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Foux athletes from Stoufl’ville’s Shef- field Iudo Club won two gold medals and a bronze at the 2008 Junior and Juvenile Canadian Championships in Mississauga. Iaya Creavalle, 15, won the +63-kg. juvenile girls division. She was second at last years nationals. Tressa Sheffield, 13, took home a gold medal in the -44 kilogram juvenile girls’ division. Finishing second at last year's nationals, Shefield was recently pro- moted to the rank of brown belt. Jordan Creavalle, 19,was seventh inthe junior boys ~73-kg. division. He recently advanced to first-degree black belt. Marcus Chan, a 12-year-old green belt, took a bronze medal in the juvenile boys -42-kg. group. Judo girls golden at nationals Peter Gibbons drove his Cana- dian Tire/ Mobile Super Chevro- let to a seventh-place finish in last Saturday’s NASCAR Cana- dian Tire Series Kodak 250 race at the Autodrome St. Eustache in St. Eustache, Que. The 46-year-old Stouffville- area resident began the 250- lap, 24-car race in 10th posi- tion and held the lead from Gibbons finishes 7th on Quebec track laps 163 to 179. ' Gibbons is in seventh place in the series standings with 571 points. Sco'tt Steckly, who won the race, is in first place with 725 points. > For more information on the series, log on to: nascar.ca lake Silverthorn highlighted performances by a contin- gent of performers representing the Stoufiville Ducks at last weeks Provincial Age Group swimming championships in Thunder Bay. Silverthorn SWam off with three medals and came close in two other events. The 12-year-old won gold in the loo-metre butterfly with a time of 1:120. He also earned a silver in the 200m butterfly and btottzp the 8-0in freestyle Silvehhorn finished fourth in the 200m individual med- ley and 400111 indiv_idual .nn J Callum Ross, 17, earned a bronze medal in the 400m freestyle. -1.“ 7 Safah Gillis, 14, was seeded second in the 100m butter- fly, but was _after a false --_ n l . l‘ seeded .second in the 200m butterfly, she went for the win only to take the race out too fast and faded in the final stretch to place seventh. Three medals for lake at Ontario swim finals Stouffville’s Team 3 Red/EHR team car driven by Jason Hatha- way finished 13th. Driving the Snap-on-Tools Dodge vehicle, Hathaway began the race in fifth and held the lead for the first time this season from laps 116 to 131. 7 The next race in the series goes July 19 at the Sun Valley Speedway in Vernon, B.C. â€"â€"Mike Hayakawa VETERAN APPRECIATION DAYS Stoujfville Sun-Tribune I Saturday, luly [2, 2008