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stoufiville suntribunem thursday july 5 2007 19 stouffville suntribune sport champs donate winnings to by jim thomas the markham misfits swept aside all oppo sition winning six straight games to claim top spot in the strawberry festival slopitch tour nament saturday at memorial park a combination of long balls and hardhit grounders propelled the misfits to a 1612 vic tory over stoufiville challengers in the final the coed tournament organized by shoe less joes had six teams from markham clare- mont newmarket and stoufiville the winners donated the prize money to markham stoufiville hospital this was a fine gesture john pelosi shoe less joes manager said the whole idea was to provide entertainment for fans and enjoy ment for players it accomplished both shoeless joes owner mike dimoski is hopeful the festival committee will approve a return engagement next year but with more teams and additional days we hope to make it bigger and better he said stoufiville was once an excellent slo- staff photosusie kockerscheidt pitch town we want to bring the game back katie malloy of the stouffville chargers takes a big swing during strawberry festival slopitch tourney action in memorial park saturday barbie car heads for toronto grand prix ashley taws was noticed for more than her pink barbie at walmart car saturday as she charged to a second- place finish in the 50lap feature ontar io sportsman series race at sauble speedway for the 23yearold whitchurch- stouffvillle resident its her best finish in only her third race in stock cars the barbie car was just hooked up the crew did an awesome job she said bob wilson chief mechanic is really supportive and has taught me so much and rob fletcher spotter was just so enthusiastic on the radio he got me really fired up that was the most fun ive ever had racing taws will compete in this weekends grand prix of toronto trussed fourth in quebec belinda trussell and her mount grand marnier came fourth in the cdi prix st georges event at the blainville dressage international near montreal the 35yearold stouffville resident sports briefs and member of the 2004 canadian olympic dressage team along with a 10- yearold hannoverian gelding owned by her husband mark trussell finished with a score of 67700 per cent the competition was won by jac queline brooks of mount albert and her mount balmoral with a score of 70950 per cent perfect storm erupts late the stouffville storm bantam boys remain undefeated in durham york softball association league play the storm erupted for six late runs to defeat newmarket 72 last week and improve its league record to 70 peter wideman a house league call up ignited the rally when he led the inning off with a triple and scored on a triple by steven ashbridge to tie the game the big blow of the inning though was a threerun double by pitcher caleb bayliss relieving starting pitcher bruce cringan bayliss worked the final three innings to earn the win selects top consolation the goodwood bantam boys selects claimed third place in a tournament conducted by the goulding park minor softball association after they defeated the malvern knights 53 the selects recorded an opening- round victory over the milliken mills mavericks 122 before dropping a 5- 4 decision to the knights the selects rebounded to rout host goulding park 110 but were then edged 64 by the unionville spartans players from stouffville include pitcher tyler hodges and infielders peter wideman and connor mcdonald their second tournament is july 14 may takes less to remain duck brad maywas willing to take less money to remain with the stanley cup champion anaheim ducks the ducks announced monday they signed the left winger acquired at this years trade deadline to a twoyear contract believed to be worth 12 million there were a lot of reasons i wanted to stay in anaheim may who grew up in stouffville and markham told reporters i love playing here i turned down more money from other teams may is expected to bring the stanley cup to york region for a celebration in august may was an unrestricted free agent nhl teams began signing free agents sunday may 35 played in 24 games during the 200607 regular sea son between anaheim and colorado netting four points and 21 penalty minutes the 61 220pound forward has appeared in 882 nhl games scoring 276 points and accumulating 2040 penalty minutes he has also played in 82 career playoff games jim mason