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18 stouffville suntribunemthursdaymardi 12007 stouffville suntribune actons return lifts spirit scores second goal on borrowed skate will acton scored two goals one on a borrowed skate and mark sullivan netted the winner and an assist as the stouffville spirit defeated the collingwood blues 31 in collingwood tuesday the spirit leads the provin cial jr a hockey league north conference bestofseven semifinal series 20 game 3 goes tonight in stouffville at 730 pm its nice to finally con tribute after sitting out and watching for so long said acton who returned to the lineup last thursday after six weeks on the injured list acton and sullivan are both stouffville natives and gradu ates of the whitchurch-stouf- fville minor hockey associa tion acton broke a skate in the second period borrowed one from injured teammate peter driikos and put it on in the stands before notching the insurance goal with 27 seconds to play captain randy johnston assisted on both acton goals trevor oneill earned his second win of the series and was named game mvp by his teammates the blues were outshot 4129 in front of 480 fans game 4 goes friday in collingwood with the fifth game if necessary saturday night in stouffville aurora defeated newmar ket 43 in overtime tuesday to take a 21 lead in the other north semifinal game 4 goes tonight in newmarket sports hands up lisii staff photosjoerd witteveen peri scheliga of stouffvilles st brigid goes up for a shot in a sea of markham st josephs arms during final of the york region catholic school basketball area championships at father mcgivney academy in markham tuesday st josephs won 2318 but both teams advance to regional championships tues day in unionville st brigid won the zone championship last week one game for york title the stouffville district secondary school spartans varsity boys hockey team has one shot at winning the york region athletic association title they play markhams brother andre catholic high school cardinals in a onegame winnertakeall contest at mount joy arena in markham tomor row at 230 pm because both teams will advance to the ontario federation of school ath letic associations championships in oshawa march 22 to 24 a decision was made just to play one game spartans head coach jamie hewitt said the spartans who finished second in the east division with a 521 record declared to compete in the aa division the cardinals who finished first in the east with a 611 mark will play in the aaaa bracket emis over the last five ontario minor hockey association sea sons town of new tecumseth proved to be a nemesis for the stouffville minor bantam clip pers especially during the provin cial playoffs not this year the clippers ended tnts hex in the fourth round of the bestoffive playoffs by winning the series in four games cli maxed saturday with a 52 victo ry in alliston gjnuxsing a slim 32 lead in the second period the clippers gained some breathing room on a goal by robbie acton an empty net goal by joseph palladino on an assist from acton late in the third period iced the game josh machesney scored twice while curtis crago acton and joseph palladino had singles palladino also had two assist in the series opener feb 17 in alliston the clippers overcame a twogoal deficit to take the lead late in the contest before tnt rallied to tie the game and score the winner in overtime to skate offwitha43win connor cadaret scored twice for the clippers while maches ney had the other goal in stouffville feb 20 the clippers got off to a good start and held on for a 64 win to even the series crago had a goal and two assists for the clippers who led 10 after one period and 51 part way through the second before tnt mounted a small rally acton tait cadaret machesney and beloff scored in stouffville friday the clip pers took a twogamestoone lead with a 53 victory maches ney scored twice for the clip pers hembruff machesney and smith each added single tallies kyle pontone played in net for first two games while gabe grunwald handled the final two the clippers face quinte west in the omha semis atoms playing whitby the stouffville atom a clip pers captured their second straight omha yorksimcoe championship saturday with a 64 victory over the bradford bulldogs chris jarret scored twice for the clippers while owen pearce josh burkholder mitchell smith and robbie armstrong each added singles in the opener the clubs battled to a 22 tie chris cadaret scored a goal and added an assist while evan smith added the other marker after bradford won the sec ond game 74 the clippers came back to even the series with a 42 win mitchell smith scored twice for the clippers while burkhold er and spencer roberts chipped in with single tallies the clippers then took the upper hand in the series by win ning the fourth game 43 evan smith mitchell smith burkholder and armstrong scored jake murray and cam nowikow split netminding duties throughout the series in winning the series the clippers will now advance to the omha eastern semifinals and face whitby in a bestoffive series that began yesterday in whitby the clippers return to stouffville arena for the second game sunday at 430 pm juveniles open at home for the stouffville juvenile clippers the waiting is over the clippers open the best- offive semfinal tomorrow against trentonbased quinte west in stouffville at 9 pm the series will resume in quinte for the second and third games saturday at 8 pm and sunday at 730 pm the fourth game will be played in stouffville march 9 at 9 pm quinte would host a fifth game march 10 at 8 pm a sixth game would be played march 11 in stouffville two great jasons to own a corkscrew two great wines delivered to your door every month these wines not available anywhere else in ontario in affiliarion with yirife in partnership with ttt th oiffrnc visit wwwyorkregionwineclubcom or call 416 5328565 or 18669792946 york region wine club