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Slippery when frozen Tils turn urn t like riding bike Ac ton Wayne looked like be wan having a little trouble remember tog how be skating be able to five months ago when the Novices took to the ice to tryout lor the Acton rep clubs on the weekend Then again he probably Just forgot to get his blades sharpened sports and recreation One Seventh Year No 13 ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 7 1881 Second Section One Hundred and Seventh Year No Kevin figures fine in Skate Canada Kevin Parker has finally put his figure skating plans on ice For 12 years now the Acton High School uate and Campbell ville native has been pre paring or the 1S84 Winter Olympics In Yugo slavia Last week Parker came Just one step closer to fulfilling his dream when he was chosen to represent his country in another prestigious event in Ottawa Experience Basically I going for the experience of Bleating in front of international judges not to place In the medals I Just want to show the international Judges what I can do explained Parker Two weeks ago Parker had an outstanding per formance in the Vienna Challenge Cup and came home with a silver medal He felt he was skating his best ever so must the Skate Canada people Three Canadians are chosen to compete in this top International event second only to the World s Top in world Parker may only be ranked eighth beat in Canada but he was still picked to go to Ottawa and compete against some of the top skaters in the world Knowing he could be skating against the World Champion seem to bother the 20yearold Parker I know I can do good I wanted to prove I could do it in Vienna I ve been working hard for it I think all the hard work will help In Skate Canada he said Skating Is more of a thinking man sport besides spending five hours a day on the Ice honing his routine Parker has also been working on his mental attitude Like more and more sports skating Is physical but it takes a lot of mental pre parationin the dressing rooms the other com are trying to psyche you out be ex plained It doesn t bother me much I relax as much as I can but I still a little nervous I been working with a psychologist and thats helped a lot According to Wen dy Brown has helped film learn relaxation techniques and has built his selfconfidence 1 m a little older and more mature too now all the hard work is starting to pay off I learn some little tricks I m seeing how other are training and talking to Internationa said Parker Even his program is becoming more geared to International competition Triple threat I have more triple Jumps in the basically five maybe six triple international Judges like to look at the over all choreography but they look mostly for the trlpleJ imps he said Parker has been doing a lot of work to for a heavy winter of competition He already competed in the Challenge Cup In Vienna will be in Skate Canada then goes to the Western On lario Sectionals Central Division Championships and the Canadians peaking yet 1 want to peak for the Canadian Championships in Brandon Manitoba he said Like most Canadian boys young Parker started outplaying hockey He watched figure ska ting on TV and decided he d like to try it just found something I liked and decided to stick with it said Parker The local skater Just kept on improving but had 18 Hopefully ho bo able to continue Improving at least for another three years Acton Sabre Lei Williams looks on helplessly Blades Peter skate through the goal crease to score dumped Sabre in the Acton club home open Friday night A deja vu view from Sabre cellar by Dave Dor ken It seems like only last week Acton s Sabres crawl from out of the dark damp corners of the OHA Jr cellar broke their 5 record and finally strung together a dozen wins In a row to battle Burlington Cougars In the quarter final playoffs Back then Sabres were almost invincible led by the scoring prowess of Glen Motor Murray and the strong power play of Pat Fung and Barry Trood The Motor Fung Trood and another three Sabres are all gone old men In a league or boys All that re mains of the club is the staunch defensive corps of old and the troubled mentor Jules Russian As a coach of Sabres these past two seasons has always been troubled Last year In his first full season with Sabres Russian had to at tempt to mold a group of hapless hockey players In to a winning combination he cosily succeeded This year Russian feels he in even better shape than last year at this time The Sabres may be lack ing names like Murray and Fung but It has a more even mix of talent He t even overly concerned that to date the club record Is Identical to that of last fall In their season opener Thursday night Sabres once again faced those Burlington foes This year they were humbled Friday night was the same story as the club failed to entertain the few hundred bodies in attendance at the Acton Community Ccn Ire as Sabres dropped a game to Oakville Blades Russian was undoublably concerned with the club poor play and dozens of bad penalties during the game but think the showing will have any effect on It a play this season The coach has experience in pulling off magic tr with hockey clubs last year his crew went ve games without a win before they finally started to play a little better hockey You can t be too critical of them the fact wc haven t had enough icelime and no exhibition games hurt but using Wo Justdidn t piny well Russian TwopcrlodsThursdaywereprettygood day was just a disaster Not huvlng enough ice- lime didnt matter no team can look that bad head d Looking back on the dismal Sabres showing not hard to tell why the club faired so poorly In both games the club took far too many penalties had own end Even the solid of ex Brampton A net minder Les Will foil the onslaught Oakville Sabres a massive 17 only a brick wall could stop hat many shots I thought Lcs played well except for a couple of goals In the Thursday game is going to get a lot It It wasn for the scores could have been more Russian The coach wasn really pleased with the play of any of his other players but Is I preparing to change the roster or make any major line changes for a while yet He is look at a right winger from Acton John Rockwell It was the rook who were for most Continued on pagcB2 One for the money Sabres Mark Duval blasts the puck post the Oakville to at tally in the loss Les goals on Sabres Les Wlliiams is one vho can com net minder faced lust week In the loss to Blades He was also in net inSabres 13 loss to Burlington After last week one would expect Williams to dread putting on the pads next week but he looking forward to It Last year Will played for Brampton War Jr A hockey club Salurdaj Sabres travel to Brampton to meet the and Williams is looking for some revenge I really want lo beat thoe guys it be em Sabre are in Brampton Saturday and at the Acton Community Centre Friday night pm against Thornh 1 11