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w sdss prepares for first fitness challenge by brian kirlik sports editor stouffville district secondary school will hold its firstever interschool fit ness challenge on thursday may 30 although sdss has held its own simi lar fitness competition within the school for the past several years this is the first time such a competition has been held this is the first time there will have ever been a fitness challenge said the competitions organizer dave connell i think its going to be a classy event ive had this in mind for several years said the boys physical educa tion department head i expect this will turn into an annual event as things stand now five teams in cluding sdss will compete in the chal lenges four events sutton aurora newmarket and don head have all con firmed their attendance while king city and woodbridge are trying to find the full complement of eight competitors im happy that there will be five teams connell said im sure 40 peo ple will keep us busy every team entered must have three male and female students in addition to one male and one female teacher according to connell talking the female teachers into the competition has been a problem for some schools a handful of sdss students and teachers are currently training with the hopes of making the final eight team trials are scheduled for may 27 the fitness challenge consists of four events twomile run ropeclimb for speed twominute straddle jumps and twominute situps as for an early favorite connell says its hard to pinpoint a frontrunner be cause the competition has never been held before- although he expects his charges will provide stiff competition for the visitors meanwhile sdsss annual fitness competition is slated for this thursday and friday this years competition will feature a girls draw for the first time held over three days the competition includes the following events chinups dips ropeclimb sargents jump shut tle run situps skipping squat thrusts staddle jumps and a twomile run i 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ladies team finished in second spot in the womens draw after losing a hardfought battle to curlys from oshawa hobies was a good team said team spokesman marvin betz we just play ed steadily we were hitting the ball bet ter than they were betz was actually trailing 42 midway through the game when gary grant hit a solo homerun that is possibly still rolling that homerun was one of the spark ing points of the game said betz itgot the guys going again we were getting the key hits to not leave the guyson base he explained weve got some new people on the team this year and their confidence just kept getting better said betz we got on a roll and kept going as for the rest of the threeday tourney organizer paul murray said mat aside from a few minor problems every thing went very much according to plan noting that the competition was very competitive after fielding a sharply hit ground ball to third base peter evans is up and throwing to to first base for the out betz never lost a game during the raiders tourney they also recorded a couple of shutouts en route to their championship brian kirlik behind two strong pitch ing performances from lynda belisle the ralph spademan bantam girls softball team has won their first two regular season games in the scarborough softball association in their seasonopener in oshawa stouffville came home with a convincing 243 victory and plenty of confi dence belisle went the distance on the mound scattering five singles stouf f villes big inning was the third where kim harpers threerun tri ple hilighted an eightrun explosion i didnt think wed beat oshawa by a score like that said a suprised cliff dunkeld the teams coach the girls have really got their confidence built up much of the credit for the girls fast start has to go to their nineweek spring training period says dunk eld the other teams will catch up though the following night at home stouffville battered unionville pitching en route to a 165 win once again belisle turned in an excel lent pitching performance allowing only three hits while striking out seven after scoring five runs in their first two atbats stouffville counted six runs in the third behind kelly watlings grandslam aside from the players already mentioned the rest of this years roster includes leanna boyd karen cor ner amanda devlin catherine dunkeld stacey evans jennifer hathaway karen lanning liz leman shawn morrison vicki smith debra surman and lisa weatherill lisa haylow and karey white i are on the reserved list the team will host don victoria for their fourth game tonight wednesday 23 at 830 pm sports shorts markham minor football the markham minor football league is still looking for players in its atom and bantam divisions all equipment is supplied for the 95bantam registration fee and the 85- atom and peewee fee bantams must be 15 to 17 years and weigh no more than 175 pds while atoms are 10 to 12 years and the maximum weight is 105 pds for more information call paul pendrith at 4775818 mite and termite soccer the whitchurchstouffville soccer clubs house league program for young children begins next week for seven and eight year olds there is the mite division for four five and six year