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weekender aprill y995t23 junior a hockey bid looking good by bruce stapley correspondent a bid to bring an ontario hock ey association provincial junior a hockey team to stouffville has been given the green light by the league and is now awaiting approval the application was made up by richmond hill resident george stavro who has served as coach and general manager with the ajax axemen of the oha provin cial junior a league in recent years stavro who must still enter into an agreement with the whitchurchstouffville minor hockey association regarding ice time for the junior a club is look ing to establish an affiliation arrangement with the uxbridge bruins junior c hockey club stravro has received a letter from bruins general manager bruce colwell expressing support for the bid but colwell said it remains to be seen whether his club would switch from its cur rent affiliation agreement with the pickering panthers weve basically said it would be a good idea if he stavro gets to stouffville colwell told the tri bune well consider it an affili ation with the stouffville club but theres nothing definite colwell said having a junior a team in stouffville could be good for both stouffville and uxbridge but there is still a ways to go before the idea becomes a reality he added well just have to wait and see what happens he said couperthwaite insures moller title krysta couperth waite scored four goals and had two assists to lead moller insurance to a 63 win over play it again sports in the whitchurch- stouffville girls hockey association wsgha junior houseleague cham pionship game recently christine hartnoll and mandy vanden- berg had the other two moller markers while jaime gel- dart karen dan- drea and melissa hancock replied for play it again alison edward and lynn tortorelli each fired a pair of goals to lift stouf fville photographic to a 70 shutout win over the stouffville vips in the senior showdown two days earlier jennifer deacon candice miller and jennifer strype had single scores in the junior con solation final michelle duludes threegoal outburst helped power smal- leys christmas trees to a 72 win over beaver gas nicole dami- anadis had two goals and two assists and jen nifer shaban also scored twice for smalleys logan pattimore and stephanie rand scored for beaver in the senior con solation game alisha hughes had a hat trick and kari sandiford netted a pair as angies downed pizza pizza 72 stephanie hughes and rachel levine added singles with maggie treacy scor ing both pizza pizza goals atom selects storm to finish the stouffville storm atom selects boys hockey team man aged two wins and two ties in eight recent tournament games the storm fell 42 to unionville before rebounding to tie wexford 33 the stouffville squad downed markham 31 and was then defeated 40 by ajax the following day moving to pickering the storm lost 83 to whitby in their first effort then were shaded 54 by weston finishing out in thornhill stouffville defeated peterborough 41 then tied east gwillimbury 44 scoring for the storm in the eight games were robert steck- ley 4 robert anderson 4 jor dan van esterik 4 cam davis spiros tsiopoulos marcus dan- nunzio anthony tsiopoulos josh archer 2 darren mcmullen chris loughlin and ryan kennedy 2 assists went to kennedy 2 anderson 2 scott mcdougal 3 spiros tsiopoulos 3 anthony tsiopoulos cam davis 4 kyle theakson steckley mike hul- shof 2 matt cushing cody ben nett van esterik josh archer and mcmullen wendy pegg centre appears to get a little excited as she tries to cradle the ball in her stick during a recent girls field lacrosse practice session at stouffville district secondary school at far right natalie sarlno runs upfield with a ball firmly in her stick pholosjoerd witteveen girls have a field day playing lacrosse by bruce stapley correspondent stouffville district sec ondary school has become the first school in york region to form a girls field lacrosse team under the direction of teachercoach tami waters the lacrosse program was introduced to girls from grade 9 through oac earli er this month with no opponents to be found among york schools the girls will split into two teams for exhibition tourna ments at durham board of education schools for this season waters notes the response to the new school sport has been positive so far the kids are very keen and theyre having fun cited waters revealing that 43 girls have been attending practices to this point waters said the program is to be run like a club sport for the first season with no var sity team while the students get introduced to the sport no one who comes out will be cut we just want them to get to know the game and to participate waters said the girls would participate in several play days this season the term given to the numerous one day minitournaments held at durham schools the two teams were to take part in the lacrosse jam boree april 21 22 and donevan hs in oshawa at the event members of the ontario womens lacrosse team teach lacrosse skills to participating players the teams then take part in sev eral actual games under the direction of the provincial team instructors roxanne curtis and joanne stanga coaches of the ontario womens squad have attended two practices held at the stouffville school said waters they were accompanied by several of their players for waters an accom plished coach and player on the canadian womens soft- ball scene lacrosse is a rela tively new challenge tve only been involved in lacrosse for the past few years in the lakeshore league toronto so its not like softball which ive been playing all my life waters said the girls would be playing a relatively gen tle noncontact version of lacrosse the only protective equip ment theyll need to wear is a mouthguard she ensured bruins to honor underwood the uxbridge bruins will retire veter an centredefenceman jason under woods number eight sweater at their annual banquet tonight at the uxbridge legion underwood a stouffville resident completed his eighth season with the junior c club earlier this year the teams captain who is 22 played as an overage junior for the 199495 campaign which saw the bruins make it as far as the central ontario junior c hockey league playoffs the bruins will make a special presen tation to underwood at the banquet with a dance to follow in his honor tickets to the dance which gets under way at 9 pm at the legion are 5 each