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p2athettubunejufsday i st the tribune sports got a score call our hotline at 6402100 spirit drop two on the weekend down but not quite out the spirit of stouffville still have an outside chance of achieving the goal they set at the outset of their third provincial junior a hockey league season the spirit who fell 52 to the kingston voyageurs on saturday at the rec centre before being blanked 80 by the hurricanes in newmarket on sun day have 35 points with three games left in the season we said we were shooting for 40 points at the start of the season 20 wins said head coach dan larrrier who noted his team only managed eight wins last season we figured that would be enough to make the playoffs he added but with the tightness of the phillips division the spirit are the only team which has been below the 500 mark all season long the vast improvement just wasnt enough its been an emotional battle since last september said larmer we were still in it until a week or so ago but now its a huge let down the guys have worked so hard the spirit were without east confer ence leading scorer darcy king for both weekend games the prolific centreman was suspend ed after being drawn into a fight against the collingwood blues last thursday it was the first action king has missed in two years with the stouf fville club the spirits number two centre phil barski was sidelined for sundays game which saw newmarket strike for six second period goals to run off with the game its hard to win without your top two centres offered larmer barski and geoff keillor had the spirit goals saturday against kingston the match was a make up game for the jan 10 match that had to be rescheduled due to the ice storm the spirit entertain the couchiching terriers thursday night at the rec centre then travel to orillia for a return match friday the stouffville club closes out the season against newmarket at the rec centre sunday at 730 pm a spirited win for tykes justin hulshof had the hat trick and malcolm forbes netted a pair to give the houston ford tyke spirit an 82 central ontario wolves aaa hockey association box 544 lindsay ontk9v4s5 coaching applications now available from executive members or for more details please call kelly 3249027 rosanne 7996861 deadline for applications february 21 1998 we thank all applicants who apply and advise that only these applicants chosen for an interview will be contacted win over whitby in recent action michael sooley patrick salvagna and grant sommerville had single scores for stouffville assists went to chris lombardo three brad maxwell two kyle cussion forbes hulshof sooley and dennis oshaughnessy the win enabled the selects to end the regular season with a record of nine wins five losses and two ties sportsman of the week jim wagg jim who passed away after a three year battle with cancer last week proved to le just as exemplary in dealing with lifes adversities as he was coaching managing and promoting local sport teams and organizations over the past three decades way to tough it out until the final buzzer jim sponsored by stouffville 1gr 6327 main st stouffville sharks feast on opposition panthers tie the stouffville sharks and pan thers hockey teams held their own recently against durham in the first games played by the local ladies squads lj bartel and lauren porter scored to give the sharks a 21 victory in their game assists went to joan rainbow and susie stiner while mahdy patterson shone in the stouffville goal it was lisa rivers scoring her teams lone goal as the panthers played durham to a 11 tic porter and stephanie bruno assisted hazel crammond was solid in the panthers net wheres the puck m stanton electroplating goalkeeper christopher boakc searches franti cally for a loose puck as this harveysswiss chalet opponent centre and boakes teammate right do battle in front of the net during saturdays whitchurchstouffville minor hockey asso ciation tyke contest at the rec centre the stanton team won the game 54 photo by sjoerd witteveen jim wagg exemplified good sportsmanship the lord said the voice of the prominent stouffville sports personality on the other end of the telephone line last friday morning works in strange and mysterious ways how else can you possibly account for the threeyear battle with the relentless cancer which finally led to the death of exemplary stouffville sportsman and all round good guy jim wagg last week jim was about as far removed from the vince lombardi winning isnt everything its the only thing mentality as you could find in his 30 years as a kids hockey and ball coach adult sports team and league organizer he always believed that just to be out there was all that counted winning was just a nice bonus he never wanted to see a big fuss made about any thing he did that was made quite clear last summer when i talked to him upon his being named the towns sports personality of the year he had reached yet another turning point in his cancer treat ment and was to be told within a month or so what his chances of survival were but dont say anything about that in your story he insisted having gone a whole eight months can cer free before being afflicted by his second bout with the disease here he was once again at the cross roads an yet there was not anxiety no cried of why me just the same basic upbeat approach to life he always exemplified he was ever at peace with what ever the powers that be had in mind for him no mat ter how much he might have to endure and he had to endure his share healthwise and at times in other areas of life jim suggested his willingness to get involved with kids sports three decades back was the result of his own childhood in toronto west end in the 1940s there had been no one to organize a game for the kids back then and he saw his move to stouffville as sports notes bruce s tap ley a chance to make up for that he eventually came to see that sports just wasnt for kids and threw himself into adult sport with the same gusto he had once reserved for the kids he was there when they founded the stouffville amateur hock ey league and was on the scene when the monday night mens lob ball league came to be the mens ball league may well be the most successful sports mens league of its kind with no umpires and a min imum of formality it represents the ultimate in sport for the sheer pleasure of it the mens hockey league has also flourished on the principle of fairness and equity jim told me those two leagues represented his proudest involvements its just not going to be the same this summer without jim sitting there on the picnic table beside the snack bar at monday night ball even though we all knew he was being hit with left and right jabs by his adversaryjhe past three years he kept bouncing back leaving us all to believe therewas an aura of invincibility to him and in the end as we alluded to at the outset in this col umn i suppose his example both on the playing field and in his time of physical affliction were designed to make us all take a good look at our own lives jims legacy the true essence of the man as a sportsman could well be what he told me during our conversation last summer upon his being cited for his town award i think that somewhere somehow we should find a way of having this code embla zoned on every ball park and ice surface in stouf- fvijle for me its always been the game not to win as long as we have a good time thats all that matters jim wagg qn behalf of everyone whose lives you made that much better by giving them a chance to play thanks for all the good times jim i