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stouflvmesuntribunem saturday nov 18200621 stouffville suntribune sports spartans spike ofsaa berth outcome against dr jm denison decided in final set by mike hayakawa staff writer in analyzing the performance of his stouffville district secondary school spartans senior boys volleyball team this season head coach steve jimmo said it had a tendency to be either extremely good or bad the spartans chose an opportune time to excel on the hardwood court when they played host to newmarkets dr jm dennison secondary school tuesday with an ontario federation of school athletic associations berth on the line for the aaa playdowns in kingston the spartans emerged with a hardfought 21 2522 2125 157 victory weve been a team thats either been hot and unbeatable or below mediocre and dont look like a team he said but these were two teams that were pretty evenly matched we just played well and shut them down jimmo felt his clubs strong start in the deciding set was the key as they jumped out to an 81 lead and were never threatened after that i dont think dr jm dennison recovered they looked unconfident they missed a couple of serves and we shut them down he said jimmo was quick to add it didnt hurt that his club won a coin toss last week to gain home court advantage and had the support of hometown fans in looking ahead at the ofsaa play- downs nov 2425 jimmo hopes his team can improve on their perform ance when they were there last year after being consolation finalists all we can do is just try to do the best that we can he said junior girls hold court the spartans junior girls basketball team won its yraa first round tier two playoff contest wednesday with a 37- 21 decision over visiting richmond hill high school tracey veletri was high scorer for the spartans with 18 points in winning the game the spartans who finished the regular season in first place in the south division with a 90 mark will host a quarterfinal contest monday at 4 pm against the winner of the langstaff secondary school-mil- staff phcftomike barrett stouffville district secondary school spartans strong middle fred bell gets his arms up to defend against a spike attempt in tuesdays ofsaa aaa qual ifying contest against dr jm denison secondary school newmarket at stouffville the spartans won 21 and earned a berth in the ofsaa aaa championships in kingston liken mills secondary school contest that was to have been played friday a victory in mondays tilt would enable the spartans to advance to wednesdays semifinals at thornlea secondary school spartan boys girls ice wins in hockey season openers the stouffville district secondary school spartans varsity girls hockey team got its yraa season off to a good start tuesday with a 5- 1 win over cardi nal carter catholic high school at stouffville arena brittany crago scored twice for the defending ontario federation of school athletic associations aaa champions hayley hughes karli ziegler and jamie sparks added single tallies in boys action wednesday the spar tans won their opener over the defend ing yraa champion unionville high school wolves 31 at the stouffville arena scott van allen eric gainsbrook and sam carrick each scored once for the wolves for more on high school sports log on to wwwyraacom blues deny spirit chance to move up in jr a standings the stouffville spirit hopes for a kinder start to its provincial jr a hockey league game sunday afternoon in north york the collingwood blues opened up a 50 lead in the first 1105 and coasted to a 52 win over the stouffville spirit at the stouffville arena thursday the secondplace blues 13931 moved three points up on the spirit 12812 in the north conference of the provincial jr a hockey league the blues had played three more games entering play last night the spirit controlled the early play but could not beat netminder akosagardy spirit coach dan west com plained to referee dave kozdel that his netminder trevor oneill was knocked down on the third goal the goal stood west was assessed a bench penalty for arguing and collingwood scored on the ensuing penalty for a potential twogoal swing randy johnston and myles gomes scored for the spirit mark kubicz replaced oneill after the fifth blues goal and was perfect the spirit outshot collingwood 3527 the teams split a pair of fights in the dying seconds with the spirits corey fulton handling matt caranci collingwoods jonathan lacasse bloodied donivan munro but was handed a match penalty including a fourgame suspension for fighting with a ring or tape on his fingers by koziel after the game notes sundays game at north york has been moved to 4 pm due to scheduling conflictsthe spirit played with joel sheppard josh domingues and brock van der gulik out on the injured list thursdaywill acton was back in the lineup after captaining canada east to the silver medals at the inaugural world jr a challenge in saskatchewan he was away two weeks coleshill having ball at puerto rican event by jim thomas correspondent pearl coleshill is making her presence felt with the canadi an junior womens national team at the pan american softball championships in puerto rico thanks to the 17yearold stouffville residents hitting fielding and baserunning skills canada currently holds a 42 wonloss record in tournament competition canada defeated puerto rico 72 blanked aruba 80 the netherlands 30 and ecuador 130 but lost to the united states 30 and venezuela 21 to finish third in pool play and gain entry to the playoff round playing shortstop coleshill was especially brilliant against aruba belting two hits in three atbats she also had two stolen bases for further information on the competition log on to wwwsoftballca 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 yrrij5 in partnership with sfo wine online ca t th oiffrnc visit wwwyorkregionwineclubcom or call 416 5328565 or 18669792946 ync jg york region 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