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  Vicki Boivin held off a strong bid from Lori Anne Davies, here Saturday to claim her 10th consecutive Ladies Club Championship at the Morrisburg Golf Club. Boivin and Davies played to a tie in […]

This week the Morrisburg Golf club sends its good wishes for some big results for Barb Sheridan, and Monique and Andy Patenaude as they head to Windsor for the Provincial 55+ Senior games which will take place August 19-22. Barb and Andy will be on the golf course while Monique will be putting her skills to work at the Euchre table.

The ladies kicked off the week at the Morrisburg Golf course last Wednesday, August 6, with their weekly night. The evening was sponsored by Royal Lepage-John Morrow, and the game was The Good and the Bad.

Golfers were required to count their best and worst scores on the par 3s, par 4s and par 5s which allowed six scores to count.

The low winners were Vicki Boivin with a 30 and Monique Patenaude and Diane Gallinger tied with 31’s. High score winners were Lydia Eamon with a 52 and Claire Dunn with a 50.

The average score winners were Valerie St. John, Shelley Broad, Laurie Dillabough, Anita Cooper and Judy Laurin with the average score being 35.

In the non-member category, Shannon Casselman was the low score winner with a 34, and Nelda Hickman won for high score with a 49. The average score winners were Patty Boucher and Janie Connelly with 36’s.

With the Ladies Open played today, Wednesday, August 13, there is no Ladies Night this week. Ladies night will resume August 20 with the Flower Station-Shannon Casselman as sponsor.

In men’s night action on August 7, Shawn Hummel led the field with a 35. Kirk Barkley was the low gross shooter in B flight with a 39 (retro) and Bob Barclay won C flight with a 43 (retro).

Net winners for the evening were Kevin Duvall in A flight, Scott Robinson in B and Steve Boucher in C. Closest to the pin winners were Travis Dillabough on the par three 14th hole and Dave McClenaghan on the par three 17th.

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It appears the Seaway District High School Track and Field team is back on track, with a good number of athletes at the midget and junior ages out working hard for the last two to three weeks. 

And their work paid off at the annual TISS Track and Field Meet here Saturday, with two athletes, Kaitlyn Stewart and David Swerdfeger picking up first and seconds, Cassie Hummel winning one first, and Sid Sideratos and Shawn Dowson collecting second place finishes.

Several others were not far off the pace, and says Mark Lewis, who is co-coaching the Spartan team with Lindsay Waddell,  “They are all improving. It is good. Our team number is better than it’s been in the past, and I would say, looking at the weekend, they are the best results we have had in years.”

The team is heavily weighted at the midget and junior levels, a good sign for the future. There are no athletes competing at the senior level this year.

Top performers Saturday were Stewart and Swerdfeger. 

Stewart won the junior girls triple jump with a 10.45m jump, well ahead of the second place finisher at 9.72 m. She was just narrowly edged out of the long jump win with her jump of 4.67m. (The winner jumped just 4.68m). Stewart also ran the 100 meter dash, with a time of 14 seconds to qualify, but finished well back in the final.

David Swerdfeger had big results in the midget boys triple jump, with his winning jump of 12.12m. It was a new personal best, which shattered his previous PB of 11.81m. Swerdfeger, who has been competing since grade 7  and has been undefeated in all that time, said too that the extra pressure was that, “I scratched on my first two jumps.”  He backed up his triple jump win with a second place long jump (5.42m). The event was won in 5.48m. Swerdfeger also ran the 100m hurdles and finished fourth with a time of 17.13 seconds.

Cassie Hummel was back in action in junior girls javelin, and absolutely demolished her previous best throw of 22.00m with a first place throw of 27.60m.  She was clearly ahead of the pack with the second place competitor throwing 25.52 m. Hummel also threw discuss, but an 11.59m throw place her well back. She expects to concentrate on javelin this season.

Also at the midget age level, Sid Sideratos collected second place in shot put with a 12.14m throw, not far back of the 12.27 winning throw. He ran his 100m heat, in 13.71 seconds.

Shawn Dowson had solid performances in discus and high jump. He placed second in junior boys discus with a 31.30m throw and was fifth in high jump with a 1.50m jump. He finished well back in shot put at 9.30m.

Turning in a solid meet performance was Maggie Wells, who finished the 2014 season ranked sixth in Ontario in midget girls discus. Saturday, Wells threw a third place shot at 10.88m and was fourth in discus at 27.11m. “Maggie will get better as we go,” said Lewis of her early season start.

Finishing out the junior girl athletes are Quinn Horne and Holly Connolly-MacDonald, both of whom did not advance out of their 100m heats. Horne ran her heat at 14.72 and Connolly-MacDonald ran her’s in 18.33. She also ran the 200m in a time of 37.72.

Getting their feet wet at the midget are Kaeghan Lowson, Grant Wells, Jaycie Maville, Julenea Barnhartd, Kaileigh Vautour and Sydney Piquette.

Lowson, in his first time throwing Javelin, placed fifth with a throw of 32.45m. He ran the 400m, finishing well back in the pack at 1:03.27.

Distance runner, Grant Wells, who had some big results for the Spartans Cross-Country team last fall, was fifth in the 1500m (4:44.89) and sixth in the 3000 (10:16.56). He wasn’t far off in the winning mark of either race with the 1500m going in 4:30.95 and the 3000 in 10:00.13.

Maville and Vautour both ran the 100m but did not move out of their qualifiers with times of 15.25 and 15.30 respectively. Maville threw a seventh place finish in shot put with a 9.39m throw.

Barnhartd ran the 200m in 28.94 seconds and finished fourth in long jump with a jump of 4.39m.

Piquette ran the 800m with a time of 3:04.38

This Friday, the Spartans are in Ottawa and next Wednesday, May 13, they head to Cornwall for the SD&G championship. Qualifiers at the SD&G advance to the Eastern Ontario. 

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