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Warriors tame the Lancers The Warriors gang tackle Windsor slotback Paul Paterson during their 35-7 victory Saturday. The UW Warriors defeat- ed the Windsor Lancers in an explosive first half Saturday to improve their record to 21 on the season. When the dust settled at University Stadium, the scoreboard read Waterloo 35, Windsor 7. Waterloo tailback Mike Bradley opened the scoring for the Warriors with a 30- yard run. The Warriors increased their lead to I4-0 less than a minute later after linebacker Nate Martin returned a Winsdor interception 71 s predicted by some pundits. Airlncluding myself. the sniping as started about the lack of Canada's medal success at the Olympic Games in Sydney And the finger is being firmly puinted at the lack of government funding as the chief culprll as to why the Canadian Mg mes over the athletes' village. but not over the podium of must Mthe competitions that our athletes have entered so far Anyone who has followed the Olympic mm'cmem m Canada over the past decade knows the dream has dred the death of a thousand cuts since the Seoul Games In 1988 Sam? of [he funding was all when gentle Ren gave the country a black eye m the 100 m sprint that war It's time to pay the piper for Olympic success l holdren Undvr l2 WI L' Students ",entrtrs,r"'wtodcrrts-, Adults, " Martin's defenéive efforts earned him the McGinnis player of the gape award. yards for Waterloo's second major of the first quarter Windsor collected their senses after the Warrior out- burst and did their best to limit the Warriors' pound- ing- ground game. Bradley ran for a total of 75 yards on the day and the entire offence rushed for 110 total yards. That forced the Warriors to go to the air, where quar- terback Jordie Holton passed for I48 yards on the The nip and tuck nineties took care at the rest of the dedicated por- tion of Olympic funding, when respective governments couldn't find money for education or health care. nevermind the few shillings it gave to our struggling athletes. That reversed a trend in Olympic funding that started after our medal frasco in Montreal in 1976 when we became the first host country to not mn a gold medal, But the tide had turned at the lm Angeles Games in 1984 where we set a Canadian record for the most medals ever won by this country at We repeated the feat at the Calgary Games in 1988 when the best we could do was a surprising SIIVCI medal performance by Elizabeth Manley. $6 ree LAURI ER GOLDEN HAWKS The game fizzled as the rain drizzled in the second half with both teams com- bining for IO points. The win moves theWarriors up a place in the CMU rankings to the num- ber nine spot. after Waterloo first entered the rankings in the number 10 spot last week. Warriors receiver Chris Kreibich caught both of the aerial majors for Waterloo to give his team a 32-0 lead into halftime. day, including two touch- downs. SPORTS the modern games And that Olympic legacy of prop- erly funding our athletes peaked with the Atlanta Games in 1996 BOB VRBANAC VS tlliii) "We had our chances we just took some stupid penal- ties," said Siskins head coach Jerry Harrigan. "When you play against a team like Stratford who can skate, you cant coast and latch on," The only point missing in what would have been a per- fecf record came in a 5-5 tie against Cambridge to open the season. But Stratford bounced back early in the second to cut the lead to one. he Waterloo Siskins I proved they could play with the big boys Sunday night in their 4-4 tie against Stratford, Now the just have to learn how to fanish off those good teams when they have them dawn. The Siskins entered Sunday night's game against the Cullitons unbeaten in their Ctrst four games of the season. The Siskins looked like they were going to take the two points against the perennial powerhouses from the Festival City after building a 3-1 lead in the first on goals from Tim Hall, Brent MacDermid and lohn Mitchell. The Siskjns thought they scored the backbreaker with one second to go in the sec- ond on a sensational short- Siskins still unbeaten Br Eon WBANAC Chronicle Staff [ICS when we brought home 22 medals. Our medal" totals at the 2000 Games currently stands at seven. The host country Australia':; stands at43. There have been a few lone voic- es sounding the alarm about what was happening to Canada's Olympic legacy. including Waterloo's Brent McFarlane. the head coach of Canada's Ttack and Field team. McFarlane said he would have to go out of pocket to make sure our nation's track and feld team had the proper training facilities to prepare for the games. but men that couldnt And it might be a bigger stretch to reach double digits than it was for Donovan Bailey or Bruny Surin In reach the finals of this year's 100 m sprint. com 001 The Siskins' Brent MacDermid breaks in on the left wing against Stratford Sunday night The speedy forward notched two goals. including a spectacular short-handed goal. handed breakaway goal by and responded with a solid MacDermid. but two goals effort against Stratford after less than a minute apart in wins against Brantford and the third completed the Guelph Friday and Saturday Stratford comeback. nights. The Siskins thought they prevented the overtime on a Matt Schnan goal with 12 seconds left in the game. But the goal was disallowed because of contact with a high stick. The overtime decided nothing, although the Siskins carried the balance of play. and goaltender Ryan Baksh turned in an acrobat, is stop to preserve the point. Hirrigkn was pléased with his team's play even though the gave 1q1a point. The teard was ioiafing its third game in three nights Tailgate Party starts at 12:00 Laurier vs Western Saturday September 30, 2000 2:00 Kickoff University Sldium Complete like & Skate Store minus d It'd be nice to win a gold medal at one of the games we've hosted You'd think with the $12 billion surplus the federal government generated in the rmst three months of the year. the Liberals could afford to get " their wallets, Now theres a big push to land the 2008 Olympic Games for Toronto. Here's hoping the funding IS back m place before we become a three- time loser help this year's moribund entry Denis Cordere, the Secretary of State for Sports in Canada, passed the hat around for our Olympic hopefuls earlier this year, increasing athletes stipends from $800 a month m $1.100 But ultimately " was too little too late. "He's been playing well this year," said Harrigan of Sunday night's two-goal scorer. "Hee done a good job for me." "I didn't know what lo expect tonight - I didn't know if we'd be up for the task or not," said Harrigan. "But we played pretty good, and I was happy with them." One of the players who showed off his skating legs after three consecutive games was the speedy MacDermid, who has made the transition from centre to right wing this year. BB King Street. North um 886-4340