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economist suntribune sports saturday aug 24 2002 21 underdog stouffville peewees bronzed at provincials the stoufrville birkett and hassard insurance brokersdr paul stratas dentistry peewee boys came home with the bronze medal from the a provincial fastball championships last weekend in orleans entering the tournament ranked seventh out of an eight- team field stoufrville lost their first game in the double knock out event to the eventual gold medalist oshawa stingers 106 with only one life left stouffville regrouped to take their next three outings against the vaughan vipers 228 napanee express 65 and waterloo 80 to advance to the silver medal game stouffvilles run for gold came up short when they came out on the short end of a 144 decision against newmarket comprised mainly of first year players the stouffville team received strong pitching from jordan underwood keith hughes and graham wilson kyle miller and matt martiniello shared the catching duties allan mcgrath and nick stratas secured the middle infield while sam ofarrell and brandon jupp manned the corners jesse miller and ryne parsons shared the centre field responsibilities while left and right field were patrolled by fred bell wes wittenbols mitchell raithby and lenny wood ron wilson and tom miller handled coaching duties rugby teams get tackled by yeomen the markham rugby club firsts and seconds went down to defeat at the hands of the host york yeomen last saturday in ontario rugby union action neil doctorow scored a penalty try and convert to account for the markham firsts lone points in a 32- 7 loss in the seconds match markham received a try from trevor koukoulos and doug seed and a penalty goal from josh singer in a 2713 loss to the yeomen the week before markham had a suc cessful week on the pitch against burlington as all three clubs recorded vic tories the markham firsts defeated burlington 177 while the seconds edged burlington 1413 and the thirds romped to a 5331 win the markham teams will travel to fergus today to face the highlands rugby club sports digest lightning boys put best foot forward in minnesota markham light nino w they didnt return with any hardware but the markham eurovision toshiba lightning under- 1 1 boys soccer team gave a good account of themselves at the recent usa cup international tourna ment in blaine minnesota competing in the cup round which is the highest division in the tourna ment the lightning lost their first game to a competitive team from guadalajara mexico 20 however they rebounded to win their second game 40 over lakeville minnesota matt kotsopoulos booted home two goals while michael holder and jeffrey skinner added singles wesley clark and gino mauro split goaltending duties the lightning then battled a team from cleveland ohio which eventually won the tournament to a scoreless draw clark recorded the shutout in its final preliminary game the lightning received two goals apiece from holder mauro skinner and kenny vassilakakos to blank white bear lake minnesota 90 kotsopoulos added the other goal while clark and mauro teamed up to post the shutout the teams respectable finish in preliminary action advanced them to the cup quarterfinal where they lost a wellfought match 31 to the dixie blue devils kotsopoulos scored the lone goal for the lightning strong defensive play by alex culp daniel hnatko dean lawrence jordon mustard and lewis zolis contributed to the three shutouts in five games and midfielders anthony giorgio craig oconnor and thomas zolis contributed to the teams defence and goal scoring dragons slain in tournament final the unionvillemilliken soccer club under- 14 boys 88 dragons advanced to the final of the recent sunoco 2002 international challenge cup in thornhill before bowing out with a heartbreaking 21 loss to brampton east on penalty kicks anthony bahadur scored the lone goal for the dragons in regulation time in reaching the final the dragons pasted host thornhill 7- 0 in their semifinal encounter 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