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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1995-04-19, Page 15o Brenyn Baynham beats a Central ,Huron player at mid- field in Senior Girls Soccer action on Tuesday. This Week in Sports... • Stephen minor hockey year-end report- page 15 • Bowlers strike it big - page 16 Senior girls shut -out Central Huron Coach Workman "tests the waters" in the Senior Girls' first game of the season at South Huron District High School. By Chris Skalkos T -A stat EXE CER - The South Huron girls senior soccer team used used the windy weather to their advan- tage in shutting out Central Huron 3-0 on Tuesday. With a strong easterly wind blow- ing the senior girls soccer players took the advice of coach Jim Work- man and kept the ball on the ground executing a successful pass- ing game that proved too much for the visiting Central Huron players. Despite the gusting wind in their face, the senior girls did a good job controlling the ball and had two good scoring opportunities in the first half, but they couldn't put the ball in the net. Going into the sec- ond half of the game scoreless, the senior girls went on the offensive quickly scoring in the first four minutes of of play. With the wind now going their way the senior girls dominated the rest of the game with their on -the - ground passing strategy adding two more goals before the game was over. Coach Jim Workman credited the strong playing of senior rookie Car- rie Cleave and the determined ef- fort of fullback Sarah Battersby for killing Central Huron's attacking game. Cara Gardner and Amy Ed- wards controlled the middle field well for South Huron and Heather Davies persistently set up a lot of her teammates throughout the game. Central Huron couldn't mount much of an offense with their kick- ing game as their passes were blown astray by the wind. The South Huron goals came from Jen Romphf, Gillian Gregoire and Cara Gardner. Goalie Jana Webster recorded the shutout. Workman said he was still "test- ing the waters" with this game and the girls still need to work on call- ing the ball and running into posi- tion but the wiri was a good start to the season. With nine returning vet- erans on this year's team Workman is expecting a promising soccer . season. Last year, Workman led the SHDHS field hockey team to an- other OFSSA, All -Ontario Champi- onship and he is hoping to do the same for the girls soccer team this year. A soccer tournament scheduled for April 22 will determine what this year's team is made of. The senior girls will be competing in the tournament with 20 other teams from high schools across the re- gion. The Senior Girl's next home game is against Goderich this Thursday. Local ringette players win bronze medal at National Championships in Winnipeg Underdog Team Ontario comes from behind to clinch a medal WINNIPEG - Danielle Miners and Kim Farquhar from Exeter are each wearing a bronze medal they won at the Canadian National Rin- gette Championships. But to them, it's as good as gold. Miners and Farqhar have recently arrived from Manitoba after play- ing with the Team Ontario ringette team in the Winnipeg Nationals. Team Ontario won the bronze med- al Friday after beating the host Winnipeg Team 4-1 in a close end- to-end battle. The night before,Team Ontario lost another tight game to the un- defeated Quebec Team which would have put them in the race for the gold and silver medals. The Ontario Team's performance took everyone by surprise, in- cluding Assistant Coach Doug Min- ers. "I was very pleased. Our goal was to place fifth, but coming in third was a real bonus," Miners said. Team Ontario was the underdog from the beginning. The team was composed of the London Ringette Belle "AA" team with some pick- up players from Sudbury, Scar- borough and Kitchener. The Lon- don Belle "AA" team earned the right to represent Ontario after beating Sudbury and Gloucester in Kim Farquhar, left; and Danielle Miners show off the bronze medals they won at the Canadian National Ringette Championships. • 144 the Ontario Provincials. 'The girls only had two weeks to practice together before going up against the other provincial teams, most of whom were all-star players who had played in the Canada Win- ter Games. "Many of our players have never had the opportunity to play at the national level before...they did very well considering the circum- stances," said Miners. Despite the odds, Team On- tario put out a stellar performance which included a nail-biting 9-8 overtime victory against the Man- itoba team and a shut -out against the team from Nova Scotia. Both Danielle Miners and Kim Farquhar, racked up a collection of goals and assists during the Nova Scotia game. Miners got things go- ing early scoring in the first 30 sec- onds into the game. She put three more goals in for the hat trick and also added five assists to her tally. Farquhar contributed three assists in the game and scored a goal on a high -flying breakaway. They won the game against the weaker Nova Scotia team hands "Many of our players have never had the opportunity to play at the national level before... they did very well considering the circumstances," down, however, all the other vic- tories were hard fought. The only three games Team Ontario lost were to Quebec and Alberta. Both these teams had an all-star roster that had been together since the Canada Winter games. Team On- tario never lost by more than three goals against these two talented provincial teams. According to Farquhar the team's successful outcome resolved a "per- sonal vendetta" many of the players had with the previous Team On- tario. Over half of the girls on this year's team were cut from the On- tario squad the last time the prov- ince sent a team to the Nationals. That particular team had prac- ticed together for two years was touted as being an "elite" group of all-stars; however, this year's team did much better and to many of the ringette players, that alone was worth its weight in gold. "I was glad we won the bronze but we just wanted to beat them," said Danielle Miners referring to last year's Team Ontario. "For us, it was like winning the gold medal." Zurich bowlers advance to Regional Championship ZURICH - Six Zurich bowlers will be taking a strike at the Regional rolloffs this weekend. The Zurich Association Black Tower team of Ruth Robertson, Lyle and Marilyn Solinger, Vic Dunbar, Frank Allen and Marie Wintle will com- pete in the Back Tower round robin, match play, pins over average on April 23 in Stratford. The top team will advance to the Black Tower Pro- vincial Championship in June at a O.F.P.B.A. des- ignated location. The team will be coached by Marlene Bedard from the Bluewater and Zurich association. In other bowling action: Laurel Laughton from Fullarton and Gayle Easun from Mitchell won the ladies division at the Bluewater 5 Pin Bowlers' As- sociations best S.I..M.S.I. and O.C.B. singles ef- forts. They narrowly missed the cutoff score that would have sent them to the Canadian Five Pin Bowlers' Association National Championship next month in Quebec. A