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St. Anne's girls among top -ten Ontario runners
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signal -star staff
Muddy conditions, a difficult track
and the spread of the H 1 N 1 flu all took
their toll on athletes at the Ontario Fed-
eration of School Athletic Association
(OFSAA) cross-country final, held at
Boyd Conservation Area near Wood-
bridge November 7. However the girls
of St. Anne's in Clinton managed top -
ten finishes in both the senior and junior
races.
Both senior and junior girls teams net-
ted seventh place for the Eagles, while
the senior boys team took l'4th place.
While below past finishes for the Ea-
gles, their placement is still among the
top few per cent from the more than 700
Ontario high schools competing.
"Unlike other sporting events, cross-
country has a situation where everybody
in the province is all competing at once,"
said coach Baird Robinson. "Basically,
the top eight teams receive ribbons."
Robinson said the boys' team was
dealing with illness heading into the OF -
SAA final, and he had to employ alter-
nate runners for their race. However, ill-
ness was only one of a series of setbacks
faced by all schools, he said.
"It was rough," he noted. "There were
all kinds of injuries on the course and
Photo contributed
Anna Keller, Grace Hartman, Alanna Uyl, Maris Garriock, Shauna Regier and
Julia Huber show off their seventh -place ribbons at OFSAA cross-country, held
in Woodbridge Nov. 7. The junior and senior girls placed 7th, while the senior
boys took a 14th place finish.
I think people were running with H 1 N 1 ed difficulties. Robinson said two girls
that shouldn't have been." were hit by a deer while racing - one
It wasn't the course alone that provid- of whom was knocked out by the col-
lision.
"It was chaotic," he said. "You've
got so many schools there and so many
spectators. There were people passing
out, throwing up... Lots of bodies, lots
of things going on."
Robinson said the course could be one
of the toughest students will have to run
in their high school careers.
However, he said the Eagles had a
good day overall, with Shannen Murray
placing 28th, and Shawna Regier and
Grace Hartman placing back-to-back
at 36 and 37th places respectively. Pat
Hartman was the top St. Anne's boys'
finisher at 46th.
Robinson said the boys team will see
every runner back for another season,
and he said he hopes to make it a fourth
year in a row at OFSAA for a team that
already has a provincial third and a fifth
place under their belts.
"Every single guy we had going will
be back for another run and hopefully
make it four straight years at OFSAA,"
he said. "We're lucky, we've got a big
core that work hard."
The boys completed their seven kilo-
metre race with an average run time of
27:01.7..
The senior girls averaged 22:43.08 for
the 5K and the juniors averaged 17:23.79
in their 3.8 kilometre trek.
Pirates split weekend results with Monkton, Thedford
The Goderich Pirates travelled to
Monkton Friday night and came away
with an upset win defeating the Wild-
cats by a score of 7-3.
Getting the win in net was Brad
Powell, stopping 41 of the 44 shots he
faced.
Scoring in the first was' Dave Meriam
assisted by Sean Burton and Mike Bean
on the powerplay. In the second period
the Pirates netted three goals to Monk -
ton's two.
Scoring for the Pirates in the second
period were Mark Duckworth assisted
by Burton, Dillon Stokes assisted by
Mike Gillen and James Garthshore.
Rounding out the scoring in the sec-
ond was rookie Shawn Fishback assist-
ed by Kyle Hamilton. The Pirates had a
4-3 lead going into the explosive third
period.
In the third period the Pirates ex-
ploded with three
unanswered. goals
to secure the win.
Scoring for Goder-
ich was Scott Austin
assisted by Hamil-
ton, Mark Wainman
assisted by Austin
and rookie forward
Duckworth scored
his second goal of
the game assisted
by Meriam.
Up next for . the
Pirates was a 3-0 road loss against the
Thedford Dirty Dogs Saturday night.
The Dirty Dogs already defeated the
Pirates on home ice 8-6 earlier in the
season, and despite lower scores this
time around, the Pirates were unable to
find the back of the Thedford net.
"Thedford's got our number this
siCH
year," said Pirates
GM Trevor Bazi-
net. "They have
definitely improved
their club."
The third goal of
the night was an
empty-netter, and
Bazinet gives credit
to Thedford goal -
tender Jeff Baker
forgetting the shut-
out.
The loss put the
Pirates at 3-5-0 for regular season
points Bazinet said will have to be
clawed back the hard way before play-
offs.
"We'll have to steal a few games
back," he said. "Things are coming
along but it's really going to hurt at the
end of the season."
The Pirates are heading into a tough
pair of weekend games, though if
Goderich comes away with two wins,
it would set them solidly at the .500
mark.
The Senior 'A' team is back in town
this Friday, November 13, to host the
Lucan-Ilderton Jets. Game time is 8:30
p.m. at the Maitland Recreation Centre
before heading to Tavistock Saturday.
Tavistock has the league's top four
scorers on their team, while locally,
Luke Vick of the Clinton Radars is at
fifth place with seven goals and six as-
sists and Pirate Scott Jamieson is in
seventh place with five goals, six as-
sists.
The Pirates' Matt MacPhee leads the
south division in penalty minutes, with
34 over eight games.
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