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best available copy r rekai johnson i barristers solicitors 49 main street east 2nd floor stouffville ontario 5 6408100 or 6493555 s second section sports classified leasing todays easy way to drive larry cotter leasing 6404541 a3 makes and models ametroiand community newspaper wednesday august 10 1988 randy grant led the betz pools fastball team to a 21 win over preenbank this week grant was four for four at the plate and prove in the gamewinning run with a single in the bottom of the jighth inning with two out bruce stapley jbetz pools scoop 21 lliii from greenbank k by bruce stapley call it atonement getting evn or good oldfashioned rfpde whatever it was randy vrtant put the frustration behind him wednesday at the ball park going four for four driving in both runs including ie winner with two out in extra innings ictgivebetz pools a 21 victory over firtplace sreenbank j the betz club winless igainst the gamblers all reason had lost a heartbreaker tj them by the same score earlier this year but for grant the whole season thus far has been sjmething hed like to forget j i dont think ive had four hits all season let alone in one night laughed the leftfielder after the game i just decided torelax up at the plate and i jfuess i got lucky and hit a gthe game was a classic pit- qpers duel pitting betz ace jm chilvers against green- banks talented mark goerski betz took a 10 lead in the urth when chilvers doubled lead off the frame and grant shed him in with a single chilvers nurtured his shutout into he seventh and appeared tjiliave it sewn up after giving a leadoff single to pinch- er gary baker chilvers nned catcher don phinney jteve schell took a hard jpunder off the bat of pinch- bsuer greg wells forced the iffnner at second but was unable to turn the double play after running the count to 32 on neill rodd chilvers walked the number nine batter in the order bringing in the ever- dangerous terry till till slashed a single to left to tie it goreski shut down the betz bats in the bottom of the seventh to bring on extra innings greenbank seemed to have engineered an eighthinning rally when their ffrst two bat ters reached base but schell picked up a ground smash hit by rodd real tagged the run ner headed for third then step ped on second for the double play to end the threat gary vaughan made it to first on an error to start the bot tom of the eighth and the speedy gary grant was sent in to run for him steve brooks attempting a sacrifice bunt popped up to goreski but greenbank first baseman trevor till was unable to hold on to goreskis throw to try to double off grant grant then went to second on a wild pitch and chilvers was walked intentionally rick wells popped out setting the stage for randy grants histrionics he smashed goreskis first pitch into right centre for a single and his fleetfooted brother gary beat the throw to the plate to score the winner i just wanted to hit the ball randy said its been a frustrating season for me i havent earned the right to play regularly maybe now ill be able to get on the diamond a lit tle more scarborough midgets ismash stouffville 71 f tope vihe ive got a feeling this is going be a long night sighed stouff- lie midgets coach howard buvkhoider itt was the first inning of wednesdays game and the codar hill oppostition had already converted an error a walk and a home run into a 30 leau by the time howards team hati committed their last glaring erior of the night he scar borough squad had rolled to a 71 victory only two of the seven runs were earned as the error- filled play that has characterized thjl stouffville team at home recently continued p was expected the local boys mny of whom comprised the bantam team that won the on tario championships last year would come out swinging in light of jheir impressive showing at a tournament in markham ut ace pitcher scott evans whb had thrown three shutouts in markham was unavailable for the contest he was in napanec foe the canadian softball championships dhris burkholdcr pitched bet- tenthan the score would indicate bur was victimized by what howard called lethargy the riflit hander struck out two and induced many ground balls and popups but his stouffville mates seem ed intent on throwing the ball away time and again and it cost them dearly sprinkled in among the errors however were a few examples of excellent fielding leftfielder peter finlelman made a sensa tional running catch of a drive hit over his head and to his left in the sixth inning later in the same frame the stouffville infield showed they were capable of brilliance when they turned a double play that was capped off by danny larmers great effort at first base he stretched to catch the throw from second baseman rich burkholder whose offbalance toss looked like it might elude the first basemans glove stouffville scored their only run in the first when chris burkholder singled home jason yoshida who had walked stouffville was held to five singles on the night with fintelman chipping in two yoshida and greg home had one each cedar hill pitcher mark mur phy had the stouffville hitters pounding the ball into the ground for easy outs most of the game stouffville mites grab first stage of ontario softhall finals the stouffville mite softball team won their first ontario amateur softball association playdown last week in dramatic fashion the junior buttermalrs took the first two games in a best-of- three series against aurora both of which came right down to the wire the sweep qualifies them for a tournament to be held august 27 the winners of that showdown will advance one step closer to the