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9smmtsm spirit will save money from page 17 to include 13 and ii teams respectively said hooper he said that while the three con ferences will be free to decide if they wish to split into sepa rate divisions they will play a balanced schedule hooper said it will be decid ed at an upcoming league board of governors meeting how many teams from each division make the playoffs its my guess that eight teams will make it in the central conference hooper said the new confer ence setups will benefit the spirit as well as the other teams in the provincial leagues phillips division they will save a bundle of money on travel theyll no longer be travelling to kingston and trenton and theyll have more games close to home the merger marks the end of the interlocking schedule introduced last season between provincial league and northern ontario junior a hockey league teams ontario hockey association oha president brent ladds was also enthusiastic about the prospect of reduced travel time brought about by the merger the kids are going to bene fit from less travel ladds told the tribune plus there will me more natural rivalries established ladds said there are sure to be snags in the new arrange ment but suggested it will be a plus this represents a lot of work by a lot of people to put it all together theres bound to be growing pains at first but i think it should work out well in the end the world wide web bloated by meaningless information is a waste of time and money for l ocai dusinesses they need the local web to succeed david alker author fat tuesday in web world to learn more about why the local web is the only answer for businesses interested in marketing on the internet join author david alker for a special seminar tuesday june 23 830 am- 1230 pm sheraton parkway hotel markham to reserve your spot please call 4167856259 guarantee findability for your business on the internet call toronto star city search wwwtorontocom phone 4168142790 evans is too hot for mennos to handle st it was old home night at claremont park wednesday as an assortment of old friends relatives and former team mates got together to put on a fastpitch clinic when it was all over the claremont rebels had taken full advantage of their formidable pitching tandem to hang a 63 defeat on the stouffville mennos in an oshawa city and dis trict softball league contest between the neighbouring teams- scott evans demonstrated his pitch ing prowess as well as his touch with the bat to key the rebels victory the big right hander hurled five stel lar innings of fourhit ball while strik ing out eight stouffville batters at the plate evans stroked a triple double and a single off mennos pitch er byron baranieski driving in a run while scoring two more evans came within a perfect peg to the plate of stretching his triple into a home run in the fourth when his blast to left field scored evan boyd rebels lefthander paul koert whiffed five merinos while surrendering just one hit and an unearned in his two innings pitched baranieski limited the rebels to two runs on three hits until the roof caved in on him in the rebels four run sixth terry reesor finally came on to pitch retiring the side on a double play grounder after issuing a pair of walks evans and baranieski were team mates on the 1990 ontario champion stouffville merchants juniors a team which also included the mennos broth er combo of chris and rich burkhold er the youngest burkholder brother ryan also plays for the mennos who are coached by the boys father howard rebels coach frank hendy said the fact he has ties with most of the men nos players makes it tough to compete against them on the diamond i hate playing these guys noted hendy of his stouffville opponents i know them all the rebels took a 10 lead in the bottom of the second inning when evans singled then eventually scored on a sacrifice fly by jim closs rob reesor tied it for the mennos with a solo home run in the fourth evans rbi triple put claremont ahead 21 in the bottom of the fourth with baranieski drawing a walk then coming around to even the score at 22 on an error in the top of the sixth boyd walked to lead off the rebels big sixth inning evans doubled and closs and brad evans followed with safeties to complete the game- winning rally chris burkholder crushed a home run to right field off evans in the sev enth inning to close out the stouffville scoring evans pitched the first four innings as well as the seventh for the rebels it was the third win in five games for the rebels the mennos have one vic tory in four outings the rebels travel to oshawa to play the juniors tuesday then return home to host markham wednesday the mennos are at home to aurora wednesday night peewees set to play ball its tournament time as eight peewee boys rep softball teams take to the dia monds at stouffvilles memorial park today the tourney which is being hosted by the whitchurchstouffville softball association wssa will see the local peewee boys squad taking on teams from willowdale scarborough napa- riee vaughan peterborough and chep stow the host stouffville outfit takes to the field for its first game at 8 am against the willowdale bruins stouf fville plays the scarborough wolver ines at 1 130 am then closes ourthe preliminary round with a contest with league rivals the napanee express at 3 pm the winners of each of the fourteam divisions are to play off for the cham pionship at 645 pm attack still looking for players the york attack are looking for local recruits the whitchurchstouffville soccer don valley north lexus toyota athlete of the week melissa neudoerffer i melissa neudoerffer had a golden day at the unionville skating clubs final test day of this season recently the 15 year old unionville resident earned her gold medal in freestyle with that gold the grade 10 markville secondary school student became a triple gold medalist as she earned gold in dance and skills achieved last fall a member of the unionville skating club for the last 11 years neudoerffer plans to continue to skate freestyle and work on her diamond dances don valley north lexus toyota 3120 steeles ave e east of the mwm avaa 404pkwy 4750722 club wssc under- 13 girls rep team is hoping to add to its roster by inviting stouffville area players to join the squad for an exhibition game on june 2 at the rec centre fields the attack are to take on the wssc under15 select girls team at 830 pm on tuesday attack coach alfons rubbens said he wants to add some more local con- tent to the team which includes play ers from across york region weve only got 12 players said rubbens were looking for some whitchurchstouffville girls born in 1985 who are interested in playing at the competitive level to come out and play with us tuesday the attack won their second straight central girls soccer league game of the new season thursday when they staged a second half surge to blank newmarket 20 in newmarket the game remained scoreless through the opening half with nicole pacque and andy sadowfki scoring for stouffville in the second half