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CC es seaeiai Garry Forbes * Sports editor * out for OFSAA | attempt Six local track and field athletes will face ihe toughest high school competition in the province today as the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations champi- onships gets underway ai Centennial Stadium in Etobicoke. Paul Cox, Patti Cox, Owen Quilty and Lisa Cadeau of Si. Theresa's High School will make the trip to Toronto along with Midland Secondary School's Peter Zeitel and Kim Spicer of Ecole Secondaire Penetan- guishene Secondary School. The six earned a spot in. the Ontario cham- pionships with fifth-or- beiter finishes in last week's provincial regionals ait McMaster University in Hamilton. Paul Cox earned a berth by finishing in a three-way tie for first in the Senior boys' high jump and his sister, Paiti, will be there after a third-place finish in ihe senior girls' 400 metre hurdles. Quilty, competing in his first year in the Junior division, scored a fourth-place finish in the iriple jump ai the regionals. Those ihree have been to the OFSAA finals before, bui it'll be a new experience for Cadeau, who made it with a fourth-place standing in the Senior girls' shot pul. MSS rep. Zeitel qualified with a stun- ning second-place finish in the regional Junior boys' javelin com- petition and Spicer came up with third place in the Senior boys' pole vault. The local schools are all members of the Georgian Bay Secon- dary Schools Athletic Association, host of the event. Several Midland Secondary School coaches and officials will also join the si» local participanis in Etobicoke to serve as general officials and supervisors of the javelin events. ~ Fancy footwork Dennis Moreau of Midland Indusmin came up with several fancy plays during his club's Wed- nesday encounter with Barrie American Hotel, but ihe Midland squad were eventually out-fancied by Indusminstopped It's nice to imagine that you're going to win every lime you step onto the field. Trouble is, most teams don't. And Midland Indusmin won't. The club was fed its first dose of reality Wednesday at Midland Secondary School when it suffered a 4-1 loss to Barrie American Hotel, the first defeat for the Midland club in three iests. "We were a_ bit downhearted," said coach Malcolm Lon- sdale after the game,. toning down from his half-time feeling that Indusmin would settle the scoreless situation which existed at that point and win the game. Lonsdale's feeling was based on _ the viewers' impression that Indusmin forced much of the play in the first half. Both sides had their chances -- the best coming from the the visitors as Indusmin suffered a 4-1 loss in the Barrie and District Recreational Soccer League matchup at Midland Secondary School. It was Indusmin's first loss of the season. Barrie club which belted the ball off both posts in a tangle in front of the net near the end of the half -- bui Midland seemed io have things pretty much in control the rest of the time. They still had the touch as the second half Opened, and team captain Rod Billinness scored early on a penalty kick ("though I really don't think it was a penalty, myself," said Lonsdale) to _ give Port wins final Down Castex 26-10 for Area 3 title Port MeNicoll Public School] hammered Mon- signor Castex School of Midland 26-10 to win the Area 3 Elementary school Girls' Softball cham- pionship Wednesday in Penetanguishene. Ten teams took part in the one-day event played ai Burkevale and Corpus Christi Schools and McGuire Park. The Area 3 Boys' championship was slated to be played today. If rained out, it'l] go Monday. Consolation champion in Wednesday's com- petition was Regent School of Midland, which scored a 31-21 win over Our Lady of Lourdes (Elmvale) in the final. Port MeNicoll reached the championship by bumping off Perkinsfield's Ecole Des Saintes Martyrs Canadiens 23-12 in second-round play and Burkevale 19-8 in the opening round. Other first-round scores were Corpus Christi 11, Huron Park 7; Ecole Des Saintes Martyrs Canadiens 22, Our Lady of Lourdes 6; Parkview 25, Bayview 12; Monsignor Castex 15, Regent 8. Other second-round scores were Our Lady of Lourdes 11, Burkevale 7; Monsignor Castex 10, Parkview 9; Regent 14, Bayview 13. Midland the lead. r Bui Barrie then began a charge which a tiring Indusmin squad simply couldn't withstand. The game turned completely around and Barrie had