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Filion edges Waples in driver duel By GARRY FORBES Of The Examiner Herve Filion North American dash champion for 10 of the past 11 years showed up in the money in eight of 10 races to edge Canadian champion harness racing driver Ron Waples in Wednesdays Battle of the Best at Barrie Raceway Prior to the competition both drivers pledged the winner takeall prize of $1000 to the Easter Seal campaign The drivers were awarded Jody Evans one point for each other entry they beat in each race and drew their horses from the list of entries last week Filion finished in the top four in all 10 races winning two and taking four seconds three thirds and two fourths Waples won three times came second three times and scored one fourth two fifths and sixth 39yearold native of Angers Que Filion finished with 53 points to Waples 48 Filion who lives in Westbury Hard work pays off for Central gymnast By TAMMY STlRGE Every night during April Jody Evans of Barrie entral Collegiate dons red and white uniform and proceeds to put at least two hours of hard work into her gymnastic routines Perserverance has paid off for the ttryearold At the re cent Georgian Hay gymnastics championships she captured the gold medal in the senior womens lelSlOlI Jody is an exceptional individual says her coach Irene winningcombination beam and floor routines She considers the balance beam the hardest but its her personal favourite She spends the least amount of time on vaulting Vaulting is just one move says Evans Its not as creative Evans places great deal of importance on creativity in all aspects of her life Music is her favorite subject and she plays first flute in en trals band Another favorite is her creative writingcourse Id like to get into jourr nalism she says serious ly then adds or teaching physical educa tion The two are entire ly different careers but in dicative of her interests winning combination indeed At last gymnastics trials Jody won the gold medal in balance Nicowsky Shes very talented and dedicated and thats years Ontario JUDY EVANS Bay champion Jody attributes her excellence in gymnastics to many Factors Ive been domg it for so long since age eight amt Miss Nicowsky is always hopping us Our choreographer Heidi Scott IS really excellent too Blueeyed sandy blonc haired Jody lists her main assets hesitantly can tumble and think Im pretty strong She lists her failingdisparagineg Im too fat Thats the truth It tends to drag me down It doesnt look too good to see fat gym nist walking around Why does Jody Evans spend so much time and energy into it perfecting her performance in gymnastics For her the answer is simple guess Ive been doing it for so long that its part of my life Ive just always done it and thats about has compiled record of nearly 7000 victories more than any other driver in the world and total purse money of more than $25 million lie is also the youngest per son ever elected to the Harness Racing Hall of Fame and past winner of the Lou Maish Trophy as Canadas top athlete Iorontoborn Waples 34 is regular on the Ontario Jockey ub circuit and has been selected anadas Harness Battle By THE CANADIAN PRESS The only time New York Rangers and the Islanders met in National Ilocky League playoff before tonights opening of their Stanley Cup semifinal was four years ago when the Islanders franchise was only three years old and making its first appearance in postseason play The brash newcomers knocked off the Rangers in threegame preliminary round ousted Pittsburgh after drop ping the first three games of their bestofseven quarter final to the Penguins and nearly did it again against Philadelphia in the semifinals before the Flyers recovered to win the seventh game and eventually the Stanley Cup Thirteen members of that Islander team are still around for the second commuter series only three of the t975 Rangers will show up for the reunion but it has been long time since anyone seriously considered Al Arbours club the underdogs in any meeting with their Manhattan rivals Nowadays the Islanders are in the NHLs top echelon along with Montreal anadiens and Boston Bruins who clash in the other semifinal bracket while the Rangers haVe become the poor relations RANGERS IIISINTEGRATEI They appeared to disin tegrate after the 1973 defeat Never worse than semifinalists in four previous seasons they missed the playoffs two years in row fell in the preliminary round the following year and showed their first signs of regaining respectability when they eliminated Philadelphia to qualify for the present series The most notable additions to the 1973 Islanders are Rryaii lruttier the NHL pointscoring champion this season Mike Bossy the leagues goal scoring leader and Stefan Iersson Thunderfoot takes on Rowdies Toronto Blizzards Peter Lorimer takes on Wes McLeod John German and Mike Connell of Tampa Bay Rowdies at Exhibition Stadium Wednes day Toronto won Examiner Photo by ion Mulgrew Blizzard tames Rowdies 21 for seasons first victory By IAN MlliREW The Examiner The Toronto Blizzard perpetrated the biggest snow job of the year Wednesday night winning its first game of the North American Soccer League season 21 After four winlcss starts the Blizzard produced its finest display of soccer in defeating the Tampa Bay Rowdies Peter Lorimer aka Thunderfoot and erstwhile British soccer star finally got on track Wednesday showing fans the stuff of which pro moters said he was made Lormicr assisted on both Blizzard goals and provided on field leadership that has been missing from the young team For the first time this sesaon he has also started moving on the pitch instead of his usual standing