A fitting “gold” finale for Piccolini in Quebec

After an extended break in their schedule, the South Dundas Peewee B1 House Lions were back on the ice Friday night hosting to defeat the North Leeds Stars, 5-2. 

The Lions are currently sitting in third place on the East Division with a 1-1-2 record.

The Lions had opened a 3-0 lead going into the third period and needed a strong period to finish off the Stars, but would the schedule break hurt their legs late in the game. 

The Stars began using the body a lot more later in the game and a great  check in the neutral on Lions defenceman Devon Dumoulin actually led to the Lions next goal. 

After the hit, the puck went into the Star end zone. As the Stars defenders watched the check, Kendrew Byers and Max Garlough skated in alone and Byers wristed a shot home to extend the Lions lead to 4-0.

The Lions continued to press and Jaxon Weegar had two chances, the first on a shot from the slot that went wide and the second when Brady Smith kept the puck alive at the blue line, sent a pass down to Weegar who passed across the crease to a wide open Kurtis Markell whose shot was stopped by Stars goaltender Kaleb McCulloch.

The Lions jumped on the power play on a Stars tripping penalty and opened with some excellent passing which led to a few shots.

However, the Stars were the ones to capitalize when a Stars forward got the puck just right of the slot, and then backhanded a shot just inside the top corner to get the Stars on the board. 

The Stars did not let up and  40 seconds later a defenceman went end to end and buried a shot low in the net to make the score 4-2. 

Off the face off, the puck came into the Lions end and the Stars got another scoring chance before Jonah Bennis picked up the puck in his own end, went coast to coast and deked out the Stars goaltender to bury a backhand shot into the open net for a 5-2 Lions lead that they would close the game on.

The Lions starred the game a little on their heels and on one occasion Lions defenceman Sheridan Caines picked up the puck, passed it to Connor Dumoulin at the Stars blue line. Dumoulin drove the net and beat the goalie to open the scoring only a minute into the game

After a  few other scoring chances for Lions Lucas Bennis and Sam Gould (who was playing in his first game of the season as he just came off the injured list) it was Max Garlough who would be johnny-on-the-spot when Devon Dumoulin went end to end on a rush. Dumoulin had the puck knocked away right and it ended up in Garlough’s possession. One stride and a shot low to the glove side gave the Lions a 2-0 lead.

In the second, the Lions extended the lead to 3-0 when Devon Dumoulin went end to end and shot over the goalie’s trapper. 

Noah Keeler and Aden Casselman teamed up to help defend Lions goaltender Wesley Alexander as he was forced to make several big saves in the second period. 

The South Dundas Peewee B1 House Lions are next in action on home ice Saturday, November 17th at 2:30 p.m. when they host the

NGS Braves.

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The ladies section of the Morrisburg Golf Club entertained 67 women at the annual ladies friendly held last Tuesday, June 10.

Golfers attended from Iroquois, Prescott, Nationview, Rideau Glen, Cedar Glen and Morrisburg. The days started cloudy but the clouds gave way to sun and it ended up being a beautiful day.

For the event, participatns had to make a score using one score on the par 5s, two scores on the par 4s and three scores on the par 3s. They were given mulligan sto use on one drive, one ball in the sand, one ball in the water and one putt.

The two teams that came out on top at the end of the day were: Sheila Bush, Audrey Moore, Georgia Crawford and Libby Price; Denis Lebrun, Llinda Barkclay, Nellie Leightizer and Barb Townson.

The two teams that, not only had troubles counting the team score, but came out with the highest score were: Diane Tappin, Janie Connelly, Lydia Eamon and Brenda Clark; Sue Alexander, Mary Shore, Ruth Kelly and Peggy McPhail.

In addition 10 prizes were awarded for proximately prizes on hole 10 through 18.

Libby Price won for closest to the hanging flower basket, Diane Benau, closest to the pin, Sheila Bush closest to the pin on her second shot, Yvonne Mabo long drive, Ruth Kelly closest to the ditch,  Helen Youmelle long putt, Theresa McCaig closest to the hanging basket, Sheila Bush closest to the pin and Nellie Leightizer longest putt. 

Ladies night on Wednesday, June 11 was another rained out affair but the gals got together anyway to celebrated Carolyn Weegar’s 50th birthday. Fifty-two ladies were present for the surprise celebration and the ladies all wore purple which is Carolyn’s favourite colour.

The men did manage to dodge the showers on Thursday evening to get in some play. Low gross in A flight was won by Bobb Mann with a 36 while Jeff Cassell won B with a 39. A 44 gave Gus Dickson shot a 44 for the C flight win. 

Net winners were Lance LePage in A flight, Andy Patenaude in B and Keith Robinson in C.

Jason Denio and Gus Dickson won for their closest to the hole shots.

After two weeks of hard competition in the men’s night team event The Birdies and the Eagles are tied with 89 points. The Good Old Boys have 88 and The Beavers 87.

Coming up this Saturday, June 21 is the annual men’s open tournament. For more information you can contact the clubhouse at 613-543-3282. The day includes golf, prizes and dinner.

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After a crushing opening game, 4-1 loss to the Perth/Lanark Wings, the South Dundas Bantam Rep Lions regrouped and battled their way back into contention with three consecutive wins for the UCMHL 2011/12 playoff championship.

Monday night, in game four of the five point series played in Lanark, they locked it up with a  6-2 victory to take the series six points to two.

The series opened in Morrisburg last Wednesday, March 21 with a tough 4-1 loss to the visiting wings.

Perth had just come off a big win to defeat Smith Falls on Monday, March 19, to advance to the league championship against the Lions, and they carried their momentum forward to the waiting Lions.

The lone goal in the series openere for the Lions came from the stick of Aaron Smith assisted by Randy Fawcett and Quinn Bennis in the first period.

Game two was played in Lanark on Friday night, March 23rd, and despite a slow start the Lions were able to put it together for a 5-2 victory.

The first period saw the Wings take a 1-0 lead on a rebound goal by Alex Echlin.

Then just six minutes into the second period the Lions were able to even it with a short-handed goal by Randy Fawcett, assisted by Andrew Jarvis.

One minute later, Jarvis struck, unassisted to put the Lions up 2-1.

The Lions lead held until the dying minutes of the frame when Quinn Bennis scored on the Lions power play with help from Randy Fawcett and Spencer Heldens to give the Lions a 3-1 edge heading into the third period.

In the third period, the Black boys combined for the Lions fourth goal when Josh Black  set it up for Riley Black who beat Micheal Saumur on the gloveside.

The Wings closed the gap to 4-2 one minute later when Noah Greer slipped one past Lions goaltender Zach Frawley.

The Lions ended it when Ben Michels picked up a Riley Barry rebound for the 5-2 victory.

With the five point series even at two point apiece, it was back to Morrisburg for a Saturday afternoon game, in front of a huge hometown crowd that saw the Lions claim a 3-1 win.

Six minutes into the first period, Andrew Jarvis scored unassisted on the Lions power play.

The Lions lead, however didn’t last, as before the period ended Tyler Murphy collected his own rebound to beat Frawley and even it at 1-1.

It took the Lions until late in the second period to get ahead, once again with Jarvis scoring on their power play with help from Evan Mullin.

Frawley was solid in the Lions net as the Lions worked to hold on to their one-goal advantage.

With 4:08 left on the clock Mullin counted with help from Riley Black and Randy Fawcett for the Lions third goal.

The Lions win in game three sent the series back to Lanark this past Monday night with a four points to two advantage. 

Details of the 6-2 win that gave them the championship were not available at press time.

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