Morrisburg Golf

Although they have their hopes up that there is still plenty of fall golf ahead, members of the Iroquois Golf Club wrapped up their 2014 program with a final scramble tournament and awards banquet on Sunday.

Pro shop manager, Kathy Hardy acted as master of ceremony for the awards banquet which kicked off with a delicious turkey dinner prepared by the club’s food service provider Ida Donnelly.

After that Hardy provided an overview of the season and its winners, and the corresponding  trophies were presented.

Presented the Fred Brouse Memorial trophy by Carol Brouse were ladies champs Nancy Barkley (A flight) and Mary Jean Craig (C flight).

Julie Bennett presented the Dale Simms Memorial trophy to men’s club champs Ed Orlicky (C flight) and Les Craig (D flight). Club champ Mike Tobin and B flight champ Doug Blad were not in attendance.

The Leslie Wright Memorial trophy for the senior nine hole scramble, played August 12, was won by Liz Asselin, Don Poland, Shirley MacLeod and Jamie MacLeod.  

This year’s net club champions were: Sue Sloan and Eric Brawberger (A flight, women’s and men’s), Maurice Kolff (Men’s B flight); Rick MacKenzie and Kathy Pederson (C flight) and Jacques Asselin (Men’s D flight).

Recognized for their holes-in -ones were Sarah Smith and Mike Tobin both on the par three 11th hole and David Thompson on the 13th.

Sunday’s 18 hole closing scramble tournament was won by the team of David Cherry, Ted Styles, Nellie Lightizer and Kathy Hardy. 

The scoring format resulted in a predetermined nine of the 18 holes not used in the scoring. The winning team shot a 66 before the nine holes were eliminated.

The winning low net team of the day consisted of Mike Tobin, Betty McDermid, Allie Cameron and Richard Martel.

Following the presentations, Iroquois Golf Course/Club director Stan Brigham thanked the members for their continued support.

“Every year we try to do better,” he said. “Our goal is to keep our golfers happy, and lately we seem to be turning the table.”

Brigham commended Hardy on the great job she does. “I really appreciate Cathy’s efforts. Her leadership is very important to us.”

Brigham also congratulated food service operator Ida Donnelly on her retirement at the end of the season and wished the best to her daughter Susan who will be taking over and keeping the food operation open throughout the winter.

With the apparent down turn of golf everywhere, Brigham encouraged all members to “keep bugging your friends and your neighbours, telling them how wonderful it is to play here.” 

Managing director and grounds superintendent, Chris Brigham also thanked everyone for their cooperation during the 2014 season. 

“I think the golf course was great this year,” he said. “I had a really great team this year, and I really enjoyed working with them.” 

The Iroquois Golf Course will remain open for play until the end of October. Bookings for holiday banquets are now being accepted  by the food management group.

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Organizers are busy preparing for the 10th annual Casey at Bat Memorial Fastball tournament coming up in Williamsburg, May 24-26, and for the 10th annual they have lined up a ‘special’ opening ceremony.

In the 10 years that the Schell family has been hosting Casey at Bat, the popular tournament has raised over $10,000 for a number of local charities including high school bursaries, the Canadian Cancer Society and local hospice care.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary, Lyle Schell and his team have arranged an opening ceremony for Friday night, May 24 at 6 p.m. A highlight of the ceremony will be the first pitch of the tournament thrown out by local, former fastball player, Bert “Knappy” McIntosh.

The tournament, which is the lone yearly venue for longtime fastball fans in this area, is played in memory of Casey Schell, a player and advocate of the sport in this area.

“Bert, who will be throwing out this year’s first pitch, played ball with Grandpa Casey in the 30’s and 40’s,” says Lyle Schell, who in addition to being a tournament organizer, rounds up the players for the local Cigars team, which for the last two years has gone to the championship final, but lost.

This year’s Cigars team will include the Smith brothers, Jamie and Jason, Derek Whitteker, Kevin Williams and Lyle himself. They will be joined by the Alkerton brothers from Spencerville, Dan Loney from Cornwall and two players from Kingston.

In addition to “Knappy’s” first pitch, the Schell family, on behalf of everyone who made the 2012 tournament a huge success, will present a $1,200 cheque to Dundas County Hospice in memory of Lyle’s mother Joan Schell who passed away in 2010. 

