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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1999-05-05, Page 32THIS WEEK IN Som Beat Exeter ladies darters on the taarlt after annual banquet. Page 23 Bluewater Tae Kwon Do wins a truck toad of hardware in Toronto. Page 24 Page 22 i Wednesday, Hay 5, 1999 SPotrrs Tips? Contact Sports Editor Craig Bradford Tel: (519) 235-1336 ext 113 Fax: (519) 235-0766 E-mail: sports@SouthHuron.com Exeter Times -Advocate Slipping by South Huron District High Sch' of senior boys rugby player Brad Claus, left, tries to grab a Kincardine play- er during last week's game in Exeter. Kincardine won 36-O.The girls played a good second half but lost 24-5 with Tracy Wilson scoring the lone try.The junior boys played well but couldn compete with Kincardine's speedy backs and lost 22-3 with South Huron's Bryan Evans kicking a penalty goal. All three Panther were in Petrolia yesterday and travel to Wingham May 7. Last week's games were South Huron's last at home this season. Mixed results for Panther soccer teams last week By Craig Bradford Saturday but lost all their TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF games due mostly to hav- • ing no extra players for EXETER — It was an up substitions. and down week for South Both the senior and Huron District High junior girls have league School's soccer teams. records of 2-1-1 (wins, On the positive side, the losses, ties). Both teams junior girls beat Goderich played in Seaforth after 1-0 at home on April 29. press yesterday (May 4) Jessica Davies scored and host Wingham F.E. the winning goal late in Madill tomorrow (May 6), the game. the juniors starting at 2 The senior girls didn't p.m. and the seniors at fare as well and lost to 3:30 p.m. Goderich 2-1. The last girls soccer Sarah Workman scored games of the season are South Huron's goal in the at South. Huron versus St. first half. Anne's on May 12. The But Goderich got on the Huron playoffs are in board early in the second Clinton on May 18. half after a lapse by the On the boys side, the Panther defence allowed seniors lost to Madill 2-1 the tying goal. Goderich on Monday. scored the winning goal Coach George McEwan later in the half. said his boys got off to a The senior girls tied good start but couldn't Clinton Central Huron 1-1 capitalize on their at home on April 27. chances. Michelle Finkbeiner The seniors found them - scored the Panther goal. selves back on their heels Workman said the team later in the game arid played well in the first Madill made good on half but lost momentum South Huron's mistakes. in the second half. The junior boys blanked The junior girls tied Madill 2-0. Vince Central Huron 3-3. Inthisorn scored on a chip Niki Vermeulen scored a shot over the goalkeeper pair of goals for the in the first half and Panthers while Jenalyn Andrew Prout scored on a Baker notched one goal. headball off a corner kick The seniors played in in the second half. Tom the St. Thomas Arthur Phouttharath earned the Voaden tournament on shutout in goal. T Extra effort. South Huron District High School junior girls soccer player Amanda Wuerth goes all out to kick the ball up during last week's home game ver- sus Goderich.The Panthers won 2-1. The senior boys played The senior boys record Central Huron to a 0-0 tie is now 3-2-1 (wins, losses, at home on, April 28. ties). South Huron senior coach The junior boys won George McEwan said his their game versus Central team's crosses were poor Huron 2-1. The winning but they penetrated well goal came after Andrew into the offensive zone. Prout was pulled down Aran Beattie got the inside the 18 -yard box shutout between the pipes and was awarded a for the PantheAr See PANTHER page 23 Former Exeter woman is a top Florida. girls basketball coach By Craig Bradford TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. — Ronnalee Terry (nee Bogart) is a perfect example how a change of scenery can do some good. In Terry's case, a ton of good. Terry has won the 1A -2A -3A (small school) girls basketball coach of the year award for the past two seasons while at the helm of the Benjamin School Buccaneers varsity team. Terry's team won the '98/99 state title by beating the top- ranked and previously unbeat- en Fort Lauderdale - Westminster Academy 45-38 m the 2A final on Feb. 20. The team racked up a 28-2 record in '98/99 on its way to the championship tournament. The Buccaneers appeared in the 2A final in '97/98 as well but had to settle for the silver. That year was Terry's first with Benjamin. Over her two years, Terry has led her team to a 50-5 record. Terry also created a feeder system for Benjamin's varsity girls