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"A Family Tradition for 126 Years" PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, June 23, 1992 - 29 Stefan Timms dreams of being a triathlete in the 1996 Olympic Games By Scott Anderson Port Perry Star Stefan Timms began swim- ming to beat his twin brother. Now heis turning his sights on a bigger goal -- the Olympic Games. Timms, 19, hopes to be a member of the first triathlon team to represent Canada in the Olympics. Although it isn't recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) it is expected AE BE a NN N a v | Ys N\ bh ¥ 3 3 ANNE by a competitive urge to be bet- ter than his twin brother Aaron, Stefan joined the East York Swim Team in 1987. He was soon setting the pool on fire. His introduction to running came a year later, when he took up running competitively. When his family moved to Scu- gog from Toronto in 1988, he de- cided to join the cross country team at Anderson Collegiate to meet people. It was at Anderson where he we , LO Scugog resident Stefan Timms has been establishing some pretty impressive times in swimming, running and cycling as he strives towards his ultimate goal of one day representing Canada in the Triathlon at the Olympic Games. Please see the story for more details. to become a sport in either the 1996 or 2000 games. And when it does, Timms will be ready. In the meantime Timms is content to compete on the tri- athlon circuit where he has had great success. To date he has racked up some impressive numbers. He has run a personal best time of 32:11 over 10 kilometres (6.2 miles), 16:59 for the 1,500 metre swim and placed first in the Sunnyside K-Steel Triathlon in 1989. He has competed and fin- ished another 10 triathlons. Timms' introduction to the triathlons came in the usual way. He participated in both running and swimming and de- cided it was time to combine his talents. An early start in swimming set Timms on his way towards the world of triathlons. Fuelled hooked up with Mr. Ranalli, his coach. Timms credits Ranalh with providing him with the de- sire to continue. "I wouldn't have hked it so much, but he got me to enjoy the sport," Timms said. "We had a lot of fun and there wasn't any pressure. Slowly Timms through the cross country ranks, improving with each start. By 1990 he was captain of the team and was competing in the Ontario championships. moved up Although he had success at swimming and running, Timms had never really contemplated triathlons until he was talked into competing by a friend. Af- ter completing the race, he was bitten by the bug. "It was really fun. I really liked it," he said. He vowed to re-enter the race the following year and win it. And as with everything else that Timms has set his mind to, he returned the following year to win the event. With successes in swimming and running, it was only natu- ral to turn his sights to cycling if he wished to become a competi- tive triathlete. "Biking became a necessity to get into triathlons," he said. "I was never a serious cyclist. My cycling mustimprove if I wish to do something." With sponsorship from Bay Sports and other local sponsors, Timms acquired a $4,000 racing bike to set him on his way. "Without that (the local spon- sorships) I would've been in trouble," he said. "It's sad to say, but it comes to a point that peo- ple with money are going to win." He says while physical fitness is important, it is usually those with the good equipment that will succeed on the competitive circuit. Timms' training schedule is a hectic one in which he juggles a full course load at Western Uni- versity with work. His usual training program consists of 40 to 80 km a week of running, 10 training sessions in the pool per week and 40 km cy- cling sessions. This training schedule is sup- plemented with triathlons eve- ry two weeks. He is currently competing in the Tele-Globe Triathlon series. On top of the hectic training and racing schedule, Timms is entering his second year at Uni- versity of Western Ontario where he is studying kinesiolo- gy, in hopes of one day entering medical school. Although he is on a scholar- ship at Western, he is prepared to put school aside in his quest to become an Olympicathlete. "Youonly get the chance once. I may take off school for a while," he said noting some of his friends are already training in Texas. This decision will have to be made in the future. Right now Timms has his sights set on more immediate goals. He 1s aiming for a spot on the Canadi- an National team to compete in the World Triathlon Champion- ships in Muskoka. He narrowly missed making the team last year. But at the back of his mind and the driving force behind his competitiveness is a desire to compete in the Olympics. "It's always been a goal to make the Olympics at some sport," he said. And knowing Timms' luck and determination, we'll see him thereshortly. Merchants have a busy week This weeks sports