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Kristen Walsh, of Seaforth, swims freestyle in the 8 and under category.
Seaforth
Sea Lions are
Aaron Jacklin photo
regional
champs or t ir
five swim meets held over the
summer in Exeter, Mitchell,
Lucan, Stratford and
Seaforth.
At the final meet Saturday,
Mitchell came second with
186 points, Lucan came third
with 181 points, Stratford
came fourth with 123 points,
St. Marys came sixth with 69
points, Clinton came seventh
with 59 points, Kirkton came
eighth with 41 points and
Lucknow came ninth with 40
Susan H u n d e r t m a r k
The Seaforth Sea Lions
swim team has won the
regional championship for the
third year in a row.
Earning 487 points at the
final swim meet of the sum-
mer on Saturday in Seaforth,
coach Julie Phillips says the
team earned close to 100
more points than at last
year's final meet.
"I was surprised that we
got so many points but all of
our swimmers have really
improved. A lot of their
strokes have gotten so much
better," she said Monday.
While Seaforth has the
largest swim team in the
region with 52 swimmers, the
team actually lost about eight
swimmers compared to last
year.
Julie said the improvement
in the swimmers' finishes can
also be attributed to the fact
that noon -hour lap swims
were opened up to kids this
year because of the large
number of swim team mem-
bers.
Seaforth won each of the
points.
Three of the coaches,
including Julie and Jenny
Phillips and Megan
Carnochan, will not be
returning next year.
"We're really sad - we're
going to miss the swim team
most of all," said Julie.
She said lifeguards Ashley
Marion, Andrea Murray and
Matt Fisher could be taking
over the swim team next
year.
Aaron
Jacklin photo
Hailey Maxwell, of Seaforth, swims in the breaststroke competition. tournament after two
Robyn Doig wins
national junior
golf tourney
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Robyn Doig brought
back a national champi-
onship recently, winning
the Canadian Optimist -
Junior Golf Tournament.
Competing against 20 of
the top golfers across the
country, the 15=year-old
held her lead on the final
day.
The three-day tourna-
ment at Ingersoll from
Aug. 13 to 15, was the
final leg of the Canadian
Optimist Junior Golf
Zburnament, after playing
qualifying tournaments at
Woodlands Golf Course in
Clinton and at the St.
Mary's Golf and Country
Club.
Having won at Ingersoll,
she now has the opportu-
nity to play in the interna-
tional tournament in
Florida next July. Though
she isn't sure if she will
compete next summer, her
12 -year-old brother Paul
played in Florida last year
after having placed second
in his division at Ingersoll.
This year Paul finished
fourth at Ingersoll, having
moved up into the older
division.
Doig says if she goes to
Florida it would be just for
the experience. "You like
to win, obviously, but I
can't expect it," she says.
Doig has played
Ingersoll before, some-
thing that may have
helped her against golfers
from Alberta. "I knew the
course, and I knew the
places I didn't want to be,"
she says.
She was happy with her
play in the first round,
shooting a 77, while a
golfer in her group shot
more than 150. "It was
hard to keep concentrated
playing with her," she
says.
Doig was lading the
Robyn Doig
rounds.
"That was crazy," she
says. "I didn't play as well
as I wanted to but I saw
the other girls' scores, and
I was first."
Going into the third
round she was playing in a
group with girls seven
strokes behind her so she
watched their play closely
to judge what she would
have to do to finish the
day in the same position.
She says she was play-
ing well but some shots
got her into trouble. "So
instead of pars, I'd make a
double -bogey.
"But they [the girls in
her group] -were picking it
up, so I thought, `I need to
play better too."
At the end of the tourna-
ment she had a two-stroke
lead after shooting rounds
of 77, 85 and 84.
Her mother, Linda, fol-
lowed her around the
course for the first two
rounds.
"It was really good hav-
ing her there, she always
says 'keep going.'
"She nevers says nega-
tive things, so she's been
very supportive."
She notes her apprecia-
tion for her mom taking
the whole day to watch
her play. •
On the last day of the
tournament her father
Cam accompanied her
mother in the gallery.
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