Peewee B House Lions #1 in Kingston

The South Dundas Atom B Lions used a 4-1 victory over the Smith Falls Bears here Sunday, February 1, to reclaim their division’s first place standing.

The Lions continue to battle for the division’s top spot with Kemptville 1 who had pulled back into the lead by a single point early in the week.

Sunday’s win pushed the Lions ahead by a point.  Kemptville has 29 points with three games left while the Lions have 30 points and two games remaining.

The Lions got off to a poor start on Sunday against the Bears, and couldn’t get their feet moving until the second period.  

Smiths Falls opened the scoring on a partial breakaway 52 seconds in when Adam Hustins shot got passed Lions goaltender Mateo Lacroix.  

Three minutes later, the Lions were called for tripping. Zach Scarbeau and Owen Patterson did a good job killing it off along with the help of defencemen Jack McCaan and Alek Larocque to prevent the Bears from increasing their lead.

Smiths Falls had a glorious opportunity to go up 2-0 early in the second when it looked like a rebound was going to get hammered into the back of the net, but out of nowhere Lacroix put the paddle of his stick down to take a sure goal away. The big save served as the Lions wake-up call. 

Monty Dejong tied the game at 2:26 of the third period assisted by Sam Connors.  

Then, less than one minute later, Owen Patterson drew a Bears penalty with his heavy forecheck. 

At 2:47, Sean Nicolaassen made the Bears pay for taking that penalty, when he picked up the puck inside his blue line, blew past a defender at the red line and went in alone on Louis Legare. 

He faked a forehand, then went backhand to give the Lions their first lead at 2-1.  

Quade Mullin made two of several key saves during the third. 

The Spencer Barclay, Connors, and Dejong line used a good forecheck to put the Lions up 3-1 with 5:02 left on the clock.  They applied the pressure on the forecheck, Barclay grabbed a loose puck and then centered to Dejong who made no mistake.  

It looked like the Bears were finally going to solve Mullin late in the game,  during a scramble around the goal, but then out of nowhere defenceman Stefan Kronstal stacked his own pads, slid through the crease to make the save and knock the puck out of harms way.  

At just over one minute left, Cam Shaver passed the puck out front to a wide open Dryden Buter who scored the Lions fourth goal.

Next action for the South Sunda Atom B Lions is this Thursday, February 5, on the road to Akwesasne.

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hat better time for a hole-in-one than when you are in the hunt for a club championship.

Such was the case for Morrisburg golfer, Lee Beaupre, during the final 18 club championship holes at the Morrisburg Golf Club on Sunday.

Beaupre was in good company, good hole-in-one company actually, when he stepped to the tee on the par three 11th hole which was playing to 130 yards.

When he hit, he knew he had made a good shot. “I could see it and I knew it was slowing down as it got to the hole.”

He, however, couldn’t quite tell if it had gone in or was resting in the shadow of the flag.

However, McNairn who has scored five aces, could see it, and said, “Lee it disappeared.”

Mann, who has had two holes-in-one, was also certain it had gone in.

Asked what Beaupre’s reaction was when he realized it really had gone in, Moore, (who has also had five aces) said, “Lee jumped as high as he could jump the Phil Mickelson jump.”

Beaupre has been golfing for 33 years and this is his first hole-in-one. The ace helped him to record a two-over-par 74 for a 153 total over the 36 hole tournament.

Bob Mann won the men’s championship with a 151, and Beaupre was the A flight champion.

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A Josh Maley goal for the hosting Athens Aeros here Sunday night with just 2:24 left in the game, sent the Morrisburg Junior B Lions home with a tough 4-3 loss. 

The Lions who are in last place in the St. Lawrence Division and the Aeros who hold the same spot in their Rideau Division were evenly matched throughout the game. The Lions put up 25 shots against Aeros goaltender Alex Daley and the Aeros produced 31 shots against Lions goaltender John Gilmer.

The Lions held a slight 2-1 edge after the first period, and the game was tied after two.

It was the Maley goal at 17:36 of the third period that was the difference.

Parker Grant opened the Aeros scoring at 4:13 of the first period, but the Lions came charging back with a Justin Lefebvre goal (from Cole Fowler) at 9:10 to even it.

Dallas Blacksmith struck (with help from Landon Veenstra and Eric Evans) at 15:38 of the first period to put the Lions ahead, 2-1, going into the second period.

Play was tight for the first 14 minutes of the second period, and then the Aeros came on strong to first tie it with a Nathan Foster goal at 14:06 and, then, 25 seconds later go ahead, 3-2, with a Ty Hannaford goal.

The Lions evened it on their power play at 16:56, with Evans getting the goal which set up by Dallas Blacksmith and Michael Paquette.

Third period action saw no results in the scoring department until Maley counted what would turn out to be the winner for the Aeros at 17:36.

The Lions sat out 22 minutes in penalties on seven infractions, and the Aeros were assessed five infractions for a total of 10 penalty minutes. The Lions were successful in one of three power-play opportunities while the Aeros did not score on their power play in six opportunities. 

Coming up, the Lions are on the road to play the Char-Lan Rebels on Saturday night, December 20. Then on Sunday, December 21 they will host the Akwesasne Wolves. Game time is 2:30 p.m.

The Wolves are in fourth place in the St. Lawrence Division with 23 points, while Char-Lan is fifth with 17 points. The Lions have 14 points.

The Casselman Vikings have pulled well away from the rest of the St. Lawrence division with 45 points, while the Alexandria Glens are in second spot with 27 points and the Winchester Hawks are right on their heels with 26. 

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