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Doug Shedden was picked by the Hamilton Fincups in the first round of the Ontario Hockey Association Junior draft Saturday at the Royal York Hotel He was the 13th player chosen and one of only two minor midgets picked in the first round He isnt looking for anything spectacular in his first year just want to play and do the best can OFSAA track finals Triple win by Forgrave SUDBURY Mike Forgrave rewrote the record books over the weekend during the annual Ontario Federation of Schools Athletic Associations OFSAA track and field championships at Laurentian University Stadium The layearold student of Barrie North Collegiate won three events while setting Canadian Interscholastic mark in the senior boys 400metre hurdles and tying the record in the 110 metre hurdles Forgrave also won the 400metres event in the twoday finals which attracted 1800 athletes from 670 schools from across the province Eastview Secondary School won the senior girls champion ship with 30 points and finished third overall behind Agincourt and North Toronto which tied for first place with 40 points Five Canadian Interscholastic marks and 18 allOntario records fell at the 3lst OFSAA championships Winning the 400metre hurdles was one highlight of the meet for Forgrave who was recently selected as the outstanding male athlete at North It was something hed trained all season for was confident was going to crack the 400 metres real ly was he said wanted that all year Forgrave set Canadian record with time of 525 seconds in the 400metre hurdles He raced the 110 metres in 144 seconds and won his third event the 400 metres in 476 seconds personal best One big surprise and that was in the 110 metre hurdles didnt really think Id come close to those guys from Toron to he said Forgrave wrapped up the high school track season with an impressive list of records He has accepted track and field scholarship with the University of Minnesota and is currently setting his sights on the Canada Games trials set for Brantford in July Eastview victory Patti Jackman had come close all season in the senior girls javelin but couldnt quite break the hold of teammate Tracy lwitchell She had second in the Georgian Ba Secondary School Association GBSSA finals behind Twitc ells recordsetting toss and second behind the Eastvicw student in the regional finals Her first win was the biggest and most important of the year Jackman hurled the javelin 3974 metres to win the OFSSA championship Twitchell placed third with distance of 3698 metres For Eastview track coach Bob Warner winning the senior girls championship at OFSSA was fitting end to long track season In March thought we had shot at it he said It depend ed on North Dundas or some darkhorsc knew wed be up there he said but in the end it was surpirse The Eastview senior girls team was third last year at OFSSA Nicky Emms placed sixth in the senior girls tionietre hurdles Debbie Chappel another member of the Eastview Senior girls team had third in the lOOmetres 122 seconds and sixthplace in the 200metres in time of 259 seconds Chappcl had third in the long jump finishing with 530 metres four inches behind the winner Emms Chappel Kim Holden and Lyn Slessor ran the 100 metre relay and finished sixth in time of 496 seconds The same group ran 499 seconds last year for third with the firstltplace winners posting time of 491 seconds Slessor was seventh in the senior girls 200wmetres sports calendar BASEBALL Red Sox Tottenham Newmarket Ivy Collingwood 40rillia Majors 15 730 pm Alliston Orillia Majors vs Canucks South Sim coe MINOR BASEBALL 15 pm Eastvicw Coin Wash vs Fendleys bantam at Shear Park JBs vs Mr Corn Beef Peewee Shear Park Adanac vs Cooke Cartage bantam at MacMorrison Toke vs American Hotel peewee at Steele Street Sunoco vs PeterReina Sports peewec at Allandale Christies IGA vs Simc0e Datsun tyke at Oakley Park McDonalds vs VlAU Real Estate tyke at Codrington VALA Contracting vs Starr Electric tyke FASTBALL Optimist Mr Transmission CoOp Convertible Pools 10 Giffen 10 Canplas pm Queens Park Peterlteino vs Optimist Intermediate Division SOFTBALL 730 pm Queens Park Elmvule vs Church Senior Ifiatgllhfiiisfil Park Innisfil Mens League Middels vs llolly Wall Real Estate vs Radio Shack LACROSSE no games photo night Junior draft By SCOTT HASKINS Examiner Sports Writer Doug Shedden is one step closer to fulfilling his lifelong am bition of being professional hockey player Hamilton Fincups formerly of St Catharines made him their firstround choice and 13th overall in the Ontario Hockey Association Major Junior draft of midget players held at the Royal York Hotel Toronto Saturday Other Barrie players picked were John Garner of the Junior Colts and Jim Cox Both went to Niagara Falls Flyers Fincups needed centreman which is why they went after 15 yearold Shedden They are losing three centremen