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mi i i r j 1 1 i n 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 u 1 1 1 m 1 1 ii 1 1 1 1 1 n i n m i i i m c u i n i i i i rja weekender makcuimm scotty gives markham peptalk by frank king sports editor the markham hockey week house league tournament doesnt start for three weeks but coaches and officials are already geared up for it thanks to a pep talk from scott bowman bowman the legendary coach of nhls st louis blues mon treal canadiens and buffalo sabres was the guest speaker at the tourneys coaches night on wednesday more than 200 hockey week coaches managers and organiz ers listened to bowmans half- hour talk and 45minute question- andanswer session held at the centennial centre those who missed it can make amends by watching wednes days toronto maple leaf game on chch tv the talk will be shown during one of the intermis sions meanwhile the actual hockey week tournament runs from march 30 to april 12 its billed as the worlds largest competition by the town of markham which is spending 25000 to provide offi cials free ice time and trophies a total of more than 2300 boys and girls on 136 markham thor- nhill and unionvillemilliken teams are scheduled to play 188 games in five arenas thornhill has the most clubs with 56 while markham supplied 47 and unionvillemilliken 33 competition takes place in nine divisions from mite to juvenile weekender outta my way it looks like theres no stop ping reesor parks lesley dalzell as eyes on the basket she tries to drive past orchard parks tina fraas action took place at the area f elementary school basketball finals reesor park won the game but lost 2019 to milliken in the championship sjoerd witteveen and each club is guaranteed a minimum of two games as always the community with the highest number of division crowns per capita gets the mayors cup and town bragging rights markham is the host asso ciation the tourney hierarchy was re vamped for this years event to cut down on disagreements be tween the three groups markhams ken bell is the tournament chairman and he heads up an eightmember work ing committee but this year those people answer to a seven- member supervisory committee that group brings in mayor carole bell parks recreation committee chairman fred cox and markham village area re creation manager kerry gilmor the presidents of all three hock ey associations are involved too they havent been this closely in volved before and bringing them in is a way to better solve dis agreements orchard park victorious stouffvilles orchard park nar rowly defeated ballantrae 2018 to win the elementary school area f north senior boys basketball championship monday at ballan trae the game was deadlocked 1818 after regulation time and a two- minute overtime was played in which orchard park managed to hoop the only basket and take the title high scorers for orchard park were eilert fraser and brandon pridham jon cowley les hartai and jason schellenberg led bal lantrae the championship was a round- robin between orchard park dickson hill ballantrae and summitview the top two teams battled for the title in the preliminary round orchard park beat summitview 2218 ballantrae 2018 and dick son hill 248 both orchard park and ballan trae advanced to the area f championships along with reesor park and et crowle of markham game results werent available at press time 2942200 6402100 jm mtm milliken wins basketball title by frank king sports editor an expected markham- stouffville girls basketball battle turned out to be anything but at tuesdays area f elementary school finals instead the fourteam affair turned out to be a rout for milliken mills public school and mar khams reesor park ps they swept past orchard park and ballantrae to meet in the championship with milliken earning a 2019 upset triumph lori palermo turned out to be the hero hooping the winning bas ket with 14 seconds left to give milliken the title it capped an amazing comeback as the squad was behind 168 at halftime there was incredible jubula- tion screaming and hugging it was great said bill mcmahon who coached milliken with bever ly hazlett as for why his girls pulled off the win over favored reesor park mcmahon noted we stayed calm and didnt make too many unforced errors and to tell you the truth i dont think reesor had been in such a close game and they be came concerned near the end- millikcn knocked off ballantrae 2411 to reach the final kelly sheridan and julie coleman were ballantracs high shooters rounding out the milliken squad is donna gabriel kathy julie marshall zoe vogdanou joanne tsakalof angela mckie anneliesa mclean anne king mary oduwale and nicole osul- livan millikens now in the york fin- als march 10 at auroras dr gw williams secondary school but andrew boss reesor park squad may yet have a spot there they played yesterday in an area ef tourney to determine who gets a wildcard berth in the regionals and results werent available at press time but if his girls made the grade bos still wasnt satisfied with the route we shouldnt have lost thats all there is to it he pointed out our girls rested on their laurels and werent doing their jobs but hopefully well get another shot at milliken in the regionals there the squad would have the services of both bos who was sick and didnt attend the area f playdowns and starting guard jennifer jones also absent also on the roster are lesley dalzell alison priestman kim gillies kelly mcvey heather hamilton wendy candolini tara lember kelly waterbury ann brownsberger cathy lori taylor kelli breckles and rachel epp tj clippers in semis by alan shackleton stouffvilles edwardsmurphy bantam clippers advanced to the omha bb semifinals with a 63 win over kingston wednesday night the victory gave the clippers a threegame sweep in the best of five series all three battles were in stouffville stouffville jumped to an early 20 lead and was never threatened kingston made it 21 at the end of the first period but that was as close as it would get the game was poorly played by both teams said coach kerry keller but we did what we had to to win kingston looked beat be fore they started what could have been a tragic situation occured with about six minutes left in the game when a kingstons scott bevins fell to the ice after a hard check against the boards there was some fear that ho might have broken his neck as he lay motionless on the ice and an ambulance was called fortunately bevins was not seriously injured he was ex amined at scarborough centen ary hospital and then released the clippers are the defending bb champions but midland is their semifinal opponent and will be stouffvilles toughest test of the season said keller during the season the clippers only lost 11 games but three of them were to midland theyre the only team weve had problems with they play very good hockey keller ex plained this is the series weve been waiting for hopefully we wont be disappointed last year midland played in the a division but dropped to bb for this season keller added they eliminated paris to advance to the semifinals in their three previous meet ings midland beat stouffville 54 21 and 51 the clippers go into tins series without the services of defence- man anand date who has bruised ribs