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classifieds 2942200 6402100 6492292 if its speed youre after the classifieds really move it sports classified a metroland community newspaper wednesday february 6 1985 patrick clippers spring big surprise faces behind the names that appear weekly in the sports pages of the tribune are familiar to stouffville hockey fans but to other readers they are unknown here is a chance to see them introducing the successful fame inter- editors mail soccer president replies to elitism dear sir regarding casey van maris letter charging the whitchurch- stouffville soccer club with elitist practices favouring competitive soccer to the detriment of the house league i am disappointed that mr van maris did not spend some time getting all the facts before rushing into print with a totally distorted view of what we are trying to achieve within bur club we asaclub are ex tremely concerned ab out house league play ers hence the reason for deciding to amalgamate with our friends in ux bridge on a one year trial basis only our other option was to enter them in the york region recreational league which is plagued with problems and might not even operate this com ing season many clubs who participated in their program last year be came disenchanted we want to provide these young people with the best possible en- i vironmment in which to participate the facili ties at stjohns school being second to mr van maris men tioned the travelling in volved but failed to point out that the york recreational house league players would be travelling to places such as aurora east gwil- limbury also bradford which is at least 40 kms from stouffville v another fact over looked by mr van maris is that 88 house league mites will be playing minisoccer all season at the mcneil fields he also fails to mention that of the other ten or more teams depending on en rolment playing out of stouffville only two the panthers and castle royals will be a com petitive teams that makes a minimum of 160 players out of a total of 248 i would also like to point out that a great deal of time and effort was spent last winter and indeed this winter in developing our play ers in an indoor program that ranged from squirt to bantam in which soc cer skills are taught to all who wish to partici pate regardless of ability mr van maris is wel come to visit my mon day night session at the ballantrae school where he willfind there is not one competitive player in attendance these boys all played in house league last year at either squirt or minor atom level should he prefer he can have the choice of a visiting baliantrae or summitview schools ev ery thursday evening where he can see house league and competitive plaayers hone their skill under the capable direc tion of roy houston arid brian bishop on the weekends we get together at stouffvil le secondary school in a friendly indoor game to try and put the skills learned into a game situation i would be the last to deny that royals and panthers are there in liberal numbers but they are mixed with house leagueplayers it is interesting to note that during mr van maris tenure as presi dent of the wssc the fol lowing was passed in the minutes 198046 and i quote that as of janu ary all gyms are to be used for a team try- outs could it be that mr van maris was the instigator of the elitist theory furthermore i am pleased to inform him that this policy has been rescinded by the present executive all gyms are now used for player- development re- gardless of skills it might also be of in terest to know that the fee for an outdoor season of house league soccer has been reduced from 35 to 22 by the time this letter is printed four stouffvil le soccer teams will have competed in the peterborough indoor tournament the teams are made up as follows the atoms consist of 100 percent house league players while the mos- quitoe team field 80 per cent house as to whether they won or lost is unimportant but one thing is sure we played the game i would sir ask that you would do the same sincerely tom morton president wssc decision unfair dear editor regarding casey- van maris letter i agree with what he said after three seasons of support ing the club a child play ing recreational soccer is now being singled out its terrible to think that a child is denied the right to play recreational soc cer instead of competi tive in his or her own town sincerely ann mckonzie stouffville national atom squad back row 1 to r tim lavell david spoorenberg team captain brandon pridham nathan brown and jay scaif front row i to r marcus milos darrin zeller jason whitebread and trevor bardell veteran skier wins gold last fridays mens day at huntsville saw former local politician bob lewis cap a determined effort with a gold medal the whitchurchstouffville yacht club and mens ski team held their annual club race along with 200 other competitors ten team members finishing up there with the best of them however from a sen timental point of view lew iss win was the most satis fying twenty four teammates from the local organization competed and along with the gold medalists dave stronach wayne new- march bill anderson mark murphy wally austin ross bannerman david isaac son and denis tanji seven won silver jack watson jim brazier brian cave gary murphy al hachey phil and peter arkley and seven bronze roger che- wins al whittaker john griffiths walt pinek brian spettigue mike arthurs and mark doyle retired ibm employee bob lewis felt elated with his award ive busted my behind to get here he claimed my greatest con cern was that they would disqualify me for age before i had an opportunity of win ning the gold soecer club indoor win not one of the four stouff ville soccer teams entered in the peterborough indoor soccer tournament man aged to win a solitary game on the first day of the tour ney which was hardly sur prising the power of the host squads