her normal midfield position to goal wasn‘t a big deal because she plays goal for her Burlington underâ€"19 rep team. Hunter knew the opposition well, being a teammate of many of their players with the Bandits. "I know a little (of their tenâ€" dencies) but they‘re such good players, they make adjustments well too," she said. time, particularly if the score is close. He doesn‘t want to carry more than 50 playâ€" ers this season because a) the subs won‘t play much anyway and b) equipment prices being what they are, the club needs to be costâ€"sensiâ€" tive when it comes to determining numbers. In the meantime, here‘s a positionâ€"byâ€"posiâ€" tion peek at what to expect. QUARTERBACK: It‘s too early to call it a quarterback controverâ€" sy but the battle for the starting pivot spot is "up in the air," Molnar says. Will it be Mark Demerling, the thirtysomething former MVP? Or Jason Molnar, the precocious 21â€"yearâ€"old who showed last year he could do the job? See.LONGHORNS, Page 24