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THE HERALD March 1ST Page 2T Swimmers better bests at OFFSA By BILL HUMPHREYS The GDRj label swim team swam ft nice straight line at the OFSAA tion earlier this week In the Olympian poo The team is still unsure their placing in Ontario but two Individuals and one relay team led the to a successful and exciting meet At press lime coach Tom Adams only had received the top 12 finishers In each event as well as team standings and Heather Clarke proved to be the best Rebel as she placed an enth In the IDO back stroke in a time of 1 15 Clarke and the other mem were up against some stiff competitions from club swimmers which compete at least four hours a day com pared to the Rebels training programs of Just two hours All other high schools arc tike this and have to face the same problem If we are coming close to the club swimmers time wise we know that we arc doing a Three wrestlers take third The Rebel wrestling team made a fiveday trip to Ottawa earlier to compete In the OFSAA competition last week The strong Rebel team was cut down to only six eager wrestlers after the hard fought Peel chum in which the Rebels SIX WRESTLERS These six wrestlers were Peter Mike Kevin Brown Chris Manhlre Mike Taylor and Frank Medzlnski These six boys represented the high school well as and Taylor all flexed their mus hard and wrestled third place medals The team placed eighth overall which is a great for only six boys high school of Thunder Buy completely dominated the meet as the compiled team points over second place Newton brook now had 92 points to their credit Surprisingly enough the during the year defeat every school from second to seventh place in merits These schools arc Central Tech third with Bay view fourth Roland Mich fifth with Smith Falls sixth with and Assumption with team points The tallied learn points The Rebs were handicap ped by the sparse team as other learns had up la 16 wrestlers Elson top athlete Eric recently completed a successful season as he represented the Rebel swim team with excellent performances In meets this year On the as well as Peel recorded six individual firsts in six events He started swimming with the team run by the recreation department six year ago Then year ago Eric entered high school and started swimming for the school team He years old and enrolled Into grade 10 classes averaging around the per cent range Eric sill has three years left in high school and hopes to take his swimming abilities on into university In recent OFSAA meet Eric swam against grade 12 and 13 students and placed an unofficial fourteenth spot There were a lot of club swimmers and il made com I ions very stiff Elson said There were even some Canadian record holders there so I felt good about placing where I did year was having a good year until he broke his nose and this cancelled his trip to OFSAA He swam his personal best time at this year I was quite pleased with my lime I think I would break the 10 mark So we at The Herald congratulate Eric on a fine showing this season The other teams had more kids All it has to take to finish well Is a couple of first place finishes like Bay view and Roland Michener which both had two gold medal winners each ass is tant coach Smith said LOSES Peler Fournier lost his first match to Steve Riley thcTorontochampion It was a lie but Riley won because during the match he tried a hip toss which was a three point move and be cause of this Ihe judge allow Riley to move on in the championship round Peter was asleep for just one second during that match and it cost him a gold or silver Smith said went all the way to consolation finals which he won quite handily He dominated everyone after his first match and became the wrestler we all know the coach said Riley ended up winning the gold medal Mike Taylor another bronze medalist also com poled in Ihe consolation round because of an early loss In h defeat he had edge throughout the until seconds when he attempted a hip toss but his countered his move and won by a close margin Mike came back day after that defeat on Friday and cleaned up on rest of field Smith said Mi- 1 The moit ousianding wrestler was Frank Medzin ski according to Smith as he had an excellent meet only losing one match which kept him out of the gold silver medals MICHAEL B0YNT0N STUDIO OFFERING is a 5 Week Course of j DiscoBallroom Dancing for only 25 per person beginning this Sunday 330 at North Halton Golf Country Club Open to Members and Public hutiucfloiu Marge Jack lonfta PHONE or He lost his second match lo a grade 13 student Frank is only In grade The score He loo came back on Saturday after his defeat on Friday and he pinned the first opponent Smith said The three matches were a Utile tougher as he won all three by Just one point KNOCKED OUT Kevin Brown lost to a wrestler who ended up In sixth place This defeat knocked Brown out early but he showed some excellent moves and should be a threat next year Chris Manhirc and Mike were also knocked out early but ihey are only rookies and should be the top Rebel wrestlers in future years All ihrce wrestlers gained some valuable experience re becoming good wrestlers Smith said There were approximately other schools In the meet wrestlers so eight place finish was a fine showing Our season was very successful one only losing two out of nine tournaments we entered in We re looking forward to next year coach Smith said good Job coach Tom A dams said The girls free relay team consisting of Clarke Cheryl Thompson Suzanne Abray Mary Lynn Mor row placed an amazing fourth Just missing the bronze medal with a time of 202 The relay team swam very well I was pleased wilh their time coach Adams said Clarke and Ihe relay team were the only Rebels that mode it to the finals One other swimmer that placed in the top 12 was Cheryl Thompson who fin ished eleventh in the 100 free with a time of i or There were schools Involved in the competition and Vincent from Windsor won the overall girls and Centennial took both the boys overall leam crown The team went to swim their best times We know they were not going to beat ill club swimmers but cur goal was to make the Uds Improve and they did just that Everyone I think swam their best times Adams said Lord Elgin the num ber contender in the and Peel champion ships this year did not qualify for any finals We represented our coun ty very well everyone proved and enjoyed them selves That what so ling for me as a coach seeing everyone Improve Adams concluded The Rebels Hint represent Georgetown were Clarke Karen Beth Slewart ray Mark Payne Andy Bigg Kevin Thompson Steve Crowe Kim Gram melt Allison MacDonald Mary Lynn Morrow Doug Crowe Kim MacLeod Eric Cheryl Thompson and Gord Payne HONDA CIVIC WEVE GOT EMI 5 SPEEDS AUTOMATICS 6AS STATION OPERATORS HATE TO SEE THE HONDAS DRIVE BY BAZ MOTORS LTD where sales service Is tops and lOOOutlphSt Georgetown Of Wanna sing I MEN TO CONTACT FOR INFORMATION JOE LAWS 4577569 ROSS TIM 8774145 The Brampton Barbershop Chorus 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