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tribune january 11 1995 p9 lets go power skating kate ross far left appears to be getting a ride from two hockey sticks held by ashley hill cen tre however the two girls who play hockey for molier insurance are partaking in a power skat ing drill conducted by chris unitas right recently at the rec centre unitas along with his brother paul operate unitas hockey power skating specialists photosteve somervillb its time to play snopitch sport notes i viwf bruce stapley its snopitch time as winter finally sets in around these parts al byers organizer of the fourth annual tigers snopitch tournament says- this years event will take place jan 2122 in goodwood apparently stouffville sports groups are starting to take action against what they claim to be exorbitant user fees charged for town facilities for things like ball tournaments byers said the goodwood facility was rented for 300 while the stouffville park would have cost them 1100 he said there were less restric tions attached to the goodwood rental as well in terms of police patrols which must be arranged and paid for by tour nament organizers i feel sorry for the restaurant owners in stouffville said byers nothing they were bound to lose some extra business they would have picked up if the tournament was staged in stouffville he said some of the restau rants will have flyers distrib uted at the tournament to try to entice players to come back to stouffville for wings food and drink we have a great sports town but why are the rental fees so high lamented byers byers said the sideliners are also thinking of running their snopitch tournament in good wood in february and that summer tournaments may start picking up their tents and making the trek to goodwood as well getting back to the tigers tournament we wouldnt want our sports page to start to look like the big city papers with their endless account of the hits runs and errors associated with big league labor disputes byers said hes expecting 20 teams to take part the rules have been altered so that only four females must be on the field for each team the entry fee is 200 per team with the winners taking home 500 in cash the second- place team wins 300 third and fourth earn 100 each there will be a free dance on the saturday night at the good wood hall and there will be the usual food vendors on hand oca it looks like roger mcmann and john mckinnon will get to play out the season with the aaa markham thunder midgets the teens who were suspend ed by the ontario minor hock ey association for playing for the thunder under illegal cir cumstances were granted a reprieve after a meeting which included the ontario hockey federation carol mckinnon johns mother informed me last week the two were to rejoin the thunder last week the pair ran afoul of the rules regulating which organizations players from certain towns can play with at the aaa level stouffville is officially affiliat ed with the richmond hilvaughan stars aaa orga nization but mcmann and mckinnon said they hadnt been informed as to when the stars were holding tryouts last spring they signed on with markham where they were team leaders until being sus pended last month local entries enjoy success in christmas tournaments it was gold for the midgets a silver for the major atoms and major peewees and a consola tion trophy for the major novices in tournaments played over the christmas holidays the cable tech midget clip pers took the title at the uxbridge tournament down ing the host squad 82 then besting man vers 52 in the pre liminary round the clippers edged port perry 21 in the final as stouf fville goal keepers evan boyd and josh mckellar sparkled peter smith led clippers scorers over the three games with five goals including a hat trick and an assist tim smart had a pair of goals with singles going to adam crowder dan marujo steve wilcox brad juriansz tom hammond don wilkie ian ellis and rob keays the victory was a team effort as all clippers players had at least one point it was the teams first tournament title of the year major atoms downed m final the major atom clippers who downed port perry in league action dec 23 dropped a 43 decision to a team from chica go in the championship game of the oshawa tournament played between christmas and new year the clippers won their first game 62 against the oshawa red wings before defeating newmarket 31 adam christensen and justin felschow each earned shutouts as the clippers then recorded wins of 70 and 50 against malvern and the oshawa blackhawks looking after the clippers scoring for the five games of the tournament were ryan jackson 6 jean bourqui 5 richard mulder 4 chris car- ruthers 3 dylan harrison fraser smith andrew lom- bardo grant buckley 2 and justin amyotte in their league win over port perry it was amyotte john lyons and jackson scoring the clippers edged beaver- ton 43 in an exhibition game dec 30 jackson had two goals with carruthers and ken leighton adding singles major peewees settle for second the credit union major pee wees were downed 52 by port perry in the title tilt of the richmond hill tournament played dec 26 to 29 the clippers advanced to the finals by winnig three and tying one in six games the stouffville team started out with a 73 win over lea- side then snuck past etobi- coke 32 after a 33 tie with apple- wood the clippers suffered a 20 loss to port perry they then went on to defeat the markham thunder 52 in the semi finals scoring for the clippers throughout the tournament were brad clubine 3 tyler markle 2 shawn barton 2 phil reed stephen grossett 2 franqis bourqui brett jennings 2 joseph lombar- do tyler armstrong damien peroff and pj mabley major noviceswin consolation title the ken and neil patrick major novice clippers started the holiday season with a 33 tie with lindsay in a league game then travelled to lind- say for christmas tournament the clippers started off with a 33 tie against newmarket followed by a disappointing 41 loss to cobourg stouffville then nipped huntsville 21 and dumped peterborough 71 in the conso lation finals looking after the stouffville scoring in the league game were brian taylor alex bollo and james guinane scoring in the tournament were mark carruthers 4 goals including a hat trick bollo 3 taylor 2 james guinane 2 logan jennings and jordan smalley michael mcmanus was solid in net 6 clippers reach semis the birkett and hassard minor novice clippers reached the semifinals of two recent tournaments joshua spang led the clip pers with four goals and cale tanaka and michael lombar- do had two goals apiece as the clippers were semifinalists in milton justin lyons and justin hitchen also scored tanaka had three assists while lyons bobbie hughes hitchen and lombardo had two apiece devon mcdougall and ryan thorn had singles at a tournament in east gwillimbury the clippers came up one game short of reaching the final when they dropped a 32 overtime deci sion lombardo and spang each scored twice in the tourna ment singles went to tanaka hughes and richard little added singles assists went to lombardo 2 spang little lyons tanaka hughes and jonathan wonch