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Speas ups his game with each new challenge

By Lucas O'Neill
ESPNRISE.com

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Jason Spodnik remembers the call all too well. It was the middle of the night, and the person on the other end of the phone was hysterical -- so much so that Spodnik didn't recognize the voice right away. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Five times the caller apologized. "It was just terrible," says Spodnik, boys' soccer coach at Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy. "That's one of those conversations that still resonates in my heart." The caller was Ben Speas, CVCA's star ...

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