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18 -The Canadian Champion, Tuesday, May 22, 2001 Fax ail yo ur -teamn reports and sports story ideas to Steve LeBlanc at 878-4943. -Long-distance racers lead way for Reding'ýç track andfield team By STEVE LeBLANC The Champion Bishop Reding's long-distance runners set a healthy pace ai last week's Halton/GHAC Championships. And in the process, they tumed back al challengers en route to gold-medal per- formances. Junior girls competitor Michelle Dol and midget boys racer lan Butcher were dual HaItonIGHAC champs - leading 14 South Regional qualifiera for the local school. Doell took top honours in both the 800 and I 500-metre events with imes of 2:31.7 and 5:12.6 respectively while Butcher won the 400 and 800m with :53.7 and 2:13.7 efforts. Butcher also helped the midget boys' 4xlOOm relay leam advance wilb a fourth-place finish. Doell did likewise for the open girls' foursomne - wbo along witb kid sister Carly stnick silver in the 4x400m relay. Carly also qualified in two individual midget girls races. Following in her sea- soned sister's féoosteps, she tamed the 800m in 2:38.6 for second spot and look bronze in the 1,500m with a 5:33.6 per- formance. BR's Megan and Megan duo were tbe busiest athletes last week. In addition 10 qualifying with the-open girls relay team, each moved on in three other events. Among junior girls, Megan Ames was second best in the long jump with a 4.34m leap and was fourtb and fifth in the 200 and 400m with limes of 28.63 and 67.22 seconds. Midget girls compelilor Megan Burke sccured bronze-medal finishes in both the 200 and 400m - clocking in at 29.5 and 68.7 seconds - and was fourth in the 100m dlash, recording a 13.9s effort. She also helped the midget girls 4x100m relay team finish third with a collective showing of 58.6s. John MeDougaîl and Mike McGilI were within two seconds of each other in the grueling 3,000m - and both took third. MeDougaîl did 50 among' senior boys with a lime of 10:25.4, while McGilI was just a second-and-a-half back in îhe midgel boys race. Luke Brunner was third in senior boys discus - burling the sphere 29.47m. Kelso Mountain and Kaîbryn Wesîon each finisbed fourtb in the senior girls 400 and 800m respeclively, clocking in at 74.3s and 2:55.7. Midgel girls sprinter Ava Stofast was fifth in the 100m, needing 14.2s t0 com- plete the distance. Top four finishers from Thursday's South Regionals at Hamilîon's McMaster University advance 10 the OFSAA Championships, slated for next May 31 to June 2 in Elobicoke. Goodtimes joins an elite group MENrS, WOMIN'S, AND CHILDREN'S CLOTHiNG F00 WEAR - RACEPACICS - TOWELS - 81091KG LUGGAGE - HOMSMAES - CANOT SOPT DRINKS - SIGHT a SOUND - COSMETICS BSITPRODUCTS m KEALTK & IEAUTT £195 SOCKS a UNDERWEAR - GREETING CARDS ANSD MUf M AORE ai By BRUCE MURRAY Special to The Champion Trotting star Goodîimes became just the second Canadian-bred slandardbred horse in history t0 sur- pass $2 million in career eamnings when he finished fourth for driver Dave Wall in the $46,000 Free ForAîl event at Mohawk Raceîrack May 14. Now 10 years of age, Goodîimes - wilh $2,002,721 on his card -joins longtime rival Glorys Comet ($2,048,445) in the elite Canadian club. A $ 19,000 yearling purchase by tramner John Bax's Parkhill Sîud Farm and partner Liberty North (John and Barbara Cooper) of Peterborough, Goodîimes has been driven 10 aIl but lwo of his 40 career wins by Wall. He competed in the Ontario Sires Stakes pro- gram ai lwo and three in 1993 and 1994, and has been a consistent world class performer ever since. "He is probably my tavourite horse because I've driven him his whole career, ever since he was two,' said Wall, a native of Kincardine. "He's still racing against the best Ihere is and be keeps compelilive. Day in and day oui, he's been a great horse. I've never driv- en a horse wbo gives you bis ail every lime like he has." The bay gelded son of Balanced Image and Goodtime Kaîhy bas represented Canada inlemation- ally on a number of occasions, including a successful 1999 trip 10 Europe whicb was highlighted by a close third-place finish in Sweden's Elillopp Trot. He retumed home that summer 10 reel off a world record 1:53.3 mile in the Frank Ryan Memorial in Ottawa before capturing Canada's signature trotting event, the Maple lLeaf Trot, ai Woodbine, in track record fashion. "IIls been a dream come true," said co- owner John Cooper. "This is someîbing I've been involved wiib for 20 years and you neyer know wben you're going 10 gel a good one. You always dream of this and I've been very fortunate." ZChristmas finishes season in style Lisa Christmas saved ber best for last. The nine-year-old gymnast closed out the season in medal-winning fashion recently - punctuating ber efforts wilb an overall golden finish in the Tiny B division aI the Stars of Tomonrow Invitational Meet in East York. Leading 10 Milton Springers Gymnasties Club members, she turned back ail challengers on the floor, siruek silver on bars and vault and was tisird best on beamn during thse pre-competitive sbowcase Age class teammate Chelsea Bennett was golden on bars - which helped ber talte tiftb spot in thse ail- around sciing. Ciarering thse overail runner-up spot in the 10- year-old Tlny B loop was Anne Wormald - whose best efforts were reserved for bars and vauli, botb of whicb she won. Amanda Steddy was a double bronze-medalisî ini the Pre-Competitive 8C division - taking tb¶rd on bars as well as in thse all-around placing. Maîcbing tIsaI medal count was teammate Stefanie Proulx, wbo secured bronze on beam and vault on tIse way 10 grabbing overaîl fourth-place honours. Eight-year-old Eleanor Pineau-Levmnan went up against some stiff compelition in the Pre- Competitive 8B loop but Iseld her own with an eighth-place sbowing on vault and lOtIs on bars. Maddy Bannock sbowed slrongly with fourth and sixth-place efforts on bars and beam orespectively in the Pre-Competitive 7B çlass, while among Pre- Competitive 7C gymnasts Rebecca Woolford deliv- cred a si lver-medal performance on beam and over- a1H flnished in sixUs spot. Teammate Jessica Makin reached tIse podium wiUs a sil ver on vault, while fel- low Pre-Comp. 7C Sptinger Apnl Suslje came away with tffh on vault and sixth on both beam and floor. Milton Community Resource Centre t takeg a communlity to raige a fam~iy Milton Community Resource Centre Construction Campaign. Please Iend your support. For further information cail (905) 876-1244 ext. 16 www.mcrc.on.ca Bl1s h op R e d 1n g Mchelle Dosl races te vlctory In the Junior gile 1,500M ut lest weeks Halton/GHAC champlonuhîpa ai Notre Dame. Photo by RON KUZYK ILI avala 9 "jg 0 ; EVERY ITEM IN EVERY DEPAUMENT MUR RE SOLD NOTHING WILL RE RELD RACK à à