almost total control. Several bad plays later, it was 4-1. "Our ieam got tired," said Lonsdale, adding that the club had taken on five new players for ihe game -- some of whom had little or no soccer experience -- and, in the spirit of the recrealional nature of the league, everybody was played. American Hotel, which carries three Barrie City club players on its roster, took advantage of the situation. ; Dave Downs was the Midland goaltender who took the Barrie assault while facing the blin- ding sun in the second half. Mark Crofts was selecied Indusmin player of the game. Next outing for Indusmin is _ nexi Wednesday in Barrie againsi new league entry Hellas. : a gals 3rd Suffer first season loss When you consider there. are almost 50 schools in the Georgian Bay Secondary School Athletic Association, third place can't be hard to take. Bui Roger Bell, coach of the Midland Secon- dary School _ Girls' soccer ieam, knows that bul for one game, third place might have seemed a long way down the list. Thai game _ was against defending GBSSA_ champion Markham Secondary School, and it came in ihe first of two clashes ai last Tuesday's GB- SSA championships in Aurora. It was a 3-0 loss for the MSS gals, their first loss in eight outings this season. Ii deposited them into the con- solation championship, for which they com- posed themselves to win 3-1 over Gravenhurst Secondary School, but the fact of the loss still lingers with the players and with Bell, who maintains "we could have beaien them." "They (Markham) are a very good ieam, and the fact that they won it last year I think slightly intimidated our ieam 40 begin with,"' said Bell. Then there was the factthai the MSS squad arrived and _ began warmup practices ai about 10 a.m., expecting a 10:30 start, and then ihe news came that Markham's bus had broken down and the game didn't start until 11. "That was kind of a letdown," said Bell. "We were ready, then we had to wait. It sort.of compounded things. Their spirits were down to begin with." By 11:20, Markham had trampled -the Midland girls' spirits right into the turf by piling up three goals. MSS fought back bravely, bui Markham's championship reper- toire included the time- tested team skill of artfully protecting a solid lead. Midland still had a game to go, though, and ~ after the opening defeat, if was going to be a test. Bui team captain Tracey Shaw broke the ice with a first-half goal from Mary Russell and MSS were on their way to the consolation title. Gravenhurst battled back with a goal less ihan a minuie after the whistle to start the second half, bui replacement goaltender Angie Pumputis (who came in for Marlene Anos, injured early in the second game) withstood the aitack and Russell put ii away with iwo goals io settle the issue. Russell, who was in a scoring slump bui "played her best game of the season" againsi Gravenhurst according to her coach, headed in her first goal and tock a neai pass from Shaw for ihe second. The win gave MSS a six-win, one-loss, iwo-tie record for the season. Bell says the club, which will lose only four players on graduation, is stronger than last year's 'eam which was beaten out al the zone level. It was proven, he says, in that second game Tuesday. "They showed a lot of guis," Bell said, "to come right back off their first loss of the Trying for .500 The Midland Juniors Baseball team will try io bring its South Simcoe Baseball League record io .500 tonighi when they take on Beeton for the second time this season in a 6:45 p.m. encounter ai Tiffin Park. In their first matchup, the first game of the season for ithe new Midland entry, the Juniors wallopped Beeton 8-1 in the south Simcoe County iown. Sunday, the Juniors will have a chance to move into the winning- record ranks when they face Collingwood in a Di late fk Dh. Podanck doubleheader. -- Firsi game Sunday begins at 2 p.m. ! Autoslose _ Midland Autos player of the game. goaltender Shoesmith faced a relentless Barrie Simcoe Block assault as the Autos were dropped 7-0 in Barrie and District Recreational League action Wednesday in Barrie. li was the third loss of the season in as many games for the Autos, but the club's outlook is bound to improve: losses have been against three of the league's strongest clubs, Simcoe, Midland Indusmin and Barrie American Hotel. Gunther Schmidt was selected the Autos Richard Soccer their three yy, Friday, June 4, 1982, Page 9