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PAGE22, ~ ft~s$Wt~I~SA/JANARY27, e188 SPORTS Kwan'and Redkn ap are lst iÏon double's' Frances Kwan of the, Whitby, Y Badminton Club teamed with DoQug Redknap of the Durham Badminton Club to win the men's ýdoubles 'A' division at a Masters open tour- nament in Peterborough on Jan. 9. Kari Winler and Matt Koîsteren of the Whitby club also*had a good showing, placing second in the 'C' division. LuI ladies' doubles, Eileen Hibbs and Hilda Danforth of ý Whitby teamed up ta win.the 'C' division, while Helen Kwan and' Sara Hough of Whitby placed second in the 'A' *division. Francis and Helen Kwan then teamed up to win the 'B' division in mixed doubles. John and Sara Houghton of Whitby were second in the 'C' division. MARC LANIEL (left) and Jeff Hiackett show the gold medals they won as members of Canada's world junior hockey team. Free Press photo Chris Campbell of Whitby won the Pacifie judo titie in bis division in Richmond, B.C;- over the we ekend. "He&wason, 1and-nobodyçcouald. touch him,"' said coach Dan, Grib- ben of his fine student from the Kiiehi Sai Judo, Club in Whitby. lu' his four matches, Campbell won ail by a full point. In one he threw bis opponerit only 15 seconds into the match. "They really didn't oppose him much," said Gribben of Campbell's opponents in the age 13-16 minus 59 kg. division.1 Campbell was part of the Ontario team which took part in the Pacifie National event. One other member of the team, Stuart Tanaka, also won gold in the junior men (20 years and under) minus 60 kg. division. The next major event for Cam- pbell will. be the ania Nationals in Nova Sclotia in July. ",We want «to win the Canadian this- yea-rýand ten nextf year, we'l go for the NorthArerican, (titie),". said Gribben, referring to the U.S. junior natio nals that attracts the best not only inNorth America, but from around the world. Ln thé meantime, Gribben may try to arrange some competitions south of the border. And on March 26, Campbell will tak e part in the national qualifying tournamexlt at Durham College in Oshawa. Gribben says a training tip he learned about a year ago, involving use of the'heavy bag, bas. started to pay off for Campbell as it was evident in the Pacifie event. H enry is s trong in volleyball With four, games into the senior girls volleyball seasan, Henry Street Hfigh School remains undefeated, after wins over. Anderson, Donevan, Dunbarton an d Eastdale. The team also won a tournanient in Waterloo and lost in the finials of a taumnament in Barrie. Henry's junior girls volleyball team won bath the Barrie and Waterloo tournaments. "Our strength is in serving and defence," says 'senior coach Jane Srnith. The team next plays On Feb. 4 against (MNill. Whitby hosts ringette.tourney Whitby and Kingston Township each wan twa champianships lu the ninth annual Whitby Optimist Ringette Tournament hasted by the 32 basketball teams In tourney Thirty-two elementary schools, including several fromn Whitby, and some fromn as far away as Chatham,* will send teams toaa boys' basketball taurnamnent this Saturday in Oshawa. The gamneb, involving teams of mastly Gr. 7 and 8 students, will be played at G.L. Roberts and East- dale high schools from 8:30 a.m. ta 6 p.m. Whitby Ringette Association Jan. 22-24. Whitby tween C's gat five goals from Erika Gamble in the -cham- pionship final ta defeat Mariposa 10-7. Whitby novices were easy win- ners in their division, rolling to four straight one-sidéïd wins, including a 13-3 decision over Maripasa in the final. Andrea Babony scored six goals in'the final. Kingston Township won the petite C division' by defeating Whitby 8-6 in the final. Julie Rowland had four goals for Whitby. in the final. Kingston Township won the tween, B division while Markham took gold in the junior division. LANIEL AND HACKETT Whitby stude nts on gold medal tea m When Canada's world junior hockey, team returned fram their gald medal performance in the Soviet,. Union. earlier