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Every year for nine years, since January 2003 to be exact, Morrisburg resident Florence Oglestone has been organizing the Walking Club.

“I started basically because I wanted to walk indoors,” she said. “I approached the Operating Engineers to see if they were agreeable.” 

Since then, walkers have been enjoying a warm, safe ‘home’ in the hallways of the Operating Engineers Training Institute of Ontario facility, which is located on the eastern outskirts of Morrisburg.

Oglestone was originally quite surprised by the positive reception to the club: “I thought just a few people would show up and a lot of people showed up.”

On average, Oglestone says she has about 20 to 25 walkers. Most walkers, according to Oglestone, choose to join the club in their pursuit for health and wellness, which includes a place to walk sheltered from the elements. 

Walking provides more than just physical health benefits. As Henry David Thoreau once said: “Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.” 

Members can walk anytime during the specified hours set by the facility, which work around the schedules of the Engineers training classes and the T.R. Leger classes. From Monday to Friday, walkers are welcome any time between 4:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. On Saturdays and Sundays, the facility is available from 8 a.m. until 10 p.m.

The Walking Club is a mere $12 per calendar year and covers the coldest months: January 1st to March 31st, and October 1st to December 31st. 

For more information, contact Florence at 613-543-2445.

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The new year has begun and, with it, South Dundas is seeing the introduction of new activities and the reprisal of old ones.

On January 6th, 2012, the South Dundas Manager of Recreation, Ben Macpherson, confirmed that “there are activities just starting up again for the new year.”

Dance classes are starting this weekend. Saturday dance classes begin on January 14th. Tuesday dance classes begin on January 24th and the Wednesday dance classes begin on January 25th. There is still space in most classes for this 18-week activity.

On January 19th from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., Morrisburg Public School will be open for those interested in registering for a yoga class.

A six-week long basketball program, for ages 8 to 14, will begin  January 19th. The Thursday evening classes will be held at Seaway District High School.

Children’s Art Classes, for ages 6 to 10, will begin January 22nd. The two-hour long classes will be “themed” and will take place one Sunday per month for five months.

For more information and details on all of these classes, visit www.southdundas.com or phone Ben at 613-543-2937. 

“Registration for all programs takes place at the Township office in Williamsburg.”

Last fall, South Dundas Recreation distributed an activity guide to all South Dundas households. The first guide was well-received and Macpherson is “expecting to have the next guide completed by the end of February.”

Contact Ben if you’re interested in instructing a program; if you’re currently running a  program and want to advertise it; or, if you have a business and are interested in purchasing advertising space in the guide.

“I encourage anyone who has a program idea or is looking to instruct a program whether sport related or arts/crafts, to please contact me.”

“My office is open for anyone to come and talk to me, whether it’s an inquiry or a concern.”

“Parents are encouraged to read newsletters sent home by the schools as they have been very supportive in passing on information regarding programs offered by South Dundas Recreation.”

Also, look for “Experience South Dundas” on Facebook. According to Macpherson, it is another good option for keeping informed on recreation news in South Dundas. 

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The South Dundas “Pizza Hut” Novice B Lions continued their tournament success by winning the “A” Championship at the North Dundas Demons Novice B Tournament last Tuesday. In the championship game the Lions defeated the tournament host team Demons, 6-2 while in preliminary action the Lions defeated Smith Falls 3-2 and South Stormont 3-0.

With the tournament title on the line, the Lions faced their county partners the North Dundas Demons. 

The Demons came out early and put the pressure on the Lions and were able to grab a 1-0 lead one minute in. 

With the Lions on their heels, goalie Brendan Shaver had to come up big to keep the lead to one. 

The Lions got going late in the first and Nolan Henry tied the game, 1-1, with only 13 seconds left. 

Ben Lapier started the play at his own blue line and made an excellent pass to Henry who stick handled into the offensive zone and beat the Demons goaltender.

In the second period, the Lions had the momentum to take the lead they would not relinquish. 

