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mm its st weekender saturday may 9 1998 p 17 the tribune orts leisure the a tfegg- 5tf 9999 mflfikkf reg 125 call 4753663 for details track team gears up for regionals getting a foot up on the action stouffville district secondary schools mandy vandcn berg far left battles middlefield collegiates helen ma for this ball while an injured stouffville player sherry hartnett far right lies on the ground during action in thursdays yraa girls soc cer game at middlefield collegiate hartnett was all right and stouffville won the game 30 scor ing for stouffville were lillian boyd with two goals and vanden berg with one logan anderson i recorded the shutout by sjoerd w1tteveen local fastball trio to play in napanee stouffville district secondary school sdss athletes were in high gear at a pair of recent track and field meets the stouffville school sent a contin gent of athletes to compete at the cardi nal carter chs meet held last friday and saturday j at etobicoke centennial slj stadium vfs tracy hocher led the 4tj way as she shattered the sdss midget girls 300metre hurdles while setting a personal best in the 400m race hocher was first in her heat in the 400m event then was fifth overall in the final with her own best ever time of 6889 seconds she ran a new school record of 550 seconds in the 300m hurdles placing her second out of all york region midget- girls runners her time was a full 13 seconds ahead of the time she clocked last year samantha metcalfe was second in her heat in the 100m race with a time of 1481 seconds sports notes bruce s tap ley its off to napanee for a trio of promi nent stouffville fastball personalities paul koert evan boyd and his father and dave boyd have all signed on with the napanee juniors for the coming sea son paul and evan will be offering their considerable talent to the napanee squad for weekend tournaments while the elder boyd is to be an assistant coach for tourneys the threesome might have ended up in stouffville but dave boyd and company decided not to field a junior outfit due to the high cost of financing such a program we almost had a team in stouffville said dave but its just too much money dave a veteran stouffville fastball coach was at the helm of the local midgets the past two seasons with betz pools acting as team sponsor but with the weir heeled napanee midgets and juniors funded by an ongo ing program of bingos and nevada tick ets its difficult to come up with the kind of sponsorship money needed to pay the many bills that go with running a junior team players fees waived in napanee so rich is the pot in napanee that reg istration fees for midget and junior play ers are waived paul an overpowering iefthanded pitcher and evan a gifted shortstop with a potent bat made names for them selves across canada last season the pair helped the betz midgets to a third place finish at the 1997 ontario amateur softball association midget eliminations in napanee with koert named the competitions best pitcher the two were then picked up for the second year in a row by the champi onship host napanee team for the east ern canadian midget championships they then went off to brandon man as members of the ontario youth team which captured the canada games fast ball title boyd batted a dazzling 700 to help lead the way it was off to the world junior championships in newfoundland for koert later in the summer as the southpaw played a key role in the teams bronze medal finish part of the appeal in playing for the napanee juniors lies in the fact that 10 or 1 1 of the summer games champi onship team ontario squad will be on the roster a half dozen or so were already on the team while paul evan and two or three others have joined the club from points around southern ontario they wanted to stay together dave boyd said koert boyd hope to play with a second team paul and evan will be looking to hook on with a mens fast ball team in the area to allow them to stay sharp on weekdays between tournaments theyd consider playing with the claremont rebels if the rebels are interested one of the highlights of the season for paul and evan will come on july 1 when they are reunited with the entire 1 997 team ontario summer games squad the team will play an exhibition match in port perry against members of the 1986 and 1991 team ontario outfits that won canada games titles scott evans the stouffville minor softball product who has gone on to achieve national fame as well as prominence south of the border will be there as a member of the 1991 team t ontario crew dave paul and evan are hoping to make another trip west this summer grand prairie alta is to be the site of this years canadian junior mens championships in august and the napanee team is sure to be in the running but first theyll have to prevail at the oasa eliminations in owen sound in july it should be another eventful summer for paul and evan along with dave despite all the driving time theyre going to log weve been down to napanee once already he told me recently and on the way home evan said he thinks its going to be a really exciting season and as always if the boys are having fun dave will be right there n world champion dart player of middlesex england willbels play against the champ for charity 940134 comer of mccowan hwy 7 charlene guinane came i2th in the midget girls long jump with an effort of 382m rachel shanahan managed a height of l 45m just short of the l5m qualifying height to take seventh place in the junior girls high jump she moved up to the senior girls triple jump the following day placing eighth with a jump of 91 lm travis mcmaster came two places short in his goal to finish in the top eight in the midget boys long jump coming in 10th with an effort of 486 m the next day he cracked the top eight in the triple jump when he placed sev enth with a jump of 1 07 1 m at the markhamstouffville invita tional midget track meet at the sdss- track tuesday sdss took to the track along with 18 other york region schools josh sherriff captured the shot put event with a toss of 1277m erin hamilton placed sixth in the 80 m hurdles with a personal best time of 1 59 seconds guinane posted an effort of 401m in the long jump the girls relay team of hocher met calfe guinane and hamilton was fourth in their event with a time of 5765 sec onds fl learn to swing tension free through very simple application of moves using your own ability have fun and learn at the sametime walk away from a lesson excited to play and enjoy the game much more with your own natural swing lesson programs-private-group-coaching- corporate outings2 and 3 day golf schools- 1 day short game schools 2 full time instructors with over 75 years experience in teaching gordon crossmandirector of instruction leon de cairestaff instructor lesson area ali grass tees chipping and putting greens also bunker area where the natural move golf academy buttqnville fairways 16th ave woodbine ave phone 905 8870040 don valley north lexus 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