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saturday march 23 2002 21 economist sun stoiiffville tribune winstonettes open the door to elite ukrainian gymnasts markham gymnastics club hosts serious europeans training for 2004 olympics not only does the winstonettes gymnastics club play host to v teaching girls the sport of gymnastics earlier this week the markhambased club took on the added role of goodwill ambassadors when they opened their doors to hosting two inter national gymnasts and their coach from the ukraine irina karsnyanska 13 and inna teslenko 14 two elite per formers from the ukraine who are gearing upfor the 2004 summer olympics along with their coach inna kofobchinskay- spent monday and tuesday with the winstonettes they had one joint training session and found some time to do a little sightseeing in toronto before departing on wednesday for the ukraine it was nice to have them with us for a few days said winstonette coach july gerschovich the kids are really nice they have good manners and are mature for their age gerschovich noted their asso rt iiwe we saw how serious they trained they train seven days a week and four times a week they have three training sessions a day ciation with the two ukrainian gymnasts and their coach came about through two international competitions that took place in montreal and burlington over the last two weekends it was at these meets where winstonettes coach liudmyla korolenko met the international the winstonettes gymnastic club welcomed two elite gymnasts from the ukraine to their markhambased facility earlier in the week where they did some training before returning home on wednesday here irina karsnyanska 13 performs a routine on the balance beam while teammate inna teslenko 14 looks on gymnasts they also had an asso ciation with their coach through working at thenational training centre in the ukraine when you meet people from a foreign country that speak the same language theyre almost like part of the family so we opened our doors to them before they went back to the ukraine recalled gerschovich of their meeting gerschovich said the brief time spent with the young gym nasts was a learning experience for both sides they came over to see what our club system is like here and because the girls spend all of their lives in the gym we wanted to show them what canada was about by giving them a tour of toronto and at the same time we had a few hours of training with them and we saw how serious they trained they train seven days a week and four times a week they have three training sessions a day gerschovich said brother andre settles for bronze match at ofsaa cardinals edged in semifinal gold medal gamebynolranhed mississauga school markhams brother andre catholic high school cardinals senior boys hockey team wont be returning from the ontario federation of school athletic association aaa playdowns in mississauga with the gold medals this time but they might not come back emptyhanded either the cardinals who won the ontario championship two years ago were playing st josephs mississauga in the bronzemedal game late yester day afternoon at the hershey centre a score was not available at press dead line in friday mornings semifinals fourthranked brother andre lost 42 to toprated mount carmel crusaders mississauga we felt that was the goldmedal game said brother andre head coach dave turner the other two semifinal ists st josephs and thomas more hamilton were ranked 14th and 18th respectively brother andre led 21 in the semifi nal before allowing three straight goals including two in the final four minutes of the game scott badali had both goals for the markham school after gaining a split in firstday action tuesday brother andre had to 1 0l h 1 1 oka atki ftlc awk1ation win its final two poolplay games on wednesday they did just that winning over the st josephs jaguars barrie 5- 0 and the fifthseeded sir james dunn eagles sault ste marie 32 to clinch top spot in their bracket in thursdays quarterfinal the cardinals received a stellar netminding effort from jerry brens to blank the llthseeded ab lucas vikings london 20 in their victory over the jaguars the cardinals received two goals from chris fiore and singles from ryan bonnell brandon fitzgibbon and sf l connor treacy geoff yvraa5 griffiths posted the shutout badali staked the cardinals to a 10 lead in the first period against the eagles before surrendering two goals within 62 seconds to trail 21 but the cardinals responded with two goals just 15 seconds apart by andrew wallman and kevin hill to take a 32 lead after one frame backedby strong goaltending from brens the cardinals shut the door on the eagles for the remainder of the game against the vikings a powerplay goal by badali put the cardinals ahead 10 after one period after a scoreless second period the cardinals iced the game on a goal by treacy with about eight minutes left in regulation time we dont give anybody anything and we try to limit pur turnovers in the neutral zone turner said after thursdays win stoufrville advances to final the stouffville minor novice clippers advanced to the yorksimcoe minor hockey finals after capturr ing its bestoffive semifinal series over vaughan that was capped off with a 32 overtime victory- on wednesday curtis crago brett hembruff and steven tait each scored once for the clippers the clippers will now face east gwillimbury this weekend girls in sync at winter games the markham synchro clubs 1520 team came up with a bronzemedal winning performance in a sixentry sports digest field at the recent 2002 ontario winter games in guelph team members included lurissa kelland kelly mckay- melissa dermody danielle hoey christianhe celotti kendra jacobs and meaghan tait in duet results the tandem of mckay and hoey finished fourth while kelland and dermody were sixth in figures competition kelland had the highest score among markharn entrants with a lothplace effort mckay followed in 11th dermody was 13th hoey 16th celotti 18th jacobs 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