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PAGE 18, WH1ITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30,1988 Ato ms take first game.in playoffs Whitby's miner atoms defeated Streetsville 4-1-in the flrst game of the Ontario playdown cham- pionships. held at Iroquois Park last Saturday. Brian Scott had two goals for Whitby with Steven Biais and Bilan Lodge adding singles. "If the kids work bard we could win this in three, games," says coach Jim Boyd of the best-of-fi.ve series. Whitby was leading 4-1 afrer two periods and played a defensive game -in the third period according to Boyd. 'We heard they were down 5-0 in a game and came back to win it 11-7 so we worked bard to protect the lead," says Boyd. The second gaxne of the series will be played in Streetsville Thursday.. The third game will take place at Iroquois Park beginning at 4 p.m. Pecisionteams are ready for Nationals Both WhiWtby's senior and novice precision ice skating teanis will be 'competing at Canada's National competition in Toronto this weekend. Canada's reigning junior champions for the past tbree years, Ice Fyre, will be competing at the senior level for the first tinie. "Ites a new experience and provides. another goal for the girls to strive for,"! says coach Cathy Dalton. AS a senior teain, Ice F'yre bas Sposted a flrst place finish at two meets- in Unionville and'Rhode Island. "Ites been a goed ,year and the move bas not affected our capabilities," says Dalton. Routines at the senior level are a half-minute longer and tbe style is more diversifled, says Dalton., "The skating does not em- phasize a meod or theme but it is very fast and involves. a lot of footwork and atbletic ability," says Dalton. to the judges," says Dalton. "We are going with a great deal of fighting spirit," says Novice coachb Debbie Smith. The novie team won the silver at last year's nationals and are looking for the gold this year. They won the gold tbree tumes prior to last year., "There isn't the. sanie degree of pressure on a team when you are repeating champions," says Smith. The team will be dancing to 50's rock and roll music. 'We are going for broke and I think the girls are looking forward to it," says Smith. Dalton -expects stiff competition at the Nationals, especially from the Edmonton team wbo won last year's senior competition. "We hâve neyer seen them skate before, se we are not sure wbat te expect," says Dailton. "We're ready. ýThe girls have been working very hard and wvill do their best. The rest will be up Melien and Phifllips- domiateswim me et Lori Melien and Derek Pbillips both had three first place finishes in a swim meet in Ajax iast Sunday.adboh f Whitby, swim for the Ajax Bail hockey league starts The Whitby Bail Hockey League is still looking for individuals or tearns te round eut its 1988 rester. The leagué bas eigth tearns se far and is lookçing for more. Games are beld Monday and Tuesday nigts at Iroquois Park arena. Players are 18 years and oIder. The league operates under Ontario Bail Hockey Association rules and is a non-contact, sport. For more informnation cail Peter Griljo at 666-1668 or Paul ornsII.y at 668. 3085. Aquatie Club. The club hosted the C.A.M.O. Swim Club of Montreal. Melien, an Anderson Collegiate student, placed first in the 50 metre freestyle, 100 backstroke and the 200 individual medley. Phillips, a student at Henry Street Hligb Scbool, pIaced first in the 200 metre individual medley, the 100 backstroke and the 100 breaststroke. Other Whitby competiters were: Jennifer Thatcher, fourtb in 100 breaststroke; Peggy Hefford, third in 50 freestyle; Craig Potsep, second in 100 backstroke and sixtb in 100 breaststroke and 50 freestyle; Jennifer Crowder, flrst in 100 freestyle; Lindsay Crow- der, first in 50 backstroke and 100 freestyle, second in 50 fly and third in 50 1,reaststroke; Debra Thatcher, third in 100 breast-, stroke an;d 100 fly and fourth in 200 freestyle; Asbleigh Crowder, second in 100 fly and third in 100 backstroke and 200 freestyle. JEREMY 'SCHOTT clears the, puck from Park last Saturday to take ai1 - 0 lead ithue in front of a wide open Whitby net. The Ontario plâydowÎn.champonships. Atoms beat Streetsville 4 - i at Iroquois No change m door soccerpolicyý The property and transportation committee of the Durhami Board of Education decided Iast, week net te change the age policy regarding use of scbool gyms by- indoor soccer clubs. The decision by committee te continue te restrict indoor soccer play te players age 14 and under prempted a representative ef the Oshawa soccer program and Durbam soccer association to remark te trustees that ý"What you bave effectively done is destroy indoor seccer in Durbam Region." Before leaving, he told trustees that tbey would hear again freni the Durhami association "tbrougb the media." The Osbawa indeor prograni was net held this season. But Noreen Bodnar, ceordinator of the community use of schools prograni, said the program ceuld have been offered with beard. facilites for players 14 and under and at Durbami Colege for eider grouPs. In a report te, committee, she said the Oshawa club made ne request for a permit fer indoor soccer and offered ne objection te, the policy when it was revised last year. However, she said board members were teld by "ecommunity--members" that the soccer league had te, be disbanded because of the new regulations. Full-play soccer leagues, for 14 and under players, have been held this , season in Whitby, Pickering and Ajax. The Whitlby club, for exaniple,- plays eut of Anderson CVI, - Leslie McFarlane public s-cbool and G.L. Roberts in Oshawa, three of- the scheols des-ignated for full. play. However, the Whitby club still Wants *a policy revision te allow play up te 16 years of age. One trustee, Lorna Murpby of Pickering, said at Iast week's meeting that she bad "ne' difficulty" raising the age -te 16 if it would belp seccer clubs. But Don Mcflveen, an. Osbawa trustee, said there was a great. difference ,between 14-year-elds and 16-year-olds, noting how;ý mucb more stronger is the eider age group. Mcflveen, Oshawa trustee Gary Kitchen, Pickçering trustee and board chairman Sandra Lawson and Ajax, trustee Duncan Read opposed the raise in age. Bodnar's report noted that until the policy change, permits hâd been issued for practice and conditioning only. H-owever, it, wvas learned tbat groups in Whitby, Oshawa and Ajax were actually operating- full play leagues. In spring, 1987, high. school principals were' surveyed te deter- -mine where full play might be' allowed, with oniy two' schools agreeing - Dunbarten and Port Perry high scbools. But after an appeal was made by four soccer clubs. in Durham' in, September, 1987, . te allow full play -te continue, an investigration of gymns was made by board staff. One school was designated in eacb area for full-play soccer and gyms in those scols would be upgraded-to permit full play,. said Bodnar in ber- report. However,< it was also'decided limfiit players te 14 and-under. The report ýstates there is ,ne'ý indoor seccer- age limit i'n designated schools in the 'Peel., Board of Education, Nerth York Boar.d of-Education,.Scarberough Board of* Education a ndToronte Board' of Eduction,'but-ý'with a* special 'Ïidoor bail, sÈ .used by Durham, clubs, required in all.. Fuli: .pl<ay iîs not, permitted. by th oonto Separate ýSehool>i Board' and -York Board' o f- Education. The Durhami Separate School Board does not permnit ful play but a policy review bas ben scheduled for,' ,the ,'fal a fter community appeals.' Foster »'win godand bro nze medal After a 10-day hiatus, T7iffani Foster of, Wbitby captured tWo goId medaisý' and. two bronze medals at The Genesees Invita- tionai Figure Skating meet in Rochester, New York- on tbe weekend. Foster, 10, won the preliminary freeskate and compulsory, events. She placed third- in the, sub-. jeuvenile freeskate and compai. sory events.1 Competiters from Canada. and' tbe United States took part in the tbree-day meet. Her next comapetion is in Sud- bury on April 8. *4 6 tf># *-*p# l 1 gi6