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p8 tribune january 301991 st photoannette buchkowski photosjoerd witteveen stouffville skaters earn honors at uxbridge invitational michael pride right seen practising in this photo was the big winner for the stouffville figure skating club at the uxbridge invitational on the weekend pride won the silver medal in the prenovice mens final at the prestigious event a number of other stouffville club skaters competed including amanda leger left in the preliminary ladies division flight two the invitational took place over three days at the uxbridge arena with about 415 skaters from across ontario attending along with pride ballantraes stephanie mcleod also put in a strong showing for the stouffville club finishing fourth in the juve nile ladies flight two and sixth in the prepreliminary a ladies flight five former clippers make mark with bruins strange as it may seem with win ter just nicely established in these parts its playoff time for all our stouffville clipper hockey teams and while the local hot shots work at perfecting their game with the hopes of landing an ontario minor hockey association omha title there are a half dozen exclippers playing up hwy 47 way who are finishing up what has been a truly remarkable regular season the six who represent with a few exceptions the best the whitchurchstouffville minor hockey association has produced in recent years are with the junior c uxbridge bruins and while the team has been more than a little reluctant to dis play itstalents in front of the uxbridge faithful this seasdn their road show has been the kind of thing of which championships are made they sport an overall road record of 13 wins 3 losses and a tie the bruins havent lost an away games since nov whereas at home they were a modest 771 as of last week the bruins started slow then roared back going undefeated for one 10 game stretch they go into this friday nights final game of the schedule with a solid hold on first place much of the credit for the bruins success can be attributed to the stouffville six darron baston the 19yearold defenceman who decided to rejoin his old clippers buddies this season after a stint with the junior b aurora eagles has been a bulwark a tall skinny kid with the midget clippers back in 198788 baston has filled out to the point where he is an awesome sight to behold on skates he leads all bruins defenders in points with an impressive 15 goals and 15 assists in the recent allstar game played in uxbridge baston dished out a perfectly legal check in the opening minutes sending his stunned opponent at least six feet backwards landing in a sitting position on the ice and probably sports notes bruce stapley wishing he had stuck to road hock- ey baston also scored a goal later on in the same period looking every bit like bobby orr as he burst through the defence and flicked the puck upstairs into the net with baston s poise his smooth shot and his hulking presence its no won der the bruins are so impressive on the road his two goal effort in a 6- 3 bruins victory in lakefield two sundays back was typical of the contribution he has been making stouffvilles jason underwood also madeahe central ontario league allstar team for the tal ented centre who just turned 18 it was his second allstar appear ance although he admits hes not quite up to the standard he estab lished for himself last season but both he and bruins coach jim mcdowall feel hes finally reach ing peak form however the other stouffvillites on the bruins roster include paul sinclair chris winn kirk smythe and keith piette all four are also mak ing solid contributions to the cause with their names showing up regu larly among the bruins goal scor ers another exclipper with the bru ins is jamie showers who now resides in uxbridge the big bruis ing rearguard every bit the gentle man off the ice is still battling his tendency to lose his cool in game situations as a member of the for mer junior b markham travelways squad two seasons back showers recalled going up against the even tual ontario champion st michaels outfit his memory of the encounter was his engaging team canada junior sensation eric lindros in a round of fisticuffs some things never change bantam b dippers win series in lindsay for the stouffville edwardsmur phy decorating bantam b clip pers happiness is looking at lind say in the rear view mirror the clippers took a 52 win with them when they left the lindsay arena friday night giving them the bestofthree opening round playoff set by a two gamesto one margin but the stouffville club was forced to overcome no end of adversity in the series including the replaying of the third and deciding game which the clippers appeared to have won last tuesday night the lindsay outfit had a protest upheld over the use of a suspended player and the match was scrubbed the hard fought series took its toll on both the clippers lineup and coaching staff as a coach and sev eral players earned suspensions but in the end it was lindsay haylows two goal effort along with solo markers by lincoln ker- swill chris benoit and liam bren- nan which sent the clippers home victorious derek harrison and kerswill each had two assists with single set ups going to haylow bj maude and shane wilcox i brad hackert was impressive in the clippers net hackert a pee wee age player shone for the clip pers throughout the series the clippers who now go on to play port perry in round two of the playoffs drew praise from coach x john davis the kids endured a lot of con troversy in lindsay but they really dug down bantam a s eliminated the stouffville howard s lee bantam clippers went down fighting last tuesday night as they were eliminated in their first round omha playoff series against cobourg the clippers lost 40 tuesday and were knocked out of the series three games straight the stouffville boys led by goalie steve servants in tues days game kept cobourg off the board until early in the third period and created sev eral good scoring chances of their own cobourg added another marker as stouffville pressed for the equalizer then scored on a powerplay to put the con test away the clippers dropped the series opener 82 then lost the second game 62 jermain franklin and ryan jefferson had the stouffville goals in game one while geoff smith and jefferson hit the net in the second game