routine weve Witness ed in the past two home games Toronto played good offenr sivc game Wednesday exv hibitiiig fine passing skills as well as an aggressiveness unr seen to date Tharlic Mitchell on defence also played strong game clearing the ball on numerous occasion and tackling with gusto The 4103 fans also had chance to see anadian Brian Budd for full game instead of for few minutes as substitu lltll Although liudd has the drive and enthusiasm to play well he appears to be still trying to find his footing lie was caught stanr ding still on coupleof plays Iorontos goalkeeper David Henderson was not outstanding in net and the goal that got by him was not difficult shot At the other end however former Toronto goalkeejwr Zel jko Iiilecki was outstanding Ile faced by far the most difficult shots and was aggressive throughout Hilecki could not be faulted on either of the Toronto goals Wednesdays game was good soccer match quite sur prise it you watched the Blizv 7ards first few games Horseman of the Year the past two years In 1977 he became the first driver to win more than 300 races and $1 million in purses in single season in Canada Waples is currenty the leading North American dash winner The only race in which both men finished out of the top three was the featured Eastview Derby Filions horse Canasta Ilal was bet favorite by the crowd of 1794 and Waples entry Mystic Trick went off second favorite Despite top drives by both however it was Noble Maxie with Scott Rowe on board which crossed the wire first to collect the winners share of the 51000 purse Joe Edwards guuled Danny llartack to second spot in the feature and lutncys hrissi driven by Lloyd Spinks finish ed iii third place The event was Waples se cond driver competition at Bar rie Raceway this year In March the Rockwood nt resident won trip to Florida by beating seven other drivers in Toronto vs Barrie competition Even with his howchr Waples driver competitions prove much We do what we can but youve still got to have the successes insists the dont horse said Waples dont care who it is the driver is only as good as his horse The competition was the first time the two drivers had met in such an extended headtohead duel Filion drives mostly in Montreal at and at major US tracks and rarely confronts Waples at all Hes tough competitor though Filion said think it would be safe to say Im as good as he is and hes as good as lam of New York set to go Start her up crew Bryan Ballagh of Barrie may need few more seat cushions before he takes up the sport of stock car racing The youngster is one of hundreds of Bayfield Mallltgoers who are being given the New school building reputation Making tracks ll lIl Illlllt Of The Euimincr Its tough when your high school is still fledgling institu tion No one knows where youre from when you tell them and establishing reputation can take years So it is with Innisdali Secoii fary School lIl Harrie but lioii Maludzinski is betting it wont be long before his school is know for its track and field athletes Maludzinski along with liiii Ilodgins and Jim artcr are working now to make flitGrade l0 and II students at In nisdalc among the best III the sport The three coaches spend nearly all of the hour and half lunch period at school training with young athletes interested in running or the throwing events We dont have any facilities so its hard to teach any jumpers Maludinski said You dont need many faciliics to teach people how to run though and as well as being his personal passion Maludrinskis job on the Innisdalc team is to teach longdistaiict runners Hodgins specialises in thc sprinters and niiddic distance enthusiasts while nrtcr ltttltlS the hurlers With only 800 students enroll ed at Innisdalc there arent great many members on the track team but the ones who signed up work at it regularin Were down on equipment so we have to go with what weve got says Ilodgins Were trying to form nucleus of students for the future One of the key tttttllbcts of the Innisdale sprinting squad is Jackie ltocchio member of the lluronia Stridcrs Track and Field lub Roccliio holds 50m and 400m indoor records at the provincial level and will bring some of the earliest laurels to lnnisdalc this season Stuart Allington is team leader and another one of lltc Illttlt epcrieiiccd long distance runners of the eight in training Allington has already run in his first marathon finishing the National tapital event lll tit tawa llingtoii and teammate Stcvc tarlclon are the most experienced runners at In iiisdale Maliidiiiski leads his charges around one of three routes in the vicinity of In nisdalc The distance varies from three and half miles up to six miles llodgins takes realistic ap proch to his runners training program and considers their in experienciwliendrilhiiglliciii JIM llOltGINS coaches sprinters opportunity this week to get an inside look at the stock vehicles during special show sponsored by Barrie Speedway The show continues through Saturday Examiner Photo by David Fuller at Innisdale just try to get them cii thusiastic llodgins said This is building year so Im just trying to give them desuc for track As well as running during lunch bouts team members train on the universal gym Ito llllIlStlitlt toaclics tiiitkc predictoiis for the future Of course they do Mtxfcratc said Malud inski when asked what success his runners might meet this season but he has his sights set on making Innisdale reputa tioii in running Were hoping to have three or four people qualify for the Georgian Bay championships JACKIE ItttttIlIO veteran competitor Recreational soccer season gets underway Soccci season for recreational tcaiiis iedncsdiiy with eight