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weekender march 14 1987 p39 o weekender sports v 2942200 6402100 milliken skater eyes olympics by ed rogers successful on all counts is how millikens george maly describes his second speedskating season and he has good reason to feel that way after setting a canadian junior 10000metre record in december in st foy quebec where he ranked 8th in canada maly swept the ontario championships in kitchener rushing home for a quick show er he jetted to europe for a five- week tour that included speeds kating competitions and watching international races there maly set personal bests in every distance 500 1000 1500 3000 5000metres my success has really been thanks to coach al workmens program maly explained be cause im new to the sport it has allowed me to learn what skating is on a world level and what train ing for speedskating involves to be successful malys season ended when he returned from europe in the last days of february he returns a more disciplined and conditioned skater with his mind set more than ever on im proving technique he explained in an interview that interupted his studying for exams i havent digested everything that happened during the season but the highlights were st foy and the trip to europe maley reported where he raced against russians swedes dutchmen poles and germans the european trip provided so much more purpose in training i know my weaknesses in techni que he said not one to live in the past the grade 13 student says next year is more important than this year his sights are set on gaining a spot with the canadian olympic team for that he plans to train 30 hours a week during the summer after finishing high school maly plans a year off before entering university that break will take him over the hurdle to national- calibre skating he predicts stouffville boys out of playoffs millikens george maly shows his style during the heat of competition at an ottawa speedskating com petition earlier this season the 18yearold is set ting his sights on joining canadas olympic team after a successful season in provincial national and international races tom maly the hockey playoffs ended for stouffvilles neil patrick novice clippers last week when they were eliminated with four straight losses to lindsay lindsay was by far the superior squad as it easily won the first two matches 60 and 50 game three was a little closer but the clip pers still came out on the short end of a 20 score chad dickinson found the back of the lindsay net to give the clip pers an early lead in the final outing however it was too little too late for stouffville as lindsay quickly tied it up and added three more before the locals scored again david hutchinson combined with roger mcmann and steve wilcox to make it 42 but that was as close the clippers would get though the playoff season has ended for the novices they con tinue to play exhibition games and tournaments recently they beat pickering 4- 1 scott gray with two brent av ery and john mckinnon accounted for the offence the boys continued their strong exhibition performance downing thornhill 51 john mckinnon with two scott gray roger mcmann and chad dickinson led the attack stouffville also beat markham 32 to keep the hot streak alive john mckinnon opened the scoring with a blast from the boards dave hutchinson and brad goode tallied as well brad hackert played well in net step two for bowlers six markham bowlers are one step closer to competing in the provincial 5pin cham pionships after qualifying for the southern ontario finals stan kamskis bantam team of lisa mulrine angela soete- mans pam mcnamara alli son haines and samantha alpert earned the honor by finishing first overall in step two of the youth bowling coun cils four steps to stardom competition they bowled out of the mar kham centre lanes as does traccy williams she also gained a spot at the southern ontario tournament winning the junior girls singles divi sion at the steptwo event a total of 26 local bowlers took part in the competition the junior boys were third overall junior girls fourth and hoopers back on track by frank king sports editor high costs recent health prob lems so what neither factor is big enough to prevent markhams gord hooper from reentering the world of stockcar racing the 29yearold firefighter started racing almost 15 years ago but took last season off due to a short hospital stay and lack of a major sponsor hes back this year after a vain attempt to get a multiuse race way proposal approved by stouff ville council the idea is still alive but hoop ers spending most of his time readying a custommade vehicle and lining up financial help he has a rebuilt frame in his garage and is currently mounting a fibreglass camaro body on it as well as the transmission engine and racing suspension hooper says hes back on the raoing scenes betaiise iheisport vhashtdied in- meyet racihgis just something ive always been interested in the only frustra tions are the costs and the travel for us to do it properly this year its gonna cost around 15000 he continued a good motor alone is 10000 and youre looking at 130 a tire hooper has offset some of those costs with major sponsor prv racingengines along with mar kham printing champion spark plugs wix filters unionville motors hb motors offroad cen tre and general electric plastics but he and car owners brian patti carr of unionville are still looking for more sponsors what theyre after is the funds to race on bigger tracks like hamiltons flamboro londons delewarc and peterboroughs westgatc hoopers goal is just to get some experience on the tracks spraeday vdjike to try some asa american speedway associai tkmmwent butkd ooedanew car then and youre looking at 5000060000 to run one season there in the meantime im looking forward to this year ive raced most of those tracks before so im not nervous about it its just a matter of getting the car sorted out and putting in some practice laps markhams gord hooper sits in the drivers seat of his partially cdniplcd stock car hes back on the circuiting s scasbnafter taking- a yedrjff