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st weekender december 36 1995 p 11 russians top stouffville in hockey action by bruce stapley correspondent a touring russian junior hockey team made up of players from the central red army and moscow dynamo sports clubs was too much for the stouffville spirit clippers dec 23 at the rec centre the smooth skating russian select squad romped to a 92 victory in front of a packed rec centre crowd it was their 10th win in a row the spirit drew first blood as bob whiting scored from dean sherman early in the first period but the russians soon found their stride and carried a 31 lead into the second then scored four more in the middle period the spirit made it 7- 2 on a marker by george trifon from captain tyler rommelaere as the period ended the game was one of 31 being played by the visiting russian club against ontario hockey association junior a and b teams and universi ty squads the tour began dec 2 and runs through january 13 in a pregame ceremony spirit winger bob whiting was named spirit player of the month for november with a presentation made by williamson gm uxbridge mayor wayne emmerson presented winger tate philips with the sports manship award for november the spirit were to host the ajax axemen dec 30 before facing off against the peterborough petes thursday jan 4 at 830 pm at the rec centre they close out a six game home stand with a match against the collingwood blues jan 6 at 830 pm members of the stouffville spirit swarm the russian junior net during a game last saturday at the recreation centre made up of players from central red army and moscow dynamo the russians beat stouffville 92 photoceua bronkhorst 1995 the year in sports in this issue the tribunes bruce stapley looks back at some of the top local sports stories over the first seven months of 1995 january stouffville athletes were hot at the hamilton spectator indoor games held at copps coliseum jan 13 stouffville district secondary school sdss run ner sarah cliff smashed the open womens 3000 metre record in the high school category at the games sdss runner chris lamont was first in his heat and 13th overall in the junior boys 600m run dave reed took the gold in the ontario masters 3000m race with teammate fred robbins third in ontario minor hockey associa tion omha playoff action the major atom clippers fell in a tough five game opening round best of five series to cobourg february former stouffville clipper goal keeper brad hackert was named geor gian bay junior c hockey league rookie of the year for the 199596 sea son stouffville equestrian tim garbutt 17 was named the canadian morgan horse clubs zone two reserve champi on for 1994 in the youth pleasure dri ving category stouffville runners wendy wright lukas williams fred robbins and carol felepchuk were all first in their categories at the annual claremont winter carnival mile running race the aikens ida minor pee wee clippers were eliminated by peterbor ough in a second round omha playoff series stouffville judo instructor aartje sheffield 27 entered elite company when she became one of only a handful of canadian females and possibly the youngest ever to achieve her fourth degree black belt her husband steven sheffield was awarded his fifth degree black belt jason collins centre of the childrens wish foundation drops the puck at the annu al challenge cup game in april between stouffville clipper and uxbridge bruin alum ni players at the face off were jason underwood left representing the bruins and mike feasby for stouffville the game is played in memory of the late dan mcneil and raised 4000 for childrens wish the ken and neil patrick major novice clippers bowed out of omha playoff action when they placed third in their division in a playoff round robin march the edwards murphy painting and decorating major bantam clippers marked the end to a dream season by going all the way to the omha a finals falling three games to one to midland in the best of five championship the clippers defied all odds by going so far with only four players of major bantam age in the lineup the stouffville team advanced by winning series against cobourg port perry agincourt and east gwillimbury the sdss spartans senior girls vol leyball team prevailed in the york yrssaa finals to make the trip to kirkland lake for the ontario ofsaa championships the sdss girls placed third out of four teams in their pool in the preliminaries april the ontario hockey associations provincial junior a hockey league approved a bid by richmond hills george stavro for a stouffville fran chise the former coach and general manager of the ajax axemen and north york rangers committed himself to a close working relationship with the whitchurchstouffville minor hockey association stouffvilles angies pee wee girls rep hockey team won the silver medal at the ontario womens hockey associ ation pee wee c championships in mis- sissauga they were edged 10 in the title match the stouffville all ontario clippers won their third straight challenge cup match defeating the uxbridge bruins alumni 63 the game raised 4000 for the childrens wish foundation in memory of the late dan mcneil it took a goal by zeev werek with just one second left in an overtime peri od to give the smurthwaite heating bruins a 43 win over the spring lakes nordiques in the stouffville amateur hockey league 40 plus a division championship game the boyds sports sharks edged the fullerton flames in an overtime shoot out in the 30 plus final the gallo real estate red wings downed the occasions catering blues in the 40 plus b final eightyear uxbridge bruin jason underwood of stouffville had his num ber eight sweater retired after playing his final year with the central ontario junior c hockey league team dianne white replaced john sum- merhill as president of the whitchurch- stouffville girls hockey association may the oha board of directors gave the formal go ahead for a stouffville franchise in the provincial junior a hockey league for the 19959g season the wsmha executive agreed to give the team the saturday night time slot former stouffville star fastball pitcher scott evans returned home to pitch for the claremont rebels of the north york fastball league evans was the key to the stouffville bantams 1987 oasa championship the york region seniors games came to stouffville and the host wasnt without its gold medalists the duo of elmer farthing and evelyn rae struck gold in the euchre progressive open doubles event stephan hirmann won a pair of gold medals in swimming events rob spytz was named winner of the first annual dan mcneil memorial award to be given annually to the wsmha rep level player who demon strates outstanding leadership spytz was captain of the omha finalists please see page 12