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r last chance to sign up for hockey b2 sports classified minor ball chief says thanks see letterb2 second section a metroland community newspaper wednesday september 10 1986 50000 offer goodwood player couldnt refuse shane redshaw v- by kelly connelly sports editor signing with an nhl team is a rare thing for most junior players but goodwoods shane redshaw is half way there the 20yearold forward with the mike bossy magic in front of the net is now a western michigan bronco he turned down five other american colleges to accept a fouryear scholarship worth over 50000 us the tribune talked with redshaw at his dorm in western michi gan last thursday the newest bronco had just begun an intensive twoweek land training program with his team and attended first day of classes hes majoring in physical education and biology western michigan which lost to ohio state in the central collegi ate hockey association ccha quarterfinals last season has high hopes for its canadian import big shoes to fill rather than retire exbronco sensation dan dorions sweater the team decided to let redshaw wear the much lauded number 17 dorion is now a new jersey devil i think they were going to retire dans sweater its pretty great they gave it to me i hope it gives me luck said the former uxbridge bruin who paced pickering to the metro junior b cham pionship last year pickerings leading scorer with 62 goals and rated the most valuable player during the playoffs a modest redshaw reflected i guess i get in the right place at the right time and ive always had good wingers and centres to help me out in 198485 the 170lb left winger he plays right wing oddly enough was the top goalgetter on markham travelways junior b franchise prior to that he won just about every scoring title on his minor hockey teams seventyfive goals in one season was not unusual for the small guy a late bloomer who grew to 61 in the last year almost 10 years ago redshaw beat out the finest shooters in the metro toronto hockey league mthl at a pressurepacked show down event for atomaged players and appeared on hockey night in canadas intermission he was always a hell of a skater he spent a lot of hours roller skating in our basement and he was playing novice when he was see redshawb2 coach says european tour next stop for jr c bruins theuxbridgc bruins may be going international this year secondyear coach randy hall said he plans to take the junior c hockey squad on a european tour at christmas the twoweek trip would include five or six exhibi tion games with stops in france england west germany austria and possibly italy last year we decided to do something a little different this season explained hall the guys are up for it weve had a team meeting and weve made contacts to set up the trip hall himself is no stranger to european hockey tours in 1982 he played for a senior select team in toronto which travelled to eng land and scotland it was a great experience he recalled last year was my first year coaching the bruins i just wanted to coach the team and get my feet wet hall did more than get his feet wet the bruins went from a basement franchise to a top con tender in the ontario hockey league he suggested the europe excur sion couldnt happen at a better time and it will be an incentive for players wishing to tryout or re turn to the club stouffville centre jeff christen- sen and defenceman eric beam are expected to attend training camp local boys lee brown and ken burrows will likely return to the lineup the bruins hope to raise 15000 for the trip through various fun- draising drives players will be selling christmas trees at far mer jacks and uxbridge will host a hockey tournament in october tryouts last opportunity to tryout for the bruins is saturday sept 13 8 pm to 10 pm catholic youth soccer players make stouffville skipper proud stouffvilles frank fiore is one proud soccer coach his atom team st francis dassisi in only its first season in the competitive catholic youth organization league was runner- up in the playoff championship last weekend played at keelesdale park in toronto the final game was a 50 romp for greek club and six year veterans yiannoulis although fiores team was shut out the squads impressive 1322 season re cord softened the final blow i never expected wed finish in second place were only a first sea son club while yiannoulis has been in the league the last six years he explained however yiannoulis apparently recruited new players for its lineup on saturday which upset fiore we beat them twice and tied them once this season on saturday we didnt recognize the kids on their team any more im sad about this but its too late to protest eight stouffville boys play on the st francis squad they include captain john fiore dean ilynos paul dilucia mike cardilla stephen dannunzio paul zoffra- nieri angelo cairo and scott hynes all attend st marks school in stouffville most of the players when they joined didnt know much about soc cer 1ni very proud of the kids and the way they picked it up said fiore who was assisted by gabe guadagno he noted thai many opponents were impressed with his teams winning record the black and while striped squad will be back next year and may even do some travelling out of the province and country hinted the coach catholic youth team learns quickly not bad for a first season eight stouffville players helped st francis dassisi to a second place finish in the 10 team catholic youth organization playoffs last saturday back row stouffville players icfo paul zoffranieri scoll forsythc mike cardillo steve dinunzio angelo cairo john fiorc paul di lucia dean hynes front row jorge almeida carmine lombardo frank milioti angelo fazari vincc fazari kelly connelly slopitch playoff update its that time of year again the yorkdurham and york ma jor mens slow pitch squads get down to business playoff busi ness note these important game dates to be played at stouffville park york major sept 16700pm betz pools vs buttermakcrs sept 17 830 pm kerry industries vs butter- makers sept 25 700 pm but termakcrs vs kerry industries games in markham include sept 10 830 pm buttermakcrs vs tacs sept 24 830 pm but termakcrs vs mothers fathers is the automatic league champion with 180 unblemished re cord yorkdurham the yorkdurham mens slow pitch league has scheduled a roundrobin playoff tournament for sept 2728 in stouffville the new format is an alternative to last years bestofthree and five series which were dragged out and bogged down in rainouts and cold weather the league consists of seven squads trappers blazers a s raiders merchants villagers saints and claremont the strong raiders club will likely get a