p10 the tribune wednesday august 30 1989 s leasing todays easy way to drive larry cotter leasing 6404541 all makes and models squirts finale the triumphant stouffviue choko squirts team which won the allontario squirt b division softball championship back row coach earl crowder steve ellis wally crowder manager dave smart middle row craig wood paul koert ian ellis graham crowder scott assinck brad hackert front row tommy hammond tim smart michael underwood john mckinnon adam crowder evan boyd and batboy rod assinck ian ellis sixth inning grand slam home run gave the stouff viue choko squirts a 116 win over stittsville in the champion ship game of last weekends all- ontario squirt softball tourna ment in owen sound the stouffviue squad went undefeated in four matches beating stittsville twice the first time coming in a nine inning classic 21 scott assinck was awesome at the plate for choko throughout the tournament racking up 10 hits in 14 at bats along with three walks he had three home runs it was assincks round tripper that gave choko their slim vic tory over stittsville the first time the teams met the championship match up with stittsville was neck and neck until ellis blasted his grand slam in the sixth singles by evan boyd brad hackert assin ck and crowder set the stage for the big blow the ontario champion choko club joined the stouffviue mite buttermakers in the provincial title winners circle mites title quest smooth as butter an extra week of batting prac tice couldnt help dunnville bat ters figure out stouffviue mites buttermakers pitcher kevin hackert as the stouffviue soft- ball squad book a 223 victory last tuesday to give them the ontario mite b championship dunnville who were blanked 190 by hackert and the butter makers in the first game of the bestofthree final in stouffviue august 11 put off hosting game two for a week so they could try to find their batting stroke against a pitching machine ac cording to buttermakers head coach dave boyd their coach told me they had the machine out every night said boyd hackert struck out 13 batters and chipped in with a home run a triple and a pair of singles good for five runs batted in slugger dan tardella ham mered 8 round trippers and had seven rbis jeff hassard and brett boyd each collected three safeties while billy wray had two hits boyd said that even though he realized his team had the game wrapped up it was still a thrill to see hackert strike out the games last batter believe me i realy enjoyed it i knew we were going to win the game but that last strike was something else boyd said he gathered his team together before the last inning youre ontario champions if you can get three outs he told them and they got them three up three down hackert struck out the last batter on three pitches he was just burning them the stouffviue buttermakers are the allontario mite b softball champions winning the jim conlan memorial plaque the team conists of front row jeff hassard matt eagen bob lewis kevin hackert evan cain and brett boyd back row cocoach ray steel brad johnston dan tardella billy wray robbie spytz derek emmerson and cocoach dave boyd missing from the photo are cocoach bryan emery and players matt turner and andrew harper stouffviue bruce stapley correspondent chuck phillips the man who helped turn around the faltering junior c uxbridge bruins hockey club last hockey season is a believer in being kind to the peo ple who help you on your way up the bruins general manager and director of operations is very aware of the contribution made to his hockey club by stouff- villians paul sinclair craig stronach jason underwood chris winn and aaron mac- williams in last years last- minute playoff scramble that saw the bruins qualify for post season play on the last night of the season the team went on to drop a hardfought series to wellington four games to three finally runn ing out of healthy bodies to send out on the ice phillips found there were more and more stouffviue residents showing up to cheer on the bruins last season it was the combina tion of the presence of so many stouffvillebased players on the team and the fact that stouff- villes highestranked hockey club was the midget b clippers a far cry from junior c excitement sports notes tik x wl bruce stapley heartbreaking tiebreaker the stouffviue bantam boys softball team went down swing ing i in the provincial finals at napanee last weekend winning one of their three games played the bantswere edged 1413 by grimsby saturday evening to put them out of the running stouff viue had led 125 after three innings but the heart breaker came just a half hour before the game with grimsby started as stouff viue lost an extra inning marathon to cobourg 1716 the earns were tieat i6at ie ewfaof the regolation sey inn- ihigs when rfche- game was still tied after nine frames interna tional tie breaking rules went into effect whereby each team begins the tenth with a runner on second base stouffviue failed to score in the top of the inning but cobourg scored on a bases loaded walk in their half of the inning eilert fraser led the stouffviue offence in the extra inning con test with a homer triple and three singles matt mcknight had four hits and bill pride banged out a triple and a pair pf singles j the bantshad edged simcoe in fheiir tournament opener saturday morning in what stouff viue coach gary fraser called the best game we played all year there wasnt one kid who didnt make ah outstanding play said fraser of the narrow victory david caramanico and pride had two hits each in the win with both players scoring twice mike mccool and mcknight were the defensive standouts ac cording to fraser jason underwood and imccool eachrapped a pair of doubles in the bajitsu one run loss to grimsby v so phillips has arranged to br ing his act to the recreation cen tre for an exhibition game sept 23 to whet the appetites of stouff viue hockey fans in the hope even more of them will make the drive up hwy 47 this fall and winter to watch the bruins play we have really appreciated the support from the stouffviue area says phillips we felt that by playing ah exhibition game there we could show the people in stouffviue that we would love to have them on board this season phillips says that while it is still too early to know just who will end up wearing the yellow and black of the bruins this season there is a good chance sinclair underwood and stronach will be back and there may be more he suggests there are some good quality hockey playersn stouffviue w so miark- dost 236ntthe calendarafter taking in several bruins games last season i can promise it will be a whole lot more entertaining than suffering through a maple leafs game on the tube charity golf tournaments con tinue to raise impressive amounts of money in the stouff- ville area this summer last weeks multiple sclerosis extravaganza at the maples of ballantrae succeeded in bringing in around 10000 for marg brit- tons york east ms chapter and the benefit tourney for shane stapley at firefighters- rolling hills on tuesday resulted in 4500 being deposited into shanes trust fund special thanks from a per sonal standpoint to john heaton dave wood wayne simpson andi jean peters who organized the event and to rolling hills which donated its course for the occa sion and to all the sponsors both corporate and individuals who helped out