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st weekender jlne191993p19 ffyyvyzw joseph is not singing the blues bruce stapley correspondent the stars were out at the emerald hills golf course monday as brett hull held his second annual noma charity celebrity golf classic the golden brett had his father bobby in tow along with his st louis blues team mate curtis joseph the sharon resident who helped the whitchurchstouffville vandorf juniors to the provin cial a fastball title back in 1988 other past and present national hockey leaguers participating in the team scramble won by brett hull and his squad were peter eng rocky saganiuk eddie shack and dick redmond redmond took the longest drive contest held after the tournament with a booming 325 yarder world championship cana dian skater kurt browning skier brian stemmel and buffalo bills kicker steve christie were among the other athletes participating at the event for their part the emerald hills people were offering to donate 1000 towards dia betes research being done at torontos hospital for sick children for every noncelebri ty in the tournament who signed on as a club member i managed to commandeer joseph for a few minutes after the longest drive competition it would appear josephs rec ollections of his ball playing days in vandorf are vague at best its amazing what four years of travelling around north america as a big league goalie will do to the memory he said hes extremely happy in st louis and will likely sign a new contract with the blues after his cur rent pact expires he has one more year followed by an option year remaining on his current deal as for the blues playoff run this spring joseph said he was disappointed the team didnt go further if you dont win the stanley cup it means you lost your last game he philosophized we lost our last game it wasnt how we would have liked it joseph acknowledged the blues did have a good run however especially consider ing the teams sluggish begin ning to the 199293 season he suggested the blues may have been somewhat spent after fighting so hard just to qualify for post season play and that next season may be different we did come from a long way back it took all we had just to make the play offs we jelled after the first half this year if we can pick up where we left off this fall well be okay joseph who admitted his loyalties lay with the leafs as a kid growing up in sharon said it was a huge thrill just to play against the players he once looked up to as a kid you idolize the guys in the nhl the biggest thrill for me was just to play in the nhl against the players i idolized as for his charges during the series with the maple leafs that the toronto forwards were running him he simply shrugged we got beat by a good team they played hard and we played hard they went to the net and thats what you have to do to win joseph said he thought it was great for hockey to see the leafs back in the chase after such a long drought the fans around here have been starved for a good team for so long its good for the game in this area to have the leafs winning again rioa another world class sports personality was in town this week as newmarket race car driver scott goodyear helped open up chariots family restaurant at the site of the old deer park inn on wednes day the invitationonly grand opening luncheon included race industry offi cials corporate types stouf- fville area contractors and select local sports correspon dents myself not included shakespeare the magician who resides in the area was master of ceremonies for the event maybe it was he who made my invitation disappear too bad i would have loved to have been able to cover it dad photosteve somerville st louis blues hockey player brett hull left and his father and former national hockey league great bobby hull took to the emerald hills golf and country club links on monday to par ticipate in the noma charity celebrity golf classic the oneday event was in support of the sick childrens hospital maples pro tom aird says told me wednesday that while its not a certainty that leafs superstar doug gilmour will be on hand for this coming tuesdays metropolitan toron to police amateur athletes association golf tournament to be held at the maples aird gilmour is on the tournament committee that doesnt mean hell be here for sure for the sake of all the kids looking to be on hand for the 11 am shotgun start lets hope he is stouffville youths kick up a storm jon voss and jason brown each booted home a pair of goals to lift the toronto domin ion bank under15 boys soccer team to a 62 win over aurora in a recent youth soccer league contest right winger mike owen keyed the stouffville offensive attack scoring a goal and feed ing the td forwards with pass es andrew hutchinson netted the sixth stouffville marker the game remained tied at 1- 1 after 10 minutes of the first half after which time the stouffville squad began its offensive thrust coach stuart mccleans stouffville team roster includes three female players lillian boyd katie scorrar and peggy atkinson in other recent york youth league games the cable tech under13 girls team was edged 21 by aurora while the progress club under- 11 girls outfit was blanked 90 by its aurora opponent in other soccer news the ontario soccer association in cooperation with the whitchurchstouffville soccer club wssc will hold the 15th annual soccer camp pro- gramat the recreation centre field next month the program for boys and girls from the ages of six through 13 is scheduled for july 1923 midgets suffer setback jodi simms threw a complete game four hitter but it still wasnt enough as her ratcliff lumber midget girls rep softball team fell 41 to willowdale in a game played at the town park wednesday anne roy lindsay upton stephenie summerhill and andrea crothers each had hits for stouffville the team received strong defensive performances from karine huffman katie white sum merhill and upton the midgets play their next home game on june 30 at the town park at 845 pm on diamond two it is to be an instructional camp with team ontario coaches nationally licensed- instructors professional coach es and players providing the participants with 25 hours of quality coaching for more information please contact joseph caldeira at 640- 4854 the wssc has announced it has succeeded in bringing the richmond hill kick to town for an exhibition game in early july wssc officials are hoping the kick a professional team playing in the canadian national soccer league will be able to play july 3 as a part of the clubs strawberry festival program wssc youth players have all been issued 1993 the kick youth passes giving them free entry to all of the teams games two wssc teams have been invited to participate in the opening festivities at the kicks home opener at the richmond green sports centre elgin mills rd at leslie sunday at 230 pm squirts claim silver the stouffville squirt girls rep softball team won three of five games played to win the silver medal at the recent aurora dig gers tournament stouffville edged newmarket 109 in their opener as pitcher lianne mckay had six strikeouts and marlee johnson stroked three hits the squirts snuck past aurora 76 in game two as amanda crowder fanned 10 batters and hit a home rurir kristy assinck had two hits stouffville downed barrie 43 in their next outing lynn har rison notched 12 strikeouts the squirts then fell 109 to cambridge despite a threehit effort by kerri sandiford in the championship final against niagara falls stouffville was victimized by a seventhinning falls comeback as they were defeated 1411 sandiford collected three hits indians gain split pitcher andrew seith was a perfect five for five at the plate and jordan vanesterik chipped in with four hits to power the stouffville minor mosquito indians to an 1814 win over tottenham on june 7 first baseman dylan harri son was impressive defensively as the indians stretched their winning streak to three games but the win string was snapped six days later when the indians dropped an 115 decision to the visitors from alliston vanesterik and ryan jackson each had contributed to the offence in a losing cause shawn burns richard mulder seith mike hamilton and jef frey taylor all stood out defen sively pitchers john lyons and michael pennanen struck out seven batters between them the indians play their home games sundays at 630 pm on diamond four at the town park