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cio tribune august 9 1989 bekai johnson banisters solicitors 49 main street east 2nd floor stouffville ontario 6404100 or 6493555 tribune sports su leasing 1 todays easy way to drive larry cotter leasing 6404541 al makes and models a metroland community newspaper wednesday auist 9 1989 bantams look to auontarios bv bruce stapley mike pongraczs darkest hour has given way to a bright new dawn the hardthrowing pitcher for the stouffville bantam softball team was all set to pack it in three weeks ago when his control abandoned him and his team didnt seem to be heading in the right direction but he decided to give it another shot and it all came together for him at the town park last wednesday night as he fired a threehitter to lead his club to a 72 win over east gwillimbury the win gave stouffville a twogame sweep in the provincial elimination series qualifying them for the allontario championship tournament in napanee aug 2527 it had been a rough season admitted pongracz after the game but things are coming together i started to get my control back im glad it is coming together before the allontario the herbs upholsteringns smith liz fraser real estate bants have been struggling this season but manager gary fraser says his teams recent surge which has seen the club take its last four games has put them in the position to challenge for the provin cial title the boys are starting to concentrate more i feel confident about the ahontarios well need good hitting and pitching but none of the teams are really strong so it will be a matter of whoever wants to win it most the bantams put wednesdays game away with a fourrun sixth inning bill pride and pongracz led off with singles eilert fraser walked and then david caramanico cashed pride with a safety kevin nicholls sacrifice bunt scored pongracz then fraser and caramanico scampered home on wild pitched to complete the rally stouffville captured the first game of the set by a 108 score tues day in east gwillimbury leading 92 going into the sicth frame the bantams gave up six runs to make it a nervous finish consecutive triples by pride and jason cowan keyed a fiv run first inning to get stouffville off to a fast start nicholls went three for four scoring two times and matthew mcknight had two rbis to further the offensive cause caramanico made a strong contribution from his catchers posi tion serving to steady pitchers pongracz and jodi infurnari the bantams get back to league action this week closing out their home schedule with a game against newmarket tonight at the town park diamond two game time is 830 pm stouffville mites eye ontario title m ptiolobruce stapley bantam pitcher mike pongracz is back in fine form following a slump earlier this season the stouffville pitcher hopes to lead his team into the ontario softball finals later this month the stouffville buttermakers mites face their biggest challenge of the year tonight as they begin their showdown with dunnville for the ontario mite b softball title the little butters who have made a joke of their own division this season by continually over whelming their opponents earn ed the right to contest the best twooutofthree provincial final by burying unionville in a two- game sweep of the semifinal series in late july stouffville will travel to dunn ville for tonights opener with a tentative date of friday night be ing planned for the second game at the town park the sight of the third game if necessary is yet to be decided according to buttermaker coach dave boyd the hardhitting stouffville crew warmed up for the big series by walloping port perry 144 last wednesday night in a league game at the town park andrew harper led the way of fensively for the butters knock ing out three hits good for two runs batted in and a pair of runs scored jeff hassard clouted two triples knocked in three runs and crossed the plate twice bobby lewis and kevin hackert each stroked two hits each while scoring twice hackert added a pair of rbis matt eagen brett boyd brad johnston and lewis shone in the field racking up several im pressive catches in support of pit cher hackert hackert one of four pitchers who have shone for stouffville this season registered a total of 12 strikeouts on his way to the complete game victory the buttermakers have gone undefeated in league play this season and have lost only two g a rrie sin tournament competition coach boyd feels the dunnville final for the provincial honors will be his teams biggest challenge yet kinsmen follow in royals footsteps hoping to follow in the footsteps of martin johan- nessens stouffville royals the stouffville kinsmen select soccer team had their first taste of com petition recently and if whitchurchstouffville v soccer association president and kinsmen assistant coach bob tilley has his way it will be the beginning of a grand tradition we want these to be the new royals says tilley of the under 10 year old selects the royals soccer outfit were brought along by johannessen from the under 10 level right up to late teens winning several york region titles along the way they disbanded last fall kinsmen head coach i joe cadeira was pleased with his clubs first outing against the port perry select team two weeks ago stouffville lost 21 we were quite happy we had a few chances stouffvilles goal was scored by frank fisico after some quick passing by the kinsmen forward line todd juriansz on defence michael owen on right wing and brian gillespie at centre receiv ed high praise from the stouff ville coaching staff after the game all the players are from our house league says caldeira if it works out well then well put them in a league next year we might try to put together a tour nament with other york region select teams later this season we dont expect miracles the first year though the select team concept