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TheReview Wednesday, July 17,1991 — A19

Peninsula rowers bound Slo-pitch feam enters nationals
for world juniors in Spain

by Girard Hengen
The Review

Peninsula residents Adam Parfitt
and Gavin McKay are off to Spain
this month to row for Canada after
being picked for the national juni-
or team.

And Caroline Morris, a third
local junior rower, is training for
national-caliber competitions in
Eastern Canada this summer, fore-
going a chance for a spot on the
national team.

Parfitt and Morris were selected
for the boys’ junior team after
intensive workouts last week at
Brentwood College at Mill Bay.

McKay, 16, who is entering
Grade 11 at Stelly’s Secondary.
School, was the coxswain on the
winning Junior A men’s fours with
cox during the recent Canadian
junior championships held at
Shawnigan Lake.

Coaches decided to send his
crew of five plus one alternate to
the World Junior championships,
Aug. 1-4 in Barcelona, Spain.

Parfitt, a 17-year-old going into
Grade 12 at Parkland Secondary

School, was hoping for that berth

as an alternate. He got more than
he bargained for.

A series of trial races was held
last Monday, after which Parfitt
was selected to row in singles plus
be the alternate for the coxed fours.

“Because I can row singles, I
will be going to the worlds,” he
said. “I’m very pleased. It’s quite
an honor.”

“T’ve never been off the conti-
nent before, so it will be very
exciting, a new experience,” he
Said.

Parfitt’s priority is the coxed
four, so if there is a problem with
one of the crew, he would assume
that spot over the singles.

Either way suits him, he said,
noting his chances of grabbing a
medal are better with the coxed
four unit.

McKay and Parfitt are doing
some high-altitude training at
Whistler, and will likely train at
Brentwood College until July 23,
when they leave for Spain.

Junior national rowers are
required to foot the bill for their
trip to the tune of almost $3,000.
Parfitt has been trying to raise
funds locally, approaching mer-
chants and companies for support.

Next year, the world juniors is in
Montreal, and one rower aiming
for that meet is Caroline Morris, a
15-year-old Parkland student.

She was a triple gold medalist at
the Canadian juniors, but the high
cost of going to Spain means she
will stay closer to home and com-
pete in Canada this summer.

She won the women’s Junior B
(16 and under) singles and dou-
bles, and was a member of the
gold-medal winning Junior A (18
and under) women’s quad team.

Her quad team was asked to try
out for the junior national squad,
but partly because of cost, they
opted to train and travel with UVic
teams instead, racing against seni-
Or rowers.

“Obviously we would get good
competition (in Spain), but it is a
lot cheaper to do it this way and
just as good experience,” she said.

On her agenda in August are the
nationals in Montreal and an invi-
tational in St. Catharines, Ont.

A Sidney slo-pitch team is head-
ing to Manitoba next month for a
national mixed championship
tourmament.

Ron’s Disposals Mixed Nuts has
entered the mixed recreational
division of an August long week-
end tournament in Beausejour,
Man.

The event is sponsored by Slo-
pitch National, a co-ordinating
body for the sport.

“It’s the first time any team in
Sidney has been to the nationals, I
would suspect,” said coach Ron
Thynne.

It’s also the club’s first out-of-
province tournament.

“We certainly want to go there
and make a decent showing,” he
said. “We don’t want to drive all
the way to Manitoba and get
knocked out of the tourmament on
the first day.”

The team has been gearing up
all year for the nationals. It has
been organizing tournaments to
raise funds rather than play in
them.

“We got extra players who had
played in the past so that the
number of men and women is
equal,”” said Thynne.

The team is usually on top in the
Sidney league, but this year it is
hovering around the 500 mark as
it prepares for the nationals.

Ron’s Disposals qualified for
the nationals by winning their
league tournament last Labour
Day weekend. That event was
sanctioned by Slo-pitch National,
allowing them to advance to other

‘Slo-pitch National tournaments.

* The team has raised some funds
to date, but is approaching mer-
chants in Sidney for more dona-
tions to cover costs for the tip.

One bad hole keeps Eeg out of top 10

One bad hole did it for Sidney
golfer Kurt Eeg, who finished 19th
at the B.C. junior men’s champi-
onships earlier this month.

Eeg and Mike Wagnor, also of
Sidney, made the tip to the Cran-
brook Golf and Country Club for
the four-day, 72-hole event.

Eeg would probably prefer not
to recount one hole in particular.

“I played bad on the 71st hole,
and that was it,” he said last week.

Eeg had been among or near the
top 10 on the leader’s board

Local players
among leaders

Three teams comprised of
Peninsula volleyball players
placed among the leaders at the
Instinct Invitational mixed triples
tournament July 7 in Windsor
Park.

The tournament was part of a
series organized by the HtO Got-
cha men’s team.

In the superjock division, the
team of Justin and Dylan Gayler
and Andrea Lindall narrowly lost
in the final.

They were beaten 12-10, 8-11,
13-11. In the final match, they
were up 9-2 but couldn’t put the
game away, said tournament orga-
nizer Lome Chan.

Another team lost the final in
the pro division.

Chan, Mike Toakley, Simon
Bright and Paula Homberger were
defeated 11-8, 13-11.

A third Peninsula team consist-
ing of Lara Melville, Mike McCul-
loch and Steve Sran was fourth in
the pro division. ~

The next HtO mixed triples
tourney goes in two weeks.

throughout the week. But on the
17th hole of the final round July 5,
he shot two balls out of bounds
and carded a 10.

“That one bad hole did it to
me,” he said, noting he could have
placed sixth or seventh had he
recorded a par.

His score of 305 placed him 14
strokes behind the leader. Round-
by-round he shot 77, 73, 75 and
80.

Meanwhile, Wagnor’s final
score was 307. He was fairly

consistent, with rounds of 78, 76,
77 and 76.

On the Canadian Pro circuit, Ed
Beauchemin, a Glen Meadows
pro, placed in the money at the
Manitoba Open in Winnipeg last
weekend.

His 72-hole score of 287 netted
him a $200 paycheque.

Beauchemin was on a steady
course over the first three days,
carding scores of 69, 73 and 70.
However, he had a 75 Sunday on
the par-72 course.

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