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s best available copy tribune january 25 1989 ci r rekai johnson barristers solicitors 49 main street east 2nd floor stouffville ontario 6408100 or 6493555 leasing todays easy way to drive larry cotter leasing 6404541 a3 mates and models metroland community newspaper wednesday january 25 1989 coach suspended after pulling team 5 by bruce stapley j joe infurnari who took over as qoach of the stouffville bantam flippers a month and a half ago was handed an indefinite suspen sion last tuesday when he pulled hjs team off the ice during a game in cobourg the clippers were down 110 to cobourg in a playoff game when the incident occurred infurnari cited frustration with the of ficiating along with the unruly- behavior of the cobourg fans as the reason for his action it was frustrating said in furnari the cobourg team was taking runs at our players the crowd was harassing our guys when they were in the penalty box and cheering when our players got hurt infurnari insisted it was the worst case of officiating he had betz clippers take tournament john blair scored six goals including both markers in the 21 overtime victory in the final as the betz clippers old timers captured the ernestown old timers tournament on the weekend the clippers who had been runnersup the past two years took three of their four games played to win the kingstonarea competition larry penneys two goals led betz to a tournamentopening 62 victory over the thousand islands old timers with blair ted pickering eric scaife and joe infurnari counting singles the clippers bowed to the amherst alers in game two by a 21 margin despite outplaying the opposition blair counted the on ly betz goal but the clippers came back to rout the amherstview night hawks 61 with blair scoring twice that qualified them for the championship game against the alers on sunday amherst scored early to take a 10 lead which they held until late in the third period but then blair tied it up forcing the overtime the clippers played the last minute of the third period two men short and the penalties carried over into the overtime period ever seen with 232 left in the game one of their guys jumped our goalie jeff willis he punched jeff about five times brad blacktopp pulled the guy off jeff and brad got a game misconduct while their guy just got two minutes infurnari claimed the stouff ville parents had to surround the stouffville penalty box in order to protect the clipper players sit ting in the box some of the stouffville parents approached me and ask ed me when i was going to pull our kids off the ice infurnari walked onto the ice and told the referee he was taking his team off they told me wed be dis qualified from the playoffs if i did said infurnari i told them i didnt care that id never seen such bad officiating infurnari is now required to write a letter to the ontario minor hockey association ex plaining his action after which the nature of his suspension will be determined he has already talked to whitchurchstoufffville minor hockey association presi dent jo anne steel to whom he stressed that his action had been justified the bantams went on to lose their next two playoff games to port perry and cobourg uxbridge rink scratched from oca regional final j by bruce stapley greg timbers holding a 43 fead without the hammer gave tip three in the 10th end and drop ped a 64 decision to peter jenkins of toronto royals at the thornhill courty club last week the loss eliminated the uxbridge rink from competition in the on tario curling association regional tankard b final timbers was playing catchup tor most of the night but in the eighth end he knocked one of jenkins stones out and stuck around for a pair to take a one- point lead i was hoping for a four in the eighth timbers said i thought we could make it at least tjiree blanking the ninth end jenkins made the most of his chances in the 10th capped by a nose hit for three and a key win it took us so long to get a lead uxbridge vice gary grant said once we got it timbers elected to bring the socks right into the house at the fop of the 10th lead randy grants weight had been perfect gll night rather than the top lour however his shooters jested on the back portion that set the wheels in motion for jenkins randy is usually pretty good with his weight and i tried to get his rocks at the top of the rings and see what theyd do with it timbers said replaying the final end you can only wish you could play that over again if i could i would have thrown the rocks through its easy to say now the rink jammed a peel in the latter stages leaving an un wanted long guard jenkins managed to completely cover a rock resulting in several anxious moments for timbers with a jenkins stone at the top eight timbers attempted a comearound draw but instead raised it further to the button a nose hit on the uxbridge rock salted the contest the first two ends were blank ed but jenkins hit and stuck for a point in the third looking at two in the fourth timbers settled for a point jenkins rolled to a back stone for one in the fifth end and with timbers looking at four at one point in the sixth uxbridge reduced the number nicely with a hit and roll there was a possible two for timbers but following a measurement jenkins got the nod as second shot jenkins had a chance for a pair in the seventh but an attempt to execute a draw to the eightfoot ring was foiled when his shooter tapped a stone in front of the rings f photobruce stapley curling is in its 29th year at the uxbridge curling club and has become a winter tradition for the 194 members who frequent the popular facility here club president mike smith selects his drew weight in a house league match this week at the club curlers range in age from 15 to 85 at the uxbridge facility curling club celebrating 29th season by bruce stapley in a country where hockey doninates the sports scene from october through april curling is still seen by many as the other winter game for the likes of bill farthing harvey acton and bill and bert geer the uxbridge curling club on franklin st has been like a se cond winter home ever since it opened in 1960 the 194member club has just completed its first schedule of