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22 stouffvillesuntribunewrixhtsday nov 92006 stouffville suntribune spirit keeps point streak intact last week friday won 52 against collingwood blues sunday won 32 against seguin bruins now 11612 on season tied for second place in north conference with collingwood blues coming up today at newmarket hurri canes 730 pm saturday vs north york rangers at stouffville arena 730 pm game notes mike foy won a race for the puck and scored a shorthanded goal with 5 19 remaining in the second period sunday that turned out to be the gamewinning goal as a shortstaffed spirit squad emerged with a 32 win over the host seguin bruins it was the tenth straight game in which the spirit has gained at least a point the spirit 11612 is one point back of second place collingwood in the north confer ence and has played three fewer games randy johnston and ben morse had the other goals foy cousin of nhler matt foy added an assist trevor oneill picked up the win in the spirit net the spirit who trailed 21 after the first period before rallying in the second stanza played the contest without the services of foiwards will acton world jr a challenge brock van dergulik con cussion mike cudmore lacrosse ryan oliver onegame suspension incurred friday against the collingwood blues and josh domingues injury the victory by the spirit came on the heels of a successful outing friday in collingwood as stouffville skated off with a 52 verdict over the host blues anchoririgthe spirit win was team cap tain randy johnston who deposited two shorthanded goals and earned a pair of assists donivan munro had two goals of his ownboth on the power play and mike cudmore the other corey trivino had two assists the spirit who led 21 after the first period and 41 after two outshot the blues 4027 trevor oneill earned the win notebook forward curtis johnston elected to leave the spirit in favour of accepting a job offer from hydro one near owen sound he had been out of the lineup with mononucleosis as a means of filling their depleted roster for sundays tilt against the bruins the spirit called up forward craig mcdowell from the uxbridge junior c team generally speaking were still going strong even though we had a cou ple of tough games the team has responded really well at both ends of the rink west said of his clubs two recent contests whats really encouraging to west is that the team has battled well in the face of adversity in playing shortstaffed the guys who are getting a chance to play are rising to the occasion fortu nately our upcoming schedule calms down a bit while happy to collecta point in the last 10 games west still feels theres room for improvement im a little leary about it all im more concerned with the performance of my team and not results right now i like to base things on performance rather than results at this juncture weve still got a lot of things to work onr insider for live scoring and updates go to pointstreakcomtonights game is on whistlradioxorri and rogers tvstouffville minor hockey players wearing their team jerseys will be admit ted free to saturdays game for more on the spirit log on to wwwstouffvillespirilcom practice pays off for clipper ae atoms minor hockey club works with wendel clark by mike hayakawa staff writer for the stouffville atom ae clippers practice not only makes perfect at the same time it recently enabled the minor hockey club to gain some notoriety when they made an appearance on television this all came about in early october when the clippers elected to take part in an initia tive conducted by national sports called the perfect prac tice program called p3 for short the per fect practice program is a spon sorship program through which national sports provides partic ipating teams with the resources they need to take their practice to the next level so they can raise their game in competi tion ian munro atom ae clippers head coach revealed his clubs participation originated when stephen clements father of firstyear goalkeeper jordan clements informed him of the national sports program stephen is associated with national sports and he approached me about a month ago and asked if wed be inter ested in being included in the perfect practice program recalled munro who is in his third year with the club and sec ond as head coach i said i would be interested because im always interested in doing things to help the kids and im eager to learn more in the coaching profession then he asked if id be inter ested in having wendel clark former toronto maple leafs captain come out to show the tricks of the trade and t said sure while familiar with clark munro noted many of his play ers who are nine and 10-year- olds did not know who he was or hadnt seen him play when he toiled in the nhl but when clark a former bal- lantrae resident joined the clip pers for a onehour practice at stouffville arena and took part in a few drills along with demon strating some munro noted the players were in awe of what skills he still possessed it was definitely a nice way to help the kids and for the kids to get a chance to meet wendel clark even though at their age they really didnt remember him when he played it was a lot of fun munro said of clarks on- ice appearance the clippers would later reunite with clark at the city television set in toronto during the breakfast television show to demonstrate hockey drills seeteampage23 mm t v staff photobill roberts a little fancy footwork stouffville district secondary school spartans bantam flanker matt gentles tries to manoeuvre his way past some newfoundland under15 provincial team tacklers during last saturdays exhibition rugby contest at stoufville district sec ondary school the newfoundland team however won the game 400 moss 1 12th at ofsaa cross country james moss was the lone stouffville district secondary school competitor in thunder bay last weekend for the ontario federation of school athletic associations cross country champi onships for his efforts the 16yearold grade 10 student finished 112th in the junior boys 6380metre event after complet ing the course in 244045 bill creesor spartans crosscountry coach noted running conditions in thunder bay were challenging due to near freezing temperatures it was a good experience for him creesor said of moss who also runs track during the spring season for the spartans two grqtjasons to own a corkscrew two great wines delivered to your door every month these wines not available anywhere else in ontario visit wwwyorkregipnwineclubcom mcism gwfai w or call 416 5328565 or 18669792946 onlineca tst ih omfarnc york region wine club