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"an 16 - PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, July 17, 2001 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" - mark Christa Kooger scored to tie the game at one. Regular season record of 4-2-1 Dana's Ladies fare well In season, tourney action Dana's Goldsmithing Ladies soccer team travelled to Oshawa on Tuesday, July 3 for a makeup game against Oshawa Kicks. Dana's ladies were shorthanded with onl, nine play- ers to start the game. The Kicks opened the scoring early to take a 1-0 lead. The Goldsmithers dug in and played solid soccer despite only having nine players and at the 20 minute The Port ladies continued their strong play and at the 30 minute mark Emily Cosway scored to put her team ahead by a 2-1 score. Great saves by Kelly Sadler in goal kept the score at 2-1 at half time. After a short break the ladies were back on the field but it was not long before the Kicks managed to tie the score at 2-2. The Goldsmithers just ran out of energy in the second half and at full time the Kicks had put the score up to 5-2 in their favour. July 4, one night later, found the Dana's Ladies tak- ing on Uxbridge at the soccer fields. With a full compliment of players the home side soon took the lead on a nice break in by Elizabeth Russell at the 21 minute mark. Both teams played solid soccer and the half ended 1-0 for the Goldsmithers. The second half featured good passing and solid soccer by both teams with both keepers coming up with terrific saves, | El Sara Cosway took the ball down the right side of the -* field deep into Uxbridge's end and make a perfect high cross that just caught the far side of the net to make the score 2-0 for Port. Uxbridge did manage to score midway through the half but the ladies from Port kept up the pressure and walked away with a 2-1 over Uxbridge. Season record is now 4-2-1. The ladies are playing in the Durham Region Turn to Page 17 CHRIS HALL / PORT PERRY STAR The fourth annual Scugog Soccer Camp, organized by Mark Cole, above, was once again a great success last week. More than 50 kids between the ages of 4-15 took Soccer Camp Success Redmen hang on for the win The Brooklin Redmen travelled to the Garden City to play the Major Athletics. It was a hot night in the Garden City Arena Complex with a small but vocal crowd in the old barn. The Redmen came into the game five points behind the Excelsiors who had beaten the Athletics by a score of 10-9 in the same rink. By the time the game was over the Redmen were down to three games behind Brampton with the all important game in hand. The Athletics dropped to 6-9 and were two points behind the Chiefs for the fourth and final playoff spot with two games in hand. The Redmen got on the board before many fans found their seats as Kelly Sullivan scored just 46 sec- onds into the contest. The Athletics evened the game 30 seconds later on a goal from Jody Holbrough. Shawn ~ Williams got two goals in the first period and singles to Scott MacDonell and Gary Rosyki gave the visitors a 5- 3 lead in the first intermission. The second period saw a number of dropped pass- es and a large number of goal posts being found by both teams. Only three goals were scored in the mid- dle frame and the Redmen took a 7-4 lead into the last period. Redmen fans in attendance were worried that the visitors might be shut out in the third period for the second straight game. The Athletics scored first in the final period to close the gap to 7-4. The Redmen got only one goal in the third off the stick of team captain Shawn Williams with six minutes remaining. With the score 8-5 for the visitors and three minutes remaining the home team found a spark of life and goals by the Lefeuvre brothers, Adam and Bill, they closed the gap to 8-7. The Athletics had the last possession and were fighting to send the game to overtime but the Redmen part in the camp, held at the local soccer pitches, which featured lessons on all aspects of the game. To wrap up the week, a parents-vs-kids game was held last Friday. hung on and took away an important two points. Referees on the night Spies and Watson called a Tum to Page 17 By J. Wally Nesbitt From Corner Five For special events such as Toronto's Molson Indy, many sports writers will make a mental list of possible storylines before the actual event takes place. Occasionally these ideas work out, sometimes, they are dis- carded or modified, rarely are the real stories gift wrapped so that a prepared insert can be supplied to the editor. For exam- 'ple, these are the notions that this writer entertained while enroute to the Molson Indy on 'Sunday. I. Will the rejuvenated Team Penske continue their newly rediscovered success? They have the defending series cham- pion (Gil de Ferran) and the reigning Indy 500 champ (Helio Castroneves) on their payroll. And the two Marlboro cars are sitting on the front row of the grid with de Ferran on the pole. The "Toronto Street Meister" captures his seventh Molson Indy Hmmm, this could be the ticket. Or. 2. How well will the Canadian drivers do? Can Paul Tracy repeat his 1993 Toronto win? Will Patrick Carpentier and teammate Alex Tagliani finally break through? After Toronto's Olympic disappointment, that would be something to grab the headlines. Or... 3. Can Michael Andretti cap- ture his seventh Molson Indy vic- tory in his 15th Toronto start? With these astute ideas tucked safely away for future inciteful reference, we sat to watch the 16th annual Molson Indy play out. Two hours, 95 laps and 10 (!) full course caution periods later, with considerable editing, deleting, pondering and cursing, we finally were able to, somewhat, connect with our pre- determined basis. Regarding item number one ... Gil de Ferran led the first 50 laps before handing the lead over to his teammate Castroneves after pit stops. The Brazilian led until lap 64 when his engine blew. On lap 75, de Ferran made contact exiting turn three, knocking him out of the event. Pffft to that idea Item number two ... On lap 10 Tracy tangles with Oriol Servia and is relegated to 25th position. - Patrick Carpentier backs into the turn one wall and is finished. But hey, Tag (liani) is running strong and eventually takes a well deserved second place, his best finish to date. And Tracy? From the back of the pack to a respectable sixth place result. Possible headlines. Item number three ... On lap two, Michael is run wide coming off of the Lakeshore and stalls the Motorola car. The CART Safety crew get him re-started but he is dead last. With our attention elsewhere, no one notices that by lap 65 The Toronto Street Meister has worked his way back up to sec- ond position behind previous Toronto winner Adrian Fernandez and it is known that the Mexican has to make another pit stop. Can Michael make it the distance? Is this our main story? Can Mikey really take his sev- enth Toronto win? Of course he can, we knew it all along. Andretti did of course secure his record setting victory as he crossed the line 2.74 seconds ahead of Quebecer Alex Tagliani. Fernandez finished third ahead of former series champion Alex Zanardi and rookie Scott Dixon. Tracy comes from a lap down to finish in sixth place, only seven seconds behind the winner. ___Andretti can't explain the rea- "son for his success, "There is just something about Canada and Toronto. | can't explain it, but | can't wait to come back here next Andretti wins the Indy? What a surprise year." Buy a lottery ticket while you're here Michael, there were 169,023 race fans at this year's Indy that will gladly share it with you. Or as some media has sug- gested, perhaps you sold your soul to Mayor Mel for the win, but they lost the bid and Lastman wants the prize money back. Other winners from the week- end's Indy schedule... Robin Buck went wire to wire for the victory in the CASCAR Stock Car race, heading Don Thomson Jr. and Al Turner to the line. Chris Fowler, of the Stouffville based Snap-On team scored his best finish to date, a sixth place result. Townsend Bell also went unbested as he claimed the Dayton Indy Lights event while Vancouver's David Rutledge kept Canadian Pride alive with a win in the Toyota Formula Atlantic contest. '