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rekai johnson banisters solicitors 49 main street east 2nd floor stouffville ontario 6408100 or 6493555 all areas of general practice second section sports classified leasing today s easy way to drive larry cotter leasing 6404541 al mates and models a metroland community newspaper wednesday august 5 1987 marlene on winning streit stouffville golfer takes canadian crown winning form stouffvilles marlene streit won the canadian ladies senior golf championship last thursday at york downs in unionville streit 53 shot a threeround score of six over par to win the tournament by six strokes over jane moffat of toronto alan shackleton motocross races set for markham markham fairgrounds will be home to the cycle worldhonda motocross this weekend as top riders take part in a number of races and competitions during the two day event g uxbridge promoter terry bar rett of motox productions is organizing the weekend and he predicts lots of thrills for specta tors races will be run both satur day aug 8 and sunday aug 9 with some 240 of canadas top rid ers competing in more than 30 events over the two day spectacle local riders include ballan- traes todd townend and mount alberts doug hoover townend 15 is the defending canadian junior 250 cc cham pion he fits the markham race into a very busy schedule this au gust which sees him competing in both the canadian and united states national championships unfortunately another ballan- trae rider 13yearold clint crust wont be competing this year in markham as broke his arm two weeks ago however crust will attend as an avid spectator he hopes to be back racing again in a few weeks once the arm is healed this is the second year in a row a motocross has been held at the markham fairgrounds last year the event was on the labour day weekend and barrett expects the action this year to be even more entertaining racing gets underway at noon both days and continues till about 4 pm there will be 15 races each day with the juniors and schoolboys going saturday and the seniors and experts slated for sundays main event along with the racing action there will be jumping competi tions and intermission shows by the jong park tae kwondo de monstration team the manmade track was de signed by barrett who has eight years experience in the motoc ross racing game and should prove challenging for the racers and thrilling for the fans there will also be a longest jump contest to be held off the finish line jump tickets are 12 for a weekend pass 5 for saturday and 8 for sundays main event and can be purchased at the gate the mar kham fairground is located on mccowan road and 18th avenue in markham for more information on the cycle worldhonda motocross please call motox productions at 8526507 by alan shackleton sports editor familiarity led to victory as stouffvilles marlene streit cruised to the canadian senior ladies golf championship at her home course york downs in un ionville last thursday streit 53 walked away with the title as she completed the three- round 54hole tourney with a six over total of 224 her nearest opponent jane moffat of toronto was six shots back the win came only two weeks after streit took the ontario seniors championship at the toronto golf club runnerup in that event was also jane moffat who was two strokes back streits margin of victory at york downs could have been even higher if she had not double- bogeyed the parthree 17th hole she went into thursdays final round with a six stroke lead and that was how she ended the tourney she carded twooverpar scores of 74 in the first two rounds before shooting a 76 in the final round the hot humid weather thurs day took a toll on many of the gol fers and slowed play consider ably which streit said hurt her concentration on occasions it was pretty hot out there to day she said after the tourney but the weather didnt bother me it flowed play down though and that was sometimes frustrat ing you had a long wait on a num ber of holes waiting may have been partial ly responsible for the double- bogey on 17 by this time the title was streits to lose and she had a long time to think about her acceptance speech while waiting to tee off on the parthree second last hole she missed a threefoot put for par and the twofoot comebacker before tapping the ball in for a five i certainly dont like to three put and i was kind of in shock when i missed the second one she explained it happened im just glad it didnt hurt me otherwise streit was very hap py with her performance at the tourney i played solid consis tent golf every round and that was what it took to win streit was in the final three some of the day with american golfers harriet hart of ridge- field conn and frances stearns of poughkeepsie ny hart finished in third spot one stroke back of second place moffat at the awards tea in the york downs clubhouse after the tour ney streit told the the supportive and happy audience that it was a thrill to win the the title at her home course for me to win here is very spe cial she said i was able to share it with my friends streit said the golf course was in excellent shape for the tourney which also included the the cana dian provincial senior teams championship won by ontario and she complimented greens- keeper kimmo salonen for his hard work in preparing the course earlier in the week some gol fers had complained that the greens were playing too fast striet agreed they were quick but she added that they ran true which was of greater importance a field of almost 90 of the top senior women golfers from cana da and the united states com peted in the three day tourna ment marlene streit of stouffville right is presented with the canadian senior ladies championship trophy by clga national president aihlin walker streit won the tournament held last week at unionvilles york downs course betz puts out lights on claremont 20 by alan shackleton sports editor betz pools stouffville turned the lights out literally on the claremontmarkham juniors in mens fastball action last wednesday night playing in claremont stouff ville came out on top 20 in what was for most of the night a pitch ing duel between the juniors jason canavan and betzs john annis in the top of the seventh with stouffville at bat the lights at the claremont park automatically shut off and the field was thrown into darkness the lights were on a preset timer that turned them off at 11 pm a more than 15 minute wait was required before the lights could be turned back on and both sides agreed to call it a night giving betz the win there was little chance of claremontmarkham scoring in the final frame as annis was in top form throwing hard and on target the win puts stouffville alone in second place in the oshawa city and district league with a record of 1541 it was a close contest until the top of the sixth when canavan walked in a run to give betz a 20 lead only a couple of stellar de fensive plays at second base by paul sinclair prevented betz from scoring another three runs both coaches had praise for the pitching of canavan and the fielding of sinclair he has really