bye in the first playoff round york major standings final standings for the season team record fathers 180 tacs 1311 betz 138 buttermakcrs 9 11 kerry 516 mothers 618 exsaint selected top batter stouffville softball players catherine dunkeld lynda bclislc and shawn morrison now with markham bantams placed fifth in the provincial grand cham- pionships two weekends ago morrison a designated hitter was selected top batter for the tournament with a 515 average ontarios top 10 bantam teams participated in the double knockout playdowns grantham suburb of st catherines won the cham pionship followed by stratford and newmarket markham won its opener against don victoria 76 in extra innings dunkeld was four for four at the plate stratford handed the club its first loss in game two with a l-0dcci- sion newmarket eliminated mar kham 61 in the next match both dunkeld and morrison had rbid what looked to be winning runs in the seventh and eighth innings be fore newmarket scored two in the ninth dunkeld and bclislc had 100pius batting averages for the tourney soggy finish for stingers pitcher candy browns gut feel ing that her team would win its series with zephyr was a false alarm the stouffville stingers defend ing league and 1985 provincial champions were eliminated in a rainsoaked playoff semifinal 87 last thursday night zephyr now advances to the lake simcoe ladies fastball cham pionship round against bradford both stouffville coach bob gold and manager ted lowery warned early in the bestoffive series that anything could happen when zephyr is the opposition both clubs interlocked in tight games all season so it was no sur prise when this latest series went the distance but it was game fours incredibly lopsided score zephyr annihilated the stingers 100 to tie the showdown and force a fifth game that put the series in doubt for stouffville nine girls were off their game we had a bad third inning a really off night summed up gold whose players could have wrapped up the series then and there the stingers had originally wanted to play that game a few days earlier but zephyr refused in re trospect it proved smart strategy for the eventual victor the stingers were missing backcatcher deb gold who left for university for the final two games the vacancy forced stouffville to juggle its lineup something it couldnt afford to do against zephyr with veteran sheila fock- ler moved to backcatcher the out field wasnt as strong it could have been said coach gold in the final game the score was tied 22 at the end of two innings allison lowery tripled home brown and liz leman scored lowery stouffville broke loose for five runs in the third and appeared to be on its way to victory brown cathy carr leman lowery and alison ashton all crossed homeplate after a rain delay two m jscues in the final innings cost the stingers the game two stouffville runners were caught doubled up in the seventh inning with bases loaded and runners were stranded in the bottom of the eighth the rain just gave the girls something else to be concerned ab out our outfielders couldnt change direction fast enough gold admitted the rain appeared to affect pitch er liz crittendens windmill techni que more than it did zephyrs pitch er jackie dempster who delivers conventional style no windmill on a bright note exstingers dee dee keith and jannine ferguson are expected to return to the club next year if it moves to intermedi ate from sophmore it depends on what the girls want to do said gold they can be pretty proud of what they accom plished this year stouffville lawn bowlers win tourneys stouffvilles lawn bowling rinks did well in tournaments last month the town had two entries in an uxbridge tourney aug 9 eylmer farthing skip doris farthing vice and marg l wagg lead won the high for two games dawes hare skip eleanor crossen vice and meryln baker lead won high for one game to stouffvilles disadvantage both rinks ended up playing each other in the event it sometimes happens one kind of robs the other said a stouffville lawn bowling club spokesman on aug 25 stouffville also en tered a rink in a newmarket tour ney crossen skip edna mashin- ter vice and maud erwin lead collected the high twogame win on aug 30hare skip crossen vice and mashinter lead won high three games in another ux bridge competition on saturday stouffville lawn bowling club will host the first annual mcneil pharmaceutical tournament various entries from outoftown are expected to con verge on stouffvilles greens the town will enter four or five rinks individual trophies are up for grabs by kelly connelly stand too close to a startline were 20 motocross racers are about to take off and your eardrums go numb with your eyes closed its easy to mistaken the roar of dirtbike engines for chainsaws the announcer at last mondays supercross in markham compared the sound to a swarm of killer bees a cute buzz phrase no pun intended but i question the use of the adjective killer here they come the killer bees he exclaimed as the pack of racers whipped around the first turn in front of the main stands killer in his context meant aggressive gutsy athletes riding loud vehicles no problem there but i still think the adjective killer carries connotations that no sport except maybe rollerball wants to be associ ated with a program handed out at mar- khams supercross included an interesting anatomy of a motoc ross racer in the preface and i quote forget all the hoopla about which is the worlds toughest sport to a motocrosser it doesnt matter that soccer de mands a cardiovascular phe nomenon a triathlon requires multiple physical talents and boxing takes an iron jaw a motocrosser has a good propor tion of all these talents but none of those other guys has to barren pellmell into a first turn with 39 overambitious motocross racers motocross racers are as tough and fit as they come they have the nerve to leave the gas on after their brain screams shut it off they have the ae rial agility and bravery to fly higher sky longer and rail farth er than any trapeze artist ever dared motocrosser they arent just the kids next door they arc the supermen next door a dramatic photo on the front page of the markham econom ist suns sports section last week caught bolton motocrosser rick paccy flipping over the front of his bike in a nasty spill off the trailer jump luckily he walked away from the crash which leads me to suspect the su perman superlative isnt that far off m boltons rick paccy flips bill landing quote of the week the problem is were talking horsepower and not horses gord hooper strong supporter for a speedway facility to be strategi cally localcd outside the toronto area discusses the rural biases of some northern communities