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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1998-06-24, Page 19Times -Advocate, dune 24, 1998 Call Sports Reporter Craig Bradford with your sports tips (519) 235-1331 • Fax (519) 235-0766 Hensall's Richelle Elder notches national v-baII experience The South Huron District High School graduate was a power on Humber College's _provincial champion women's volleyball team and has been selected for a year-long work term at Florida's Disneyland Power. Richelle Elder was a force to be reckoned with at the national collegiate women's volleyball championships at Sher- brooke, PQ, in March. (photo/Christian Landry) By Craig Bradford . T -A Reporter HENSALL — Richelle Elder knows how to pack -a lifetime of ex- periences into a couple short years. Elder, 20, was the starting power for the Humber College women's volleyball team last season when .they won the provincial title. The team, called the Hawks and made up of half rookies and half vets, went undefeated during league play (the first women's collegiate team to do so) and beat. Algonquin Col- lege in the playoff final at Ham- ilton's Mohawk College on Feb. 21. - The all -Ontario win was the first for Humber. The Hawks then fin' ished fifth at the national cham- pionship tournament in Sherbrooke. PQ. March 5-7.. • - The season before, Elder and Humber's all -rookie team made it to the provincial finals and•finished fourth. Elder is a touch short at - 5'6" for the power position but made up for the shortfall with conditioning and savvy. That savvy is also evident in her education. Elder graduated - from Humber's recreation. and- leisure services two-year course this spring and has landed a one-year contract as a Canadianrepresentativc at Dis- neyland's Epcot Centre in -Orlando. Fla. Her duties will include selling Canadian merchandise and or- ganizing children "s programs. She'11 head to Florida in October. Elder left this week for a summer vacation in Los Angeles visiting her boyfriend. Dave Gingcrich.- Gingcrich. formails of Zurich. is an .engineer with Allied Signal Aero- space and is currently in project management on the Delta Wing Space Shuttle (the proposed re- placement for the U.S.'s current space shuttle program), fighter jets. and a space station. These are heady times for Elder, but she hasn't forgotten about v - ball. She hopes to play beach vol- leyball in L.A. and to study- mar- keting/public relations at a Florida college so she can also play varsity volleyball there. When she returns to Ontario, Elder hopes to take ad- vantage of her last year of college eligibility and play college vol- leyball again.. "1 don't want volleyball to be over," she said. • One almost regret Elder "has about leaving for a year is that she won't be around to play com- petitive beach volleyball or see any of the pro action at Grand Bend. Elder.started.her volleyball career early at Hensall Public . School. She continued crafting her • v -hail chops at South Huron District High School. where she also played basketball and badminton. Elder has her level I coaching certificate and is thinking about girls vol- leyball at SHDHS or somewhere else when she gets hack from Flor- ida. She credits the experience at the '93 Ontario Education .Leadership Camp as"one of her.top experiences along with making it to WOSSA with the. Panthers as a junior in '95. But going to the college national championships takes the prize for showing Eider she was "able to play at a level 1 never dreamed I'd he ahlc to play." "I don't want volleyball to be over." Express fizzle at own doubleheader EXETER — There's nothing like a doubleheader whopping at home to take the wind out of your sails. That's exactly what the Exeter Express senior men's hardball team got on Sunday by losing to visiting Tillsonburg 11-6 in game one and 19-4 in game two. Four Exeter pitchers shared the duties for both games. Dan Masse pitched three innings giving up nine hits and nine runs. Fred Gre- gus pitched for the first time in several years. Express assistant coach Joe Fulop said •Gregus' knuckle balls worked well over his four innings when he gave up three hits and two runs. Rick Boon put in two and a third in- nings and gave up nine hits and .11 runs. Scott Kemp worked two and two thirds innings giving up five hits and eight runs. Fulop said defence was a prob- lem for the Express on the day with errors resulting in 10 un- earned runs. "Hopefully things will im- prove," he said. Exeter hitters (two games com- bined): Gregus. four singles; Mar- ty Memer and Boon, three sin- gles; Dave Russell. and Scott Kemp, two singles; Dale Hopf (new player), Vic Oliveira, Bill Shore, Dave Hawke, Masse, J.J. Anderson, Mark Glavin and Mike Agnew, a single each. The Express started the week by • coming from behind to slip by Stratford 11-10 at home on Tuesday. Exeter scored one in the bottom on the eighth and two more in the bottom of the ninth while bottling Stratford's bats to erase the 10-8 deficit (Exeter also scored one in the bottom of the seventh after giving up three in the top part of the inning). The Stratford squad was loaded •with several for- mer Intercounty players who were for the most part stymied by Merner who pitched the entire game. Merner allowed 12 hits and struck out four and despite the nine runs allowed due to the calibre of competition, Fulop said the game was one of the best Merner has pitched in "a while." • Boon suffered a concussion after colliding with' Stratford's first baseman but came back to cheer on his teammates. The prettiest paly of the game was a suicide bunt laid down by Glavin to scored a speedy Dave Rus- sell froth third base. Express hitters: Anderson, three singles including the game winner; Kemp, homerun, single, double, drove in tying run; Boon, two singles; Hawk, home - Extra effort for the out. Exeter Express player Fred Gregus makes the diving play at first to make the out during Sun- day's double header at Alvin Willert Field versus Till- sonburg. Exeter lost both games. (photo/Kate