Times Advocate, 1993-05-19, Page 17t
Huron -Perth championsnips Miners sets new recuru
GiIfillan wins lOOmsprint
Records still stand
By Fred Groves
T -A staff
GODERICH - Every year, it
seems the same school dominates a
paticular event at the annual Hu-
ron -Perth Conference track and
field meet.
In the sprints, it's usually Wing -
ham's F.E. Madhill, St. Marys are
tops in many girls distance races
and our own South Huron District
High School does very well in the
javelin.
But on Wednesday, a pair of up-
and-comers from South 'Huron ad-
vanced to the 100 -metre finals, one
of them winning and the other fin-
ishing third.
In the midget boys' Chad Gilfil-
lan was the clear winner as he
broke the tape at least three full
strides ahead of the next closest
runner and in the midget girls' race,
Helen Theophilopoulos came on
stong to finish third.
But the big story of the day was
how the four Panthers' who went to
OFSAA a year ago performed.
All four once again will move
past Huron -Perth and headed to
Westem Onfar—ibv, championships
yesterday and today in Tillsonburg.
A year ago as a midget, Jeremy
Home finished eighth at the provin-
cial finals, Thursday in Goderich as
a first-year junior, he was fourth
with a leap of 1.70 meters.
"I thought I was over 1.75, I
slipped on my last jump," said
Horne.
He passed at the opening 1.60
height, cleared the bar easily at
GODERICH - South Huron District High School has always done
well at the Huron -Perth track and field championships. At Thurs-
day's annual event held in Goderich it was nice to see that the nine
conference records held by the Panthers, still stand. Here are the
feiords they hold.
.'*Midget boys javelin: Randy Johnson, 54.68 m
Midget girls 400 m: Molly Mc Qure
Midget girls long jump: Sandra elouw, 4,49 m
Junior boys javelin: Dave ShaW,55.74 m
Junior giris longjump: Lee O'Ri urke, 5.27 m
Seniorirls longuO'Rourke, j rpp;�e 5.40 m
Senior girls triple jt lip: Le O'Rourke, 10.91 m
Senior boys 00tn +hitt Mc 1urc, 50.40
Notes: Shaw also hp ' ttor javelin record of 56.49 while
he attended Sesforth: 11ti# e a triple cord holder who wetu,on
t(�:A very;3ttct sful tt`8i lc aii�t'field c tithe Untvetslty?Cf Ve`st-
t `httano, was a volunteer at 14#11*dtlt i ';IpecL at the lig dump;
1.65 in his sweats and then went
over at 1.70.
"I've beaten these guys before.
The higher the meet, I did better
last year," he said of making it all
the way to OFSAA in 1992.
Danielle Miners will head to Till-
sonburg in alt three throwing
events as the second -year midget
won the javelin at 33.10 to set a
new meet record. The old standard
of 32.30 was held by Stratford Cen-
tral's Cathy Hishon.
Miners, who threw the javelin at
OFSAA last year, was second in
discus at 28.04 and third in the
ti
shotput at 22.36.
No stranger: Senior Randy John-
son is no stranger to track and field
competitions and was a silver med-
alist at OFSAA in 1990, brought
home a junior bronze in both 1991
and 1992 in the javelin.
Thursday he participated in .all
three throwing events, winning the
javelin at 54.10 meters, which is
shy of Dave Shaw's record of
56.49. Johnson was second in dis-
cus at 36.58 and third in shotput at
11.34.
Thursday he said he won't be en-
tered in shotput at WOSSA.
"It's just a stay in shape event. I'm
hoping to set a personal best at
WOSSA in javelin."
At Goderich, the senior boys did
the discus and an hour later were
on the shotput pad having little rest
between the two events.
"It would have been nice to have
more time in between. The guy
here said you didn't get any warm-
up"
Dominate event: South Huron
completely dominated the javelin
event, bringing home three firsts,
two seconds and a fourth place fin-
ish in the six divisions.
In the senior girls, Jenny Robert-
son was second as she had a throw
of 28.48. She is also qualified for
WOSSA in the other throwing
events with a fourth, 23.88 in dis-
cus and a fifth, 7.30 in shotput.
She says she likes javelin because
she can do it better but has spent
lime on the other events.