this ménth, twa omembers" of thié> toam » resuînedtheir normal lives as students in Whitby. Marc Laniel and Jeff Hackett are both Grade .13 students at Henry Street High Sehool. Bath are alsa menibers of the Ontario Hockey League's Oshawa Generals.. Hackett, who is from Scarborough but is living in Whitby,' is the Generals' goalie while Laniel, from London, plays defence. The tournament was held from Dec. 26 to Jan. 4 and* the Canadian teani conipleted their schedule with six wins and a tie, including the big 3-2 decision over the Soviet team that really decided the championship. "That was the gold mda game," says Hackett Who was Canada's back-up goalie. . The. game had extra meaning for Laniel who scored Canada's third, and what turned out, to be the winning, goal. I had the third goal and at the time it put us ahead 3-1. 1 didn't think it would stand as the winner but -it did' and after the game it felt good," says Laniel, 20. Canada went on ta defeat West Germany and Poland, to capture the gold. But Laniel and Hackett say it took the team at least one period in each game ta get rolling. Off the ice,, Laniel and Hackett bath remember the Soviet Union as a rather bleak landscape.. "There is no color. Everything is black or grey or white," says Hackett, 19. "Lt was a great experience ta be there but I wouldn't want ta' go back far a holidayd" While ^in Moscow the team visited the Kremlin and Red Square and saw a performance of the Mascow Circus. As for 'the style of hockey, Laniel says the junior European players finished their checks without trying ta puta player through the boards. "The flow is also differOnt. They bring the puck into the offensive end as oppcîéed to shooting it in," adds Laniel." Hackett *recails the European players having shorter sticks with a more rounded curve-. He says it didn't give them a harder shot- than Canadian players ho' has faced but it did give themn more control of the ptick. The gold medal performance cornes one' year1 after the - Canadian team was stripped of its gold modal. following a brawl -with tho Soviet toani. Bath players say they had been told by the -coaching staff throughout tho t'oum-ainent -to stay -away from any_ s-ort o f. retaliation. "If any brawl had. happened it- would have been particularly bad this year,"..says Hackett. y Now, te iltr hi attention to their careers, bath looking for the NIL. Both are in their final year with the Generals and bath haâve been chosen by NIHL teamsà^ Laniel by the New Jersey Devils and Hackett by the New York Isianders. Both wlll 'be attending the training camp of their respective NIHL club but are uncertain of teir future after that ti me'. Fasteér first in London nmeetý. Whitby's Tiffani Foster placed first in the pre-preliminary division of a figure skating meet in London, Ont., on, the weekend. Foster, 10, placed first in the division that included'ail gold medal winners of recent months. Foster also skated in the preliminary division placing fourth in free skate,' fourth in conipulsory moves and thiird in figure combination. Her next meet is this weekend in.Uxbridge. Town rink isthird in bonspiel An Oshawa'Curling Club rik skipped byl Anna-Marie Greentrft defeated an Ottawa club to wIi the Ladies Two Day Invitationtil lonz spiel at the Whitby Curling Club held-Jan. 12 to 13. The Oshawa rink won the Mti_- Teague Electric trophy whlle thë Ottawpi rink was presented wlth à prize from Victoria Grey Nallno Trust. A Whitby Curling club rlnk tîkip, ped by Pani McArthur wlth vît,@ Mary Lynn MacKay, second Heather Miller and lead Shtu'on Munro was third: - -J Chris 'wins lu B.C. CLYDE JOHNSTON (left) and Dave Regional Police in, the Ontario cham- Kuehman (middle) direct a rock into pionships for police curling held recen- the circle under the watchful eye of tly at the Whitby Curling Club.-AI John Found. The three were inembers Guùelph rink won to Move on t'O the of skip Daryl Sturgeon's rink, one of national event. Fe ri ht 1wthàt represented Duoham