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( ompeting in a field of over 100 runâ€" ners with many being five years her senior, McClure, the youngest runner at the event, won her biggest race of her threeâ€"year career by capturing the junior division at National championships in Montreal on Saturday. The Waterloo collegiate student, who hadn t lost a race in nine starts this season, apped her 1996 campaign with a first in the 19 and under junior division at the meet, which also saw Waterloo‘s Kathy wasn t McClure wins jvunior National title Waterloo collegiate V Mike McKillop loses the ball as he to get around Kitchener Raider Lock Dusighicn in the Court Heintuch Choste Seater Reys tadbetind imarmiment ho on onarden Wes won the game 67â€"61, but Toronto Rummymede won the event defeating Milliken Mills 68â€"55. For a look at the Waterioo senior teams for the upcoming WCSSAA season, see page 32. hen it comes to running, Erin McClure doesn‘t know the meaning of losing â€" and the 14â€"yearâ€"old crossâ€"country runâ€" about to learn it over the weekâ€" Peter Cudhea Chromicle Staff Waterloo runner advances to World championship in Italy Butler defend _ Erin McClure senior womens diviâ€" sion title winning the 6km race in 20 minâ€" utes 59 seconds. The two Waterloo runners will be part of a 20â€"member Canadian team which will be competing at the World championships "It was the hardest race of the season. | really had to push at the end." Erin McClure McClure stayed with Hanley for most of the race, but with 1.5km remaining in the race, McClure broke away and went hard on the hilly part of the course and held on for the win. "It was the hardest race of the season," said a hoarse McClure, whose only loss of the weekend was her voice. "I really had to push at the end. When it was over, for the first time this season, 1 was really tired." this March in Italy, McClure won the 4 kilometre race in a time of 13 minutes 58 seconds, three secâ€" onds ahead of 16â€"yearâ€"old Jen Handley of Barrie. Finishing third in 14:22 was Camâ€" bridge‘s Francine Darroch, who, along with McClure and Butler, train under Peter Grinbergs of the Twin Cities Athletics.« (Continued on page 33) wee tmscc "I was lucky that Brian was able to control the bleeding," Beaupre said of the quick thinking of his friend. "If the wound had been any higher in the leg, I might have bled to death. 1 was told that there was only a three minute winâ€" dow for survival and that if the bleeding hadn‘t been conâ€" trolled it could have been fatal." up lodged in his right leg. e If not for the quick action of fellow hunter Brian Schott, also of Waterloo, who applied a tourniquet above the sevâ€" ered artery, Beaupre may not have survived the half hour trip out of the woods to the Wiarton hospital. Beaupre was wounded after a bullet that went through a deer, ricocheted off a rock and went through his left knee severing an artery, shattering his femur. The bullet ended "It‘s going to be eerie the next time I go hunting. 1 don‘t know how I will handle it," said Beaupre from his hospital The 40â€"yearâ€"old M&M Meat employee and former Waterloo Siskin from the midâ€"1970s, called the accident a "strange situation" and is hoping that time heals all wounds, physically as well as mentally. on Nov, 4 he circumstances were too improbable for odds, and certainly could almost never happen that way again. In the victim‘s own words it was oneâ€"inâ€"aâ€"bilâ€" lion shot that wounded Steve Beaupre of Waterloo, putting the avid deer hunter and veteran hockey player on the sideâ€" lines for the next couple of months, possibly longer. Beaupre, brother of Toronto Maple Leaf goaltender Don Beaupre, now with Toronto‘s affiliate team in St. John, N.B., is resting at Hamilton General Hospital, recovering from a bullet wound received during a hunting trip near Wiarton Beaupres just happy to be alive "*I was lucky that Brian was able to control the Steve Beaupre % #A & Peter Cudhea Chronicle Staff 12 Noon â€" 6 p.mm., Including Holidays 181 King St. S., Waterloo (Continued on page 33) LA to Guelp eck, lead the em 3â€"2 in ou e know that cord, while t in the bas "We can‘t cKee. "The ach Don rown out olden Haw the CIAU