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interested in playing football see shortsb2 second section sports classified a metroland community newspaper offroad racing in stouffville maybe b3 wednesday june 4 1986 acton and terrors too hot to handle by kelly connelly the teacher terrors from stouff ville secondary sdss maintained their venomous reputation in floor hockey in a sweaty testy affair last thursday evening the teachers defeated the junior student allstars 1411 and are now undefeated in 11 exhibition allstar games that the teachers were aided by nhler keith acton and hefty exsdss instructor wayne nugent made the difference those two and dave moran were primarily responsible for the unin terrupted sixgoal assault midway through the 40minute game but the contest wasnt a total mis match student scott evans who wears the goalpads for the stouff ville bantam clippers lie hockey squad showed his versatility as a roving forward by pumping three pucks into the terror net with less than a minute to go on the clock his quick markers stunned acton who was playing defence at the time and moved the students to within three goals of a tie however time ran out and acton boldly admo nished later that if the score had been tied at the end of regulation time his teammates the older folks still had energy to burn teacher al piette opened the scoring in the first half before cohorts moran acton on some fine rushes connell and nugent put the game away some people in the crowd suggested nugent was in the wrong sport and should have been playing defensive tackle with the la raiders that players wore no protective equipment didnt stop either team from throwing the odd bodycheck extra effort pays off the spartan fitness challenge last week wasnt without its painful moments stouffville secondary sdss student craig thompson last years male fitness champ grimaces with exhaustion as he bends for the final few situps teammate liz sled top climbs rope enroute to winning female championship sdss beat other york region schools to win overall team crown kelly connelly student chris winn collided with acton in the second period and evans and kirk smythe continually hounded the minnesota north star in his own end evans guy cowan smythe dan larmer and wally barbour scored goals for the student side after the game acton wouldnt say if he saw any prospective nhl draftees on the student bench but he did chuckle that his own tenure in the big league is a fragile one now that hes in his late 20s anything after 30 will be a bonus he remarked im not a big guy so ill wear out a lot sooner than the larry robinsons the grade 1113 allstars almost doubled the graduates 1910 in the next game goalie gary norris and teammates brent brown rob reesor and joe risk paced the win panthers strength no fluke in opener what could be worse than play ing against the panthers and the wind lamented a thornhill sym pathizer monday evening during the first half of the season opener with stouf f villes tenacious panther soccer team the thornhill supporter had cause to worry the under14 stouff ville boys used the wind to their advantage in the first half to take a 20 lead and then proved in the second half that wind or no wind they are a talented hustling unit with national soccer league nsl potential the final damage was 60 and although victorious panther coach alfons rubbens was pleased that his boys kept running at full speed during the final minutes without slowing down to thornhills languid pace he is worried too we completely overpowered thornhill its not the type of thing i like to have because it wont do my boys any good in the long run rub bens explained the league is completely unba lanced i got together with the pa rents after the game and said we have to draw some kind of target goal for the team maybe lookfor a better league for next year travis white and richard holden scored two goals apiece frank nardi and guy biadi knocked home singles team captain charlie melko was very strong at midfield and a domineering force throughout the game it looks like woodbridge and richmond hill will be the black cats only formidable opponents this year said rubbens the under18 stouffville girls team tied 11 with bradford in its season opener monday evening forward dorothy ireton scored the lone goal for stouffville the bantam royals open their season tonight in woodbridge nhl games arent this tough minnesota north star and resident nhler keith acton left steals puck from stouffville secondary sdss student scott evans during allstar floor hockey action last thursday although acton playing defence man aged to swipe his opponent in this tight play behind the net he was robbed late in the game by evans who beat him on three quick goals acton and the teacher ter rors beat the junior student allstars 1411 kelly connelly stingers recruit rookies although new faces adorn the stouffville stingers lineup this sea son and some veterans in strumental in last years big provin cial crown win have since de parted the girls softball team is not to be taken lightly its season opener last week was a decisive 131 victory against mt albert and although game two thursday night was an 119 loss to x zephyr the sophmore club is show ing spurts of 1985s winning form still the big question on every ones mind after winning every crown in sight last year will the stingers hunger to win be the same as manager ted lowery pointed