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24 saturday sept 7 2002 economist sun stouffville tribune sports mariners sail off with two provincial baseball titles minor peewees peewees overcome earlyround losses to win oba trophies chalk up two ontario baseball association tides for the markham mariners at last weekends annual provin cial championships the mariners minor peewees won their third straight aaa title as a collective unit with a 51 win over the whitby chiefs in the deciding game of their double knockout event in mississauga the mariners peewees claimed the oba aa crown with an 1 15 win over host ajax in their rubber match of the double knockout format its never easy to win the title said mariners minor peewee coach dan deeley in winning their third straight provincial title which is believed to be the first time a markham minor baseball team has accomplished such a feat to win it though is pretty good lose opener in the minor peewees run to the title the mariners overcame a 31 openinggame loss to the chiefs before their bats came to life buoyed by a sixrbi effort from peter rodrigues the mariners throt tled the north york blues 157 the mariners then made quick work of the burlington bulls 100 west hill hawks 111 and kitchener as a team that had defeated markham twice during the season 142 to reach the final against the chiefs the mariners forced a deciding game after handing the chiefs their members of the markham mariners peewees left photo and minor peewees right have good reason to be smiling as they display their gold medals and championship trophy that they earned in last weekends annual ontario baseball association championships the peewees defeated host ajax to win the aa title while the minor peewees won the aaa crown after defeating the whitby chiefs in mississauga first loss of the tournament with a 134 decision in the final game the mariners received a stellar pitching effort from alliston wong who limited the chiefs to just one hit and struck out 10 batters in a complete game effort igniting the offence were argenis paz james kottaras and steven stamkos who each delivered two hits and drove in a run while chris romano had one hit and one rbi wong anish bhide aaron caputo and brodie ross each collected a hit and adam velocci one rbi also contributing to the clubs success in the tournament were daniel mukai who was the winning pitcher in relief in the mariners first win over the chiefs and ryan murphy who had a hit in their win over burlington although the club lost its first game deeley remained confident that his charges would respond to the pressure at hand i wasnt nervous going into saturdays second tournament game i didnt think wed go down quickly in losing the first game but i knew wed keep fighting and thats what they did in explaining the clubs success in the tournament deeley felt it came when their bats came to life we beat some of the top teams with our bats after our first game in which we got only two hits our bats woke up as for next season deeley said the team will move up to the major peewee ranks and set their sights not only on winning a provincial tide but it will mark a year in which they can vie for national honours as well the team was managed by chris deeley and assisted by tony wong and david deeley the peewee mariners began the 11team tournament with victories over toronto royal york mississauga north and london tecumseh before losing their first game of the double knockout event to the host ajax spartans make amends after rallying to defeat niagara falls 63 the mariners were handed the opportunity to make amends against the spartans and did so handing them their first loss of the tourney 42 to set up a deciding game the tournament finale was a closelycontested affair in the early going as mariners starting pitcher tyler miehe backed by his teams solid defence held the spartans to just one run through the first three innings the mariners offence then took over producing three runs in the fourth followed by fourrun out bursts in each of the fifth and sev enth innings to produce an 115 win pitching depth proved to be a key factor in the mariners success as jeff belgue miehe jeff bassett matt easter andy gray blake vaisanen and adam jefferson all pitched strongly over the gruelling sevengame schedule mike belgue tj graham mike esterbauer zach greenwald and easter anchored the defensive effort propelling the offence were jeff belgue mike belgue sebastian ricupero gray vaisanen and graham the team is managed by don easter of stouffville house league baseball softball titles determined this weekend the markham district baseball association will hold its annual yearend house league tournament this weekend at milliken park titles will be decided for the associations tball rookie mosqui to peewee and bantam leagues the action which began friday continues today at 9 am and con cludes with the finalstomorrow milliken park is located at kennedy road and 14th avenue the whitchurchstouffville softball association is also crown ing champions this weekend at its house league tournament the finals will be played sunday at stouffville memorial park good race results for asaro billy asaro raced his way to three excellent results in british formula three championship action at snetterton race track last weekend the 20yearold ijnionville resi- dent who competes in the scholarship class took two sec- sports digest onds and a fourth on the 3141 kilo metre nineturn circuit in norfolk england with four races remaining on the british formula three calen dar asaros next event is at thruxton on sept 14 and 15 stouffville angler eighth gary miller fished his way to an eighthplace finish at the chevy- mercury bass tour 2002 classic at the bay of quinte last sunday the 40yearold stouffville resi dent led the 41 angler field after the first day with a live weight total of 1785 pounds but fell to third after saturdays second day in sundays third and final day miller attempted to motor his way to one of his prime fishing areas that held fish near kingston unfortunately high winds that created 10- to 12foot swells forced miller to abandon his run to kingston and to revert to a second ary plan of attack noting that he might have been the only angler in the field to ven ture all the way to kingston during the first two days miller brought in just 11 lbs on the final day and fell to eighth where he pocketed 300 in earnings i had a chance to win it was a case of you live by the sword and you die by it said miller who was third in last years event sp0rtsb0ard email sportseconsuncom baseball markham district standings of aug 31 team ringwood heating markville ford lincoln greenpoint laser backstage hair team tbau w l 8 7 7 6 5 7 7 7 rookie w l t 1 0 0 1 p 17 14 14 13 ross dixon 13 4 jocey designs 11 5 markville ford lincoln 8 7 dixon garland 6 11 ringwood heating 3 14 mosquito team w l markville ford lincoln 15 4 village nissan 11 5 ambassador ch cuisine 10 8 mkm outdoor power 7 markham fair 7 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