Joshua Broad set up Kayne McCadden as he went top shelf for the 2-1 lead, and moments later Lapier struck from the slot on a pass from Owen Fetterly for a 3-1 Lions lead. 

Sitting out the game was defenseman Emytt Fetterly, so Spencer Barclay, Cassidy Bilmer and Trent Rae had to pick up the extra ice time.

In the third, the Lions iced the game with another three counters. 

Trent Rae started a play in his own end, getting the puck to Joshua Broad who made a breakout pass to Kayne McCadden which sent him on a breakaway where he would score again.

Off the centre ice draw, McCadden got the puck and broke in on the Demons goalie beating him for the third time, a “hat trick” goal. 

Lapier rounded out the Lions scoring before the Demons netted one late for the 6-2 final. 

Kayne McCadden was selected for the game MVP award and the Lions were crowned tournament champions.

In their second game against the South Stormont Selects, the Lions grabbed an early lead and then left the rest up to goalie Brendan Shaver who was extremely strong in the Lions cage making several point blank saves. 

With the score 2-0 on two goals by Ben Lapier, Selects Owen Carter stick handled to the slot and ripped a shot glove slide that Shaver snagged. 

The Selects continued to pressure Shaver who made three saves on a scramble in the blue paint. 

The Selects out shot the Lions, but Shaver made all the saves for his second shutout of the season. 

Kayne McCadden scored a power-play goal in the third to round out the scoring. 

Assists went to Lapier, Owen Fetterly and Nolan Henry.

Brendan Shaver earned his forth tournament game MVP award in only his eighth try this season. 

In the tournament opening game, the Lions faced off against the Smith Falls Bears and once again fell behind 1-0 in the first period before Joshua Broad dug the puck out of the corner after it hit the referee’s skates and centered a pass to Ben Lapier who scored with a shot on the ice. 

The Bears grabbed a 2-1 lead, before Joshua Broad and Kayne McCadden hooked up on the same line with Kolby Latulippe to score on back to back shifts. 

McCadden grabbed as loose puck in the corner after a Spencer Barclay rush and centred it to the slot where Broad was standing all alone. 

Broad held the puck until the goalie went down and then shot it over him into the open net. 

Moments later Broad would grabbed a loose puck in his own end and banked a pass off the boards to McCadden who went end to end to score the game winner.

Joshua Broad received the game MVP award.

In three tournaments this season, the Lions have earned the “A” Championship in North Dundas, the “B” Championship in Gananoque and they were the “A” Finalist in Finch, losing the “A” Final in overtime.

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The Seaway District High School intermediate girls put the finishing touches on a big season on Monday, December 12 when they, quite handily, collected the Leeds Grenville Secondary School Athletic Association’s  (LGESSA) championship. 

“It was an honour to coach these girls, and I look forward to next year’s volleyball season to defend our championship,” said coach Andrew Carson. “We have been to the finals for the last three years, and it is fantastic to finally take home the top honours.”

The Intermediate Spartans had a big season as they put together a record of 42 sets won to just 12 lost.

They competed in five tournaments, and went to the finals in all five.

At three of them they took home the tournament championship. The wins were at tournmanets at St. Mike’s, St. Mary’s and the LGESSA Championship held at Thousand Island Secondary School in Brockville on December 12.

At the LGESSA championship, the Spartans eliminated St. Mary’s in the semi-final, by winning back-to-back sets 25-21 and 25-22.

That put them against Front of Yonge for the championship and again they were on top of their games. This time they produced a pair of 25-18 wins which allowed them to take home the LGESSA title.

Carson said the strength in this year’s team was partily due to their serves. “The girls have hard serves that are difficult to pass up and they have great placement.”

“The girls also put a great deal of focus on hitting and use their skills to force the other teams to dig hard to get the ball.”

Carson also pointed to the Spartans’ great leader and team captain, Sophia Currier.

