Jr. B Lions coach, Thom Racine packs it in

 

Back-to-back losses and very quickly the Morrisburg Junior B Lions find themselves in the bottom mix of the St. Lawrence Division hockey pack.

With three wins to date, the Lions are now in the division basement, tied at six points, with the Akwesasne Wolves and the Alexandria Glens.

Friday night on home ice they lost to the Akwesasne Wolves, and Saturday night, they were handed a 5-1 road loss by the Char-Lan Rebels.

 For the first place Rebels, it marked their second win of the week. Thursday night, they defeated Casselman in their home barn, 4-3, to put themselves five points ahead of the second place Vikings.

The Winchester Hawks climbed out of the division basement and landed in third place thanks to a 4-1 win against Akwesasne. They opened their weekend action in Winchester, Friday night with a 7-5 loss to the Alexandria Glens. 

Friday night in Morrisburg, the Lions were unable to get on the scoreboard. They were, however, able to find the penalty box, opening the door to four consecutive Wolves power-play goals.

Jayden Lemire gave the Wolves a 1-0 lead in the first period. That was followed by another three power-play goals in the second period from the sticks of Hiio Herne, Jack Nardiello, and Dillon Barr.

Barr finished if off for the 5-0 Wolves win with his second goal in the final minute of the second period.

The Wolves were assessed 26 minutes in penalties, which included eight minors and a checking from behind misconduct.

The Lions were assessed 46 minutes in penalties which included 13 minors,  and a pair of misconducts for checking from behind and checking to the head.

Mikael Dion, who was in net for the Lions, gave up the five goals on 44 Wolves shots. Cam Turcotte in the Wolves net, had a light time of it, but stopped all 16 of the Lions shots.

In Williamstown on Saturday night, the Lions Sylvester Bzdyl, with help from Chris Rutley and Clarke Veenstra, put the Lions on the scoreboard with a power-play goal at 5:36 of the first period.

But that was it.

The first place Rebels, pulled ahead 2-1 in the first period and never looked back as they added two more in the second and polished off the 5-1 victory with a Blain MacKay goal at 8:08 of the third period.

Counting the other Rebels goals were Dean Derouchie, Kevin Veilleux, Lawson MacDougall and Tyler Filion.

The Lions were assessed 65 minutes in penalties which included 10 minors, a five minute fighting major to goaltender Ryan Cooper, three misconducts, and a game misconduct.

The Rebels were assessed 37 minutes in penalties which included 11 minors, a fighting major to Quinlin MacDonell and a game misconduct. 

Cooper who was in net for just over 55 minutes gave up five goals in 37 Rebels shots. Rebels goaltender Alex Boileau stopped 32 Lions shots.

Coming up this weekend is the annual Fall Classic Event at the Nick Smith Centre in Arnprior. The weekend of Junior Hockey begins Friday night, runs throughout much of the day on Saturday and again on Sunday.

The Lions are scheduled to play the Valley Division’s Renfrew Timberwolves at 9 p.m. Friday night, October 12. Also on Friday night at 8:30 p.m. on  rink A ice, the Winchester Hawks will play the Metro Division’s Ottawa West Golden Knights.

Game two for the Lions is set for Saturday night, October 13 at 8:30 p.m. against the Valley Division’s Almonte Thunder.

Four games will be played Friday night, 10 Saturday and another eight on Sunday.

The Eastern Ontario Junior Hockey league is once again very proud to have the Ottawa Senators as its presenting sponsor. The Senators have generously provided 88 home game tickets for the MVPs on both team in each of the 22 games as well as Senators’ ball caps.

In addition the Senators have provided four autographed Sens jersey which will be used for a silent auction to support the league which is one of the largest Junior B leagues across Canada.

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Forty-six women welcomed the first real blast of hot summertime weather on Wednesday evening, July 3 for their weekly night sponsored by Brister Group.

The game played was “How close can you get’ with hidden scores created for each hole through a pick from the hat. The players got one point for each score away from the hidden hole score. 

Players with the least points were Paula Locke, Lise Steinburg and Sharon Annable with 18 point totals. Way off base with 356 points was Betty Lou Casselman.

