rekai johnson barristers solicitors 49 main street east 2nd floor stouffville ontario 6408100 or 6493555 oecona section sports classified leassiyo todays easy way to drive larry cotter leasing 6404541 as makes and mociess a metroland gommuriity newspaper wednesday june 11988 michelle hall has become a track and field sensation at stouffville district secondary school the topranked hurdler will be trying her skills against the best in the province later this week at the ontario championships chris garbutt winning is goal for michelle hall by bruce stapley michelle hall is a 16yearold grade 11 student at stouffville district secondary school pos sessing a personable nature and a friendly smile j but put her oh the track for a big hurdles competition and shes got jone thing on her mind to win the twotime winner of her schools girls track award iclaims that the secret to her suc- jcess is concentration when i go to track meets i start to psyche myself up on the way in the bus she says mind control is essential if youre run- ning around saying i cant do it uhenyou wont michelle has experienced enough success to know what she is talking about originally turned on to track by her grade 4 physical education j teacher she has since dominated local school meets and shes per formed well in both durhamyork regional meets and at competi tions organized by the ontario federation of school athletic associations her relay team has remained pretty well intact since grade 4 always doing well at regional meets michelle won the girls track trophy at summitview pub lic school in grades 3 through 8 and now sees her name on the sdss wall of fame for her high school prowess while hurdles and long jump are her specialty she likes to join every sports event that is track- related in an effort to increase her training time and achieve more selfdiscipline she joined the mazda optimists track club which meets tuesday wednes- continued b3 stingers zap bradford- using the cant miss forriia- la of good pitching and a ba- lanced offensive attack the stouffville stingers walked over bradford 134 in their home opener thursday 1 newcomer denise davis showed the home fans why jcoach bob gold was so happy itdjiave her join the teairivrack- ing up eight strikeouts as she hurled the entire seven in- nicgs vvjshe gave us decent pitching tonight said gold after the game she just throws hard lots of heat 7 debbie gold and allison lowery led the assault wifh three hits a piece with each of j them whacking a double and scoring too runs wendy wil- liarflschippedfih with three runs batted in and davis con tributed a tworun double can- dy brown had a pair of singles coach gold was more than satisfied with his teams per- forjnance i was quite happy most of the players played well we got lots of offence and good solid defence 1 betz pools clobbers oshawa to start season on right foot by bruce stapley the stouffville betz pools fast ball team got their home season off to an exciting start with a 53 victory over oshawa acl wednesday the oshawa city and district league game was officially started by cliff dunkeld who threw out the ceremonial first pitch but after that it was betz pools brad vaughan who did all the serious pitching scattering eight hits and racking up 10 strike outs he struck out the side in the third and the seventh innings brad also helped his own cause by setting up a double play in the second inning when he caught a bunt before it hit the ground and threw to first to double off the oshawa runner newcomer steve brooks pro vided the the timely hitting the betz squad has become noted for cashing john tait and doug mcmillan with a round tripper in the second inning the drive took off like a cannon into right centre field george burkholder scored on an error in the fourth and then came home with the insurance run on mark focklers triple in the sixth the betz boys had seven hits in all oshawas offence was made up of a tworun single by jim trimm in the fifth inning and a solo home run by chris kosciesza in the sixth but brad appeared to be in con trol throughout keeping the oshawa batters off balance with a variety of pitches and spotting the ball well during the seven- inning contest he actually appeared to get stronger as the game wore on de spite the three oshawa runs in the fifth and sixth innings coach bryan emery was pleased with the righthanders performance he started off a little slow but then he came on with the strike outs bryan said the two runs in the fifth should have been only one but we had some early- season communication problems in the infield the timing was right for the hardthrowing hurler to pitch well as the teams ace jimmy chilvers was nursing a leg injury picked up on the weekend the teams other pitcher johnny annis had just returned from a trip to korea weve got a lot of good ball