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protrtounedeclbfek ii lt sf li l jul vlyja av y stouffville 1 winowh tourney bruce stapley correspondent the boyds sports atom clip pers proved to be less than festive as they hosted meir own tourna ment at the rec centre sunday in fact the clippers were down right stingy as they gave up only three goals in as many games en route to a championship victory- the stouffville squad captured the title with their best perfor- mance of the season so far infa 3- 1 win oyer oshawa in the final the chppers got goals from brad johnson from jason fan- tana kyle harrison from john son and fohtaha and brett boyd from mark meyer in the crucial match up boyds andrew harper who lost his shutout bid with one minute remaining in the game earned the clippers player of the game nomination the clippers started off the tourney with a 41 victory over markham meyer notched a pair of markers with singles coming from boyd and fontana f meyer was named player of the game- in game two it was johnson lighting the lamp twice earning him the player of the game hon ors meyeradded the third score the clippers had been downed 41 by king city in a pretourna- merit match at the rec centre thursday meyer was the only clipper to find the range it would appear the concept of winter baseball or sno pitch as it has been dubbed is well on its way to becoming as established as its summer nearnamesake granted were still not at the pointwhere the town park dia monds are being booked for a half dozen or so major tournaments per season like the slo pitch boys are doing but the frigid version of the twifly pitch game has sure ly established a beach head here as well as the rest of the province while the legions bill kingsley has informed me his group will be icing its fourth sno pitch competi tion this february 7 to 8 there is now a second winter lob pitch event scheduled as well its to be the work of the spring lakes tigers mens slo pitch team which in its saner moments can be found on warm summer nights shagging flies and trying to touch green in the york durham mens slo pitch league ithe tigers are set to go the the stouffville pee wees won their contest with bradford above 42 and advanced to the finals of their own singlea tourney on the weekend however the championship didnt go quite so well they lost it by a close score 21 to their whitby opponents wees drop heartbreaker in tourney final the markham stouffville credit union pee wee clippers won a trio of games on their own ice sur- face but it was the one that got away that theyll remember the most the clippers who had eclipsed uxbridge 80 in a league game friday night were edged 2t1 by- whitby in the a championship final of their bwn eightteam tour- nament saturday the credit- unionville crew earned their ticket to the title con test with a 41 win over league rival port perry and a 42 come back victory over bradford but the clippers ran out of time against whitby with ryan kings goal from scott assinck and kyle osborne the only score they could manage osborne was named clipper mvp for the championship con gest in the port perry preliminary the clippers started slowly but came on strong with goals by dan tardella tim smarts king and osborne assinck 2 rob spytz gra- please see pfage 11 lots of bounce in juniors win ovr st roberts the ball still isnt bouncing for the stouffville district secondary school spartans senior boys basket ball team but the junior sdss hoopsters were on fire for their game against st roberts catholic high school thursday while the seniors were losing 64- 41 to milliken mills hs their junior counterparts were romping to a 7638 victory the junior cagers came up with a solid team effort with jason reesor and jermain franklin leading the team in both offensive and defen sive categories fmaklin went to the hoop for 13 points while reesor scored 11 points chris leonard was good for 12- points jason cowan had 10 points and andy few rob jones phil deroo and ryan jefferson had nine seven five and four points respectively to round out the spar- tans assault the senior spartans received a standout performance from brian p snooks in their loss tbvmilliken mills snooks amassed a total of 22 points over half his teams total output t derek sheahah was good for eight points while fred klein and sam letkeman had two points a piece jon cowley and tim ferguson showed strong rebounding skills for the spartans ma a in the winter drifts sport notes weekend of jan 11 to 12 witti the standard dance at latcham hall on the saturday night the legion will hold its saturday night dance at the legion hall like the legion the tigers ver sion is to be a mixed event with 16 teams fielding a lineup consist ing of five each of males an females at any given time there will be 500 in hot toddy money for the winners if indeed 16 teams do sigh up the second third and fourth place squads will pull in 300 200 and 100 respectively it will cost 200 to enter right now it looks like the ball players will have it all to them- t f v 1 t 9 r v t selves for both tourneys with no winter carnival sideshow because of our schizophrenic winter sea son with its roll of the dice approach to hot and cold weather the carnival concept seems to have gone the way of the two foot snowstorm for while sno pitch can be played on either snow grass or even mud ice sculpting contests and sleigh rides tend to lose a lit tle of their appeal when a chihook blows in leaving the park a drea- 1 ry shade of brown however kingsley says that if anyone is willing to play weather roulette and organize an activity for the weekend of the legion competition his outfit will be more than happy to accommodate them as for the tigers tourney spokesmen murray pattenden and al byers tell me they are feeling put the waters with the hope of making this a qualifier for you guessed it the all ontario sno pitch championships yes such is the growing popu larity of the winter version of the eyeryman spftball game that slo pitch ontario has put together a mixed sno pitch title event v in fact pattenden informed me that when his outfit approached molsons with the hope of getting some sponsorship they told him they were already overextended with sno pitch sponsorships for the coming winter season kingsley told me the legion considered going thequalifier route with its tournament this time around but decided it was too much of a hassle for now maybe in the future he added the legion will once again use their tourney as a fund raiser for easter seals and the childrens wish foundation kingsley said there would be a 185 entry fee but he wasnt sure what the prize money breakdown would be pattenden said he was glad the legion had decided to continue its tradition this winter saying it would give his team a chance to play in a tournament in town host teams are usually too busy taking care of the business of umpiring administering etc to even consider fielding a team one of the advantages to the winter concept as pointed put by pattenden is that the problem of drinking beer outside which has caused concerns at summer com- petitions is virtually nbn existent sipping back a cold glass of suds amid chilling winter winds would be a little like nursing a hot chocolate at a slo pitch tourney in mid july v so all you slo pitch aficionados mark those two dates on your cal- endar retrieve your dusty old ball glove and go sign up deadline for registering for the spring lakes tourney is jan 3 and you can call pattenden at 640- 2455 or byers at 6408693 for details brrrr m ch lb r ijst fat st- 1 ihff4