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p26 weekender september 27 1986 uxbridge touch football some out for fun some out to win by kelly connelly the gorgon touch football league in uxbridge is divided into two groups the serious teams and the notsoserious clubs deciding what category the goodwood partiers or beach boys fall into isnt very hard its a good bet these squads will end up in the bottom consolation tier come playoff time in november the serious contenders then come the serious conten ders to listen to team 4s bob forsythe describe the inherent gap between strong and weak clubs you get the feeling his club can do no wrong we play everybody but we only take a few of the teams seriously he says of the 10- team league does team 4 which lost the semifinal last year to eventual champion uxbridge printing ha ve any areas it must work on we dont have to improve forsythe bluntly points out well what are the squads strengths everything our offence our defence our kick- ingc uxbridge printing got lucky last year in my opinion asked if there was a team most likely to give team 4 a tough challenge forsythe re plied the chiefs will give us the roughest time because they are the second best team in the league behind us another serious club steve kloosterman of the chiefs another serious club doesnt agree weve domin ated team 4 in the last two years they havent beaten us in two seasons he contends the chiefs defending playoff champs in 84 lost last years final to the printers 3712 as long as our players keep showing up and we maintain our strong nucleus were going to be up and rising kloosterman promises st johns might give usproblems though theyre a strong company team and new to the league stable contenders printings ron rolston says his club wont let go of the 85 crown that easily our team is exactly the same as last year we seem to be pretty stabilized were going to be the team to beat he warns although printing lost its opener 2922 to team 4 rolston isnt worried our defence was a little suspect after the loss but team 4 should never have scored 29 points against us the fun stuff enough serious bragging on the notsoserious front good- weeds martin swaffield doesn t hesitate to flagellate his own club i dont think we have any strengths this season we need faster guys we need a quarter back too he chuckles really were just a bunch of guys out to have fun and where did theteam get its raun chy name goodweed par- tiers it happened one hallo ween someone changed the signs in goodwood to read good- weed the teams play their games ev ery sunday at the high school field behind uxbridge secon dary tomorrow the chiefs take on st johns at 10 am tqsraeb vv i sbsi training in markham german gymnast greg oortwyn 22 has been taking time out to train at the markham gymnastics club while visiting his father in canada oortwyn recovering from a knee injury is a member of the hanover club that won germanys national title in both 1984 and 85 frank king softball mite boys fail to take title gmc 4x4 heavy duty ton pickup clearing fast from s 6507 pluspst pontiac buick 4630 hwy 7 hwy 7 at kennedy bypass where buying a vehicle is always a pleasant experience 4771666 x a i s 5 8 i 5 x 2 i w the unionville fruit com pany softball mite boys had not one but two chances of taking their league title but apparent ly even that wasnt enough thornhill had to beat the squad twice last weekend to win the yorkdurham league championship and pulled it off forcing the locals into second spot first try in the first game unionville destroyed east gwillimbury 25- 2 in a mercyrule victory kevin mason chris markson and eric goodwin each had two hits with markson and david cox smashing home runs grant barbcsin scored four runs with three apiece coming from randy pipher kevin scott and david gauthier kevin mason goodwin and kevin hogg all came home twice four rbis were collected by pipher three by hogg and two each by goodwin and cox win against malvern unionvilles big accomplish ment was beating malvern for the first time this season by an 87 margin pipher and goodwin each scored twice on two hits cox also had two rbis the locals slipped past mar kham 7 to 5 in game three scott and cox each stroked two hits with cox scoring twice paul davies crossed the plate three times and markson earned two rbis the first championship tangle was a 61 loss thornhill never looked back after scoring four times in the first inning on 2 hits and two unionville errors that loss may have taken the momentum away from the boys because they blew the second battle and the cham pionship by an 111 count good win had the lone run unionville finished the season with a record of 27 wins and 19 losses they scored 498 runs and had 353 scored against them an exhibition outing against milliken saw unionville score twice in the bottom of the eighth inning to take a 31 victory kevin hogg had the first run by stealing home in the fourth inning while randy pipher and kevin scott crossed the plate in the eighth