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stouffville suntribune thursday june 2 2005 25 stouffville suntribune spartan girls kick up a storm in ofsaa qualifier soccer squad making first appearance at provincial finals by mike hayakawa staff writer during the last three weeks of practice sessions rob edmondson had his stouffville district secondary school spartans girls soccer team prac tise penalty kicks the spartans head coach thought at some point his players would be required to take part in a contest decided by kicks that scenario came to fruition friday when the spartans trav elled to oshawa to face monsignor john percyma catholic high school patriots in an ontario federation of school athletic associations aa qualifier with the score knotted at 11 through regulation time and overtime the contest was decid ed on penalty kicks it was here where the practice paid off for the spartans who won the game 42 on aggregate cassie sparks jaimie sparks sam batten and jess carroll scored for the spartans in the penalty shootout goalkeeper liz knox mean while stopped two patriots penalty kicks to help preserve the win weve practised penalty kicks for at least a half our during each practice session edmonson said and when we did we worked on trying to decide who are best five shooters would be we scored on four of our five chances and it paid off for the spartans the victory enabled them to make their first appearance at ofsaa since the school re-started- its soccer pro gram just four years ago this years ofsaa aa championships begin today in thunder bay today and end saturday the spartans will play two games today against holy cross catholic high school from peterborough and milton district secondary school the spartans conclude pool play friday against st marys catholic high school kitchener its quite something said edmondson our volleyball bas ketball hockey and rugby teams have gone to ofsaa this is the first time for the soccer program its new to everybody on this team its an exciting opportuni ty trailing 10 when pereyma scored the games first goal just five minutes into the contest on a penalty kick the spartans tied the game with just 15 minutes remaining in regulation time on a goal by batten edmondson felt the games turning point came at the half when his club began to get accus tomed to playing on a smaller than normal playing surface staff photomike barrett stouffville district secondary schools bjorn mcsorley gets a little help from his teammates as hes being lifted to catch the ball during a lineout in mondays yraa senior boys rugby final against huron heights secondary school at fletchers field in markham the spartans won their second straight yraa title with an 85 victory we just kept battling and said whatever should happen will happen and it did he said right now the girls are excited and so they should be tracksters advance to ofsaa three members of the stouffville district secondary school spartans track and field team advanced to the ontario federation of school athletic associations champi onships after earning top four plac- ings at the central regional ofsaa qualifying meet last wednesday at york university natalie geiger a grade 9 stu dent continued to rewrite the school record books after winning two races in the midget girls divi sion entered in the 200 metres geiger won the event in 2525 sec onds she also won the 400m in 5695 v seconds her time was just 50 sec onds off qualifying for the world under 17s other ofsaa qualifiers included dan coskun who finished second in the midget boys discus bruce preston another midget boys performer finished second in the shot put just missing out on ofsaa bids were brodieatkinson who finished fifth in the midget boys javelin and dale passfield with a seventhplace finish in the senior boys javelin as a team the spartans finished 32nd overall out of 93 teams that also came from the lake ontario secondary schools athletic association and the georgian bay secondary schools athletic association the spartans accumu 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thursday and concluding saturday spartans who advanced to the quarterfinals with a dramatic 12- 10 comeback win over visiting richmond hill secondary school in fridays firstround playoff contest trailing 101 through 412 innings the spartans exploded for eight runs to narrow the gap to 10 after holding richmond hill scoreless in the top of the sixth inning the spartans added three more runs to take the lead with the winning run coming in on a bases loaded walk to matt martiniello mark lofthouse tossed three innings of relief and was the win ning pitcher ball spartans eliminated the spartans boys baseball team were eliminated from the yraa tier two championship race after losing a quarterfinal game tuesday to sacred heart catholic high school newmarket 104 at bishops cross park in thornhill the visiting spartans held a 4- 2 lead through three innings before sacred heart rallied to take the lead spartans head coach andy stoikos felt untimely errors proved costly we ended up making too many mistakes on both sides of the ball overall though i thought we had a decent season but disap pointing in that i think we had the ability to go further thatwedid for more information on local high school sports log on to wwwyraacom for informa tion on provincial championships log on to wwwofsaaonca-