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stouffville suntribune thursday aug 5 2004 19 stouffville suntribune staff photobill roberts game of inches former whitchurchstouffville resident marlene streit now of unionville just misses this birdie putt at spring lakes golf and country glub in ringwood during last thursdays final round of the ontario ladies senior championship streit the defending champion made par but finished sec ond to sue wiekware of pickering after two extra holes conway nets berth oft us under- 17 team neil conway a rookie goalkeeper last season with the stouffville spirit junior a hockey club was one of 20 players named to the united states select team that will compete in this months 2004 under- 17 five nationals tournamentin halle ad salle germany the us team is comprised of players chosen from the 2004 usa hockey select 16 festival played from june 26 to july 2 in rochester ny a native of concord ohio conway 16 led all gpaltenders at the festival with a 133 goals against average and a 955 save percentage the event featured the best 1988born players from across the us last season with the spirit conway won 17 games and lost nine and was named the teams rookie of the year he recorded two shutouts and posted a 346 goals against average conway was selected by the owen sound attack in the fourth round of this years ontario hockey league draft the us will face teams from the czech republic germany slovakia and switzerland at the tourna ment from aug 24 to 28 last august in slovakia the us captured its second straight tourney title with a 301 record neil conway recorded best record among goalies at 2004 usa hockey select 16 festival mennos field ontario crown at intermediate eliminations for more information on the team log on to wwwusahockeycom stouffville mens team off to eastern canadian championships in pei the stouffville mennos will be making an excursion to summerside pei in early september while the club members will no doubt do some latesummer sight seeing their purpose in travelling out east is to play a little fastball last weekend the mennos earned the right to compete in the eastern canadian intermediate a fastball championships sept 9 to 11 in summerside after capturing the intermediate a eliminations in owen sound it will be the mennos first appearance in the eastern canadians the mennos ended last weekends doubleknockout tournament with a 54 victory over st marys in the deciding game both clubs entered the contest with one loss the game went down to the wire with the mennos nursing the 54 lead entering the bottom of the sev enth inning with two outs st marys loaded the bases before mennos relief pitcher byron baranieski delivered a rise ball that was called a third strike to end the game and give stouffville the tide scott evans ignited the mennos offence with a home run in the top of the seventh that broke a 33 tie he also collected two doubles brett boyd and rick burkholder had two hits baranieski pitched 1 23 inning and gave up just one run in relief to earn the win evans worked the first four innings for the mennos and surren dered just one run paul boynton went the next 113 inning and gave up two runs get good pitching mennos manager art burkholder saw no reason why his club would nt be in contention for the title particularly if its pitching was dom inant any team with scott evans and byron baranieski on top of their games will have a great chance to win he said both pitchers are whitchurch- stouffville natives who starred together with the stouffville junior merchants in the early 1990s burkholder was also quick to credit his clubs defence in their six games the mennos committed just three errors burkholder praised the work of head coach howie burkholder who moved players in and out of the ros ter in an effective and timely man ner we had players all over the field the stouffville mennos display the gold medals they earned after capturing the ontario intermediate a elimination tournament last weekend in owen sound with a 54 win over st marys in the deciding game by winning the event the mennos will go to summerside pei to participate in the eastern canadian intermediate a fastball championships from sept 9 to 11 making the close plays in key situa tions he said the mennos won their opener over campbellford 70 chris burkholder buoyed the stouffville offence with two hits including a triple while evans and markham majors pickup darren crawford each contributed a triple and scott eyre a double facing sudbury in their second game the mennos received a fifth- any team with scott evans and byron baranieski on top of their games will have a great chance to win inning tworun pinch hit homer from eyre to emerge with a 42 win baranieski allowed just one hit in 4 23 innings and joe german a pickup from the stouffville juniors went the final 2 13 innings the mennos then took on breslau in a game that went down to the wire with crawford belting a triple in the bottom of the seventh inning that scored eyre and gave stouffville a 10 win evans tossed a twohitter and fanned seven batters to earn the win with mother nature playing havoc with the tournament saturday the mennos met harriston in a game that concluded sunday at 2 am fortunately for the mennos they prevailed 52 earlymorning win dan deeks lashed out a double in the second inning to stake the mennos to the lead eyre con tributed a homer in the fourth inning while chris burkholder evans and eyre each had hits in the fifth inning to stake the mennos to a commanding 50 lead through five innings evans won his second game of the day the mennos then ran into some formidable pitching from st marys and were limited to just two hits in a heartbreaking 10 loss baranieski scattered just six hits one of which was a fifthinning homer that decided the contest that set the stage for the rematch also contributing to the mennos success were pickups dale boadway stouffville juniors steve townson mount albert mudhens and ryan burkholder waterloo as for how the mennos might fare at the eastern canadians art burkholder said he didnt know much about the opposition other than the fact that st marys will also be competing however he heard that teams from the east coast are traditionally strong the oasa ontario amateur softball association people that we talked with said the eastern teams usually bring some senior players nova scotia in particular produces very good fastball players he said win two in league play the mennos tuned up for the tournament by posting two victories in oshawa city and district softball league action last wednesday at memorial park the mennos doubled the count on the whitby eagles 63 the mennos scored a run in each of the six innings in which they came to the plate evans had two singles and drove in two runs while baranieski deliv ered a triple and single eyre shawn boadway and chris burkholder each had two singles baranieski tossed three innings of threehit ball while blanking the eagles to earn the win last monday evans struck out 12 batters and allowed just three hits in seven innings to propel the mennos to a 42 road win over the claremont rebels the two victories improved the mennos league record to 116