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hockey tour- ted for next winter mayors youth pro- d the association is pakmgajhdfor iris provin ships as e associa iip idingfromt ed to this teamcoache s a in vprogram stinger win two of three in the castlev insurance stouffvittjl stingers mite girls rep team won two of their three games played at the brampton girls invitational touran- ment last weekend the stouffville girls watched a 72 lead evaporate in the last inning as they fell 15- 7 to brampton in their first match christine upton came up with an impressive double shecaught tagged a brampton base runner mel paterson kate ross and kalelyn buck each socked solid triples to help the castlevancrew to a 125 win over st catharines in game two lisa sherbans bases loaded double in the last inning gave stouf fville a 1210 win over whitby in game three ament christine davis had itied the game at 1010 with her her hit davis and christine hartnoll provided out standing catching for stouffville in the three games while buck was impressive as pitcher the stingers ended up tied for first place in their division but failed to advance to the playoff round because of a run count differential evans tosses a nohitter scott evans pitched a nohitter with a last inning walk spoiling his bid for a perfect game as the williamson motors claremont rebels blanked jr electric 50 in a north york major fastball league game in claremont on june 21 evans fanned 19 batters while scoring the rebels second run after singling in the threerun first inning jm pg the rebels made it a perfect week when they routed host mainstreet export 112 behind the sixhit pitching effort of tim evans on june 22 rob watson collected two doubles and a single driving in three runs and scoring twice in the win over jr electric dave jones scored on a single by tom watson to give scott evans the only run he needed in the first frame jones had two singles while scoring twice rob parcells banged an rbi triple in the win over mainstreet export brad evans collected three hits derek clausen had a tworun double nt assistant coach with the personality of the year along with his wife susan the actons have four children from far left brooke robbie elise and william die home by bruce stapley correspondent y keith acton is stilla home town boy after at 15year career as a national hockey league player and assistant coach the 37yearold father of four considers himself fortunate to haveplarited his roots in stouffville tm very very proud to be from stouffville acton told the tribune from his home in new jersey on wednesday over the years ive reaped the benefits of living in stouf- fville with all the opportuni ties ive had there acton announced this years whitchurch-stouf- fville sports personality of the year monday said he will always be grateful for the role played by the towns minor hockey system in help ing get his pro hockey career on track and in preparing him for life when i was growing up there were some great people helping me along and as a kid just getting to play sports is great not just for the chance to play but to help prepare for the things theyll encounter in their life acton said he wore his stouffville clippers sweater with pride while coming up through the whitchurch- stouffville minor hockey association rep ranks he said he has always been aware of the strong stoiif- fville hockey tradition dating back to the days when the town used to ice senior and intermediatolevel teams o l was a pretty competitive kid and used to think al our townconweiinat against other towr in hoyalmi always thought stouffville had the best minor hockey system in ontario i was a pretty competitive kid and i used to think about our town competing against other towns in hockey and i always thought stouffville had the best minor hockey system in ontario acton was humble in talk ing about being named this years sports personality i dont know how much contributing ive done to the town but to be recognized by the community and to be cat egorized with the past win ners makes it a great honor for me acton who said he is hop ing to be able to make it home to receive the award tonight said the season just completed was different from anything he had experienced before after being hired as assistant coach of the philadelphia flyers he played for six weeks with the flyers- hershey farm team during the nhl labor dis pute last fall and winter pibiears been a bit of an adventure its been a long le praised flyers gm aby clarke for making the icompetitive after sever- gppointing seasons gibs went as far as the astern conference finals this spring losing out to the eventual stanley cup cham pion new jersey devils our team definitely came a long way this year bobby clark made a couple of really smart moves acton said he had been to buffalo for an interview for the head coaching job with the buffalo sabres but had nt heard anything yet acton said he enjoyed the challenge of coaching in the nhl its pretty competitive at this level youre striving to win its not like minor hock ey where youre out to have fun acton said he and his fami ly would continue to main tain a home in stouffville and that he was grateful for the way the town has contin ued to accept him as one of its own stouffville is our homeour roots in this buisness theres not a lot of security weve done a lot of moving around stouffville has always wel comed us with open arms