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Christina Zembashi, of Central Huron Secondary School, competes in the shotput
competition at the Huron -Perth track and field meet last week.
St. Anne's dominates
as HP track champs
St. Anne's Catholic Secondary
School in Clinton dominated the
Huron -Perth track and field cham-
pionships.
According to coach Annette
Robinson, the team took seven of
the nine available titles, including
the top overall team, overall boys
and overall girls awards.
Andrew Egli and Michael Hogan
tied for the top midget male, Matt
Boven was the top junior male, Jory
Uyl was the top junior female, Ellen
Tousaw was the top midget female.
Robinson was not that surprised
at the team's domination.
"We put a lot of work in...We have
athletes that have really dedicated
themselves," she explained, adding
that they also have their largest
team ever with 50 athletes.
Going in to the championship,
Robinson said they expected to need
about 500 cumulative points to
compete with perennial powerhouse
F.E. Madill of Wingham. St. Anne's
ended up finishing with 600 points.
"We didn't expect that," Robinson
said. "That type of finish is fantas-
tic."
The midget boys - with only four
members - finished first overall in
the division.
Blyth's Egli broke two records,
which had each stood for at least 30
years, in the long jump and the
100 -metre dash.
Hogan set a record in the 1500 -
metre run, Phil Schraeder set a
record in the sprint hurdles, Julia
Tousaw set a record in the 400 -
metre hurdles and the 400 -metre
dash and Ellen Tousaw set a record
with the 300 -metre hurdles.
The senior girls (Michelle
Hoftyzer, Brittany Bos, Ellen
Tousaw and Julia Tousaw) broke a
record in the 4X100 relay but were
edged by F.E. Madill at the finish
line.
The majority of St. Anne's track
and field team is moving on to
WOSSAA, which will be held in
London at TD Waterhouse stadium
today (Wednesday) and tomorrow.
To succeed, Robinson said the
athletes will need to continue to
better their previous times.
Crime Stoppers marathon soccer game beats
world record by 20 minutes, raises $17,000
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Thirty hours and 30 minutes is a long time to
play soccer, but that's just what two teams did
recently to raise about $17,000 in a joint. Huron
and Perth Crime Stoppers fundraiser.
The game between the Exeter Fury and the
Stratford Enterprise challenged the current
world record for longest soccer game, which is 30
hours, 10 minutes.
"We beat the record by 20 minutes, and that
was plenty," said local Crime Stoppers coordina-
tor and Exeter player Shawn McFalls.
That won't be official until they fulfill the
requirements set out by Guinness for verifying a
new record.
"We have to send in a whole package," McFalls
said.
The package they're preparing to send to
Guinness includes video documentation and wit-
ness reports.
"We had to have two witnesses at a time," said
McFalls.
He said the $17,000 doesn't take into account
the expense of running the game, which they
haven't determined yet.
The game started at 7 a.m. on Saturday, May
12 in Exeter. They originally planned to play for
36 hours.
"We set a good pace coming out of the gate,"
said McFalls. "It was a very competitive and
close game."
About two hours in, one player suffered what.
medical staff thought was a dislocated shoulder.
"But he kept playing for the rest of the 30
hours," said McFalls, "his arm was just dangling
by his side."
McFalls sent out an e-mail after the game ask-
ing to confirm any injuries and is still waiting to
hear back.
Things changed at about the six -hour mark.
"The pace slowed a bit," McFalls said.
Things only got worse when the sun went
down.
"It turned real cold," he said. "I think Stratford
was a little younger than us and they seemed to
have more legs in the middle of the night. The
score got a little more lopsided than it had been."
Guinness rules allowed for a five minute break
every hour, but the teams decided to lump those
together into a 15 minute break every three
hours.
McFalls said they went down to eight on eight
play through the night to let players who weren't
playing sleep for an hour at a time.
At some point during the night the teams real-
ized they weren't going to make it to 36 hours
and decided to aim for 1:30 p.m.
"When the sun came up the next morning, it
was a very welcome event," said McFalls. "It
warmed things up a bit and gave us a second
wind."
They unofficially broke the record at 1:11 p.m.
and ended the game at 1:30 p.m., with Stratford
winning 138-105 over Exeter.
McFalls said that five or six players on each
team play for the teams regularly. The rest of tl-
teams were local players interested in takir..
part.
Both teams were entirely composed of men.
Some players pulled out in advance when thew
realized the second part of the game would take
place on Mother's Day. McFalls said this was
particularly the case for the ones who had their
first child in the last year.
"One guy who played, his girlfriend was due
any minute and she encouraged him to play,"
McFalls said, noting that this player had a back-
up plan where his brother-in-law would have
taken his place if she went into labour before or
during the game.
"If he was playing and she went into labour, he
would have had to leave on a medical emer-
gency," said McFalls.
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