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p6 tribune april 10 1991 st stouffville canucks bruins champions in sahl playoffs bruce stapley correspondent it was the kind of hockey you dream of for the playoffs so said stouffville amateur hockey league president jim wagg after both the mens leagues championship games were decided by one goal one in overtime at the rec centre sunday john barnetts second marker of the game an unassisted effort a minute and half into ot gave the stouffville travel canucks a 21 win over the surprise as construction flames in the 30andover division title match george sled hit the target in the dying min utes of regulation time to lift the smurthwaite heating bruins to a 43 come-from-behind-vic- tory over the canadian tire black hawks in the 40andover division final the flames last place finishers in the regular season had earned their championship contest by birth by scoring five more playoff goals than the farquharson realty penguins in the three playoff preliminary games both squads had won two and tied one with the goals scored factor being used to break the deadlock to add to the equation the village landscap ing capitals needing to win their third playoff match by six goals to qualify for the 30-and- over title game fell just short sunday morning as they blanked the gr flooring jets 50 the bruins edged the villeneuve heating devils 21 sunday morning to give them two wins and a tie good enough to qualify them for the 40andover final in the title tussle steve upton joe infurnari and bill ormson had scored to pull the bruins even before sled decided it it was dave wickstead with a pair and ralph the canucks had a 21 win over the flames in the sahl 30andover title match sunday the team members are front row left to right bill corrigan brent stachei bill grove skip hughes steve ramer sandy mckenzie gord smith back row charles ramsey ian boyd pete mabley dave sheridan john barnette herb forgie and bob leger photosannette buchkowski the bruins were winners in the 40andover final game they are front row left to right bill hermanson john beal steve lipton wes wilson joe infurniari bill orm son george sled back row gary frazer loui campitelli gary harrison bill guest bruce gribbon frank wildman bob swain andy perley and coach bill shena cain adding a solo for the hawks who had fin ished on top in the regular season race both the bruins and the canucks placed sec ond in their respective regular league stand ings both finals were exciting clean games said wagg afterwards it was a great finish to the season stouffville hockey girls to fight in allontarios four count em four whitchurchstouffville rep hockey teams head off to mississauga this weekend to contest allontario championships in their respective divisions okay now that weve got your attention after all our town teams havent exactly been papering the grey walls of the rec centre with provincial titlist pennant sin recent years its important to point out that the four teams are made up exclusively of female players actually there would have been a fifth town team rounding out the stouffville juggernaut had the betz pools senior bs not lost a 10 heart- breaker to orangeville the other week in the central ontario final the two teams had played to a pair of ties previous to the deciding match according to steve upton the proud president of the whitchurch- stouffville girls hockey associa tion the wsgha had never even iced pee wee atom or intermedi ate girls rep squads until two sea- sport notes sons ago but the upward climb began immediately and continues to gain speed the atoms in their initial year as a team qualified for the provincial tournament but fell short last spring the pee wees who were the same atoms moved up a notch went as far as the all- ontario semifinals the senior cs also made the trip this time around as the momen tum continues to build it will be the angies pee wees the ring- wood variety intermediate cs the credit union atom all stars and the angies senior ds all represent ing central ontario in the provin cial puck chase in mississauga come friday no wonder upton is strutting around like a new father of twins these days for the girls hockey program pioneered back in 1974 by cliff dunkeld with some help from joanne steel and al piette is well on its way to achieving full maturi ty under the direction of upton and his sidekick john summerhill with close to 100 girls taking to the ice this season the wsgha is close to realizing its goal of being able to sustain both a healthy house league program and a full platoon of rep level outfits upton realizes there is still a way to go however in selling the con cept of girls hockey to both the young females and most munici palities this is now the only centre for girls hockey in york region he told me the other day were open an even keel now but we need to interest more players to continue to allow for a full program kings beat rangers in sihl semifinal playoffs paul barry fired a pair of goals while kevin bartley bob hughes and tom lehman had singles to lead the williamson kings to a 52 win over the consortium group rangers in stouffville intermediate hockey league semifinal playoff action last tuesday barry greenshields counted both rangers scores in the other semifinal encounter it was terry porter and doug feasby scoring as the dave blow canadians nipped boyds sports 21 shawn leonard clicked for boyds the kings and the canadians face off for the league playoff champi onship this week upton points to the wsghas pee wee rep teamjunior house league set up as the ideal for what he and summerhill would like to see emerge throughout the system weve been able to form the pee wee rep team from our junior house league and still have a rela tively good house league and it seems that everything the local association tries lately turns out to be a success the atom all stars which were put together this past december skated their way to the finals in their first ever tourna ment at the years end then placed second once again in a tourney in orangeville losing out to the host team however the local ladies exacted their revenge as they overcame orangeville in the central ontario finals earning them their ticket to ississauga this friday upton admits he would like to see some more players on the scene especially at the lower levels we need more girls at the bottom to keep the younger levels going as the girls climb up our direction is also to have more stouffville area girls involved but for now its eyes straight ahead as upton and all the other wsgha faithful watch their four eager outfits skate to glory in the mississauga mother of all tourna ments this weekend high school wins trophies in badminton stouffville district secondary schoolcaptured two first place tro phies and a consolation title at the york region central badminton championships in aurora thurs day and friday the sdss junior team of tim lavell and julia lei swept to victo ry in the mixed doubles event thursday going undefeated in three match ups brian snooks of the sdss senior squad took on all comers in win ning the mens single crown fri day while the schools junior duo of jason cheng and willy cheung took the consolation finals in the mens doubles both winning doubles teams along with snooks will now go on to the york championships at unionville high school this week the sdss junior team impressed long time school badminton coach jim rehill they showed an awful lot of poise said rehill i was really proud of them rehill said he was grateful for the influx of players born in hong kong on his crew the players are part of the markham area students who are attending sdss while two new markham schools are com pleted we had a wonderful blend of kids said rehill the chinese tend to dominate international bad minton and our hong kong kids gave the stouffville team a taste of that international prowess it was an exciting day very positive in every way rehill pointed to the work of marcus milos kevin nicholls elaine low stacie patten man wa leung josephine chan kevin cargill and jason cowan while also praising alternates bernard chow and andrew leung the kids were all very proud of themselves sdss seniors coach peter arnott was equally pleased with his teams performance scott mckinley just missed the finals on the b side everyone played well and there were a lot of great matches brad may helps in thunder win brad may scored two goals including the winner as his niagara falls thunder edged the windsor spitfires 54 thursday the victory gave the junior a thunder the ontario hockey league ohl emms division semifinal series in four straight games the thunder begins the divisional series with the sault ste marie greyhounds this thursday may the exstouffville clipper who now resides in markham was held goalless in the thunders third game 43 win over the spitfires last tuesday the winner of the niagara falls- sault ste marie series goes on to play the leydon division champion for the ohl 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