improved this team defensively said claremont coach frank hendy of sinclair who started the season with betz hes been a real asset so far stouffville only just had enough players to make a team and their lineup included manager bryan emery on the hot corner and pitcher jim chilvers at second base a combination of injuries holi days and conflicting work sche dules led to the thin lineup when betz was in the field assistant coach wayne allen was a lonely figure on the team bench emery who played regularly last season in oshawa and has taken the occasional turn in tournaments this year was happy with his and the rest of the teams play john annis pitched a great game the defence was there when needed and we scored enough runs to win he ex plained emery himself scored the gamewinning run in the top of the third inning on a rbi from the other oddity in the infield jim chilvers who ripped a single down the third base line to cash the manager in from second the margin of victory could have been even higher as randy grant was robbed of a second in ning home run he blasted the ball to centre field where it rolled under the fence and was ruled a ground rule double stouffville didnt argue the call even though grant was at third before the ball went under the fence last week was a good one for both squads as the juniors won game one of their best of three ontario amateur softball asso ciation playdown against vandorf 31 tuesday and betz knocked off oshawa mcl juniors 54 the same night trip down memory lane stouffville s intermediate entry in the south ontario county fast ball league laid plenty of hickory to horsehidc in the second inning to down brougham 82 stouffville tribune may 28 1970 its been more than 17 years since the above story detailing the exploits of the stouffville intermediates home opener against brougham appeared in the pages of the tribune and a lot has changed since then or has it marvin betz sent me a few clippings of game reports on the vachonbetz pools sponsored mens fastball squad of 1970 and they peaked my interest in some of stouffvilles sports history so on wednesday afternoon i strolled across main street to the whitchurchstouffville public library and spent an hour reading up on some of the goings on in local sports in 1968 and 70 i must add that the ladies at the library were a great help as they set me up on the microfilm machine to read through some back issues of the tribune now this was not scientific research on my part it was a way to kill time on a summer afternoon so forgive me if i miss a major happening of that period i was simply skimming over the sports pages looking for stories related to fastball i have no intention of writing the complete sports history of stouffville what really caught my attention while looking through the old stories was that i came across so many familiar names ive only been doing the sports beat in this area eight months but even in that short time ive noticed that a lot of the same names keep popping up i guess that happens in a small town nohitters anyway without further ado lets take a little trip down the stouffville sports memory lane and see what we can find thursday may 24 1968 was the day that stouffvilles bob par- rish who lived on clarke street tossed a nohitter for the altona mens fastball team against the markham juniors the game was played at the claremont park judging from a recent experience in clarcmont i think they still have the same lights they did 19 years ago altona won the match 10 and parrish faced 23 batters over seven innings striking out nine and walking two this must have been a sidelines by alan shackleton sports editor heck of a game as both markham coaches jim johnson and morris proccnko were thrown out by the umpires managers of the altona team that season were cliff dunkeld and ralph oblenes pitchers were hot in the summer of 68 as glenn jackson threw a nohitter of his own for the stouffville iga baseball team against cambray the stouffville lefty was never in trouble and handled the opposition with ease said the june 27 tribune report on the game stouffville won the contest 160 i dont know when mens baseball died in stouffville but the 68 season is one im sure longtime residents remember the iga squad won the league championship in a dramatic sevengame final series against sunderland which was decided on a bottom of the tenth home run by stouffvilles dave slack apparently the huge crowd at stouffville memorial park went insane as the blast cleared the left field fence charging the field during slacks home run trot jubiliant team members were car ried on shoulders for an impromptu main street parade read the report in the sept 26 tribune other members of the iga squad whos names stood out were bill lehman larry spang ted suzuki murray holden and roger todd perfect game also in the summer of 68 brougham fastball hurler ken may threw a perfect game against markham on july 24 may struck out 14 of the 21 batters he faced the 30 victory was the second nohitter the whirlwind right hander had thrown that season by 1970 stouffville had a mens fastball team of their own and some of their top players were bruce fockler bob parish eric jones roger brain gord ness gord tarr pete sanderson barry andrews and bryan emery who is the manager of the 1987 stouff ville fastball squad ironically the brougham pitcher who stouffville put the hickory to horsehide against in may 1970 was none other than john annis who is a hurler for betz this year however all was not rosy for the stouffville intermediates of 1970 and after a particularly rough night in august against victoria square the tribune reported stouffville coach earl crowder had every right to demand a saliva test following his teams defeat in victoria square thursday also in 1970 as im sure many hockey fans remember the stouff ville clippers juvenilles won an ontario championship some 1300 fans packed the old arena for the final game ray steel who coached the 198687 midgets to an omha crown was the juveniles manager no to new bats there were a few other things i noticed during my quickie history lesson in 1970 the population of stouffville including whitchurch was 9872 and markham had 31454 residents now stouffvilles population is about 14500 while markhams has soared to over 106000 during august of the same year concerns about a postal strike were being expressed in the paper some things never change in october 1968 stouffville district secondary school gym teacher jim rehill announced the school was packing in its football program because it was too expensive i dont think theyve played proper pigskins at sdss since and finally a sad story about aluminum ball bats appeared in august 1970 is nothing sacred read the headline as it went on to bemoan the use of aluminum bats tradition breakers fearing the old hickory may just be on the way out well that one came true and in many ways it is sad both the hickory and the horsehidc arc long gone from the amateur ball scene and with them some of the romance putting the aluminum to the stccrhidc can to cowhide will never sound as good as hickory to horsehidc