report is sponsored by Kentucky Fried Chicken and Tri Son Paving. Last Tuesday, Port Midgets played the Scarborough Reds for not only a league game, but also the bronze medal for the Bramalea tournament which had been rained out the previ- ous Saturday before the cham- pionship rounds could be played. Fortunately for Port, our home town midgets were matched against an opponent in our own league. Oshawa had to make other arrangements to play St. Catherines for the gold. In this important game, Port scored two runs in the fourth and two runs in the sixth on RBI hits by Jason McBride, Denis Smith, Corey Bricknell, and Darrell VanderSlagt. Chad Venning picked up the win in a strong pitching effort, strikin out three, allowing six hits an only one earned run. Denis Smith came in as relief and struck out two, and allowed one hit for the save. The next league game was on Wednesday in Oshawa, and Port made use of the strong pitching duo of Denis Smith and Jeff Card. Jeff picked up the win in a 5-4 game. RBI hitters for the game were Jason Cochrane, Steve Laird {two} and Brad Moase {two}. On Saturday, Port visited North York and the first game of the tournament pitted them against their league rivals, the Scarborough Reds. Unfortu- nately, morning games do not bring out the best in Port's players and the Midget Mer- chants were on the losing end of a 5-3 game. Now it was a strug- gle since Port had to win both games to be eligible for the med- al round. In the second game, Port had a football game score winning 9- 8 against Bramalea, who made "it a close game by scoring four in the third and two in the fourth. Card picked up the win by com- ingin as reliefin the fourth with two out, and men on second and third. The Midget Merchants were able to score one run in the bottom of the seventh, and felt fortunate to walk away with a win. This close game made it twice in the past two weeks that Bramalea has given Port a scare. RBI hitters were Card, MacLennan, and VanderSlagt with two each, McBride and Smith with one each. In the third game, Port met Stittsville, a team from the Ot- tawa Valley, and a win was a must. Smith not only pitched a strong game, but with Port los- ing, hit a two RBI single in the sixth inning to win the game 3- 2. Card had the other RBI hit. Smith pitched seven innings with six strike outs, two walks, six hits allowed and only one earned run. The only controver- sy in the game was the Stitts- ville pitcher, nicknamed Jump- ing Jack Flash, who constantly called on his centre fielder to pitch him out of trouble when threatened with men on ase. This win by Port caused a three way tie between Scarbo- rough Reds, Stittsville, and Port Perry. The tie had to be broken by mini sudden death games in which the last out al- ways started at second base when his team went to bat. Scarborough won the coin toss for a bye, and Stittsville and Port played for three innings with close play after close play until the bottom of the third when Stittsville put a ball in play with two out to win the right to go against the Reds. Scarborough won in two in- nings and became eligible to go into the championship round. See "The Standings Corner" for the Oshawa and District Midget League Standings, as well as the Merchant Midget Hitters of the Week. The schedule for the next two weeks is as follows: June 23 - Bramalea vs Port Perry - 8:30 p-m.; June 25 - Port vs Scarbo- rough Dia's - 8:30 p.m. June 28 - Exhibition game (XL Tourna- ment}; June 30 - Port vs Stroud - 8:30 p.m.; July 3-5 - OASA Elim- inationsin Stratford. Take over top spot Goreski yields hot bat for Gamblers Baseball legend contends that pitchers are not supposed to be good hitters but the Green- bank Gambler pitching duo of Wayne Wells and Mark Goreski are shattering that theory as both players are hitting for av- erage and power in the young fastball season. This was certainly evident last Thursday night in Green--_ bank Park asthe Gamblers set down Peterborough I.C.G. in a showdown for top spot in the Pe- terborough city league by a 6-1 score to go to the top of the divi- sion. Mark Goreski tossed a nif- ty two hitter for Greenbank and in three plate appearances he whacked three consecutive home runs. In fact, the entire Gambler squad was making great con- tact off of I.C.G.'s Brian Condon and Gary Vowels, as they belted out a total of 12 base hits during the game. In addition to Mark Goreski's three round trippers, Bill Buys had a pair of hits (in- cluding a second inning home run), Terry Till had two hits and practically every Gambler in the line up contributed with the bat. Goreski's only mistake was a home run pitch served up to [.C.G's Steve Black in the third Inning. Likewise on Tuesday night at the Peterborough East City Bowl, Wayne Wells pitched and batted the Gamblers to a hard earned win, which was not de- cided until the seventh and last inning. The Greenbank squad met Turn to Page 30 Sl al ES a a i A