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st the tribune tuesday november 25 1997 p 23 the tribune rts got a score call our hotline at 6402100 centre ice dance ems kyle cussion left and tim hortons shane gordon do battle for this faccoff during saturdays whitchurchstouffville minor hockey association tyke housclcague contest at the rec centre ems proceeded to win this game 84 plwio by steve somerlille spirit come up empty handed on weeken bruce stapley correspondent the spirit of stouffville will be hoping for a change of luck when they face off against the aurora tigers thursday night at the rec centre the spirit dropped a pair of weekend provincial junior a hockey league matches on the road falling 102 to the phillips division leading collingwood blues friday then dropping a hardfought 53 decision to the newmarket hurricanes on sunday the spirit who saw their losing streak extended to five games with the double defeats were the authors of their own undoing friday the blues scored three quick goals to start the game then carried a 50 lead into the second period despite a spirit advantage in shots on goal for the first 20 minutes stouffville starting goalie john tamburro who gave way to cory lloyd after the first peri od blamed a total team letdown for the slow start mental breakdown it was acomplctc mental break down said tamburro who was brilliant in a close loss to the ruddock division leading trenton sting in his previous start nov 7 its pretty frustrat- ing phil vito netted his first goal of the season for the spirit friday while darcy king notched the other marker in their sunday contest against newmarket the spirit seemed on the verge of recording their first point of the season against the hurricanes the stouffville squad went into the third period trailing 43 then rebounded after falling behind 53 early in the final frame we played well but we just got no breaks said tamburro and there were a few tip ins on newmarket goals off our players king scored his 16th giving him the spirit team lead linematcs kevin edgar with his 15th and dave zelasko with his 12th rounded out the spirit scoring chapman scores unamimous decision the spirits 16ycarold centre kyle chapman upped his standing as one of the provincial leagues heavyweights when he bested the hur ricanes rugged chris macnamara in a fisticuffs match up sunday chapman also prevailed in his battle with an aurora opponent in the rumble that occurred near the end of the spirits 65 win over the tigers nov 13 at the rec centre the spirit will be out to make it two wins in a row over the second place phillips division tigers thursday spirit head coach dan larmer expects the game to be anything but gentle weve had a few rough and tumble games against aurora this season and this one should nt be any different he said the spirit who arc still without mike michcff suspension geoff keillor and andrew patri- archc injuries head north this weekend play ing in sturgeon falls friday before closing out the week with a contest in timmins against the golden bears saturday junior spartans ice victory in bruce stapley correspondent so far so good the stouffville district secondary school sdss spartans junior boys hockey team got off on the right foot with an 1 19 jf iyraaj win over defending york region athletic associ- q ation yraa king hatf city hs on thursday tyler markle scored twice while picking up four assists to head up the spartans offence peter mablcy and ryan fontanna each netted a pair with solos coming from dave brown brett jennings andrew lombardo and matt sullivan cory turchan had three assists with brad clubinc brown lombardo and john gauthicr each setting up a pair dave howard bill scott richard cho and sullivan also had assists it was a football game joked sdss coach bill mcknight mcknight suggested the king city squad tired in the third as the spartans took the two points by scoring the final three goals of the game i was pleased we just outskated them in the third period they were wearing down the win was a morale booster for the spartans who ended last season on a sour note when they were ousted from the playoffs with a rare defeat at the hands of a huron hts ss team the sdss crew had handled easily during the regular season theyre king city the champi ons said mcknight a realignment of the yraa league has put all teams in the same division for the 199798 season the league was broken into east and west divisions in the past the sdss crew will attempt to defend its title at the annual st mikes invitational junior hockey tourna ment in early january the spartans play their next league game against huron hts this thursday in newmar ket minor peewees extend their winning ways it was a winning week for the smallcy christmas treesgrey power insuranccstouffvillc legion minor pccwcc clippers while the barker roofing major peewees won one of three at a recent tournament ins2l niagara on the lake while earn ing a tic in an exhibition contest the firstplace minor peewees extended their undefeated streak to 12 games by defeating pickering 3- 2 and newmarket 53 brian taylor and jordan smallcy each scored twice for stouffville in the two matches nick hawkins chris flanagan alex bollo and mark sutcliffc had singles assists came from dana mac- donald and hawkins two each jesse maillctt mark carruthcrs sutcliffc stephen rclf and taylor loughccd major peewees win one of three the barker bunch got goals from robert hooper and tyler mcmas- tcr while justin cheshire and lucas hunter provided solid goal- keeping as they prepared for the niagara on the lake tourney with a 22 exhibition tic with uxbridgc on nov 13 matt wright and andy gibson had assists in tournament play the following weekend the clippers used a solid team effort to down ajax 41 in game one the clippers were edged 32 by scarborough in a hard fought bat- tic in game two then fell by the same score to the host squad in their third outing hunter and cheshire once again stood out all weekend points came from hooper jesse miller robert stccklcy and gib son one goal each michael cor- nacchia matt wright mcmastcr and marcus dannunzio one goal one assist each cody ben nett three assists josh brillingcr and kyle sandiibrd one assist each