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v k st vof 3 i i i js ty i j li v yl x i 4 1 f weekender saturday september 27 1997 p19 i he tribune leisure sports got a score call our hotline at 6402100 hbf j piif s p having a field day milliken mills player natalie chin left and stouffville district sec ondary schools megan fockler battle for possession of this ball during thursdays yraa girls field hockey contest at milliken mills the visiting spartans won the game 10 on a goal by alex chacinski photos by sjoerd witteveen a spirited interlocking schedule stouffville hockey fans get their first look at the north ern ontario junior hockey association noha when timmins comes to town to play the local spirit oct 25 interlocking play between the oh a provincial junior a hockey league and the noha has been intro duced for the first time this season the spirit will travel to timmins for a return match nov 29 part of a northern swing that sees them play in sturgeon falls the night before stur geon falls comes to stouffville dec 13 school junior hockey in limbo with the uncertain state of the stouffville district secondary school sdss athletics program the future of the schools junior hock ey team is yet to be decided while sdss teachers bill mcknight and ron dempster are all set to take on the task of coaching the spar tans for the third year the final decision wont be made until that duo get together with the schools newlyappointed extracurricular activities coordinator dave connell mck night is optimistic were having a meeting next week he said thursday hopefully it will go mcknight said there are several for mer players who have once again offered to assist with the team which went to the yraa finals in their initial season then finished first in their division before falling short in the semifinals last season mabley a busy hockey mom so you think youve got a busy family schedule leslie mabley wife of wsmha president peter mabley had to tend to the logistics involved in getting her three hockey playing sons to no less than 12 games all out of town sports notes in four days the other week leslie is team manager of the major novice clippers with her nineyearold son luke a member of that squad thirteenyearold bruce o tapley jordan is on the richmond hill stars aaa major pee- wees while pj 16 is with the stars major midgets pjs team alone will play six tourna ments before christmas which is sure to take a lot of tire tread off the mabley car things could have been worse said leslie they wanted luke in richmond hill with the major novice stars she said i said no way as manager of the major novice clippers leslie looks after scheduling with a shortened omha season combined with the addition this year of more teams the scene at the sched uling meeting was hectic as teams attempted to line up available home and away dates with each other it was like the floor of the toronto stock exchange trying to arrange dates she said not to mention tournaments but with her offspring scattered far and wide in their various puck pursuits leslie said at least she and her hubby are aware of their whereabouts my kids arent oh the street with all the time she spends at the rec cen tre leslie is as good an authority as any on arena facilities she wonders why with no seating in the sec ond ice pad the town cant take the threestep ministands from town park diamonds and set them up in the new pad her thinking is that with parents and fans paying 350 a pop to watch a rep game they should at least be able to sit down spirit withstand hurricane attack s bruce stapley correspondent darcy king the newmarket 87 s hurricane came on like a typhoon in the early going of their game with the spirit of stouffville thursday night at the rec centre then skulked away with the two points and the pizza the defending ontario hockey association provin cial junior a hock ey league east con ference champions jumped out into a 3- 1 first period lead but were hanging on in the dying seconds of a 76 win over the rejuvenated spirit the newmarket squad survived a nearmiss penalty shot by spirit sniper darcy king with just 22 seconds left in the game to salvage the victory king who had scored on a twoman spirit breakaway earlier in the game was awarded the unobstructed chance when the 87s intentionally knocked the net off its moorings as the spirit blitzed their goal mouth in pursuit of the equalizer pizzas intercepted the newmarket club added insult to injury after the game going from hurri cane to scavenger as they intercepted the complementary pizzas destined for the spirit dressing room despite losing the game and their post game meal the stouffville team was able to claim a moral victory the boys were disappointed to be so close to taking them the 87s into over time but when it settles in theyll be sat isfied with what they did said spirit assistant coach trevor clark we were happy with their effort everybody worked hard clark said his team was done in by needless penalties in the games early going allowing the visitors to carry a oh a lays out guidelines the oha has reacted to recent abuses at the junior hockey level by introducing its general managers guidelines with oha president brent lajds encouraging that orga nizations directors to help ensure that the document be utilized to the fullest extent the risk management paper includes association policies affecting hazing alcohol in the team environment hockey and its people relating to discrimination and sexu al abuse twogoal edge into the second period we need more discipline some stu pid penalties cost us and now that we know we can score we have to work on keeping the puck out of our own net the spirit treated the crowd of just under 400 to a gutsy performance refus ing to fold despite trailing most of the night jeff morris gave them an early lead before the 87s came back with their first period trio of markers kings goal triggered a wide open sec ond period with the visitors quickly restoring their two- goal bulge a spirited rally ed kearney narrowed the gap again and geoff keillor tied it with his fifth goal of the season on a spirit power play the 87s scored two more times before mike micheff beat the buzzer with a last- second goal to bring the spirit back to within a goal newmarket appeared to put a lock on it when they made it 75 just past the half way goal which set up kings last ditch penalty shot effort king whose partially blocked wrist shot rolled just wide of the 87s net said it was a lack of execution not nerves that foiled his penalty shot effort i wasnt nervous at all i had him beat if i had got it back on my back hand he said goalkeeper cory lloyd was a magi cian in the spirit net robbing 87s shoot ers on numerous occasions to keep his team in the hunt without cory we wouldnt have had the chance to be close at the end said clark the spirit were scheduled to travel to aurora to take on the tigers in the first of a home and home set on friday the tigers last years metro junior a hockey league champions are in stouf fville next thursday evening don valley north lexus toyota athlete of the week paul lusky paul lusky kicked up a storm for the markham lightning under- 15 boys soccer club when they took to the pitch at the recent ontario cup tier ii championship final although the lightning suffered a 54 loss to welland in the title game the 15yearold markham native accounted for all of his clubs goals don valley north lexus toyota 3120 steeles ave e 404pkv 4750722