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Ghosts® Jane Beil steails second base and sends St. Catharines shortstop for a tumblie in the dust at the same time. Aichard O Brien photos Richard O‘Brien Chronicle Staff Jane Young‘s portrait hung on a wall at the Waterloo Tennis club before she left for a tennis scholarâ€" ship at University of Mississippi back in January. Jane‘s a household word at WTC And now that she‘s back for the summer, they‘re goins"to have to put her name on a pair of trophies. The firstâ€"seeded Young won the ladies final of the Western Ontario Open tournament at the club this weekend, defeating secondâ€"seeded Sue Hatch of London 7â€"5, 7â€"6 in the rainâ€"delayed championship game Monday afternoon. In doing so, Young becomes the, first Waterloo Tennis Club player to get her name on the trophy since Inge Weber won in 1970, She also teamed up with Renee Simpson of Toronto to win the ladies doubles over Brantford‘s Cindy Macovik and Toronto‘s Sally Coles by a 6â€"1, 6â€"1 score. â€" In the men‘s singles, firstâ€"seeded Brian Hall of Windsor defeated Grimsby‘s Brent Saigeon, the secâ€" ond seed, 4â€"6, 6â€"4, 6â€"3. Hall is best known for his upset win over Glenn Michibata a couple weeks ago. _ Young and Hatch were even in the second set up to the tiebreaker when Young took command by winning the first six points. She won the tiebreaker 7â€"1. â€" _ Their maich had been delayed for an hour due to rain with Young up resumed, Young appeared to have lost the rhythm of the match and lost three consecutive games before taking command. e o_ "I wasn‘t concentrating," said Young. "It takes me a couple games to get into the match."‘ o Young seemed able to control the tempo of her matches with a variety of shots. ‘"This year I think I have a more allâ€"round game," she said. "I‘ve been working on my volley quite a bit." Young used the volley late in her quarterâ€"final match as she finished off her Waterioo rival, Carol Culik, 6â€"3, 6â€"4. Culik fought back gamely in that match, but Young proved to be stronger and more experienced. _ Young went on to beat Jennifer Sheppard 6â€"0, 6â€"2 in her semiâ€"final match. Hall lost the first set of the men‘s final as Saigeon consistently hit wellâ€"placed, unreturnable foreâ€" "I could only be effective if 1 kept the ball deep," said Hall, "and that‘s what I worked at in the second and third sets." Jill Thomson and Grant Cortliand, both of Toronto, took the mixed doubles, winning 6â€"1, 3â€"6, 6â€"4 over Hatch and Derek Thomas, also of Toronto‘s Gary Meanchos comâ€" bined with Correia to win the men‘s doubles. They beat Toranto‘s Kevin Green and Waterioo‘s Norm Weber Waterioo‘s Carol Culik connects with twoâ€"handed backhand during quarterâ€" final match with Jane Young. Young won 6â€"3, 6â€"4. Richard O‘Brien Chronicle Staft Waterloo Ghosts over the weekâ€" end showed themselves to be anâ€" other firstâ€"rate team in a part of Ontario known to have many good ladies softball teams. Ghosts were the top finishing tier two team in the Ontario senior elimination â€" tournament, placing fifth with two wins and two losses in the double knockout event. Ghosts opened Friday with a 2â€"1 win over Fort Erie, then lost to St. Catharines 1â€"0 in 11 innings Saturâ€" day afternoon. They went on to beat Burlington 8â€"7 on Saturday before losing 50 to Kitchener Kieswetters Sum’ay. the result of a bad first inning. "It was a good alFâ€"round team effort," said field manager Pete Mcliraith. "We‘re really pleased we played all three days of the tournament. = ‘;Defensively. the kids played really well. At times our inexperiâ€" Great effort: from Ghosts Senior eliminations Jane Young puts everthing into her serve in the allâ€"Waterioo quarterâ€"final match with Carol Culik. ence showed but a number of our players had never been in a tourâ€" nament of this magnitude before." Three of the teams finishing ahead of Ghosts â€" firstâ€"place Milâ€" Dor Twins, secondâ€"place St. Clemâ€" ents Suns and fourthâ€"place Kiesâ€" wetters â€" are local area teams all competing for players. St. Catharines was the thirdâ€" place finisher. _ _ o Ghosts played well up to their final game with Kieswetters when they allowed three firstâ€"inning runs on three errors and just one hit. Altogether, they committed five errors in that game. At the tournament, Ghosts third baseman Trish McCarthy received an invitation to attend the provinâ€" cial tryout camp to be held in Waterloo Aug. 23â€"25. ‘Tonight, Ghosts host Mt. Brydges in their last regular season Midâ€" western Ontario Ladies Softball League home game. Starting time is 8: 30 at Hillside Park. Richard O‘Brien photos