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stux uxbridge mens slopitch swings into operation the river valley outfit begins the defence of its 1990 title this week as the uxbridge mens slopitch league swings into opera tion i the well established loop has addedone new squad the blues for the 1991 season bringing to 11 the number of teams in the fold the league will hold its annual house tournament june 15 to 16 at the local diamonds with a dance scheduled for the local legion hall the evening of the 16th r v doug adams has been returned as league president for the 199 1 season stouffville ball tourney baseball and beer returns to stouffvilles memorial park today and tomorrow as the as raiders stage their annual slopitch tour nament the competition which began yesterday evening consists of 32 teams 16 each in the ddand c divi sions both of last years as tournament champions will be back with the 1991 dp titlist halton odd sox join ing the c flight winning stouffville red sox in the higher rated c class all the durhamyork mens slopitch league teams are entered along with the uxbridge royals another select uxbridge squad and an outfit from rochester new york i theriesover 2300 in prize money up for grabs along with shirts and sports bags courtesy of labatts breweries for members of the winning teams the event includes a free dance tonight at latcham hall the hall is also the site of the big board show ing overall results as the tournament progresses tournament officials claim the competition will run rain or shine at the four diamond complex with championship games scheduled for 430 sunday afternoon monday would be used only in the event that thun der the lightening storms force- cancellation of games photosjeord witteveen stouffvilles jason reesor is tagged out at second by huron heights baseman ian black during a game wednesday the stouf fville team edged huron heights 32 i- bruce stapley correspondent an rbi single by sam letke- man scored dan bell with the winning run wednesday after noon at the town park as the stouffville district secondary school sdss spartans boys softball team edged huron- heights 32 the narrow victory on the heels of a 94 spartans win over bradford monday enabled the sdss squad to run its record to four wins and no defeats the spartans facing their toughest opponent of the cam paign wednesday fell behind 0 in the second inning when starting pitcher mike pongracz loaded the bases with only one cut but ryan burkholder slashed a tworun double in the fourth to put the sdss crew up 21 huron heights came back to tie it the next inning setting the stage for letkeman s winning blow jodi infurriari came in to pick up pongracz on the pitching rub ber in the late going keith piette had nine assists from his third base position while jason reesor and todd balazs were strqng at second and first base respectively s monday jeff taber had three hits in three tries to lead the shorthanded spartans while bill pride stroked a pair of safeties balazs and letkeman each slugged adouble pongracz and lawrence bing ham shared the pitching assign ment r sdss cocoach bill mcknight feels the impressive play of newcomers letkeman and reesor in the first four games shows just how much talent his team has a its disposal and he suggests the spartans will have a good shot at the york north title weve played most of the tough teams so far and it should be interesting because there are no dominant teams our guys are looking good and we have good depth our younger guys are playing extremely well the i defending york region champion spartans started off strong in its title defence when they won the first two games mike pongracz elevated to number one pitcher status with the departure of scott evans pitched the spartans to all 02 victory oyer newmarket high school in the sdss squads home opener may 2 it was pongracz again with some help from jodi infurnari as the spartans beat denison by the same 102 score in newmar- ketlast wednesday dave carmariico aridk bill pride had errorsassisted home runs for the spartans in the earli er contest the game against denison was a walkathon with the spartans scoring the majority of their runs by the baseonballs route v the spartans travel to king city tuesday may 2 1 before returning to memorial park thursday finish out the regu lar schedule with a game against dr gw williams ss thursday tow fiehci takes a break from motocross after 13 seasons on the moto cross circuit claremonts todd townend has decided to take a sabbatical townend who willturn 20 next month was second in last years ontario provincial championship standings in the 250 cc class he won various events last sum mer and appeared at the sky- dome super cross in july where he won his heat his travels in recent years have taken him as far as the soviet union where he competed in an international event in 1990 tbwned who turned pro in 1989 said he decided in march of this year to sit the season out in an attempt to regain his edge i was all ready to go for the coming season he told the tri- bune sunday but i guess i felt i was getting a little burned out i decided i had to take a break from it ive been doingthe same every weekend for seven years townend who is currently working at a health club in mis- sissauga said he was planning a relaxed summer but that he would continue to practice on his own track on his claremont prop erty r- t havent lost my speed he said of hisprivate workouts et hope ill create more speed and get my desire back for next year ill do all the national events the super cross events- etc when i come back- injhe meantime townend said- he would be involved in other sports to keep in shape he is also is considering some cycling of a different kind this summer as he and a friend are looking into a cross canada bicycle trek we would ride our 12speed bikes and it would be a fund rais er for cystic fibrosis we havent decided for sure yet though but come next spring he insists he 11 be back on the arduou s rrioto cross track none the worse for wear for haying sat out a year illget my itchback by next year ive got iintil im 30 for rac ing soil dont think brie year off will hurt