WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16,1989, PAGE 25 ONTARIO LACROSSE Redmen remain perfect Brooklin Redmen have picked up where they left off in the regular season, winning the first two gaines of the round-robin Ontario Lacrosse Association major division playoffs. edmen were a perfect 20-0 in the regular-season and are play- ing Peterborough and Brampton in a round-robin tournament. The top two teains will then play a best-of-seven final the winner advancing to the Mann Cup in British Columbia. Redmen beat Peterborough 12- 7 on Tuesday, Aug. 8, in a game marred by fights. With the gane two minutes old Redmen's Scott McMichael anâ Peterborough's Len Vass set the tone, as they started fighting. The game finally came to a boil in the third period as numerous fights broke out on the floor which ended up with Blane Har- rison and Jeff Brooks being tossed out of the game. The league's leading scorer Redmen snper Gary Gamt, scoredc five goals. Derek Keenan had two with singles going to Harri- son, Barry Brear, John Fusco, Eric Perroni and Jim Meredith. The next night, Redmen tra- velled to Brampton to play the Excelsiors who won only two gaim.es aIl year. But Brampton surprised Red- men on this night, holding the high-scoring Redmen to just 13 goals. Redmen won the game .13-11 but trailed 3-2 after the first period. Gaiti once again led all scorers with four goals while Keenan, Brear and Brian Nikula had two each. Fusco, Harrison and Dave McWhirterhad singles. Redmen were to play in Peter- borou h last night (after The Free ress deadline) and then Brampton at Luther Vipond Arena in Brooklin on Wednes- day, Aug. 16. WESTERN LA CROSSE Salmonbellies favored TONY JONES shows his form in the discus which helped him to a fourth-place finish at the world masters games held in DenmarkJuly 22 to Aug. 6. Jones won a porcelain (third place) medal in the 400 metres. .Fre Press photo MASTERS Tony Jones returns from world games with third in 400 A 69-year-old Whitby resident returned from the recent world masters games in Denmark with a porcelain (third place) medal in the 400-metre run. Tony Jones completed the games, held July 22-Aug. 3, with a fourth in the 100m sprint, fourth in 200m, fourth in discus and a fifth in a golf tournament. More than 6,000 athletes aged 40 and over took part in the games that included track and field, car racing and golf. For Jones, it was his third appearance in the masters games. Participants compete agairst other athletes in their own age group. Jones competed against athletes aged 65 to 69. He attended the games in 1979 and again in 1985 when he won two medals for cross country a"d a 10-km run. Jones, who runs three miles a day, became involved in track and field when the Firestone plant closed in 1980. "I knew it was closing and I decided to go back into track and field to pass the time and stay in shape, said Jones. He joined the Canadian masters in 1979 and hasn't looked back since. "Travel and sports are my passiens now," said Jones, who finances his own trips. Born in Quebec, Jones moved to Whitby 33 years ago. He has a best time of 16.09 seconds in the 100m and 36 seconds in the 200m. He has thrown the discus as fpr as 28 metres. But an 80km/h headwind in Denmark proved too much to approach his personal best, he says. Jones has never owned a car. He rides a bike and delivers flyers daily which helps to keep him in shape. "It's easy to let yourself go," said Jones, who has already pre-registered for the 1993 masters games to be held in Minneapolis, Minn. New Westminster Salmonbel- lies are favored to host tiiis year's Mann Cup after complet. ing the regular season with a 21-3 record. «They have been playing fan- tastic lacrosse,» said Howard Tsumura of NOW newspapers in New Westminster. Crouch 1st in Canada, fourth in World Games By Mike Johnston Whitb's Jamie Crouch and partner Heathaer Paterson placed fourth in roller skate dance at the recent World Games held in Karlsruhe, West Germany. The two were first in the Canadian championships held in Winnipeg in July. "We blew everyone away," said Crouch, 26, about the Canadian championships. Crouch, who has been roller skating since he was 12, was pleased with the top five finish at Karlsruhe, particularly since he and Paterson have switched to a style similar to that of an ice skating pair. They were introduced to the more sophisticated style by Mari- jane Stong who choreographed Canadian champion ice dancers Tracy Wilson and Rob McCall until they turned professional. "Mrs. Stong is very intelligent. It did not take er very long to analyze how a roller skate works and how to get the edges," is how Crouch describes his new choreo- grapher. Crouch says their three- minute, 40-second routine is a "love and chase scene,» perfor- med to Persian music. Crouch plays a prince during the routine while Paterson, por- traying a slave, is terrified o the prince's stature. "It can be mesmorizing at times,» said Crouch. The pair are now training for the world championships to be held in Roccarosa, Italy in late September. The pair will be training six days a week until the event. Crouch and Paterson placed SEPAGE 27 New Westminster was followed in the standings by Victoria at 12-12, Coquitlam (last year's Mann Cup finalists against Brooklin Redmen) at 11-13, Van- couver at 9-15 and Richmond 7-17. New Westminster and Vancou- ver are currently involved in a best-of-seven semi-final with New Westminster up 3-1 in games. Coquitlam is shocking Victoria, leading that series 2-1. «Coquitlam is starting to im- prove. But Jim Veltnan (last year's leading scorer out west) is not having a good season and so neither are Coquitlaim," said Tsumura. Brooklin Redmen are favbred to represent the east in this year's final. But Tsumura warns that New Westminster has been getting stronger with each game it plays. "The team is concentrating on team defence for the playoffs. They don't want to get into shoo- touts,"he said. He said if Redinen advance, they will havé to watch this ear's western seoring leader, ew Westminster's Geordie Dean, who had 26 goals and 75 assists for 101 points in 22 games. "Dean has been consistent all year, as have New Westminster," said Tsumura. He said New Westminster has solid goaltending in Shawn Qui- lan and Rod Banister. The pair surrendered 192 goals this year. New Westminster also had this year's rookie of thé year in Mike Kettles, who had 17 goals and 17 assists. JERRY FITZGERALD of Brooklin Redmen lets a ,shot go during a recent game. Redmen play Brampton at Luther Vipond Arena tonight (Wed- nesday) in their fourth game of the round-robin playoff. i ~ i~k ~4~i.3 ~ I'f..'L.~d