"I've worked on my discus a lot,
3'm vying to improve on _it," said
Robe:Isom
East year she went to *OSSA in
the javelin but did not do well, This
year she seems more confident.
"I'm more prepared, last year was
my first year at WOSSA."
15 qualifiers: South Huron will
send a total of 15 athletes to Till-
sonburg this week as they shoot to-
wards the OFSAA west regionals
later this month in Windsor and
then the provincial meet in
Oshawa.
Continued on page 18
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Hockey is stillja big
part of Paul Pooley
This could go under
the heading of 'Where
are they Now', but in-
stead I think 111 dub
this, 'What do you think.'
On the weekend I gave Paul
Pooley a call in Sault Ste. Marie,
Michigan and asked his com-
ments on the Montreal Canadi-
ans and their success.
For those newcomers to town,
like myself, Paul and his twin brother Perry had a very successful
hockey career which ended with a professional stint, mostly with
the Sherbrooke Canadiens who are the American Hockey League
affiliate of the Montreal Canadiens.
Following Sunday afternoon's game, Paul said, "I think they
(Montreal) have a good club. Today the Islanders were a little
high."
He was referring to the Islanders huge emotional win over two-
time defending Stanley Cup champs, Pittsburgh Penguins.
"The Islanders outworked Pittsburgh but they won't outwork
Montreal."
Watching hockey on the tube is a little tough for Paul because he
spends a lot of his days and nights at the rink as an assistant coach
with the Lake Superior College.
A coach in American college hockey for the past five years, Paul
has helped that team to a national title two years ago and finalists
this year.
"I didn't get to see that much during the year because of our
team."
Paul's playing career is a successful one which ended with Fort
Wayne of the International Hockey League, before that he had a 20 -
game stint with the Winnipeg Jets.
While playing with. Sherbrooke, which served as a farm team for
both Montreal and Winnipeg he was called up to the Jets a few
times to play the odd game here and there.
"I had the opportunity to keep playing at the pro level," he said
but opted to retire instead of bouncing around the minors like so
many other players do.
Before helping Sherbrooke win the Calder Cup in 1986, Paul had
a full four-year scholarship to Ohio State University. He began his
junior hockey career in Toronto with North York of the Junior 'B'
level and then Major 'A' with Kingston.
Sidelines t .
by
Fred
Groves
In Canada there are nearly half a million people directly involved
in soccer as either players, volunteers or referees. With the national
team in a Cup qualifier recently, the sport has gained more and
more recognition and popularity.
Last week the Exeter Centennial Soccer Association kicked off
another year of soccer for boys and girls from five year-old and up.
"We have 16 teams and on top of that we have two senior teams
and a tyke team," said this year's president Henny Farwell.
A couple of the highlights she points out this year are the annual
atom tournament in July and the 15th Annual Soccer Camp Pro-
gram, run by the Ontario Soccer Association, is coming to Exeter
July 5-9.
"We had quite a bit of interest at registration so we decided to go
along with it," said Farwell of the program.
The low cost instructional camp is aimed at boys and girls ages 6 -
interested in learning an& intproving,:anotutheir taChnical ability
and skills of the game.
Team Ontario coaches and nationally io '`sed instructors along
with professional players and coaches make this the' top develop-
ment camp in the province.
Along with receiving 25 hours of high quality coaching, each par-
ticipant will receive an official O.S.A. Camp T-shirt and a Certifi-
cate of Participation.
Any player wishing to attend the camp can contact Ann Martens
at 234-6700.
With the addition of the Exeter Fury, a men's senior teltt'n, the
Centennials' Club now has 19 teams. Only the tyke don't have a reg-
ular schedule.
"They have skill sessions and play games among themselves,
there is 35. This year we're going to try and get them to a tourna-
ment in London Township," said Farwell.
Farwell said several local businesses have been generous to spon-
sor new uniforums and this past weekend, Sean Beattie, Matt Be-
zaire, Michael Coolman. Jeremy van Esbroeck, Eric Hundey and
Geoff Stasik all compled a referee course in Lucan.
Chad Gllflllan, left; broke the rape to win the midget boys IOOm while junior Jeremy Horne
failed to clear the bar in the high jumps
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