i- s f i pi i 1 i hi 18 i i 1 if xsiixxaxjismxxijkxxxxxxsi i toibunedecember 24 j996 pj3 sports spirit reel in muskies to snap losing streak by bruce staple y correspondent the spirit of stouffville will have something to build on when they resume their provincial junior a hock ey league schedule in early january the spirit rode a hot line and the outstanding goal keeping of ryan spiteri to a 54 victory over the vis iting lindsay muskies sunday at the rec centrethe win snapped a sixgame losing streak and helped erase the memory of a 133 loss at the hands of the touring russian junior team at the rec centre the night before the spirit offence was choreographed by the teams big line of darcy king geoff smith and tate philips king had two goals and three assists while smith contributed a pair of goals and two assists philips rounded out the big effort with a goal and three set ups defenceman michael grimes was on the ice for four stouirviue goals meanwhile in the spirit end of the rink spiteri was standing on his head to stave off the muskies attack spiteri made the key saves he came up big at the right times praised stouffville head coach dan major atoms earn win and tie the branick group major atom clippers took to the ice in bradford recently for a tournament and came away with a win loss arid tie the clippers battled port perry to a 22 draw in their first game with mark carruthers scoring both goals for stouffville jordari smalley and stephen relf drew assists the clippers won their second game over host bradford 41 brian taylor smalley derek wilcock and michael pickering each scored once for the clippers picker ing also had two assists while carruthers andrew lowrie and chris flanagan each earned one in their final game with agincourt the clippers suffered a 42 loss v- taylor and wilcock each scored once while nick hawkins and flanagan were credited with assists in recent league play the clippers picked up two wins against port hope 20 and oshawa 53 in the win over port hope kyle martin and trevor mcneely shared the shutout goals were scored by taylor arid relf pickering collected an assist lowrie netted a hat trick in the first period helping the clippers to their win over oshawa lowrie added another goal in the third along with taylor assists went to pickering taylor and flanigan tykes ice two wins the houston ford tyke spirit clippers took to the ice twice last sunday coming up with two wins over whitby 31 and the markham waxers 60 scoring for the clippers in their win over whitby were jake carrick kyle miller and matt easter assists went to liam mcneely richard downing simon kennedy jeff mcguckin easter and carrick matt easter had a hat trick in the win over markham while jeff gibson kyle miller and jake carrick added singles richard down- ing had three helpers while matthew brig gs patrick sal- vagna evan tsioupolous mitchell baith- ley derek con- lbn justin hul- shof and ryne parsons each had one justin gaudett and tyler lorenzen shared the shutout athlete of the week elizabeth knox elizabeth stepped up from junior house league to play goal for the whitchurch- stouffville girls hockey association stouffville stars novice selects she stopped a penalty shot while earning a shut out in her very first game dec7 congratulations elizabeth sponsored by stouffville 1gr 6327 main st stouffville larmer when you get good goal keeping like that the rest of the guys rally around him larmer said the 18yearold netminders strong efforts over the past few games have established him as the teams number one goalie sunday nights win came on the heels of a 42 loss to the orillia terriers on thursday smith and rob frost clicked for the spirit against orillia larmer who took over the head coaching position from steve sedpre two weeks ago said he likes what he sees so far the guys have been working really hard theyre buying into the new forechecking and defensive system i think theyre turning the corner theyre coming to the rink every night thinking theyre going to win larmer said he hopes the victory over lindsay will give the spirit a boost going into 1997 it was great to end off 1996 with a win maybe well get a little momentum going into the new year in the game against the high flying russians satur day smith derek johnston and king were the stouf fville marksmen spiteri was in goal for stouffville for the first period holding the score to 10 in favor of russia but the fast skating visitors exploded for nine second period goals to take charge the spirit will join their provincial league cohorts at the annual newmarket showcase tournament this weekend the spirit play the kingston voyageurs at 9 am friday morning then take on the milton merchants saturday morning at 9 am they close out the rourid robin against the oakville blades saturday at 730 great blue heron charitable casino bingo opening soon near port perry just northeast of toronto 650 seat bingo blackjack roulette mini baccarat paigow poker hold em poker 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