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Since 1873
Wednesday, August 2, 1989
Second Section
Huron Hockey School starts 19th season
By Wayne Proctor
HURON PARK - To cool off on
a hot summer day in July, most
kids between the ages of eight and
18 would either head to the nearest
1 or beach but every year for the
19 over 600 descend upon the
Stephen Township Arena for a
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week's stay at the Huron Hockey
School:
The school started its 19th sea -
.son last week and during that time
it has grown to have a world-wide
reputation.
"We had two boys from Japan,
two from Switzerland and one from
Lumley still waiting
for shot at London
LAKELAND •- Lucan's Mike
Lumley is still pitching for the
Lakeland Tigers, recuperating
from- tendinitis in his shoulder,
but is still hopeful he can get
moved up to the London Tigers
sotitetime before the end of this
season which ends at the end of
this month.
London is where he thought he
was going to spend the majority
of his summer.
The 22 year-old Detroit Tiger
farmhand developed shoulder
problems in spring training in
March, which almost sealed his
fate in Lakeland the Tiger's
Class "A" Florida State team
rather than the Class "AA" team
in London, which is what he
was hoping for: Lumley was
sett to Lakeland by Tiger's man-
agement to help get his ailing
shoulder back into shape.
"Things are really going a lot
better for me now than earlier
this year. A lot was expected of
me in spring training -and then I
got the shoulder trouble which
really threw me off," said Lum-
ley.
At one point this season_Lum-
ley's record was 1-5 but has
come back to even his record at
6-6 but pitched last Thursday
night to try and get a better than
.500 winning percentage.
"After I got hurt I think I tried
too hard to get myself back into
shape. I thought I could do better
myself; and put a lot of pressure
on me and then I started putting
my concentration on getting to
London, but things haven't
worked out for me in that sense
yet,"- said Lumley Thursday in a
telephone interview from his
Lakeland apartment, which he
shares with some teammates.
Lumley has been a starter for
most of the season but got
bumped to the bull pen, when
injured Detroit Tiger regular
pitchers Jack Morris and Jeff Ro-
binson were sent to Lakeland for
rehabilitation assignments.
Lumley didn't mind that because
he knew they wouldn't be there
very long. Both were called back
up to Detroit last week.
With a month left in the regu-
lar season, it has already been de-
termined that Lakeland will
make post -season play. Lumley
said the season is divided into
three divisions with the top
teams from each division mak-
ing. the playoffs and Lakeland al-
rer :'y won one division of the
sct•rdule.
it Lumley's season will not
er: -4 once the playoffs are over.
nas already been told to play
instructional ball, which also
takes place in Lakeland, in Sep-
tember and part of October to
help him get some more innings
under his belt.
Lumley doesn't mind the extra
pitching practice because of all
the help and instruction it gives
him. He has been watched close-
ly by minor league pitching in-
structor Ralph Truell
"He told me I was screwing up
my body when I was throwing
and overextending my elbow,
which may have caused some of
ray- shoulder problems," said
Lumley.
Lumley has enjoyed his stay
in 1 lorida and said the competi-
tictt is still tough but not as
to ;;h as it would naturally be in
", A" ball. Lakeland is in the
central part of Florida which
makes some of the trips seem
shorter but some are still a fair
hike away. Lakeland competes
against teams from, Tampa,
Clearwater, Oseola, Dunedin, the
Blue Jays farm team. The fur-
thest trips are to Fort Lauderdale
and Miami, for the Yankees' and
Orioles' farm teams respectively.
While that might seem like a
beach party to some, it is any-
thing but to Lumley.
"The competition is really
good in our league, in fact a
little better than what I had
thought. We are not a big league
bit there is still a fair bit of
travelling," said Lumley:
The parent Detroit Tigers have
ha I a miserable season, (they are
cu•�ently in last place in the
A..:crican League East Divi-
sion), but Lumley said he is not
worried about the future of the
organization.
[ don't think it is time for
them to panic. They just had one
of those years, which happens to
everybody eventually and I guess
this was their tum,' said Lum-
ley.
England and France and many from
across the United States in our
group last week," said executive di-
rector Brian Gilmour, who added
this year's enrollment is one of the
largest ever.
