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p14trffiuneyjunefl3l99r s earn sweet reven sdss boys win york bruce stapley correspondent photossjoerd witteveen stouffville spartans player dan larmer makes a hard slide into second base knocking the ball out of a huron heights players glove as the spartans went on to win the york region championship the stouffville district sec ondary school spartans- boys soft- ball team ended up rewriting the last chapter of what was becoming an all too familiar script at the york region high school champi onship game monday afternoon in newmarket the spartans survived a rather tainted none out triple in the fourth inning then got a threerun homer from dan mcneil in the fifth to defeat huron heights of newmar ket 30 for the regional champi onship last year against the same huron heights team the spartans had lost the final 10 on a mis- played flyball that went for a triple mondays game once again pit ted the spartans scott evans against glen cole the huron heights pitching ace who had bested evans in the 1989 title match but this time it was cole who was victimized by a defensive miscue after stouffvilles keith piette and bill pride both singled cleanly in the bottom of the fifth mcneil drove a screaming grounder that eluded both the huron heights shortstop and left fielder witlf all three spartan runners crossing the plate the spartans then came up with two defensive gems in the sixth and final inning to secure the win firstcatcher chris burkholder combined with brother rich at second base as chris pounced on a bunt andfired the ball to his brother who was covering first for a crucial out stouffville first baseman rob parcells then grabbed a high hop per off the bat of cole winning the footrace to the bag to end the game v mcneil and rich burkholder had two hits each to spearhead the spartans attack stouffville squirt girls win pair in league action after dropping two of three games played in an aurora tournament june 2 the stouffville action sign squirt girls softball team came back to rack up two wins in league play last week the squirts handled aurora 128 wednesday then came from behind to best newmarket 159 thursday the victories brought the clubs season record to four wins and one loss patricia davies and crystal annis scored three runs each and morgan dubkowski and deniseneale combined for 16 strikeouts in wednesdays win thursday the stouffville squad found themselves behind 71 after two innings but rallied to take the game heather lee cashed in two runs with a long triple while tammy willis chipped in two hits morgan dubkowski pitched for action striking out five batters julia peters ronda davis and morgan dubkowski each scored two runs in tournament action stouffville lost to unionville 146 in the opener with tricia stevens and heather lee stroking two hits a piece ronda davis had two hits and four runs batted in to key actions 176 win over thorold in game two patricia davies crossed the plate four times and morgan dubkowski pitched the win heather lee had a two run triple in game three but stouffville was downed 116 twelve members of the stouffville figure skating club successfully completed their tests at the recent uoionville spring skating school four of the skaters mastered three categories each melanie evans was successful in first figures willow dance and preliminary freestyle amanda leger in fiesta dance willow dance and preliminary freestyle michael pride in second figures 14 step dance and junior bronze freestyle and jennifer mcleod in fox trot dance european dance and junior bronze freestyle other stouffville skaters who passed included leah percy in pre- ununary figures and swing dance melissa miller id 14 step dance and junior bronze freestyle zoe liadis in european dance stephanie mcleod in first figure and ten fox kirstin kelly in first figures kirsten eraser freestyle lisa choohum crowder in swing dance in other skating club news nicole jeffrey passed her junior fourth of town for spring skating as the stouffville recreation centre ice i snrfrte season is to be extended next spring danmcneil home run hero evans was superb on the mound limiting huron heights to four hits while striking out 12 spartans cocoach bill mck- night said his teams win was a combination of talent and team work i dont think well see another team like this for a while he said its a credit to the stouffville minor ball people like howard burkholder and the team morale was great this year they played so well together the championship was only the second ever for the spartans in boys softball with their first com ing in 1988 evans also pitched in the title contest that year in the semifinal game against markham district high school last week a double by dan larmer and a single by parcells had given sdss a 20 extrainning win racer bound for victory dan bound may be fighting a losing battle in his efforts to help maintain the ninth line in his weekday job as a town of markham roads department employee but the 35yearold stouffville resident is finding the going smooth as freshly poured pavement on the can- am midget racing circuit so far this season bound in his fifth year racing the radical looking openwheeled machines vaulted into ninth place in the overall canam point standings with an impres- sive showing at the new exhibi tion stadium race track last week he finished second in his heat then sped into a second place showing in the feature he now has 380 points putting him 155 points behind the leader bound who finished fourth overall in his second year on the midget circuit said hed settle for a top 10 finish at seasons end its very competitive he said of the series each night there are 24 cars in thefeature and theres always 15 or so who could possibly win the secret to success jbound said is to simply keep your car on the road his own racer a selfbuilt effort with an 836cc honda motorcycle engine has been carrying him around canam tracks in ontario and new york state for three years now its the third car he has driven sport notes bruce stapley and he said all midget cars have one thing in common they are temperamental and require con stant maintenance ill come home from a race saturday night park the car fix it for three hours sunday morning then be back to another race sun day afternoon said bound that can make it difficult to be compet itive today all the parts for the midgets must be specially made up and they are not cheap bound said that his father fronts much of the money for his own racing operation along with a long list of supportive sponsors which include skelton truck lines of markham betz pools and choko design both of stouffville with more sponsorships avail able today the result is better cars and faster racing said bound he added that the cars reach speeds of up to 85 miles- perhour on the straightaways bound said his own operation is very much a family affair in addition to his fathers financing he employs son jody 17 in a maintenance capacity bound hopes jody who races gokarts at the goodwood track will someday take over the driv ing end of his midget racer that would leave me free to do maintenance and build the cars he said thats the fun part as far as im concerned bound said he spends about 20 hours a week tinkering with the car and his wife calls his racing involvement a second job it can take three to four months to construct a new car over the winter months bound admitted hes hooked on the sport some guys play baseball i race cars fie said