The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

stouffville sports deadline 12 noon mondays phone 6402 612 fax 6408778 email sportsstouffvillesuncom tuesday march 4 2003 page 8 spirited fans enjoy road win from page 1 its traditional black away uniforms to the newlook red buffalo sabres knockoffs game 7 had multiple personalities the spirit appeared to be en route to a blowout win scoring five straight goals in the second period to take a 6- 2 lead but the hurricanes caught a second wind scoring three straight of v heir own in the third the last with 125 remaining and their goalie out to make it 65 just 21 seconds later mike forgie fired home an emptyrietter and the victory party was on for the numerr ous and noisy spirit fans seated behind the stouffville bench quite a contrast from game 6 the night before the hurricanes sent their fans home happy from the stouffville rink when joey faraone scored at 938 of the second overtime period for a 54 newmarket win the difference between the two nights hard work thats it said forgie who added two assists and a team- leading 12 hits in- game 7 it was a war out there we just wanted it there were approximately 800 fans at each game including a stand ingroomonly crowd saturday in stouffville we just skated and finished our chances said spirit coach brian perrin now 20 in playoff series against newmarket since being pro moted from associate coach with the canes to head coach of the spirit five years ago there was a history of bad blood between the teams before the series started when perrin and other volun teers left newmarket in 1998 hurricane management was miffed there was a history of bad blood between stouffville and newmarket before the series started 1anstaal in the last two years the trend reversed with two hockey staffers leaving the spirit for the canes last summer newmarket suc cessfully pursued tampering charges against the spirit over invitations to training camp sent to minor hockey players living in newmarket the spirit which was fined 1000 was bothered that infractions it called minor would be prosecuted ian staal whose parents drove 1500 kilometres from thunder bay to watch the series had a goal and an assist in game 7 andrew dennis kevin jarman dave brown mark mitchell and konrad bruetsch had the other goals mike sullivan and michael commisso had two assists each brown a stouffville resident was called up from the uxbridge bruins junior c team to replace the injured kevin hayward on saturday the spirit came back from a 31 deficit to lead 43 after two periods only to have newmarket score the last two goals of the game sullivan jd smithsoni ty raine and forgie scored for the spirit aurora downed collingwood 31 sunday to take their series in five games aurora went 43321 in the regular season the second best record in the 135team canadian junior a hockey league one its three losses was to the 294820 spirit which fin ished in third aurora was first and newmarket second stars earn silver in sarnia the markhamstouffville pee- wee a stars advanced to the finals of the recent silver stick girls hockey tournament in sarnia before losing 30 to the michigan ice dogs in the title tilt v in advancing to the final the stars defeated syracuse 52 michigan 2- 0 and tied brantford 11 the stars defeated the michigan ice devils 43 in their semifinal contest maddtafrotrifrilb scoring for the stars were jamie sparks with four goals kelly ohanlon three darcie johnston two jessica cockburn victoria benacquista and kylie kovacs one each earning assists were deanna parry courtney hurley samantha ruinsky kylie chinery natalie geiger and brittany crago sarah dandrea and danielle racioppo split goal tending duties down time stouffville atom clipper josh king 12 slides into an oshawa player during last weekends rep minor hock ey tournament at the stouffville arena teams from across ontario took part in the tourney which started friday and ended sunday mike barrett photo father and son referee team calls games as it sees them by jim thomas stouffville sun when bob and ben smith don striped jerseys and take to the ice theyre more than father and son theyre a team the stouffville twosome refer ees in the whitchurchstouffville minor hockey associations house league and the markham- stouffville girls hockey association it handles games up to and including juvenile the elder smith also officiates in the stouffville amateur hockey league or the old fat fellows as he calls therri ben handles time keeping duties in the sahl a grade 1 1 student at brother andre catholic high school in markham ben enjoys working games involving the wee kids par ticularly atoms and tykes its a lot of fun because its not so competitive he says the coaches are good too because they enjoy what theyre doing he claims he becomes so focussed on the game itself he sel dom hears what fans and coaches are saying he hopes to maintain his certification after entering college bob a former coach said he took to officiating at the request of his son i also wanted to see the game from another side bob says he likes nothing better than working a game with ben especially the tworeferee system we know each otherls game plan where each is going to be he says we also try and cover for one anothers mistakes bob smith were a team he says we treat each other as equals both are still active players as well ben in juvenile and bob in the amateur league bobs wife chris is secretary on the minor hockey executive bob admits juvenile games involving older teens are some times hard to handle tuning is the thing he says when two players are in a clinch or on the ice theyre easier to separate ijust say to them let me know when youre tired office problems can be equally difficult he says when the situa tion threatens to get out of hand hell order an unruly fan or fans removed should they refuse the game is stopped he never brings game problems home ben smith it all ends in the dressing room he says ben is active in other sports as well including mountain biking and soccer all referees must be recertified annually bob says clinics are conducted august through october a 70percent pass aver age is required bob claims the sahl has a number of excellent players including john barnett and graham wise sometimes it gets pretty com petitive he says l try and tell them no scouts are watching both bob and ben describe the fatherson arrangement as a neat setup its something we can do together says bob we have a lot of fun