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saturday april 6 2062 25 economist sun stouffville tribune champs honoured with parade today in stouflville iri honour of the stouffville juvenile clippers accomplishment last week end in capturing the ontario minor hockey association a title the town of whitchurchstouflville will salute the team with a parade today the parade which will feature the entire team on the back of a flatbed truck escorted by a pair of fire trucks is slat ed to leave the stouffville arena at 430 pm go south on the ninth line and then west along main street towards ringwood drive the procession is then expected to go back east along main towards the tenth line and then return to the stouflville arena said teamjtnanager gail anderson the clippers captured the omha a title last weekend with a dramatic 43 triple overtime win in the fifth and deciding game over the southpoint capitals in leamington the victory also atoned for last years defeat at the hands of the capitals in the omha finals atom aa waxers dominate the markham atom aa waxers had an enjoyable easter weekend as they captured the jerry jacobs international hockey tournament title after routing the scarborough stallions 70 in the championship final mthornhill in reaching the final the waxers post ed convincing victo ries over the host markham islanders 6- 0 the r scarborough stallions 60 willowdale blackhawks 6- 0 and johnstown pennsylvania chiefs 100 igniting the waxers offence was the line of ryan murphy mark poole and jacob delaurantiswho combined for points in five games murphy had four goals and 11 assists while poole and delaurantis each had seven goals and five assists other scorers included blake chapman three goals six assists tyler von engelbrechten four goals four assists brodie ross two goals six assists taylor jones three goals four assists nicholas dellibenedetti two goals five assists kelly lerinon one goal five assists craig neville one goal one assist joseph quefcia two assists brendan wade one goal peter meades jeff oneill and tommy hooper one assist evan stoymehoff posted four shutouts and kevin peck one sports digest stouffville titles on the line another minor hockey season is coming to an end and with that the whitchurch- stouffville minor hockey association will conduct its annual house league championship day today and tomor row for all of its divisions at the stouffville arena the mites tykes novices atoms and peeweeminor bantam divisions will play off for their titles today on both ice pads starting at 7 am and running through with the final game starting at 2 pm the bantammidgetjuvenile championship will take place tomor row at 8 pm and 9pm girls retain ringette title sonya mills scored a goal at the 1002mark of sudden death over time that enabled the markham village nissan junior b bears to retain their southern region ringette intermediate major title last weekend with a 54 overtime win over hamilton in this years gold medal tilt at burlington shannon laliberte had paved the way with three goals in regulation time while carling cresswell accounted for the other markham goal vanessa bastos had a stellar performance in goal pre serving the victory with clutch saves in the overtime period in roundrobin play the bears start ed slowly by tying newmarket 33 on a disputed goal as time expired in the next game markham defeat ed mississauga 31 in the final game of the round robin markham fell to hamilton 42 setting up the rematch for the cham pionship others chalking up points in the tournament were rachel white krista krucas jennifer dickman merrin mchugh and heather wadsworth this is the second southern regional championships in two years for players katharine bahenwatts andrea felstead lauren pelc lara traczyk carolyn pollard and victoria wiles staff photosjoerd witteveen the girls at markham district high school will have an opportunity to play some football this spring as a flag football entry is being formed under the direction of coach steve hartslief part of wednesdays outdoor practice session saw defender danika lawson left attempt to break up this pass that was intended for receiver kristin towns right marauder girls hope to flag down the opposition girls at markham high excited about playing organized flag football for first time by michael laughlin correspondent the fine old tradition of great football teams representing markham district high school will be continued mis spring however it wont be with the marauders senior or junior boys teams steve hartslief who is in his first year as a phys ical education teacher at markham district high school and an assistant coach with the senior boys team last fall has assembled the first girls flag football team hartsuef is ho stranger to starting girls high school flag football programs having done so atvaughah secondary school and newmarket high school before coming to markham district high school the programs have been successful at those schools and hartslief is optimistic the success will continue at markham i had a lot of support for it at markham so it was an easy decision he says of the decision to start a team york region is very competitive but there is no reason why we cant beat any of those teams he adds the rules for flag football are much the same as it is for boys high school football the one major our goal for the first season is very simple we just want to own a winning record with the team we have right now i think it is a very realistic goal exception is that the girls do not tackle but rather pull the flags that players don from their waists the teams play four downs bufthe rest of the rules are based on the canadian football league the marauders inaugural team will feature the duo of jodi gram at running back and cofeen jones as their quarterback although hartslief admits the duo are among his stronger performers he is quick to point out that all of the players on the team have adapted to the game the girls are excited to have the opportunity to be playing football this year and exhibit an eager ness to kick off the season we are all really excited about our opportunity to play says receiver christina balint weve been practising really hard and i think were ready for competition since january- the team hasbeen practising two or three times a week since there arent enough teams in york region to start a league hartslief is trying to get his squad into the scarborough high school league either through league play or tournaments hartslief believes the girls can be successful in their first year of competition he hopes to improve on his 126 coaching record our goal for the first season is very simple we just want to own a winning record with the team we have right now i think it is a very realistic goal he says the marauders are slated to take to the gridiron with a tournament in newmarket on may 4 dont pay that traffic tioicetii skoaajg fr traffic ticket experts is staffed by expolice officers who toili act as your agent in s court 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