including high scoring Dale McCourt who is expected to be one of the top pickshin the National Hockey League NHL draft later this mont They still have their goaltender and defencemen from last year but they needed centremen Shedden said The manager said he wanted me to be another McCourt and lead them to couple of Memorial Cups There is bound to be some pressure put on Shedden to produce in his first year He was one of only two underage midget players to go in the first round The other one was Wayne Gret sky who was with the Toronto Nationals who went to the Sault Ste Marie Greyhounds Im not looking for anything spectacular in my first year the examlner Monday June 1977 Garner picked by Niagara Falls Hamilton picks Shedden in first round Shedden appears to have the tools to make it in Junior hockey Hes 11 170 pounds and not afraid to mix it up in the corners Shedden heard from number of the teams prior to the draft but had no idea Hamilton were interested in him We were just getting ready to go out the door Saturday mor ning when got phone call he said They called and asked when thought would go in the draft and if was interested in playing for them and then the guy just hung up Im really happy to go to Hamilton and well be playing in new arena this year The other arena the Hamilton Forum was banned last year which is whythe team moved to St Catharines while the new one was being built Shedden was minor midget this year so Hamilton has to sign and play him certain amount of time They cant send him down to their Junior affiliate club unless he agrees to the move plan to keep in shape this summer by golfing lifting weights riding bike and playing baseball Shedden said think their training camp starts sometime around the first of September There were 230 players drafted Junior clubs pay up to $1500 for midget age player taken from Provincial Junior team and $500 if player was with midget club Shedden said hope to play lot and do the best can Coach knew hed go high in draft Gerry Daniels coach of the CoOp Midgets had no doubts that Shedden would go in the first round of the Junior draft was sure he would go in the first round because so many teams were interested in taking him in the second round Daniels said Theres lot of dickering at Junior draft There were lot of teams in touch with me about Doug but never hearcd anything from Hamilton though Daniels doesnt think he will have any trouble if he works hard and gives it his best shot wish him lot of luck He has lot of drive and desire and thats what you must have to make it he said Shedden won the Most Valuable Player award for the CoOp Midgets last year picking up 125 points including 50 goals He was the driving force behind our team last year and he deserved to win the award Daniels said Daniels had good year at the reins of the CoOps but has decided to give up his duties and go into retirement Im retiring from coaching but plan to be on the ex ecutive he said have three boys of my own playing hockey and its just too hectic to follow them and the CoOps around the country Its just not fair to coach the team if you arent going to put everything into it he said You have to travel lot so you can go to the best tournaments so the scouts see the players Todd Allinson of the Orillia Silver Bombers slips out of the grasp of North Bay defender enroute to his first touchdown of the day in the second quarter of Northern Football League game Saturday in Orillia Allinson was the star of the game with two touchdowns and two intercrptions as rillia won their seasonopener Ill6 Examiner Ihoto Bombers whip TiCats 346 for first victory ORILLIA Staff few days ago the Orillia Silver Bombers were hoping to be contender in their second season in the orthern Football League But the club is singing dif ferent tune after Saturdays seasonopening 346 trouncing of the North Bay Tiger Cats at the Orillia District Collegiate and Vocational Institute before 300 fans felt we were going to beat them right from the start of the game coach Ken Burns said after the game was just con fident that we had the team that could do the job It was different Bomber football team that took the field for Saturdays game than the one that ended their initial season with dismall 010 record in which they scored on ly two touchdowns Many of the faces were the same but it was the attitude that had changed during the winter The cheering started at the first of the game and con tinued nonstop throughout the onesided contest Todd Allinson was the story of the game as he intercepted two passes and scored two touchdowns for Orillia Ken Mayhew scored Orillias first touchdown six minutes in to the game as he plunged over from the two yard line and thats how the first quarter cnd ed Allinson gave Orillia 120 lead early in the second quarter on beautiful run down the right side of the field Orillia punted the ball to Chris Darcy who tossed