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st tribune january 22 1997 pit sports spirit try hard but come up short in two by bruce stapley correspondent the spirit of stouffville came up with a pair of respectable efforts over the weekend but still fell 85 to the lindsay muskies friday on the road before coming home to absorb a 41 defeat at the hands of the orillia terriers and with two games scheduled against the phillips division leading newmarket 87s this week and a third match with the ruddock division front running kingston voyageurs things dont get any easier for the shortstaffed spirit this is probably the toughest week of the schedule for us said head coach dan larmer the spirit are in newmarket thursday and sunday with kingston in town for saturdays game at the rec centre playing with only 13 skaters the spirit rebounded after falling behind 52 at the end of two periods in fridays game the stouffville squad knotted the score at 55 but fell victim to a less than picture perfect muskies marker with seven minutes left in the period the lindsay crew then padded its lead with a pair of empty net scores in the final minute darcy king had a goal and two assists to lead spirit point getters jason ellis michael grimes john lowrie and rob frost also scored for the spirit at the rec centre on saturday it was a case of being outmuscled by a large orillia outfit as the spirit could nt crack a tight terriers defence scott martin had the lone spirit marker spirit coach dan larmer said he was pleased with the effort put forth by his players both nights the guys played pretty hard they kept going right to the end in both games said larmer while not ready to concede the final phillips division playoff spot to the muskies who are now 12 points ahead of the spirit the coach said he just wants to see his players put out for every game and enjoy themselves we still havent given up on making the playoffs were still playing hard but no matter what happens i just want them to go out there and have some fun and try to fin ish the season with a respectable record strong finish for minor bantams 4 skate sharpening fresh gourmet coffee now open 8 am daily conn mm mmmwm spojm a fun place sports art 24 brock st w uxbridge the minor bantam clippers ended their regular season on a pos itive note recently with a 53 win over markham ryan fontanna and matt sulli van each picked up a goal and two assists lukas williams had a goal and an assist while brent meyer and justin heyworth also scored other assists went to david brown ryan jones and mike vandervoort graham smith was in net in recent tournament play the clippers fell just short of advancing to the consolation finals in wool wich the clippers fell 41 to south point with ryan zonnekyn scoring for stouffville from david brown brown had the hat trick in a 43 clippers win over hespeler in game two sullivan had the other clip pers goal in game three against the host team it was brown justin heyworth and fontanna scoring in a 33 tie peter smit and williams each drew two assists while singles went to brown and zonnekyn atoms prepare for playoffs its on to the playoffs for the major and minor atom clippers the branick group major atom clippers ended the regular season on a winning note last weekend downing port perry 41 saturday after starting off the weekend with a 32 exhibition win over bow- manville mark carruthers jesse maillet andrew lowrie and minor atom call up justin lyons scored in the win over port perry assists went to chris flannigan brian taylor stephen relf nick hawkins jordan smalley and car ruthers it was maillet taylor and hawkins scoring against bow- manville taylor relf and smalley assisted the holiday inn minor atom clip pers split their two games in the final week of the schedule len spi- teri scored twice to lead the team to a 42 win over whitby david salvagna and justin lyons also scored assists went to cale tanaka 2 lyons cameron mackenzie and ryan thom shawn gibson was solid in net the major atoms fell 52 to east gwillimbury monday mackenzie and josh spang had the clippers goals from jonathan wonch tana ka thorn and lyons in an exhibition game played ear lier this week the clippers got goals from wonch luke dawson and spang in a well earned 31 win over caledon athlete of the week peter had seven goals and five assists to help lead the stouffville district secondary school spartans to the championship at the st michaels college school invitational junior hockey tournament in toronto jan 1 0 1 1 peter was named tournament mvp and was picked for the all star team congratulations peter sponsored by stouffville 6327 main st ihtt stouffville whitchurch stouffville softball association stouffville ballantrae softball players ages 5 18 years registration time is here stouffville date jan 258 am 4 pm at the rec centre ballantrae date feb 11th 630 pm 830 pm at ballantrae community centre vandorfdate feb 1st 930 am 1230 pm for more info call 8870655 must be 5 years as of june 1 1997 birth certificates 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