the 198889 season and is now into the second half of the campaign the club attracts men and women between the ages of 15 and 85 and they come from stouf fville markham sunderland and mt albert to play its a friendly club says president mike smith he adds with a smile and being a mixed club its good if you want to get mad at your wife the club operates monday through friday evenings with weekends reserved for bonspiels and practising there are two separate mens leagues one with 19 teams the other with 13 a 12team ladies league and a 10team mixed league all operate in a house league setting with teams being chosen by the match and rules commit tee members can play in as many of the leagues as they have time for members pay 195 annually and the club is entirely self- supporting and while most members are in it strictly for a bit of recreational competition there are two teams comprised of club members which are spon sored and which compete in high- level bonspiels betz pools the more promi nent of the two includes stouff- villes randy and gary grant along with greg timbers and barry acton the rink won the white rose cash league finals last season winning out against all other teams in their zone the betz rink has competed several times for the labatts tankard a competition that can eventually lead a team to the brier and then to the world title the other sponsored team is stouffville machine and it is made up of bill farthing les soule ben and bill kester but for the house league the payoff is strictly a trophy and a lot of satisfaction excitement is created for both members and others by the clubs calcutta whereby teams which make the seasonending playoffs are auc tioned off before playoff action begins x for second year credit union girls miss chance the stouffville district credit fjnion senior d girls went to the keswick hockey tournament jan 14 as defending cham pions but despite a strong ef fort failed to make it two in a row game one saw the stouffville girls having lost three key defence players from last gears toprated squad in against a select newtonbrook team firstperiod goals by teresa dcangelas and wendy brnjas assisted by allison lowery staked the locals to a 20 lead halved in the second period when newtonbrook scored to make it 21 1 an early thirdperiod goal by sue chin gave stouffville a 31 lead but with 528 left the gap vas narrowed again when newtonbrooks sue cook cash ed a rebound stouffvillcs in surance tally was scored less than a minute later when kerry holland scored set up in the slot from chin and deangelas a newtonbrook goal with 104 left cut the score to 43 but it was too late as stouffville ad vanced to the championship side stouffvilles deangelas was voted mvp for her goal and twoassist performance game two against brampton canadettes clearly was to be a battle of wills from the start with outstanding goaltending from jill clarke of stouffville and laure sibbins of brampton despite numerous chances at both ends the score remained 00 until with just over one minute left in the first period bramptons shelley skillcn put her team up 10 with 454 left in the second period stouffville tied the game on a goalmouth pass from brnjas to lowery despite chances at both ends and three clearcut breakaways in the last two minutes of the game by stouffvilles deangelas lesley donaldson and lowery the game ended 11 requiring a shootout bramptons first shooter glenda gibben scored on a low shortside shot while lowery hit the goalie deflec ting to the crossbar but not go ing in leaving brampton 21 winners lowery was selected mvp for her tieing goal and numerous offensive threats the credit union girls next venture to the newtonbrook tournament the first weekend in february pee wee clippers thump unionville the stouffville pec wee clip pers rode the twogoal efforts of danny mcnaught and darrin zcllcr on their way to a 61 drubbing of unionville monday the clippers coming off a 70 shellacking at the hands of port perry the previous weekend also got goals from steve ernes and trevor bardell jay hausc was prominent on defence while jcrmain franklin joe nucci and brian coughlan also chipped in with solid performances the pec wees commence playoff action this weekend when they visit cobourg on sun day before playing host to port perry monday at the recrea tion centre the clippers have been winlcss against both playoff rivals in regular season play although they had considerable success versus teams that finished higher than cobourg and port perry in the standings people buy a team then share in the pot at the end the owners of the more successful teams getting the lions share of the spoils while the club admits new members on a regular basis regardless of ability level there are several founding members still active in league play elmer farthing father of match and rules committee chairman bill has been a member from the start and served as president in 197273 uxbridges bill and bert geer are also originals as is bill har- wood harvey acton of uxbridge while still a registered member is no longer active were always looking for new people says bill farthing its a great way to have fun and its a way to get some exercise as well farthing like so many others claims he is hooked on the game just as hockey nuts get addicted to their sport its an exciting game he says its team- oriented one person being hot cannot win a curling game the fourrink uxbridge facility also happens to be the only curl ing club in the area with the closest other club being situated in unionville the members maintain the facility and there is licensed lounge downstairs where members head after the game to rehash hits and misses as well as planning their strategies for up coming matches and bonspiels the big board in the hall lists all the bonspiels available to the members the lounges televi sion set is tuned in to the sports network so other events of im portance in the world of sports can be monitored mike smith considers the suc cess of his club and smiles its a club thats here for the members its owned and run by the membership you might say the uxbridge curling club in its 29th year of operation is as solid as the rocks its members set to sliding down the pebbled ice surface