olds their is the termite division the emph asis of this league is fun and development of soccer skills the registration fee is 22 and includes a team photo and uniform all games are played on tuesdays and thursdays at the fields beside mcneils registration forms can be picked up at the recreation office stouffville figure skating the stouffville figure skating club elected their new executive for 198586 shirley caterer is the new president vicepresident marilyn ferguson secretary sharon up ton treasurer dianne white pro liason lois barker test chairman joan hamilton patch jane hachey newsletter wendy penny powerskating penny frederick publicity vikki davia social elizabeth fraser telephone maris anderson purchasing joyce villeneuve there is still an opening in ways and means legion ladies banquet the legion ladies bowling league held their annual awards night recently the playoff winners for this year were anne gottschalk joanne gunther anne mcllmoyle norma tranmer christine king and sylvia bishop barb zellers had the high average debbie rennie had the high triple and the high single went to anne mcllmoyle win ners of the auxiliary trophy were debbie rennie opal lehman gladys lamoreaux ruth winterstein and karen vanderhenne nans anter a magical place it is undoubtedly the last place in north america where baseball has remained simply a game there are no drug problems no multimillion multiyear contracts and no strike threats in cooper- stown ny the home of major league baseballs national baseball hall of fame and museum why this sleepy little hamlet doesnt even have a major league team but for baseball fans around the continent cooperstown is the heart and soul of americas national pastime it has been since abner double- day first invented the game on the former elihu phinney cow pasture in cooperstown back in 1839 a baseball fan for as long as i can remember i took a trip to cooperstown recently to discover base balls illustrious history after a sixhour drive and a night of anticipation cooperstown was everything i had hoped for from the first handmade baseball to babe ruths bowling ball to the lineup card from carl zastrzemskis recordbreaking 3299 game the hall of fame has immortalized baseballs past and pre sent you have to see it to believe it baseballs shrine is a tribute to the game and the people who played it the hall of fame is as american as hulkhogan and bruce springsteen south of the 49th athletes are worshipped north of the border theyre chastised the nhls hockey hall of fame is a garbage dump compared to base balls museum you could spend three days wandering through the exhibits of cooperstown after three minutes in the hockey hall of fame youre bored to tears i mean gordie howe and bobby orr were great hockey players but babe ruth and lou gehrig are legends even though they have gone to the great bullpen in the sky no need to be suprised canadian attitudes toward sports stinks like a great big pile of sweaty sweat socks anyway elihu phinneys cow pasture is today abner doubleday field a quaint 10000seat sta dium located one block from the hall of fame here where the game was first played ball play ers have gathered once each year since 1940 for the hall of fame game between an american and national league club a light drizzle was falling on a dark sunday morn ing when i hopped the fence of doubleday field to go stand on the pitching mound the bases were loaded in the bottom of the ninth with two out guess who was standing in the batters box stouffville panthers face tough teams in tourney in a tuneup for their regu lar season which begins this wednesday the stouffville panthers competed in last weekends mississauga tournament and although they failed to qualify for the medal round coach alfons rub- bens is still satisfied with his teams development overall it was a good ex perience in meeting quality teams said rubbens all of the players are accepting the challenge and are trying to get better in their first game the pantcrs shutout kitchener 20 on goals by guy biadi and wcs barbour it was a super game said rub bens they played very very well the competition in their second match was much tougher and the pantcrs lost sports schedule after a month of hibernation stouffvilles sum mer sports scene is once again getting into gear with the soccer and baseball seasons beginning this week a full slate of games is scheduled for the soccer club the mosquito boys kickoff their season at home on wednesday may 22 against king city the minor peewee b team is ready for their may 23rd homeopener against markham stouffvilles minor peewee panthers will start their home schedule on june 6 against woodbridge on the baseball front the bantam girls will try to improve on their 20 record at home on may 22 against don victoria at 830 pm 51 despite trailing wexford 21 at the half a 11 tie with chingacousy gave the panthers second spot in their fourteam divi sion behind wexford while rubbens says his team is constantly impro ving at this stage not all of the players are geared up to the tougher competition im trying to play theyve got to leam ab out the tougher part of the game he says this is the year youve got to separate the boys from the men the panthers will kickoff their season on may 23 in richmond hill m