THE HEAVY LIFTERS - Stanstead College

Sports
Stellar soccer!
The Stanstead College Spartans celebrated
one of their best all-around soccer
seasons in recent memory in 2007.
The senior boys enjoyed a perfect
record in ETIAC League play, from the
first kick-off through the end of the regular
season and into the playoff championships.
This is the second year in a row
that the senior boys have captured the
championship trophy.
Not to be outdone, the senior girls won
the ETIAC regular season banner through
hard work and determination. What
makes this even more special is that it is
the first time since 1984 that the senior
girls have been able to pull off such a feat.
While they couldn’t nail down the playoff
trophy in the final game against Alexander
Galt, the senior girls can hold their heads
Holy Hockey!
Senior boys hockey
In hockey, the Stanstead Senior Boys
Spartans had another remarkable season.
In February, the team traveled to
Centennial Regional High School for the
Graham Neil Provincial Tournament,
where they captured the AAESQ provincial
title for the third straight year.
It’s the fourth time in five years that the
Spartans have won the provincial championship
and, if you want to go back further,
the fifth time in nine years.
Team captain Alex Gagnon-Sckoropad
was named tournament MVP for the sec-
high for their stellar season.
In 2006, the junior boys won
the regular season title but
missed out in the championship
final. This year, the juniors ended
up in a three-way tie for the
league based on their win-loss
record but missed out on the
banner through goals for and against.
They did, however, win the championship
in the playoff final. This appears to be the
first time the junior boys have earned the
trophy in ETIAC history. Top scorer for
the team was Massimo Manago Di Buono
with an astounding 24 goals.
And speaking of history, the bantam
girls made it all the way to the playoff
championship final against Alexander
Galt. This is apparently the first time the
bantam girls have made it this far. While
the girls lost 1-0 in overtime, they should
ond year in a row.
The Spartans came back to
Stanstead where they capped
off their previously earned
league banner with a playoff
championship final against
Alexander Galt – the only
ETIAC team to beat the
Spartans this year. The Pipers
also gave the Spartans a run
for their money at the
AAESQ semi-final, which
went into overtime. But in this final
matchup between the local rivals, it wasn’t
particularly close, with the Spartans winning
9-4.
This was the twelfth year that Stanstead
has won the ETIAC playoff championship.
If these were repeats, there was one
first for the Spartans: For the first time in
the 10-year history of the tournament, the
senior boys won their own Stanstead
College Invitational Senior Boys Hockey
Tournament January 11 to 13.
The Spartans went 4-0-1 during the
three-day event, which saw five teams
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be proud of their success and perseverance.
Congratulations
to all the soccer
players and our fall
student-athletes for
an outstanding season.
competing in a round-robin format to
earn a spot in Sunday’s final.
Stanstead’s tie in round-robin play was
against the Kents Hill School Huskies of
Maine, whom the Spartans ultimately
faced in the final. The final score of the
nail-biter was 3-2.
Stanstead goalie Kevin O’Connor was
the game MVP while captain Alex
Gagnon-Sckoropad was named the tournament
MVP.
Senior girls hockey
While the senior girls couldn’t crack the
Galt powerhouse to make headway in the
ETIAC league, the Spartans found success
elsewhere. The girls had a full schedule
this season, traveling to Maine, Nova
Scotia, Connecticut, New Hampshire,