The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

pw wfeitenbkfc satcday m titi st wi fitness aerobics centre 190 dullock drive 9054717571 the tribune rts leisure got a score call our hotline at 6402100 special delivery ruth lyons shows good form as she delivers her ball down toward the jack during action in a ladies tournament conducted at the stoultville lawn bowling club on thursday photo by lor emmerson rebels see red down oshawa 31 the claremont rebels scored a pair of runs in the first inning then rode the pitching of jim chilvers and tim evans to a 31 win over the oshawa reds juniors in an oshawa city and district fastball association game wednesday at claremont park chilvers surrendered a run off just two singles in going the first four innings evans was touched for a double in pitching the final three shutout innings dave jones led off the rebels first with a walk before tom watson sin gled both runners scored on a base hit by evans oshawa scored their run in the third frame with the rebels coming back to restore their tworun lead in the bottom of the inning as jones stroked his sec ond single in two at bats advanced on a single by watson then came home on a single by chilvers cliff herbert also had a single for the rebels the oshawa squad which is off to contest the ontario junior elimina tions this weekend includes uxbridge resident bob ferguson ferguson played catcher in wednes days game and was held hitless in three at bats by chilvers and evans the rebels host bramalea next wednesday at 830 pm eagles revival proves to be a success they played out the sequel to the hell freezes over tour by the venerable 1970s rock group the eagles at memorial park over the canada day week- end but this time it was the goodwood eagles slow pitch ball players dust ing off the equipment after a long lay off the eagles former perennial yorkdurham mens slow pitch league champs had packed it in when they started to grow a little long in the collective tooth a few years back but the eagles all masters aged slow pitchers by now decided to hold a reunion by way of entering the annual williamson leasing butter- makers strawberry festival classic sporting team shirts with the rock eagles now famous hell freezes over reunion on the front the goodwood oldsters dropped their opening game as they set about blowing out the cobwebs but after that their veterans savvy took over as they went all the way to the title in the tour naments highest d division dodging the scarborough hitmen in the semifinals before besting the local lafarge squad in sundays final but as butters team rep and tournament co- organizer jamie showers told me the eagles victory and subsequent first place cash prize in their reunion tournament now leaves them with an unresolved dilemma they were looking to use up the money they had left over in their bank account but now theyve got even more money noted showers in the tournaments mens rec division it was the experience of the local farm boys winning the day against the eager but youthful local crunch in the title tilt the farm boys stacked with top notch senior players such as chris and rich burkholder downed the crunch by a convincing 143 in the final the winners which also included the loft- house brothers don larry and dennis outscored their opponents by a hefty 6010 in their five games all mercy victories well probably go up to d level next year said a sheepish chris burkholder chris said the farm boys solved any potential money hassles sports notes bruce stapley by simply splitting their win nings among the players we each got 33 to use for golf in the mixed final it was uxbridges foxbridge squad including the likes of jason underwood and former stouf- fville merchant jamie miller over the misfits showers said the tournament marked the suc cessful debut of the towns new policy regard ing alcohol at such events the new decree requires that official bar tenders be on hand to pour drinks and that a shuttle bus be available to drive home patrons who may have consumed a little too much it worked well said showers it was a long time coming we needed that showers had nothing but praise for town offi cials and works department staff especially peter arnott of the rec department the people of st marks catholic church lent the butters their dunk tank which contributed to the donation made by the tournament hosts to the towns canada day fireworks and to the local minor ball organization baranieski outduels evans it was the long awaited confrontation between former stouffville merchants junior pitching aces byron baranieski and scott evans at claremont park on june 25 in the end it was baranieskis uxbridge ban dits defeating evans claremont rebels 51 the bandits roster also includes chris and rich burkholder who were also with that 1990 merchants team that won the ontario title and went on to contest the national junior title in quebec rich was four for four although a few of those hits were against another former stouf fville pitching star jim chilvers evans was hampered by the fact the rebels had to use an inexperienced catcher but chris burkholder noted evans was still into it he was grunting said chris referring to evans habit of exuding an intimidating growl when he releases the ball when theres some thing at stake in a game burkholder who also grunts when taking a full cut at a pitch walked in his at bat against his former mate acton may still have shot at flyers coaching job bruce stapley correspondent depending upon who you listen to keith acton is still in the running for the philadelphia flyers head coaching job the stouffville resident who has been the teams assistant coach the past three seasons is one of sev eral candidates being mentioned as the successor to terry murray coach murray was fired this spring after the flyers were swept four games to none by the detroit red- wings in the stan ley cup finals according to reports in toronto papers and a sports radio station the leading candidates for the job are former boston bruin tough guy wayne cashman and veteran nhl coach mike keenan with acton a close third its being reported that flyers gm bobby clarke is leaning towards keith acton cashman while team owner ed snider favors keenan when the tribune contacted the actons at their home in new jersey after murray was fired they said they had no indication as to actons chances of taking over the top coaching post gerry acton keiths father said the decision was expected to be made this week after clarke returned from a junior hockey reunion in flin flon manitoba acton who returned from a mexican vacation sun day is expected back in stouffville this weekend