“Sophia is a phenomenal volleyball player. She would chase down any ball to keep the play alive and usually got us the point. Most teams feared her jump spike.”

While Carson credits great team work, he also was happy with many individual performers.

Among these was Courtney Casselman, whom he described as a “great player. Courtney was always positive and cheered the team on for every point. She too, dug for the ball to keep the rally going.” 

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The Morrisburg Junior B Lions were handed a tough 3-2 loss by the visiting Gananoque Islanders on Friday, December 23.

After playing to a one-goal first period draw, the two teams remained on an even keel, ending the second period, deadlocked 2-2.

The deciding marker was scored at 8:28 of the third period when the Islanders’ Graeme Moore was set up by Tyler Murray to deposit the winner behind Lions’ goaltender Mikael Dion.

The Islanders opened the scoring just over eight minutes into the first period with a Tyler Murray goal. Providing the assists were Wyatt Cota and Dillon Black.

Late in the frame, the Lions answered back with a Chris Rutley goal assisted by Clarke Veenstra and Matt Ouimet.

At 7:02 of the second period, Wyatt Cota again gave the Islanders a one-goal lead, and they held that until the final minutes of the frame. 

With just under two minutes remaining in the second period, Michel Lefebvre (from Alex Steingruber) counted for the Lions to even it 2-2.

That set the stage for the winner from Moore in the third period.

The Lions out shot the Rideau division’s third place Islanders, 49-42.

Both teams were assessed four minor penalties and the Lions picked up an additional 10 minute misconduct to Clarke Veenstra (who clocked the entire 18 penalty minutes assessed to the Lions).

With a minimum of games played over the holiday weekend, the Lions remain five points behind the fourth place Char-Lan Rebels. They have one game this week, and that was a make-up game against South Grenville, played last night, Tuesday, December 27.

The Winchester Hawks and the Casselman Viking are now tied for the St. Lawrence Division’s top spot, both with 49 points.

The Alexandria Glens are in third place, with 37 points, while the Rebels have 24 points. 

The Rideau-St. Lawrence Division teams are now gearing for the 2012 Showcase Event being hosted by Winchester. The Lions will open the event at 9:30 a.m. in a game against South Grenville.

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Three teams of our Thursday morning mixed curlers were in Russell last week for a friendly bonspiel. Ron Beaupre, Rick McKenzie, Denis Thibault and Cheryl Thompson made up the first quartet, and won their game. Our second group, Andy Patenaude, Alice Thompson, Betty Locke and Sue McIntosh played Sylvie Brault’s foursome, from the women’s team that won our local invitational. Third were Jack Dikland, Sam Locke, Bud Perry and Claire Locke, who lost their game 7-6 to Peter Romme, former provincial farmers’ champion, to make our hosts feel a little more friendly. 

The morning mixed curlers had their final matches of 2011, and enjoyed their windup party on Thursday. Afterwards, they devoured a catered lunch from Subway and learned that the first place team for this draw was the Dave King foursome. With Dave were Sharon Van Allen, Dennis Thibault and Reg Coffey. Ron presented the trophy, refurbished by Doug Brannan, to them. A close second and third were the quartets led by Jack Dikland and Ron Beaupre. Ron and Jeannine Beaupre did another fine job as coordinators for this league, and we thank them for it.

 Senior men’s champions for the Bowman Trophy were Sid Morrell, Karl Duncan, Bud Perry and Al Gowanlock. They broke a tie with Raymond Benoit, Ron Brown, Earl Jeacle and Dave Salsman for the win in this closest of draws. 

The Thursday night competitive league curlers have fixed teams, and they choose a winner at the end of the curling season in March. As often happens, there’s a log jam at the top by the halfway point. 

With nine wins, we have Dave Dolan, Henry Looyen, Al Harriman and Mary McQuaig. Nipping at their heels are Larry and Anita Cooper and Chris and Nancy Barkley. Robert Houze, John Wilson, Joe McCooeye and Steve Boucher were right in there as well. 

