Spartans, Devils square off for County Hockey Cup

The South Dundas “Pizza Hut” Novice B Lions kicked off the 2011/12 hockey season with back-to-back 5-4 and 4-2 wins against the South Stormont Selects.

Here on Thursday night, the Lions opened the season with a 5-4 win over the South Stormont Selects as they held on tightly to their one goal lead late in the third period. With their net emty, the Selects pressed to get the equalizer before the final buzzer but were turned away the Lions defense. 

Lions goaltender Brendan Shaver was tested in the last couple of minutes but stood his ground and kept the puck in front of the goal line.    

The Selects opened the scoring at the 3:30 minute mark of the first period and that score held with saves by goalies Keaton Woodside (Selects) and Brendan Shaver (Lions). 

With 1:04 left in the period, the Lions got on the board when Kayne McCadden grabbed the puck in the offensive zone and made a few moves around the Selects defenders before burying the puck behind Woodside. 

The Selects re-claimed the lead with 10 seconds left in the second when the Lion defence were caught up ice leaving Joshua Broad the lonely Lion to try and stop the Selects charge.     

Throughout the second and third period, the Lions offense carried the play as defenders Emytt Fetterly, Cassidy Bilmer and Spencer Barclay kept the play alive many times at the offensive blue line. 

At 6:26 the Selects took a 3-1 lead when a shot by Chase Duchesne squeaked a puck by Brendan Shaver. 

With the game closing in on only a few minutes left the Lions offense went to work. 

At 9:24 Joshua Broad passed the puck around a Select defender to Ben Lapier who went in on the Selects goalie and beat him glove side. At 11:23 Nolan Henry took a pass form Trent Rae at the Selects blue line and broke in on Woodside to beat him with another great shot. 

On the very next shift Ben Lapier went to work scoring two goals in eight seconds to record the first three goal performance of the year. Owen Fetterly picked up the lone assist on the goals.

In the rematch and resulting 4-2 win, Ben Lapier (from Kolby Latulippe) opened the scoring for the Lions on the power play with 19 seconds left in the first period. 

Early in the second, Lions goalie Brendan Shaver kept the Selects off the board with a huge glove save on a Selects shot from the slot. 

Owen Fetterly gave the Lions a 2-0 lead when he carried the puck down the right wing and wristed a shot just as he approached the slot.

The Selects finally got on the board when Owen Carter banged in his own rebound when he pounced on a loose puck by the Lions net. 

The Lions regained their two goal lead when Kayne McCadden got the puck from Latulippe in the right wing corner and flipped the puck over the goalie to Nolan Henry who was standing all alone in front of the net. 

To his surprise the puck landed flat on the ice, right on his stick. The puck bounced away, but Henry quickly regained control and shot the puck off the Selects goalie’s right pad into the net. 

Kayne McCadden scored with 1:31 left in the second period unassisted.

In the third period, Lions defenseman Spencer Barclay used his head (literally) in taking a scoring chance away from Selects Owen Carter. 

It started when Carter crossed over the Lions blue line, cut into the middle of the ice and let a wrist shot go. The puck hit Barclay on the helmet and deflected out of play. 

The South Dundas “Pizza Hut” Lions open their regular season to-night in Kemptville and travel to Westport on Saturday.

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Two Morrisburg club skaters will be lacing up their skates for the Skate Ontario Championship coming up in Brampton, March 13-15.

Senior Bronze skater Alexis Engwerda and Juvenile (under 14) skater Trina Dykstra-MacPherson, put together strong performances at the Eastern Ontario StarSkate Invitational Championships (EOSIC) held at the Nepean Sportsplex, February 13-15, to land their qualifying spots. Engwerda skated to a podium silver medal finish in her division while Dyskstra-MacPherson placed fourth.

“Alexis had a great skate to her spirited Celtic music from the ‘Lord of the Dance” that won her a bronze medal in her flight, and qualified her for the final,” says her coach Allison Scott.

“Not everything was clean, but I tried everything and I was happy about that,” says Engwerda whose program is ambitious and energetic and consists of three spins (camel-sit-change, sit combination, deathdrop and sit-change-sit) and six jump elements, five of them double jumps, including two double-double combinations, and a spiral sequence. “I had a personal best with 23.53 points, and that beat my previous best by two points.” 

“Alexis skated with great flow and finesse attacking each element with a smile,” said Scott. “She had a fabulous combination spin, an effortless double flip jump, and she achieved a personal best score and a spot in the final.”

 “However, her performance in the final was even better than her first skate!  She rose to the occasion, skated aggressively but assertively into each element, had solid and complete rotations in both her double-double jump combinations and beautiful spins including a quality death-drop spin which all resulted in her surpassing her previous score and achieving another personal best!”  

“Her silver medal win and a chance to skate at the All-Ontario Championships in Brampton, is an honour which is so incredibly exciting!”

“Alexis has improved tremendously this season.  Her her hard work, determination and dedication has paid off, and I am extremely proud of her outstanding accomplishment for this event.”  

“I am just so happy for her and look forward to our experience together at the All-Ontario!

Trina had a nearly flawless personal best performance at EOSIC in the Juvenile under 14 category to earn her a qualifying position for the Skate Ontario Championships in March. 

“It was one of my better skates,” says Trina. “I did a personal best 28.79 from my previous 22.02. That was a really big jump, and I was really happy.”

“Trina completed a jam-packed 2.5 minute program including an axel and eight doubles (2 double-double combinations, an axel-double loop with three other doubles by themselves),” says coach Louise Dimmick. “She also performed three excellent spins, two change-foot combination spins (one with a flying entry), a flying camel spin and a beautiful spiral sequence that really highlighted her flexibility.” 

“Trina’s speed and artistry have really improved over the last six months, and you could see Trina’s love of skating come out in her performance.”

 “This success is the result of years of hard work and it’s been so nice to be a part of this journey with her.”

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  Cheryl Lowe and Kurtis Barkley successfully defended their titles at the Cedar Glen Club Championship tournament played here on Saturday, July 18. This year’s club championship, featured a one-day, 18 hole round for the […]