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saturday june 1 2002 21 economist sun stouffville tribune sports no complaints from snowball after memorial cup loss markham resident was thrilled to make national junior final by mike hayakawa staff writer although the clock struck midnight on the victoriaville tigres cinderellalike hockey season last sunday after they suffered a 63 loss to the kootenay ice in the memorial cup final you wont hear any complaints from tigres right winger robert snowball if the 20yearold markham resident had his way the tigres would have been skating around the guelph memorial gardens with the prized memorial cup in their posses sion in accentuating the positive though snowball said the privi lege to participate in an event of this magnitude is something a lot of major junior a players might never get the opportunity to fulfill it would have been nice to win the memorial cup the 6- foot4 220pound forward robert snowball victoriaville forward scored two goals and added one assist in tournament acknowledged from his victoriaville residence on monday but were not going to complain this going to the memorial cup tournament was a onceinalifetime oppor tunity theres guys in the nhl who play 15 years and dont get to play in a stanley cup final in major junior hockey you might have only three or four years to do it you never forget it amassing two goals and one assist in the tournament snowball lit the red light for the first time in the clubs second game a 51 loss to the erie otters on a power play in the clubs third game which resulted in a 32 win over the ice snowball scored a goal that enabled the tigres to break a 11 tie snowball felt that win was the elixir his club needed to go on a roll snowball proved to be prophetic as the tigres defeated host guelph 43 and the otters 54 in overtime in a tiebreaker match to play the ice for all of the marbles in the final snowball earned an assist on a goal by matt lombardi which enabled him to become the leading scorer in the memorial cup tournament reflecting on their demand ing schedule snowball said playing three games in three days eventually took its toll but we put ourselves in that situation by not putting out hard in our first two games to make the final was awe some we went as far as we could in canada it was just a matter of who was going to come out on top to be second out of 55 teams in the chl isnt badat all he said old faces help raiders kick off season by mike hayakawa staff writer are you ready for some football the markham raiders mens football team insist theyre ready to kick off their northern football conference season and will do so today when they embark on their ninegame schedule with a contest at centennial park against the sudbury spartans at 7 pm raiders cohead coach bill ptolemy who was coerced by the team to return to the head reins along with doug young feels this years club has the potential to improve on last seasons dismal 35 record so far in our practices i think were look ing good weve added some speed to our lineup and weve got some of our old veterans back he said what has ptolemy sounding upbeat is the reac- quisition of several familiar faces and the extra year of maturity gained by those rookies who received their gridiron baptism last season the clubs biggest offseason acquisition was the return of gifford rose who will bolster the clubs offence and special teams as he doubles as a wide receiver and kickoff returner the markham district high school graduate was an allstar last season with mississauga but opted to return to the raiders where he was also a league allstar on defence the club reinforced its secondary with the return of adrian thorne who will occupy one of the cornerback positions ptolemy noted that thorne also played a hand in recruiting as he brought a friend from texas in quarterback danny custer who is in canada on a student visa custer is expected to battle jamie fox who started last year for the number one sig nal calling spot ptolemy also expects his club will have a solid running game led by tailback brendt barrett and an offensive line that averages close to 300 pounds and is led by centre and team captain jeremy thorpe anchoring the defence is middle linebacker mike drury who made the nfc allstar team last year along with ends gary fraser and jim canale weve been working pretty hard in our prac tices and i think well surprise some people ptolemy predicted staff photorob alary a safe arrival at home markville secondary school mavericks baserunner kristina koitsopoulos avoids being caught in a rundown and slides in safely under the tag of stouffville district secondary school spartans catcher lori sasaki to score a run during mondays yraa girls softball contest at memorial park the spartans however received a threerun homer from jacquie harris and fourhit efforts from megan crowder and sasaki to emerge with a 91 win kaitlyn buck struck out eight hitters to earn the win on wednesday the spartans finished its regular season with a 171 win over alexander mackenzie secondary school at memorial park and wrapped up second place with a 32 mark in the south division harris belted two homers and buck was the winning pitcher the spartans will face aurora in a quarterfinal game at memorial park on monday at 330 pm stouffville lets win slip away the stouffville mennos saw a four- run advantage disappear in one inning as they suffered a 64 loss to mount albert in oshawa city and district softball league action thursday in mount albert with the mennos nursing a 40 lead through 5 12 innings mount albert made the most of five hits and two walks to produce six runs rich burkholder collected two of four hits the mennos generated in the game as well he drove in two runs including the games first run in the third inning and scored a run terry reesor drilled a single and drove in a stouffville run in the fourth inning rino dambrosio belted a triple and scored one of two mennos runs in the fifth inning byron baranieski worked five plus innings before giving way to reesor on wednesday the mennos were to play tso sportswear but won the game by default as the oshawabased team failed to show up at memorial park now 52 on the season the mennos are slated to host lake simcoe keswick this wednesday at stouffville memorial park at 830 pm sports digest asaro averts disaster billy asaros driving skills came into play as he steered his formula three vehicle from last to fourth in a british formula three scholarship class race on a rain- soaked croft circuit near leicester england last saturday starting in the fifth position the unionville natives engine stalled as the green flag came out asaro man aged to restart and worked his way back into the pack and challenged for second place as the race was winding down before settling in fourth the british formula three champi onship heads to silverstone for another pair of races this weekend billy asaro overcomes bad start to finish fourth dont pay that 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