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The South Dundas “River Rats Treasures” Novice B Lions capped off a winning weekend by downing the Kemptville Panthers 3-2 here Sunday, after winning the “B” Championship at a Gananoque tournament on Saturday.

The Lions participated in a 10 team, Novice tournament on Saturday, in Gananoque, and made it to the “B” final against their division rival Brockville #2 Braves. 

The Lions jumped on their opportunities in the first few minutes of the game grabbing a 3-0 lead on goals by Kayne McCadden and Ben Lapier.

 Kolby Latulippe sent McCadden away twice on right wing breakaways, and both times be beat the goalie over the glove to the top corner. 

Ben Lapier followed that up with a rush of his own and scored to give the Lions a 3-0 lead three minutes into the game.

In the second period, the Lions got into some penalty troubles and on back to back power plays, Brockville’s Rhys Gibbons was able to beat Lions goalie Brendan Shaver to cut the lead to 3-2.

After another Brockville rush, Lion’s defensemen Emytt Fetterly made a clearing pass to Joshua Broad who beat the Braves defensemen and made a short pass to Ben Lapier who broke in on the Braves goalie and netted his second of the game.

The Braves responded with another Gibbons goal to cut the lead to 4-3, but the Lions Kayne McCadden put the game away with 1:37 left netting his third to give the Lion’s the “B” Championship.

The Lion’s  missed out on making it to the “A” final by just three goals in round robin play. 

In their opening game, they came up against a really good team in Port Hope, and they needed outstanding goaltending from Brendan Shaver to give them a chance to squeak out a 2-2 tie.

With Shaver on the bench for an extra attacker, Kayne McCadden intercepted a Port Hope clearing pass and quickly moved the puck to Ben Lapier who scored the tying goal with 27 second left. Lapier had scored earlier off a scramble with Joshua Broad providing the assist.

In their other round robin game, the Lion defeated a Kingston Novice Select Team, 9-2. Early on it was a battle just to get a lead as Kingston grabbed a 2-1 advantage, but the Lions would not be denied, as they battled hard to the win. 

Scoring highlights: Nolan Henry with one goal and two assists and Joshua Broad with five assists; Kayne McCadden had two goals and assists went to all the defense crew-Spencer Barclay, Trent Rae, Cassidy Bilmer and Emytt Fetterly; Ben Lapier was the offensive machine with six goals.

In league play Sunday afternoon, the Lions battled the west Division Leading Kemptville #3 Panthers and needed a third period goal from Kolby Latulippe to break up the 2-2 tie for a 3-2 win. 

The Panthers pressed in the final minute with their goalie on the bench for an extra attacker and the Lion’s killing a penalty, but they were unable to get a shot through to the net.

The Lions had the lead twice at 1-0 and 2-1 on goals by Ben Lapier, the first assisted by Owen Fetterly.

In the second period, Broad who was fore checking on the left wing got the puck and made a pass to Lapier near the goal line. Lapier attempted a pass to Fetterly in the slot, but the puck deflected off two Panther players into their own net.

With the game tied at two, McCadden grabbed a loose puck near the Panthers blue line and circled into the slot where he let a wrist shot go that was saved. However, Kolby Latulippe was “johnny on the spot” to knock the rebound into the net.

The South Dundas “River Rats Treasures” Novice B Lions next home game is Sunday, November 27th at 1 p.m. Local hockey fans are invited to come out and cheer on the Lions.

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“Hosting the provincial darts championship at our branch was a very big deal for us,” said Rose Lavallie, president of the Iroquois Legion, Branch #370. “When we submitted our bid to host this major event on behalf of our District G, we were up against some much bigger area auxiliaries: when we learned in June, 2011, that Iroquois had been chosen, well it was great news.”

More than 160 darts players, making up 40 teams, arrived in Iroquois on Friday, June 22, in order to take part in elimination play which started at 10 a.m. on Saturday, June 23. 

When all the rounds were over, Uxbridge, Branch #170, took on Highland Creek, Branch #258, for the championship. 

The team from Highland Creek, made up of Yvonne Tracey, Shirley McMurter, Ann Butterfield and Sue Wilson, won the trophy, the medals and, as Iroquois’ sports officer, Sheila Holmes, put it, “bragging rights for the year.”

“The top six teams from each zone go to the district finals,  then the top six teams from each district come to the provincial finals,” Holmes explained.

“There was a lot of preparation and work done by the Women’s Auxiliary to make this weekend a success for our visitors.”

Among other things, the Legion had to provide lists of accommodations and area restaurants for the visitors, as well as see to it that food was plentiful and delicious throughout  the day explained Darleen Riddell.

Among the VIPs attending were Sharron Hanrahan, the provincial sports chair, and Barb McIsaac, the provincial president of the Ladies Auxiliary. Both praised the host legion and the venue.

“This was my first visit to this area,” McIsaac said. “This is a lovely town, and this was a very well run tournament.”

“A beautiful area,” said Hanrahan. “There was excellent work by the Branch #370 ladies in putting this event together. And their hospitality was incredible.”

Unfortunately, only Cornwall made it to the provincial playoffs from district G, eventually coming in 13th. Morrisburg and Iroquois teams did not make the cut, “although we did try hard,” Rose Lavallie laughed. “We just couldn’t swing it.”

Tournament guests were treated to breakfast, hosted by the Oddfellows at their Hall on Saturday morning, before play began. The Iroquois Legion served lunch and dinner to the darts players, then hosted a social evening to wind up the weekend tournament.

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