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k4yjutslk t iywr2222s sports classified second section a metroland community newspaper a s raiders and raiderettes slide tg victory snowpitch tourney the a s raiders and raiderettes beat out old man winter and the clippers to win the snowpitch championship on sunday the 10team softball tourna ment played on stouffvilles snowcovered diamonds was part of the towns winter carnival activities polar bears excluded the teams consisted of men and women who fought cold tempera tures a slippery infield and awk ward snowdrifts enroute to a 300 firstprize the raiders and raiderettes won five games including the 74 championship showdown against the clippers according to one of the raider sluggers sliding into bases wasnt always a deliberate strategy it just happened it was hard to plant your feet in these conditions running the bases was difficult you were al ways sliding most slowpitch teams tried to hit the orange ball on the ground so it would take unusual bounces in the snow and zigzag around the baffled infielders many hits lob bed to the outfield seemed to dis appear in the white stuff the humorous event was also accompanied by atc tricycle races the winning a s raiders and raiderettes team included do- reen ertl blaine kerswill lynn norton cathy harding joy cox- worth sharon burke colleen harper john armstrong mike rowe tom lehman mark fock- ler ron middleton paul baker and paul murray nervous peewee clippers unbeaten in quebec action the stouffville peewee clip pers overcame first period jitters to win their first two games in the quebec international hockey tournament this week the clippers sponsored by stouffville district credit union defeated two quebec clubs pont rouge 104 last thursday and charlesbourg 64 monday morning to advance to fridays quarterfinal scott mckinley blasted five goals and jason underwood scored four to pace stouffvilles first win underwood collected a senior spartans unbeaten senior spartan kelly cowan bumps ball over the net during recent volleyball action teammate sherry walker looks on the strong stouffville secondary squad concluded an unblemished 130 season on monday securing first place it competes in the york north cham pionships tomorrow kelly connelly uwims0m ib oldtim speak o by kelly connelly remember the days when you could send away for a picture of your favorite nhl player by mailing in the bee hive corn syrup label bob hassard of hassardbirkett insurance brokers ltd in stouff ville remembers them well he still has the bee hive picture of himself and is mighty proud of it hassard played for the toronto maple leafs in 195051 when stanley cups were not allergic to toronto he also did time on the marlboro seniors 194950 allan cup champions and the pittsburg hornets 195152 calder cup champions his hockey tenure reads like a history book the chicago black- hawks hershey bears buffalo bisons whitby dunlops i asked him if he regrets not making the lucrative salary his fellow nhler makes today salary wasnt really discussed in the american or national hockey league in those days id play for whatever theyd give me it was a better job than anything else at the time he recalled but if you didnt produce one night you were gone the next day hassard remembered being scared to death when rocket richard blew past him he was the best player from the blueline in you never saw what happened once he got by you he chuckled the insurance salesman suggested the comradeship between repor ter and hockey player has deteriorated over the years writers today dont know the game like the writers 30 years ago he contended the mutual trust between player and journalist isnt as strong as it used to be i partially agreed with that statement but then hockey wasnt a businessracket like it is today few guys were signing sixfigure con tracts and affording allan eaglesons with the salaries present professionals command its no surprise journalists will scrutinize their talents with a vengeance are these rookies worth their paycheques theres bound to be hard feelings between scribe and skater the league has also tripled in size which means more writers and critics covering a lot more players the turnover rate of new writers and athletes just heightens the unfamiliarity in the hallways i was invited into the nhl oldtimer dressing room by stouffville resident and exeuropean hockey player bob mcneil two weekends ago apparently harold ballard wasnt in the vicinity to outlaw my presence i asked former maple leaf pete conacher what he thought about todays younger and much faster nhl boys glancing across the room at some of his old mates he bowed his head and thought hard some of the guys in this room played a style of hockey for 40 years they see mistakes the young guys make today but they dont always recognize the good plays and there are lots of them he reasoned unselfishly i told conacher his picture was in the globe