A total of 80 men were out for men’s night on Thursday, July 4 with Lance Lepage leading the field with a 32 for the low gross in A flight. Charlie Moore won B flight with a 39 and Bob Barclay won C with a 44.

Net winners were Lindsay Weegar in A flight, Jim Annable in B and Gus Dickson in C.

Closest to the pin winners were Jeff Barclay on the par three fifth hole and Doug McNairn on the par three eighth.

The evening was sponsored by Harland Veinotte Transport.

The weather has finally cooperated and the remaining sod for the second green and the area around the putting surface on the third hole is in place and doing well. The sod for the  new green on the number three hole was laid several weeks ago, and has mended really well.

Morrisburg Golf Club members are now looking forward to the upcoming club championship tournament to be played the weekend of July 20-21. In August, the men will host their annual Men’s Open on Saturday, August 10 which was moved from its usual June date to August due to the green construction on the second and third holes.

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Who says 13 is unlucky?  Not the Cedar Glen Ladies Valley League Team which ended a 15-year Cedar Glen drought in Ladies Valley League competition here Sunday afternoon, with a 13 stroke victory over second place Summer Heights.

Cedar Glen last won the Valley League golf competition in 1997, and Sunday’s victory made it just two wins since they joined the League in 1991. 

For the win, Cedar Glen posted a total of 874 strokes. Summer Heights scraped out second place by a slim one stroke over Prescott, 887-888 strokes respectively, while Morrisburg was fourth with 924 strokes and Iroquois fifth with 943.

The second place Summer Heights golfers were the defending champions from the 2012 tournament hosted by Morrisburg.

The Ladies Valley League consists of 13-player teams,  plus one spare, from each of the five clubs. There are three players in each of A-B-C-D flights with the two best scores in each counted towards the team total. Also counting in the team totals are the senior players’ totals.

Shari Boyd led the Cedar Glen champs to their victory with an 87, while senior player, Muriel Whitteker posted a strong 90 to back her up. Lynn Shaw added a 94 in A flight, while B flight’s Sheila Bush had a 92 and Sue McIntosh a 97. 

Elise Muir made a big, contribution with a 91 in C flight, while Jocelyn St. Pierre added a 105. Marie Beckstead counted a 107 in D flight, with Corry Witteveen contributing a 111.

Also playing for the Cedar Glen team, (their scores did not count) were Pat Reaney in A flight, Christena Yelle in B, Sheila Crowder in C and Linda Murphy in D. Loretta Van Dellen was their spare.

The low shooter for the day was Vicki Lalonde of Summer Heights who posted an 81 to claim the Trudy Beavers Trophy for low gross in A flight.

Cedar Glen’s Sheila Bush posted a 92 to win the Phyllis Locke Trophy for low gross in B flight.

The lone playoff of the day was in C flight with Cedar Glen’s Elise Muir and Prescott’s Glenda Deir finishing tied with 91s.

Muir claimed the Mildred and Dick Atchison low gross C flight trophy in a sudden death playoff, while Deir settled for the C flight low net win with a 61.

The top shooter in D flight was Cedar Glen’s Marie Beckstead who won the Bank of Montreal trophy with  a 107.

Net wins went to Sue Sloan of Iroquois (87-69 net) in A flight, Julie Bennet of Iroquois (93-67 net) in B flight, Prescott’s Deir in C flight, and Cedar Glen’s Corry Witteveen (111-71 net) in D flight.

Gail Adams of Summer Heights posted an 86 to win the senior low gross Howard Wallace Trophy, and Diane Throop of Prescott won the Jennie Clifford Memorial Trophy for low senior net with an 87 for a 70 net.

Ann Leduc of Summer Heights was the low spare with a 91, and Loretta Van Dellan, Cedar Glen had low net (97-74 net).

Low gross shooters for each team were: Mia Harrison 83, Prescott; Vicki Boivin 88, Morrisburg; Sue Sloan 87, Iroquois; Vicki Lalonde, Summer Heights 81; Shari Boyd 87, Cedar Glen.

It was the 43rd playing of the annual Ladies Valley League golf competition.

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