Monk) run; Dave Russell, single, double; Gregus, double, Glavin, two singles; Merner, single. On Wednesday, Exeter travelled to Strathroy for a 15-9 drubbing. Fulop said the Express had a "skele- ton" squad of 10 players with three of them playing hurt. Defensive lapses led to nine unearned runs though there were some positives. "The team showed a lot of heart in the contest es- pecially pitchers Dave Russell and Mark Glavin who pitched for the first time in two years," rulop said. Kemp pitched two innings and gave up seven runs on six hits. Dave Russell pitched three innings and effectively held Strathroy off the scoreboard till he tired in the sixth. He gave up four runs on two hits. Glavin gave up four runs on five hits. Express hitters: Oliveira, three singles and a triple; Gregus, homerun; Glavin, single and double; Dave Russell, double; Merner, Mike McCabe, Kemp and Shore, singles. Exeter's record stands at 3-4. The Express hosted Lakeside yesterday and travel Co Byron on Friday. • ,D, Mad for v -ball. Elder kids around for the camera outside the family home near Hensall. (photo/Craig Bradford) When asked who arc her heroes or mentors. Elder listed Humber as- sistant coach Colleen Gray - (who made it to the provincials and na- tionals herself with Humber) and Canadian beach volleyball Olympic bronze medalists Mark Heesc •and John Childs: She also praised her parents: Suc and Fred. and Dave and Rick Gingerich (coaches while she played at SHDHS) for their support. Elder said it is the competitive– ness of volleyhali that keeps her coming hack for more. • "It makes me work." she said. "It pushes me towards a goal 1 have to reach." Mom Suc has experienced that. determination especially evident when she was trying out for the Humber Hawks. "We asked, -'What if you don't make it?' But she knew she was go- ing to. She had a goal in mind and just shot for it. We're just thnlled and.proud of her," Sue said. Elder's family also includes sib- lings 'Tern -Lynn, 21. Dustin. 15. and Amber -Lea. 12. " Arthur's Moscow bound for Youth Games Kendra Arthur hopes going to -Moscow as Canada's women's basketball team therapist at the World Youth Games will start her on the Olympic path EXETER Kendra Arthur has been given the break she's been waitink.for. • Arthur, 29, is an Exeter phys- ical therapist specializing in sports injuries. Her dream is to someday go with Team Canada to the Olym- pics and a call from her alma mat- er, Oakville's Sheridan College. might have opened the door to that dream — Arthur is going with Canada's team to Moscow from July 6-21 for the World Youth Games. Arthur said athletes from 159 countries will participate in the games that are like an Olympics for developing athletes from the ages of 15-19. She will be . assigned to the women's basketball team and ex- pects to see a lot of ankle and knee "in - "I'm very excited." Arthur said. "It's an awesome opportunity." The Moscow experience will be: her first step towards her Olympic dream. "It's my first international trip as a :therapist," she said. "This is the perfect foot in the door." The South Huron District High School graduate holds a degree in human kinetics from the Uni- versity of Guelph and a sports in- juries management diploma from Sheridan. She left Lakehead University as its head athletic therapist recently to return to her childhood home. Arthur hopes to open her own sports injury clinic in Exeter in the - fall or early next year. - Arthur played field hockey. bad • - minton and volleyball while at South Huron and continued playing field juries. hockey for Guelph. Jaremchenko named Jr. D player of the year KILWORTH — Lucan Irish de- fenceman Mike Jaremchenko is the Jr. D hockey league player of the year after he was awarded the hon- or last week at the Ontario Hockey Association annual meeting. Jaremchenko, of Kil- worth, served as the Irish's alternative captain and was also named the co -winner of the Irish's annual best detenceman award last season. The four-year vet may be chosen as one of the team's two overagers next season by the coaching staff. Jaremchenko will enter his third year at -the Uni- versity of Western Ontario this fall where he's studying busi- ness, worked two jobs and also helped with community and fund- raising duties with the Irish. Irish co -coach Jason Bukala said the award is based upon both on -ice / .prowess and involvement in the community. the hockey club and other outside interests. Bukala said there hasn't been one • Irish fund- raiser or other duty Jaremchenko hasn't volunteered his time to. "He's very rloachable." Bukala said. "He does` whatever he's asked to. He's a fan- tastic leader in the dressing room. We're very fortunate to have him as a member of our team." Jaremchenko received a $500 scholarship from the OMHA that Jaremchenko said he'll use towards his education. •"11 was an honor` being nominated," he modest Jaremchenko player said. "And it was a surprise to win." If he's not chosen as one of the Irish's two overage players this sea- son, Jaremchenko said he'd like to play rec hockey 'just for fun. Jaremchenko is the assistant man- ager at London's Wally World and hopes to own a business someday. Mike A Hensall gets a Sr. A team HENSALL — Sr. A hockey is coming back to the area. Hensall Sr. A Sherwoods pres- ident Steve Bedard said he re- ceived word Tuesday morning that the WOAA approved his ap- plication to create a team for the league that •includes teams from Goderich and Clinton. • The team is looking for coach- es and a G.M. Anyone with a background in hockey, coaching especially, who wants the chance to make their mark with a Sr. A team can call Bedard at 262-2827. • Bedard said the team is also looking for "as many players as possible" though some possible skaters have been lined up. Practices will start at Hensall Arena at the end of August. The last near senior level hockey team Hensall put on the ice was the Intermediate Sher - woods that last played in '84/85. The Exeter Sr. A Mohawks (aced up for the last time in '93/ 94.