Gilmour stresses that Huron is
not a camp but a school and kids
come to learn as well as have fun.
\"We have to get their minds on
playing hockey, but that is not
really very hard once they hit the
ice. We make suggestions as to
how to improve the player's•perfor-
mance on the ice and it is up to
them whether or not they want to
take it or not," said Gilmour.
He said the school has grown
even larger than he and his staff had
ever anticipated.
"We set the thing up as a sum-
mer holiday for us but things just
started getting out of control on us
and the school has grown to what
it is today, and the reason I think it
has become so popular because we
were an alternative to the profes-
sional camps. We take the scientif-
ic approach to teaching hockey,"
said Gilmour.
The camp took up shop in Huron
Park because founder Paul Roach
wanted to set up camps on Air
Force bases that were closing all
across the country as National
Training Centres and thing's have
just blossomed from there, and al-
though he does run camps in other
cities across North America the
Huron Park camp- is the largest.
Huron Hockey School also sets up
shop in St. Louis, New Jersey,
New York, Montreal and Cornwall.
at different times during the sum-
mer but the local camp is the only
one with stay overs.
The on -ice activities are also very
in depth. The players are on the ice
for about four hours a day at differ-
ent times of the day. Morning ses-
sions are devoted to skating, after-
noons to work- on skills and even-
ings to scrimmage.
In addition to that, there is also
an off -ice conditioning program
where players learn the importance
of strength and conditioning and
also lecture times and classroom
work to watch films of the morning
session where players can learn
their mistakes at a slower pace and
leam more.
Skating is stressed very thorough-
ly at the school as well. Gilmour
said that posture is very important
when lei. -fling to skate and it is
taught i t three stages as well,
stride, re every and glide. Then the
instruct°,s look at each player's
skating ability and make sugges-
tions to thein' as to how to im-
prove.
Gilmour also encourages families
to have their kids stay over a second
week ' if possible. He said in the
first week they learn what their
mistakes are and in the second week
they can work at improving them
Just 29 kids from the first week
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Working out the kinks - These kids that attended the opening of stretching their legs and getting themselves . in shape for playing
Huron Hockey School in Huron Park last week got a head start on hockey again. The hockey school will run for a total of five weeks
everybody else in getting ready for theupcoming season. However this summer.
it was probably a long summer for some and they are shown here
Express have unbeatenstreak snapped
EXETER - The Exeter Express
Senior D baseball team had their
unbeaten streak snapped at 15
games when they dropped a 12-5
decision to the Strathroy Tigers in
Exeter last Tuesday night.
They did bounce back Wednesday
night and defeated Scaforth 12-8 in
aforth..
Tuesday, Strathroy had built a 5-
2 lead after two innings and in-
creased it to 7-2 with a pair of runs
in the sixth. Exeter• got back to
within two runs when they scored
three times in the bottom of the
eighth but Strathroy regained their
breathing room with five more
runs in the top of the ninth inning.
Exeter scored twice in the second
inning, thanks to Kevin Drager's
two -run homer to right field, scor-
ing Steve Merner who had singled
before the homer.
Then in the eighth, with one out,
Walt Parkinson, Rob Dickey and
Dave Shaw all singled and Hern
singled scoring a pair and Shaw had
knocked in Schade.with his single,
but that was all the scoring the Ex-
press
could manage off Strathroy.
Shaw had his worst outing of the
season on the mound. He pitched
into the sixth inning but gave up
the first seven runs and took the
loss. He was relieved by Steve
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Still hoping - Lucan's Mike Lumley is still hoping for a shot
.at pitching for the London Tigers before the end of this sea-
son. If he doesn't get it, the 22 year-old is quite content to
finish the season for Lakeland Tigers of the Class "A" Flori-
da State League, where,he has pitched the entire season so
far:
The streeeeetchhhhl - Exeter Express first baseman Dave Hayter Strathroy Tigers during their game in Exeter last Tuesday night.
stretches for a throw from the shortstop to nip a ranner from Strathroy won 12-5 ending the Express' 15 -game unbeaterrstreak.
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