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gqowAnittio0out0NN2iWbdnesdny,hsne27.20tt7 th his hat pulled down and his same face on, there is no mistaking Waterloo’s Terrell Alliman as a baseball player - a gamer as But the Grade 12 Bluevale stu- dent doesnt want to just be a base- ball player - he wants to be a Major league Baseball player. "I'm just trying to make it to the big leagues," said the conrtdent Alli- they're allied. That's along shot for many, but even longer odds for someone from the Great White North where baseball is a seasonal sport. But with a record number of Canadi- ans now playing in the major leagues, maybe those odds are turningamund. Canadians are also finding themselves a hot commodity in Major League Baseball's annual June Amateur Draft with Phillippe Aumor? a pitcher from Quebec. taken 1th overall by the Seattle Marinem And Amman is no excep- tion to Canada's growing reputa- tion of developing ball players ftnding themselves on baseball's shopping list the last two seasons, Hewasfirstselected bythe Mil- waukee Brewers last year. When Milwaukee failed to sign him he wentbacktothedraftthisyearand was selected by the Anaheim Angels. Not every 18-year-old can en Shamoon's punch- Bing power is starting to catch up to his prowess with the boxing glqves Now he's just hoping that the sport's politics don't knock him onL Shamoon admits he even surprised himself recently in a fight with an East Coast boxer, when he set his oppo- nent hurtling through the ring's ropes and down tbthe apron with a crushing right Major League Baseball comes calling again for Alliman His second nght in New Brunswick was even better when he stopped his oppo- nem with a damaging body Local boxer looking for his big break south of the border Activities include: - team budding - communication _ problem solvmg - counsellor shadowing - lesson planning - rvcume building & Inh‘rvxow skills Br 130an Chronicle Staff BY 30-me Otrorticiesttttr GOLDEN HAWK LEADER-INC-reg, Youth a ed 12-14 ears are i noe" g polemisz througg JS/ilk "Usually you don't hear the crowd in a nght," said the 17-year-old Resurrection student who's just rmishing up his exams. "But this time I could hear them go, 'Woo' when I hit. “That's when I knew I got him prettyetod." _ The Grade ll student said he normally wouldn't take a fight in the middle of exams because even with head gear on you never know what information might be shaken loose with one well-placed blow, But he's experienced some frus- tration with boxing in the last little while, and felt it was necessary to continue to get his name out there Kee Brewers last year, Baseball player Terrell Alliman was selected by the Anaheim Angels in Maior League Baseball's Ame Amateur Draft. tes the second consecutive year that the lS-yearold has been selected after getting picked by the Milwau- say they were selected by two major league teams - _ --, But this is something that Alli- man has been working for since he -tteosttamoooislooeiogforhisttigbreimtttetJS, REGISTRATION: ne @ www.iaurierathietics.com/camps or call 519-884-0 ext.2184 Register now, as space is limited! SPORTS took up the game as a seven-year- old. "That's always been my dream," he said. He's done his best to develop ammo that dream by playing for a num- ber of provincial clubs, like Team Ontario. when not playing for hometown teams like the Waterloo "My (3 explore their leadership n camper experrence. He only had 23 Ctghts at the time but outpointed two Americans, Adrian Wilson and Charles Irvin, to get all the way to the champi- onship fight against the U.S.'s Dominique Dolton. Dalton. the heavily-favoured U.S, champ. had 119 figttts under his belt before he even got into the ring with Shamoon. That frustration has been growing since last August when he was fighting at the Ringside World Champi- onships in Kansas City, Miss., as the Canadian champion in the junior mid- dleweight class. "He's very respected," said/he local f)ghter. " had all these peopk: coming up ”Whom RAM Junior Tigers. " was 12 years old playing with some of the best teams in the province," said Alli- man of when he started thinking hehadafutureinthegame. This year he's playing with the bigger cats down the road in Kitch- ener, as a power-hitting centre- fielder with the Panthers. The six-foot-three Amman is a five-tool player. He runs well, throwswellandgetstotheballin the gaps. At the plate he hits for power and average, although he had a bit of a struggle to get his average up at the start of the sea- “It's a wood bat league and the transition hasn't been too tough," said Alliman. "l like to swing the anyway.' "Swinging the stick is one of my better assets." said Alliman. "I like to hit the ball hard, and with authority. The thing he's working on the most is hitting the ball the othef way. That'll help keep him out of prolonged slumps while letting him see the pitch for a longer time. "It's definitely coming around," " alsb like to catch the ball and chase things len in tttt outfield.." So if he had a choice of hitting a ball out-of-the-park or to bring a home run back with an amazing Ti,, not a Lid aluminum bat fan to me and telling me this guy is good. __ _ But Shamoon wasn't just going to lay down for the heavily favoured Dalton. He asked aCanadian boxer he knew who had spanned with the champ to give him some tips on how to handle him. "I talked to a guy from Windsor who did a lot of sparring with Dalton, who's from Detroit, and I kind of listened to him," said Shannon. "He told me he's a poised boxer, he's strong. and he does a lot of power V urtrey were telling me I made it this far. and I should beproud of myself." _ . "He (old me to use my Mum!)