Sports Runners miss national feam spots Local runners with ambitions of making the Canadian cross coun- . fry running team came up short at the team’s trials Saturday. The trials were held at Beacon Hill Park, and Peninsula Track Club athletes Sarah Thomber and Chad DePol failed in their bids to make the team, which will com- pete at the world championships in Boston in March. Competing in the junior wom- en’s category, Thormber, 16, placed ninth with a time of 15 minutes, 8.6 seconds. x The top two finishers qualified for the worlds, while the next two had the option of competing if they paid their own way. Thomber was about 30 seconds behind the third-place runner in the race, which covered 4,000 metres. Club coach Tom Michell said the result was disappointing because Thornber would normally be expected to place in the top four or five. However, he said she suffered a bout of strep throat over the last \ PUTTING A SKATER through a test is Patrick O’Brien, coach of the Peninsula Figure Skating Club, Sunday at the Panorama. Club skaters to pass tests were Brianna Murphy and Karla Hitchcock (pre-figure), Amy Simpson (first figure), Irene Stevens (Swing, Fiesta, Willow) and Tiffany Pettett (European Waltz). GIRARD HENGEN photo Two losses for Bantams Two tough exhibition games against a strong Nanaimo team led to two losses for the Peninsula Sidney Pharmasave Bantam AA Rep Eagles hockey team on the weekend. The Eagles played a home-and- home series with the Nanaimo AAA Clippers, losing 6-2 Satur- day at the Panorama and 3-1 Sunday in Nanaimo. A well-played second period put the game away for the Clippers in the first game. Up 1-0 after the first period, the Clippers scored three unanswered markers in the second to cary a 4-0 lead into the third. Ben Thomber got the two Eagle goals in the final frame. Also playing strong games and eaming assists were Geoff Moffat, Cam Green and Remy Saville. Sunday’s game was a stronger effort for the Eagles, said club spokesman Graham Mitchell. It was a tight-checking and hard-hitting game which featured a missed penalty shot by Thornber. He played a strong game, earning one assist, as did Tony Ward and Scott Garrick, Peninsula’s goal Scorer. Goalie Craig Pelton was solid in goal throughout. RONS DISPOSAL WE RECYCLE Cardboard, Paper Plastic 652-6242 r two weeks, and’ “she lost a lot of her conditioning. “That was a very poor time to be sick,” he said, noting she didn’t have the stamina to stay with the frontrunners. However, he says Thomber has two years remaining to try for a berth on the junior team, which has an age limit of 18 and under. DePol, 19, wound up in 21st place in the tough senior men’s class, despite running the final half of the race with one shoe. He covered the 12,000-m course in 39:22.6. DePol was second in the recent Central Saanich Pioneer 8K Run, but he couldn’t carry the momen- tum from this showing into the national trials. He had to ditch one of his spikes about half way through because he was having problems with it. The ‘race was an introduction to the senior men’s circuit for DePol, who graduated from the junior men’s division. Other Pen Track athletes com- peting were Angela Chalmers and Cheryl Murphy, who finished fifth and 17th respectively in the senior women’s category. Meanwhile, earlier this month, two Pen Track minners were near the top of the field at the Cedar 15K road race near Nanaimo. The race, held Jan. 26, was the second in the Thrifty Foods Island Road Race Series. The Pioneer 8K was the first of the series. Lisa MacBeth was the top wom- en’s runner, completing the course in 55 minutes, 56 seconds. She was also first in the 20-29 age group. Club coach Mike Creery was second overall for men. 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