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18 stouffville suntribune thursday sept 28 2006 stouffville suntribune sports lades dull jr last week sunday lost 105 against oakville blades now 3201 on season and in third place in north conference standings coming up today vs orangeville crushers at stouffville arena 735 pm friday at collingwood blues 8 pm game notes when the stouffville spirit faced the oakville blades last season the stakes were high as the provincial junior a hockey leagues northwest conference title was on the line while trie spirit won last years bat tle against the blades such wasnt the case sunday when the two teams met in bowmanville during the leagues gov ernors showcase event the blades came out flying from the opening face- off and cruised to a 105 win james mcintosh daniel spivak myles gomes mike cudmore and randy johnston scored for the spirit who trailed 30 after one period and as much as 60 just past the midway point of the sec ond period before cutting its deficit to 82 after 40 minutes with the excep tion of cudmores goal each of the spir its tallies came on the power play corey rematch trivino collected two assists the spirit outshot the blades 3530 the spirit played without the services of veteran forwards donivan munro mike foy and josh domingues all are injured notebook will acton steve kapolnas and joel sheppard were named as the spirits assistants to captain randy johnstontom milne has joined the spirit as assistant coach he was head coach in couchiching which has taken a years leave last season he was on the aurora tigers staff when they won the national jr a championship in 2004 his son matt also ex of couch iching is playing goal for newmarket generally speaking the game obviously wasnt great oakville is a pretty solid team they have lots of speed and they humbled us quickly the work ethic wasnt as high as it needed to be until the third period but we took a few positives out from the game spir it head coach dan west said oakville was ready to play usthey definitely had revenge on their minds west warned his club had better do an about face orangeville will be the hardest working club weve seen so far and collingwood is a solid team that usually plays well at home these two games will be a good test for us insider for live scoring go to pointstreakcom or whistleradiocom orangeville coach steve chelios is brother of detroit red wing chris chelios team president is hall of famer dale hawerchuk for more on the spirit log on to vmwstoulfiillespiritcom spartans hope to spike ofsaa berth seniors advanced to uxbridge tourney semifinals by mike hayakawa staff writer stouffville district secondary school spartans senior boys volleyball team head coach steve jimmo says his squad is ok for the time being but he feels theres potential for bigger and better things down the road among those expectations he said is to qualify again for the ontario federation of school athletic associations aaa playoffs the spartans saw some of that promise when they advanced to the semifinals of last weekends uxbridge sec ondary school tournament finishing atop the standings in their pool with 20 victories over dunbarton secondary school ajax and patrick fogar- ty orillia and splitting games with host uxbridge secondary school and notre dame ajax the spartans faced eastdale col legiate in the semifinals before falling in two straight sets 25- 20 2523 weve got a fairly young team this year jimmo said of his club which went to the ofsaa aaa playdowns last year although they were a aa school our goal is to make it to ofsaa and we know that well have to beat some stronger teams this year to get there i think we have some good potential and a lot of good athletes among the players expected to buoy the spartans attack are middle matt martiniello who was the clubs most valuable player last year along with set ter fletcher muir power mark lofthouse strong middle fred bell and libera kyle law whom jimmo says has good power and is a smart athlete jimmo was quick to note his club has a nice group of first- year seniors on his roster that graduated from a successful junior spartans squad from last season so impressive was this class that jimmo noted he was forced to cut some players who were on last years senior club joining the senior entry this year are power john reesor right side devin paynter setter maverick muir ryan ponfone matt raguseo and alex man- gotich weve definitely got lots of depth for us to be successful the younger guys will have to learn more of our system play ing at the uxbridge tournament was a good way to get our feet wet the spartans were to begin york region athletic association action tuesday for more on high school sports log on to wwwyraacom fit y- 2j i v vv i got it nicole murphy of scs consulting group snares this ball hit off the bat of a web ber naturals batter during last weekends tuesday night ladies slopitch year- end tournament at memorial park the scs team won the tournament title mennos to face ravens in semifinals the stouffville mennos were forced to play the waiting game as to who their semifinal opponent would be in the oshawa city and district fastball league playoffs now they know starting today the mennos will face the oshawa ravens in the first game of a bestofthree series at memorial park starting at 830 pm the dates for the remaining games in the series had yet to be determined as of press time com and fill out our brief online survey just by answering a few r jf ivuiliivtor pntry i momliy cvtobcr 2 2flrtfirit 4i jm winner nil be chosen bv rantfom druv i sssfj0 jrs d s jyf sjjfjpfyfjgsjs sjsf pikupmd return mint tn- in york rccifinxoafmnceiw liclw arte wnner miwhilincfil ff- rrfl- cvr- tfcfwlfrtfr ctrf- lmu went vywninvinm wm onwrkrvrhnoim rmrmsrl tw w ixv region rvmdcnpto he rhjnnt to tvin f nirinl- nnm llo vvcr 1 4iiluminc niotin mtv npjelod oniric- lirrti