b14 tribune september 30 1987 volleyball spartans open with victory by alan shackleton sports editor the stouf f ville district secon dary school sdss senior boys volleyball team got the season off to a great start monday afternoon with a pair of vic tories the senior spartans hosted sutton and newmarket in the season debut for the york re gion league coming away with two convincing wins the seniors dumped sutton 155 155 in the first match then knocked off newmarket 157 15- 6 the junior spartans con tinued stouffvilles winning ways monday as they also swept sutton and newmarket the junior squad downed sut ton 151 1510 and beat new market 1510 1512 the victories by the seniors pleased their skipper jim fletcher who is aiming the squad at the york durham- york and eventually the all- ontairo championships we looked good for a first league game he said we were very strong the seniors opened the sea son last weekend in the ironman tournament at seneca college despite playing some good ball they didnt advance out of their pool stouffville was stopped by a very strong side from lester pearson collegiate in scarbor ough which beat them 1513 and 1416 they were a great team but the scores were really close fletcher said in other tournament games the seniors beat lessor of windsor split a pair of games with mayfield from brampton and beat orillia coach fletcher wants to keep the team busy with lots of tournaments and give them as much competition as possible to prepare them for the drive to the provincials this weekend he takes the squad to a tournament at durham college where theyll face thornlea unionville and pickering high school somewhere down the line pickering is the team well have to beat to make it to the ontar ios fletcher said he expects sdss and picker ing to battle it out for the durhamyork secondary schools athletic association dyssaa title and the trip to the ontario championships fletcher likes the look of the seniors who have a large num ber of talented firstyear play ers who advanced from the junior ranks scott rehill is the squads only returning senior but fletcher insisted the team is experienced and talented basically the core of last years junior team has just come up to senior he ex plained other members of the senior spartans volleyball team are keith cheng don clearwater guy cowan scott evans joel fletcher jon hall karsten hennze and paul sinclair free skating monday wondering what to do with the kids during next mon days professional develop ment day at their school the perfect answer might be skating at the whitch- urchstouffville recreation centre and for two hours in the morning it will even be free from 10 am to noon on monday oct 5 there will be free skating at the recrea tion centre located on ninth line north in stouffville for preschool and elementary school students the free skate is spon sored by loretta a veil of royal lepage real estate services ltd adult skating tuesday nights are adult skating nights at the whitch- urchstouffville recreation centre the stouffville senior adult skating club began its season yesterday night and theyll continue every tuesday even ing until april the fun begins at 730 pm and continues till 9 pm club membership fee is 5 to join and the cost of skating is 2 a night for members and 3 for nonmembers