players bryan said hopeful ly we can keep everybody happy by giving them enough playing time the game marked the debut of betzs new electronic scoreboard which monitors balls strikes outs and the game score it also plays sports tunes steve brooks hit a three run homer in the betz poo oshawa acl this week brooks at right accepts congratulations from teammate brad vaughan at left following the 53 win chris garbutt scott evans the dynamic pitcher with the stouffville midgets pre pares to hurl one across the plate during night action this week the stouffville club swamped east gwillimbury 81 in the contest scott evans leads club to 81 romp rob parcells blasts away at an incoming pitch from the east gwil- limbury pitcher during the stouffville midgets game this week great hitting and superb pitching sent the gwillimbury club packing with only one run to their credit by bruce stapley for rob parcells it was a chance to bask in the glory of being a batting hero a not too common occurrence for the tall kid with the impish grin but for scott evans the flame throwing pitcher with the intimi dating delivery it was just another night at the ball park the two led the way as the stouffville midgets rolled over east gwillimbury 81 thursday parcells spearheaded a balanced stouffville attack by banging two doubles and a single and scoring three runs evans was totally dominant in his four innings pitched giving way to chris burkholder in the fifth when he experienced mild back pains the overpowering hurler struck out ten allowing only a walk and a triple that should have been caught just two days before at mar- kham evans had fanned 19 en route to a 30 victory after the game he was approached by a representative of thecanadian olympic commit tee wanting him to try out for the canadian under 18 fastball team that will go to seoul korea later on in the summer last season evans led the stouffville bantam team to victory in the ontario provincial championships on thursday evans had it all working for him he had the east gwillimbury batters off balance at all times with his assortment of pitches that included a rise curve a rise a drop ball and a paralyz ing change up that pitch should be declared illegal laughed midget mana ger howard burkholder after evans used the change up to fin ish off a strikeout in the third in ning its just not fair chris burkholder was more than adequate in his three inning stint allowing a run while fanning four scan chappellc went the dis tance for the visitors giving up the eight stouffville runs on 13 hits the hometown canadian tire outfit set the tone for the contest in the first inning with evans strik ing out the side on ten pitches and the offence connecting for three runs jason yoshida hit his first of two triples chris burkholder singled as did parcells and rob blundon doubles by parcells and blun don precceded a two run triple by yoshida in the third keying another three run outburst they added a pair in the fourth before east gwillimbury finally got on the board in the sixth the senior burkholder was full of praise for his team after the game with this team its one guy doing it one night another guy the next and with scott pitching you know youre going to be in every game basil luciano crushed a home run lo right centre field in the fourth inning wednesday to lead the stouffville bantams to a 75 win over east gwillim bury lucianos homer also drove in keith piette and bill pride to cap off a fourrun fourth in ning he also had two doubles and scored two in the game stouffville had a shaky start allowing two runs in the first in the fourth mike mccdol ji led off with a single went to second on keith piettes single and went home on a double from bill pride lucianosv homer made it 73 for stouff- vlc east gwillimbury could only j managetwo inore and the stouffville bantams held on to a 75 win wednesdays g bectfnse of poor dvfenvve je a p f3ss me plays the bantams came back for one in the bottom of the first when luciano drove in piette on a double east gwillibury scored again in the second and stouff ville held on for one as pride batted in paul ciarke the bamtams tied the game at three in the third luciano doubled and went to third on a hit by lee scaifc shawn boriechetti brought luciano in on a grounder he first week of play on may 24 the team was on the winning end of a 2212 slugfest with newmarket members of this years ros- terare danny mcneil keith piette bill pride basiti luciano lee scaife eilertj fraser shawn boriechetti paul clarke mike mccool scott mckinley jamie campj bell dave showers dan lehx man mike pongracz rogervc steiner and todd balazs r tim lavell cam fella boulevard takes his best leap during the orchard park senior track and field day the 13yearold grade 8 student jumped 13 metres at fridays meet earning him first placr honors chris garbutt-