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rekai johnson barristers solicitors 49 main street east 2nd floor stouffville ontario 6408100 or 6493555 all areas of general practice sports classified leasing todays easy way to drive larry cotter leasing 6404541 a mates and models a metroland community newspaper wednesday july 29 1987 stingers miss out on shot at provincials stouffville stingers first bagger allison lowery num ber three comes charging into home plate during pro vincial qualifier action against newven of ottawa saturday afternoon in memorial park it was a close call but lowery was out on the play as the catcher put a big block on the plate the stingers aggressive base running led them to a 51 win in this game but they were eliminated from the tourney later in the day alan shackleton markham motocross in august next weekend aug 8 and 9 the markham fairgrounds will be home to the cycle worldhonda motocross weekend the event sponsored by ux- bridge promoter terry barrett of motox productions will run over two days and feature some 240 of canadas top riders competing in more than 30 races j among area riders expected to attend are todd townend and clint crust of ballantrae and mount alberts doug sweeper hoover this is the second year for the motocross at markham fair grounds and barrett predicts this time will be even more entertain ing than last years popular debut the first one was great there were around 2500 fans and this year should be even better he explained we have more riders and a number of special attrac tions between races racing begins at noon on both days and continues until about 4 pm on saturday there will be 15 races for junior and schoolboy division riders in five different classes sundays action is the main event and races in the a class for 80 cc schoolboys along with 125 cc and 250 cc senior and expert races are slated riders on sunday will be going after 3000 in prize money as they throw their machines around the thrilling manmade track a radical jump contest off the trailer jump is planned as an in termission show during sundays action riders from the 250 cc expert class will perform aerial acroba tics off the jump with 200 going to the winner other attractions will be a longest jump competition satur day from the finish line jump last years winner was don mills chuck guy who sailed 82 feet through the air also markhams jong park tae kwondo demonstration team will be performing during the intermission on saturday some of the other top canadian riders who will compete in the markham motocross are allan dyck from british columbia and glen nicholson from missis- sauga tickets are 5 for saturday 8 for sundays main event or 12 for a weekend pass and can be purchased at the gate for further ticket information please call terry barrett at moto- x productions at 8526507 by alan shackleton sports editor the stouffville stingers will not make it three in a row the ladies fastball teams bid to bring home medals from the provincial championships for the third consecutive year came to an end saturday night with a 40 loss to brockville the intermediate open region- al a provincial qualifying tournament was held in stouffvil le last weekend and the stingers were hoping to be one of the four teams to advance to the cham pionships in london two weeks from now ten other squads were also hop ing to make the same trip and competition was fierce in the dou ble knockout tournament this is the stingers first year in the open division the last two seasons they played intermediate sophmore and they met up with some very tough and experienced teams over the weekend i two years ago the stingers won the provincial championship and last season they finished third overall stouffville manager ted low ery was hoping the girls could continue their success in the open division but knew they were play ing a higher calibre of ball this year they had to make the move from sophmore because a num ber of their players were too old over 20 to continue in the division and the team wanted to stay together it was a move up and a new situation for us lowery said we didnt really know much ab out our opponents though some of them are considerably older than us and have been together for a long time the stouffville girls may have candy brown pitcher hot been a bit nervous in their opening game friday night against kings ton as they gave up six runs in one inning enroute to a 73 loss kingston was a good team and we were maybe a little intimi dated in that first game lowery said stinger assistant coach dave fockler agreed with that assess ment we just made too many errors against kingston he ex plained having lost the opener the pressure was on the stingers if they dropped another game theyd be eliminated from the tourney they rose to the challenge saturday afternoon playing an aggressive and inspired brand of ball which powered them to a 51 win over newven of ottawa pitcher candy brown tossed a great game for the stingers with the exception of a lateinning solo home run she was almost unhitt- able however it was the stingers bats combined with their hard- nosed play on the basepaths that earned the win there were a number of crun ching collisions at second third and especially home plate as the stouffville girls consistently tried for the extrabase bonnie hollingworth threw a block on the newven catcher that argo coach bob obillovich would have been proud of to score a run we played much much better against newven said fockler we were more relaxed and play ed our kind of game however the stingers luck ran out against brockvule saturday evening as a 40 loss put them out of the tourney wekeptitclosefora while but brockville scored three late in the game and that was it for us low ery said i brampton was the overall win ner of the tourney with newmar ket and batters up of toronto also advancing to the provincial championships the name of the fourth team to qualify was not available at press time while the stingers had a bit of a rough introduction to intermedi ate open provincial play they are doing quite well in league com petition they sit comfortably in second spot in the sixteam south lake simcoe league just behind ux- bridge the stingers play their home games on thursday nights at830 pm on diamond two in stouffvil le memorial park toronto maple leafs defenceman bill root who now calls stouffvil- i ie home lets go a powerful drive during the tournament the golf day was held to raise funds for thechildrens wish foundation many other nhl stars were also in attendance nhl players association bossalan eagleson was one of many celebrities at the williamson motorskeith acton golf tournament in uxbridge last friday his partner is canada cup treasurer marvin goldblatt dave wood owner of greens restaurant in stouffville sank this putt during play at the tournament on the firefighters mill run course looking on appreciatively are glen jackson centre and hockey night in canadas brian mcfarlane left photos by alan shackleton