Close Game for Kickers

 The Seaway Kickers U13 Mixed team finished their season August 22, with a big 10-0 win against the Ottawa Internationals M1 team at the fields at Ottawa Technical High School. 

Scoring started early in the first half with a one-timer low and to the left of Ottawa’s goalkeeper by David Swerdfeger.

Connor Dumoulin netted back-to-back goals at the 10 and 14 minute marks of the game, making it 3-0 Seaway. 

Ottawa rallied on Seaway’s end but could not get through the visiting team’s defense. 

A quick turnover brought the ball back to Ottawa’s end, with midfielder Shawn Dowson scoring for a 4-0 Seaway lead. Swerdfeger added his second of the night finding the low corner on the goalie, giving Seaway a 5-0 advantage at the halftime.

Play resumed in the second half with a renewed offensive effort by Ottawa,. Although they tested Dowson, who had switched positions to backstop Seaway’s goal, all attempts were cleared and the score remained unchanged.

A charge by Seaway midfielder Kendrew Byers resulted in his goal at the 42 minute mark in the second half, to increase the Seaway advantage to 6-0.

 Sam Waytowich, Theo Blancher, David Vreman and Aaron Tibben scored a goal apiece in the second half for the final 10-0 shut out Seaway win.

Byers and Dowson shared the shutout as the U13 Mixed team completed their undefeated regular season in the South Side Soccer League with 15 wins and 0 losses. 

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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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The Seaway District High School junior girls basketball team entered the county basketball Single-A championships as the top seed.  The tournament was hosted in Iroquois November 10th at Seaway District High School. The Spartans played […]