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26 stouffville suntribune u thursday feb 10 2005 stouffville suntribune knapp bowls them over in stoufrville nanaimo lefthander is big shooter on mixed league team by jim thomas correspondent a 39yearold markham mother of three is setting the stouffville bowling centre ablaze debbie knapp of the tuesday night mixed league is burning up the alleys with an average of 254 knapps high single here is 398 but her personal best is 410 estab lished in surrey bc where she once resided a native of nanaimo bc knapp honed her skills in youth bowling council there beginning at age six on arriving in markham she called john white owner operator of stouffville bowl i wanted a night out so asked what leagues were available she recalls the stouffville alleys are per fect just like i knew back home im happy here her teammates al edwards george mckay chic minaker and shirley mahoney are happy also not only does knapp pad their totals she adds a social lustre to the sport that everyone enjoys the markham lefthander favours nothing fancy but depends mainly on straight balls to chalk up points if it aint broke dont fix it is her motto knapp comes with a reputation while in surrey she placed fifth in a provincial ladies singles division her other sporting interest is ladies fastpitch knapp says shes not intimidated by mixed league play i love beating the boys she laughs apart from the social aspect of the game knapp says bowling is excel lent exercise her youngest a fouryearold is already taking up the sport he uses two hands while knapp has enjoyed her time on the lanes since she first took up the game any thoughts of retiring in the future are far from her mind no way she says its what i want to do the rest of my life debbie knapp first took to the bowling lanes when she was six years old in british columbia sports staff photosjoerd witteveen arm up on the action stouffville district secondary school spartans dan locksley left gets fouled by sutton district secondary schools taylor sillito during action in mondays york region athletic association tier two senior boys basketball game at stouffville the spartans prevailed 5644 kyle law was high scorer for the spartans with 17 points minor peewee ae clippers host british team in friendly the stouffville minor peewee ae clippers will take on the role of diplomats friday when they will play an exhibition game against a team from great britain at the stouffville arena at 7 pm the clippers will face the flintshire flyers who made stouffville a stop on an exhibition tour of southern ontario spectators are welcome to attend east gwillimbury eliminated in sixgame playoff series in yorksimcoe playoff action taylor clifford scored two goals including the gamewinner with 12 seconds remaining in regulation time to propel the clippers to a 43 win at the stouffville arena the win gave the clippers a firstround series victory in six games over east gwillimbury trailing 32 with 30 seconds remaining in regulation time the clippers knotted the count on a goal by robert spencer to set the stage for cliffords heroics mitch price accounted for the other clippers goal gabe grunwald played a superb game in goal spirit sets out to tame terriers first game in bestofseven series goes tonight at stouffville arena stouffville spirit players reported for practice monday with the prerequisite playoff haircuts plus a few unplanned touches added to the mohawk cuts some dyed red was a chipped tooth and other ailments picked up in a 33 tie with the couchiching terriers sunday afternoon in orillia it was a meaningless final game of the regular season for the spirit 252031 which finished in third place in the sixteam north conference of the provincial jr a hockey league see final standings on page 27 the spirit will meet the same terriers 123232 who ended up in last place but still had a mathematical shot at fifth with a win sunday game 1 in the bestofseven conference quarterfinal goes tonight at 730 pmat the stouffville arena with the second game tomorrow in orillia the third game will be played next thursday in stouffville with game 4 feb 18 in orillia sundays game may have been a postsea son preview the spirit rested sev eral- players playing with fewer than three forward lines and endured what team offi cials called cheap shots they were going after our key players said thirdyear defence- man ian brunt a mem- m wm gf mewnnng ber of the spirit squad goal for spntn saturday s 32 vc- that swept couchiching over newmarket in the first round two years ago it was just playoff hockey they went after me they jumped leading scorer ty raine they hit chris harris from behind lombardo lost part of a tooth to a stick jeff barbieri randy johnston and jake van allen scored for the spirit who trailed 20 in the first period dan mcwhinney was in net for his second straight start didnt play well sunday we didnt play our best said brunt well have more thursday the spirit won the other five games played between the teams this season it was playofflike the night before in stouffville brunt scored with four seconds left in overtime to give the spirit a 32 win over the newmarket hurricanes newmarket still had a shot at first place going into the game raine and simon gysbers gave the spirit leads of 10 and 2i with goals jake van allen had two assists all three goals were scored on the power play mcwhinney made several outstanding saves for the spirit who outshot newmarket 3632 brunt and mcwhinney shared mgh office repairs player of the game honours firstplace aurora must cross over and play syracuse in its firstround series beginning tomorrow elsewhere in the north secondplace newmarket meets streetsville starting tonight and huntsville opens with collingwood tomorrow spirited notes stouffville finished with the low est penalty average 2171 minutes per game in the north and the second best goals against average 320 to auroramarkham 3529 had the most penalties in the 35team league and bomanville the best goals against 198 for more on the spirit log on to wwwstoufmllespiritcom