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economist suntribune sports thursday dec 5 2002 19 staff photosjoerd witteveen just a splitsecond too late stouffville district secondary school spartans netminder adam davis was just a bit late in attempting to stop this shot from the stick of brother andre catholic high school cardinals forward connor treacy during action in tuesdays york region high school senior boys hockey game at the mount joy community centre the cardinals who were last years york champions prevailed 52 other cardinal goal scorers were lee maxwell andrew wallman scott badali and tyler townsend scoring for the spartans who fell to 21 on the season were justin hitchen and andy gibson ferguson catches ontario softball award by jim thomas correspondent jon ferguson catcher last season for the stouffville midget fastball team and a gold medal recipient with ontarios entry in the 2001 canada games was honoured when the ontario amateur softball association held its annual convention recently in kingston mr ferguson and three other players were presented with 1000 oasa schol arships the awards are to be used by the players to further their education mr ferguson is currently attending ryerson university in toronto in accepting the award mr ferguson praised his stouffville coach ted assinck and team mates for welcoming him back after he played with willowdale the previous season others attending the convention from stouffville included mary meyers president of the yorkdurham boys rep softball cliff dunkeld auditor ontario amateur softball association kelly mathews coach of the stouffville junior mites and mike heffernan coach of stouffville squirts the convention agreed the current residency rule should remain protect ing larger towns from taking players from smaller centres if a town doesnt have a team then its players are free to go to the closest centre that does mr dunkeld explained he noted however that should a town reestablish its club then players in question must return its the only way small towns have of maintaining dedicated coaches players and parents said the whitchurch- stouffville councillor peewee clippers ice silver at home the stouffville peewee clippers advanced to the final of last weekends stouffville tourna ment only to come out on the short end of a 61 decision to the newmarket redmen in the title tilt at the stouffville arena the clippers opened the tournament with a 92 victory over oakville and followed that up with a 50 win over cedar hill before falling 51 to pickering but the clippers rebounded to defeat port credit 31 to reach the final scoring for the clippers dur ing the tournament were steven demelo and roger ianuzzo five goals andrew mingay three casey todd tyler azan paul higgins dylan seymour and jason deveny one each the clippers also received a stellar effort from goaltender jake robinson sandwiched in between their tournament contests the clippers took the ice for a league game against nobleking and battled them to a 33 tie jjviaoo mothers against drunk driving 1800665madd this message brought to you as a community service of the economist suntribune atom clippers win twice the stouffville atom ae clippers experienced a success ful twogame foray in recent minor hockey action as they posted victories over innisfil 54 and orillia52 scoring for the clippers in those two outings were dylan deveaux four goals and two assists david gregory and josh davis two goals one assist zack burke pagan one goal patrick zarudny and brogan donaghey threj assists jesse lofthouse and addison kennedy one jsi q smalleys j christmas trees hut vnur nwnsnriira nr piria f a 20 any size 6 free coffee hot chocolate jjbk a101 nwoo fin aaauanhc a cut your ownspruce or pine professionally trimmed 20 00 any size free coffee hot chocolate hay rides on weekends food concession on site m sutton mt albert newmarket vivian road ballantt ae aurora payisprtvs sto jffv1lle ma 1kham t v 7201 durham rd 30 905 4739229 905 4732864 the markham waxers junior a hockey 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