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o. OR a a A a a ads ow EL Yo FLY rd hes A SAS LS AF TN LAREN TRACE TRIE LT SRT, Aa iy CREE RAS Mian Ean yd NAN as oF LE SA TETRA) og 12 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, May 6, 1981 i" a Tog N% a WT EA La YH FAA al' SF AF SN NNT Lei Tao EATS Ry Sh RN UAE EV OR TL aT ALLA Dil $8 SEE I BLA PA Ie RE ri hk (Fa dag iit AA AYIA SY EE EE bas hE ae fiikaiadd ts with " Danny Millar i ) | Track and Field even ts begin by Danny Millar Port Perry High School's Track and Field athletes take center stage this week as they compete in the first day of the Lake Ontario Secondary Schools Associ- ation meet, Friday May, 8 in Oshawa. The tournament concludes the following Monday. Perhaps more than usual, there are a number of question marks that the team will have to answer before it takes any ribbons back to PPHS. Undoubtedly, the biggest puzzle is junior Brett Oosterman. The form- er triple jump record setter injured a knee late in the basketball season and had been slowly recuperating. He was even working out with the team in recent weeks. But he was felled once more in a scrimmage basketball game at the high school's open house and was forced back on crutches. It's doubtful Oosterman would have been able to defend his triple jump title anyway. The leg he hurt was his "takeoff"--the last one used before the jump-- and therefore was the limb that took the brunt of the force. He had been working on switching a takeoff legs. He was working out mainly for a berth on the team as a sprinter. But Oosterman isn't the only uncertainty on the squad. The long distance runners are also an enigma. Long on ability but appar- ently short on intensity, several of these runners are still in their first year. Hank Stock and Robert Page are two midget runners who possess tremendous natural ability but have not been working out with the team more than once or twice a week. Kelly West, and Suzanne Holy are another pair of first year runners who could pull off a surprise but they also have had other committments that have prevented them from running concistently. Senior Dan Millar is the only non- grade nine long distance runner still working out. Chris Hoog, Cheryl Dinault, and Iris Nimz round out the unit. All, of course, are first year runners. The over abundance of youngsters on this part of the team may mean it will suffer from lack of experience in coming weeks, but it represents a solid nucleas in teams of the next four years for Coach Sally Steele, in her second year with the team. She is assisted by Don Jones; the Australian exchange teacher replacing John Rodway, for this year only. The distance runners have been working out the longest track and field squad, which is systematically broken _down into three groups. Veteran skippers Paul Arculus and Jerry Cole pilot the field event athletes and (Turn to page 13) The wrestling team from Prince Albert School placed second in the grades 4-6 class at the Annual Durham Elementary wrestling championships held Thursday and Friday at Scugog Arena. Front row from left to right are Allan Honey [gold medal], Paul Carr [gold medall, Rob Taylor, Darren Fulford and Slight participation decline when softball season starts By Danny Millar The boys of summer took to the diamonds again last week in that age old ritual of the season that sees young- sters of varying degrees of skill but loaded with enthusiasm don the gloves and begin another softball season. Port Perry is one of hundreds of communities dotting the continent that are no preparing for the first called strike, the first home run, and the first rhubarb with the home plate umpire. In Port last week, the PeeWees, Squirts, and Bantams all took to the field for the first time while the young men of summer, the Midgets and Juniors continued practices. There is not quite as many potential pitchers, upcoming outfielders, starting short- stops, and blossoming basemen here as there was a year ago. Wayne Venning, the Port Perry and District Minor Softball Associations Vice-President, said there may be "probably ten per cent" less players this year. He didn't appear too concerned about the latest drop as he brushed it off as something that fluctuates from year to year. He said the drop is not great enough to alter plans for the same amount of teams they had last summer. Projectively, there will be three PeeWee house league teams, four squirt, and four or five T-Ball squads. One of those PeeWee teams will be coming in from Seagrave. Mr. Venning also noted that there are some young- sters who don't relish the thought of playing the game of rounders competitively so are staying at home until the house league play begins, which will be after the competitive teams have made their cuts. He said this happened frequently. 'We'll have approximately the same amount of teams," he said. With the first practice of the season comes the first game and the first tourna- ment. ~The big boys of summer have the distinction of playing in the first tourney when they travel to Charbot Lake in late May. It comes less than a week after their opening game of the season. Junior coach Bob Knapp said they are going to an early bird tourney to find out the calibre of play at the junior level. He noted that most of the teams in Charbot Lake will also be competing at the . junior elimination meet at Oshawa July 3-5. Port Perry representative attended a meeting in Toronto where the draw for the junior elimination took place and found out that Port goes up against Linwood in its first round match-up. The juniors have already been practicing for two weeks and Coach Knapp stated that they had 20 players out at the most recent workout at Joe Fowler Diamond. So far, the Squirts have had the most players with 50 youngsters catching flies and bobbling grounders in their initial workouts. The PeeWees have had slightly over 30 while the Bantams and Midgets - have hosted between 16-19 young athletes. Young Prince Albert wrestlers wing High School athletes compete in Oshawa Friday | old Brian Siebarth [gold]. Back row from left: Sam Holzan, Derek Culp [gold medal] Jonathan Allsopp, Barry Yeo, Stephen Taylor and Tim Fulford. Coach is Lew Tremeer. The two day event featured more than 300 bouts in numerous weight divisions. Derek Culp of Prince Albert School seems to have his match well under control, and in fact Derek went on to win a gold medal in the 90 pound weight class. Summerlea lady golfers start season by Mary Correll The golf season is well under way for the ladies at the Summerlea course with play commencing Tuesday May 5. Their first general meeting, held April 28 in- volved plans for tourna- ments and exchange visits with other club leagues. Numerous mind - recipes have been submitted for the League's cook book - super short cut recipes to keep busy golfer's cooking up to par. New members are most welcome to join the Tuesday league, either morning: or evening. - For information call Lucy Wilson at 985-3670.