the ball back to Allinson when he realized there was nowhere to go Allinson took the ball and outraccd the entire North Bay team to the end zone School track season ends at allOntario Paul Fransscn of Eastview Secondary School placed third at the OFSAA track and field championships in Sudbury in the midget boys pole vault His distance was 320 metres Glenn Docherty of Eastview was ninth in the midget boys 200metres Brian Segal of Barrie North earned third on the junior boys high jump with jump of 190 metres with Ccntrals Glenn Greensides finishing eighth in the junior boys triple jump Monique Cadeau came up with the best performance of the Central athletes to the OF SAA final in the midget girls discus event She placed second with toss of 3016 metres Cadcau also had fourth in the shot put event with 981 metre toss Centrals Maryanne Stepu laitis was seventh in the midget girls javelin with toss of 2678 metres Tiger Cats had chance to get back into the game late in the first half but an intercep tion by Allinson put an end to any thoughts of that and Orillia went to the dressing room with 120 halftime lead The defence was one of the areas coach Burns was con cerned with prior to the start of the season but any worries were quickly dismissed by the fine showing in the first half The defence only allowed North Bay to get by midfield once in the first half The defence was just super during the whole ball game Burns said They kept giving us the ball with good field posi tion and all the offence had to do was put it in the end zone was pleased with the way everyone gave 100 percent when they were on the field and if you get the best effort out of all the ball players youre going to win your share of games Allinson scored his second touchdown of the game early in the second half Steve Robillard intercepted pass and passed it back to him and he raced in Mayhew got his second touchdown with 332 seconds left in the third quarter and Alex Mowat added the convert to give them lopsided 250 Mowat added field goal later in the game to make the score 280 before North Bay got their only touchdown of the game Guy Armstrong scored the touchdown on an eight ard run at 707 seconds of final quarter Ill take the blame for that touchdown Burns said made mistake in judgement Duncan Campbell took the Red Sox players to one side for pep talk before sending them out against the Tottenham Bears in South Simc0e Baseball League game at the Barrie Fair Grounds Sunday Only it wasnt the traditional sort of pep talk He left the rahrah go team jazz alone and simply laid it on the line Weve been getting the pit ching and not not the hitting Campbell in his first season as coach of the senior baseball John Garner was the ninthround choice of the Niagara Falls Flyers at the Junior draft Saturday Garner played the last two years with the Barrie Colts of the MidOntario Junior League Garner is interested in getting an educa tion and might go to university on scholarship instead of playing Junior hockey Examiner Photo club told them they wouldnt win many games unless the two starting to come together Soon afterward Campbell found himself furiously waving home run and run for Barrie as the Red Sox jumped on Bears righthander Jim Doyle for four runs in the furst inning enroute to 73 win BATS COOLEI Red Soxs hitters went dry at the end of the first inning and it was not until the sixth with Tottenham trailing by run that Extrainning win for Convertible Convertible Pools whipped Barrie CoOp 106 and Barrie Optimist Club and Mr Trans mission fought to 22 tie Sun day in Intermediate Division play of the Barrie City Fastball League Jim Fife was the winning pit cher for Convertible Pools scattering 11 hits The teams were tied after the regulation seven innings but Convertible Pools came up with four runs in their half of the eighth inning to win the game Doug Ferguson was the top man at the plate for Converti ble Iools with two doubles and three runsbattedin Barrie XiOp had six errors and five left on base while Con vertible Pools made only two errors and left seven on base ITIMISIS IIE Barrie Optimists scored two runs in the first inning and then held on as Mr Transmission came back with one run in the second and run in the third in ning to tie the game 22 in the other Intermediate Division game at Queens Park Sunday Ron Giffen and Kevin Mackin pitched for Mr Transmission and Jim Angus was on the mound for Barrie Optimist Optimists had six hits and one error while Mr Transmis sion collected five hits and com mitted two errors Giffen Equipment shuts out Giffen Farm Equipment con tinued to dominate play in the Recreational Division of the Barrie City Fastball League Sunday by dumping Canplas 100 at MacMorrison Park Bill McNabb was the winning pitcher in the game He gave up only six hits in go ing the distance Werner Kaul was the losing pitcher for Canplas Scott Brown got things