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Centre stage

By: Allan Besson

Posted: 07/8/2010 1:00 AM | Comments: 0 (including replies)

Centre stage

-- Canadian singles champion, Jennifer Saunders of Winnipeg has been named to Racquetball Canada's team that will compete at the International Racquetball Federation 2010 World championships in Seoul, Aug. 11-22.

At the last world championships in 2008 Saunders finished third.

Ron Brown, also from Winnipeg, will go along as a coach.

-- At its annual general meeting last weekend, Ringette Canada honored Winnipegger Alda Tait with its President Award. The award recognizes significant, but perhaps not widely known, achievements or accomplishments by members of the ringette community.

Tait began playing ringette in 1988 at the age of 61 with the St. Andrews Polar, and is a charter member of her current team, Black Ice.

-- The Canadian women's eight, which includes Winnipeg Rowing Club's Janine Hanson, won the coveted Remenham Challenge Cup at the Royal Henley Regatta, in Henley-on-Thames, England Sunday.

-- The Balmoral Hall Blazers prep-school women's hockey team has new digs.

This fall the school's entire hockey program will make the move from the Winnipeg Winter Club to the new MTS Iceplex.

As part of the agreement with the MTS Iceplex the Blazers will have a permanent dressing room. All games and practices for the varsity and junior varsity teams will be held there.

-- Selkirk archer Doris Jones finished first in the women's compound bow event at the Commonwealth Games trials competition over the weekend at Canadian Mennonite University.

Jones, along with Kevin Tataryn, who won the men's compound and Jay Lyon, who finished second in men's recurve, were all named to the team that will compete in Delhi, India at the Commonwealth Games in October.

-- France Blais-Shiokawa of the Steinbach Judo Club is off to Agadir, Morocco, Oct. 21-24, where she will represent Canada in the 57-kilogram division at the World junior championships.

Blais-Shiokawa qualified this weekend when she won the gold medal in the women's under-20 division at the junior national championships in Lethbridge. In the same age group, Manon Soulard, also of Steinbach, won bronze in the under-63 category.

Tarek Elmayergi, of the University of Winnipeg Judo Club won two silver medals. In the men's u-20 and u-17 age groups, he finished second in the over 100-kg., and over 66 kg., divisions.

Willem Pops rounded out Manitoba's medal count with a bronze in the men's u-15 66-kg. division.

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition July 8, 2010 C6

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