PAGE 18, WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3,1987 Anderson wins THE LOOK SAYS IT ALL. They're champions! Cap- tain Noel Bacquie holds the trophy high on behalf of the Anderson Raiders senior rugby team who recen- tly won the Lake Ontario Secondary Schools (LOSSA) championship and 'also Durham-York (DYSSAA) championship. They will be trying for the Ontario title on Thursday. Free Press photo Two Raiders teams capture DYSSAA Anderson's senior rugby team will be heading for Fletchers Fields in Toronto on Thursday to vie for the provincial crown. They earned the right to compete in the Ontario Championships by winning the gold medal at last week's Durham York Secondary Schools·(DYSSA) championships. Their first game was against Yorston breaks record Steve Yorston set a Canadian in- terscholastic record for the 110- metre hurdles in OFSAA com- petition in Hamilton last week. "It wps very close," said Henry Street High School track coach Peg Watson who watched the race. Henry's star hurdler just barely edged out a competitor with a time of 14.29 seconds for the distance in the senior boys event. Another Henry star, Andrea Bac- chiochi, had no trouble winning the senior girls' 100-metre event. She was well ahead of the field and won in a time of 14.10 seconds to become Ontario champion. Bacchiochi also had a third-place finish in the 100-metre sprint, finishing just ahead of Trafalgar Castle student Stephanie Taylor. Taylor had an off-day in the hot, humid conditions. She was second in the 200-metre, a fifth of a second behind Michelle Lynch of Toronto Oakwood. Brett Herod of Henry was second in both the senior boys' 100 and 200- metre runs. "They were very close in the 200," said Watson of the match-up between Herod and Carl Folkes of Toronto Central Tech. Watson said both actually crossed the line in the same time but Folkes had the lean to take first. Jennifer Cooper of Henry capped her outstanding track performan- ces with a third in the midget girls' 3,000 metres. Her time was 10 minutes, 57.33 seconds. The winning time, by STEVE YORSTON Nancy Hostetler of Woodstock, was 10 minutes, 47,03 seconds. Mark Bateman of Henry was six- th in junior boys' hurdles while Donna Humphrey of Henry was six- th in junior girls' high jump. Bateman won the hurdles as a midget last year. Yorston was second in his hurdles even las, year. "I'm really pleased for all gf them, it's the result of a lot of hard work," said Watson of Henry's competitors who had the best results of any secondary school i6 Durham Region. By MIKE JOHNSTON When 18-year-old Steve Yorston began his track and field career at 14 he wanted to be a high jumper. But as luck would have it his Grade 9 home room teacher at .Henry Street High School told him he looked more like a hurdler. During the next four years, Yor- ston has not only looked like a hur- dler, he is one of the very best in Canada, and he has a number of titles to prove it. In 1985, Yorston was the Canadian juvenile (under 17) 110- metre hurdle champion and in 1986 he was the Canadian junior cham- pion (19 and under). He was also ranked tenth on the senior curcuit. But by his own admission, Yor- ston is not fast. Instead, he at- tributes his success to good techniaue which he rpfines training five times a week, two hours a day after school. His best time is 14 seconds in the 110-metre hurdles at the high school level where the hurdles are 3 ft. 3 ms. At the world level, where the hurdles are 3 ft. 6 ins., Yorston's best time is 14.73 seconds. He says he would have run that race faster, but he fell, twisted his ankle, then got back up and finished the race. Last year, Yorston was a mem- ber of the Canadian track and field team. He went to Florida in 1986 for the Pan-Am games where he placed fifth. He also went to Greece for the world games. "But I didn't do too well," says Yorston. Try-outs for this year's team will be held in Edmonton in June. Yorston plans to be there. One privilege Yorston has is run- ning against the very best hurdlers in the world. He has run against Canadian hurdler Mark McCoy, who finished fourth in the 1986 Olympics. "He beat me pretty bad," recalls Yorston, who will graduate at the end of this school year. He plans on going to University of Toronto, where he will run for the varsity team. Still undecided about his future, Yorston says he will take a general arts and science course. As for Olympie competition, Yor- ston is not thinking of running the hurdles at the 1988 games in Seoul, Korea. He has his sights on the 1992 games. I Durham champion JASON BRUMLEY, a Gr. 6 student at E.A. Fairman Public School in Whitby, shows the form that led him to the Durham Region championship in the 60-metre hurdle event for 11-year-old boys. Free Press photo Teacher's tip led to Yorston success ý . ý Il ý . ý. 1