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economist suntribune sports thursday oct 102002 27- staff photosjoerd witteveen a good approach stouffville district secondary schools brooke acton chips this ball onto the 18th green during action in tuesdays york region athletic association golf qualifier at rolling hills golf club in gormley acton was part of a spartans girls team that finished second and will vie for the championship next tuesday at rolling hills acton the daughter of toronto maple leafs assistant coach keith acton carded a 103 for further results see sportsboard on page 28 spirit wont stand in line of fire tonight the stouffville spirit is thinking defence this week fire defence to mark fire prevention week the spirit is hosting the whitchurchstouffville fire department at its provincial junior a hockey league game tonight the spirit plays the couchiching terriers at 730 pm at the stouffville arena local firefighters will be on hand to talk fire safety with hockey fans draws will be made for fire safety items including fire extin guishers and smoke detectors a highlight of the evening will be the ceremonial puck drop sparky the fire department mas cot promises to do as fine a job as the queen when dropping the puck the spirit unbeaten in its last three games is 5410 in the north conference of the provincial league spartans demise exaggerated huge turnout for girls tryouts despite loss of 12 starters from last years team enthusiasm strong for sdss field hockey by mike hayakawa staff writer losing 12 starters from last years field hockey team it might have been assumed the stouffville district secondary school girls would have trouble fielding a squad when the york region athletic association season began but to spartans head coach scott crouchers surprise rumours of their demise were greatly exaggerated when croucher made an announcement that tryouts would be held early last month some 36 players eagerly showed up for the first day of practice i was surprised somewhat con ceded croucher of the initial turnout there wasnt going to be a team until i put out an announce ment we had lost 12 starters from last year and heather henricks for mer head coach who is now at maple high school and i thought there wouldnt be much interest while the team is entered in the yraa tier two circuit croucher is pleased with the progress his youthful charges have made york recion athletic association to date the club sports a 30 record which included a 20 win on tuesday over richmond hill high school and verdicts last week over milliken mills secondary school 21 and thomhill secondary school 42 in tuesdays win sandra pankratz and erin knights each scored once while nessa hallman posted the shutout im very happy said croucher of the clubs progress so far this season we had 36 girls come out and i didnt cut any of them the only dilemma that croucher has and one mats pleasant in nature is who to play and dress with only 11 players on the field croucher can only dress 20 for each game im trying to play them all ive got some girls who havent played the game at all and some whove played just a bit and some who were with the team last year of this years roster croucher notes the bulk of the squad is comprised of grade 9 students while he has five or six who are in their last year of eligibility the rest he said are either in grade 10 or 11 with a healthy cast to work with this season croucher acknowledges this is a building year for his team but its one that holds plenty of promise down the road we definitely look at this season as a building year if we get the same numbers out next year we will definite ly go with two teams next year he said volleyball spartans lose game and captain mcgrath the stouffville district secondary school spartans senior boys volleyball team lost more than a match against the unionville high school wolves at middlefield collegiate on tuesday the spartans who came out on the c short end of a 21 decision to the wolves also lost the services of captain kevin mcgrath who suffered a broken wrist after taking a spill during the match mcgrath who is in his oac year is expected to be out for at least six weeks said spartans head coach jim fletcher in the match the spartans took the first game over the defending yraa champions 2522 after losing the second game 2517 the spartans rallied to take what appeared to be a commanding 81 lead in the deciding game however the wolves rallied to win the game 1513 hopefully we can rally and get to the york finals said fletcher after los ing mcgrath itll be tough but i think we can do it the spartans rallied from that heartbreaking loss to defeat host middlefield collegiate 20 2522 25- 13 and improved their league record to 31 robbins runs off with top honours by jim thomas correspondent hes not getting older hes getting faster in the recent invitational masters mile in new york city stouffvilles fred robbins headed the field in the age cat egory of 45 to 49 years with a mark of four minutes 389 seconds robbins 47 recorded his fastest time in the past four meets bettering his run of last year by seven seconds overall robbins placed sixth the race was conducted between new yorks 80th street and 60th street adjacent to central park i ran fullout robbins said i gave it my best the masters mile involves top run ners from across the united states and canada i felt very privileged to attend he said robbins began training for the race back in august i was extremely happy with the result he concluded major novice clippers win in a rout christopher jupp james lovett and mitchell king each scored twice to lead the stouffville major novice a clippers to an 81 road win over barrie on sunday alex popper and adam kostandoff added singles matthew dunlop bradley harley joseph deveny and kostandoff each earned two assists while lovett jupp hayden gibson brandon hughes and branden francey each had one minor bantams edge aurora mitchell raithby scored two goals to lead the stouffville minor bantam clippers to a 31 win over aurora on sunday justin lacy added the other goal for the clippers who improved their league record to 32 nick stratas earned two assists while dennis oshaughnessy jeff mcguckin and ryne parsons each had one brad whittingstal played a solid game in net easy win for minor atoms the stouffville minor atom clippers received a balanced attack with six dif ferent players scoring in a 62 win over richmond hill on saturday mike mingay matthew miniaci connor cadaret steven tait mike bourgeois and curtis crago each scored for the clippers steven tait robbie acton mingay and cadaret earned assists mm e join the folcos for jfeiwite igmp sixxiday october 13 500 pm to 1000 pm let us do the cooking enjoy a delicious turkey dinner and well look after the rest mm