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Junior Eagles named to alll star team

Despite their team’s recent
checkered form, three Peninsula
Junior B Eagles hockey players
have been selected to play on an
all-star team against the Victoria
Warriors, Feb. 7.

Representing the South Van-
couver Island Junior Hockey
League will be offensive players
Rob Olson and Jim Malkewich,
joined by defenceman Eric Ojala.

Eagles manager Jim Townley
said the three players were named
to the all-star team recently for
their skill and depth of experience.

Olson has strong goal-scoring
potential but has yet to recapture
the great form he showed last
season when he became the
league’s top marksman with 50
goals.

As of January 10, Olson stood
13th in this season’s league points
scoring race, with 25 goals and 21
assists for 46 poimts.

One spot ahead of Olson was
Malkewich, with 21 goals and 27

assists for 48 points.

Despite being a defenceman,
Ojala is 22nd in the points stand-
ings, with 17 goals and 14 assists
for 31 points.

Also, a fourth Eagles player is
expected to be named to the all-
Star team later this week, for the
showdown to be played in Sooke.

In their most recent game, the
Eagles fell victim to high-flying
league leader Kerry Park with an
11-6 loss, Jan. 22.

Kerry Park was quick to exploit
some weakness in the Eagles’
defence as the visitors put on a
textbook display of hard-driving
attacking hockey, Townley said.

However, it took a while before
Kerry Park took over complete
control of the game, he said.

At the end of the first period, the
Eagles only trailed 3-2 but the
second period saw the visitors
widen their lead to 6-4.

Despite keeping the game com-

Organizers optimistic about

A tennis league that will start up
at the Panorama Leisure Centre
could make the area a future
hotbed of talented junior tennis
players.

That’s the goal of the leisure
centre’s nationally-ranked Dutch
tennis coach Greg Diemer, 24,
who 1s the driving force behind the
scheme.

“We hope to produce some top

national and international players
from the Junior Development pro-
gram,” he said.
_ Diemer hopes talented young-
sters who graduate from Pano-
rama’s year-round introductory
tennis programs will hone their
competitive skills as a select group
of Junior Development players.

“So many times players get a
chance to really develop their
playing with tennis lessons but
they never get a chance to put
them to use in competition,” he
said.

A Junior Development program
exists for about 30 of the top junior
tennis players on the Peninsula,
which is coached on Sunday
nights by Diemer and his assistant
— Parkland graduate Sean Hem.

“Only the best of these junior
players will be picked for the
league team but the bigger the
league gets the more players will
get a chance to compete,” Diemer
said.

If all goes well, the league
should start up next fall and

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involve matches against teams
from Cedar Hill, Oak Bay and the
SMUS Racquet Club in Victoria.

Four players will represent each
region — two girls and two boys
— who will each play a singles
match and a doubles game in the
league meets.

Expected to last about six
weeks, the league should act as a
springboard for players who want
to go on to bigger competitions,
Diemer said.

As a warm-up to this pioneering
project, which could be the first
Junior Development league ever in
Greater Victoria, the Panorama
Leisure Centre is planning an
‘open’ tournament in early April,
he said.

Included among the current crop
of Junior Development players
who play at the leisure centree is
Michael Lachelt, 13, who recently
reached the finals in his age group
at the prestigious Tennis B.C.
Junior Indoor Number Five open
‘tournament in Vancouver.

For more information on how to
join up for the next regular tennis
program at the Panorama Leisure
Centre — which will hold pre-
registration on Tuesday — call
656-TOSS.

Also, anyone who doesn’t need
the lessons but still wants to be
considered for the Junior Develop-
ment program is welcome to have
a try-out, Diemer said.

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petitive until the last period, the
Eagles saw their level of confi-
dence melt away in the last 20
minutes — and that’s when Kerry
Park scored most of its goals,

“After the second period we
just ran out of steam,” Townley
said.

~The players don’t realize that if
they maintain the intensity we
have enough talent to win some of
these games.”

The absence of number-one-
choice goaltender Cory Volk —
due to an injury — also hurt the
Eagles’ defence, he said.

Stand-in goaltender Reg Glad-
stone looked worn down after
playing so many consecutive
league games this season.

And the rest of the defensive

line-up showed Kerry Park far too
much respect, Townley said.

“We need to get a little meaner
in defence. Right now we're just
too polite,” he said.

tennis league

For more information, call
Diemer or Joan Beattie at 656-
276

Simultaneous
kick insures Win

The Peninsula McDonald’s
Shakers soccer team blitzed the
Gorge Royals 8-1 at Blue Heron
Park, Saturday.

The Division 7B North Penin-
sula team turned in a fine display
of teamwork and attacking soccer
to earn a well-deserved victory, a
team spokesman said.

The Shakers took control early
on in the game with two goals
from Tyler Walker, who also
earned an assist on the third goal,
which was netted by Reagan Daly.

Early in the second half, Gorge
fought back to score a single goal
but its comeback was shortlived,
he said.

Colin Timms scored the Shak-
ers’ fourth goal soon after and
Daly notched his second goal of
the game to help sink the Gorge
players’ hopes even further.

Chad Hastings then-added his
name to the scoreboard and
Timms followed up with a goal
that eamed him a hat trick.

The final Peninsula goal proved
to be a joint effort by Ryan Fisher
and Andrew Hill, who both kicked
the ball simultaneously to beat
Gorge’s hapless goalkeeper for the
eighth time.

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