especially the bantam and peewee teams was awesome however on the second day the story was different stouffvilles peewee and bantam squads showed skill and determination in securing wins in the con- bantams split pair the edwardsmurphy bantams collected their sixth playoff win last week downing port hope 72 the game not unexpectedly was rough with port hope having the distinction of col- lecting twice as many penalties as stouffville the scoring was pretty well shared singles going to kevin francis mike fergu son kent smythe rob parham kirk smythe dar- ron baston and derek hamilton picking up assists were kevin black- toppkent smythe2 brad macdonald 2 kirk smythe 2 craig stronach and rob parham in exhibition play against uxbridge on sunday both teams battled to a 99 tie which says something about the defensive lines of both teams kent smythe had a great afternoon the young team skipper fired a fourgoal sal vo while darron baston col lected a hat trick singles went to mike ferguson 2 ass and danny larmcr in on the assists were svcn hennzc kirk smythe 3 brd macdonald 2 and rob parham next playoff game is against whitby on sunday feb10 solation final ending up 3rd overall aaron massey had a good outing scoring his fourth goal of the weekend in the peewee win against woburn while vince nardi demonstrated his powerful shooting foot against pick ering in the bantam final for many new players in the wssc it was a learning experience in the art of in door soccer the club plans to enter two more tourneys prior to joining the proposed york region indoor soccer league later this year during the month of february indoor games at sdss wll be played on a saturday not sundays as scheduled times remain as published for further intormation call tom morton 6406426 or roy houston 4733541 got to hand it to the neil patrick novice clippers they are a team that re fuses to be intimidated by reputations friday night saw them pull off a come- frombehind 32 win against league leaders pickering before going on defeat ux bridge 41 in sundays away game the team has had an in different season and were not expected to get past the first round of the playoffs however as coach steve malcolm said if they keep playing like that he obviously is as surprised as everyone else at the teams sudden turnaround friday night saw picker ing open the scoring but geoff smith put in a fine solo effort to equalize just a mi nute later picking up the puck from behind his own blue line smith skated it all alone up the- ice to blast it past the pickering net- minder there was plenty of action in the second period but neither team could get the puck in the net the clippers went ahead in the third on a twoonone assault by phil pridham and ryan jefferson the pass coming from jason reesor it was pridham who found the range pickering tied it up within seconds leaving the- clip pers to keep on digging until lindsay haylow forced the pickering defence to cough up the puck from behind their own net pridham as usual was in the right spot to tuck it in but just wasnt fast enough on this oc casion his rebound getting picked up by geoff smith who made absolutely no mistake in banging it in at uxbridge the tension did not run as high but the clippers continued to play like winners coming away with a satisfying 41 win over their neighbors ryan jefferson started the clipper scoring effort by digging out the puck from behind the uxbridge net giving pridham his first of two goals the clippers remained ahead in the second period making it 20 on a beautiful shot from the blue line by smith who found the top corner of the net david mountjoy foiled the ux bridge attempt late in the period to clear the puck from their own end passing it to colter carconi who made it 30 the assist went to chad dickinson although ryan jeffer sons fast breakaway failed to produce a goal phil pridham was again in the right place to pop in the re bound sunday morning was a special occasion for kent smythe left captain of the edwardsmurphy bantam hockey team he received a cheque for 500 from ahl president gerry cole the money part of which came from the previous weeks intermediateahl game will go into the teams fundraising effort for their trip to denmark the ahl contributed 300 towards the 1000 total which was split be tween the bantams and the intermediate squad fame atoms hit winning streak the fame international atom clippers started their playoffs at port hope on jan 29 coming away with an impressive 73 win port hope opened the scoring with the clippers coming back with a great goal by david caramanico who picked up a loose puck at centre and skated in to fire it into the high side of the net port hope forged ahead again only to have the clip pers tie it up on david spoorenbergs marker when he banged in brandon pridhams rebound the assist going to jay beef hause second period action gave port hope the lead and it was jason whitebreads back hand shot on darrin zellers assist that made the tie caramanico kept plugging along the boards to finally lay a perfect pass on whitebreads stick for the winning goal marcus milos was well placed on the open side of the net to collect a perfect pass from nathan brown he made no mistake pridham again found the net this time froih whitebread and tim lavell leaving trevor bardell to round out the scoring on nathan browns assist in the previous nights game the clippers bom barded pickering 94 pick ering opened the scoring leaving whitebread to score two minutes later the assist going to brandon pridham nathan brown put the clip pers ahead 21 by the end of the first middle frame action saw goals from whitebread 2 jay scaife pridham spoorenberg milos and brown the final goal com ing from trevor lavell the other half of the fame international atom squad back row i to r darryl vanderligt jeff willis shawn wilson and jason scott front row i to r jay hause david caramanico and paul trentaduc wstm v