out prior to thursdays defeat well have to wait a few games to see at least the vital defence posi tions first and third base and pitching remain occupied by veterans allison lowery patrols first pad cathy carr continues to catch line- drive bullets at third and liz crit tenden and candy brown are back on the mound yssssy fp ya v f pia lilts wt allison lowery key veteran in fact the outfield is pretty tight too with veterans sheila fockler alison ashton and lisa blanchard however losing backcatcher jan- nine ferguson this year left a big hole to fill admitted lowery debbie gold and rookie doris risebrough have been slotted as re placements yet fergusons noto rious base stealing and strong pick- off throwing will be sorely missed also gone this year is veteran slug- ger dee dee keith bob gold re places al fockler as coach new girls in the lineup include liz and denise lehman riseb rough diana and brenda buchanan and joanne brunke all have dis played strong batting skills in last tuesdays opener stouff ville broke loose in the fifth inning with seven runs liz lehmans threerun homer was followed by plate crossings from gold denise lehman brown and risebrough in thursdays loss the stingers blew a 72 lead in an errorfilled sixth inning allowing zephyr to score nine runs denise lehman who replaced lowery at first base midway through the game looked shaky on a few catches although someofthe throws to her were wild stouffville started a comeback in the seventh outing capitalizing on zephyr errors before time ran outi the stingers battled bradford monday night see this saturdays weekender for details 3jj by kelly connelly ask any coach of any sport in stouffville to name one team or group of players who ascended above all others in class sportsmanship and victory and one brilliant season always comes to mind whether its the junior c clippers hockey squad of the mid 70s comprised of exontario juvenile champions or 198586 peewee clip pers or sophmore stingers girls softball team who captured every title in sight last season any club before or after it is judged as anti- climactical a special rugby team enter the bianchi brothers tony and alex originally from pickering they moved to ballantrae after their land was expropriated by the federal government for an airport site they enrolled at stouffville high sdss for grades 12 and 13 in 1974 no sooner had they slipped on a rugger shirt and shorts their appearance at the spartan school was deemed a blessing in disguise the brothers introduced a rather foreign sport called rugby to the students and convinced then physed head jim rehill and teacher dave connell to support a most unlikely team comprised of a haphazard group of volleyball and basketball players and the bianchi magic was just beginning their timing was perfect football had all but died at sdss with rising costs and injuries and rehill insisted the school have at least one contact sport the brothers already avid rugby players with the oldest club in canadian history the wanderers assembled a senior intermediate and midget team their first year at sdss and played seven aside hogball as tony called it we all stuck together tony and alex were magnificent young men recalled rehill they brought rugby to a level that this whole region had never experi enced before by the second season the teams were expanded to the traditional 15 aside and the senior squad which tony and alex coached won the york championship and lost a hcartbrcaker to barrio in dou bleovertime in the georgian bay semifinals there were 18 players on our team that year two had lots of experience the other 16 had never seen a rugby ball before remem bered alex while we were short on talent we made up on desire we all stuck together guys like bob boadway barry doner and ron schell were part of that nucleus what i remember most is the incredible sportsmanship and lead ership that tony and alex really forced on everybody said rehill and the sport didnt die when the brothers graduated it only grew bigger said tony inbetween university classes they returned to sdss occasionally to help out the teams but the bianchi boys couldnt be around forever the interest in the sport started to dwindle at sdss when the opposi- ton became too competitive teams from markham high for instance grew into real powerhouses our kids finally said screw rugger- markham had just been to wales said rehill when the tribune contacted tony 28 and alex 29 the other day they were surprised to learn sdss had not fielded a rugby team this season its unfortunate for stouffville because theyre really falling behind in rugby remarked alex who still scrums with the first division wanderers team i remember stouffville was a big hockey town back then you had to drag the guys awoy from what was their real number one sport still the bianchi brothers did the impossible back in 1974 they were sparkplugs fanatics as rehill would call them who took a sport that traditionally occupied a backseat to hockey and baseball and made it work for sdss for some strange reason tony and alex had faith in a bunch of guys who had never seen a rugby ball before quote of the week the first year i remember walking through the halls and thinking this place is like a ghost town tony bianchi cxspss athlete from the mid 70s recalls walking through stouffville secondarys hallway during grade 12 and noticing little school spirit until he started a rugby team s