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ille sports sports deadline 12 noon mondays phone 64026 12 fax 6408778 email sportsstouffvillesuncom tuesday feb 4 2003 page 8 spirit hopes to tame terriers in playoffs the stouffville spirit can forget the fact it owned the couchiching terriers during the 20022003 provincial junior a hockey league regular season the emphasis is on regular sea son in the 411 mark the spirit held over the orilliaarea terriers this year the cliches are right it means nothing said spirit head coach brian perrin yesterday we spent 49 games preparing for the play offs well find out thursday if were ready game 1 of the bestofseven goes thursday night and game 3 sunday afternoon at the stouffville arena games 2 friday and 4 tuesday will be played in rama remaining games if necessary will rotate between the two towns the 291820 spirit finished third in the north conference the 202341 terriers were fifth but they seem to have been our nemesis over the years said perrin in his fifth year at the helm of the spirit brian perrin couchiching eliminated the spirit in the north final in 2000 and the semis in 2001 last years spirit squad bowed out in the first round to collingwood last season we had so many spirit at a glance 5 scores aurora 5 stouffville 0 stouffville 5 newmarket 2 whos hot kevin jarman brent chandier jordan mabley mark mitchell ty raine couchiching at stouffville thursday 730 pm game one stouffville at couchiching friday 730 pm game two couchiching at stouffville sunday 330 pm game three stouffville at couchiching feb 11 time tba game four couchiching at stouffville feb 13 730 pm stouffville at couchiching feb 14 730 pm couchiching at stouffville feb 16 530 pm if necessary provincial jr a league north conference standings as of feb 3 team gp w l f 0tl gf ga p aurora v- 49 43 3 pewmarket 49 31 14 stouffville 49 29 18 icollirigwood 49 23 25 couchiching 48 20 23 huntsville 49 2 46 one point for overtime loss ie z 0 v 1 265 103 3 221 163 0 241 154 1 204 176 1 173 182 1 121 406 6 60 47 m wm injuries we never had a cohesive unit said perrin recalling a game in the 200102 season when nine regulars sat out with injuries thats been the difference this season they guys know each other utilizing the spirits speed is key said perrin couchiching has two lines that can score and two lines that agitate well he said and their defence is physical the spirit completed the regu lar season with a 52 win over the secondplace newmarket hurr icanes sunday in newmarket kevin jarman had two goals to help the spirit jump out to a 50 lead brent chandler jordan mabley and ty raine had singles the victory came on the heels of a 50 road loss to the aurora tigers on friday minor novices capture series the stouffville minor novice clippers captured the second round of their ontario minor hockey association playoff series on saturday with a 32 win over innisfil josh machesney scored twice and michael mingay added one curtis crago and robbie acton drew assists the clippers now face tnt alliston in the third round slowing down progress iwpu rattlers forward mitch goldenberg foreground has his progress impeded by stouffville spirits michael barbera during action in thursdays provincial junior a hockey league contest at the stouffville arena the rattlers won 32 and denied the spirit of an opportunity to catch the newmarket hurricanes for second place in the north conference finishing its regular season in third place the spirit will face the couchiching terriers in the first round mike barrett photo flemming shoots out lights at college by jim thomas stouffville sun a 19yearold stouffville resi dent is maintaining a level of bas ketball excellence at redeemer christian university she displayed at stouffville district secondary school hannah flemming a firstyear kineseology student at the ancaster ont school shocked the college world recently by posting 1 9 threepointers in a shooting contest to win an allontario championship the competition was part of an allstar basketball weekend in toronto hosted by seneca college other participating schools includ ed mohawk fanshawe durham algoma georgian royalist niagara and george brown ms flemming was one of 20 mm a students taking part hannah was absolutely phe nomenal redeemer coach lome mclnnes said later she won all three rounds mclnnes said ms flemming could have been a member- of the redeemer starting lineup but because shes a firstyear student this wasnt allowed its the first time a female bas ketball player attending our univer sity ever won anything mclnnes said the tournament was sponsored by the ontario colleges athletic association ms flemming is a member of the redeemer varsity basketball team playing as a shooting guard or at point shes a team leader appreciat ed by all her mates says mclnnes her achievement mclnnes said was all the more outstanding because redeemer university has a student enrollment of only 700 some competing colleges have several thousand students the threepoint championship resulted in the presentation of sev eral awards ms flemmings accomplish ment should come as no surprise to physical education instructors at sdss she was named athlete of the year in grade 9 and the most valu able player in several grade 9 and grade 11 basketball tournaments in grade 1 1- she was a member of the schools athletic council hannahs maintaining a tradi tion representing her former school and town extremely well mclnnes concluded ijfcp u a i r wwwwllilsnsti t v w tff- s