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p8 tribunevdecember 12 1990 st spartan basketballers drop three straight photosteve somerviue over the top gary bouwmeister left puts the maximum effort into this arm wrestling contest with his opponent ballantraes frank spataro during action at don cherrys grapevine in markham the event was the sixth annual bouwmeister tourney gary won his match over spataro stouffville pee wee clippers play win lose and draw stouffville district secondary school sdss was blitzed by the invaders from newmarket high school last thursday with all three spar tans boys basketball teams falling victim to the visiting cage squads the midget spartans dropped their second straight heartbreaker as they were edged 2421 the junior sdss cagers were downed 6444 while their senior counter parts were drubbed 8442 the midgets played well in defeat with john mckinnon heading up the defence while steve uren and jason reesor stood out offensively the junior spartans moved the ball well displaying some good defen sive skills but couldnt find their shooting range according to coach dave connell the juniors trailed 2826 at the half with crisp passing alert rebounding and good team play holding them close but it all came undone in the sec ond half brian leoni led the junior scores with 16 points brian snooks and rob jones hooped seven points each with jason cowan and jason hollin both netting six points derek sheahan was strong on defence for the spartans and jermain franklin picked off several rebounds the senior spartans were led by dave irwin with 14 points followed by karam amer with 1 1 phil spencer sunk two three point shots while bill pride tom oldham and fred klein were impressive in defeat atom clippers take title at east gwillimbury event the stouffville boyds sports- atoms clippers allowed only two goals in four games played to claim the championship of the east gwillimbury tournament over the weekend clippers goalie jason brown named the outstanding netminder of the entire tournament collected his second shutout of the event as stouffville beat whitby 40 in the title game kevin hackert dan tardella brad johnston and shawn carruthers accounted for the stouffville scoring in the final the clippers opened the tourney with an 81 romp over flamboro brown was flawless in boyds second game as theyblanketthosts east gwillimbury 40 stouffville goals went to hackert tardella king and carruthers in the semifinal the clippers beat hespeler 31 tardella notched a pair of goals in the win while the single went to king it was a win a loss and a draw for the markhamstouffville credit union pee wee clippers last week the stouffville crew was doubled up 42 by whitby on thursday who were out for revenge after being defeated by the clippers the week before tim smart and roger mcmann accounted for the stouffville scoring with brent avery picking up an assist on each goal smart also drew an assist the clippers held a 21 advantage at the end of two periods in fridays contest with port perry but couldnt hang on as the port crew scored early in the third to earn a 22 tie john mckinnon and will hunter each had a goal and an assist for the credit union side with david hutchison chipping in with an assist the clippers then dumped richmond hills doublea squad 53 in an exhibition match sat urday as hunter fired two goals while throwing in an assist mckinnon and mcmann had a goal and an assist each adam crowder also found the target while assists were earned by smart peter smith scott assinck and graham crowder the peewees host bowmanville at the recre ation centre this friday night at 915 pm volley bailers win four the stouffville district sec ondary school sdss spartans midget girls voljeyball team pre pared for the upcoming season by winning four and tying one in six games played at a minitourna ment at dr gw williams sec ondary school in aurora last thursday the spartans started off by split ting with newmarket winning 15- 10 then bowing 156 the sdss squad topped the host crew 1512 before the two teams played to an 1111 draw the stouffville girls finished strong sweeping aurora 154 15- 8 lisa yake michelle martins and andrea crothers served well for sdss while jen mcgowan kate mcknight and christine jackson displayed strong setting skills good digging was contributed by leana milos and shannon white sandy van ryn and andrea wil son played well around the net and leah hoover hit well success of dickson hill is no surprise somehow it didnt surprise me to find out the kids from dickson hill public school had captured both the area f north senior boys and girls elementary school vol leyball championships held last monday and tuesday for the french immersion school with a student body of around 300 has made a habit of winning or being close in just about every athletic competition it has entered in the past few years in fact such is dickson hills prowess that it is right up there with the best four schools in all of area f along with the likes of markham s raymerwood public school boasting a population of 800 which managed to beat dick son hill in both the area f boys and girls volleyball title matches last wednesday and just in case ive lost you by now as you scoff and say that the dickson hill kids are all imports from markham and unionville hold on a second scanning the rosters of last weeks victorious volleyball squads i find names like sonny and lester acosta graham and adam crowder and kirsten fras- er stouffville kids each one of them mainstays on clippers and girls hockey teams and local rep softball outfits now whenever you find a pow erhouse school which collects competitive athletic victories like kids collect ninja turtles you know there has to be an individual helping to make it happen at dickson hill this person is the guy with forbsy emblazoned on his licence plate don forbes an exmontreal native forbes came to dickson hill via cornwall sports notes v bruce stapley and toronto he took over as the schools physical education head four years ago and the first thing he noticed was a complete lack of confidence among the athletes representing the school in volleyball basketball cross country running and the like it was pretty bad at first he recalled they just assumed they couldnt win they had a bad atti tude forbes soon changed all that beginning by upgrading the entire athletic program kids were given the chance to compete at an earlier age grade 2 and 3 students were encouraged to get in on the fun that is cross country running and responded by winning the reesor park public school markham meet this year he worked on athletic skills with both the schools repathletes and the others as well introducing lunch time games for all students he normally starts with grade 4 students for basketball soccer and volleyball if you get the skills at the age then you have a good grounding said forbes not all kids are going to want to make the school team but they can still have fun learning how to play the game and playing at their own level forbes will tell you he likes to win as a coach and that winning is a good selfconcept booster for the kids but he also acknowledges that winning is not all that counts winning is a motivator a confi dence builder if you can prove yourself a winner in sports that can reflect on how you do in life its not everything but it helps build confidence for life and ill admit i can get a little carried away when im coaching i like to see the kids win and most important forbes can hold his head high now that the students of dickson hill no longer feel they are the athletic door mats of days gone by things have come around i think it is safe to say that weve broken into the top four schools in all of area f and those schools have all got more students than we have