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v 5 5- c i s darcy king spirit forward earns hockey scholarship j bybrucesiapley correspondent itjwas a year of championships challenges and changes of scenery on the stouffville sporting staga v stouffville athletes traveled from coast to coast in pursuit of athletic hon ours while the town was represented once again in the world of professional sport it was also a year marked by sadness as 30yearveteran stouffville coach and adult sports advocate jim wagg who was named the towns sports personality of the year in 1997 suc cumbed to a year battle with cancer in february as always hockey dominated the stouffville sports scene former clipper brad may was traded to the vancouver canucks after six and a half seasons with the buffalo sabres keith acton who still calls stouffville home saw his philadelphia flyers elim inated in the first round of the nhl playoffs then bolted the flyers to accept an assistant coaching position with the new york rangers the spirit of stouffville finished its third provincial junior a hockey league season in last place in the phillips division with 16 wins 32 losses and two ties for 35 points the teams playmaking centreman darcy king sco led 35 goals and added 68 assists to finish second in the east conference scoring race linemate kevin edgar was sixth with 90 points despite their lowly finish the spirit saw a trio of theii players scooped up by ontario hockey league and univer sity teams south of the border king was signed by the university of massachusetts while seventeen-year- old forward kylcchaphan was the seci onclvmno selection of the plymouth whalers in the annual ohl draft the six foot three 205 pound aurora resi dent was picked 35th overall spirit cap tain jeff marshall was signed by ohio state university the spirit replaced its entire coach- t ing staff and general manager in april j new head coach brian perrin along with assistant coach craig doiiovan and new i general manager j dieter schmidt triggered a running feud between the spirit and the t newmarket hurricanes when they abandoned similar posts with the hurricanes to r join the spirit but 51 the spirit also promoted from within as 4 ken burrows moved from his post as head scout to assistant coach and n executive member eldon wagg was named assistant gm the spirit and i uxbridge bruins of the central ontario junior c hockey league finally joined forces signing an affiliation agreement 5 the long awaited amalgamation- of t the provincial league and the rival t metro jilnior a league in may set the j- j stage for rivalries between the spirit of i stouffville and the markham waxers thomhill rattlers and other gta area teams it was a banner year for stouffville 5 boys rep hockey as four rlinpers teams advanced as far as the third round on omhga playoff action- the midget clippers i swept fort erie three straight to advance to the omha finals against guclph but it was a costly vie- tory as three players were suspended jt rafter a brawl in the final game the j clippers fell three straight to guelph in jj- the provincial finalriie bantams and 5 juveniles made it to thtvomha semi- i finals v the minor atom and minor pee wee 5 clippers won their respective york i v simcoc championships the tykemite and major atom selects all won their jj yorksimcoe titles in girls hockey a i record seven whitchurchstouffville v i girls hockey association wsgha teams advanced to the provincial finals t with the stouffville stars pee wee and t atom girls both finishing first in nortli js metro girls i lockey league play brian perrin takes over as spirit head coach v stouffville tribune x- 1 5 -r- the year in sports many defining moments of national regional andjocal significance a year smi on the softball diamond three f stouffville aces wore the colours of gljj other towns as they earned distinction jjat he canadian junior mens fastball j championships in grande prairie alta in august vandorfsrinodambrosio was named most valuable player of the august v the stouffville peeweeboyswon the oasa silver medal then took the bronzevat the eastern canadian finals i prince- edwarcl island the stouffville squirt boys won i the bronze in the oasa finals stbuffviues- marlee johnson pitched the port marlee johnson pitches port perry to ball title 7 stait photosieve somerviue katie jones top shown here taking on her sisterjennie during a practice session at the sheffield judo club was one of six members that went to abbotsford bc to compete in the canadian championships jones ended up with a silver medal in the girls 52kg category round including two home runs and a threerun triple stouffvilles paul koert and evan boyd helped their napanee team to afourth place showing the stouffville stingers midget girls rep softball team took the gold at the provincial womens s softball association championship qualifier in perry angels to the title at the eastern canadian bantam girls vy softball championships in nova scotia- inwhatmay wellbe the end of the line j for sportv it once was at stouffville district secondary school sdss danielle timms and alison crowder were cowinners of the outstanding senior female athlete award for 199798 fwhile the senior boys honours went to ian hazlewood top junior athletes were amy mcelroy and shane timms it was the second year in a row as top senior athletes for hazlewood andcrowder the schools junior boys hockey team won the silver at the prestigious st mikes high school tournament in toronto tlie spartans then went all the way to the yraa championship game falling 43 to woodbridges father bressani i is the sdss senior girls spartans advanced to the ofsaa basketball finals by taking die silver at the yraa finals j oa the track last springsr5ssath lete josh sheriff qualified for the ofsaa track and field championships when heeame third in midget boys shbyput atthecehtral region ofsaa qualifier in may the schools tracy hocher won the gold in the midget girls 400metre race at the yraa championships in may i v the sdss girls slowpitch team took the yraa crown in june harness ing the wind for a last inning 65 win overstjoanofarcchs all sdss sports programs were shut down in the fall as teachers said they ho longer had the time to serve as coach es six jriembers of the sheffield judo club made the trip to abbotsford bc for the juvenile canadian judo championships- kyle cheeatow earnedthe silver in die boys 43kilo gram class while katie jones won silver in the girls 52kg class dustin and trevor cheeatow arid seiji ishigurdi all had fifth place showings the 1998 calendar year saw several stouffville riders prove themselves in the canadian equestrian arena- whitchurchstouffville resident margaret biggs reaffirmed her position as tliis countrys top amateur saddle seat equitation rider leading canada to the silver medal at the world cup of saddle seat equitation in south africa c sec pearck page 2b yourtoroiytarfillg ford mercury dealers theres till time to get a great deal on a make your best deal 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