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p22 weekender october 4 1986 markham stumbles in bigtime at least one york region high school coach thinks the switch to a yorkdurham championship for mat is going to be tough on local athletes murray everetts markham district high school golf team swept the york championships several weeks ago but against the best durham had to offer on tuesday his squad placed third the tournament played at a very challenging thunderbird course saw alarkhams juniors finish behind pickering and east- dale todd gerrard shot an 87 tre vor gardner 88 steve searle 92 and glen atkinson 98 the seniors gained their third out of 17 teams steve filipowitz led the way with a 79 followed by 85s from mike bryniawsky dave pashko and an 89 from jim stevenson mdhs was the bestscoring york school in both divisions were in the big leagues now said coach everett whos assisted by howard christie markhams athletes are going to ha ve to work quite hard to achieve the results theyre used to in fact he noted finishing be hind durham schools at york- durham meets may become a pattern if we dont watch it well have to pull up our socks before this year york cham pions met the best from simcoe county to determine a georgian bay secondary school associa tion titlist it was a different story at the york region meet where pash- kos 74 was the lowest of all scores that day bryniawsky had an 83 darren mckenzie 84 and filipo witz 90 on the junior side gerrard top ped the individual scores with an 81 trevor gardner had a 91 while atkinson and andrew smith carded 94s we won quite handily the seniors by 24 strokes and the juniors by 28 said christie in terviewed prior to the durham tournament id put these boys up against anybody weekender orts 2942200 6402100 boys start slow by frank king sports editor look no further than inconsistent play to explain the slow start for markham district high schools junior boys volleyball team the squad hasnt exactly been burning up the york south loop sporting only one win against three losses so far this year the story is no better on the tournament scene where markham went winless at a recent york mills collegiate competition but coach kim watson isnt one to complain at least not public ly her boys lost 159 715 1115 to brother andre then knocked off thornlea 1513 159 the guys played extremely well in both matches said watson their only downfall was the underhand passing skills against brother andre for some reason they slacked off she was happy with the setups provided by craig lanning and paul pachis though the inconsistent play there continued against thornhill a 155 1510 defeat and unionville a 1513 157 loss bumping was again really weak said the coach about the thornhill battles and for some reason we werent playing as a team things improved against unionville they started to pull together but the game should have been protested and i didnt the gist of watsons argument is markham was given three timeouts one more than the rules allow by the referee he then turned around and penalized the squad by giving unionville a point it wasnt my fault the referee lost count watson contended so the next time well make sure were far enough ahead before any controversies erupt it was really frustrating in the meantime she was pleased with the work of mark bowyer who was diving for balls all over the court it was just lovely to see and his net play was really good too as for the losses at the york mills tournament watson wasnt too concerned weather holds in final the weathers been lousy late ly but the rain held off long enough for the markham softball association to hold its cham pionship day last weekend at centennial park the mite boys crown went to 7- up which knocked off kinsmen 124 all the kinsmen scoring came from homers by mike ker- nohan stephen parker john cooper and scott higgins 7up had key hits from seott pallant ryan reesor and jeff mcleod stephen gottschling handled the pitching chores lori dickson sharon jacks and lori grant shared mound duties as family trustcharlie barnett slipped past dominion coal 43 for the mite girls title gillian green supplied an unassisted double play markham family life took the squirt girls crown with a 139 win over music stand homers by mike bell and darren seymour helped chouinard bros roofing beat daycal publishing 243 for the squirt boys championship a wild pitch and a hot seventh inning were enough to give vil lage box meats a 1211 come- frombehind wim over markham honda in the peeweebantam boys final it was 118 for honda going into the bottom of the seventh then village scored three runs to knot the count and brought home the winner on a wild pitch chouinard bros roofing beat salton canada 2110 for the novicebantam girls cham pionship tball finals saw crothers pharmacy beat speedy muffler king 3120 for the boys crown and century 21dennis cribari dis pose of chouinard bros roofing 4023 in the girls battle jennifer sheppard of chouinard contributed a three- run double foreman heads markham club threeyear member larry foreman has been elected presi dent of the markham youth soc cer club foreman defeated house league convenor eira keay in a secret ballot at the organizations annual meeting attended by ab out 75 people wednesday night last season foreman coached the minor mosquito girls repre sentative team and was the clubs tournament director he succeeds mike whiston who served two years amongst the other top execu tive jobs greig candlish returns as representative team coordina tor and ron currie is back as treasurer new faces include sandi larter as house league director osier guainy as representative to the york region soccer association and doug stewart as vice- president drivers have a smashing time by kelly connelly the smell of overheating rads black smoke and burned- out engines can mean only one thing demolition derby the pit crew dubbed doc tor fixits at markham fairs crackup last wednesday night were armed with the sports customary tools sledge hammers blow torches and axes a junk car mechanic may not have the delicate hand of a surgeon but he knows how to make a badlooking heap of brown metal run cut off a piece of protruding bumper slam a fender back into shape chop that off weld this on replace the radiator with another old radiator and shes moving again there were 21 ghost cars on hand for the show their spray- painted carcasses almost beg ging for one more go at the demo ring before theyre laid to rest in the scrap yard the object of the demolition derby destroy your buddys car before he mutilates yours and be the last junker still moving no headon collisions and driver door smashes were allowed any vehicle that ex- bill lannings photo shows drivers ceeded the rather small 65 by 95foot boundary or did not make competitive contact ev ery 30 seconds was disqual ified after three hilarious heats the top six drivers and their rusty clunkers advanced to the grand finale feature smash up when the ramming and slamming was over only one car was still moving it be longed to billy trutlel aka billy t of oshawa- any driver bold enough to paint his car hot pink deserved battling it out wednesday to win quipped a railside spec tator billy ts 1976 impala station- wagon with the tacky color bulging fourply snow tires chained doors and pink panth er logo was a favorite with the 1000plus fans who packed the grandstands markhams ross brennan driving a pontiac wagon bat tered his way to first place in the opening heat but jammed on a boundary log in the feature crackup he settled for third place 25 behind winner trudel 300 and dave snow- den 100 f although whitchurch- stouffville was well repre sented in the first heat with shawn leonard brian ball claremont trevor jones and david ferrier none made it to the final showdown jones was disqualified for hitting a drivers door leonard was rammed over the boundary post and disqual ified and ferrier and ball were battered to a standstill for leonard and his 1974 grand torino it was all over too fast there were three cars done in before mine but it was just a bad break getting pushed over the boundary he said adding it was his first time in a demolition derby most of the participants were novices said organizer jim grant owner of an auto wreck ing company on hwy 48 you run across all kinds of guys in this sport i remember one guy who was banged up so bad he jot scared and refused to take his car into the feature race sometimes a guy will get so nervous hell throw up before the starting line grant con tinued but proderby jitters didnt get that id wednesday night along with m alberts glen kennedy the tv men hastily assembled the event in only two weeks getting insurance was difficult said grant an 11- year veteran of the sport mar khams kinsmen club came to the rescue after the show he noted that some of the cars were muti lated pretty good but others were barely hurt grant bought seven of what he consi dered the choice twistedmetal heaps from drivers who wanted to discard them