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i c9 rekai johnson barristers solicitors 49 main street east 2nd floor stouffville ontario 6408100 or 6493555 leasing today s easy way to drive larry cotter leasing 6404541 aa mates and modes a metroland community newspaper wednesday november 9 1988 stouffvilles spartans take volleyball title spartans strike again top team winning the aa volleyball title for york region came clearwater in front from left are john hall colin mclean karsten easy for the sdss spartans the team consisted of from left in back hennza wallace barbour and scott evans coach jim fletcher guy cowan karam amer steve head don by bruce stapley it started off with a smash and ended up with bang and when the dust had settled the stouffville dist secondary school senior boys volleyball spartans had eclipsed the com petition enroute to their second consecutive york regional championship the spartans have now taken the title four out of five years and 18 out of the last 20 stouffville was heavily favored to take the crown they didnt disappoint their fans breezing past richmond hill 159 155 and toronto waldorf 150 and 153 the spartans then annihilated langstaff in the semi finals 152 153 before facing off against richmond hill again for the championship in a best of five set the polished and poised sdss squad showed their complete col lection of tricks as they wiped out the hillmen 15 151 and 154 stouffville coach jim fletcher had predicted his troops would come out flying in the final round he was all smiles after the big win don clearwater started off the final round with a smash and after that everybody seemed to catch on it spread like wildfire fletcher felt his players superb conditioning was the key to their success what impressed me was the tremendous shape they were in scotty evans had a great day playing the middle he and don clearwater were thumping the ball and the setting was there the spartans will now go to brock nov 25 to compete in the durhamyork secondary school athletic association champion ships they have been asked to play in the ontario preview tour nament at mcmaster university this saturday nov 12 the tour nament made up of the top 12 teams from across the province gives the spartans a chance to compete against the same teams they will face in the provincial championships the spartans are also hopeful of lining up an exhibition game this week against exarch rival unionville which will serve as a tuneup for the durhamyork finals senior chaivips don clearwater of the sdss spartans accepts the york regional volleyball trophy from sdss viceprincipal rod leonard jim pimmbruce stapley fletcher at centre coached the team to its 18th regional title in 20 years this week spiking punch sdss spiker karsten hennza delivers one of the final blows against the opposition last week to successfully defend the schools 20 year hold on the york region title the seniors now advance to the dyssaa finals this week against the best from the durham league stouffville midgets remain undefeated 43 final cobourg defeats clippers the stouffville paine inter nationa atom clippers went down to defeat friday losing 43 to cobourg in a hardfought game that could have gone cither way stouffville opened the scoring when brent avery grabbed the puck at centre ice and broke in to score cobourg hit for a pair of goals however and took a 21 lead into the second frame cobourg made it 31 in the se cond hut peter smith scored twice to tie it up chad dicken son and john mckinnon set up the first marker and mckinnon and michael underwood assisted on the second cobourg notched the winner in the third while playing with a twoman advantage the clip pers pressed in the closing minutes and had a power play opportunity but were unable to register the equalizer the clippers host port hope at the recreation centre tonight at 7 pm and then enter tain bowmanville friday at 8 pm there were fireworks on and off the ice last wednesday at the recreation centre as the stouff ville midget clippers did battle with pickering and when it was all over the beckers milk clippers still had its early season undefeated str ing intact with a 44 tie which came within nine seconds of be ing a 43 win the lead changed hands three times throughout the game and the excitement obviously got to several spectators who saw fit to demonstrate their enthusiasm by throwing firecrackers on the ice referee ron bunker halted play late in the second period and had arena assistant manager john fockler order several fans from the stands police were call ed and one youth was ultimately banned from the arena for the season but the fireworks werent restricted to the seats the game got off to a chippy start with a total of 17 penalties being called in the first two periods the pickering players were the chief offenders but showed great penalty killing skills forced to play the final minutes of the first period two men short the visitors kept stouffville from scoring and were able to take a 10 lead into the second period but the clippers came out charging in the second with sus tained pressure finally resulting in two goals in less than a minute lee scaife clicked from chris burkholder and amard date with 1144 remaining in the period and then kelly mcginty hit from bob gould and david mcnaught at 1047 pickering roared right back tying he game a little more than a minute later then took the lead early in he the third period but the clippers defence corps came to the rescue with ted stonehouse knotting things up with a blazing slapshot from the point jamie campbell drew the assist mcnaught then gave the home club the lead with a brilliant solo effort which saw him move into position in front of the net then drill a wrist shot over the picker ing goalies pad and into the net both mcnaught and stonehouse were robbed as the period wound down with goalie chris blake stopping mcnaught on a breakaway then getting his glove on another wicked stonehouse slapshot the save would prove crucial as pickering took advantage of a stouffville defensive lapse to tie the score with nine seconds remaining clippers coach for the night vic sheffield was happy with his teams effort it was a very exciting game for the kids and the fans the boys did well said sheffield he was filling in for head coach al mcnaught who was serving a onegame suspension due to his teams racking up more than 40 minutes in penalties in their last outing novices drop their first game of season piwjbbuce stapley hot shots ted stonehouse at left and david mcnaught were outstanding on defence for the stouffville midget clippers this week both scored a goal in the game les than two minutes apart to salvage a 44 tic and maintain stouffvilles undefeated record so far this season the bubble finally burst for the stouffville novice clippers last wednesday as they say their early season fourgame winning streak snapped with a 42 loss to lindsay the neil patrick clippers got off on the right foot with ace ryan king scoring from brad johnston with a little more than two minutes remaining in the first period but lindsay hit for three goals in less than lour minutes in the second stanza to jump into a 31 lead shawn carruthers got one back on a play by matt turner with two minutes to play in the period but the visitors locked it up with an insurance marker in the third the clippers regained their winning form on friday however as they prevailed over cobourg 42 on the road ryan king and matt turner looked after the stouffville scoring bag ging two apiece while robbie spytz had two assists the clippers overcame a 21 first period deficit coming back with three unanswered goals in the third period king potted the tying marker on an unassisted effort then turner clicked for the winner on a pass from spytz and king came back to score the in surance goal from andrew hutchison right winger danny tardella was a formidable force as well checking the cobourg opposition into the ice jason brown per formed capably in goal clippers coach dave turner admits to being a little surprised by his clubs early success which sees its record stand at five wins and one loss after one tour of the league weve played every team now while i expected us to be fairly strong with five kids back from last years team ive been surprised how well the new kids are doing he said the clippers entertain port perry at the recreation centre this friday night at 7 pm