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economist suntribune sports thursday july 25 2002 35 staff photoerin riley guarded in close quarters warren dodd 12 foreground is closely guarded by matthew jones 14 in a pass ing drill that was conducted tuesday at fletchs fundamentals basketball camp at stouffville district secondary school team 3 red cascar team drives home 1 8th in calgary race billy rowse jr drove his team 3 red monte carlo to an 18thplace finish sunday at the cascar mopar parts 300 feature event at race city speedway in calgary alta the stouffvillebased team took to the track last friday to qualify through one of two 100lap qualifiers starting 11th on the grid in the first 100lap race the team 3 red vehicle fin ished fifth and was slotted into the 1 1th starting position for sundays feature event shortly after the halfway point of the race cascar officials called the team 3 red monte carlo into the pit area to check into the source of smoke that was seen coming from the car after a close inspection the vehicle was all right but rowse jr was down one green flag lap while in the pits returning to the track rowse jr worked the car in the higher grove of the race surface and after a second tire stop and a full tank of fuel the car was on rails after a long race team 3 red finished 18th despite the finish team 3 red crew chief rob rowse accentuated the posi tive these boys worked hard all week end he said the two canadian forces vehicle technicians that helped us this weekend really worked well with our guys and that is great all around it was a fun weekend in finishing 18th rowse jr occupies 15th place in the overall point standings with 1082 don thomson jr leads with 1348 the team will resume its series this weekend with two entries at the vancouver molson indy the cascar super series will be one of the key support races at the vancouver indy and will race tomorrow and saturday whitchurchstouffville sports camp a hit with older kids participants enjoy skate park swimming at inaugural program by jim thomas correspondent whitchurchstouffvilles firstever sports camp has been so successful the department of leisure services is certain to try it again this is the feeling of assistant programmer stacey stevens based out of summitview public school the camp to date has attracted 17 boys and girls ranging in age from eight to 13 years the camp schedule is divid ed into three time slots 9 am to 4 pm 730 am to 9 am and 4 pm to 5 pm the cost is 1 15 for a fiveday week and 95 for a fourday week about four more registra tions can be accommodated stacey stevens was pleased with the response of towns inaugur al sports camp stevens says the camp concludes aug 23 matt downie of stouffville and natalie faria of markham are the two senior counsellors in charge activities include swimming volleyball basketball tennis floor hockey skateboarding and crayfishing all captured cray fish are thrown back in stevens insists we were looking for some thing for the older children stevens said something close to home skateboarding and roller- blading are popular because the over the edge skatepark isnt in use when campers require it all swirnrning is conducted at the outdoor pool parents are welcome to drop their children off or stay and watch a minimum fee is charged for earlymorning and late- afternoon aftercare from 730 to 9 am and 4 to 5 pm at the lebovic leisure centre registrations are also accepted there stevens a graduate in recre ation and leisure studies from the university of waterloo is pleased in which the manner the sport camp has been received and feels it will contin ue to grow as word of its popu- larity spreads gibbons puts fourth a solid racing performance in calgary peter gibbons did not take the checkered flag at last week ends mopar parts 300 cascar race in calgary alta but the stouffville resident had plenty of reason to be satis fied after what transpired dur ing the three days of racing in last fridays 100lap quali fier gibbons drove his canadian tire chevrolet to the front of the pack for the entire race en route to visiting victory lane for the first time this sea son recording the second- fastest lap time of 17553 sec onds gibbons began sundays feature race in second place before overtaking pole sitter ron beauchamp on the first lap leading the pack until lap 83 gibbons made the first of four pitstops on the 89th lap to change tires and add fuel the gibbons crew contin ued to adjust tire pressure and stagger throughout the race running in the 12th position peter gibbons weekend effort in enabled stouffville racer to occupy fifth place in cascar standings with 100 laps remaining in the 300lap event gibbons began to manoeuvre his way towards the leaders as he began to pick off cars one at a time finally working his way through the lap traffic up to the fourth spot where he would remain until the conclusion we just ran out of time the field got spread out and with the last 50 laps staying green it was hard to catch the leader gibbons acknowledged i tried to pass al turner for the third spot a couple of times but he made his car really wide and that allowed the two front cars to pull away my crew worked great today they got me out front i kept them working hard in the pits all day long my hats off to them 3 jim lapcevich took the checkered flag the canadian tire team was credited with leading the most laps of the mopar week- end and the ngk fast lap of the race gibbons effort during the weekend enabled him to vault into fifth place in the overall series standings from 10th gibbons currently has 1207 points don thomson jr leads the series with 1348 sheffield students claim honours at nationals two students representing the sheffield judo club and the ontario provincial team made a statement at the recent 2002 canadian- junior judo championships in edmonton alta by claiming medals kyle cheeatow 17 fielded a secondplace finish in the 60kilogram ijf junior boys division ishiguro 18 placed third in the 81 kg ijf junior boys division a third sheffield student kerry lynne hulshof had earned a spot on the provincial team but was forced to withdraw due to injuries