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stouffville suntribune thursday nov 22 20o7 21 stouffville suntribune sports staff photosjoerd witteveen stouffville minor bantam ae clipper chris matsoukas jumps over a sprawling travis deluca of pickering during the whitchurch- stouffville minor hockey association tournament at the stouffville arena last weekend stouffville won 52 home rink advantage stouffville teams win 2 titles at weekend hockey tourney by mike hayakawa staff writer stouffville clippers head coach grant nesbitt believes theres no substitute for hard work his peewee a team believed that when they faced archrival bradford in one of four finals in the whitchurch stouffville minor hockey associations tournament sunday the tourney for peewee a bantam a minor bantam ae and minor midget a teams featured 27 squads from as far away as sudbury and sarnia at the stouffville arena stouffville teams won two of four championships trailing 21 entering the third period of sundays final the peewee clippers got the equalizer and set the stage for overtime in the threeonthree extra session ryan kernohan scored the gamewin ning goal enabling the clippers to prevail 32 and hand bradford their first loss of the season our guys really worked hard they never gave up said nesbitt who has coached minor hockey teams in stouffville since the 1980s weve got a good team and a good group of boys hopefully we will meet bradford again in our playoffs in reaching the final the clippers defeated west hill 30 tied bradford 11 and defeated innisfil 21 other team members are goalkeep ers- matthew espey and matthew mor row jonathan colley nicholas robb sean hoey mack mclean ryan peter son team captain troy connor hayden ellison kejaton major zack mcmahon devin king konnor eden jordan marsh and connor miller in the minor midget a final the clip pers blanked ted reeve 40 oliver boettcher zach burke jake woolnough and peter lebuffe each scored once marcel cenic posted the shutout clippers head coach joe sutherland credited his players success to their work ethic especially after losing their first game to ted reeve 31 friday that game was a wakeup call he said we played poorly it was one of our worst games weve played all year the clippers rebounded to throttle parry sound 80 and tie essex 22 before advancing to the semifinals there they downed east gwillimbury 31 it all came down to how hard the kids worked they won all of the individual battles sutherland said of the champi onship game for the clippers the tournament title was their second championship of the season other team members are ben singh josh whitehead brad sutherland peter wideman dylan deveaux scott miller josh king chris chekay brent hewett lloyd davis ryan brown brett kirkness and tyler barber a third clippers entry the minor ban tam aes won its first game over picker ing 52 and then battled oshawa to a 00 tie before suffering losses to orangeville 21 and london oakridge 41 other tournament winners included caledon in the minor bantam ae divi sion with a 10 decision over orangeville and waldenstrom the sudbury area in the bantam a final with a 43 overtime victory over vaughan spirit goalie leads league in shutouts last week saturday won 70 against host orangeville crushers now 127327 on season fifth place in north conference- coming up today vsvil- lanova knights at stouffville arena 735 pm friday at aurora tigers 730 pm game notes in routing the orangeville crushers 70 sat urday stouffville spirit head coach dave dammizio gave credit in part to the schedule maker just 24 hours earlier the sixthplace crushers upended the north confer enceleading newmarket hur ricanes 21 in a shootout in doing so dammizio speculated his club might have caught the crushers a bit off guard but at the same time he was quick to credit his charges who did what they had to do to skate away with two points after a scoreless first period the spirit struck for three unanswered goals to take a 30 lead after 40 minutes spirit captain randy johnston and mark sullivan scored just seven seconds apart and darren archibald accounted for the other marker the spirit onslaught contin ued in the third period when james mcintosh scored at the 126 mark followed by goals from trevor smith ethan werek and matt mccann with his first since joining the spirit in a deal frorh the crushers trevor oneill stopped 24 shots to post hisprbvincial junior a hockey leagueleading fifth shutout the spirit had 51 shots notebook the spirit played saturdays game without for ward corey trivino who was nursing a sore shoulder from the world junior a challenge dammizio hopes the sec ondyear veteran will return for fridays game ajgainst defending national cham pion aurorathe spirit sold defenceman chris tanev to the markham waxers friday tanev 17 cametothe spirit ina recent trade with the durham fury for matt west- lake and tim halloran on sunday spirit general manager thomas milne sent forward scott johnstone to the dixie beehives for for ward matt viola viola 19 played last season with the newmarket hur ricanes before going to the beehives this year and had eight goals and nine assists in 20 gamesv he brings bigtime speed milne said hell be one of the fastest guys on the team and he has grit hell be a perfect third liner he knows his role on the team and he adds depth any of our lines can score at any time johnstone had one goal and one assist in seven games for the spirit in a separate transaction the spiritsent rookie forward tay lor law to the durham fury for cash generally speaking i think we caught orangeville on a highafter they beat newmarket fortunately we were able to put the puck in the net dammizio said we had corifjibutions from all four lines the transition of haying the guys back werek mcintosh trivino and daniel spivak from the world junior a challenge are settling the rest of the guys down and we competed for three periods it sure makes a difference in having the four guys back and then theres oneill hes been playing great and hes finding his groove insider listen to spirit games at whistleradiocom for live scoring and statistics go to pointstreakcom jr more on the spirit go to stoufmllespfrftcom mike hayakawa it scored 96 everyone at dinner raved j delusive i imported wines at great value and you cant get them anywhere else visit yorkregionwineclubco check out our handpicked seledi of exdusive imported wines all delivered anywhere you choose in ontario towt mum wmi cuit tro iiuiiijv jorkreglon com kcsckthorm wine sfk online co