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stouffville suntribunem thursday march 8 2007 19 stouffville suntribune sports j staff photosjoerd witteveen stouffville district secondary school spartans celebrate winning the york region boys hockey title in markham monday spartans work ot for title by jim mason staff writer stephen mollers eyes lit up as he saw the loose puck and the opennet then the stouffville district sec ondary school forward lit up the score board at mount joy arena in markham with a goal that won the york region high school senior boys hockey cham pionship monday afternoon mollers goal 242 into overtime lift ed stouffvilles spartans to a 43 win over markhams brother andre catholic high school cardinals in the onegame championship final the puck was sitting right there said moller after being mobbed by his teammates under the arena score clock i just had to chip it in moller who plays club hockey for the stouffville clipper a midgets has scored a couple of other overtime win ners for the spartans this year but this ones a bit bigger he said stouffville which killed off a five-on- three situation in the third period was playing with two extra skaters in over time thanks to a pair of brother they never quit theyve been the same way ail year jamie hewitt coach of stouffville district secondary school spartans andre minors sault ste marie greyhound draft pick jack carricks second goal of the game with 1274 seconds to play in reg ulation tied the score at 44 for stouf fville and sent the game to the extra period dennis oshaughnessy had the other stouffville goal brad whittingstall made several big saves in the stouffville net they never quit stouffville coach jamie hewitt said of his spartans theyve been the same way all year hewitt called time out late in regula tion the diagrammed play fell apart but his direction of go to the net paid off on the tying and winning markers steve carroll mike kotsopolous and ryan goodridge responded for brother andre which has a sizable student population from stouffville both teams advance to the ontario federation of school athletic associa tions championships in oshawa march 2224 stouffville which finished second in the east division with a 521 record will compete in the aa division the cardinals who finished first in the east with a 611 mark will play in the aaaa bracket for larger schools cardinal coach dave turner admit ted his team had chances to ice the game late while leading but failed to capitalize there was also a cardinal goal called off that spectators at the north end of the rink thought should have counted this loss will help us going to ofsaa he said i feel very good about our team it was the first time the schools have met in the york playoffs brother andre dominated the regu lar season series between the schools for more on the provincial championships go to ofsaahockey2007com spirit underdogs in north final the stouffville spirit opens the north conference final tomorrow night as underdogs theyre not complaining about the role all three members of the rogers tv panel of jr a experts including ex- markham coach russ her- rington have picked the aurora tigers to beat the spirit in as few as five games the series opens tomor row at 730 pm at the auro ra community centre the second game in the best-of- seven goes saturday at 8 pm at the stouffville arena the defending north champion spirit swept play off series against cobourg and collingwood to reach the final while aurora blew out buffalo in four straight and needed six games to knock off a pesky newmar ket hurricane squad irs the regular season that separates them the tigers went 4441 to the second- place spirits 281632 and are ranked no 1 in canada still spirit head coach dan west notes his team beat aurora took them to overtime and played them tough in all but one game well focus on our team and the things we heed to do in this series he said well have to be a physical team because we know how skilled a team they are captain randy johnston caught one game of the newmarketaurora series aurora always has a good team he said they like to shoot the puck a lot and we have to be aware of blocking shots remaining games in the series include tuesday march 13 at aurora 730 pm thursday march 15 at stouffville 730 pm friday march 16 at aurora 730 pm sunday march 18 at stouffville 330 pm monday march 19 at aurora 730 pm if necessary singing the blues johnston scored at 512 of double overtime friday in collingwood to give the spirit a 21 win and a series sweep over the blues will acton had the other goal his sixth of the series trevor oneill earned his seventh win of the playoffs golden boy returns the spirit lineup is at full strength with the return of corey trivino sunday he won gold with ontario at the canada games friday trivino had five points during the tourney in whitehorse ontario assis tant coach paul titanic praised trivinos work ethic corey trivino holds his gold medal from the canada winter games in whitehorse the stouffville 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