Club champions crowned at Morrisburg

Over 300 area residents have chosen to support Winchester District Memorial Hospital by attending a What’s Your Story golf tournament in the past two months.
 
“The program has truly taken off,” says WDMH Foundation Board Chair, Diane Crummy. “We’re so inspired by the level of dedication and commitment that the hospital’s catchment area has already shown in regards to the What’s Your Story fund raising program.”

What’s Your Story is a program that encourages those with a passion for WDMH to share that passion by organizing a fund raising event. Since its inception, 12 area residents have planned and executed a community fund raiser.

With the beautiful weather, golf tournaments have been one of the more popular What’s Your Story event options!

On July 8, Cloverdale Links hosted a tournament, and raised over $2,000! Shortly thereafter, Cedar Glen played host to the Trevor Barkley Memorial Tournament, and the Russell House Pub Charity Golf Tournament.  The Trevor Barkley Memorial Golf Tournament has been taking place since 2000, and has raised more than $68,000 in that time.

Both Denis Casselman and Gib Patterson have continued to be supportive of these community fund raising golf tournaments, and their support is much appreciated.

Most recently, Lucky 7 Bar & Grill in Embrun organized their 12th annual charity golf tournament at Casselview Golf & Country Club.  The proceeds have been designated to the WDMH Foundation for the past several years, raising over $9,000.

There are also two upcoming golf tournaments to benefit the WDMH Foundation, including one on September 10 at Cedar Glen Golf Course, and another on September 24 at Cloverdale Links Golf Course.

To inquire about attending either of these events, or for more information on organizing a communityfundraising event, please contact the Foundation Office at 613-774-2420 x.6164.

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Three games in just over a week and the Dundas Bantam House girls put up a one win-two loss record.

Dundas opened their week’s action on the road where they gave up a 6-1 loss to Carleton Place on Saturday, October 6.

Then on Saturday, October 13, they were on the road to Smiths Falls where they righted themselves with a big 7-0 victory.

For game three, on Sunday, October 14, Dundas recorded their second loss, when they hosted Clarence Rockland and came out on the wrong side of a 3-0 count.

Kalleigh Young, with help from Cassandra Young and Brynn Gilmour, counted the lone goal against Carleton Place late in the first period.

The Dundas lead held until well into the second frame when Carleton Place turned it up a notch for three unanswered counters. They added another three in the third for the 6-1 victory.

Then in Smith Falls on Saturday, it was a totally different story.

Taylor Casselman pointed the girls towards the 7-0 victory with the loan goal of the first period.

In the second period, Dundas went up 4-0. Brynn Gilmour kicked it off with help from Emma Barkley and Anna Gruich.

Barkley and Gruich then put it together to assist Emily Byers for goal number three. Barkley finished off the period scoring with help from Byers and Gilmour.

Early in the third period, Ally Weegar pushed it to 5-0 with help from Cassandra Young and Kalleigh Young.

The line struck again with 3:53 left on the clock this time with Kalleigh Young scoring and Cassandra Young and Weegar providing the help.

Weegar gave Dundas the 7-0 win with an unassisted counter in the last minute of the game.

Dundas was unable to get much of anything going against Clarence Rockland on Sunday, as the latter counted three unanswered first period goals for the 3-0 win.

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For fans who love good baseball and exciting games, there was no where better to be the weekend of May 25-27, 2012, than at the Williamsburg Ball Diamond taking in the Casey At Bat Memorial Fastpitch Tournament. 

Organized by Lyle Schell and the Schell family, this was the 9th tournament held at Williamsburg.The Tournament (named for Casey Schell) this year honoured the memory of Lyle’s mother, Joanie Schell. The home team, the Williamsburg Cigars, wore shirts which proclaimed on the back, Joanie’s Way: All or Nothing. 

The proceeds from the tournament, $1,000, are all going to Hospice Care.

The Cigars fielded 10 players. “I made the calls about two months ago,” Schell said, “and we basically all got together here on Friday night. Pretty great results for a team that didn’t actually practice,” he said of his team which made it to the championship final.

Eight teams entered this year. They included, in the Casey Division, the Barrhaven Blues, Quebec Midgets, Donnacona Bluesox,  and the Napanee Midget Express, and in the Sib division  the Cigars, the Cornwall Pickmeups, the Quebec Juniors and the Cree Nation Fireballs (who travelled for 17 hours from northern Quebec).

The Cigars’ Friday night opener turned out to be a nail biter. 

The team was down 6-3 against the Cornwall Pickmeups in the bottom of the 7th inning. When Jamie Smith came up to bat for the Cigars, the bases were loaded with two out. 

He hit a beautiful grand slam, and brought in four runs. The Cigars took their opener 7-6.

“Boy, was I excited,” Smith said. “It was just a great moment.”

“Never in our lives, in all the tournaments, have we seen a game end that way with a grand slam,” said team-mate and catcher Bobby Hart.

On Saturday afternoon, the Cigars dominated, handing the Cree Nation Fireballs a 7-0 loss. The outstanding pitching of Neil “Cookie” Cook was blisteringly effective, backed up by great fielding and hitting by the rest of the team.

Unfortunately the Cigars went down to defeat on Sunday morning against the Quebec Juniors, 8-4, which put them in second place in the Sib division and pitted them against Barrhaven, first in the Casey division, in the Sunday afternoon semi-final.

This was a hard fought game, with the teams remaining scoreless for several innings. There was consistently fine pitching by Cook. Then, at the top of the fourth inning, Hart belted a two base hit and brought Curtis Summers home putting the Cigars ahead 1-0. 

At the top of the seventh,  Cory Alkerton bunted, getting two runners on base. Dan Loney batted them home, and the Cigars took the game from the Barrhaven Blues, 3-0.

In the final and deciding game of the tournament, the Cigars were pitted against the Donnacona Bluesox, who had defeated the Quebec Juniors in their semi final game to advance to the finals.

Luck ran out in this game for the Cigars, and they were defeated by the Bluesox 6-1. They took home the 2012 Casey at Bat trophy.

Named the Tournament’s MVP was Mathieu Roy, Donnacona Bluesox. Steve Savard, also of the Bluesox, was named top hitter. Neil Cook of the Williamsburg Cigars was named top pitcher.

“It was a great turn out and great weather for Casey at Bat,” said Lyle Schell. “We received lots of compliments on the event, including the barbecue (run by the Morrisburg Pentecostal Church Women’s Ministry with proceeds going to the Food Bank) and the band, Reckless. And we met our fund raising goal. Thanks to all involved for making the Memorial Tournament another  great success.”

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