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v p 14 the tribune tuesday may 20 1997 st the tribune sports leisure got a score call our hotline at 6402100 the time has come for a new pool sports notes special delivery buttermarkers pitcher chris doyle delivers this offering to a barrie batter during action saturday in the annual a and s raiders slopitch tournament at the town park diamond the buttermakers team won this game 2310 photo by cheryl johnson bruce stapley while the grinders the politicians and the kids showed up to celebrate the long awaited second ice pad monday evening there was a look towards the future and the next recreational need by sever al in attendance this is a start suggested mayor wayne emmerson in his ribbon cutting address now wed like to build a swimming pool york region chairman eldred king who presided as whitchurchstouffville mayor back in the days when therec centre itself was just a vision gave his own words of encouragement to those wishing to get into the swim of things the pool will come he offered youll get there chatting with former ward six councillor- turnedsupervolunteer jim sanders i couldnt help but think back to the excitement felt by him self and so many others like him when the rec centre was given the go ahead back in the early 1980s it would start with an arena to replace the out dated rink on park dr s the thinking went with a pool to follow one and a half decades later sanders et al are still waiting but for susan harmsen fresh from her role as secretary of the whitchurchstouffville second ice pad committee the pool is an idea whose time has come pausing just long enough to survey the culmina tion of the second pad peoples fiveyear plan monday shes now focussing her energies on putting the pool in place as chair of the committee advocating a pool she pointed to the upcoming june 12 public meet ing on the proposed facility saying how she was hopeful the gathering would help give the project direction the desires out there she told me we just need to sit down with the public and see what they want she said her group is currently doing the same type of legwork the second pad people did in the beginning checking with other towns with pools to see how theyve made them work she pointed to milliken mills and how they made an arrangement to have mcdonalds restaurants in on the action when they built their pool facility which also included an arena susan said she doesnt want to have a whole bunch of pressure put on her to deliver the goods- but that the thing should be able to take off if the people behind the idea are willing to roll up their sleeves and get to work the way the second pad folks did then allowing herself to revel in the moment of the coming to fruition of the second ice surface she divulged the real motive behind her involve ment in such things as pools and pads for me the most satisfying part was watching all the kids come through here onto the ice when they cut the ribbon she said pointing to the youngsters out on the ice taking advantage of the free skate that was part of the grand opening lets hope susan harmsen gets to take part in an official pool opening a year or so down the road given her yeoman service on behalf of recreation seekers in stouffville i think it only fitting that she should get to cut the ribbon while executing a double flip from the high diving board local ball teams come up short in raiders tourney bruce stapley correspondent the weather was better suited to hockey than soft- ball as local teams came up just short at the 15th annual a s raiders slow pitch tournament held over the victoria day weekend at the town park both the williamson leasing buttermakers and the stouffville tigers fell victim to lastminute hero ics as they were forced to settle for the finalists hon ors in the mens c and d divisions respectively the home town huskies were bounced in the coed p title tilt while it was keswicks heads up erasing the imagers of markham in the mens e championship the buttermakers were edged 109 in their final by get a grip as the scarboroughpickering outfit rallied after trailing for the first five innings the win avenged an earlier 2010 butters victory over the 1997 national coors lite mens d champions get a grip spokesman rob vivian said it was a case of saving the best till last we didnt hit at all in our first game against them the buttermakers said vivian but we came back in the final the winners took home 400 in firstplace prize money the butters won two and lost one in the pre liminary round then advanced to the finals by defeating j dbilliards the mens d championship match saw the totten ham chiefs explode for seven runs in the bottom of the seventh and final inning to steal a 1412 victory from the tigers randy coopers threerun home run put the finishing touches on the comeback the chiefs had trailed 50 after the first inning then found themselves behind 100 after three frames it was the chiefs first tournament outing of the season with the win netting them a 200 prize the tigers advanced to the finals despite a record of just one win and two losses in the round robin one of those defeats was a resounding 2812 ver dict at the hands of the chiefs but the stouffville squad came to life in the semifinals edging the lin ers 76 to qualify for the title tilt in the mens e division heads up blasted the imagers 2510 in their final the keswick crew downed stouffvilles formosa 135 in the semifinals while the imagers got past goodwoods lcfoney tunes to advance to the final round heads up earned 250 for their big win the huskies won two of three in the fourteam co ed round robin before going to the finals by virtue of a 60 win over stouffvilles misfits in the semis but the huskies were stopped 155 by markham s wild cards in the finals the cards were awarded 175 for their victory v carrying a heavy load stouffville district secondary school students tanis mcknight left and alison crowder carry an assortment of baseball equipment back to their teachers car after their slopitch contest was can celled due to rain last thursday at the town park ball diamonds photo by sjoerd witteveen