provincial championship friday they edged the opposi tion 1411 in aurora but couldnt finish them off until the eighth inning tied at 11 stouffville scored three runs in the top of the inning when evan boyd and tim smart singled and scott assinck tripled assinck scampered home when a bad throw to third gave him the extra base stouffville pitcher kevin hackert held aurora at bay in the home half of the eighth to ensure the win adam crowder had four hits and scored three runs for the mites while boyd chipped in with three safeties smart assinck and hackert had two each hackert struck out 11 coach dave boyd spent the first four and a half innings of wednesdays contest with his head in his hands the visitors from aurora had taken advan tage of pitcher kevin hackerts inability to find the plate opening up a 138 lead but after watching relief pit cher sonny acosta do even worse boyd gave hackert another chance and he respond ed by holding aurora to one run tim smart of the stouffville junior butter- makers mite squad crosses the plate smart was knocked in on a sott assinck single in the fifth inn ing luring the mites game last week bruce stapley in the final two innings in the meantime his team mates came alive as well rally ing to win the crucial match 1817 on andrew harpers clutch single in the bottom of the seventh and final inning while the first half of wednes days game was marked by slop py fielding and errant pitching the second half was pure classic after stouffville finally tied the score at 16 in the fifth hackert struck out the side in the sixth to set the stage for the late heroics evan boyd hit his second home run of the game in the bottom of the sixth to give the junior but- termakers the lead for the first time however a leadoff triple in the top of the seventh folowed by two walks appeared to have disaster written all over it for the home side but after a single tied it short stop tim smart went high in the air to bring down a screaming line drive that would surely have scored two more runs smart then fired the ball to second base doubling off the aurora runner who was headed to third ending the inning assinck reached base for the fifth time to lead off the stouff ville half of the seventh he stole second then went to third on a single by mike brett harper then triggered pandemonium on the stouffville bench and in the stands by lof ting a fly ball to right that fell in for the gamewinner as assinck raced home with his fifth run of the contest hackert and smart also had roundtrippers for stouffville mite girls drop 113 decision to unionville by bruce stapley the stouffville mighty mite girls were up against the prover bial immovable object at the park thursday but thanks to sam comito and krista dudley they were able to at least dent the machine a little the mites lost to unionville 113 but were in danger of being the victim of a nohitter by pit cher kristy bellmore until com ito singled in the fifth after sarah hurrle was hit by a pitch dudley lined a tworbi single the mites had scored their first run on a pair of walks and a steal of home in the first inning the unionville team which hasnt lost a regularseason game all year was led by bellmore who struck out 18 in the seveninning contest allison haffey homered and kerri cooper had a threerun double to blow the game wide open in the fourrun fifth inning stouffvilles melissa miller pit ched a credible game striking out nine tough unionville baiters the young pitcher also turned a double play in the fourth cat ching a popup then firing to dudley to double off the union ville runner at first it looked like stouffville might add to their run total in the seventh when allison crowder reached base on an error and comito and hurrle walked but they couldnt engineer the key hit and were forced to settle for three runs scored on the game carter hayden cleans up at scarborough camp carter hayden recently return ed from a successful twoweek stay at camp just how suc cessful is indicated by a trophy two ribbons and a certificate he received at its conclusion sixyearold carter son of patrick and marilyn hayden 139 ironwood crescent stouffville attended skates edge hockey school in scarborough it was his second summer there hesithe best carter received ribbons as the no 1 onice star and the no 1 off ice star the trophy the most highly prized of all is for best ailround athlete sixtyfive boys participated ranging in age from three to fourteen categories represented by the award are significant they in clude willigness to learn most gentlemanly most improved best conduct hardest working excellent hockey sense and a pleasure to teach played novice carter played novice with the kinsmen team in the whitchurchstouffville minor hockey association last season while defence is his regular position he also performed at both right and left wing carter hopes to also take part in the kinsmensponsored vern buffy hockey school later this monlh his idol is wayne gretzky in september he enters grade 2 in french immersion at dicksons hill carter comes by his ability in athletics honestly his father starred in football hockey and lacrosse his mother was an olympic gymnast patrick and marilyn have a second son hud son twentyone months their grandparents are rev and mrs howard minaker thicketwood boulevard stouffville samantha comito safely steals third in the stouffville mite girls loss to unionville thursday coniito went to score stouffvilles se cond run unionville triumphed 113 chris garbutt carter hayden proudly displays the awards he garnered as the best allround athlete at ihc skates edge hockey camp this summer also voted best athlete on and off the ice