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TUESDAY: Halton midgetâ€" junior high school basketball championships at Sheridan Collece. FRIDAY: Canadian college volleyball championships open at Sheridan Collece. MONDAY: GHAC high school curling championships at Oakville Curline Club. Bobby Humphrey, 10, finâ€" ished eighth in atom 1,500m. Thomas Fornoville was 15th. SUNDAY: Game four (if neeessary) of Central Ont. Jr. A Hockey League playoffs. Caledon Canadians at Oakville Blades. Francis, 11, was second in the atom boys 400 metres with a time of one minute, 7.3 seconds. Jeff Francis picked up a silâ€" ver medal as Oakville Legion Track and Field Club athletes competed in the Massey Indoor Games at York University Games, last week. Kim Reid was fourth in girls 16â€"andâ€"over 1m with 232.75 points. Oakville‘s Claire Martin of the Gatquatics Divers finished fourth at the Gloucester Invitational meet last weekend. Martin amassed 226.15 points in girls Level II oneâ€"metreâ€"â€" good enough to qualify her for the Ontario Tier I championships in May. ON TRACK DIVING N ... The Halton Men‘s Nonâ€" Contact Recreational Hockey League is now taking registraâ€" tion for its summer leaoue Call $49â€"9712. Oakville Ladies Recreational Softball League is holding two registration sesâ€" sions at Sheridan College‘s J.M. Porter Athletic Centre. The first goes March 1 from 12 noon to 3 p.m. The second is March 28 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m Cost is $90.... QP TICKETS 3 0 And little wonder. The Oakville native had 12 goals and 31 assists in 22 games in leading his University of Guelph Gryphons to a No. 8 rankâ€" ing in the CIAU coaches poll. His 43 points placed him sixth in OUAA scoringâ€"â€"and he‘s a defenceman. Guelph is currently playing No. 3 Waterloo in the bestâ€"ofâ€"three West Division final. Waterloo won the series opener 5â€"3, Thursday and can wrap up the series, Sunday. Ottawa plays U of T in the East final. Meanwhile, the OUAA basketball championships are this weekend at Copps Coliseum. Oakville‘s Shawn Francis is a key player for No. 4 McMaster. Steve Perkovic has been named to the Ontario University Athletic Association allâ€"star team. Perkovic was one of three Gryphons named to the OUAA West Division first allâ€"star team. Steve‘s the key for Guelph Hyland was also fourth i in the junior 200m in a time of 22.4 seconds. His previous best was a 51.5 second clocking at last year‘s Ontario indoor championships in Windsor where he finished fifth. The 18â€"yearâ€"old Queen Elizabeth Park student, who trains with the Etobicoke Huskies club, posted a a perâ€" sonalâ€"best indoor time of 50.9 seconds. Oakville‘s Chris Hyland notched a bronze medal in the junior 400 metres at the recent Ontario Bantamâ€" Midgetâ€"Junior Indoor Track and Field Championships at York University. Oakville runner takes provincial bronze "I was pleased with the time considering it was my se Aifâ€"> ninoâ€"monon McDonald‘s Doyle actually began 15 years ago in Winterhaven, Fla. It has seen the likes of Blue Jays outfielders Derek Bell and Turner Ward graduâ€" ate from its schools although Know insists that turning professional players "is not our main focus." Neither is winning and losing. What is the priority is instruction of fundamentalsâ€"without losing sight of the fact baseball is supposed to be fun, said Knox. "We work real close and real well together," says Scott Knox, who recently transferred from Doyle‘s Ohio satellite office to head the Oakville branch. What began with a miniâ€"camp here four years ago has blossomed into a fullâ€"scale partnership with the OMBA that involves teaching thouâ€" sands of youths, age 7 and up, the fundamentals of baseballâ€"and life. And then they point to the Doyle Baseball Academy, the largest baseâ€" ball school in the world which recently set up its national headâ€" quarters in Oakville. They point to the number of local youths earning U.S. college scholarships. They point to the sucâ€" cess of rep teams. Oakville Minor Baseball Association people will tell you that its level of play has never been betâ€" ter. Oakville now home ,,NFC seawn opener on]y games at their tradiâ€" and has larger dressing has also received strong Harrington for Doyle baseball ‘Horns like Burlington The 5â€"footâ€"10, 170â€"pounder ran was timed in 4.3 seconds over 40 yards at a college football recruiting camp at Barton High School in Hamilton) last August. He was a running back with the Queen Elizabeth Park senior football team last fall. Hyland is hoping to procure a U.S. college scholarâ€" ship this fall. Nebraska, Minnesota and Kent State have expressed interest thus far. There is a possibility of a dual football/track scholarship at Kent State, which is interested in him as a receiver. first race of the year," Hyland said earlier this week. "I‘m coming off a minor injury (strained hamstring) which forced me to miss two races." With Doyle teaching the basics earlier, they say it frees up time for the OMBA‘s army of volunteer coaches to work on more advanced areas of the game, not to mention logistics and paperwork. OMBA officials are thrilled with Doyle‘s presence. But through Doyle, the gap narâ€" rows. Youngsters are now learning what teenagers were only being taught for the first time years ago, said Knox. Then there‘s the college evaluaâ€" tion program, in which Doyle rates 15â€"19 yearâ€"old players, and puts together a package on them and sends it out to appropriate universiâ€" ties. The assessments are brutally frank, and school marks stressed. And then the good stuff starts. Beginning June 28, Doyle and its six instructors will operate a sixâ€" hour camp ever day from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., except weekends, for eight straight weeks. Cost is $160 per stuâ€" dent per week. "To be realistic, Canadians are six or seven years behind (Americans) skillâ€"wise," said Knox. Doyle will be running its EYO clinicâ€"for _ Evaluate _ Your Organizationâ€"May 29â€"30. This is a threeâ€"hour handsâ€"on introduction into baseball technique. A coaches clinic goes April 3. SUNDAY, MARCH 7, 1993 PAGE 20