Exciting year for Seaway Volleyball

The Seaway Kickers U13 Mixed team extended their undefeated season record to 7-0 at the Merkley Soccer Fields in Iroquois June 27, with a shutout over Nepean City’s M4 team.

Scoring started early in the first half with a one-timer in the corner by Oakley Beavers making it 1-0 Seaway. 

Less than five minutes later, Aaron Tibben planted a goal past Nepean City’s goalie, 2-0 Seaway.

Still in the first half, Beavers landed his second of the night on the Nepean City net, 3-0 Seaway. 

Devin Dumoulin and David Swerdfeger also scored making it 5-0 at half-time. 

Nepean City’s change in goalies at half-time ended Seaway’s scoring run. However, Nepean could not get a rally started in the second half. 

Final score for the game, Seaway Kickers 5, Nepean City 0. Travis McInnis and Oakley Beavers shared the shutout. They face Nepean City’s M3 team on July 4, in Iroquois. Game start will be at 6:30 p.m.

Seaway Kickers U15 Girls defeat Nepean Hotspurs

NEPEAN – The Seaway Kickers U15 Girls team visited the Nepean Hotspurs June 26 at l’école secondaire publique Omer-Deslauriers in Nepean. 

Final game score was Seaway Kickers 3, Nepean Hotspurs 1. 

Goals were scored by Julia Paulino and Jessica Ferguson (two). Courtney Moreau was goalie for the game. 

The U15 Girls host Nepean City’s G1 team July 3, before playing three games in Ottawa on July 6. 

Pictured right,  Seaway Kickers forward Aaron Tibben shoots the ball past Nepean City`s goalie for the second goal of the game. 

The South Dundas Minor program continues every Saturday morning with the 450 players that started the season on May 25 now well on their way to their World Cup Finale planned for July 26-27.

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The Morrisburg Junior B Lions were just 20 seconds away from their ninth win of the season here Friday night, January 16, when Westport Rideaus’ Cam Goldsmith got in their way.

The clock was ticking down on the Friday night match, and with less than a minute to be played the Lions were protecting a 2-1 lead.

It was at 19:40 that Goldsmith, with help from Simon Corriveau, would come up with the goal against Lions goaltender Keiran Weir to tie the game 2-2 and force it into overtime.

After the scoreless overtime play, the shoot out netted no success for Lions shooters Jacob Kendrick, Michael Paquette and Alex Sifton.

The Rideaus starting shooter Dawson Fawcett was also unsuccessful, and it was their shooter number two, Patrick Drouin who would provide the winner and force the Lions to accept the one point for the shoot out loss.

Friday night’s game got rolling with a scoreless first period.

Forty-two seconds into the second period, Johnny Moor put the Rideaus on the scoreboard.

Then at 9:54 the Lions, Alex Sifton struck to tie it with assists provided by Ryan Griffin and Curtis Evans.

The 1-1 tie held until 11:49 of the third period when a Jacob Kendrick goal from Landon Veenstra and Brodie Barkley put the Lions ahead 2-1.

Eight minutes later Goldsmith provided the tying goal to force the overtime.

Sunday, January 18, it was the Lions “pack the rink” day with all area youth 16 years and under invited by the Lions as their guests at the game, courtesy of Horner & Pietersma, Barristers, Solicitors and Notaries, Morrisburg. 

The attending youth were proudly wearing their South Dundas sweaters and a number of free door prizes topped off the day.

Unfortunately, it was not a good day on the ice for the Lions who were doubled 4-2 by the visiting Char-Lan Rebels.

The Rebels went right to work in Sunday’s game to go up 2-0 in the first period on goals by Brian Landry and Liam Vipond.

Jesse Fontaine made it 3-0 on the Rebels’ power play at 6:14 of the second period.

That’s the way it stayed until the Lions found themselves in the first 10 minutes of the third period.

Ryan Griffin put the Lions on the scoreboard on their power play at 3:13 with Dylan Nixon providing the assist.

At 6:53, Eric Evan (from Jordan Smail and Jacob Kendrick) got it to within one goal of the tie, but that was it.

The Lions were unable to put anything more past Rebels goaltender Kevan Dumouchel, while the Rebels got one more from Brennan Markell for the 4-2 win.

