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st weekender saturday november 8 1997 p 19 the tribune sports leisure got a score call our hotline at 6402100 a spirited performance tames terriers bruce stapley correspondent the couchiching terriers fell victim to an austrian assassin and their own gen erosity thursday at the rec centre the casino rama crew was bounced 62 by the surging spirit of stouffville in the provincial junior a hockey league contest the visitors who at times seemed more intent on brawling than scoring played catchup all night after the spirit took a 30 lead just four minutes into the game the terriers narrowed the gap to 32 when the spirit took the second period off but terriers goalie ken decaires goalmouth give away just 40 seconds into the third resulted in an early christmas present for randy stolec who cashed his second goal in a stouf- fville uniform into an unguarded couchiching net defenceman philippe lakos dubbed the austri an assassin by his team mates killed any comeback hopes the terriers may have had with a pair of goals on shots from the right point to put the game out of reach the score would have been much higher if not for decaires brilliance in staving off a searing spirit attack the rest of the way darcy king notched his tenth goal to open the scor ing for the spirit tying him for the team lead with line- mate kevin edgar mike micheff with his fifth and andrew patriarche with his third had the other stouf fville goals the game played in front of a large enthusiastic crowd also marked the debut of brian fish a 20- yearold veteran defence- man acquired from the bra- malea blues of the provin cial leagues west confer ence spirit head coach dan larmer was delighted with the animated performance given by the rugged 6- foot1 190 pounder as well as with lakos efforts it was a real big night for lakos and fish noted larmer spirit general manager clive moody was also impressed with fish hes a tough physical defence- man hes got a wealth of experience earlier this season fish was with port huron of the united states professional hockey league lakos credited his first two goals of the sea son to blind luck i was just shooting at the net and got lucky said the austri an native who has lived in canada the past five years luck or no luck lakos was all smiles i was pretty happy he admitted the win was the fifth in seven games for the spirit who also have a tie in that stretch it puts them two points up on the terriers with two games in hand in the battle for fourth spot in the phillips division the spirit are now setting their sights on the third place newmarket 87s hurricane who are four points ahead of the spirit but have played three more games we can beat newmar ket lakos boasted larmer also believes the hurricane are within sight weve got to look ahead saving the day spirit of stouffville goalkeeper cory lloyd has the puck under his blocker as he foiled couchiching terriers forward morris marshall on this scoring attempt in thursdays provincial junior a game at the rec centre trailing the play is spirit of stouffville defender steve pocock the spirit prevailed 62 pinio by lori emmerson of us now and try to catch newmarket he said we can play with any team in this league the coach praised his players for doing every thing youve got to do to win hockey games the guys are playing hard theyre playing outstanding hockey now theyre work ing hard and its showing the spirit were to play the first of two weekend road games against rud dock division opponents last night friday when they played the trenton sting the stouffville squad is in kingston to play the voyageurs on sunday the next home game is against the aurora tigers next thursday at 730 pm glen osborne team up to give senators the blues rick glen and randy osborne took matters into their own hands when the secondplace senators challenged the league leading blues in stouffville amateur hockey league over 40 division play sunday glen accounted for all of his teams scoring with a hat trick and osborne barred the door in a 30 win for the blues george sled set up two goals the victory left the blues in top spot with 10 points three ahead of the sens the maple leafs moved into a second place tie with the sens with a 62 triumph over the ducks damian comito and charlie ramsey each netted a pair for the winners to go with singles by bill hermanson and wayne emmerson bill anderson had three assists with ramsey earn ing two helpers it was bill thornhill and art vanesterik replying for the ducks in other divisional play richard bartley put on a shutout performance while garth kris- man don lloyd ron martyn and frank jago each lit the lamp in the black hawks 40 win over the whalers brent stachcls hat trick led the way as the flyers grounded the lightning 41 frank wildman had the fourth flyers goal dave tucker lionel henry and art nicholson each set up two goals for the flyers graham williams had the lone lightning goal nordiques devils share lead in under 40 division action the nordiques and devils remained tied for the first after both teams chalked up wins last wednesday the devils defeated the bruins 74 with cam wallis brian lemay dave beauchamp and ai currie sharing in the scoring rick lee and currie each picked up a pair of assists greg roberts with two jamie dunbar and ross newlands countered for the bruins lenny campitelli and doug sanders had two set ups apiece for the bruins the nords got goals from richard burkhold- er dave raymer graham summerhaycs and john barnett as they downed the flyers 42 dave manilla had two assists for the winners steve rcndall and steve avolcdo had the fly ers scores with ian billich setting up both scores the devils and nords each have 10 points the canadiens got two goals and an assist from gary moss as they bested the sharks 51 in the battle of the thirdplace teams jim walker terry porter and ron murphy rounded out the canadiens scoring while mur phy helped set up a trio of markers chris burk- holder had two assists greg blair notched the lone sharks marker the habs now have nine points ryan burkholder had two goals and an assist as the red wings flew over the rangers 51 kent jordan steve balsdon and tim mcneil had the other wings goals dave mehaffey responded for the rangers chris baggs was a twogoal man with pat madigan gary carr mark porter and scott connor adding solos as the ducks dimmed the north stars 62 connor madigan and tim robbins each col lected two assists for the ducks adam kennedy and bill hughes found the range for the stars mike sear mark paganclli and brian hen derson each clicked to enable the kings to douse the flames 31 doug bower had the flames goal juvenile clippers still perfect the mutual group juvenile clippers will be out to make it 1 1 wins in 1 1 league and exhibition starts when they host newmarket today at 8 pm at the rec centre the clippers continued their torrid pace with a 71 thrashing of keswick and a 32 decision over barrie in league games and a 70 win over the mthl 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