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f p42gegel9ebj august 291987 4th straight title for unionville take a bow joe english and the unionville peter l mason bantam chiefs english and his girls have won their fourth straight scarborough softball association pennant after finishing the season with 15 wins three losses and two ties unionville completed the regular season with a 133 bushwacking of oshawa which is fourth behind picker ing and don victoria according to coach english this years strong rivalry with oshawa created some anxious moments but as the score turned decidedly in favor of us they seemed to lose fire and resign themselves to their fate rose wills leadoff single was converted to unionvil les first run when michelle quesnelle scored her on a ground out two more runs came in the third when renee vircs hit brought home quesnelle and colleen thorburn oshawa rebounded with a trio of fourthinning runs to temporarily knot the count that lasted until the locals scored five times in the bottom of the fourth will quesnelle andrea english virc and carolyn ro gers all crossed the plate on three walks a pair of hits including a virc triple and an error the chiefs completed the rout with two more runs in the fifth frame and another three in the sixth joanna mason doubled and scored will came home for her third run followed by lori digulla tara eddy and rogers english picked up the win with a fivehit sixstrikeout performance on the mound a firstplace finish in this loop plus second place in the north york league by the minor bantams is most satisfying said english whos the head coach of both squads especially as we seldom had opportunities to play our best nine players with the roster split between two cir cuits he continued weekender r economist sun the tribune 2942200 6402100 unionville mite girls finish 3rd in ontario by frank king sports editor unionvilles dgs group mite girls have had a great softball season and topped it off by bring ing home the bronze medal from the ontario championships the squad started with tram pling thornhill 247 a rout that ended on the mercy rule kelly knuckle and cynthia webert had the first two runs then unionville broke the game open in the third thats when knuckle webert sandra allen corrie hinch lisa fleishman kelly schuman and jessica bell all crossed the plate to make it ll3 five more fourthinning runs plus another eight in the fifth forced the game to be called bell finished with five hits two of them homers while knuckle allen webert and bell each scored three times second game closer game two was a lot closer but putting in substitutes allowed port colborne to make the final score a close 1514 kunckle allen and krista red- vers scored to give the locals an early 31 edge bells second- inning homer brought home allen and hinch to put unionville ahead 63 it was 133 after the third frame with hinch kristi bellmore melissa sousa knuckle red- vers bell and beth will crossing the plate thats when the substitutions started and port colborne came back with seven runs in the final inning to close the gap the following day saw unionvil le up against undefeated st catharines and fireball pitcher meghan poison concentration lost a combination of her throwing and the teams aggressive play threw off the locals who couldnt get untracked before falling too far behind on the scoresheet the final score was a 94 defeat with bells threerun homer the lone bright spot losing that contest seemed to zap unionvilles concentration instead of working on a win in the semifinals it seemed to be look ing ahead to a revenge match with st catharines but meanwhile sarnia went on the attack and by games end un ionville had dropped a 1510 deci sion knuckle bell redvers and allen each scored twice manhandled seems a guy just cant ha ve a moments peace when hes on the rugby field scott mccullough middle of the markham rugby clubs colt second team gets the rough treatment courtesy of two members of the arnold school team from blackpool england action took place tues day night during a pair ofexhibition games arnold won both battles 240 over mccullough company and 220 over the colt firsts sjoerd witteveen tough course for triathletes they didnt come home with a victory but five unionville triath letes managed to conquer a hilly windy course at the ontario short course triathlon championships the royal lepage series event held at orillias lake couchiching park last weekend included a kilometre swim 30km bike ride over steep hills and an cightkm run cary chaionn 22 led his part ners with a finish time of one hour 47 minutes and 33 seconds that includes an extra 10minutc ride when he missed a turnaround marker and was misdirected off course twentyyearold john rchill a markham district high school mdhs graduate now at sir wil fred laurier university com pleted the course in 1490 unionville high school student mark homer 16 in his first triathlon crossed the finish line in 15410 his 17yearold sister shannon an mdhs student had a time of 20415 twentytwoyearold jeff wal ler the other member of the markham skating clinic this summers final markham minor hockey association free goalie and powerskalirig clinic is scheduled for tuesday night its open to any houseleague or representative player pre- registered with the association the clinic is at the centennial centre arena and is directed by scotty welsh goalies are oh the ice between 6 and 7 pm followed by the powerskating workout goalies must have full approved equipe- ment and other players must wear approved helmets gloves and skates il 4 hemingway crescent training team finished in 2120 two other markham residents did well at the competition greg stokes a 17yearold markham aquatic club national team mem ber finished in 14830 masters runner wayne carr in his second season of triathlons had a time of 20244 more than 350 athletes partici pated in the short course triath lon with another 250 registered in the longcourse competition the same day most of the local residents there are slated to enter royal lep- ages milton triathlon sept 6 then finish the season at the oak- yjllftjbyathlon sept 20