Brett Hahn was in the Lions net for the loss.

The Rebels sat out 30 minutes on 11 penalties and the Lions were assessed 28 minutes on 10 infractions

Coming up on Sunday, January 25, the Lions will host the St. Lawrence Division’s first place Casselman Vikings. Game time is 2:30 p.m.

The final games of the regular season will be played the weekend of Friday, February 13-15.

The Vikings are 19 points ahead of the second place Alexandria Glens with 59 points to the Glens 40. The Winchester Hawks, 37 points, are looking solid in third place and are chasing the Glens, while the Rebels 29 points, and the Akwesasne Wolves, 26 points, are battling for the fourth and final playoff position.

The Lions are in last place with 17 points. 

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The South Dundas “Howitzer” Novice B Lions defeated the Kemptville #2 Panthers in two straight games to advance to the East Division finals against the Brockville #2 Braves. 

Heading into the series, it was expected to be a close one. In previous matches, the Lions held the season series advantage over the Kemptville team 2-1-1. In October, they lost to the Panthers in an exciting overtime game in the “A” final of the NGS tournament.

The opening game pitted the number two rank Panthers against the third ranked Lions who had just come of a two game sweep of the North Dundas Demons. 

The Panthers came out strong in the opening minutes while the Lions were adjusting to their speed. That result in a Panther goal just 1:40 in from Noah Penney.

The Lions bounced back quickly on the power play when Kolby Latulippe scored from the slot, assisted by Ben Lapier and Nolan Henry. 

The Panthers added one more before the period ended for a 2-1 advantage heading into the second period..

Goals were traded in the second by Lion Nolan Henry and by Panther Matt Murphy, before the Lions exploded for three goals in three minutes.

Lapier kicked it off when he scored on a breakaway pass from Emytt Fetterly, then Kayne McCadden connected on a nice three way passing play by Owen Fetterly and Joshua Broad.

Henry picked up his second goal by making a couple of moves at the Panthers blue line before breaking into their zone and scoring. The assist went to Cassidy Bilmer who had moved the puck up the right wing boards. 

Penney responded for the Panthers to close the gap to 5-4 in the Lions favour as they headed into the third period.

Lion’s goalie Brendan Shaver was sharp in the third period keeping the Panthers off the score board with the help of defense partners Spencer Barclay and Trent Rae. 

The Lions extended their lead to three, with goals from McCadden and Henry. 

Henry’s was his third goal of the game giving him his second hat trick in a week.

Emytt Fetterly picked up the assist with line-mate Owen Fetterly and Joshua Broad assisted on McCadden’s goal.

The Lions grabbed a late power play marker when Latulippe netted his second of the game with 22 seconds left with assists to Owen Fetterly and Henry. 

With the game one, 8-4, the Lions grabbed home ice advantage in the series.

Back home on Morrisburg ice, last Wednesday, the Panthers were looking to even the four-point series. 

Panther Noah Penney once again opened the scoring on a breakaway two minutes into the first period and the 1-0 lead held into the second period.

 In the second, the Lions got on the scoreboard while on the power player when Kayne McCadden took a pass from Nolan Henry in the slot and scored with a low shot to the corner of the net. 

Ben Lapier picked up the secondary assist as he kept the puck alive along the boards and made a short pass to Henry. The Panthers battled back to take a 2-1 lead, but before the second period ended the Lions scored another two from Ben Lapier  and Kayne McCadden as he and his line mates Owen Fetterly and Joshua Broad would team up on a passing play.

With the Lion’s up 3-2 to start the third, the Panthers pressed but Lions goaltender Brendan Shaver stood tall. 

As time ticked by McCadden scored his third of the game, a hat trick, with the Fetterly boys’ picking up assists, Owen and Emytt. 

When the third period expired, and the Lions had their fourth consecutive playoff win and second series sweep.

The South Dundas “Howitzer” Novice B Lions were in playoff action on Sunday afternoon in Brockville for Game #1 of the East Division Final and won 5-3, Game #2 was played last night, Tuesday, March 6th in Morrisburg.

Details of the championship series will be in next week’s issue of The Leader.

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