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mrrvrlk iiwriimin 22 stouffritte suntribune u thursday aug 112005 stouffville suntribune may gets two years with nhl avalanche he began his professional hockey career in buffalo and had stops in phoenix and vancouver for two tours of duty when the 200506 national hockey league season begins brad may will be toiling his tradein anoth er new city that being denver colo where the 33yearold stouffville native who played minor hockey in whkchurch- stouffville and markham signed a twoyear contract to play with the colorado avalanche terms of the deal reached last week were reported to be135 million us for the veteran forward who began his nhl career in 199192 with the buffalo sabres the move to the mile high city was made with great brad may is joining his fourth nhl club since making his professional debut in 199192 season with the buffalo sabres anticipation im looking forward to continue my career in such a great hockey envi ronment may said on the avalanches team website i have a tremendous amount of respect for the guys on this roster and im looking for ward to playing with them this is going to be a very competitive divi sion one that could be the most excit ing in the nhl the sixfoot oneinch 210pound may was the sabres firstround pick and 14th overall in the 1990 nhl entry draft he spent the first six and part of a seventh season with buffalo before he was dealt to the vancouver canucks where he spent the rest of the 199798 campaign and two more years may then went to the phoenix coyotes in the 200001 season and was there for two full years and part of a third before returning to the canucks in a trade at the march dead line he stayed there before signing as an unrestricted free agent with the avalanche playing in 804 nhl contests may has 120 goals and 146 assists avalanche president and general manager pierre lacroix thinks mays experience and physical presence are vital ingredients for his club entering the upcoming regular sea son brad may is a good skater who brings us additional grit leadership and experience lacroix said on on the clubs website mike hayakawa storm peewees win league tournament championship the stouffville storm peewee boys concluded the york durham softball league on a memorable note by capturing first place in the regular season standings and win ning the seasonending tournament last weekend in scarborough in last weeks regular season finale at memorial park the storm received a stellar pitching effort from bruce cringan and travis connor who combined to strike out 11 bat ters to defeat newmarket 104 cringan and connor also helped their own cause at the plateby com- bihingto drive in five runs brandon hampson belted a home run and single while doug jones scored twice and drove in a run in the endbftheyear tourna ment finale against oshawa connor and cringan tallied 10 strikeouts to lift the storm to a 90 win swinging hot bats were connor with two rbis and brandon hampson with two hits and three rbis tyler hefferrian doug mckenzie and robert kay each had timely singles brahm vanzeeland and brian hector split catching duties in reaching the final the storm won their first game with a resound ing 190 victory over scarborough doug mckenzie belted a three- run homer while connor drove in five runs erick espiritusanto kay hampson hector and chris paine each drove in a pair of runs the storms infield anchored by mike finn and heffernan made some big plays defensively cringan and connor combined to strike out 16 scarborough batters anchored by another stellar pitching effort from connor and cringan who fanned 12 batters in total the storm routed oshawa 101 to gain a berth in the final jones had three rbis while hampson and kay each had two hector espiritusanto and connor each drove in a run the storm will be in port perry this weekend for the ontario amateur softball association a staff photosteve somerville anticipating a rough greeting ramforest catcher mitchell vliek awaits a relay throw as cookcanadas jon sartor attempts to steal home plate during a whitchurchstoufrville softball association squirt boys contest at memorial park cookcanada won the contest 2018 castle clowned in match play semifinals james castle advanced to the semifinals of last thursdays ontario golf associations 2005 investors group ontario junior boys match play championship at the shelburne golf and country club in shelbourne before beingeliminated the 18yearold stouffville resident was defeated by brad larente of cambridge 2 up larente was up going into the 17th hole where castle drained a 12foot birdie putt to force the match to the par three 18th hole with castle safely on the green larente stepped to the tee and stuck his shot two feet from the pin after castle missed his birdie putt he con ceded larentes putt giving him the win in reaching the semifinals the stouffville district secondary school graduate defeated alex carrigan of guelph in his quarterfinal match last wednesday 1 up i 1 3