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Garry Forbes * Sports editor * = mE ms . ¥ a ee ee ae | LL ey runners | @oa@ 7 G4 Win OFSAA berth Midland Secondary School won its first- ever ticket into the Ontario cross-country running championships after its Midget Boys team placed second at the Georgian Bay Secondary Schools Athletic Association championships Wednesday at Springwater Park in Midhurst. Midland's team of Ian Porter (6th), Bill Richardson (18th), Bill Black (20th), Bruce Marsden (22nd), Dave Hutchinson, . Art Perrault and Ted Chisolm scored 66 points, well back of the 28 points accumulated by Thornhill's Thornleigh Collegiate. The runner-up finish gave the MSS team a berth in the Ontario Federation of Schools Athletic Association championships, to be held next Saturday, at the Boyd Conservation area near Woodbridge. More than 115 runners took part in the Midget Boys division of the GBSSA cham- pionship. In total, more than 500 runners representing about 20 schools attended the event. The MSS Junior Boys contingent also fared well, missing an Ontario championship berth by only six points. Juniors Dave Larmand, Jeff King, Ken McGrath and Kevin Thomas all finished in the top 33 positions. If each of the boys had finished one spot higher, ac- cording to MSS coach Elmver Vuorimaki, the * team would have qualified. Other MSS runners participating in the event were Wendy Scott, 35th in the Junior Girls event; Midget Suzanne Foster, 55th; and Senior Boys Chris Shearer (45th) and Dwight Copegog (54th). In past years, M SS has had only individual runners qualify for the provincial finals: Angela Schmidt, who was among the province's top female performers five years ago, and Ernie Desroches, who suffered in- Hot week for skating These power-skating youngsters from the Midland Figure Skating Club may not be able to land a triple axel, but they do share the skating spunk that has made local native Brian Orser (inset) one of the world's best senior mens' competitors. Orser, the reigning Canadian champion, is in Ottawa this weekend for Skate Canada, an international competition which caps off National Skating Week. Meanwhile, the MFYC marked the week with a fund-raising Skate-a-thon at Midland Arena Wednesday. Guthrie hopes A's find newcoach by Garry Forbes Bruce Guthrie doesn't defenceman, sidelined though. By that time, the past four weeks with Guthrie should be in Athletics in their last 'couple of OHA Inter- played last season with the semi-pro Saginaw juries in an automobile accident just before | like telling his friends a painful upper-chest mediate A hockey uniform again, and, the (Mich.) Gears of. the last year's OFSAA event. what to do. injury, has been behind jeague games. club hopes, a full-time International --Hockey The 24-year-old _ thebenchof the Midland He'll be behind the coach will have been League. He was con- | bench again tonight in found. sidering a return to the ET Te - Orillia, probably again Sunday at Midland Arena when the Athletics meet the powerful Georgetown Raiders, but definitely not anymore after that. The Athletics have been without a coach since Bob Monteith resigned a couple of games into the season. Veteran defenceman Hugh Robertson has been handling most of the practice sessions while manager Shawn Stewart, trainer Randy Vincent and Guthrie have all made ap- pearances behind the bench. Guthrie has been most effective, and, if it wasn't his friends he had to direct, he might even enjoy it. The pressure of it all should be over by next week, "It's pretty hard for me," the Wyebridge native said Wednesday. "A lot of the guys are older than I am -- and they're friends. And how do you tell somebody else what to do, and tell them about their mistakes, when you know you make the same mistakes your- self?" Guthrie, new to the Intermediate ranks, club before his injury, a separation of a joint in the upper ribcage- collarbone area which resulted in pinched ligaments. Guthrie says he'll probably stay in the area after his injury is fully healed, providing he can find a job. If not, the Athletics will be without a solid young defenceman...and a top- flight fill-in coach. Midland Oldtimers enter tourney Sixteen teams will take part in the Elmvale Oldtimers hockey tournament that will be played Friday, 14 games on Saturday, and nine games on Sunday. Some of the places represented will be Millbrook, Coldwater, Base Borden, Wasaga Beach, Agincourt, Hamilton, Gravenhurst, Rice Lake, and Stroud, Innisfil, Orillia, in addition to Elmvale. . Buttineau just misses S70 EEL Pees cn Lyle Bultineau of nesday's Georgian Bay included Suzanne ' Ecole Secondaire Secondary Schools Desroches, 20th of 62 in Penetanguishene Athletic Association the Junior Girls sane a Secondary School Cross-Country cham- division, and Ken = narrowly missed pionships al Puddicombe = (39th), Running battle qualifying for the Senior Sere eeatan Park in Mike Pilon (67th), and The Midland Secondary School Midget Boys' Springwater Park in Barrie. The effort qualified Boys' Ontario cham- Midhurst. Perry Beausoleil (87th) pionship after a 14th- cross-country running team scored a second-place eh : y g P place finish at Wed- in finish in Wednesday's Georgian Bay Secondary School's Athletic Association championships at Other ESPSS runners Wednesday's event them for the Ontario championships - a first for in the 115-runner Midget MSS. Boys division. Friday, October 30, 1981, Page 7