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26 stoufftittesuntribunea thursday may 102007 stouffville suntribune sports ennos lim by jim thomas the stouffville mennos are alive but not well although several key players are side lined with injuries they had hoped to assemble a team for yesterdays oshawa city and district fastball league regular season opener in aurora tonights home opener at memorial park against the defending league champion oshawa ravens is an 830 pm start playing for the ravens will be a familiar face in paul koert a stouffville native and lefthanded pitcher who has played for the national and junior national teams evans baranieski back on mound the mennos will count on the pitching prowess of scott evans byron baranieski and newcomer bob mcculley with veteran paul boynton available if needed dale boadway will complete the battery the infield lineup includes brad clubine rich burkholder jeff boadway scott eyre and terry and rob reesor patrolling the outfield will be shawn boadway kris burkholder and newcomer darcy enosse onfield managers will be howie burk holder and mike boadway art burkholder will handle the offfield chores with rich burkholder in charge of tournament play face tough lefthander the home opener could be tough with paul koert on the mond art burk holder said some of our players have never faced a southpaw pitcher of his calibre well have to take it game by game eleven teams make up the league this year including two teams from oshawa and scarborough the toronto indians markharn bradford lake simcoe new market bradford and stouffville for more information on the league go to ocdtica friends shun ohl for us college hockey scholarships from them all the same thing that ethan was going to the ncaa were 100percent commit ted to boston university ethans stock rose after he picked up four game mvps during the ohl cup minor midget tournament last month it was flattering to go in the first round said ethan who skated at the spirits rookie camp in stouffville sat urday kingstons a great town and a great team but we committed to go the college route last year the frontenacs did not return calls from the sun-tri- bune but general manager larry mavety in a prepared statement tuesday said we are in discussion with the family he told the kingston whig standard he was unaware ethan may not report after speaking to the wereks before the draft the 6foot 170pound centre the first york region player taken in the draft had 128 points in 55 games for the toronto marlies minor midgets last year a student at pickering col lege in newmarket he drew considerable interest from us colleges last season including boston michigan northeastern vermont princeton and harvard stouffvilles bobby hughes graduated from the fronte nacs this spring signing with the nhls carolina hurri canes the wereks live in good wood northeast of stouffville patrick who played minor midget for the north york rangers last season was spot ted by maine head coach tim whitehead at a camp last month harvard umass princeton and northeastern were also interested the stouffville resident also played defence for broth er andre catholic high school in markharn last year ethan and patrick met as fouryearolds playing in the house league of the wwtchurchstouffville minor hockey association patricks father dan mceachen was the coach and ethans dad the sponsor they played select hock ey in stouffville then moved on together to the markharn waxers and richmond hill stars they went their sepa rate ways in the greater toronto hockey league four years ago their families celebrated the college commitments together and with friends sat urday in stouffville all thats stopping an onice reunion in spiritland this fall is patricks release from north york both players were influ enced by older players including cousins jamie sokolsky ethans cousin played in the ohl including time in belleville under mr mavety jamie and others have said if they could do it all over again they would go the col lege route ethan said being around the spirit with my dad i heard the players who came back from school always say what a great expe rience it was patricks cousin mike sul livan of stouffville graduates this weekend after four years at clarkson university in new york he was drafted by the nhus los angeles kings as a member of the spirit mike was a big influence patrick said i knew he had a great time over his four years there pat hopes to play with another cousin mark sulli van with the spirit next sea son both players are honour roll students who attended many spirit games as youngsters michel bond a goal scoring machine from hearst ont billeted with the mceachens during his two years with the spirit i think we both always wanted to play for the spir it ethan said but it was more of a dream before this year staff photojim mason for more on the draft go to ontariohockeyleaguecom ethan werek left and patrick mceachen hope to play together with the stouffville spirit jr a team next season theyve accepted 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