HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1986-09-17, Page 13Page 12—CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1986
Sports
Players from Seaforth and Clinton move in to see who has the ball during junior girls'
s.
basketball play at Central Huron Secondary School (CHSS) on September ll. The CHSS
Redmen defeated Seaforth by a score of 32-17. (David Emslie photo)
CHSS basketball team wins
CLINTON - On September, 11 the Central the scoring, proving that the team has a well
Huron Secondary School (CHSS) junior girls balanced offensive output.
basketball team played their first game of
the season, winning an exhibition game
against Seaforth by a score of 32-17.
Susan Govenlock was the top scorer for
CHSS with 10 points, and Anne Tyndall had
six points.
Six other CHSS players also contributed to
The team played man to man defense
throughout the game and kept the girls from
Seaforth well in check.
This week the juniors host Goderich on
September 17, and on Friday they travel to
Parkhill for two exhibition games.
Recreation committee
studies solar grants for
Clinton public pool
Mustang . report
There is one thing that has always amaz-
ed me about the sports world, and that is
how many major sports can be running at
the same time.
Just looking at Clinton alone there is
evidence of this. The baseball season is
coming to an end, but is still carrying on;
the football season gets underway this
week, basketball exhibition games have
started and already hockey has started at
the Clinton Arena.
Granted, they are only Hockey tryouts
and hockey school that arid being carried
out, but it is hockey nevertheless.
For once, though, I find this overlapping
of sports to be to my advantage. Thera is
no way I will be short of sports pictures,
and if I play my cards right, I should never
be short of copy.
Another reason I like this overlapping is
because I get a chance to cover a few
sports I understand, football and pasket-
ball. I have a feeling I'm going to enjoy the
Mustangs'
4understand the work gs of Json as lunior that
hockey a bit better.
To gather my information on the
Mustangs I approached their manager,
Bryan Marriage, at the first night of train-
ing camp on September 15.
He was very helpful, and I have reason
to believe it could `be an interesting spor-
ting winter in Clinton this year.
Mr. Marriage is expecting to have about
30 players out for the tryouts that will be
running for the next two weeks from 9 p.m.
to 11 p.m. from Monday to Friday.
Among these 30 hopefpls, there are an
estimated 10 returning players. Also retur-
ning this year is coach Dan Colquhoun.
Two imports will also be part of the team
this year, and they will probably hail from
London.
Although Mr. Marriage feels it is too ear-
ly to tell whether there are any good pro-
spects on the team this year he did state,
"We've got some pretty good young pro-
spects here from Zurich."
DEiVID EMSLIE
By David Emslie this time.
CLINTON - At their meeting on "It's a good decision to wait and see how
September 11 the Clinton Recreation Com- the budget goes," Mr. Campbell said. "We
mittee received an update on possible will still have ONIP next year, it's a three
grants for solar heating the Clinton Public year program ending in 1987."
Pool. Presently, Mr. Campbell will be speaking
Originally, the committee was going to with the company, Crystaplex Plastics
approach the federal government for an' Limited, to see whether they can set up a
overall 50 per cent grant from the total cost , contract now to put in the flooring next year.
of the work, but they have now discovered a Because Clinton Council made the deci-
different grant which will save them more sion that they want to know of any capital
money. projects for 1987 by the end of November,
"The difference with it is it will give us 50 Steve Gibbings presented to the rest of the
per cent from the , provincial government, committee a few of the projects that must be
but it will add on a 75 per cent grant for done next year.
engineering fees," Recreation Director These projects include the painting of the
Steve Campbell explained. "It will end
upthe replacing 'of the fountain ; of the
;mating us' fess: It is basically one of these i, . pool, p g
Clinton Community 'Park, and purchasing
new, playground equipment.
"It's broken, it's not very sanitary, the
whole thing is just unsafe," Mr. Campbell
said of the old fountain. He added that just
purchasing the fountain, without installa-
tion, will cost $750.
Mr. Gibbings noted that they do not want
to replace all of the playground equipment
at once, but perhaps one or two pieces a
year.
"We're going to try to put children's sw-
ings in Hawkin's Park," Mr. Campbell said.
A letter of resignation was received from
Linda Reid as she will no longer be able to
act on the committee because she is taking
night school courses on the evenings of the
meetings. The committee voted to give her a
one year leave of absence, rather than let-
ting her quit outright.
guaranteed grants.
Another expenditure discussed by the
committee that will be affected by a grant
was the new flooring for the main lobby area
of the arena.
The total cost of this cut proof flooring will
be approximately $11,000 with 50 per cent of
the cost coming from an Ontario
Neighborhood Improvement Program
(ONIP) grant.
The committe has decided they may wait
until next year to finish the flooring for two
separate reasons, the first being that the
company responsible for selling the flooring
and installing it can not at this time match
the flooring already laid down in the change
rooms.
The second reason for the waiting is
because the recreation committee is not
sure exactly wheretheir budget stands at
Another player he is interested in is the
goaltender from H.B. Beal Secondary
School in London, Derek Gilders. Gilders'
team went to the championships last year,
and they won the city league and a tourna-
ment in Toronto.
