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best available copy yr rekai johnson banisters solicitors 49 main street east 2nd floor stouffville ontario 6408100 or 6493555 sports classified leasing today s easy way to drive larry cotter leasing 6404541 as mates and models i li j second section v iiiyij a metroland community newspaper wednesday august 17 1988 4 in squirts action vile stunne by bruce stapley f after some impressive league performances stouffvilles soft- ball squirts ran into a brick wall intheir bestofthree provincial playdown sunday t the choko design club was no- hit by thornhill pitcher shane jeir in stouffville losing game one of the series 131 i weir had stouffville mesmeriz ed all night with his great speed and ability to spot the ball he talked three but no stouffville tfatter came close to rapping a base hit thornhill took advantage of sloppy stouffville fielding to put together a 50 third inning lead they added one in the fifth two in the sixth and five in the seventh stouffville managed to put a rjin on the board in the fourth when graham crowder walked went to third on two wild pitches then came home on brad croziers fielders choice weir fanned 15 striking out the srtfc in the second third and fifth innings first five rerozier pitched the first five in- flings for stouffville and mike bifderwood hurled the final two femes the two combined for six strikeouts jithornhill is currently in first place in their league which in cludes stouffville the second game of the playdowns which are intertwined with regular season play will be in thornhill on thursday in league play last week the team squashed port perry 283 and tied malvern 33 they beat up on the home teams pitching staff in port perry wednesday with an attack that featured six home runs two of them grand slams the squirts came out with guns blazing in that contest striking for 13 runs in their first at bat steve uren and jeremy brown homered early in the inning with greg sanford wrapping things up with a grand slam a graham crowder round- tripper added two more runs in the second but stouffville hit double digits again in the third grand slam this time it was mike under wood lighting up the port perry hurler with a grand slam brad crozier also homered in the big third inning and jeremy brown contributed a double crozier went 5for6 with a walk on the night while lindsay haylow and brown had four hits each ian ellis crowder uren and sanford racked up three safeties a piece crowder pitched for stouffville holding the port perry bats at bay while register ing six strikeouts in thursdays match it looked like the stouffville squad was off and running again as they hit for three in the first inning the rally consisted of singles by ellis crowder haylow brown uren crozier and underwood but the stouffville bats were stifled after that with malvern staging a comeback that saw them tie the score with two runs in the fifth off stouffville pitcher crozier big catches some big catches helped hold a tie for the squirts lef tf ielder joe ireton made a great running catch in the second coming in a long way then basketing the ball just before it hit the ground he then pulled down another fly ball to end the inning in the sixth uren came a long way from his centre field post to pull in a short popup later in the same frame catcher ellis nailed a malvern base runner trying to steal third with a strike to ireton crozier gave up six malvern hits fanning six keenan orme knocks his ball out of the sand to stand close to the pin in mondays golf tournament at the maples of ballantrae more than ho golfers took part in the annual tourney with all proceeds being donated to the york east chapter of the multiple sclerosis foundation sjoerd witteveen no crime in bantam loss jjstouffville squirts third baseman mike under- i wood puts the tag on a malvern runner after an at tempted suicide squeeze bunt in the fourth inning thursday stouffville romped to a 283 decision over port perry pitcher brad crozier looks on bruce stapley bv chris garbutt the stouffville bantams werent exactly robbed of a vic- tory wednesday jp could have been mose for pee wees j by chris garbutt jj sure its the toughest team in the league and yes they did nake the score respectable but when the stouffville pee vfees lost 72 at home to jijamalea wednesday you 6uldnt help but think that they 6uld have won this with a few nore players the pee wees have been ilagued by manpower shortages ill summer they even had to orfeit one because they only had ight players after a man was ejected but they seemed to be fgetling by however you cant fool around with bramalea unfortunately touffville was forced to field ttfeir third- and fourthstring pit chers against a team they jiavent beat all season but derek harrison and vince wilson held up pretty well against the hardhitting visitors while in several jams both were able to induce ground balls to get important outs stouffville also had trouble get ting their bats going they didnt manage a hit until wilson smack ed a solid single in the fifth inning the pee wees only runs came on wild pitches in the first kevin nichols walked reaching third on two more walks he came safely home on an errant pitch to kevin cargill cargill walked but with the bases load ed they couldnt capitalize dave carmanico later raced across home plate on a wild pitch with none out in the fourth stouffville drew nine walks from the bramalea pitchers if theyd been able to hit the ball it might have been a very close game early registrations set 1 the final date for early j registration in the whitchurch- fstouffville minor hockey association is august 3j i after this date registrants will be charged an additional 10 for j late registration players must register prior to trying out for representative teams registrations are being accepted at the recreation com plex ninth line north the association is still accep