Following the opening ceremony, the Cigars will play in the first game of the tournament beginning at 6:30 p.m. A total of three games will be played Friday night, with 12 scheduled for Saturday and eight on Sunday.

The semi-final will be played Sunday at 3 p.m. with the final set for 5:30 p.m.

Longtime area fastball fans are invited out to the tournament to see some great action with some impressive teams coming from throughout the area.

The tournament also provides a great opportunity for anyone not familiar with fastball, and in particular local youth, to get a glimpse of this great sport that, with the exception of this tournament, has been missing locally for many years.

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MORRISBURG –Despite being in both of their games for a good portion of the 60 minutes, the Morrisburg Lions were still unable to put a stroke in their win column in Eastern Ontario Junior (B) Hockey League action this past week.

The Lions, along with their five counterparts in the St. Lawrence Division, played cross-over action with the Rideau Division this week, and in all but four of the 11 games, the St. Lawrence Division teams were successful.

In the four unsuccessful games, the Lions accounted for two, a 3-0 loss to the Tikis in Brockville Wednesday night, October 9 and an 8-4 loss to the Westport Rideaus on Morrisburg ice, Saturday, October 12. 

The Akwesasne Wolves accounted for the division’s third loss, to the Prescott Flyers 3-2, and the Alexandria Glens and the Athens Aeros played to a 4-4 draw.

The Lions now find themselves in the St. Lawrence Division’s basement position, two points behind the Akwesasne Wolves who picked up their first win of the season Saturday night,  3-1 over Gananoque.

At Brockville last Wednesday night, the Lions hung on until well into the third period when they gave up two goals in less than one minute (the first to the Tikis power play) in the 3-0 loss.

Dylan Casselman counted for Brockville late in the first period, and that was it until 7:28 of the third when Tanner Casselman struck on the Tikis power play to up their advantage to 2-0. Less than one minute later Tanner Benton made it 3-0, and Tikis goaltender Nathan Peters held on for the shut out.

John Gilmer was in the Lions net for the loss. He gave up the three goals on 26 Tikis shots, while the Lions were unable to put any of their 35 shots past Peters.

The game saw a total of 98 minutes in penalties handed out, 66 of them to the Lions on eight minors, three 10 minute majors and two misconducts. The Tikis capitalized on one of five power-play opportunities.

Again in Morrisburg on Saturday night, the Lions kept pace with the Rideaus, but again a couple of quick goals (less than one minute apart in the third period) was their undoing.

After first period action, they trailed the Rideaus by just one goal (3-2), and at the end of 40 minutes they were still just one goal back at 4-3.

Goals were traded early in the third period when Alex Szabo put the Rideaus up 5-3 at 6:03 and Dallas Blacksmith (from Brandon Mullin) answered on the Lions power play at 7:46.

Then, the Rideaus took charge scoring two goals at 830 and 9:21. They added one more at 16:58 for the 8-4 win.

Scoring for the Lions were Peter Ketcheson (from Mullin), Alex Kidd (unassisted), Christian Leger (from Tyler Young and Michael Paquette) and Dallas Blacksmith (from Mullin).

Brandon Chilton was in the Lions net for the loss, and Spencer Emery collected the Westport win.  Chilton faced 50 Rideaus shots, while the Lions managed just 22 against Emery.

A total of 58 penalty minutes were assessed, the Lions collecting 27 minutes on six minors, a five minute fighting major and a 10 minute misconduct. The Rideaus were assessed eight minor penalties and the corresponding fighting penalties.

Coming up this weekend is the annual “Fall Classic” Games which will see 11 hockey games played from Friday night, October 18 through Sunday, October 20 at the Glengarry Sports Palace in Alexandria.

The Lions will see opening game action, Friday night at 6:15 p.m. against the Metcalfe Jets. The Clarence Castors and Casselman Vikings will tangle following the Lions game at 8:45.

Action will resume Saturday morning at 9:45 a.m. when the Stittsville Royals and the Winchester Hawks hit the ice. Five games will be played on Saturday and another four on Sunday. Sunday’s action starts at 9:45 a.m. with a game between the Ottawa Junior Canadians and the Char-Lan Rebels.

Admission is $10 (all day passes) for adults and children 12 and under, $5.

By the end of the weekend all of the 22 teams in the Eastern Ontario Junior Hockey League, (featuring two conferences, the Rideau/St. Lawrence in the south and the Metro/Valley in the north) will have seen action in the “Fall Classic” event. 

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