b2 tribune august 5 1987 soccer panthers finalists in tough pickering tourney by alan shackleton sports editor the stouffville panthers ban tam boys soccer team made it to the finals of the pickering inter national tournament held during the civic holiday weekend and if not for a couple of defen sive mistakes in monday morn ings final game against oshawa turul they could have come home champions instead they dropped the match 31 against the strong oshawa squad which competes in the national soccer league nsl and had to settle for run nerup honors prior to the tournament panth er coach alfons rubbens had said this would be one the most com petitive fields the team had play ed against so he was more than pleased with his squads perform ance on the weekend overall im happy with the way we played a couple of mis takes on defence may have cost us mens slopitch results randy lees strong pitching led the stouffville buttermak- ers to a 143 win over greens restaurant in yorkdurham mens slopitch action for the week ending july 23 for his performance lee earned the player of the week award which is sponsored by greens restaurant murray pattenden of the haulers took the honors for the week ending july 30 as he made a number of outstand ing plays even though his side lost 95 to the villagers in other recent slopitch ac tion greens edged the but- termakers 1211 a s raid ers skunked the saints 100 goodwood topped the haulers 143 greens beat claremont 166 a s raiders knocked off the villagers 1711 the trappers beat the buttermak- ers 122 the buttermakcrs topped claremont 1411 and goodwood knocked off the trappers 104 also the ballantrae blazers beat the saints by default unionville pontiac buick e gmc 4771666 keith wideman please give me the oppor tunity to earn your busi ness 4630 7 hwy 4771666 mmkiflum toyotas athlete of the week brad lever brad plays baseball or the markham peewees he went 3 for 4 against mar kham ii and was selected as player ol the game immanue hwy 7 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goals against oshawa is a very good team and they take advantage of every mistake rubbens said he added that oshawas goals deflated the enthusiasm of the stouffville boys and they were unable to mount a comeback oshawa put the game out of reach on a penalty kick in the second half after an obvious foul was made in the box by a panther defender despite the tough loss in the fin al stouffville played some excel lent soccer during the fourgame round robin tournament rub bens said they opened play saturday morning at pickerings kinsmen park with a 60 thrashing of scar boroughs guildwood peter nikeas and peter mizzie each with a pair of goals led the panther scoring attack while single markers went to eron slu- ga and travis white the stouffville scoring barrage continued in game two as they bombed east york 61 panther goals went to jason bennett and charlie melko two each along with solo shots from john payette and kevin walthers east yorks only tally came on a penalty kick sunday morning saw stouffville face their toughest test of the weekend as they took on the woodbridge nsl squad travis whites blast midway through the second half gave the panthers a 21 win and a guaran teed trip to the finals beating woodbridge was a highlight of the tournament for us rubbens said whenever you beat nsl teams youre doing well eron sluga opened the scoring against woodbridge with a 20- yard rightfooted rocket to the top corner slugas goal was just beautiful it was picture perfect rubbens said and he shot it with his opposite foot hes really a leftfooted player but he put that one in with his right woodbridge tied the score on yet another penalty but whites heroics along with tough defen sive play put the panthers through to the finals prior to mondays cham pionship match stouffville and oshawa faced each other sunday afternoon in a nothing game as both squads were had locked up spots in the final the next day however the outcome did fore shadow what would happen mon day as oshawa topped stouffville 31 of the six tournaments the panthers have played in this sea son theyve reached the finals in five winning two outright earlier this season rubbens said his players seemed to save their best efforts for tourna ments going downtown and coming back home scott wagg of spademans saints takes a big swing i right which starts him on his way round the basepaths for a home run during bantam boys whitchurchstouffville minor softball action last- wednes day night at memorial park in the photo below wagg com pletes the circuit and crosses the plate just prior ttvthe ball coming to the catcher waggs homer was a keyfactor in leading the saints to an 84 win over advanced maintenance duanebell also hit ahomei for the saints in this contest alan shackletonkli lawn bowlers hot in july stouffville lawn bowlers had a busy month of july as they competed in a number of tournaments on july 2 the team of eleanor crossen and edna mashinter won a high two game in markham stouffville then 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