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After giving up four short-handed goals in a 9-2 loss to the Vikings in Casselman Thursday night, the Morrisburg Junior B Lions turned it around on home ice Sunday, for a 7-1 win over the St. Lawrence Division’s third place Alexandria Glens.

The Lions went up 1-0 in the first period against the Glens, Sunday with an unassisted goal from Chris Rutley, his first since his return to the Lions lineup a week ago.

In the second, Philippe Paquette beat Lions goaltender Mikael Dion to answer for the Glens.

But then, according to Lions coach Thom Racine, a strange thing happened, which seemed to bolster the Lions and completely shake up the Glens.

“Rutley scored a real beauty from his belly and from that point they seemed to disintegrate, while we picked up momentum. He was tripped and as he slid on his belly he got control of the puck and scored.”

After that it was a power-play frenzy for the Lions, as the Glens took one penalty after another and the Lions took advantage to score another five counters. Four of them were while they were on their power play.

“Four power-play goals were something we needed. And they came from all over. It was a good team effort.”

Drew Veenstra (unassisted) scored the first of the power play markers late in the second period to give the Lions a 3-1 advantage.

Then brother Clarke matched the effort with an unassisted counter at 1:38 of the third before providing the assist for a Marc Antoine Kamel power-play counter and a 5-1 Lions advantage.

Sylvester Bzdyl scored from Zach Seguin at 10:11 and Ryan Dunbar finished it off from Bzdyl and Zach Seguin on the Lions power play at 16:29.

“We played it like a game seven,” said Racine. “We knew we had to win if we wanted to keep within reach of CharLan.”

“We needed to play well and we needed to play smart and we did both on Sunday.”

In fact, even with the win, the Lions now find themselves six points behind the fourth place Rebels who are on a run. This past weekend, the Rebels added another pair of victories over Brockville, 5-3 and Akwesasne 4-2 as they set their sights on third place currently held by the Glens.

The first place Winchester Hawks have a slim three-point edge over the Casselman Vikings.

Thursday night in Casselman, the Lions just couldn’t get it together.

They trailed the Vikings 3-1 after the first period and 5-1 after two.

Michael Paquette scored their lone first period goal on the power play from Alex Steingruber and Michael Keenan. Clarke Veenstra added their second late in the third with help from Michel Lefebvre and Keenan, again on the Lions power -play.

In fact, the Lions power play was a big factor throughout the match as the Vikings collected four of their goals while they were short-handed.

“We weren’t paying enough attention. We forgot about Casselman’s ability to sneak in behind you and steal the puck.”

Mikael Dion started in the Lions net and was relieved midway into the second period by Ryan Cooper.

“I pulled Mikael after four goals and let Ryan play,” said Racine. “Mikael was disappointed, but he bounced back and gave us a great game Sunday. He was awesome on Sunday.”

Coming up this Friday night, December 9, the Lions host Brockville at 8:30 p.m. Sunday night, December 11 they are on the road to Athens to take on the Rideau’s second place Aeros.

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The Morrisburg Junior B Lions were just 20 seconds away from their ninth win of the season here Friday night, January 16, when Westport Rideaus’ Cam Goldsmith got in their way.

The clock was ticking down on the Friday night match, and with less than a minute to be played the Lions were protecting a 2-1 lead.

It was at 19:40 that Goldsmith, with help from Simon Corriveau, would come up with the goal against Lions goaltender Keiran Weir to tie the game 2-2 and force it into overtime.

After the scoreless overtime play, the shoot out netted no success for Lions shooters Jacob Kendrick, Michael Paquette and Alex Sifton.

The Rideaus starting shooter Dawson Fawcett was also unsuccessful, and it was their shooter number two, Patrick Drouin who would provide the winner and force the Lions to accept the one point for the shoot out loss.

Friday night’s game got rolling with a scoreless first period.

Forty-two seconds into the second period, Johnny Moor put the Rideaus on the scoreboard.

Then at 9:54 the Lions, Alex Sifton struck to tie it with assists provided by Ryan Griffin and Curtis Evans.

The 1-1 tie held until 11:49 of the third period when a Jacob Kendrick goal from Landon Veenstra and Brodie Barkley put the Lions ahead 2-1.

Eight minutes later Goldsmith provided the tying goal to force the overtime.

