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p10 tribune may 22 1991 st stouffville xjwwfiwftwwwmcwttlt spurs shined up for the new season- the curtain rises this thursday night on the new look stouffville town spurs and therecently lit community track soccer field the- second year mens soccer team has been refurbished with the addition of many players from the old stouffville royals and stouffville panthers youth teams- which both met with considerable success in the 1980s in york region soccer play the spurs who played brad ford united to a 33 tie in the sea son opener in bradford last tues day will entertain orangeville athletic for their first home game of the season game time is 830 at the out- door complex located just east of the rec centre seven from sdss going to ontario track regionals v seven stouffville district sec- ondary school sdss students have qualified for the ontario ofssaa regional track and field meet to be held this week at the oshawa civic centre the seven all placed in the top six in their respective events at last wednesdays durhamyork dyssaa championships which were also at the civic centre anne beecher earned the silver medal in the senior girls long jump event beecher whose spe cialty is the triple jump was unable to compete in that competi tion at the dyssaa meef due to her faulting in all three of her tries at the york regional champi- onship meet the previous week- she took the silver medal in the triple jump in the ofssaa finals last spring please see page 11 outoftowners prevail atas weekend slo pitch tourney bruce stapley correspondent the weatherman was the mvp but it was the outoftown teams that stole all the thunder in the annual as raiders slopitch tournament at memorial park over the victoria day weekend peterboroughs ace plumbing took 10 innings to overcome the excuses from etobicoke 65 in the cd division final sunday afternoon while it was the boys are back from unionville pre vailing 61 over mississaugas wiggly pop iin the dd title match the cd champs left town with the 600 first prize pay out while the dd titlist boys are back donated their winnings to the childrens wish foundation the unionville outfit had directed their third place prize money to the same charity in the 1990 raiders competition the semifinas were as far as any of the local area outfits could advance in the threedaytoumey which was played under picture perfect conditions with fridays rain ceasing just as the competi tion was about to get underway the cd flight defending cham pion stouffville straughan car pentry red sox were nipped 87 by the excuses in their semifinal encounter giving them the 200 third prize the sox only other loss in their five games had been a 71 deci sion to theeventual champion ace plumbing crew in the dd semis it was the mcasphalt tar babies of stouf fville dropping their contest 111 to wiggly pop the tar babies who had dropped an earlier encounter to the boys are back by a 1210 count shared 175 in thirdprize money stouffvilles boyds trappers were fourth in the cd running good for a 125 pay day as they won three while losing to the red sox and the excuses the stouffville biittermakers won one of the three games in the same division in the dd grouping the spring lakes tigers took the 100 fourth place payout racking up a trio of victo ries with losses to the tar babies and the wiggly pop in the same division stouf fvilles telxon won three but a pair of losses to the tigers put them out the bouwmeister as and the local sideliners pick up squad each split their four match es another local collection the kindness creations won one of three it was slim pickings for the two claremont entries in thedd class as the classics took one of their three contests while the blazers dropped both their matches the goodwood partyers man aged one win in three outings tourney notes wildest uni forms award went to the wiggly pop crew with their swirly shirts many squads were without team shirts suggesting that slopitch may be just another victim of the ressession as with several tournaments in the past some fans were com menting on incidents of foul lan guage on the field and in the area of the players benches warnings were given by umpires on some occasions while fan reaction resulted in apologies by others doug mcquaig of the stouf fville mcasphalt tar babi- escomes in safe at third while guy murffit of the stouffville sideliners shows his distress at the fact by lying flat out on the ground during the week end slopitch tournamnet at memorial park softball midgets all undressed with some place to go the latest victim of the recession would appear to be the whitchurch- stouffville softball association wssa or more specifically the local ball associations midget boys rep team according to that perennial workhorse of the wssa rep ranks mary myers the 1991 midgets have reversed that old line about being all dressed up with nowhere to go because the midgets under the direction of coach joe infurnari could indeed be going places this season the talent is there insists myers but the tea uniforms are not due to the lack of a sponsor the town is running dry mey ers lamented recently we have more teams than ever before in the house league 76 and weve just sport notes sn- zvmzmxzimzi cm c e apiwy run out of sponsors with the rep season already underway myers is becoming more and more desperate to come up with some sort of solution to her problem and apparenflyits not just the midgets who are experienc ing difficulties with the sluggish economy a 11 the rep teams are hurting said myers it started last year when the midgets never did endup with a proper sponsor but its worse than ive ever seen it this v 1 41 t r c- i- year all the teams will be fund raising myers says she has tried every thing in her attempts to find spon sorship money for the midgets but that up until now her efforts have failed to bear fruit its the economy ive asked everyone in town im asking everyone i know to look for some one wholl help us out i dont know how else to go about it she says shes at the point where she will even accept half of the standard 1500 sponsorship fee just so she can arrange to have proper team uniforms done up for the midgets id hate to see the team end up going to the ontario eliminations without anything to wear its going to be bad enough playing in league games without them myers says she will even consider pooling sponsors together into a merchants consortium with each contributor paying for one or more uniforms its more expensive that way because each shirt has to have a dif ferent sponsors name on the back but ill try anything on a brighter note the wssa is working on a fair way of deciding which local kids will be allowed to participate when 12 players from the canadian senior mens and womens softball teams come to town to put on a clinic july 27 the dozen national hot shots who will leave the following week to compete in the pan american games in cuba are to take over two diamonds at memorial park with 100 kids in all joining in others will be free to watch from the sidelines with a sound system being set up so all can hear whats going on out on the field the plan being considered would see entry forms printed in the local papers in midjuly with the kids dropping them off at the newspaper offices all the forms would be put into a drum with 100 being picked at ran dom the wssa is hoping a local group will come forward to offer to put on a modest dinner in latcham hall for the 12 team canada play ers after the clinic is over anyone who would consider get ting involved with the meal should call mary myers at 7275139 ditto for the sponsorship of the midget rep team ft 11 tfvh m 4 tv f- 1 i i v iti