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p12 weekender august 10 1985 unionvillestouffville tie 1212 by kelly connelly with the season just about dry the stouffville saints bantam a girls proved theyve got a little juice left for the play offs the squad slugged its way to a 148 deci- sion over oshawa and a 1212 tie with un- ionvilles burls cartage in backtoback games july 30 and 31 a sixrun stouffville wave in the first in ning dampened oshawas chances of win ning this one debra surman catherine dunkeld vicky smith linda belisle stacey evans and leanna boyd singled each other home for the tally saints pitcher belisle whiffed five bat ters and popped out six others to prevent an oshawa comeback a syndrome re miniscent of past stouffville performances where the local girls have had trouble hanging on to leads although she did not score saints aman da devlin belted some long hits to fuel her clubs offensive effort belisle gave unionville seven free pas ses just enough it seems for the visiting squad to trickle in eight runners in the last four innings for the tie but the local girls should have taken home two points in this contest too dunkelds grand slammer in the second inning off unionville pitcher karen sellery gave the saints an early fiverun lead dunkeld had six rbis for the night with batting performances like that and two runs apiece by kim harper boyd and devlin what happened what happened was unionville came up with four runs in the second frame and two- run innings in the third fourth fifth and sixth innings sellery might have given up a grand slam but she made up for that with two hits of her own including a tworun round- tripper she ended up scoring twice and collecting five rbis chris wozniak had two hits while nicole volpe and laura panter picked up a pair of rbis each becky clarkson and michelle quesnelle both brought up from the union ville novices contributed a hit and an rbi apiece stouffville coach cliff dunkeld sites pitching strategy as the fundamental vil lain we have to get the ball across the plate in tight situations we cant keep trying to strike the batter out he ex plained weekender sports 2942200 6402100 markham knocks off unionville two softball games against each other left little doubt that markhanis re wil son electric peewee boys are better than unionvilles north markham honda club markham took both games in a home- andhome series this week grabbing an 81 decision in unionville then earned an easy 242 victory back home the first outing was definitely more in teresting- as unionville was able to keep the score close after a fiverun firstinning for markham unionville scored its lone run in that frame as well while two markham runners came home in the third and one more in the fourth we hit well that night but every time we hit it was right to a player and almost everytime they hit it was to ah open area said unionville coach larry herrington i guess thats as close as well get to beating markham rob pashko and mike clausner who scored once slammed three singles apiece pitchers chris amodeoand andy sebo each scored twice on a hit and a walk ryan robinson crossed the plate for union ville the second outing was pretty much a blowoujt from the start markham sent 14 batters to the plate in the first inning with eight of them scoring the club added three more runs in the second put together sixrun innings in the third and fourth and finished up with a run in the fifth i football tourney for all you football fanatics that cant get enough of the soaring pigskin the amateur version of the last of the i gladiators crunches into the markham- stouffyille area for a oneday tourna ment sunday august 11 eight teams from the central ontar io senior football league will con- verge on fletchers fields for a first ever fourgame series a pre season kickoff showcase- the cosfl has been the stomping grounds of many cfl veterans includ ing wide receiver dwight edwards now with the calgary stampedcrs and bill hatanaka a member of ottawas lastgrey cup team two morning and two afternoon games are scheduled etobicokc takes on the awesome mississauga raiders at 1050 am the scarborough vikings meet the newmarket steelers at 1110 m eastyork crimson tide plays hetorontijaat25q pmi and the r admission rland theres plenty of parking food and beverages are avail able fletchers fields is located on woodbine ave on 19thave just north of victoria square given earns freestyle gold by kelly connelly stephanie given knows all about tests the kind that last only four minutes the 15yearold stouffville figure skater acquired her gold in freestyle last spring a prestigious achievement marking the culmination of nine years of hard work since the age of seven given has adv anced through what she calls the test stream passing her primaries junior bronze senior bronze junior silver senior silver and most recently the gold the degree of difficulty has inevitably magnified as she matures through the ranks for the gold i had to do a double axle that was the hardest she ex plained i also had to do a double flip a double loop and some other compulsory movements given a member of the unionville fi gure skating club hopes tocompete at the national level some day and competition is no stranger to this athlete she has par ticipated in somc30 contests spanning her carcerncludjngthc qntaric- regionals butaveterah she iknolthcchalicngcs will only get tougher said oneof her coaches forrherpolish national cham- pion jerry zawadski- within the competitive stream she is at the novice level right nowits one of the toughest classes because there is such a large number of skaters very easy ft f get lost in the shuffle he remarked a critical hiirdlc for the young girl out side of the persistent demand for more dif ficult moves may in fact be peer pressure a social syndrome that can make or break a potential national champion said zawadski at 15 or 16 there can be a lot of peer pressure from friends if you dont do well within the next year or two people give up admitted the markham coach but zawadski said that like many talented skaters given displays the deter mination diligence and desire to go far in this business of perfection on ice i psyche myself up for a competition but you have to be careful not to get too wound up so i calm myself down given explained part of it is practice the more you do it the more confident you are that you wont blow it the exmarkham resident practises four and a half hours a day during the summer and almost doubles her ice time during the winter months she also trains under the auspices of former triple gold medalist fi gure skater kathy mccreadie currently given is nearing completion of her seventh testin figures well the gold in dance may well be within her reach but its the competition the pressure of a four minute solo amidst the gaze of scru tinizing judges that drives her on originality stamina and grace coupled with that yearning for a perfect six makes givens sport one of the most intense