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22 stouffville suntribune thursday nov 15 2007 stouffville suntribune sports staff photosjoerd witteveen stouffville district secondary schools fred bell 10 and alex mennotich 5 dig out the ball against unionville wolves rocky man 14 and jordan mees 8 in the york region senior boys tier 1 volleyball tournament at toronto district christian high school in woodbridge tuesday stouffville lost but hopes to advance to the ontario aa tournament girls keep homecourt advantage by mike hayakawa staff writer stouffville district secondary schools junior girls basketball team made full use of home court advantage tuesday in the york region athletic association tier two quarterfinals playing host to community hebrew academytoronto vaughan the spar tans prevailed 5336 emily aprile led the spartans with 11 points while brooke kiatipis and dayle wilkinson who was named the teams most valuable player in the game each added 10 we missed a few layups early on but our passing was good and we ran our fast break well sandy bush spar tans cocoach with jack hammond said of her clubs performance bush was also quick to credit the play of demitria chalkias who hauled down numerous rebounds the spartans face the unionville high school wolves in todays semifi nal at stouffville at 4 pm the wolves defeated st joan of arc catholic high school maple 3330 in their quarter final tuesday the winner of the spartanswolves semifinal will face the winner of the other semifinal between sir william mulock and newmarket high school for this years gold medal at 8 pm at stouffville district secondary school bush thinks the spartans can earn a second straight trip to the final if we play our game and our shoot ers are on i think we have a good chance to win she said volleyballers eye ofsaa berth the spartan senior boys volleyball team fell short in its bid to win the yraa tier one title tuesday in playoffs at toronto district christian school in woodbridge but they have a second life the spartans hope to qualify for the ontario federation of school athletic associations aa playdowns and can do so by winning its threeteam round- robin thursday to do so they must defeat host st jean de brebeuf and sutton district high school the spartans have faced both teams and feel confident they can prevail but spartans head coach steve jimmo remains cautious on paper i think we have what it takes to win but well have to see what team shows up the kids know it weve got to play our game he said in tuesdays yraa playoffs the spartans fell 20 to toronto district christian and split two games with unionville high school and st jean de brebeuf before they were eliminated toronto district christian and sacred heart catholic high school newmarket will meet in fridays yraa final at thornlea secondary school in thornhill spirit welcomes back medallists toniaht last week saturday won 52 against aurora tigers now 11-6-3- 25 pn season fifth place in north conference coming up today vs colling- wood blues at stouffville arena 735 pm saturday at orangeville crushers 730 pm game notes the stouffville spirit entered saturdays home tilt against the defending national champion aurora tigers on a threegame losing streak but head coach dave dammizio said it wasnt for a lack of effort the firstyear spirit bench boss has been pleased with the way theyve competed in those setbacks this despite the absence of ethan werek corey trivino daniel spivak and james mcintosh all of whom were with the canada east team at the world junior a challenge in british columbia but in saturdays game the hard work finally paid dividends when the spirit snapped its slump with a 52 win over the tigers after a scoreless first period the spirit seized a 20 lead through 40 minutes on goals by tyler gubb and randy johnston after the tigers scored the first goal of the third period to cut their deficit gubb notched his second of the game to restore the spirits twogoaf advantage the tigers kept the final outcome in doubt when they scored a goal to cut their deficit back to within a goal but the spirit put the game on ice when johnston with his second of the game and mike foy scored before the final buzzer sounded defenceman patrick mceachen collected two assists notebook prior to the start of tonights game against the blues the spirit will conduct a pregame ceremony to honour of werek spi vak trivino and mcintosh in bring ing home a silver medal from the world junior a challenge canada east were runnersup for the sec ond year in a row after falling to defending tournament champions canada west 41 in sundays final in trail bc collingwoodis 5172 and in seventh place in the nineteam north the blues top scorer is jeff blackburn with nine goals and eight assists former spirit general manager ken burrows is in his first year as gm in coliingwood generally speaking the effort was there and we got the results dammizio said of his clubs performance saturday our veterans had been leading by example but saturday we got a couple of breaks and just put the puck in the net dammizio felt johnstons perfor mance was critical to the final outcome randy had struggled a bit over the last few games but saturday he was relaxed and that was the ultimate deciding factor it sure helps when you can score dammizio praised the work of other veterans including mark sullivan donivan munro and tom kokelj they led the way and set the example for the rookies dammizio said the spirit incurred no serious injuries saturday and expects all hands ready for tonights game against the blues alumni watch spirit grad mike sullivan scored two goals and was named a game star as his idaho steelheads defeated the alaska aces 71 in front of 4621 fans saturday in boise sullivan is in his first pro season after four years at clarkson university in new york his brother mark and cousin pat rick mceachen are on this years spirit roster idaho in the east coast hockey league is the aa farm team of the dallas stars insider listen to spirit games at whistleradiocom for live scoring and updates go to pointstreak com for more on the spirit go to stouffvillespiritcom aurora and newmarket meet tonight on rogers tv ch 63 mike hayakawa i 1 h if you know a young person aged 6 to 1 7 who is involved in worthwhile community service a special person who is contributing while living with a limitation a youth who has performed an art of heroism or a good kid who shows a commitment to making life better for others doing more than is normally expected of someone their age help us recognize their contribution nominate them today nominations are now being accepted for the ontario junior citizen of the year awards the strength of our community lies in solid citizens todays youth are tomorrows leaders follow the leader leading by example nominations will be accepted until december 28 2007 contact this newspaper or the ontario community newspapers f sponsored by association at wwwocnaorg or 9056398720 accept the challenge nominate someone 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