going quickly for Giffen He reached base on an error to shortstop Dave Bell and scored on sacrifice fly Canplas Canplas made eight errors in the game many of them costly as Giffen scored in every inning except the fifth and sixth Danny Breedon was the big man at the plate for Giffen with two doubles Bob Thompson had three singles in four trips to the plate The league swings back into action Tuesday with two games at MacMorrison Park Molsons plays Georgian Sports at pm and Firefighters meet Clifton Hotel in an 830 pm contest Bats come to life for Orillia Maiors ORILLIA Staff Smash ing out 21 hits against five pit chers Orillia Majors dumped Collingwood Cavemen 163 in South Simcoc league game at theOval diamond here yester day Murray St Ongc and Clyde Harris poled out home runs and Tim Olimer clouted third blow over the leftfield fence in the onesided Orillia win Mel St Onge was the winning Orillia pitcher although left hander Brock Richardson relieved him in the fourth when the Majors were up 12 to Starter Don Westbrooke was the losing pitchcrfor the Cavemen The Majors are scheduled to travel to Alliston tonight In another South Simc0e Baseball League game Sun day Ivy Deafs raised their season record to 32 with an 85 victory over Newmarket Two big innings help Red Sox to 73 win over Tottenham Barrie came alive to plate three runs on two hits Doyle went the full seven inn ings for Tottenham with right hander Glen Laycock picking up his second win in as many starts Barries record now stands at 221 with return match set for Wednesday against the Bears Doug Boynton walked to open the first inning for Barrie with Greg Campbell moving him to third with his double Keven Beaupre cleared the bases with his first of two doubles in the game with walk and error and single by designated hit ter Bryan Neely aceounted for the runs Laycock struck out seven and gave up only two hits in the game although Tottenham threatened in all but the seventh inning Laycock gave up two walks in the sixth then hit batsman to load the bases with one out hard hit ball scored between shortstop Greg Campbells legs to send two runs in It looked as if Barrie was to get out of the inning with just two runs against them when lettfielder Paul Gapp supplied last weeks Contest winners will receive rugby sweater courtesy of Georgian Sports sports hall of fame 24 This weeks sports personality hails from small com munity in Simcoe County His fame is his play in the Na tional Hockey League as right winger He was traded from the Vancouver Canucks to the Atlanta Flames in deal involving Flames right winger Hilliard Graves and defenceman Larry Carriere If you think you know who it is then send your name ad dress and phone number to Sports Hall of Fame The Ex aminer Box 370 Barrie 0nt L4M 4T6 Wendy Harris of RR New Lowell correctly identified port hall of famers as Kent Baker trainer and Jambo Dancer Ontario harness horse of the year Weekly winner is determined by draw from all correct answers done publishing day before new weekly contest starts Garner surprised by draft John Cox drafted in the eighth round and John Garner went in the ninth round both to the Niagara Falls Flyers in Saturdays Junior draft at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto Cox defenceman played last season with Newmarkct of the Provincial Junior League and Gamer played with the Barrie Colts Both are from Barrie didnt think would be drafted at all Garner said It was complete surprise to me because hadnt heard from any of the teams Garner isnt sure whether he is going to report to the Flyers or try and get scholarship to university Im not sure you could com bine hockey and an education playing Junior hockey he said might just wait and try and get scholarship to univer sity want to make sure get an education If Cox and Garner decide to report for next season they will join two other Barrie minor hockey graduates with the Flyers Mike Gartner and Rick Bowman catcher Beaupre with the ball in plenty of time it seemed to catch Doyle trying to score from third on the flyball Doyle strode into the gloved hand jarring the ball loose for the final Bears run Red Sox were having trouble reaching Doyle who survived the first inning outburst to pitch creditable game Bob Dewar got to him for single in the sixth with pinch hitter Ted Laycock dropping ball over short stop Boynton walked to load the bases with Campbell smashing hit through the in field which led to all three runs coming home Campbell scored himself on an errant attempt to catch Boynton at third only to be call ed out at second after missing the bag SOX SHORTS Third baseman Dewar came up with the prettiest play of the game in the seventh when he barehand ed hit by Tom McCullough and whistled it to first on the run in time for the out Red Sox have meeting tonight to decide their approach to their annual baseball tournament in July IM or