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22 smjsitnthmfoundcy octi6l2006 stouffville suntribune sports hmfc staff photosteve somervilie taking the low road to get things done stouffville district secondary school spartans sarah steiner bends low in attempt to clear the ball away from her teams goal during last weeks york region high school girls field hockey crossover playoff game against the unionville high school wolves at stouffville the visiting wolves won 20 relegated to the tier two playoff quarterfinal round last friday the host spartans defeated langstaff secondary school 10 in overtime on a goal by jen carroll the spartans were to face markville secondary school markham in one semifinal game yesterday at stouffville the other semifinal pitted king city secondary school against dr gw williams secondary school aurora the winners will advance to todays tier two championship at dr jm denison secondary school in newmarket at 2 pm spirit bears down to extend win streak last week saturday won 42 against seguin bruins now 7601 on season third place in north conference coming up today vs st michaels buzzers at stouffville arena 735 pm friday at orangeville crushers 730 pm sunday at huntsville-musko- ka otters 3 pm game notes the stouffville spirit won its fourth straight game saturday with a 42 decision over the hometown seguin bruins the spirit jumped out to a 21 lead after one period and padded it to 31 after two the bruins cut its deficit to a goal before brock van der gulik put the game on ice with an unassisted marker at the 1413 mark of the final period trevor smith on a powerplay effort donivan munro and mike cudmore added the other markers for the spirit randy johnston and corey trivino collected two assists each mark kubicz picked up the win for the spirit net which outshot seguin 3937 exspirit forward shane baxter had both goals for segun including one on a power play notebook the spirit played sundays game without veteran forward joel sheppard who was out with the flu spirit head coach dan west said as for his return west said it will be a gametime decision if he can play tonight against the defend ing provincial junior a hockey league champion buzzers sheppard wasnt the only member of the spirit who has been inflicted with the bug west noted assistant coach tom milne and general manager ken burrows missed a couple of prac tices and athletic therapist drew laskoski was absent from saturdays game fortunately west said no other players have been affected by the bug generally speaking were playing much the same way now as we did when we were losing west said in trying to explain his clubs sudden reversal of fortune were just working harder and paying more attention to fine detail weve really just kept going with the same stuff but the guys are trusting each other and the systems more we knew we could turn things around if we stuck to our guns its really a credit to our team insider for live scoring and updates go to pointstreakcom tonights game is broadcast at whistleradiocom for more on the spirit go to stouflvillespiritcom allen runs hard to earn silver ballantrae public school student who trains twice daily with his dog finishes second at york region meet bymbke hayakawa staffwriter when duncan allen prepared for last thursdays york region elementary public school regional crosscountry meet at bruces mill conservation area in whitchurch- stouffville the grade 4 ballantrae public school student felt he was ready for the 15kilometre race in training the nineyearold recalled he could keep pace with fellow students who were older than him that turned out to be a good omen for allen as he pro ceeded to finish second in a field of 174 fellow male tyke division students from schools across york region making allens feat even more remarkable was that it was his secondever crosscountry race in his first competition just a couple of weeks prior he finished fourth in the area finals at milne park in markham i felt that i could do well because when i was training at school i was able to keep up with the older kids only one or two of the grade 8 students would be in front of me each time allen said entering the race which was held under treacherous conditions due to the rain a 1 allen revealed he had strategy mapped out and it went pretty well according to plan it was a lesson he said that came from his participation in his racing debut at the area finals i wanted to sprint at the beginning so that i could get out in front of the other kids i tried to pace in the middle and then sprint at the end in the areas where i didnt pace myself properly i ran out of gas at the end he said encouraged to take up the sport through his older brother connor 11 who ran crosscountry last year at ballantrae public school along with his father mark who also ran crosscountry in his youth allen attributed his suc cess to several factors among them he said was in running long distances with his dog shadow a white shepherd twice a day to and from their home just as important he was quick to credit his crosscoun try coaches at ballantrae alison williams and katherine ivic and grade 8 student michael bourgeois we run every lunch recess on mondays tuesdays and thursdays he said see other page 23 duncan allen ballantrae cross country silver medal winner comes from running family two grea asons to own a corkscrew two great wines delivered to your door every month these wines not available anywhere else in ontario in affiliation with yrnjg in partnership with wme tl iii dinrnc visit wwwyorkregionwineclubcom or call 416 5328565 or 18669792946 york region wine club