The boundaries for player gathering for
the Clinton team are within Huron, Perth
and Middlesex Counties. The age range is
from 16 to 20 years old, but Mr. Marriage
said, "If they are good enough and
younger, there's no problem."
Mr. Marriage explained that "D" teams
are able to take two imports, while "C"
teams can take four, and "B" eight.
"Most of these guys are local Huron
County boys, in "B" teams they pull tons
(of players) out of the north," he said.
Final cuts for the players will likely
follow an exhibition game on September
26, but the players will have a chance to
. show their stuff prior to this, being on the
ice almost every night before the game.
This year the Mustangs, who are in the
north division,, will be playing four other ,
northern teams and five teams from the
south.
. From the north they will be playing
Seaforth, Exeter, Mitchell and Brussels,
w7iile their southernopponents will be
Mount Bridges, Belmont, Thamesford,
Lucan and Thedford.
Finishing third in the league last year,
Mr. Marriage said their toughest op-
ponents were Seaforth. He added,
however, that it is a very competitive
Vague. "We must have lost 10 games by
one goal W0 1net three in Tavictnrk by nne
goal in the last minute."
He did not want to hazard a guess as to
where the team may end up in the stan-
dings this year, but noted they were just
hoping to make the playoffs.
The playoffs will be run differently this
year from last year's round robin
schedule. "Last year in the round robin we
got put out," Mr. Marriage said. "There
were five teams in last year, but only two
made it; Seaforth and Grand Valley."
This year, the top four teams from the
north and the top four from the south will
make the playoffs. ,
Once the tryouts are over, and the
regular season starts for the team, their
schedule will not be quite as hectic, but not
by much.
They will practice only once a week, on
Tuesdays for two hours, but they will be
playing at least two games a week. "On
some weekends we've got three games,
we'll play Friday, Saturday and Sunday,
Mr. Marriage pointed out.
The Mustangs' 42 game 1986-1987
schedule will be run on these sports pages
just prior to their home opener against last
year's tough opponents, Seaforth, on Oc-
tober 3.
Forty-two games seems like an awful lot
to me, but I only played around a half
season of hockey at the ripe old age of
eight before I decided football was more to
my liking.
But, with 42 games, even if I can only at-
tend a third of them, I shouid (almost) ful-
ly understand Junior "D" hockey.
The final races of the season were held on September 14 at the Clin-
ton Raceway. For the final event a battle of the sexes was the
theme of the day. (David Emslie photo)
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By Shelley McPhee-Haist
CLINTON — The battle of the sexes was
featured at the race track on September 14
when women and men met at the starting
gate in the driver's seat.
The final race date of the season at the
Clinton track finished with top notch action
as women drivers Karen Fekete, Cindy
Horner, Laurie McNeight and Tammy Watt
took their male counterparts, Ross Battin,
Steve Bossence, Dennis Morrissey and Don
Windsor.
A crowd of more than 800 was on hand to
take in the action and the 11 race card
program.
Steve Bossence topped the official score
card in the contest, bringing the most points
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cond and Karen Fekete took third spot.
Bossence brought in three first place win-
ners to take the top score for the day.
He was behind the reins of Big Joe Byrd to
take the second race on the card in a time of
2:07. The winning pacer is owned by Ronald
Brintnell of Exeter.
Cindy Horner was in the second spot,driv-
ing Mayflair Flo for Ross Cottle of
Woodham and third went to driver Karen'
hi" ekete and Grayfriars Faye, owned by Dale
Kennedy of Seaforth.
Bossence was on top again in the fourth
with David Star, for Brenda Schneider of
Arthur, bringing the five-year old horse to a
2:06.3 victory.
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Laurie McNeight was behind in second,
driving Lady Scarlet for Kevin Williams of
Goderich and Don Williams of Forest. Tam-
my Watt came in third with Garmore Enuff,
owned by Tom McLean of Goderich.
Basic Speed raced a 2:06.3 victory in the
fifth with Bossence in the cart. It was a first
time win,for the three year old colt, owned
by John Heamaii of Ailsa Craig.
Karen Fekete was close behind with Fulla
Kisses, owned.byWalter Luzak of London.
Third place went to Willvan Darcy, driven
by Don Windsor for Willy Vanneste of
Lucan.
Ross Battin was the second best driver of
the day, bringing two winners across the
wire.
He stopped the clock at 2:08.2 in the se-
cond with Big Shot Charlie for owner Arthur
Jones of Denfield. Dennis Morrissey
brought in the second place finisher, Lindas
Can Am for Alfred Grummett of Stratford.
Gee Horton owned by Larry McClure of
Seaforth, was third with Don Windsor` at the
reins.
Battin found a winner in Dead End Street
in the seventh race with a time of 2:07 for
the five year old mare, owned by Robert
Taylor of Granton and Larry Street of St.
Marys.
Karen Fekete tallied up more points folk
her second place finish with Polly Rum, fo
Luella Dally of Harriston. Cindy Horner was
-across the wire next with Cedar Spring
Lady, owned by Ted Oenema of Otterville.
In total -Fekete brought in two second
place finishers, a third and a winning racer
to earn enough points for third spot in the
drivers' challenger.
Her winner came in the first race for the
day, with G G Columbo and a 2:05 victory
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