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p1 the tribun wednesday november 29 1989 m mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm wmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm vvwvvvvv irrv l vvvvvvvvvvri leasing todays easy way to drive larry cotter leasing 6404541 all makes and models iwsss novice champs honored photobruce stapley the stouffville novice clippers hockey team were honored for winning the ontario minor hockey associations lakeshore division title recently the town of whitchurchstouffville presented the players and coaches with medals team members are matt turner rob spytz mike wood brad johnston shawn carruthers dan dickinson jason brown andrew hutchison dan tardella ryan king jeff hassard graham smith and kevin hackert coaches are- dave turner gary hutchison and bill wood sdss junior hoopsters end season with quarterfinal loss the stouffville district secondary school spartans junior girls basketball team was knocked out of contention early in saturdays durham- york championship tourna ment at woodbridge the spartans who earned the right to compete for the title by placing second in the previous weeks york region finals were thumped 4917 by cann- ingtons brock secondary school in the quarterfinals their only game played but spartans coach bill mcknight felt it had still been a valuable learning experience for his players the kids learned a lot he seniors beaten by curtis bruce stapley correspondent what comes around goes around thats the story of the stouffville district secondary school spar tans senior girls basketball teams quest for the durham- york dyssaa title this month the spartans who staged a dramatic last quarter comeback to capture the york doublea high school championship nov 17 blew a 12point lead in the dying minutes of saturdays dyssaa match against curtis of oshawa losing 5139 the loss knocked stouffville out of the running for the two region ti tle which was eventually won by canningtons brock secondary school the tournament was held at richmond hills langstaff secondary school the spartans took a 2826 lead into the second half and had extend ed the point spread to a dozen after the third quarter but two quick fouls to scoring star stacey black resulted in the spartans leader being taken out of the game momentarily and the curtis squad started to chip away at the deficit we ran out of gas in the final moments said spartans coach sheila coleman the breaks just started going the wrong way they were hooping them and ours werent falling in black as usual led the spartans offence with kristy saunders karen carr and maureen slater also contributing solid performances coach coleman was particularly impressed with perennial sdss allstar athlete slater she was strong right through to the final buzzer even though the team was getting discouraged it was her best game of the season coleman felt her team could have beat curtis but that the spartans had done well just to get as far as they did said it was a great tourna ment a good clinic he said it would serve to in spire his team to do even better next year theyve gone to the top now theyve seen how basketball can be played by kids their age said mcknight some will go to basketball camp this summer to work on their skills mcknight was particularly pleased with the way his players progressed this season it can be hard to generate interest in basketball in a volleyball school like ours but the girls learned well and they were fundamentally sound susie baston kelly sheridan terrill junkin julie coleman and michelle hofstee stood out for the spartans saturday in a losing cause the kids played well said mcknight we were only down 118 in the first quarter but then all of a sudden brock just took off they are a well- coached established team which has been playing the same system since grade 7 mcknight saw his teams 148 wonlost record for the year as being indicative of their effort it was a good season i was especially impressed with how terrill junkin who i coached two years ago had improved half of the team will be back next year i think they should do really well senior spartans fall to underdogs at volleyball tourney bruce stapley correspondent the stouffville district secondary school spartans senior boys volleyball team were taken by surprise at the allontario ofsaa doublea high school championship at fonthill on the weekend the durhamyork champion spartans ranked third going into the provincial finals were edged in two straight games friday by an orangeville team which had been seeded 11th the pair of tough 1513 losses followed by the spartans1510 1510 defeat at the hands of woodstocks huron secondary school knocked the sdss team out of the running for the elusive ontario title the sdss squad beat st marys 158 158 to open the tournament friday but they were blind sided by orangeville expecting an easier oppo nent which is normally the procedure for the topseeded teams in the early going at these competitions orangeville should have been ranked higher said spartans coach jim fletcher noting that they eventually placed fourth overall on the weekend it was sort of like having a quarter final right in the opening pool fletcher contended that it wasnt just the orangeville team which had his players baffled i dont want this to sound like sour grapes but the officiating was poor not the calibre we are used to at the york region and dyssaa level we had the same ref twice and we lost both times she was calling things we had never been called for all season the guys were disap pointed they would battle back then she kept taking it away from them i was a little disappointed youve got to have quality officials at ofsaa the losses to orangeville and huron relegated the spartans to the conslation side where they won their first match but then bowed to kenora who went on to win the alsoran award chatham won the overall title fletcher felt his team had performed admirably and that they had nothing to be ashamed of despite falling well short of the provincial title we played well and it was close im not disappointed with our play at all they didnt choke said the coach we were up against a good team orangeville karam amer and scott evans were smashing the ball karam didnt miss a hit and travis white turned into a championship calibre player at ofsaa burkholder weaves way to tourney title winning goal ryan burkholder weaved through the defence and scored in the second period of overtime sunday to give the stouffville credit union pee wee clippers the champion ship of the haliburton tourna ment on the weekend burkholders marker was the difference in a 21 wim over tourney hosts haliburton in the title game the clippers had earned the right to compete for the championship by sailing through their first three games of the event stouffville beat bracebridge 41 on friday then blanked bracebridge 40 on saturday the clippers then avenged a lastminute loss earlier in the week to league rivals port perry winning 61 the victory over port perry advanced the clippers into the championship showdown against haliburton haliburton opened the scor ing in the first period burkholder then took a pass from coughlan and fired the puck into the net for his first of two goals in the game the teams played a scoreless first five minute period of overtime before burkholders gamewinning heroics the goal earned burkholder most valuable player honors with his brilliant individual effort the clippers geoff smith led the tournament scorers with seven points while team mate jason reesor and ryan jefferson had four points each