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18 economist sunsun2ribune sports saturday april 22 2006 bc lions hope to get a kick or two out of sciortino markham native will miss playing football in ottawa by mike hayakawa staff writer sandro sciortino was in the middle of making plans to resume his professional football career in ottawa this year however the 27yearold markham resident will be mak- ing a detour to abbotsford bg to attend the training camp of the bc lions after the canadian football league folded the ottawa rene gades for the upcoming season players who were on the clubs roster which included sciortino wereplaced into a dispersal draft that took place last week as a kicker for the renegades who was inactive during the 2005 season after being diag nosed with testicular cancer dur ing his rookie campaign in sep tember 2004 sciortino was cho sen by the lions in the fourth round 24th overall appeaitogm renegades first 14 games of the 2004 season and compiling 90 points on 17 of 30 field goals and 35 of 36 con verts sciortino said he was a lit tle surprised the lions drafted himibjecause they already signed p sandro sciortino feels totally healthy after beating testicular can cer in 2004 former saskatchewan roughrid- ers kicker and surrey bc native paul mccallum as a free agent in february i was definitely planning on going back to ottawa sciortino said thursday from his markham residence but the lions are a great team and i like the coaching staff since i knew them when they were in calgary and they originally drafted me 12th overall in the 2003 cfl col lege draft ive talked with wally buono lions general manager and head coach and he said its my job to make his job more difficult as to who to keep on the roster mccallum is a good kicker and im sure the odds are in his favour to make the team ill just have to go in there and try do my best citing he now feels 100 per cent fine and still visiting doc tors for a bimonthly physical examination sciortino accentu ated the positive saying with a good showing in training camp and the preseason another cfl team could show interest in him if he were released reflecting on what transpired in ottawa sciortino said he casually monitored the situation during the offseason and thought the renegades would find a way to stay afloat but he was disappointed when the final decision was made i built some good relation ships with people in ottawa but im sure ill see the people that i know there at some point down the road the boston college and brother andre catholic high school graduate said with a team folding in ottawa for a second time sciortino isnt optimistic a thirdtime revival is likely to happen they didnt get it right the second time so i dont know how they can come back its too bad because ottawa is a great town he said atom stars shine at provincials just call them provincial champions the markhamstduffville atom a stars skated off with that coveted title at the recent championships that was cli- maxed with a 20 win over nepean in the championship tilt at mississauga with the contest scoreless through two periods the stars delivered the eventual gamewinning marker with close to three minutes remaining in reg ulation time on a goal by laura wyatt the stars put the game on ice with 15 seconds remaining with an empty net marker by defenceman megan rushlow firstyear netminder paige lau recorded her fourth shutout of the tour nament in reaching the final the stars defeated guelph 10 nepean 32 sud bury 10 in a quarterfinal game and 2- 0 in a semifinal encounter the whole weekend was a 100per cent team effort said stars head coach brett rushlow of his teams perform ance in the tournament every girl on this team played their best hockey of the season i am very proud of every one of them scoring for the stars in the tourna ment were charlotte hodgson and wyatt with two goals apiece carly cooper jessica gillham hailey noron- ha michelle rushlow and megan rushlow other team members that con tributed to the clubs title run included haillie wannop rachel girolametto- prosen carolyn zepieri laura pen- stone christina schellenberg and sports digest kelsey sear also coaching the team are david norbnha and annie fallenbruk marina schellenberg was the clubs trainer and jon wyatt manager boys give gym dandy effort jeremy barthlomesz led a contin gent of competitors representing the markham gymnastics club by finishing fifth in the allaround segment in the level 1 under 10 mens provincial championships held recently in oakville in individual events barthlomesz first on floor and pommels fourth rings fifth vault seventh parallel bars and eighth high bar in addition to the two firstplace fin ishes barthlomesz won a gold medal as part of the winning metro east team among results posted by other markham entrants kevin hsiao was 14th in the allaround in the level 1 10- 12 years division and teammate gian- marco mastrantoni was 29th hsiaos best individual effort was a second on vault and fourth parallel bars and high 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