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ltolbuffebecemli bruce stapley correspondent ijf i n t j an allontario bantam hock ey championship a senior d womens hockey crown and a provincial squirt softball title were among the stouffville sports highlights for 1992 but the year may be remem bered more for the ones that got away the stouffville mer chants junior mens fastball team feu just short of claiming a third consecutive ontario eliminations championship at the tournament held at stouf- fviues memorial park in july the towns hopes for two other sporting coups were dashed or at least delayed in 92 a bid to bring the canadi an baseball hall of fame to stouffville went up in smoke when it turned out that the halls operators were mired in administrative difficulties which may see the shrine closed for good a group of local businessmens efforts to bring junior b hockey to stouffville for the 19934 seaj son met road block after road block as the ontario hockey association oha underwent a turmoil of its own january the thunderbirds and the best of the nest entries braved mud snow and a stiff wind as they shared the championship winnings at the spring lakes tigers snopitch tournament at the town park jan 1112 the boyds sports atom clip pers captured the uxbridge atom tournament and the edwards murphy bantam clip pers began their ontario minor hockey association omha playoffs by sweeping their four game round robin set with ajax and pickering february the best of the nest had it all to themselves this time as they took the title at the fourth annual legion snopitch tour nament feb 89 the bantam clippers knocked off kingston in the provincial playdown series between the two teams the bants then advanced to the provincial semifinals when they swept scarborough in three games the pee wee clippers contin ued their playoff juggernaut as well downing kingston in their omha playoff set to qualify for the omha semifinals the towns ringwood variety and video girls hockey team won the belleville girls internedi- ate hockey tournament and the stouffville classics old- timers hockey team skated to victory at a tournament in woodvule in high school volleyball action the stouffville disf net at the dyssaa meet to earn tickets to the provincial ofsaa regional finals forsyth was fourth at the regional meet giving her the chance to compete at the ofsaa championships the stouffville buttermakers won the c division title and the claremont classics took the dp crown at the 10th annual as construction raiders slo- pitch tournament over the vic toria day weekend photobruce stapley the stouffville bantam clippers won the provin cial singlea hockey title when they defeated leamington in the final game of the omha provincial championships in march of this year secondary school sdss spar tans midget girls won the york title for the second straight year the schools junior and senior squads settled for the silver in their regional champi onships sdss junior boys spartans went as far as the york semi finals losing to richmond hill hs march local entrepreneurs ed hakonson doug todd and don anderson made an official application for a junior b fran chise for stouffville march 2 anderson is a part owner of the kingston frontenacs junior a team the pee wee clippers were finally stopped by orangeville in the omha semifinals los ing the last two games of the best of five set to go down three games to two in girls hockey the action signs bantams ringwood vari ety and video intermediates and angies seniors girls hock ey teams were all quaufying for the ontario provincial champi onship tournament in missis- sauga in april it was on to the omha finals for the bantam clippers as the stouffville outfit bested orillia three games to one in the semi finals the bantams then swept to the omha a bantam title when they disposed of leamington in the champi onship series stouffville skater chris weatherill 12 finished first in the mens solo dance category at the central ontario section al interclub competition in hanover march 7 stoune garbutt was presented with the 1991 canadian high point youth driving award at the canadian morgan horse asso ciations annual convention in edmonton march 28 april stouffville gymnast ryan joyce won four gold medals at the metro eastwest mens gymnastics second provincial qualifier the 11 year old went oh to represent the metro east region at the provincial finals the angies seniors won the ontario womens hockey asso ciation d championship april 12 the towns intermediate girls team won the silver medal in their championship tourna ment the same weekend the as construction flames who finished last in the stouffville amateur hockey league sahl over 30 stand ings captured the divisional playoff crown april 12 in the leagues over 40 flight the stouffville travel whalers emerged victorious in playoff action the bantam clippers proved they were truly allontario bantam a champions when they prevailed in a four team showdown the weekend of april 1718 the competition includ ed winners of the other provin cial bantam a crowns may byron baranieski pitched the stouffville merchants to a sec ond place finish at the ontario junior mens eliminations fast ball championships at stouuf- fvilles memorial park in july ryan joyce struck gold at the provincial mens gymnastics championships as the gym nast finished first overall in the argo b category at the may 23 event the stouffville figure skat ing club finished the season by putting on its biannual carni val ice revue 92 in front of three packed houses may 810 sdsss laura holder broke the york region midget girls shot put record at the york track and field finals may 12 twelve sdss track and field athletes advanced to the durhamyork dyssaa cham pionships the schools kelly forsyth andrea crothers and phil de roo all finished in the top five june nicole ellis and derek shea- hah were named top sdss senior female and male ath letes of the year at the schools annual awards banquet june 3 jason reesor and andrea crothers were given the top junior athlete honors while kelly sheridan took the home stead trophy kellington gardens took the c division at the annual but- termakers slopitch tourna ment the last weekend in june the claremont blazers won the tourneys recreational- division title holly garbutt was named champion in the english plea sure junior exhibition category at the ontario morgan horse championships held at the markham fairgrounds the last weekend in june bob mckiririon coach of the allontario bantam clippers was named stouffvilles sports personality of the year july also on canada day the whitchurchstouffville soccer clubs senior division held the first ever fiveaside soccer tournament at the rec centre stouffville teams took the silver and bronze medals at the event at the all ontario junior eliminations tournament held at memorial park the weekend of july 1012 the two time defending champion stouffville merchants couldnt quite put the finishing touches on a third provincial crown the mer chants advanced to the champi onship round after winning their first five games but the merchants then lost two straight games to the catharines as the second match being played in bra- malea the following wednesday i after rain forced cancellation of the contest on the closing night of the competition in stouffville later in the month the mer- chants would drop a best of three set to oshawa in the zone playdowns for the ontario ama teur softball association a title the stouffville bantam girls rep team qualified for the provincial championship tour nament when it came second at the provincial qualifier in kingston v please seepage 13