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p 10 the tribune thursday july 24 1997 st the tribune leisure got a score call our hotline at 6402100 putting her best foot forward stouffvilles krystie palmer left does not let the presence of this east gwillimbury defender get in her way as she drills this shot on net for a goal during action in mondays under15 girls soccer contest at the rec centre fields photo by sjoerd witteveen t mm set even its on to the ontario amateur softball association oasa championship tournament for the stouffville stallions squirt boys fastball team the squirts whose roster includes numerous firstyear ers were cowinners of the title at last weekends eastern ontario oasa qualifier in belleville the stouffville squad came back to win four in a row after dropping their second contest 30 to cobourg in the championship final the stallions took two extra innings but finally prevailed 107 over cobourg to avenge the earlier defeat the win by the stallions left each team with one loss in the double knockout tournament for mat the teams agreed to share the title with each squad advancing to the oasa finals in aurora from aug 1617 the tournament was marked by stallions pitcher kevin haywards nohitter in the teams 121 win over stittsville in the tournament semifinal the stouffville crew started off with an 86 win over orleans as colin rainford and norm fretz banged key triples jay mcneil pitched a strong game in the loss to cobourg with hay ward pitching a 120 shutout win over belleville in game three rainford had four hits and josh spang three to orchestrate the offence stouffville dumped orleans once more in their next outing prevailing 113 mcneil was impressive on the pitching rubber with mike root socking a triple and fretz and chad wisn each picking up two rbis hayward hurled his no hit gem to advance the stallions to the finals in the teams next match matt fowles drove in a pair of runs and fretz had another triple in the final round match up with cobourg key hits by root hay- ward and michael dambrosio along with the daring base run ning of rainford contributed to the win jesse maillet and taylor lougheed both made outstanding defensive plays tim ms believes women have a place on ball diamond fred timms believes in amateur sport in particular the co- coach of the towns cable tech midget girls softball team one of two midget girls outfits in stouffville believes in women taking their rightful place within the varied world of amateur sport blessed with a pair of highly athletic daugh ters shannon and danielle and a wife debbie whose own sporting exploits go back to her younger days fred takes female ath leticism for granted he still recalls how he and debbie spent a good part of their honeymoon taking in the womens softball competition at the canada games in british columbia back in 1973 fred is out to convince the people of stouf fville that womens softball is back and that the future is looking bright as he and his co- coach dave miller set their sights on form ing a junior level provincial womens softball association pwsa team next season the duo set out two seasons back to field a tier ii midget girls ball team which would challenge for the pwsa title after finishing sixth their first year and fourth in last summers provincial showdown they think theyve got a strong chance of tak ing it all this year the teams nucleus has gone from being an awestruck collection of young and underage midgets to a confident well honed outfit fred feels that will make the difference at this years pwsa finals in 1995 just to finish sixth out of 12 teams was a tremendous accomplishment for a first year team fred told me now were older and were not intimidated were the intimidators if freds cable tech crew which includes daughters danielle and shannon manage to advance from the regional qualifier aug 810 in oak ridges to the pwsa finals in kingston aug 2224 it will be the second straight year a stouffville team has taken the title last season mary deveauxs midgets cap tured the provincial tier ii crown resulting in sports notes bruce stapley their being elevated to the tier i level this season it was good on them to win it all we were happy for them said fred this is our year we committed ourselves to winning it all in our first year as a team with a season league record of 10 wins and just two defeats along with some impressive tournament showings the cable tech unit would appear to be on target as for whether his midgets might want to merge with the other stouffville midget girls outfit in forming a junior team next year fred is guarded and for good reason if their players want to move up to our junior team fine but were certainly not going to interfere with any plans mary may have while fred and dave miller look ahead to competing at this years pwsa midget finals then moving the nucleus of the team up to junior level next year one of freds immedi ate goals is to draw people out to the diamond to watch the girls play their hard nosed brand of ball with home games being played on diamond two wednesday nights at 830 they are forced to go head to head with the betz pools midget boys who are on the main diamond at the same time its kind of like playing second fiddle to the boys i guess offered fred he said that overall the crowds havent been all that bad considering weve been pretty well filling the stands over on diamond two but thats still not very many people but the midget boys arent drawing big crowds either the ones who are coming to our games for the first time are telling us how much they enjoy it the crowds arc growing fred suggests to those who have tired of watching the fat cat pro ball athletes that they come on out on wednesday night to catch some exciting entertaining amateur sport right in their own backyard ive got some gamers he says proudly thats why were going to bring ifchome this year mite selects downed in final the source promotions stouffville mite selects softball team were finalists at their own tourna ment held last sunday at the town park the selects were victorious in their two prelim inary games finally falling 91 to bridlewood in a well played championship match the stouffville crew started off with a 106 win over unionville as dawson peare pitched a strong game supported by catcher kyle bassett bassett was successful in holding opponents base stealing to a stand still game two saw the host crew hand innisfil an 114 defeat as jeff bassett had 13 strikeouts in pitching the win chris rand and damien kudelski each ham mered home runs for the winners the mites threw a scare into bridlewood in the title tilt with lenny wood standing out at second base scott wittred was a power at the plate the tournament was made possible by the sup port of stouffville a p jones pools coffee master and pizza pizza stouffville coach blair bassett who was assist ed by steve trentadue said the competition was a big success the tournament was great the boys and their families had lots of fun and thats all that counts said bassett