p8 tribune june 21 1995 st sports high steppers the stouffville district secondary school track played host to the royal canadian legion district e qualifier meet on saturday part of the action saw from far left chantalle neilson sarah hebbes and beth gaudry take part in the girls 15 and under 80metre hurdles gaudry won the event photocheryl johnson rebels gain split in recent fastball action rob watson was a perfect three for three upping his batting aver age to a lofty 619 while scoring four runs to lead the claremont rebels to a 134 win over north york in a road game wednesday but the rebels were without watson and ace pitcher scott evans at home the next night falling 60 to the scarborough diamonds in north york mens fastball league action tim evans pitched for the rebels in the victory over north york fur thering his own cause by stroking four safeties including a triple evans had three runs batted in evans firstinning triple scored jason yoshida who had singled and watson who reached base on a walk watsons single in the third triggered a sixrun rebels uprising with dave jones tworun double the big blow watson closed out the claremont scoring in the sixth when he led off with a single then scored on jim closs sacrifice fly dave jackson had three singles for the rebels and scored three times the rebels were limited to a total of four singles against scar borough with watson jackson jones and tim evans picking up one each riccis batters experience a slugfest to post two wins the riccis sports bar mite buttermakers amassed a total of athlete of the week mike green mike put the finishing touches on a distinguished high school athletic career by being named stouffville district secondary school spartans senior boys volleyball mvp at the schools annual athletic ceremony june 7 mike was one of the original sod busters who laid the soa for the stouffville track facility in 1 991 well done mike sponsored by sfburfville 6327 main st stouffville put your summer plans on ice sharpen your hockey skills at fia hockey clinic august 8 13 uxbridge ice arena 25 min northeast of markham six consecutive days of on ice instruction the fia experience was developed and is managed by former nhl and whl ailstar pat whltey stapleton a member of the original team canada in 1972 and 1974 for information andor registration forms call ed or rosemary morvay 9058529406 fundamentals in action 50 runs to post a pair of victories last week the buttermakers bats broke loose on the road against picker ing on tuesday coming home with a convincing 344 win playing host to port perry on thursday the buttermakers continued their torrid hitting sending the visitors home with a 1610 defeat marcus makinen handled starting pitching duties against pickering and was credited with the win jonny wonchmade his pitch ing debut in relief chad wilson took to the pitch ing rubber against port perry to earn the victory with wonch coming on in relief once again michael root directed the but termakers offence in both victo ries in the first contest root swat ted a home run a triple and a single in the second contest root smashed another round tripper to go with a double and a single the plunge durhams awardwinning largest pool dealers present affordable swimming pools above ground includes pump filter 15 m 199 24 m899 18m599 12 x 24 2099 2vm799 15x30 installation available florth american pool spa 18005525854 port perry ajax 9059853557 90s 4277619 york region senior games were a success sport notes bruce stapley the york region senior games wound down with a wellattended closing ceremonies and banquet friday at the maples of bal- lantrae the roughly 250 in attendance included a collection of local rep resentatives of the federal provincial and municipal govern ments including newlyelected mpp julia munro peter arnott the towns recre ation representative to the games said the threeweek extravaganza was a smashing success things went very well said arnott it was busy there were over 1000 people who participated its social and its active it provides an opportunity for seniors to go out and meet with other seniors games coordinator cyril back of stouffville was delighted as well there was a good turnout and the weather was kind to us said back he said the games were a suc cess in great part because of the people who volunteered their time i feel very gratified our com mittee people plus those who came out and helped us deserve our thanks back pointed to the efforts of jean smith lillian thompson and gladys clarkson of the stouf fville legions womens auxiliary who coordinated the food for the banquet he also expressed his gratitude to the stouffville lions whose past president thom winters pre sented a cheque to games officials covering the cost of the medals during last tuesdays lawn bowl ing competition stephan hirmann was awarded a pair of gold medals in swimming events held june 7 at the town pool competing in the 65 and over category the vivian sideroad resident won the 100yard prediction swimming event as well as the 25yard sprint hrimann came back to land a bronze medal at the table tennis singles competition last