ting applications for coaches managers and helpers for both house league and omha teams panthers come close the panthers were runners- up in a european tournament saturday the stouffvillcrichmond hill soccer club was par ticipating in a tournament in lalborg denmark losing in the championship game the undcr16 team went into the final undefeated oulscoring their opposition 272 in seven games wsm the team now moves on to the netherlands where they will compete for the haarlem cup the tournament is one of the largest in europe involving teams from 21 countries five stouffville boys are on the team parents of the players report that the team is feeling fine and theyre having a good time over there izizirizizizirkickfcizickiritkkkiift acton was surprised with gretzky trade by bruce stapley edmonton oiler keith acton admits he was as surprised as anyone else to hear of the trade that sent teammate wayne gretzky to los angeles tuesday its business big business its not monday night slowpitch he said i hadnt really been following all the rumors in the newspapers acton said before heading off to switzerland for a 10day vacation it was a shock he said i came home at four in the after noon and someone phoned and told me so i just watched it on the news like everybody else acton believes gretzky will be missed to say edmonton is as good a hockey team as they were before the trade would be difficult but he claimed time will tell just how the trade will affect the team edmonton is getting a talented player jimmy carson time is on his side hes a young guy acton said then theres the other player and the three firstround draft choices no one can predict how it will work out for either team keith added the trade will have a positive effect on fan in terest in los angeles its certainly got the world talking the question now he said is whether the oilers will still have enough to see them through the rigors of postseason play the oilers still have to be favored to win the stanley cup he said we still have four or five of the best players in the world and coach glen sathcr is a survivor hut it will come down to how much we have to spend in terms of longer more gruelling playoff scries to get into the finals keith said he got to know gretzky as a teammate after coming to the oilers late last season he claimed he didnt have any inclination a trade was in the works he refused to comment on the controversy surrounding the trade as a hockey player its not for me to wonder why so to speak he said peoples feelings about what other people think is right dont enter into the picture as for the remaining oilers keith said grctzkys absence could motivate the stars on the team to prove they can win without him only time will tell acton is in the middle of contract negotiations with the oilers and he hopes he will stay in edmonton for two more years his 10day trip is also partly business as hes also exploring the possibility of playing in switzerland someday he said hes looking forward to training camp in september this summer had gone by fast he said acknowledging that his stanley cup spring has made the offseason seem much shorter in fact they lost 94 to green- bank a rather convincing score but basil luciano and scott mckinley might argue that they were robbed both had hard hits to the outfield only to be put out by spectacular catches and coaches basil luciano sr and bob fraser are positive their team was robbed when the um pire announced the game was over five minutes before the curfew the game is under protest they greenbank can have the win the senior luciano said its just not right that these kids dont get a chance to play as much as possible and although it was unlikely that stouffville would have scored five runs in one inning it ccrtainly wasnt unheard of greenbank did the same thing to the home side in the first pitcher roger steiner was roughed up early by the opposi tion as he struggled to get the ball over the plate he got no help from the infield as they racked up several errors scott mckinley put the ban tams on the board in the bottom of the first with a twoout home run to right that was practically in markham before the fielder caught up with the ball the blast knocked in luciano who had singled shawn sorechetti was then a hit batsman and reached second on wild pitch mike pongracz brought him home with a single pongracz came in to relieve steiner in the second but gave up two more greenbank runs stouffville added one more in the second when mike mccool walked and raced to the plate on keith piettes hard hit single to left the bantams werent much of a threat after that pongracz set tled down and struck out four in his four innings pitched but the bats were silent other than a bill pride single and luciano and mckinleys couldhavebeens scott evans bat leads to top honors stouffville midgets pitching ace scott evans let his bat do the talking in the canadian midget softball championships at napanee last week the 17yearold won top batting honors with a hefty 625 average and a total of four home runs in the 10game tournament he was awarded a plaque for his accomplishment and was named to the tournaments all- star team evans was recruited by the host napanee team and helped them reach the finals where they lost to newfoundland napanee was one of two ontario teams competing the other club was from st catharines evans pitched only one game a 54 loss to saskatchewan he was the designated hitter in the other matches his napanee unit ended up with a 73 record for the tournament i got to see all the best midget ball players in canada evans said enthusiastically and it was really exciting to hit a home run in front of 4000 fans on the weekend the championship ran monday through sunday big thanks dear editor i would like to congratulate naz nicastro and the greens whalers for their fine slowpitch tournament held on the weekend of july 31 1988 allan piettc umpircinchief