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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 6 Jun 1979, p. 15

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La are! athletes .mash 6 records . campuses to prepare the upcoming season. For some the word r..epre- sents a Pipedream. Others see it as a distant, probably unreachable goal. Still others see it as a very real destination, but miss it by inches or seconds, which might as well be miles or minutes. By lick COMM Would. - m b OFSAA. The ultimate in high school track and field com- petition. ' But you hear it all the time from local athletes in my spring as they hit the Laurel defended its cham- pionship in the senior and junior boys division and for the first time won both girls divisions. Laurel won the overlall championship with' 279 points followed by College Heights of Guelph with 81 points and H.E. Fawcett of Brantford with 59 points. Individual champions from Laurel were Kevin Boan (senior boyitt Chris Rowe (junior boys) and Kim Metzger (junior girls). Ber- nice Devries of Fawcett captured the senior girls title. Seven records were bro- ken, six by Laurel athletes. Clive Hamilton broke the senior 800 and 1500 metres with times “and 4:22. ike Brown broke the open to mark with a time of . Chris Rowe broke the junior 400 record with a time of 55.2 and broke the junior triple jump mark with a leap of 11.73 metres, Because the Ontario Fe- deration of Schools Athletic Association meet this wee- kend in Toronto represents a chance to clutch at the brass ring. You have to have ex- Laurel Vocational’s track and field team won the In- ter-City Vocational School Track and Field cham- pionships at SeagramSta- dium last Tuesday. , One of the highlights of the meet was Kevin Boan's 200 metre win over Wayne Laurel's 4 x 100 relay team broke the existing re- cord by .1 seconds with a time of 48.4. The team con- sisted of Chris Rowe, Jeff Foster, Joe Worrell and Kevin Roan. Itlti crown to. a mag-cm lt's a funny word. Awhi- 'h-i-. IN RESIDENTIAL NElGHBOURHOODs SPONSORED BY DOWNTOWN RESIDENTS IN THE GEORGE ST. NEIGHBOURHOOD CITY HALL MEETING TONITE 7:30 AM. Clive Hamilton ran an ex- cellent race at the regional meet. Clive took 17 seconds off his personal best in the senior 3,000 with a time of 8:56, which was good for fourth place and a berth in the' Ontario championships in Toronto on Saturday. Morris of Fawcett. Morris qualified for the aliAhttario senior 200 at the regional meet at Tillsonburg on Sa- turday. _ burg, capturing the midget girls 100 in a personal best 12.3 and setting a new re- cord of 25.8 in the 200 oeptlonal talent to outset to We Centennial Sta- dium. Ietalone perform well in the me cooker once you ttet them Last Saturday in Timon- burg. 13 athlete: from Bra.. terloo schools earned the right to go to OFSAA by fin- ishing in the top five at the regional competition. For some. merely qualify- ingis a feat in itself. For others, like Sheena Ross of Waterloo collegiate, who has yet to taste defeat in sprint competition this year, it will be a whole new ball- game. She will literally have to run the race of her life to keep her record in- tact. Ross was the outstanding Waterriii, athlete at Timon- VS. COMMERCIAL PARKING ZONES metres. But as WCI coach 1h!ltat 1he.U" "lr1tttp'_iil hive to improve even on those times to grace the OFSAA whiten circle. "We'tt be sending her down to (K-W Track coach) Brent MacFarlane this week to work on it. Hopefully it will help her save two or three/tenths of a second off her time, which would give her a good chance to win." The only other victory for a Waterloo athlete came when Mike Hovey easily took the junior discus with a toss ot 43.32 metres, almost 1.5 metres farther than the next closest competitor.. Hovey also has a good chan- ce at OFSAA, since'he has thrown farther than his win- “Sheena doesn’t have a CITY OF WATERLOO _ Lawn-Garden Watering By-Law No. 76-119 States Buildings With EVEN PROPERTY NUMBERS - May water Mon- day, Wednesday. Friday and Sundays. ODD PROPERTY NUMBERS - May water Tues- day. Thursday, Saturday and Sundays. _ Between the hours of 6:00 a.m. - 10 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. For further Water Conservation information Phone 885-1211 ex. 3780 vsncinlf sre Giselle stsn- agh,fittttinttteMio,rM0tl w.st.n and second behind reemiraettir Jill Porch in the 3,” metres (10:11:). the midget girls 4 It in relay team at Rene Hoops. Mary Stohhe, Cathy Burke and Ross, which finished second in 51.7, midget Phil Israel who was third in the 100 Init- dies (14.7), Kelvin Lee who was second in the senior no hurdles (15.5) and third in the open boys 400 hurdles (57.5) and brother Carey Lee who finished fifth (59.6) in the same race. ' - Two athletes from Blue- Laure! ”mauve 't-edhiuetlisottstet-tr.etrqt!rtt,,"ht"

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