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best available copy c7 rekai johnson barristers solicitors 49 main street east 2nd floor stouffville ontario 6408100 or 6493555 leasing todays easy way to drive laity cotter leasing 6404541 a3 makes and models ok metrohnd community newspaper wednesday february 22 1989 brenda hachey earns two bronze stouffville skaters shine at upper york skating finals stouffvilles brenda hachey earned two bronze medals saturday in the upper york interclub figure skating finals at aurora p brenda placed third in both o open interpretive and gold dance oi other medal recipients from stouffville were jennifer selwyn bronze preliminary interpretive leslie penny silver silver interpretive elizabeth davia silver gold interpretive and janine jef frey bronze jr silver dance stouffvilles michael pride placed second in mens preliminary juvenile free- style other stouffville participants included melissa miller michelle barker zoe liadis lee anna hamilton nicole jef frey and jennifer mcleod lee anna hamilton finished out of the medal round by only a few points in both the silver in terpretive and juvenile free- skate she placed fourth elizabeth davia came close to winning a second medal she was fourth in prenovice freeskate richmond hill won the team trophy with a total of 69 points followed by markham with 59 newmarket 55 stouffville 28 and aurora 15 the medal presentations were made by interclub presi dent bea fisher of markham assisted by skaters janakim batha of richmond hill and bill bridel of aurora the upper york interclub competition in aurora this week saw many local skaters bring home medals for fine efforts on the ice above leslie penny 14 of spring st in stouffville earned a silver medal the silver interpretive class she is presented withthe award by bill bridell of auroral at right jennifer selwyn 12 of geoffrey cres stouffville is presented with her medal by janakim batha of the richmond hill figure skating club bruins make playoffs by bruce stapley the uxbridge bruins all but guaranteed themselves a playoff spot this weekend tak ing two out of three games to move one point ahead of cobourg the climb into the eighth and final playoff position climaxed a threeweek charge that saw the bruins erase a 10point deficit playing before a near- capacity crowd at the ux- bridge arena friday night the bruins rode a twogoal effort by john long to a 31 win over little britain john steeves counted the other marker ah three uxbridge goals came on power plays the bruins injurydepleted lineup managed to jump into a 41 firstperiod lead long was the big shooter again scoring in the productive first stanza his second a short- handed effort but little britain charged back to tic the score at 44 in the third period however a power play goal by angclo perfetti from steeves provid ed the bruins with the win steeves and gregg pierce also had goals for uxbridge sunday night saw the tired bruins bow 74 to port perry on the road finally snapping the unbeaten skein perfetti derek lee greg cook and pierce had the bruins goals fond farewell pnotomim thomas an era has come to a close with the departure of wayne emmerson centre from the buttermakers slowpltch organization as manager of the team for the past 10 years emmerson has seen 35 players come and go on the squad this week he announced his retirement and his old teammates gave him a fond sendoff emmerson and his wife debbie are presented with a travel voucher by wayne jackson at right as part of the festivities on saturday night at the stouffville legion hall emmerson who is town councillor is leaving the buttermakers to concentrate on town matters photobruce stapley the stouffville senior spartans may have been eliminated from york region basketball action this week but it was not without the efforts of leading scorer don clearwater here clearwater 54 makes his way to two more of his 27 point total for the final week of play the junior spartans managed a playoff berth however senior spartans fall short in bid to make playoffs by bruce stapley the stouffville district secon dary school spartans fell just short in their bid to grab a playoff position last week the spartans took two of four games in a hectic season- concluding week doubling their victory total to that point in the season the spartans started the week strong hammering newmarket 8157 on monday don clearwater was the big pointgetter for stouf fville hitting for a total of 27 juniors earn playoff spot the stouffville district secondary school junior spar tans defeated st roberts 4540 last tuesday to guarantee them a basketball playoff spot mike greathead was the big man for stouffville scoring 1g points while kevin mariner chipped in with 12 sebastian templer played a strong game on defence greathead was at his best faking his shot then driving it to the basket for points repeatedly the junior spartans finish ed off the regular season with a 6637 loss to thornhill stouffville was in the game at the half trailing 3137 but in the second half a lack of re bounding along with many missed layups led to their demise greathead again was the top scorer with ii points cam harden and kevin marnier had 10 each coach dave connell feels his team could be a major force in the playoffs this week if we pass as well as we have been and score our layups and foul shots we will have good suc cess in the playoffs mark brooks had 13 and guy cowan 12 on tuesday it was clearwater again leading the spartans to an exciting 4645 win over st roberts brooks added eight points as did john hall but thursday found them up against a red hot st andrews team and the stouffville boys bowed 5440 despite clear waters 21 points scored friday the spartans were ob viously out of their depth against thornhill as the visiting cagers dumped them 6543 to end any hopes they had of making the playoffs cowan led stouffville wih 12 points spartans coach jim fletcher feels his team never recovered from the slow start brought on by the season starting when his basketball mainstays were still involved in the allontario volleyball playdowns that caused us to get off to a bad start says fletcher i wish we had another month for basketball wed be right there but we cant really use that as an excuse don clearwater 27 points