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tjict nc i5 economist sun stouffville tribune softball stouffville resident is in the hunt to make the provincial fastball team for 2001 canada summer games asenous by bruce stapley correspondent marlee johnson has taken her first step towards the 2001 canada summer games i the 16year stouffville res ident suited up with one of two ontario teams at an inter national invitational midget girls softball tournament at oshawas durham college the weekend of july 10 johnson was one of 30 players invited to try out for theteam ontario midget girls softball team that will contest the rnidget womens softball tournament at the 2001 canada summer games in london ont johnson caught the eye of team ontario officials at a special identification bantam tournament held last summer in london she was a late addition to the two team ontario contingent that contested the durham college competition johnson pitched well in a 31 complete game marlee johnson a provincial team pitching candidate loss to new jersey in oshawa then came on in relief to pitch three shutout innings in another con test she also held her own at the plate johnson will be one of 32 players invited to a final team ontario try out camp next summer johnsons father bill who is a coach with his daughters port perry angels rnidget girls softball team thinks his daughter has an odds on chance of making the provincial team you never know he said they said theyd evaluate everything the players did in oshawa plus what they do during the regular season marlee johnson was instrumental in helping- the port perry angels bantam squad to the eastern canadian championship last season the midget angels were ousted at the midget tier one eliminations held over the past weekend in stratford v marlee pitched an 80 shutout win over mitchell as well as a 52 victory against port perrys other midget crew but she was unable to stop chinguacousy in a 3- 1 loss which eliminated the angels sunday the angels will contest me provincial womens softball association tier one qualifying tourna ment in markham over the july 30 weekend mennos rally to edge bradford the stouffville mennos put on their rally caps thursday night in bradford the mennos overcame three deficits to defeat their hosts 76 in the oshawa city and district fastball league game the mennos finally went over the top in the sev- enth and final inning trailing 65 heading into the frame rob reesor blasted a solo home run to tie it with jeff steiner driving home brad eyre with the winning run steiner ed burkholder and pitcher byron bafanieski also homered for the winners who trailed 40 after the first inning the win against firstplace bradford upped the secondplace mennos season record to 134 the mennos host cobourg at centennial park in markham tonight at 830 pm abbot swings a hot bat for rebels lance abbot went three for three from the plate and david jones went two for three including a solo homer to propel the claremont rebels to a 63 win over the visiting oshawa juniors in oshawa city and district softball league action last wednesday starting pitcher paul koert helped his own cause sports digest by contributing two hits and driving in three runs while tom watson and jim closs each added one hit tini evans worked the final two innings for the rebels now 1022 oh the season and in a tie for second place with the stouffville mennos the rebels will host the mennos tomorrow and play in bradford on thursday y stallions ride off with gold the stouffville stallions mite boys captured the gold medal at the recent cobourg baseball tourna ment with a 61 win over vaughan in the title game the stallions reached the final after posting wins over aurora 229 newmarket 51 and cobourg 16- 5 flvh team members who contributed to the clubs success included jordori underwood richard downing kyle milleer ryne parsons nicholas stratas wilson kottaras graham james wes vvittenbols simon kennedy mitchell raithby sam parrel and matthew easter phoipcheryl johnson easy does it stouffville lawn bowling club member bill dart shows good form as he prepares to release the ball towards the jack during the el button memorial tournament at the stouffville lawn bowling club a total of 12 teams competed the stouffville team got two nineenders in the morning alone girls attack peterborough captain cait demonstrated her commitment to the cause and the rest of the team got caught up in the enthu siasm as the stouffville york attack under14 girls staged a major upset in recent central girls soccer league play the attack got shutout gbauceeping from jamie lynne pizans in a 20 victory over peterborough city marlee brooks and cara blaihey each scored in the first half to give the stouffvillebased squad the victory it was the first loss of the season for the host squad attack team captain caitlin malone managed to hitch a 3 12hour ride with her grandfather from cottage country to peterborough for the game attack coach alforis rubbens said malpnes deterrninatiohvto make the gamespurred the rest of the team on her school work andsbccer is her life rubbens said of his captain the attack went on the offensive from the opening whisde thfeh pizans and her defence withstood a deter- mined peterborough comeback effort in the second half the attack will travel to sudbury the- weekend of aug 78 to take part in the science north tournament the team is to play exhibition games aug 9 and 10 versus the north bay kickers under14 girls team come ride with santa sunday july 25 1999 the historic railway cars will be decked out with christmas finery seasonal music will fill the air and santa will bring a sack of candy canes to hand out to the kids trains depart from uxbridge at 1100 am and 230 pm and from stouffville at 1230 pm and 400 pm note the 400 pm train does not return to stouffville the journey takes about one hour each way c vato vm u k m m w v