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"Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" STAR PERRY BULLSEYE: The local Monday Night Dart League wrapped up its season last weekend when the ,annual year-end tournament was held at Port ""Perry's Legion, Branch 419. The day-long event JEFF MITCHELL / PORT PERRY STAR was held Saturday (April 11) and included many competitors, including Darren Hogan, a member of Trader's Candy's Clowns team, who is seen here taking careful aim at The Star photographer. Almost 900 youngsters will participate this summer Scugog Soccer Club set to kick off '98 with record number of players As of March 31, the Scugog Soccer Club has received more than 870 registrations from Scugog residents, a record number for this early in the year. To ensure that all the young participants get the best possible officiating, the club has already scheduled two coaching clinics and one refereeing clinic. The exhibition games that kick off the house league season are scheduled for the week of May 19, to prepare for house league ames that start the following week. Ray Dallas, president of the Scugog Soccer Club, states "All clinics are to be held between 9 a.m. and noon at the Port Perry Baptist Church at 2210 Hwy. 7A, near the Island Road. The first coaching skills development clinic, on April 18 will "be for house league and beginning coaches. This clinic will also be suit- "able for anyone who wishes to brush up on the rules and changes that have been implemented during the past couple of years. The following week on April 25, the second clinic will be for coaches of the older age group teams, age 13 and up, and for the representative teams. A $10 fee will be charged for this clinic to cover the cost of a coach- ing manual that coaches will take home. for more information on this advanced clinic call Mark Cole at 985-4309 before April 23. The refereeing clinic, scheduled for May 9, will be conducted by one «b of the most experienced, senior refer- ees in Southern Ontario at the Scugog Soccer Fields. Young soccer players, 12 years of age and older, who wish to earn some pocket money refereeing soccer games in the evening during the summer are welcome to attend. Interested adults and coaches are also welcome. This clinic is also an excellent opportunity for parents to learn how they can help their children play better football. Dallas also said "The increased Coaching clinics will be held this Saturday at the Baptist Church interest in soccer in Scugog Township has also caused an unexpected prob- lem, one of finding enough playing space. Nevertheless this is a good problem and the club is getting sup- port from the community. For exam- ple, Port Perry High School has agreed to let the soccer club use its field all summer." This appears to be a good match because it helps the high school students develop skills they will use in the school's soccer season in the fall. "We are currently creating sched- ules and teams," Dallas said. "In some age groups we need players, but in other sections the coordinators have had to create waiting lists because even with help from the schools, there simply is not enough playing space to accommodate all the players and teams from Scugog. We especially need more small fields for the younger age groups. The club is currently trying to locate other possible sites, but we are also going to use portable nets so that we can use our existing fields to the best advantage." This underlines the growth in soc- cer because the township's existing fields ar® one of the largest, and potentially the best integrated, multi- field soccer site in the Durham Region, something the citizens of Port Perry should be proud of. 1998 Scugog Soccer League Schedule Beginning Coaching Clinic - April 18-9 a.m. to noon - Port Perry Baptist Church. Advanced Coaching Clinic - April 25-9 a.m. to noon - Port Perry Baptist Church. Refereeing Clinic - May 9 - 9 a.m. to noon - Scugog Soccer Fields. Exhibition Play - Week of May 19 - Scugog Soccer Fields. House League Starts - Week of May 25 - Scugog Soccer Fields. Summer Soccer Camp - July 13 to 17 - Scugog Soccer Fields for youth ages eight to 15 years. Port edges neighbors 2-1 |GA Bantams clinch title with thrilling victory over Uxbridge On March 28 the Port Perry IGA Bantam House League team won the "B" Division Championship by claiming a hard earned 2-1 victory over Uxbridge. Goals were scored by Cameron Vernest and Jeff Danilko with assists to Donald Campbell, Adam Moynes and Sean Williams. The win in the "B" Championship followed two earlier wins in the round-robin play against East Gwillimbury and Uxbridge. On March 14, IGA defeated Uxbridge 2- 1 in a well-played game by both teams. Scoring for IGA was Donald Campbell and Jeff Danilko with assists to Cameron MacDonald, Cameron Vernest, Cory McQuade and Jim Morton. On March 27 IGA trav- elled to East Gwillimbury and convincingly won 3-0 with Shane Fischer recording the shutout. IGA goals were scored by Cameron Vernest, Jeff Danilko and Rodney Bond with assists to Rodney Bond, Eric Bird, Cameron MacDonald, Cameron Vernest and Cory McQuade. The IGA Bantams trav- elled to Ajax for a year ending contact tourna- ment in which the boys played hard and fast win- ning two of three games and only lost advancing to the finals on points. IGA defeated Ajax (Cassidy) 3-1 and Tottenham 4-1 while los- ing to Oshawa (Thornton) 2-0. The Oshawa team went on to win the Bantam title. IGA goals scored by Donald Campbell (two), Cameron Vernest (two), Cameron MacDonald, Sean Williams and Adam Moynes. Assists went to Cameron Vernest (two), Eric Bird, Adam Moynes, Rodney Bond, Donald Campbell, Chris Gloster and Greg Landsdell. The MVP awards were given to Shane Fischer (games one and two), Chris Gloster . (game three). The members of the Port Perry IGA Bantam House League "B" Championship team are as follows: Shane Fischer, Sean Williams, Jim Morton "A", Eric Bird, Mike Koury, Cameron Vernest "C", Donald Campbell, Rodney Bond "A", Adam Moynes, Cameron MacDonald, Jeff Danilko, Cory McQuade and Nick Jones. The Esso Awards were presented to: Cory McQuade (Most Improved), Jim Morton (Most Dedicated) and Eric Bird (Most Sportsmanlike). The coaching staff of Harvey Williams and Grant MacDonald would like to thank the team for a good solid effort, making this year pleasant, enter- taining and memorable for the coaches, parents and fans. DC offers summer ball The Durham College Men's Summer Basketball League is a competitive basketball league for play- ers 18 years of age and older. This year marks the fourth year Durham College has offered this exciting program for com- petitive basketball in the Durham Region. The League Convener, Lynn Waltham comments that this years program will be the best ever. Many players have already been in contact with her and have expressed a great desire to play in this league. Registration is now on and will continue until May 29. Games will be played at Durham College from June 7 to the end of July with Durham Board of Approved Officials present at each game. Games will be played on Sunday evenings in the air conditioned facilities located in the Durham College Athletic Centre. The league is $80 per per- son/$800 per team and includes team shirts, league play, playoffs and championship awards. For further details on the league contact Lynn Waltham, League Convener at the Durham College Athletic Centre at (905) 721-3040. --. y | | | |