thursday at the rec centre the games are scheduled to be held in markham next year good year for acton keith acton was off to the philadelphia flyers team party when i called late last week to congratulate him on his success ful coaching debut a former flyers player acton was an assistant coach with the team which went all the way to the national hockey league east ern conference finals losing to the stanley cup finalist new jersey devils actons wife susan said every ones pretty happy that the flyers went as far as they did after a long playoff drought she said the actons should be coming home to stouffville around july 1 just in time for the strawberry festival mcininch finishes third amanda mclninch daughter of former eglinton equestrian club general manager michele leroux was third in the novice division at the second central ontario region of pony club cne show jump qualifier june 11 at the pickering horse centre the cedar valley resident is now a member of the whitchurch pony club top finishers in the qualifiers will represent the central ontario region at the cne pony club festival in august compet ing against champions from other parts of canada nominations are welcomed the tribunes athlete of the week feature sponsored by the stouffville iga has attracted con siderable interest in the past year or so were always interested in hear ing from a proud poppa or momma aunt or grandparent about the athletic exploits of someone in their family while the feature is mainly for the kids exceptions are made in the case of exceptional perfor mances by adults please feel free to phone me with suggestions it doesnt necessarily have to be a gold medal winning perfor mance as much as a commendable feat for the individual involved sluggers bantams downed in tourney semis the stouffville sluggers bantam girls rep softball team upped its overall record to nine wins and two losses in recent weeks the sluggers were semifinalists at the recent dorothy hill tournament in london losing their first game 42 to brampton ii but rallying to edge seaforth 21 to earn a trip to the semis the sluggers took an early lead against binge- mans in the game to decide which team would advance to the finals but fell 73 in the loss to brampton erin skubiski struck out four in her six innings pitched lindsay murray had two hits for stouffville with dawn williamson and amy ball getting a hit apiece williamson pitched the first five innings in the win over seaforth with skubiski striking out four in her twoinning stint julia peters and kelly higgins had hits for the sluggers in the semifinal loss to bingemans ball and peters each had twevhite murray skubiski sarah morrison and williamson had one hit each in league play the sluggers travelled to port perry on may 30 returning with a 284 win- arid extending their league record to seven victories and no losses in an exhibition game against the goodwood midgets the sluggers fell behind 103 but recov ered to post an 1815 win the sluggers head to brampton for a tournament this weekend saab as big hit propels fullertons judy saabas belted a grand slam home run to lead the way as fullertons place defeated colley borland and vale 1512 in tuesday night ladies fun softball league play on june 13 in other league contests rhonda barrett socked a round tripper to help ipi to a 1410 triumph over white rodgers rfp got into a slugfest with phil faulkner auctions and prevailed with a 2215 deci sion stouffville indians shortstop jamie oconnor left applies a tag to this uxbridge baserunner during action in the stouffville baseball associations bantam tournament at the town park diamond on saturday the runner was safe and uxbridge won this game 1 20 pioiocheryl johnson strawberry festival beef bbq in the park at 500 pm thursdayjune 29 1995 roast beef dinner dessert beverage included adults 800 seniors 600 junior dinner 500 children hot dog wmi beverage a dessert 300 tickets available at scotiabank tj bank an chas richards son at the park stouffville coop all proceeds to community projects uxbridge team wins stouffville ball tourney a gale whipped through the town park as the stouf fville baseball association held its bantam tourna ment over the weekend the gale was jeremy gale who had 17 hits includ ing five out of the park home runs to lead uxbridge to victory in the eightteam competition the uxbridge squad found sundays heat wave to its liking defeating previously undefeated simcoe twice to take the title uxbridge which had lost on saturday downed simcoe 84 sunday morning then recorded a win over port hope giving them a berth in the finals uxbridge then took the title with an 114 triumph over simcoe the stouffville indians went down to defeat in their first two games eliminating them from the tourna ment the home crew fell 173 to port hope friday evening then were blanked 120 by uxbridge in their second outing easy win for vandorf brendon garth cracked two home runs and matt bonner made several good catches as vandorf 1 downed goodwood 166 in wssa five pitch action this week elyse holt was solid at first base for goodwood while kelly bainbridge pitched and played the infield well