basketball team by setting up programs In Benjamin's middle and elementary school. "It wasn't my math teaching skills that got me the Benjamin job," Terry said jokingly. "1 think (starting the Benjamin girls basketball feeder system) was why 1 was hired." When not looking after some- thing basketball -wise, Terry teaches phys ed in Benjamin's elementary school. Terry, a South Huron District High School graduate, left a teaching job at Parkhill North Middlesex District High School two years ago when her hus- band Mike landed a job ast another school there. Mike's real purpose in leaving Canada for Florida was to pur- sue his barefoot water skiing career. . Mike, a Woodstock native, is a member of Canada's national team and is ranked 30th in the world. Mike had no close place to train in this part of the province and Florida offered all the training facilities he could want. Terry spent seven years at North Middlesex teaching phys ed, science, math and family studies. While there she coached junior girls basketball, bad- minton and was the senior boys basketball assistant coach. Parkhill;'s senior boys won OFSAA gold in '96 and bronze in '95. Terry was a star athlete in high school ('78-82). She was a member of a Huron -Perth bas- ketball team, won the Huron - Perth and WOSSA girls singles badminton title four years in a row and finished third at OFSAA in mixed doubles. She went on to McMaster University for a year and then transfbrred to the University of Waterloo where she earned a Ronnalee Terry kinesiology degree. She then worked at the London YMCA in the recreation department and spent a year teaching at. a Mississauga senior elementary school before finding work at North Middlesex. Terry attributes a lot of her success to two key players. The first is senior Erin Paige who. was named the 1A -2A -3A play- er of the year for the past two years. The 5'11" forward scored 16.5 points a game while grab- bing 11.2 rebounds a game, assisting on four baskets a game and blocking 3.5 shots a game. Paige scored half of Benjamin's points in the '98/99 final game. Paige has signed for a full scholarship with the University of Central Florida. Terry said she will definitely miss Paige's dominating pres- ence on the floor. "(Paige) is the kind (of player) you wait your whole life to coach," Terry said. "Next year my true test will come." . But the 'next one' has already appeared. Forward Erlana Larkins, just finishing Gr. 7, is 6'1" tall and is expected to grow to 6'5". She wears a size 12 man's shoe. Last season she scored 10.9 points a game, collected 11.5 rebounds, blocked 2.5 and assisted 1.8. Larkins was named to the '98/99 first all- star team. Benjamin is a private school of 1,000 students with, Iots of financial backing. Terry said the school just bought 50 acres of land and plans to build a new high school and a state of the art sporting complex that will offer every imaginable school sport including a pool for swim- ming and complete baseball, Held and court sports facilities. Terry said many rich people send their children to Benjamin and back their children's school sports careers with their wal- lets. Ito golf legends Jack Nicklaus, Nick Price and Greg Norman sit on Benjamin's board of directors. Media coverage of high school sports is also very different I the U.S.. than it is in Canada. Terry said the state final tour- nament was covered by the area's four TV stations and had full one or two page coverage in the two daily newspapers. There were after game press conferences where the coaches and some players were inter- viewed by a scrum of reporters like you would see for the NBA. "I think it's cool for the kids," Terry said. "I think the overall coverage of high school sports is better down there." Personally, Terry said she likes Florida's weather but misses her family. She also liked her position at North Middlesex and the people she worked with. Terry hinted she may want to come back to Ontario someday, but admitted enjoying every minute of her experiences in Florida. Terry's proud dad, Ron Bogart, brought his daughter's story to the T -A's attention. He marvelled at Larkins' prowess on the court and how the U.S. media cover high school sports. "I haven't seen too many boys play basketball like that and she's 12 and in Gr. 7," Bogart said of Larkins. And how does he feel about high school basketball playoff games getting the full TV play- by-play treatment? "You'd swear it was an NBA game," he said. • Bogart, a retired South. Huron teacher and well known for his coaching prowess, had no trou- ble identifying what sets his daughter apart. "The desire to win," he said. "She's really competitive."