playing at county Six tcaiiis arc returning llllS season and In new teams have bcciiaddcd area start tcains parks around the We deserved winsays Thunderfoot Everyone in Toronto and North America thought it would be walkover for them tonight said Blizzards lcter Iirimer who had two assists on the night llut We fought and worked hard and we de served to win Included in the four losses was humiliating 7l pasting by the same Rowdies adminis tered two weeks ago in Tampa Bay Toronto outshot Tampa liay 207 Although the Blizzard outshot Tampa 04 III the first half it wasnt until 5524 that George Gibbs beat former loronto goalkeeper cljko Iiilecki to give the Blizzard 10 lead Gibbs goal came off three way passing play from orimer and liff alvert Colin Franks scored Torontos second goal just minutes after one of his shots which was headed into an open net was deflected away Franks laer headed cross by Lorimer past liilecki from yards out to make it zr In wasnt until 721 that lainpa llays Ietcr Ilaralic mined Ilavid Hendersons shut out bid when he beat the To roiito goalkeeper on looping shot The loss was Tampa liays first after four consecutive wins SOME liISII STORY The worlds first known fish ing rod was cscavated along with the remains of 10000 ycarold man in northern Eu rope Returning are last years league champions ltobcrtos lilcria llaxtcr llames Leit Midland Italian Sportsmen and lykstra llrothcrs Elcctric American Hotel is the other new name in the lineup although the team will be the same as last years Simcoe lat siinsquad New teams for this year are the Midland second team and new entry sponsored by lltllptl lirc Iii Harrie Lcitl Midland takes on Italian Sportsmen at Johnson Street School while American Iloicl is pitted against Iykstra Brothers at Steele St Park Other games scheduled for Vicdnesday are in Iiaxter where llaxtcr plays Robertos and in Midland where llarper lirc will meet the Midland Sc cond team at Midland Secon dary School All games start at ii in and then of those maybe two might go to the regional finals and perhaps the provincial finals This weekend will give In iiisdales track and field stars of the future their first test This year there will be four Harrie High Schools represented at the Queens tnivcrsity Invitational meet One of them will be tnnisdale the oxamlnor Thursday Apr 20 1979 15 sports shorts Starr Electric calls practice Starr Electric of the Barrie and District Intermediate Fastball League will hold team practice Sunday at am at Codrington Street School Anyone wishing to try out for the team is urged to attend For information phone Mike Clark at 7370242 Badminton club plays Saturday The Barrie Badminton Club is holding its annual tourna ment at tnnisdale Collegiate Saturday Singles competition takes place at 930 am ladies and mens doubles at 11 30 am Mixed doubles will follow in the afternoon at 130 All participants have been registered but spectators are welcome Couple wins cribbage tourney Mary and Ed Shaw of the Wasaga Beach Senior Citizens Club captured first place at the Collingwood cribbage tour nament held recently Belva and Alan Short of the Stayner Friendship Club took second place Isobel Stewart and Doris Stubbington of Coll ingwood Senior Ventures Club finished third Top couples from other participating clubs were Alberta Measor and Edna Armstrong the Collingwood Friendship club Grace Woolner and Jim Groves of Creemore Sr Citizens Club Mildred Spicher and Lena Harrison of New Lowell Sr Citizens Club and Gertrude and Bill Goodfellow of Orillia TIE Club Winning couples will compete for the Simcoe County Recreation trophy at the seniors cribbage finals to be held at the Sunnidale Centre in Barrie May Garner nets lone Dusters goal Barrie native Rob Garner scored the lone goal for Binghamton Dusters in their American Hockey League playoff loss to New Haven Nighthawks Wednesday The win gave the Nighthawks 31 lead in their bestofseven semifinal series Fifth game is slated for Friday in New Haven The Nighthawks who humiliated the Dusters 151 Monday to take 21 lead in the series opened the game with four straight powerplay goals Garner ruined New Haven goalie Steve Bakers shutout bid with goal in the second period ROB GARNER spoils shutout bid Niagara Falls ties series NIAGARA FALLS Ont Pi Niagara Falls Flyers skated to 50 shutout against Peterborough Petes Wed nesday to even their eightpoint Ontario Major Junior Hockey League championship series at two points each The Petes who night earlier blanked Niagara Falls 34 in leterborough outshot the Flyers by narrow 3329 mar gin Hut goaltender Nick Ricci was outstanding turning aside 12 thirdperiod shots to preserve his shutout The Flyers playing before crowd of 2406 led 10 at the end of the first period and in the second period scored three goals in twominute titsecond span to put the game out of the reach Dom Miele scored twice for the Flyers with single goals scored by Greg Hoy Tom Gibson and Mark Bodell Flyers took 33 of the 64 minutes in penalties in the hard hitting contest The series resumes Thursday in Peterborough Boxing show investigated TORONTO tLPi Ontario Athletics Commissioner Jim Vipond says he is investigating an amateur boxing show that was held in Lindsay Ont Tuesday night without the at proval of his governmentappointed organization which controls the sport in the province Vipond said the promoter Spencer Norris had been warned that his show an elimination tournament involving to firsttime heavyweight boxers had not been licensed by the commission Norris said he had asked govemment representative for licence application several weeks ago 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