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economist suntribune sports saturday feb 16 2062 l scorm 0m ey rangers take 21 lead in junior series game 5 tonight atmarkkam centennial by mike hayakawa sports editor during the regular season scoring goals wasnt that diffi cult a task for the markham waxers but at the same time they had a penchant for surrender ing a fewmore than what head coach russ hefrington would have preferred with the provincial junior a hockey league playoff series now in full swing the waxers have reduced their goals against in their firstround bestofseven series against the north york rangers allowing just seven goals in the first three games at the other end the waxers also picked a bad time to go into a goalscoring famine as they dropped a 31 decision to the rangers in the third game at north york on wednesday and trail the series two games to one steve nobili scored the lone goal for the waxers just 19 seconds after the rangers took a 10 lead in the sec ond period the rangers scored the eventual winning goal before the period concluded and added an insur ance marker in the third if the scoring drought continues this weekend after host ing yesterdays fourth game and tonights fifth game at centennial arena starting at 830 pm the waxers might be taking an earlierthanexpected summer vacation during the regular season we paid the price to get those goals were not doing that now said a dejected herrington after wednesdays loss among the sacrifices not being made was the lack of traf fic placed in front of rangers goalie kenny grad who has been good when called upon the waxers power play has also been inconspicuously absent as theyve scored just once in the first three games the waxers must also find a way to get their top scorer jesse boucher back in sync a 51goal scorer during the reg ular season boucher has been held in close check by the rangers in the first three games what we need is some accountability and some pride assessed herrington were playing without both of these things right now about the only bright spot so far in the series has been the work of goalies bj vanmierlo who played well in wednesdays loss and chris lawrence i feel sorry for our goalies said herrington theyve been showing up and maybe about three otherguys north york has 23 guys showing up to play and thats been the dif ference aimir pnoiomike barrett argonaut tries hoops toronto argonauts footballturnedbasketball player adrion smith left tries to squeeze by raptor ambassador ron yeung during action in last saturdays markham unionyille minor basketball associations annual all star day at markville secondary school the exhibition game ended in a 9292 overtime tie ice awa e irit late comeback by stouffville falls short in a 54 loss to collingwood game 5 goes sunday afternoon there wasnt much spirit in the stouffville spirit on- thursday night at the stouffville arena the collingwood blues dominated the spirit for most of the provincial junior a hockey league playoff game and held on for a 54 win heading into last nights game in collingwood the blues led the bestofseven north conference quarterfinal two games to one game 5 will be played sunday at 330 pm in stouffville if needed game 6 goes tuesday in collingwood and the seventh game thursday in stouffville the spirit was listless for most of thursdays game allowing the blues to score four straight goals and open a 5- 2 lead in the third period curtis cribbie faced 34 shots and made several big saves in the spirit net the spirit managed 24 shots the spirit did come back in front of 400 fans netting two late goals and threatening to tie the score in the last minute but anthony minicucci hit a post and kevin jarman was robbed by- blues goalie dan baxter minicucci the north conference scoring champion and mvp had two goals and assisted on the spirits other two mark mitchell who also had two assists and mike forgie scored the others spirit head coach brian perrin loudly challenged his players especially the teams defence in the postgame dressing room you have to have the will to win he said later and right now we dont have that minicucci was named brimell toyotakia of agincourt player of the game the spirit was without the injured or ill bill brothers ian dowhos and cam black in the other north conference series newmarket leads hunlsville 30 aurora is up 20 on parry sound and couchiching leads vaughan 21 brian perrin spirit coach says players dont have the will to win markham competitors are in sync in hamilton pool several markham swimmers representing the synchro optimaclub made their presence felt in the pool at a recent synchronized competition in hamilton carly grimshaw won the senior solo category and courtney brown the 14andunder solo division erin wilson was fiftli in the 14 and under and meghan uhlfnan seventh the 15to18 team of jasmine balazs morgan clarke leigh ann coady colleen daly katie dudar stacey grimshaw frances halloran alissa sadler and julie scanalan swam their way to a secondplace finish accompanied by jen bell and carly grimshaw the 1518 team swarri to another secondplace finish in a new team cat egory the combo in duets daly and halloran were third in the 1518 divi sion n in the 14 and under team category brown catherine cramer sheelagh daly lauren jankowski laura killey sports digest britanny linton uhlman and wilson finished second another 14andunder team coached by debra thomson and consisting of swimmers kristen bell lisa kricfalusi miriam fernandes jennifer lee jessica sung hilary thomson and sarah thomson finished fiftli the 14andunder duet swam by linton and killey placed fourth all routines now qualify for provincial championships to be held at the etobicoke olympium later this month atom waxers ice tournament title in levis the markham brandon group canadian asphalt industries cmc excavation co aaa atom waxers skated home with the hardware from the recent 33rd annual levis international atom tournament in levis quebec with a 32 win over the toronto red wings in the title tilt in reaching the final the waxers defeated innjfhamwayfdd assabet valley massachusetts ip3 chomutov czech republic 51 and the worcester crusaders massachusetts 120 in its roundrobin games facing basse laurentides montreal in their semifinal encounter the waxers prevailed 72 team members included daniel marchione kevin carr mathewmaione peter rodrigues david titanic cody hodgson jack caradonna gary teskey clayton mccaw matthew tipoff steven stamkos cameron gaunce jonathon simone kelly geoffrey and jeffrey vanderlugt stamkos w2s the top scorer and named the most promising player of the tournament gaunce was named the tournaments best defenceman of the tournament dont ray that traffic tickets experts traffic ticket experts is staffed by expolice officers who will act as your agent in court defending all traffic tickets speeding accidents carelessimpaired etc call for free consultation guaranteed service 905 9403000 4418 hwy 7 east unionville ubwub