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p12 tribune may 30 1990 hi lik st photorickmadonjk randy wood of the stouffville tigers makes contact during action at the mcasphalt tarbabies slopftch tournament over the weekend in stouffville sdss softball squad earns sweet revenge at bradford tourney it was the battle of the titans and sweet revenge all rolled into one friday at the bradford invitational high school softball tournament and when it was all over the stouffville district secondary school sdss spartans had cap tured the championship outscor- ing their opposition 151 while taking all three games played the competition featured a clas sic pitchers duel between sdss scott evans and byron baranieski of williams of aurora the dud who play together on the stouffville merchants juniors were virtually unhittable combin ing for 21 strikeouts as neither team could produce a run through six regulation innings the spartans were awarded the game 10 on the basis of having had two runners reach third base compared to williams one the spartans got a fourhitter from mike pongracz in their open ing game 7- 1 romp over king city after their narrow victory over williams in round two the sdss crew crushed huron heights 70 in the final the game helped avenge last springs 10 loss to the newmarket club in the york region title match evans who struck out 11 in claiming the win helped his cause by bashing a two run homer in the final inning rich and chris burkholder pete fintelman dan larmer rob blun- nd keith piette and rob parcells also had key hits for the spartans in league action last week the spartans bested huron heights 31 tuesday behind the pitching of pongracz with the burkholders contributing with the bats the sdss squad fell 97 to williams wednesday the stouffville outfit will take part in another tournament at mil- liken mills friday weather forces cancellations raiders wrecking crew share tourney honors after a two day reprieve from the weatherman it all wound up in showers and splits at the mcasphalt tarbabies slopitch tournament on the weekend at stouffville memorial park the bad weather which had been forecast throughout the weekend finally showed up sunday afternoon forcing the cancellation of the title match in both the dd and cd divisions as a result the a s raiders and the wrecking crew both of stouffville split the 400 first place prize they would have contested in the cd champi onship game the 300 second place money was also shared between the two teams in the dd flight it was the ajax beermen and abbey keswick splitting 580 in first and second place loot the raiders who had sat out of their own tourney the previous weekend had lost their opener 65 to the wrecking crew a mixture of players from three stouf fville area teams the raiders bounced back to edge markhams sounds and emotions 43 then blasted the bruins of thomhill 134 to earn a shot at the title the raidersled the championship contest 21 when the downpour forced the postponement sounds and emotions collected the 200 in third place money the tarbabies formerly the greens whalers played in the dd class losing both games they played bow ing 76 to the beermen then dropping a 54 decision to the caribooze the north york knights took home 200 for finish ing third stouffville squirts win title simply awesome the stouffville choko design squirts were an unstoppable force as they rolled to victory saturday in a guelph tournament stouffville outscored their oppo nents 306 in sweeping all three games played first baseman scott junior merchants split games as fastball action heats up it was a week of 500 ball for the stouffville merchants junior fastball team the merchants won two of their four games played at a tournament in brad ford last weekend then went on to split a pair of league games during the week the stouffville boys jumped out of the gate with consecutive white washes at the bradford tourney they bested the toronto dodgers 50 then blanked aurora 40 scott evans and byron baranieski were each credited with shut outs the merchants then fell 10 to the toronto drifters before losing 41 to agincourt li league play stouffville was blanked 50 by richmond hill wednesday at home but bounced back to trip port perry 73 on the road thursday evans who fanned a dozen port perry batters gave the merchants a 21 lead with a home run in the first a tworun triple by chris burkholder keyed a three run fourth inning for stouffville burkholder had three rbis on the night with singles going to jason yoshida and norm depta the merchants who were slated to play the oshawa juniors tuesday night entertain sammys of richmond hill tonight at 8 pm at stouffville memorial park assinck banged out nine hits to take the tourney mvp honors the squirts got formidable pitch ing from their dynamic duo of paul koert and sammy acosta they mercied league rival port perry 111 in six innings in their opening game with acosta fanning 13 and assinck collecting four rbis on three hits in their next outing stouffville rode koerts twohit 13 strike out performance to a 71 win over sar- nia assinck went fourforfour at the plate and dan tardella hit a two run homer the championship game was no contest as stouffville batted around for four runs in the first inning on their way to a 124 victory assinck hit a homer and billy wray had four hits while tim smart and robbie spytz chipped in with a pair of hits each the stouffville sluggers knocked the cover off the ball in league play as well last week they hammered out a 271 win oyer scarborough tuesday and downed aurora sunday beecher runs and jumps way to ofsaa track meet it was anne beecher again as the stouffville district sec ondary school sdss athlete ran and jumped her way to a gold medal in the ontario ofsaa regional track and field championships at york university last week anne took the senior girls triple jump thursday then came back saturday to take the silver in the long jump saturday shat tering the regional record with a mark of 572 metres sdsss reaquel beecher placed fifth in the senior girls long jump and kelly forsyth had a sixth place showing in the junior girls javelin other sdss athletes competing at the event were erin blenkhorn nicole dudley and lise haylow anne beecher will now go on 1 to the ofsaa championships in sudbury this weekend reaquel beecher right passes the baton to lise haylow during action at the ofsaa regional meet thursday at york university