Sunday, January 18, it was the Lions “pack the rink” day with all area youth 16 years and under invited by the Lions as their guests at the game, courtesy of Horner & Pietersma, Barristers, Solicitors and Notaries, Morrisburg. 

The attending youth were proudly wearing their South Dundas sweaters and a number of free door prizes topped off the day.

Unfortunately, it was not a good day on the ice for the Lions who were doubled 4-2 by the visiting Char-Lan Rebels.

The Rebels went right to work in Sunday’s game to go up 2-0 in the first period on goals by Brian Landry and Liam Vipond.

Jesse Fontaine made it 3-0 on the Rebels’ power play at 6:14 of the second period.

That’s the way it stayed until the Lions found themselves in the first 10 minutes of the third period.

Ryan Griffin put the Lions on the scoreboard on their power play at 3:13 with Dylan Nixon providing the assist.

At 6:53, Eric Evan (from Jordan Smail and Jacob Kendrick) got it to within one goal of the tie, but that was it.

The Lions were unable to put anything more past Rebels goaltender Kevan Dumouchel, while the Rebels got one more from Brennan Markell for the 4-2 win.

Brett Hahn was in the Lions net for the loss.

The Rebels sat out 30 minutes on 11 penalties and the Lions were assessed 28 minutes on 10 infractions

Coming up on Sunday, January 25, the Lions will host the St. Lawrence Division’s first place Casselman Vikings. Game time is 2:30 p.m.

The final games of the regular season will be played the weekend of Friday, February 13-15.

The Vikings are 19 points ahead of the second place Alexandria Glens with 59 points to the Glens 40. The Winchester Hawks, 37 points, are looking solid in third place and are chasing the Glens, while the Rebels 29 points, and the Akwesasne Wolves, 26 points, are battling for the fourth and final playoff position.

The Lions are in last place with 17 points. 

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 The rain held off and Ottawa Hylands golfer Paul Nooyen held on to win his third consecutive Cedar Glen Men’s Open Championship here Monday.

Nooyen posted a two-over-par 72 for a one stroke win over the Glen’s Kurtis Barkley with a 73.

Nooyen won the Open the last two years, both with scores of 74.

Sunday’s round played from the white tees saw him double bogey the par three sixth hole and the par three 12th.

He turned the corner with a one over par 35, and birdied two of the last three holes on the back nine  (16 & 18) for a one over 37 and his 72 total.

The next low scores in the 29-player A flight category were 76s carded by Craig Nooyen (public player), Brad Mayhew of Nationview, Lance LePage of Upper Canada and Peter Gilder of the Brockville Country Club.

Rick Barkley of Cedar Glen posted a 78, while Dave Saunders of the Brockville C.C., Lonnie McIntosh of Cedar Glen and Mike Guy tied with 79s.

Guy’s 79 gave him the A flight low net with a 68.

Paul McCasliln of Iroquois finished alone with an 80, while Chawn Lapier (Iroq),  Steve McIntosh  and Lyle Schell of Cedar Glen and Lyndsay Weegar of Morrisburg all carded 81s.

Also defending his title was B flight champion Barry Casselman.

A very solid 78, allowed Casselman (Cedar Glen) to walk away from the rest of the B field, his closest competition coming from  Cedar Glen golfers Rick Morrow, Billy DeJong and Kenny Mills all shooting 83s.

Mills’ 83 gave him a 66 net for the B flight net win.

Next up in B flight, was Cedar Glen’s Steve Plummer with an 84. Bill Hogoboam of Sandy Row and Chris Phifer of Cedar Glen tied with 85s.

Thirty area golfers were in the hunt for B flight prizes.

It was another successful defense of his title in C flight, as Mike Berrube of Nationview posted a 100 to collect his second  consecutive championship. 

Also shooting a 100, which gave him the C flight low net with a 75, was Cedar Glen’s Dennis Casselman.

Due to the major thunder/rain storm that arrived just shortly after the final golfers checked in at the clubhouse, a playoff was not possible to break the 100 tie.

The next low shooter in C flight was Brian Erwin of Cedar Glen with a 103. 

Sixty-four golfers competed in the 39th annual Cedar Glen Open. All categories this year played from the white tees that measure just under 6,000 yards.

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