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= Young swimmers make splash members of the r mm fiTr‘ While the Spartans failed to reach the final, Jimmo was pleased with the progress his club has six- team tournament last Thurs- day and advanced to the semifinals before falling to eventual champion St. Thomas Aquinas (Oakville) 2~0. After losing their first two match- es of ther season against Pierre Elliott Trudeau Secondary School 2-] and Bill Crothers 2-0 last Mon- day, the Spartans played host to a The schedule includes heavy- weights Unionville High School, Milliken Mills Secondary School and first-year senior Bill leothers Secondary School. With just four players returning from last year's senior entry, the Spartans are indeed in the midst of developing a system that will enable them to contend in a highly competitive tier one East Division. In taking early-season lumps, the veteran Stouffville Distn'ct Sec- ondary School Spartans senior boys’ volleyball coach feels it's a learning process in which his play- ers can work on their shortcomings and develop cohesion. BY MICHAEL HAYAKAWA Staff Writer The way Steve Iimmo sees things, he would prefer to lose games in the early going of the York Region Athletic Association camâ€" paign, rather than later on when crunch time rolls around. ST. AMES Q P SBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev. Kathryn Su-achan, Minister 6432 Main St. Stoufivflle Phone - 905-640-3151 email: stimnesstoufl'villefibellnetca Welcome to. . . WIDE“ 18. ‘A Friendly Family Cbuncb’ Service of Wogshig 19 am. w usan Br wn [1ft mum W6 W After yesterday’s games at Unionville, the Spartans will resume league play Oct. 19 at Father Michael McGivney Catholic Academy in Markham at 330 pm. day, the IV Spartans 2( For more 0 www. yraa. com “Right now, everyone is contrib- uting.” limmo said. “I think we're just starting to come together and we'll be competitive." Those first-year seniors include: six-foot, four-inch middle Con- nor McDonald, right side players' Nathan Schneider, Peter Wideman and Bill Sutton and left side play- ers' Kyle Pontone and Adam McGil- With setter Max Muir, middle Jeremy Brownridge and left side players Rob "Diana and Nick McE- wen the lone returnees, limmo hopes the addition of several junior graduates and newcomer middle Brandon Hussain, a transfer from Whitfield Christian Academy in Scarborough, will bolster their ros- ter. “We just need to fine tune some things like our blocking and our deletiqe is coming along." “But we have some players who are new to our system and they're still learning. “I thought we played pretty well. We had some moments where we played as if we know what it takes to be ready,” he said. made. Rev. John Hamilton Kitchener Tues. Evening - Jr. Youth Grade 6, 7 8 Wed. Evening-KidzClub ages 4-Gr. 5 Everyone Welcome! Sunday October 18th, 2009 10:00 am Parkview Village 12134 N'mhL'mSouth, Sunday, October 18th, 2009 Pastor Jeff Laird In junior hoop action last Thurs~ day, the Marauders defeated the Spartans 26- 12. Stouffville Pentecostal Church Now 0-3 to start the tier one East Division campaign, the Spartans are scheduled to resume league play Friday when they head to Unionville to play the St. Augustine Titans at 4 pm. Brooke Kiatipis was high scorer for file with 16 points. “It was nice to See them come back Things are starting to come together,” she said. “We made a couple of changes after we fell behind and the kids settled down. If we had just played that way the whole game. Despite the loss, Spartans’ head coach Sharon MacFarlane was pleased with the gritty efibrt her club gave after falling behind 19-6 through one quarter. The Spartans dug themselves into a deep hole and lost 43-36 to lastyeal’s regional finalists. Eliminate the first quarter of last Thursday’s senior basketball game against the visiting Markham Marauders and the Spartan girls might have recorded their first win of the YRAA season. Seniors ans caged agaln For more on high school sports, log on to. Sunday, Oct. 18‘“, 2009 9:45 a.m. Children's Ministries: S] Counselling Services: Karl Senior Pastor: Associate Pastor: Student Ministn'es Iommunion Celebration Service 9:45am Bob Flemming Sunday School 11:11 am The next meet fer the devel- opment squad will take place in They included: Ravine Pinter, l3, Emmanuel Hayes. 12, Ernest Chiu, Owen McNeil, Aliana Piedra- hita, Oscar Tsui, 8, Celestina Hykel. Ethan Brennan 7, Nate McNeil, 6, and Hayden James, 4.7 Ten first-year Stouffville swim- mers also competed at the meet for the Ducks. Tori Rapp, 8. showed strong swimming skills and improvement in each of her seven events. Erin Wagg, 8, made her debut in the 100 m individual medley and 50 m freestyle, and dropped more than 13 seconds in her other four races. Megan James, 6, shaved 13 sec- onds off in her 50 m backstroke event and four seconds off in her 25 m freestyie. Grace Harris, 9, took part in her first 100 m individual medley and dropped more than 20 seconds in her other six races. Leading the pack of returning swimmers was Caleb Vincent, 9, who dropped more than 40 sec- onds at? his previous best times in_ hissix swims. Fifteen members of the Stouffville Ducks stroke devel~ opmental squad put their water skills into action at the recent Stroke Development Fun Meet in Aurora. www.springvale.org seringvale m uuvu oAu-u mo comm" Sh )ufl‘vilk 905-887~56Sl Bob Flemming Jay Sandiford Alex Street Ben Banosik hamn Russell :3 Kamennan .It Kcnncdv Rd 9:00 am Youth Spin't Breakfast 10:30 am Worship Service 6:30 pm Dragon Watching in Stoufl‘ville fluilding Spirits! Building Lives! '3. Website: www.stoufl'villeuc.ca Everyone Welcome! 9:30am ~ Sunday School 10:55am Morning \Vorship Service 6:30pm EVENING SERVICE Sunday Oct. 18‘”, 2009 [If BLOOMINGTON :99. GOSPEL CHURCH 13660 Ninth Line N. (905) 642-4414 Rev. Peter Pallant §STOUFFVILLE UNITED CHURCH 34 Church St. H. 905-640-1163 “WWWMMWW Sunday, October 18, The Clippere resume league play against Georgina at the Stoufl‘ville Arena Saturday at 6:25 pm. Ethan Rebel played a solid game in gan to help preserve the win. Cole Gunathunge and Tyler Sin- clair each recorded a goal and one assist to lead the Clippers’ offence. Tyler Perrett-Swirla and Marcus lvanovski added single tallies. Rob- bie Krawczuk collected one assist. win of the Ontario Minor Hockey Association season with a 43 road win over East Gwillimbury Sun- day. After losing their first six games, the Stouffville minor peewee AE Clippers skated off with their first Minor peewee AE Clippers bounce back for first win For more information about the Stouffville Ducks, call (905) 888-9994 or visit www. ducksswimming.ca The Ducks swim out of the Lebâ€" ovic Centre in Stouffville Memorial Park Aurora on Oct. 31 SPORTS