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7nmnrrrat9ntiz 16 economist sufutributie sports samrddy sept302qod v vc eeaevaim ftiat sydney john pearce and his mount jamcbs vagabond were part of the canadian show jumping team that finished nintti this week at the 2000 summer olympic games in sydney australia the 40yearold -whitchurch- stouffville resident and his 15yearold mount posted scores of 12 and 20 the latter being the secondround drop germany captured the gold medal while switzerland took the silver and brazil the bronze in the 11team com petition vi j l the progmpte consmm notice of annual general meeting v and election of executive for the federal riding of markham date thursday october 12 time 700pm registration cash bar location the school restaurant 14th ave between warden and kennedy south side special guest speaker the honourable david tsubouchi mpp solicitor general for the province of ontario registration and membership renewal starts at 700 pm we extend a special welcome to allnew members and returning progressive conservatives thats ex t allan is known for his expertise he is part of the largest network of garage door experts in canada together these experts have installed and repaired more than 1197000 doors for quality work time after time call allan ott a listless effort and penalties send spirit to second straight loss by bruce stapley correspondent no flow no finishno flourish throwin a spirit lineup depleted by injuriesthe flu bug- and suspensions and some untimely penal ties and youve got the story as the stouffville spirit dropped a 53 deck sion to the wexford raiders in thursdays provincial junior a hockey league game the spirit trailed after a jacklustre first peri od but tiedijupearly in the second but the host squad couldnt generate any sus tained offence the rest of the way while penalty problems opened the door for the raiders to net the winner late in the middle period the raiders clinched things with a late goal into an empty spirit net just seconds after spirit centre michel bond drilled a point blank shot right into the yawning catching glove of raiders goalie rob garrick as the stouffville crew mounted a lastditch effort to pull even in close games youve got to finish your scoring chancesj said spirit assistant coach craig donovan donovan also pointed to a string of three straight spirit penalties in the second periodthat led to the raiders winning goal on a power play it came after the spirit had been forced to play two men short for a minute and a half the raiders had three power play goals in total spirit defenceman jd smithson who picked up his fourth goal of the season as well as an assist to tie him for the club scoringlead agreed with donovan r- we just fell short we had no flow the penalties in the second period killed us and we couldnt get any momentum going greg seguin scored the first spirit goal in his first game of the season after returning from injury michael tucciarone notched his fifth of the year we just couldnt finish said tucciarohethe opportunities were there but we couldnt bury them the spifitwere widiout forwards chris large and jon smyth who are out with injuries as well as standout defenceman justin graham who had the flu nevin hamilton was serving the second game ofasuspensioh for hitting from behind its no excuse but we had to use a lot of differ ent line combinations offered donovan but youve got to play through that donovan had high praise for the raiders who play out of the leagues south division wexfords the best team weve seen so far this season he said the raiders held a 3424 edge in shots on goal it marked the second loss in a row for the spirit after three straight victories stouffville downed the peterborough bees 63 in the annual college weekend at mississauga last friday then fell 64 to the newmarket hurricanes sunday in newmarket the spirit were to visit the parry sound shamrocks last night they return home to host the aurora tigers thursday at 730 pm options to by mike hayakawa sports editor winning just three games this season and mak ing an early firstround exit from the playoffs has not been a trait of the markham raiders mens football team in recent years the raiders where the new kids in the new york football league this sea son after being perennial contenders in the northern football conference raiders head coach bill ptolemy felt the education his play ers received bnthe field outweighed the compla cency his players were experiencing our team was slipping due to a jack of compe tition in the northern football conference ptolemy noted we wanted to do this to see if we could turn our team around to get better and i think we did that it was a great learning experience i thought we picked it up toward the end of our season he noted in his clubs final two outings against the buffalo warriors wliich resulted uvlosses of 148 ahd86 with the helmets and shoulder pads placed in storage until next season ptolemy revealed he will assemble with the players arid coaches later this fall jo see which direction the team will take next year the football itselfis better as is the calibre of play ptolemy said of his clubs firstyear exposure to the new york football league we had difficulty in dealing with some of the us rules like the red zone offence and the shorter end zone but the one thing we learned this year was that americans play hardnosed smash mouth foot ball and when its over theres no complaining you shake hands and its done while the raiders learned how players south of the border approach the game ptolemy noted the league could use a lesson in its organizational skills he noted that during the season a tearri from ohio had dropped out and the schedule had to be revised in midseason but in defence of the league he said its just completed its third year arid is experiencing some growing pains ptolemy hinted a possibility exists the raiders could return to their old stomping grounds iri the northern football conference next season wed consider coming back but nothing is iron clad minor novices win third straight title the markham vitality suites longmans dodge minor novice aaa waxers con- tinued itswin- ning ways- by capturing their- third champi onship in as rrianyl weeks with a 41 win over the oakville rangers in the title game of last weekends richmondhill early bird tournament backed by strong netminding from nicholas mandukastthe waxers reached the final after defeating the richmond hill stars 60 the windsor spitfires 9- 2 and the rangers 4-1- scoring for the waxers were jamie kendra eight goals four sports digest assists nicholas halkidis five goals six assists joseph cramarossa five goals four assists evan bruno one goal seven assists sam carrick one goal five assists josephluongo s one goal three assists connor kennedy one goal two assists billy lbvatsis one goal one assist christopher colangelo two assists david mcgarry michael duncan and michael hergott one assist kooymans masters race jerry kooymans ran off with the masters division title of last weekends scotiabank toronto halfmarathon after completing the 211k course in llll76 overall the markham resi dent finished i9th in a field which saw a total of 2734 run ners complete the course another markham runner- john defihney finished first in the 5054 age group and was 56th overall with a time of 118589- joseph kamau of kenya won the race in a time of 1 04024 kooymans had already assured himself of finishing on top of the masters division standings having captured the title at the prior event the montreal 10k nrtfv 3 rj tm