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economist suntribune sports thursday aug 12002 19 jonathan macri gormley driver currently in sixth place in cart toyota atlantic series standings macri hopes to motor his way to the podium in troisrivieres after a threeweek break since his last race at burke lakefront airport in cleveland ohio its time for jonathan macri to get back to work this weekend the 20yearold gormley resident and his pl racing team will be in troisrivieres quebec to com pete in the ninth round of the cart toyota atlantic championship the race will mark the 27th time since 1974 the atlantic series has competed on the 1521 mile street circuit if the past eight races have been any indication of what to expect at troisrivieres competition should reach a high pitch at the second of three canadian stops for macri who pilots the ntn bearingsmiller genuine draftbattlefield equipment rentalsspon sored machine he cur rently sits in sixth position in the standings and is only 29 points behind points leader michael valiante posting three podium finishes so far this season macri will be gunning for a win this sunday finishing third in his first ever canadian formula ford 1600 championship race at troisrivieres in 1999 macri feels his familiarity with the course could work in his favour im especially looking forward to running at trois- rivieres i know the track well both from my two years in the formula 1600 championship and last year in my atlantic rookie season troisrivieres is an extremely technical track its a small tight street circuit and you have to continuously negotiate one corner after another it keeps you busy youre always working the car gearing up turning or braking there is no part of the track that allows you ease off a bit the track forces the driver to stay focused throughout the race or might risk making a costly mistake so theres a real premium on qualifying well the race can be seen live on speed channel at 1 pm team 3 red happy with race effort in vancouver what a difference a year makes when the stouffvillebased team 3 red racing team went to vancouver last season to compete in the cascar super series race they encountered a mishap en route when their trailer was damaged in an attempt to avoid a bear that was on the road with no adversities to deal with prior to this years event which was a support race in last weekends vancouver molson indy the twocar team 3 red entry had a fairly suc cessful outing billy rowse jr began saturdays 35lap feature on the 180mile street track from the 13th position and drove his snap on toolscanadian forces monte carlo to a sixth- place finish driving the second entry chris fowler began in the 23rd position before motoring his canadian forcessnap on tools monte carlo to a 14thplace effort for fowler his per formance was the last of the season as he went to moose jaw sask to begin his pilot training with the canadian forces team 3 red owner ed hakonson was impressed with the results of both cars this past weekend billy and chris truly showed what this team is capable of this weekend the last time we were at vancouver we were gathering ourselves up after our highway accident and so now it feels really good to have an awesome day like this we have had a good run out west and we are looking forward to getting home and getting ready for the next event the team 3 reds next event will take place aug 11 at autodrome montmagny in montmagny quebec staff photosjoerd witteveen getting out of the trap gormleys boris wong 10 blasts his way out of a sandtrap on the first hole at the markham green golf club during action in mondays canadian junior linksters series wong carded a ninehole score of 65 and finished in a threeway tie for 15th place in the boys 910 division for further results posted by local golfers see sportsboard on page 20 sizzler ball team qualifies for provincial finals with silver medal in whitby the stouffville sizzlers novice girls softball team brought home the silver medal from last weekends provincial quali fiers in whitby and guaranteed them of a spot at the provincial championships in kingston during the weekend of aug 911 backed by the twohit shutout pitching performance of jessie harris the sizzlers opened the 19team tournament on a positive note with a 70 win over halton hills helping to preserve the win were some great defensive plays from infielders kate devine and nyssa kuwuhara facing the newmarket seniors in their second outing the sizzlers received some timely hitting en route to a 54 extra inning win winnie law scored the gamewinning run off harris bunt amy hector sent the contest into extra innings when she drove in the gametying run stouffville then had an easier time of things against leaside as they cruised to a 100 win and earned a berth in the medal round harris led the team with six strikeouts in the fiveinning game pitted against brampton the sizzlers came out on the short end of a 64 verdict kim hughes was solid on first base catching anything that came her way runs were scored by hughes kim eickmeier harris and jessica stewart the sizzlers then went on to meet clarkson and romped to a 101 win keying the win were some excellent defensive plays from shelby markle and outfielders emma bombeny and daniella holmes the win vaulted the sizzlers into the gold medal game where they fell 126 to brampton to settle for the silver statchuk will put his golf game to the test vandorf resident will be in saskatoon to play in the 64th annual canadian junior championships by jim thomas correspondent paul statchuk calls it a highlight of his life the 17yearold vandorf resident will represent ontario at the 64th annual canadian junior golf championships aug 6 to 9 in saskatoon sask statchuk credits his father with directing his course as far back as age four my father gave me my start but ive been beating him since age 12 he laughs the entire family including a younger brother chris plays out of st andrews east he tries to get in six games a week at the whitchurchstouffville course born in toronto statchuk and his family moved to whitchurchstouffville 10 years ago entering his oac year mis september at cardinal carter catholic high school in aurora statchuk helped his team win last years york region athletic association golf title and a place in the ontario federation of school athletic association championships statchuk began participating in golf tournaments at age 12 and promptly won the oshawa junior invitational in the 13 and under division this year he qualified for the canadians by plac ing 18th out of 500 in the ontario championships at windsor only the top 40 are selected in the canadians 146 will take part a lefthanded golfer who idolizes phil mickelson another lefty statchuk posts scores in the low 70s with a zero handicap his parttime coach is michael vinnick of markham regardless of how well he does at the canadians satchuk considers it a priv ilege just to be there hes hoping for a return engagement in 2003 at this point statchuk has no intentions of making golf a fulltime career instead he hopes to obtain a scholarship and study business at a college in the united states an allround athlete statchuks involved in most high school sports last winter he played hockey with the midget aurora tigers but golf is definitely his game this month he will battle the best on the links mennos win two of four at meaford tournament the stouffville mennos won two games and lost two when they took to the ball diamond in meaford last week end at the tom sims memorial fastball tournament after losing their opening game to niagara falls 91 the mennos rebounded to defeat the smithville storm 53 keying the mennos offence was ed burkholder who belted a threerun homer in the fourth inning to give the mennos a 50 lead before the storm mounted a comeback that fell short terry reesor worked the first five innings to earn the win playing their third game on saturday against the kitchener smoke the mennos were backed by a solid pitch ing effort from byron baranieski to emerge with a 50 win and advance to sundays elimination round in a rematch with smithville the mennos bats were silenced as they suffered a 41 loss and were eliminated in oshawa and city district softball league action the mennos were scheduled to face tso game wear on monday only to have their game postponed due to rain paul statchuk began competing in golf tournaments when he was 12 years of age