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stouflvuksuntribimem sattmfoydeclr2007 13 can spartans threepeat as ontario champs incoming grade 9 talent has stouffville secondary coach optimistic by mike hayakawa staff writer brian shankman refuses to be lured into saying his stouffville district sec ondary school spartans girls varsity hockey team can threepeat as ontario high school aaa champions but the spartans head coach thinks the makeup of this years team will make it competitive enough to challenge for the york region title and after that who knows this despite losing top scorer hayley hughes who is now attending cornell university in ithaca ny the spartans opened their york region season tuesday by defeating visiting cardinal carter catholic high aurora 41 i think our team looks really good shankman said im happy with it what intrigues shankman foremost he said is the infusion of five grade 9 players included in that group are forwards elise acton daughter of toronto maple we wont be sneaking up on anybody weve got to bring our game each time out leafs assistant coach keith acton van essa spataro and suzanne dickie along with defencemen lindsay burrows and emily oshaughnessy this is a nice group of grade 9s that feeds the engine shankman said in describing the cast that has blended in well into the 13player roster while the rookies have asserted themselves shankman said his return ees have improved over last year leading the returning group are cap tain jaimie sparks lauren barber and karli ziegler all three forwards are in grade 12 also in the mix are grade 11 forwards heather hughes and brittany crago the defence will be anchored by grade 10 students dayle wilkinson and brittany drew wilkinson is a vital cog to the spar tans defence shankman said we definitely have more balanced scoring this year we can get scoring from all three of our lines shes an elite player who plays well at both ends of the rink dale rarely gets beat one on one and shes a smart player he said the spartans goaltending situation is also ably manned by grade 10 returnee courtney humphreys and felicia pen- nanen another grade 10 student in her first year with the team what also has shankman and first- year assistant coach sarah fitzgerald singing an optimistic tune is the pres ence of a balanced offensive attack this he said should be one of the clubs strengths as last season the club had a tendency to rely heavily on hayley hughes to score we definitely have more balanced scoring this year shankman said we can get scoring from all three of our lines shankman acknowledged opposing clubs will be digging deeper to try and defeat the defending champions as a result he said his charges must be ready to answer the bell for each game we wont be sneaking up on any body weve got to bring our game each time out he said scoring for the spartans in tuesdays win were acton with two goals spataro and barber with one apiece heather hughes collected two assists the spartans are scheduled resume their league schedule 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