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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1992-11-04, Page 17Ten straight Huron -Perth titles Panthers off to OFSAA again for girls' field hockey finals ST. THOMAS - Outstanding. • That's about the best word to describe the 1992 South Huron District High School Panthers girls' field hockey team. With three starters who have never played field hockey before, the Pan- thers won their tenth straight Huron -Perth Conference title and their sixth consecutive Western Ontario championship this past week. Coach Jim Workman said the girLs themselves realize they are defend- ing titles and work very hard to win. "It's just something that's self-motivation. The only way you can be suc- cessful is to play as a team." The week started last Tuesday in Exeter when the girls easily beat Si Marys 4-0 for the Huron -Perth final. During the regular season schedule, St. Marys was the only team to score a goal on the Panthers. Surprisingly, the hosts dominated the entire game as Danielle Miners and Carla Taylor each scored twice while goalie Tonya Riehl had the shutout. Miners, along with Cara Gardner and Kim Farquhar arc new to the game. "They certainly have surprised.me," said Workman of his team's perfor- mance thus far. The Panthers will board the bus to Toronto on Wednesday afternoon as they head to the Ontario Federation of Schools Athletic Association championship tournament which begins Thursday morning. Last year South Huron made it to the quarter -finals of the 16 -team pro- vincial final event. Overtime: On Saturday in St. Thomas, the Panthers won the WOSAA title in a thrilling overtime game with their rivals from the Huron -Perth Conference, St. Marys. Taylor scored the lone goal for South Huron as it was tied 1-1 after reg- ulation time play. Then it went into two seven -and -a -half minute overtime periods followed by a sudden death overtime period, still no score. That's when it went to penalty flicks. The Panthers dominated here, outscoring Si Marys 4-1. Gardner, Lynn Workman, Wendi Sims and Forest scored the flicks. Jim Workman said it's been a long time since the Panthers have been in a game that long. "We actually lost WOSSA six years ago in a shootout," he said. In pool play at WOSSA, the Panthers tied Medway 1-1 on Sims' goal. In the next game, the Panthers had to win by four goals and that's just what they did, downing Parkside 4-0 on two goaLs each by Miners and Brenyn Baynham. "The kids knew what they had to do," said Workman. More high school sports on page 19 1 • Holding up ten Rrtgera to signify ten straight Huron -Perth Con- St. Marys last Tuesday for the ferertce championships are members of the South Huron Dis- beat the same team in overtime trict High School Panthers girls' field hockey team. They beat r 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 � STNiL L MO EN NE INN MN i• — — I I i• I — — — — �� Service Centre H -P title and on the weekend towvin the WOSSA final. Semotiuk's comments have bad timing There is a time and place for everything. At Wednesday night's Huron Unit- ed Way Celebrity Dinner, Darwin Semotiuk's speech harped on a lot of negative as- pects in international sport. In front of a crowd of near- ly 200, in front of Canadian Women's Rowing Team Coach Al Morrow, in front of gold medal winner Leslie Thompson and in front of Paul Hender- son, Semotiuk said there is a lot about intemational sporting competition which we do not see. Semotiuk is the Chairperson of Intercollegiate Athletics at the University of Western Ontario in London and has trav- elled the world extensively to study sports. He may have valid points, many of which we should be made aware of, but Wednesday's dinner was not the proper format for such information. But you have to give Semotiuk credit for he does know how to choose his words carefully. Instead of using the word, 'drugs' for example he says pharmaceutical. "Ben Johnson, when tested positive in 1988 was not the only prominent international athlete that tested positive. There happened to be two other gold medal winners." But Semotiuk said the president of the International Olym- pic Committee and the International Track and Field Federa- tion kept it quiet because it would hurt the image of those countries involved. "A lot of what we see in terms of success of international spon is driven by the prominence of phammaceutical compa- nies". He went on to say that the game of international sport is a game of avoiding detection and avoiding positive doping con- trols. Again, wrong time and wrong place to making such a com- ment. The athletes at the dinner I don't think, want to be re- minded about drugs in sport. Wednesday was sort of a social night for them, sure it was business in that they shook hands, smiled and signed autographs but even to the youngest, 13 - year -old Jessie Ross, they all know that athletes try to en- hance their performance with drugs. They don't have to be reminded and neither did those who were at the dinner. Throughout his speech, Semotiuk did everything but say certain Eastem Europe countries have done everything they could to make sure their athletes would win. He said in 1948, the Soviet Union attended their first Olym- pic Games. There were 200 representatives from that country, but no athletes. There were coaches, administrators, photogra- phers and scientists. In 1952, the Soviets were the top medal winners. Twenty- four years later, it was the East German women dominating in the pool. "In 1976, the East Germans showed up in Montreal with an outstanding women's swimming team and they pretty well won everything in the pool. The East German coach was -asked • by a journalist why do _they .(swimmers) have deep voices." "I think it's well known in terms of the East German sports system how much they have relied on pharmaceutical support in order to enhance and support their competition," said Sem- otiuk. He even made note that the Soviets used electrical stimula- tion strength training which helped give volleyball players as much as four more inches on their vertical jumps. I was not impressed by Semotiuk's speech. He showed us the ugly side of sports. The side that is saying the 1996 Olym- pics Games in Atlanta might as well be called the Coca-Cola Games because of the high influence that company has. Sports is not ugly and there are many athletes in this coun- try who work hard, without drugs, without electric shock and who become the best in the world. From the sidelines:.»In last week's edition, Nick Szabo was incorrectly identified in the Hawks' picture as Todd McCann. 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