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st tribune decembers 1993 pi5 stouffville teachers are a committed group sport notes btuce staple y amid the spectre of a potential strike by york region high school teachers this would probably be a good time to point to the value being received by stouffville area property owners regarding the education portion of their tax bill the continuing dedication shown by a substantial core of teachers at stouffville district secondary school is proof that worries about cutbacks havent affected the performance of these educators while some have suggested this commitment doesnt go beyond sports it isnt hard to find other areas where sdss staffers have racked up numerous hours of overtime in an effort to provide a more enriching learning environment the music departments music night tonight is just one example last years herculean effort by staffer diane paterson to head up the community input program is another last mondays visit to the school by serge leclerc a former street kid made good provided a dynamic assembly where the student body was confronted with a bold challenge to their teen value system the teacher who informed me of this event made it her business to phone me from home the weekend before to be sure it got the coverage it deserved it was the same weekend so many other teachers hung out at the school gym friday night and all day saturday to coach or watch the school teams participating in the dyssaa girls basketball championships apparently real dedication doesnt knock off for the weekend as for the sports program the school has never known the success experienced by school volleyball basketball and cross country teams this fall the names sheila coleman tami waters dave connell jim fletcher bill mcknight rusty hick michelle shannon denis fortier sandy bush al piette karla warnholz ron dempster larry bobbett and sue leroy come up as the driving force behind this success and its not just winning that counts with this crew as is testified to by the poster on the gym wall proclaiming there are lessons to be gained from losing as well as winning in an off the record discussion with one sdss teacher the other day the difficult question of whether or not this person could work to rule if asked to do so by the teachers union came up it would pose a most difficult dilemma i was told to do so would go against the grain of so many of the sdss staffers and wasnt that sdss vice- principal jay hooper i saw in his office poring over his computer screen on my way to take a basketball picture last friday night golf plus inc the markham based golf course developer headed up by stouffville resident and golf pro ted maude has merged with fore pros inc of mississauga in terms of experience and financial assets with one stroke of the pen we are now arguably the largest independent golf consortium in canada today said maude between the two groups they own three prominent toronto area golf courses manage seven courses including a major caribbean resort complex own a trio of three dynamic golf centres with annual sales of 8 million as well as other claims to fame maude said the five principals of the new consortium combine over 140 years of professional golf experience and thats a lot of birdies photocelia bronkhorst clearing trouble out of harms way stouffville goalkeeper shawn gibson can breath a little easier as his defenceman centre clears the puck past a charging uxbridge forward steve nagymarosi 77 during action in saturdays novice two hockey game at the uxbridge arena major novice clippers consoled in beaverton scott davis earned a shutout and jordan mabley and shawn burns supplied the goal scoring as the neil and ken patrick major novice clippers blanked port perry 20 to take the consolation championship at the beaverton tournament on the weekend the clippers lost their opener 43 to orangeville but followed up with a 100 win over markham as davis picked up his second shut out the patrick platoon then downed bradford 73 mvp honors went to clippers rod assinck mabley and burns mabley had seven goals and one assist for the weekend assinck had four goals and four assists over the four games other clippers point getters were as follows brad paterson five assists burns two goals three assists brian montgomery two goals three assists jesse miller three assists andy gibson one goal three assists mike cornacchia two goals two assists andrew mckay one assist josh brillinger one goal two assists blair loughead one goal two assists cameron davis two goals mathew wright two assists major atom clippers edged in final the aikens ida pharmacy major atom clippers took their first two games but fell short in overtime in the title match at a tournament in east gwillimbury this weekend lukas williams scored twice to go with singles by robert schimmell justin heyworth grant turner ryan jackson and ryan fontanna as the clippers defeated the host squad 74 in game one assists went to brent meyer 2 jackson blair cain williams and fontanna stouffville downed georgetown 31 in game two matthew prentice eric harper and jackson had the goals with meyer david brown schimmell and fontanna assisting in the championship game a rematch with georgetown eight two minute overtime periods were needed to decide the winner as georgetown prevailed 32 the teams were required to remove a player from the ice with each extra session harper and prentice had the clippers goals cain casey maude and williams drew assists bantam clippers ice local title rob spytz scored from tim smart after three minutes of overtime to give the edward murphy painting and decorating bantam clippers a 43 victory over gravenhurst in the bantam championship game of the midget clippers come up short thecable tech midget clippers went all the way to the finals at their own tournament at the rec centre over the weekend falling 50 to trenton in the title match up sunday the clippers led off with a 21 win over aurora friday steve wilcox scored both clipper markers ian ellis and brad crozier assisted while brad hackert was strong in goal for the clippers josh mckellar allowed just one goalinthe clippers second game but thorold made it stick in a 10 win mike underwood and peter smith found the target as the clippers blanked stoney creek 20 in their third outing roger mcmann counted a pair of assists with brian coughlan setting up one marker the win put the stouffville squad in the championship game with trenton the clippers are off to cobourg for a weekend tournament whitchurchstouffville minor hockey association wsmha sunday the bants were the only one out of the three host squads who were able to keep the championship hardware at home as the minor atom and midget clippers fell short in their competitions the bantams started off slowly coming from behind to tie aurora 33 friday night spytz knotted the game with under two minutes to play smart was named game mvp for the clippers in their next outing against uxbridge goaltenders evan boyd and bill patterson backstopped a 3- 0 clippers whitewash victory smart collected two goals to earn his second mvp nomination dan tardella came up with two goals and an assist to give the clippers a 51 win over markham sending the stouffville outfit to the finals against gravenhurst the clippers held the lead throughout in the title match but gravenhurst stormed back with a pair of goals in the third period to force overtime spytz heroics earned him the games mvp award which was courtesy of stouffvilles chariots restaurant smart had three goals and five assists to lead clipper point getters for the tournament spytz had four goals and an assist ryan king and tardella each had two goals and three assists scott assinck two goals and two assists greg crozier and craig wood each had one goal and one assist jeff hassard had two assists and dave clark one assist