‘| wig es ——— Se ee, le le kl eC al Athlete bias Midas touch Just one week before competing at the BC Sum- mer Games, Pen Track athlete Tyler Cocker, 14, took three gold medals at the BC Junior Develop- ment Championships in Chilliwack on the week- end. Cocker aced the 1,500M steeplechase event with a personal best time of 5:06.69, finishing. a good 200 metres ahead of his nearest opponent. In the pole vault, Cocker also soared to a new PB with his winning leap of 3.05 metres. He added to his winning total by surging to the tape in the 100M hurdles in 15.39 seconds. Cocker also picked up a silver medal with an- other PB of 44.07. seconds in the 300M hurdles, and finished. third in the javelin with a throw of 29.15 metres. The budding Pen Track star also brought back fourth-place ribbons with his 2:13.6 performance in - the 800M and his 1.50-metre high jump. Blake Strukoff, 12, came back off injury to com- EOD vote Store oo Colwood Store. © 1616-Codar (HILX Road 1913 Sooke Road . au “Microna, BC " Colwood, AC. 472-6068 | Lee ATR BRAG” © Metorla Store” “Duncan Stora 3088 Dlanshard Streat, 1561 Canada Avenue. Vitoria. BC 7 Dunean, O¢ 8206148 UAB 1432. ss Stdnay Store vos oi Nanatma Stores D760 = Sth, Street ; 4128 Mastar Goad Sldnay, BC Nanatmo, IC boda . 756- 4140.0 © Ts Where To Start I orA G reat Finis i pete in the same championships, securing a silver medal in the 80M hurdles and a bronze in the 200M hurdles (times not currently available). Cocker heads to Ridge Meadows July 25 and 26 to compete in the BC Summer Games. All-stars off to Lynn Valley For the first time ever, District 7 will have rep-. resentatives competing at the July 25 to August 1 provincial Little League All-star tournament to be held this year in Lynn Valley, North Vancouver: The 12-member boys’ team consists entirely of Central Saanich players aged nine and 10, said coach Mike Irwin. “District 7 Little League encompasses Central Saanich, Sidney, Hampton, Triangle Mountain, Layritz and Esquimalt. It’s quite something to have all the players from one area,” Irwin said. The All-star team qualified by finishing first with -. a four-win, one-loss record at the District tourna- ment, held July 15-19 in Victoria. Teo Wt fenearton Cloyerite's fal i “Parksville Stare a niembier af tye Beltioh Catuenfiia Patil. fe » 2a? ee Re tar Avaletas why eves lv al Parksville, AC 9 “ qovertinenty 44 collont arritnalaled and 954-1048: ‘ "THEW poate Wann Co dinywaum Lt a ate a inpacer Hy beephig wath the uuaiticns uf Courtenay Store’ ms nf ite i laty Iwaily ‘ reat oa be how charged on all nee gaint 2230 Cliffe Avorue - = putehand to Nie dune designated Courtenay, 6¢ eollagtion sikey rhe 10 TUE eveiaget MUS agence Com ie fiver Stove opciones - 169 Manta @ Strout water : Campball River, WC; 2 : a PAT AIA We eh ‘ oa en ohm vn anuesnininaiee emer nr tener hos ‘i _» from. Central Saanich, Sidney « --and North Saanich, as well as “For ‘many of the ~ Howard Chadwick. and a girls, this was thier * handful of parents, headed out: first time at such a. _ day, five-night j journey to the ~“- White Rock Thunder in the first game of the By Lee Torgalson. ‘Peninsula News Review Raiders. “Although failing to make the final round of _ play, the team knew they'd held their own ~’ when they discovered that three of the four teams they played in the round-robin had made it to the final draw, and two of those - teams ne) in the top four at the _ of the _ seus tournament..: “I was extrememy proud - of our team,” said coach Patti _-Flanigan..“ They played very: >-owell against some very tough. “competition. For many of the] girls,.this was thier. first time at such a high level of com- =| petiton, and the really: held” | The Central Saanich Extreme girls’ ban- tam softball team headed off to. the extreme temperatures of Cranbrook to play in the ~ Provincial Championships, July 10 to 12. Fourteen. players,:“most . = coach Patti Flanigan, manager in their rented’ ‘bus: ona Six- = high level of. competi- sion and ‘they really ~The trip brought the team’ together, ° ‘she said, .to the © an point the tournament was rake ~