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pi 2 tribune january 15 1997 st sports spartans ice tourney title by bruce stapley correspondent the stouffville district secondary school sdss spartans overcame a mountain of adversity to bring home the gold from the st michaels college school invitational junior hockey v tournament oyer the week- yraa5 end y the spartans won all five ttw games in the 16team tour nament defeating mississaugas gordon graydon ss 41 in saturdays champi onship show down for coach bill mcknights spartans it was a matter of making do with a short bench the sdss team went into the competi tion minus their three top players who were playing in an aaa level tournament in quebec add to that the injury of key players brad clubine and tyler markle in the second match of the three game round robin and the spartans were forced to go into the title tilt with only 11 players markle who bruised his thigh when he was kneed in a play that resulted in a five minute major penalty came back to score a goal early in the championship match before having to leave the game i was really proud of the whole team beamed mcknight it was unbelievable the way they all played so well mcknight wasnt the only one who was impressed by the sdss effort three spartan players were named to the tournaments six player all star team including goalkeeper carmen auciello who recorded two shutouts kevin hackert five goals two assists and peter mabley mabley who had seven goals and five assists was named tournament mvp net ting himself a trophy and a st michaels ring along with a hockey sweater and bag the spartans started off with a 62 win over the host st mikes double blues they then blanked montreals loyola war riors 30 in a hard hitting second match the stouffville school closed out the pre liminary round robin with a 70 win over mississaugas phillip pocock pirates leav ing them in first place in their pool the spartans defeated their york region athletic association yraa rivals from cardinal carter chs aurora 32 in the semifinals after trailing 20 in the open ing period the sdss outfit then downed gordon graydon in the final the mississauga team advanced to the final by defeating last years yraa cham pionship king city ss squad spiking it rtcjji stouffville district secondary schools amy mcelroy attempts to spike this ball past the outstretched arms of these two newmarket players during action in fridays midget girls volleyball tournament at stouf fville district secondary school stouffville won the match 20 photosteve somerville spirit downed twice athlete of the week geoff smith geoff finished out an accomplished minor and junior a hockey career in stouffville last week the 20yearold 2 time omha champion stouffville clipper scored the winning goal for the spirit of stouffville jan 6 before being dealt to the newmarket 87s 4 days later good luck geoff sponsored by stouffville 6327 main st stouffville major atoms win two of three at tourney the branick group major atom clippers took two of three games played in a tournament in lindsay over the holidays the clippers were shad ed 21 by barrie in their opener with brian taylor scoring for stouffville from chris flanagan taylor michael picker ing stan clark mark cairuthers and derek wilcock scored as the clippers rebounded for a 52 win over trenton stephen relf pickering and logan jennings assist ed the clippers slipped past clarington 21 in game three with relf and jesse maillet scoring from jor dan smalley taylor and cairuthers but the team fell just short of advancing to the playoff round according to the tournaments points system the spirit of stouffville were looking to pick themselves up again after getting blitzed by a cou ple of high powered opponents at the rec centre over the weekend the spirit were downed 112 by the provincial junior a hockey league leading newmarket 87s saturday then fell 73 to the phillips division secondplace collingwood blues sunday for the spirit who had seen their four game winning streak snapped two nights earlier it was a matter of taking their lumps newmarket is the number one ranked tier ii junior a team in canada right now and colling wood is also up there in the nation al rankings said spirit coach dan larmer both teams are built around 20 year old players while weve gone with young kids this season were in one of the toughest divisions in the country rob frost and tate philips were the only spirit players able to pen etrate 87s goalie frank ivankovic who was a third round draught choice for the pittsburgh penguins of the national hockey league sunday it was scott martin jason ellis and john lowrie finding the range larmer is confident his players can get back on track when they play the muskies friday in lind say with the orillia terriers in town saturday night were still looking to make the playoffs said larmer whose team trails lindsay by 10 points in the chase for the final phillips division playoff spot tuv all x snowboard gloves 25 p ocm 550750 kevlar skatli boyd 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