is a realization of tilleys preseason goal to reestablish the select team concept with the breaking up of the royals the opportunity was there says tilley there are nearly 70 kids in the under 10 level in our organization there were 1820 kids interested in trying out for the team we had to have something for the kids to shoot for caldeira who played soccer in a scarborough league before moving to stouffville a year and a half ago also feels it is important to provide an outlet for the more serious players its something to work at to get on the team filippo rumeo the teams other assistant coach is impress ed with the desire of the players some of these kids have got real talent they really want to play soccer rumeo a firstyear stouffville resident coached an under 18 team last year in an italian soc cer league in toronto tilley feels his game plan for the select team is right on track our objective this year was to pick 20 kids and put them into a naif dozen games or so against other under 10 rep teams in the area then well go with an under 11 team next year the team includes the sons of all three coaches goalie robbie tilley is hoping to benefit from the tutelage of his father who played goal years ago for the brighton boys soccer team in england ah three coaches are self- professed soccer enthusiasts and will conduct indoor practices this winter to prepare the team for its first season of league play in 1990 we hope this team will be together for a long time says tilley the kinsmen lost 20 in their second game against port perry last tuesday most valuable players for the kinsmen were frank fisico daniel rumeo and chris grimes the under 10 select soccer team is making a bid to replace the nowdefunct stouffville royals the towns top level soccer club here joe caldeira with ball teaches the finer points of the game to ptvmobbuce staplev from left daniel rumeo robbie tilley luke caldiera and chris grimes while filippo rumeo far left and bob tilley centre look on 3h jbg vk spssgs j v v- y vyyv jl y vv ixyys r chh swing batters like this stouffville squirt rep player competed for the chancejo play in the allontario competitions in st catherines next we3c stouffville was eliminated by unionville in the weekendlong eventj jq betz still eligible fcj fastball crown race by bruce stapley there was good news and bad news for the betz pools mels fastball team this past weekend at the provincial senior b elimfjfo- tion tournament in burlington js the bad news was that the stouffville squad lost its first two games giving them an early exit from the competition but the good news is that as host team in the allontario seniorsb championship tourney september 2 and 3 betz are automaticallyin- cluded among the teams that will compete for the provincial titled the pools platoon lost the first match to the oshawa merchants- saturday morning the games had actually been scheduled for fri day evening but was called on account of darkness with the score tied 33 after five and a half innings 1 according to tournament rules this meant starting the game over again the next day betz went down to defeat 50 to waterloo saturday evening to send them home winless j but the betz boys had better luck in league play last week edging port perry 21 tuesday night in their only league game played i doug webster darryl moxley and john annis combined on the pit ching rubber to limit the home club to a single run gary grant singled home steve schell who had walked in the se cond inning to open the scoring for betz j mark joslin scored what turned out la be the winning run in the fifth when his single was followed by a booming triple by gary vaughan betz will host the oshawa juniors at the town park at 830 pm tonight after a road game thursday in richmond hill they will head to minden for a weekend tournament j as well as the allontario senior b tournament the labor day weekend betz will host the oshawa and district league playpf tourney the weekend aug 2526 stingers take two the stouffville stingers in- tcrmcdiale ladies softball team finished out its regular season with two victories last week although the club didnt have to throw a single pitch to take one of them coining off a 15j winover uxbridgc precision auto body in the durham town wednes- day the stingers were tip enter tain zephyr at home the follow ing night but the stingers were award- cd the match when the visitors arrived with just six players wednesdays game saw stingers pitcher denisc davies return from her honey moon to throttle uxbridgc davies had missed several league games plus the provin cial eliminations held in stouff- villein july sheila fockler led the way at the plate for the george ross- schell lumber stingers hittiiig safely iii four of five atbals md scoring three runs debbie gold was three for five and crossed the plate twice- while wendy williams was two for two with three runs scored lisa arscnault and caren alk bot scored two runs each the two wins werent enough to keep the stingers from en ding up in second place behind perennial rival bradford vjr the stouffville women 1h begin a round robin with mount albert and zephyr at home thursday night at tlie town park ion diamond two the winner of the round robin will advance to the south lake sihicoe ladies league finals the stingers are out to avenge last years- champion ship series loss to bradford experts t 8046 yonge street thomhill near royal orchard blvd dont pay that traffic ticket you could face a substantial increase in your insurance rates as a result of a traffic ticket conviction at traffic ticket experts your first consultation is free we are staffed by expolice officers who will advise you of your options and act as your agent in court open monday to friday 8am to 5pm or call for an evening or weekend appointment before you pay talk to us 7316380 thomhill 8361514 newmarket i fax 18531754