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2 p 16 the tribune tuesday december 9 1997 st the tribune got a score call our hotline at 6402100 tigers tame spirit bruce stapley correspondent it was the real spirit of stouffville that showed up to play the tigers in aurora on friday but a secondperiod letdown enabled the host team to squeak out a victory the tigers scored four times in the middle peri od then hung on to claim a 75 win in the provin cial junior a hockey league contest the spirit challenged in the third but the aurora squad iced it with an empty net marker in the dying seconds it was a much better game than thursday a 93 loss to the lindsay muskies said spirit head coach dan larmer who had expressed extreme disappointment with how his team per formed against the muskies the previous night it wasnt even the same team out there held their own larmer noted that the spirit more than held their own in the first period which ended in a 2- 2 tie while outscoring the tigers 21 in the third we played a real good first and third period but we made some mistakes in the second and aurora capitalized theyve got some good play ers winger randy stolec netted his third and fourth goals since joining the spirit last month defenceman craig giuliani notched his first marker with kevin edgar counting his 19th putting him one behind team leader darcy king ed kearney scored his third of the campaign centre phil barski collected four assists the spirit were without three regulars for fri days game first line winger geoff keillor rein- jured his knee in thursdays match and could be outanywhere from one to two weeks said larmer winger joe byles missed the game with the flu while forward paul zderic was serving a suspen sion larmer was willing to give his players the ben efit of the doubt for being somewhat fatigued after a busy schedule that has seen them play 14 games over the last month with twice a week practices as well northern trip took its toll last weekends gruelling- road trip in northern ontario also took its toll he said its been a tough grind thats a lot more hock ey than what some of the players are used to theyre past the midway point of the season and they may be suffering a little from the november- december blahs but the coach said his team has to get back on track if theyre going to take a run at a playoff position with the muskies and couchiching terriers now a full six points ahead of the spirit in the bat tle for the fourth and final phillips division play off spot the spirit has its work cut out for it weve the coaches got to keep challenging them but they should be able to motivate them selves the spirit were to travel to cobourg on monday to take on the ruddock division cougars then meet the muskies again in lindsay on friday the sturgeon falls lynx are in town for a sat urday night rec centre date spiking up a storm stouffville stingrays megan bomberry gets set to spike this ball during firstround action against georgetown in saturdays stouffville stingrays volleyball tournament at unionvillc high school plwto by steve somerv1lle blues dodge lightning remain atop over40 loop herb forgie and steve dabous went were no man has gone for the past four weeks in stouffville amateur hockey league over40 division play at the rec centre on sunday the lightning players managed to score against blues goalie randy osborne breaking the goalies string of four straight shutouts but the firstplace blues still managed to sneak away with a 32 win on goals by randy gray bruce gribbon and george sled larry penny had two assists for the lightning meanwhile the senators remained five points back of the blues in second spot with a 32 win over the maple leafs blair emmerson paul guest and rocky copithorn had the senators goals bill anderson and damian comito replied for the maple leafs athlete oftheweek randy osborne randy has been perfect in net while posting four consecutive shut outs for the blues in stouffville amateur hockey league 40 and over division play way to guard the twine tent randy sponsored by stouffville 6327 main st ier stouffville the ducks got goals from dale vick and paul robinson with jack holder clicking for the whalers in a 2- 1 win for the ducks bob smith frank jago and joe infurnari lit the lamp to lead the black hawks to a 31 wjn over the flyers garth krisman had two assists for the winners theres a three- way tic for first piacc ip thp under40 division after the sharks and nordiques both won to pull even with the devils sharks devour devils the sharks went headtohcad with the devils with ed burkholdcr scoring twice in a 21 sharks victory paul bergman had the devils goal the nordiques laid claim to their piece of top spot with a 71 thrashing of the flames dave barss netted a pair for the nordiques with singles going to kelly burrows graham summerhayes john bar- nctt scott naylor and chris leonard naylor had three assists with brandon pridham setting up two goals steve schneider scored for the flames gerry ratcliff was invincible in the flyers net as his team blanked thecanadiens 30 richard bartlcy paul dermondy and steve avoledo were the marksmen tim mcneil netted a pair and ryan burkholdcr added to his divisionalleading scoring lead as the red wings downed the north stars 4- 1 wayne smith had the fourth wings goal jeff bower counted the lone stars score gary carr netted a pair with his 13th and 14th to pull into a secondplace tic behind burkholdcr in the goals race as the ducks tied the rangers 33 jamie showers had the other ducks goal mark savery also counted his 1 4th for the rangers who got their other goals from dave mehaffey and murray pat- tenden mike sear scored twice to enable the kings to hold the bruins to a 44 tie chris miller and troy cadarct rounded out the kings scor ing with cadarct picking up two assists as well the bruins goals came off the sticks of jamie dunbar greg roberts dave showers and tim folowcll roberts also chipped in with two asissts to up his divisional leading points total to 33 paisley figures well at eastern canadian divisional clinton paisley was draped in gold at the eastern canadian divisional skating championships in peter borough last weekend the 1 6yearold goodwood area resident finished in first place overall in the novice mens category at the meet the former uxbridgc skating club member posted secondplace finishes in both the short program and in his free skate this was good enough to earn him a first place overall finish paisleys big win qualifies him for the canadian mens figure skating championships which will be held in hamilton next month paisley advanced to the eastern canadian divisional finals by taking the gold at the central ontario sec tionals in november paisley has skated the last five years as a member of the toronto cricket skating and curling club