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xz stouffville suntribune thursday feb 3 2005 stouffville suntribune sports staff photosjoerd witteveen shooting with a steady hand paul higgins of orchard park public school delivers this free throw attempt dur ing last weeks annual knights of columbus basketball free throw championship competition at st mark catholic school winners of the compe tition included danielle insley ballantrae public school in the 10yearold girls division patrick clause ballantrae 10yearold boys shannon grant orchard park public school 11 yearold girls james mcleod glad park public school 11 yearold boys jennifer carter orchard park 12yearold girls jeremy brownridge glad park 12yearold boys irina olarium ballantrae 13yearold girls michael finn st mark 13yearold boys and michael carvalho orchard park 14yearold boys the winners advance to the district championship at brother andre catholic high school in markham tonight at 7 pm minor peewees move on the stouffville minor peewee clippers advanced to the third round of the ontario minor hockey association playoffs by defeating orillia in three straight games cap ping it off with a 52 win friday robbie acton scored two goals while david beloff and curtis crago each had a goal and one assist connor cadaret had the other goal brett hembruff recorded three assists while elise acton had two and josh machesney one backed by two goals and one assist from beloff the clippers won the series opener 52 chris smith and hembruff each added a goal and one assist while robbie acton scored once crago cadaret machesney jeff leushcner and michael bourgeois were each credited with one helper the clippers then took a strangle hold in the series with a 51 win in the second game crago ignited the offence with two goals while tait and machesney each added a goal and two assists and smith one goal beloff and wesley brown had one assist apiece the clippers will face bradford in the third round spirit gets back to business after playing nhl idols regular season ends this weekend its back to reality tonight for the stouffville spirit after some time on fantasy island players on the provincial jr a hockey league team were still buzzing this week over going up against their idols in a cancer charity game sunday the spirit lost 156 to keith actons allstars in the game of our lives ii in front of 1300 people at the stouffville arena playing against current nhlers gary roberts tie domi joe nieuwendyk and ed belfour and several recent retirees was still the talk of the dressing room tuesday gary roberts called me by name at a faceoff spirit cap tain michael lombardo who played with roberts brother greg in a summer league said then in the corner he just picked me and shook me lombardo owner of several doug gilmour jerseys asked the ex- leaf to show him one of his faceoff moves in the hall ways between periods gilmour took him on the ice and gave him a miniclinic it was unreal he said michael lombardo spirit cap tain says club must treat final regu lar season games like playoffs the spirit may have received a taste of what they will see in the playoffs starting next week dayn belfour son of leaf netminder ed played half of sundays game for the allstars his club team the streetsville derbys of the west conference is the most likely firstround opponent for the spirit that series would likely include home games in stouffville feb 10 and 12 spirit general manager ken burrows said lombardo says the spirit which will finish third in the sixteam north conference must treat its final three regu lar season games like the post season we have to play hard for 60 minutes and prepare the best we can just like the play offs were starting tonight he said the spirit hosts firstplace aurora tonight and second- place newmarket saturday both are 730 starts it finishes the schedule sunday afternoon at lastplace couchiching see standings on page 23 the spirit lost 41 in aurora friday exspirit forward cale tanaka led aurora with a goal and an assist the spirit held period leads of 30 and 60 en route to a 10- 1 pounding of the ajax axemen at home saturday lombardo picked up the hat trick with brock ouellet and patrick lee each scoring a pair jake van allen randy johnston and cory battista had one goal each steve filippelli picked up the win and an assist for more on the spirit log on to wwwstouftvillespiritcom swim club splash hit with town youth enrolment growing for young ducks by jim thomas correspondent the stouffville ducks swim club organized three years ago is still in its infancy but the membership continues to grow at present 18 are enrolled 1 1 in competitive classes and seven in noncompetitive affiliated with a club in aurora the stouffville team is coached by club president reg chappell adam porteous and yorick tong are assistant coaches tong is also a deck supervisor employed by the town of whitchurch- stouffville swimmers range in age from seven to 17 years theres also a masters class for adults 19 years and up with competitive and non competitive classes available depending on the wishes of the individual we want to give every child an opportunity to excel says tong but no boy or girl is pushed beyond his or her physical or psychological limits yorrick tong swim coach says purpose of the club is to give par ticipants a chance to do well competitions are usually held monthly says tong in guelph barrie mississauga brampton and milton the four basic tests of skill are freestyle backstroke breast stroke and butterfly amazing improvement tong describes as amaz ing the improvement he sees in a swimmer even after only one year our focus is on develop ment he said we want each swimmer to do his best but he also wants sessions to be fun if they didnt enjoy it they wouldnt be here at six oclock in the morning he notes because stouffville is pri marily a hockey town interest among boys tails off during their teen years tong says membership is still wide open he states with 60 a maximum of course he adds as the membership grows we can always add more coach es although the stouffville swim club operates inde pendently from other pool programs tong says it receives excellent coopera tion from the town they the town are very supportive he said they want the facility to be used stouffvilles swim team includes jan viljoen julia ewing bethwideman bethany philpott jaimee mellorhill morgan brown and lauren wallis other club members are kevin boehnke robertson brown melissa karwat jake silverthorn mary kate spencer carter mcghie dan flaherty alysha mcfee melanie eastmanmills melissa mellor- hill and connor morrow