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w SPORTS Perroni, Hood lead Andersoôn CVI BRETTHEROD has the baton for the anchor leg of -Henry Street High School's first-place finish ini the 4- by-100 relay ini LOSSA competition last week. With Herod on the team were Steve Yorston, Mark Bateman and Bob Linkiater. Free Press photo Henryteam takes second at LOSSA Henry Street Hfigb Scbool' big She narrowly missed another vic- three in track and field - Brett tory in the 100-metre sprint, placing Herod, Steve Yorston and Andrea second to Stephanie Taylor of Bachiocehi - amassed seven vic- Trafalgar Castle Sebool in Whitby. tories in individual events to lead Botb had a time of 12.7 seconds in the Witby school to a second-place thue event. finish overail in last week's LOSSA Bacchiocchi added a fourth-place competition. finish in the 200-metre levent, also Herod spril to the tape in 11.1 won by Taylor. Bacchiocchi was seconds in the 100-metre event and second in the 100-metre hurdles in thei éaptured the 200-metre event last year's junior nationals and ini a tirne of 22.3 seconds. placed second this year in the On- He ,was third in the il-metre tario indoor 60-metre hurdies. hurdies, an 'event won by bis teammate in the senior boys class, b e k Steve Yorston. Taylor bek Yorston won the event in 15.3 seconds, hall a second ahead of the second-place finisher. Yorston is two records botb the Ontario and Canadian juno r champion in the event and was a member of the world junior Stephamie Taylor of Trafalgar team which competed in Athens, Castle School broke two records in Greece. He was fiftb as a member LOSSA competition Iast week at of Canada's Pan Anierican junior Oshawa Civic Stadium. team. Taylor won the senior 200-metre Yorston, who had previotisly won run with a meet record tirne of 25.4 15 medals in LOSSA coinpetition, seconds. She had earlier broken the also won the 400-metre hurdles in a 400-metre record with a tume of one time of 57.8 seconds. minute and a hall second for the Yorston and Herod teamed witb distance. Bob Linkiater and junior Mark She edged Henry Street Higb Bateman to win the 4-by-100 relay School's -Andrea Bacchiocchi to event for Henry. capture the 100-metre event and Yorston, Herod and Linkiater her third- gold at LOSSA. Both ran joined junior Craig Donaldson to the distance in 12.7 seconds. take second i the 4-by-40 relay Anya Smith of Trafalgar Castle event. almost matched' ber teammate's Bacchioccbi, another member of performance as she won two levents Canada's world junior team, won in junior girl's competition. Smith ber specialtY, the 100-Metre hurd1es won 'the 400-metres and the 200- forsemorgirlslast week..~. r~j Anderson CVI's junior girls had five firsts, including two by Suzan- ne Perroni, to lead the school to a fourth place- finish overalln LOSSA track and field competition last week. in al, 30 Anderson students had top-six. finishes to qualify for DYSSA competition this week. "We're really pleased," said Barb Dillon, one of four coaches of this year's team. "Somne have been working extremely hard, and our distance runners have been really strong." Perroni won the junior girls 400- metre hurdies and long jump and was second in the 80-metre hurdies. Joanne Hood won both the 800- metre and 1500-metre distance events for girls of midget age. With continued- strong performances, she could move on to all-Ontario competition. Michelle Primeau won the junior girls' shotput, was third in discus and fifth in javelin. Stephanie Sears won the junior discus and Selena Tsai, junior javelin. Donna Petri was third in the 800, 1500 and 3000-metre events for junior girls. Karen Clark was four- th in the 3000 and Jennifer Roy, six- th, to give Anderson three of the top six finishes in the distance event for junior girls. Jason Gurd was third in both the 1500 and 3000 for junior boys and fif- th in the 800. Teammate Dave Hun- ter was fourth in the 1500. Anderson, runners took three of the top five places in the steeplechase event, open to al ages. Dave Carroll was third, Colin Lacv fourth and Steve Wing, fifth. Hood's two firsts and second- place finish led a strong showing by Anderson's. midget age com- petitors. jim McCuiluxn was second in long jump, Melissa Vernhoeff second in high jump, Gene Rainey third in javelin,. Janice Nunney second in duscus and sixth in javelin, Stacy Guymer fourth in javelin, Keith Primeail fourth in discus and Onika Neil sixth in 100- metre. Bryce Johnson was fifth in shot- put and javelin and sixth in diseus. Sylvia Watson was third in the 3000, fourth in the Î500 and sixth in the 800. Angie Liskled Anderson senior competitors with a second in hîgh jump and third in long jump. An- Whitby gymnast Lori Strong was selected athlete of the month for April by the Sports Federation of Canada on Monday for outstanding preformances at two European meets. Strong, 14, a Gr. 9 student at An- derson Collegiate, received the award, a plaque, and a return ticket to anywhere in the world, at a ceremony in Toronto on Monday. During April, at a meet in Hungary, Strong placed first overail, with'a first on the floor routine, a second on the beam and a third on the vault. drew Skinner was second in javelin. Tracey Desilva' was fourth in the triple jump, open to -ail ages. Shirley Tsai was fifth in javelin. The Anderson girls' team was fourth in the 4-by-100 relay and six- th in the 4-by-40. Then at a meet in Germany, she again placed first overaîl, with a first place on the vault and a first on the bars. She also placed first in the mixed pàirs with Mike Inglis, a Toronto gymnast. "It felt really good," said Strong of- the award. "It is the first time anyone from the Canadian Gymnastic Federation has won an award like that."Y Strong lef t Wednesday morning for her. next meet, the Canadian Nationals in Winnipeg. The finals wil be televised on Sunday. Warriors oinrt game The Whitby Warriors junior A lacrosse team got the 1987 season underway on a winning note last week beating -St. Catharines 12-7 on Friday night. " We are picking up just wbere we left off last year, " said coach Bryce Jordan about the team's perfor- mance. Jordan said the team seerned a bit "rusty" and "had a lot more scoring. opportunities than the score indicates. " Bill Calan lead the scoring for Wbitby, putting tbree behind the St. Catharines goaltender. Adding two each were Rich Diamnond, Greg VanSickie and Scott Boyd. Dave Sachko was in net for the Warriors. Jordan says the team stil has four players above the limit witb two late corners trying out this week. RICHARD WEST of Anderson CVI at- take another tempts* to clear the bar at a height of York (DYSSA 1.76 metres in the junior boys high after a third-]p jump event at LOSSA competition last high jump eve week at, Oshawa Civie Stadium. He'l1 The 'two are Doug Mumford of Oshawa, who has just finished playing field lacrosse at a sebool in the United- States, and Craig McLennan fromn Orillia. "I expect tbem to be out in good form this week," said Jordan. Wbile it wil not be absolutely necessary, Jordan said he should have the team pared down by the end of the week. "We still have to round out the three top lines and choose a four- thi," behésaid. The next two games for the Warriors are on the road. Tbey play Bay Area on Tbursday nigbt and Brampton, Frday. Their home -,opener is Wed- nesday, May 20 against Peter- borough, last years' Minto Cup champions. The game starts at .8 p.m. at Iroquois Park arena. crack at it in Durham- %A) competition this week place finish in the LOSSA ent. Free PËées piiot Strong is top athiete ivw rILIM Omo l le