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the markham economist sun sports saturday june 3 2006 2h softball cricketers prepare to make their pitch in markham league play to start sunday at bison park by mike hayakawa staff writer in the movie a field of dreams ray kinsella had a vision that if he constructed a baseball stadium the legends of the game would come to play and spectators would surely come to watch in the end thats exactly what took place nigel vasagam shares a simi lar vision except the 56yearold markham resident isnt a base ball buff founder and president of the markham softball cricket league vasagam firmly believes if a permanent facility were con structed interest in the sport would follow such a plan is currently in the works as vasagam and other ardent supporters of the game have been working with the town of markham to create a firstclass permanent pitch and adjacent to fairtree community park east of hwy 48 and north of steeles avenue under the proposed plans which were shown at a public information meeting in late feb ruary vasagam noted the town of markham would create an equipment room bleacher seats a restroom and have the pitch grass trimmed to oneinch a necessity for cricket the cost for such a proposed facility would be around 750000 vasagam notes that not only would their league utilize the facility youngsters could also utilize it through school programs that offer the sport if the town builds the facility the people will come out vasagam said we play the game just the same way as with a leather hall except our hall is a softer version so its safer to play in the meantime vasagam and the markham softball crick et league are gearing up to launch their fourth season at elson park this sunday with games each sunday at 10 am and 2 pm before winding down with the championships july 30 starting out with four teams and known as the milner softball cricket league the league expanded in the second year to its present eight teams with entries from markham picker ing scarborough and even as far away as brampton and missis- sauga this past offseason vasagam noted he could have expanded the league by three clubs but with a limited number of officials and volunteer help he elected to keep the leaguethis season with eight clubs theres definitely been lots of interest in our league he said and we could go to 10 teams next year but it depends on get ting volunteers and people who must know the game in explaining the leagues suc cess vasagam feels much of the credit is due to cooperation from the town of markham not only in terms of giving them a but also in manicuring the pitch and adding restrooms and bleachers theyve definitely supported us through the years he said as successful as the league has been though vasagam said there are still many who follow the sport but dont know about the local league cricket is a popular sport we play the game just the same way as with a leather ball except our ball is a softer version so its safer to play he said tornados blow ironheads away in ontario lacrosse action after snapping a threegame losing streak with a victory last sunday the markham ironheads will be out to end another this sunday playing host to the barrie tornados occupants of first place in the eastern conferences mideast division the ironheads dropped a 137 decision in ontario lacrosse association junior b action tuesday at centennial arena joe stanley scored three goals for the ironheads who trailed 43 after one period and 75 after two dan ran som added two goals while matt evans and shane davidson each added sin gle tallies ronnie reed collected six assists and blake evans three now 65 on the season and tied for third place with the saints in the mid- east division the ironheads will host oakville sunday at 2 pm oakville is undefeated at 110 and sits in first place in the eastern confer ences southeast division for more on the ironheads log on to wwwmarkhamlacrossecom rugby club gets tackled the markham rugby football club mens first and seconds went down to defeat when they faced toronto scot tish at fletchers field in ontario rugby union action last saturday in the first match chris mandivjlle scored markhams lone try in a 155 loss the markham seconds received tries from james doorenspleet and mike devries in a 2410 loss currently 02 on the season both sports digest markham entries will play in lindsay this sunday starting at 130 pm in womens action markham bat tled brock to a 1212 tie the markham women now 011 will play host to oshawa this sunday at noon for more on the markham rugby footbalf club log on to wwwmanhamrugbyclubcom junior raiders lose opener the york region raiders juniors kicked off its ontario varsity football league regular season last saturday with a 1410 road loss to kitchener waterloo trailing 72 at the half the raiders took a 107 lead early in the fourth quarter when quarterback kyle ptole my threw a fiveyard touchdown pass to ryan cristavoe and a subsequent twopoint convert pass to hugo rajotte 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