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oe ar Tee igus Garry Forbes * Sports editor * Senior Crusaders storm to GB title The St. Theresa's High School Senior Crusaders boys' volleyball team have won a ticket to next weekend's Ontario by Garry Forbes Federation of Schools Athletic Association championship. And they won't be spectators. The Crusaders flat- tened all four schools of Opposition in Tuesday's Georgian Bay Secon- dary Schools Athletic Association champio- nships, beating host Collingwood Collegiate Institute in the final. Now, with that title firmly in hand, they'll pack their uniforms and head for London next Friday and to try to prove they're the best high school volleyball team in the province. Tuesday's tourna- ment was an indicator of just how powerful the St. Theresa's squad is. The round-robin series was little more than a cakewalk for the by Garry Forbes It's not how, it's how many -- and though the Midland Centennials outscored the Oro 77's 10-9 il. a messy Georgian Bay Junior C shootout Wednesday in Oro, the magie number for the Cents was two. For it was the* two points they picked up when the smoke finally cleared at Oro Com- munity Centre that lifted the Centennials from a three-way Lie for second back up into a share for the league lead with the Penetanguishene Kings. Several teams are hot on the trail of the local league-leaders, how- ever, and all eight teams in the circuit will be in action Friday. Midland and Penetanguishene entennials just won't staydown try to maintain their lofty status with home games, with the Cen- tennials hosting the Huntsville Huskies and the Kings taking on the 77's. Both games will start at 8:30 p.m. Noel McEachern ied the way for the Cen- tennials Wednesday with three goals and one Cents 10, Oro 9 will Battling back to top The Midland Centennials are back into a first-place tie with local rival assist. Other Midland goal-getters were Paul Hahn, with two, Rick Rever, Ed Cooper, Steve Bressette, Frank Dance and Dwayne Story. Team captain Craig Brown picked up three assists. Dwayne Latondress 5 ska De did the goaltending duty for the Centennials, facing 46 shots while his teammates fired 44 at the other end. Midland got off to a good start, outscoring the 77's 4-2 in the first period and maintaining their two-goal lead when each club came up with four in the second. The Cents pulled away early in the third with two goals, but the host team wouldn't back down, switching goaltenders to hold Midland off the board while they proceeded to score three more times and press for the tie. Midland's' defensive corps came up with enough, however, to ni0ld Oro back in the final three minutes and give the Centennials Crusaders as they won all eight games over their opponents -- each of whom had won GBSSA Zone titles last week. After dumping St. Robert's (Thornhill) 15- 9, 15-9 in their tourney opener, the Crusaders defeated Collingwood 15-3, 15-13, and rolled over Parry Sound 15-2, 15-6. Their final round- robin foe, Stouffville, gave them the most trouble. But, as ex- pected, the Crusaders came through with the win, 16-14, 15-12. In the championship final, Collingwood was given a second chance and, after a 15-4 drubbing in the first game, put up a solid fight in the second before bowing out 16-14 to give St. Theresa's a perfect tournament record and their pass to a provincial title shot. "TI think we were a little stronger on the attack than the others that day,' Crusaders coach Rick Presse said. "We won the first game of the final fairly strongly, but they came back and really forced us."' Everybody contri- buted, said Presse: Jeff Dunn, Paul Duval and Chris Weisflog helped out with excellent blocking; strong power attacks came from the outside off the fingers of Vince Deschamps and Paul Cox; and Brian Quesnelle teamed up with Cox to disguise their teammates' set- tings and work their opposition blockers into a confused heap. It was that kind of team effort that helped St. Theresa's to GBSSA and OFSAA 'A' Division titles the past two years ('A' Division is for schools with less than 750 students, 'AA' is 750 and up; St. Theresa's has 180 students). And it was that same kind of team effort expended last week at Midland Secondary School that earned them a berth in the GBSSA finals. And, next weekend, it will be that same collective excellence that may bring the top Ontario high school volleyball §champion- ship to the little school with the big roar. y i ..and Juniors just miss The St. Theresa's Junior Crusaders may be somewhat over- shadowed by their Senior counterparts, but that doesn't bother them. After all, many of them will- be Senior Crusaders next year. 'And they can be secure in the thought that the STHS Seniors are one of the few teams in the province that have the ability to overshadow them. However, One other team, Collingwood Collegiate Institute, got away with it by defeating the STHS Juniors two games to one at the Georgian Bay Secondary Schools Athletic Association championships Tuesday in Collingwood. They received a hint of what was to be in the round-robin series, where they clobbered Sacred Heart,ewma- rket) Parry Sound and Woodbridge before splitting 15-6, 10-15 with Collingwood. Round-robin --_ results pitted the two clubs in the final, and, though St. T's gave a_ tough Collingwood team their toughest test of the tournament, they came out of the skirmish with a 15-17, 15-13, 12-15 loss. Kerry Heins and Marlon Geiseler gave outstanding perform- ances on both offense and defense throughout the tournament, said coach Bruce Finlayson, who also gave the Collingwood club credit for their hustle and determination in downing the spunky squad. The Juniors finished the season with three tournament titles and a successful showing in the recent Senior tournament in Barrie. They made it to the playoffs in that senior test, a tournament which was won by -- you guessed il -- the STHS seniors. Today Trails get grants.. MMHA Digest... 15 Sportscene... 17 14s, out on top of a 10-9 skirmish in Oro Wednesday. Both the Cents and the Penetanguishene Kings after coming Kings are in action at home tonight. Fox returns to Centennials ironic, a pretty good indication that things Doug Fox has returned to the Midland Centennials. Fox, manager of the Georgian Bay Junior C club since their inception four years ago, quit two weeks back because, he said, excessive penalties were hurting the team's effort and he just didn't want to be a part of a downfall caused by the actions of a few hot tempers. At the time, he said he didn't think he'd be returning, but promised coach Tom Garner he'd take another look after a couple of weeks. Wednesday in Oro, manager. However, the setting was, if not Fox returned as really have changed on the Centennials. The Centennials are the highest-penalized club in the league with 384 minutes in 11 games. The Oro 77's are second at 343. Considering those stats, one might expect trouble when the two clubs meet. Yet it didn't come, -- the Cents picked up Only seven minors and Oro were handed only six -- and, the setting proved a surprisingly calm en- vironment for the return of a man who has all along been a proponent of fewer penalties and more goals. Friday, November 13, 1981, Page 13