mails where arc they now column last week he just smiled i hat trick in game two with singles going to mckinley biadi and slaskery in the latter contest the clip pers appeared sluggish in the opening period and found them selves trailing charlesbourg 42 late in the second frame howev er the local boys picked up the tempo in the final period to score four goals biadi drove home the winner coach glenn whitebread and his team cant afford to lose one game from here on according to a spokeswoman the clippers have yet to settle down and play their style of hockey a few in- termitent exhibition contests should help ease the nervousness before fridays encounter if stouffville wins its next game it will advance to satur days semifinal the cc tourney championship goes sunday at 1030 am stouffville saint eric lehman keeps his eye on a snowpitch two stouffville figure skaters have advanced to the prestigious cen tral ontario section interclub championships cosic to be held in barfie march 79 v v leeanna hamilton and melissa gornik captured first place and the cosic ticket inpie junior bronze ladies similar dance at the richmond hill interclub competition last weekendthe pairs excep- tional performance was accompanied by other strong efforts from stouffville figure skating club cohorts here are the results from richmond hill prejuvenile ladies melissa gornik 4th leeanna hamilton 10th prenovice ladies nicole vautier 7th susan anderson 8th l junior ladies stephanie barclay 2nd jr bronze ladies similar dance leeanna hamilton melissa gornik 1st junior silver solo dance brendahachey 3rd senior silver solo dance stephanie barclay 3rd preliminary interpretive leslie penny 2nd michelle olszevski 7th ladies bronze interpretive michelle barker 7th leeanna hamilton 9th ladies silver interpretive brenda hachey 3rd nicole vautier 7th ladies gold interpretive stephanie barclay 1st claremont rider aims for 88 olympics by kelly connelly sports editor when claremont equestrienne kelly plitz walked into her stable last september the last thing on her mind was an unsound horse plitz was thinking about the 1987 pan american games the 1988 olympics and possibly the 1990 world championships i however that particular septem ber day she was greeted with a rude awakening her 13yearold mare and olym pic companion dialadream had acquired a mysterious limp i figured she had slipped in her stall recalls plitz who placed 25th with the horse at the 1984 summer olympics in los angeles calif it was sickening that the acci dent happened just before a com petition but i felt she wasnt in any great pain to stand up and get better so dialadream took an extended vacation to heal a pulled ligament and plitz missed the chesterland international 3day event in penn sylvania however the new year has been much kinder to both athlete and horse dialadream is in top form once kelly plitz at 84 olympics in los angeles inset 88 hopeful ian roberts again and claremonts 28yearold rider has just returned from a two- month trip to australia shes now preparing for an event in lexing ton kentucky this may plitz admits shes developed a more cautious regard for her anim als dialadream wont be around forever two threeday events a season is about all the aging horse can take she presently rides three horses a day including two young prospects kiosk and atomboy she also in structs youngsters at her dream- crest stables this is one of a few sports where you have to depend on something other than your own body theres so much training involved and you must deal with the personality of the horse explains the ambitious competitor if something happens to the anim al the rider just cant buy a new one and expect immediate results it takes years to build a mutual trust between the two it also takes countless events to build a reputation as a fine rider in the three disciplines dressage stadiumjumping and cross country plitz is considered young by equestrian standards most rid ers dont reach their peak till their late thirties still she hopes to crack the top 10 in world ranking someday a lot of years go into training a horse before you even know if shes going anywhere notes plitz with dialadream shes like put ting on an old glove were so close i for now doing well in interna tional competitions is crucial if she wants to make the 88 olympic team the more qualifying points a rider accumulates the better and yet those events arent always easy to reach plitz says the canadian team has opted to send one individual quebec rider philippe dcsourdy instead of a team to the spring world championships in australia as well canada may abort a com petition in england next september because of an alleged equine- disease scare however ontario qualifiers the kentucky event and a midsummer trip to germany for the world championships should keep her busy plitz business partner and rider ian roberts will also com pete in the pan american games on tambourine man