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st weide november 27993 p33 vvvv photosbruce stapley serving up a storm stouffville district secondary school ruled the volleyball courts at the durham- york secondary schools athletic association aa championships as their junior boys team left and senior entry right captured gold medals at sutton district high last week senior spartansspike it rich cinderellas going to the ball after all in what veteran stouffville district secondary school spar tans senior boys volleyball coach jim fletcher said may have been his greatest moment since taking over the team from the legendary jim rehill the spartans glorified themselves and their coach at last thurs days durhamyork dyssaa aa finals at sutton dhs the simple truth is that for the past six years fletchers squads have considered the dyssaa championship to be a birthright but this years rookieladen outfit had to scratch and grind for everything they won sutton appeared to have a lock on the york and durham- york titles they dominated the stoufiville crew during the reg ular season and prevailed over the spartans in the york finals atsdssonnovil but the smile on fletchers face after his teams narrow defeat that day convinced this reporter victory would belong to the spartans at the dyssaa tournament the spartans led off last thursdays fourteam dyssaa showdown with an easy win over courtice hs the durham lossaa champs then with their small but enthusiastic contingent of faith ful fans sitting courtside they put on a display of guts and grit that would cause any pro coach to beam with pride the spartans started strong in the first game of the best-of- three final but sutton rallied to win by a narrow 1513 count undaunted the spartans came back to drill their lake simcoe foes 154 in game two with sutton leading 98 in the clincher fletcher called a time out this is it right now he pro- sport notes claimed in an effort to whip his troops into one final frenzy the boys responded mike the big green blocking machine green smashed a shot to the floor electrifying his teammates and the wildly cheering sdss cheering section the spartans took an 119 lead sutton trying to defuse the charging spartans then called a time out fletch hud dled with his nine young men boys ive got goose bumps he said holding out his arm that was enough to get the adrenalin flowing the spartans went back out on the court like a heavyweight sensing the kill power hitter lindsey haylow who was being double teamed pounced on a perfect set smash ing a shot so hard as to knock both sutton blockers back a few steps allowing the ball to drop to the floor to make it 149 a few seconds later and it was all over it just broke loose said a jubilant fletcher who praised his entire team while allowing that sutton had been a most difficult opponent we gave them the warning at the york finals it was a team effort they did everything they had to do green and haylow made those great plays jamie sheridan made some key hits dave giancoulos played so well despite his sore finger and ryan burkholder and kevin morreau were great darren zeller was terrific and ryan jefferson made a diving save that fired us up early and without matt brillinger we never would have got to where we are now our managers lisa ransome and leanna milos were a big help too and so were teachers like denis fortier and tammy waters who came out to cheer for us when it was all over fletcher reflected upon what had been perhaps his most touching moment of the day a gratifying cap to a season strewn with injuries sickness multisport conflicts and the like the players said fletch thanks for sticking with us beamed the coach for it has been to be sure a trying season for the man who fives to see his proteges succeed both at the high school level and beyond ive been through a lot of things and ive had a lot of great teams over the years but ive never enjoyed anything like that its a cinderella story clippers down port perry lindsey haylow scored two goals and john mckinnon collect ed a goal and two assists as the cable tech midget clippers topped port perry 52 nov 5 at the rec centre brad crozier and jason davis also scored for the clippers who chalked up their third victory in a row assists went to brian coughlan 2 david hutchison 2 roger mcmann and steve wilcox the clippers took an early 20 lead then carried a 31 advan tage into the second period the teams traded scores in the middle stanza before stouf fville put the game away with a thirdperiod marker angies eliminated in a shootout classics consoled in final larry penny racked up his second shutout of the weekend as the kellington classics blanked the scarboro silver devils 50 in the consolation championship of the orillia twin lakes tournament sun day the classics began the tour nament with a 21 win over the newmarket dynamos fri day with don harman and doug gornall scoring ron martyn pete turner harman and wayne jackson had assists kellingtons played erin sec ond wind to a 00 tie before the classics fell 41 to the nia gara silver devils mike jones scored the lone classics goal from art nichol son and tom brown brown netted a pair with sin gles going to martyn george sled and gornall the angies midget girls rep team was shut down at a tour nament in barrie last weekend the stouffville squad was outscored two to one by bramp ton in a shootout that was required to decide the champi onship game after the teams were tied 22 after regulation time stephenie summerhill notched angies overtime mark er up until the shootout the stouffville girls had gone unde feated in the tournament angies began with a 10 win over the united counties they then blasted the host crew 122 and tied brampton 1- 1 summerhill ended up with five goals and an assist over the four games julie comito was good for three goals and three assists anne marie stephenson had three goals and two assists jes sica allen picked up a goal and four assists kim walsweer scored twice with laura winterstein and jennifer williams adding single scores jennifer bates and alexis miller provided angies with strong goaltending lindsay upton nicole robin son lori howes and walsweer were impressive on defence the midget girls host leaside on sunday at 1215 pm spartan clubs hoop it up a clean sweep the stouffville district secondary school sdss girls basketball teams took all three yrssaa york region aa basketball titles at the championship tripleheader played at sutton dhs on tuesday the midget spartans spearheaded by alison crowders 16point effort and equally impres sive defensive showing downed the host sutton sabres 4937 the spartans came back in the third quarter to take the lead then put the game away in the fourth shannon and danielle timms lillian boyd jen reesor stephanie hobbs jen easter and tara marshman stood out for the midgets as well christina clark kathryn easter kate scorrar julie kerswill erika haefele shannon please see page 34