Clearly, there have been plenty of tight and well-played games on Thursday nights. We’ll have to keep a close eye on things through until March.

The Friday night social league tends not to pick a winning team, but they seem to have the most fun. Rumour has it they are sometimes still at the club after midnight, perhaps unwinding after the pressure of their games.

On January 4, there will be a four team playoff for our two senior men’s entries in the Parnell competition in Cornwall, on January 6. Sid Morrell, Peter Zeran, Martin Schneckenburger and Jack Barkley’s teams will compete for that honour.

The Bernie Brunt Sr. Men’s Invitational Bonspiel on January 13, has a full slate of 12 teams confirmed. Jack Barkley is the coordinator.

Our Senior Mixed Invitational Bonspiel will be held on Wednesday, January 25. Dave King is the coordinator there.

Our little rockers finished off 2011 with a family bonspiel and a party. They expect to be competing with other clubs in the new year, and will be involved in the Big Four bonspiel with Russell, Metcalfe and Winchester, as will our bantam/junior league players.

The draw for the New Year’s Eve party and bonspiel is full. It’s been a while since we’ve had one of these. Let’s hope this becomes a tradition. See you next year. 

Good curling to all!  

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Monday, December 12 saw some excitement at the regularly scheduled Little Rock practice at the Morrisburg Curling Club when Variety 104.5 arrived to surprise Morrisburg curler, Ewan Wilson, with the December “Kid with Class” prize.

Ewan has been a recreational curler in Morrisburg since he was four. That year he curled in the Easter Seal Bonspiel. He has been a Morrisburg Little Rocker for three years.  

Eight year old Ewan is very active and while he owns video games, he is more likely to be found playing a sport… most sports… any sport!!!! 

He is a leader on his South Stormont Selects Novice C hockey team (practicing, in borrowed goalie gear, with the team’s goalie so, “she doesn’t have to do it alone.”) 

This year he took up broomball, and he is a now a member of the Finch Lightening Squirt team.

For his summers, Ewan plays soccer in Long Sault, golfs at Archies and plays baseball with the Cornwall River Rats! 

He runs too, and is an alumni of Ottawa Race Weekend, The Heather Saaltink Run and The Perth Kilt Run. To top it all off he maintains good grades and keeps his grandparents loved, busy and entertained! 

Variety 104 is a radio station serving the Cornwall area. Its “Kid With Class” program honours amazing young people from Cornwall and area who excel in sports, academics, community service, music, the arts etc.

The awards are given out monthly during the school year and include a huge assortment of wonderful gifts.

On hand at the curling club to present Ewan with his “Kids With Class” award were Variety 104’s Jimmy Kalaitzis, Sue Stewart and Darryl Adams.

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The weekend of December 9-10-11 proved to be a busy one for the South Dundas ScotiaBank Atom C Lions and they spent much of it working their way to the championship final of the North Dundas Mega House tournament where they lost to the Casselman Castors, 3-2, after two overtime periods and four shoot out rounds. 

Friday night, December 9, the Lions were in Winchester for game one of the Mega House tournament.  

In their first game, the Lions posted a 1-0 victory against a tight checking North Dundas Demons team on a first period goal by affiliate player Sean Nicolaassen.  

Despite numerous chances, the Lions were unable to put another goal past the Demons goalie.  

Thanks to a strong effort by the Lions defence of Caleb Douma, Morgan Hummel, Trystyn Hummel and Matt Mackay the Demons were unable to get many shots through to Lions goalie Michaela Mustard.  

This defensive play enabled Mustard to post the shutout.  

Chloe Hart earned Player of the Game for her determination and multiple scoring chances.

Next up for the Lions was a Saturday game versus the Ottawa East Fire who had also won their first game of the tournament.  

The Lions came out flying and played their best game of the year as they worked their way to a 6-0 victory.  

The Lions forechecked so thoroughly, the Fire had trouble getting the puck out of their own zone for most of the game. 

Sean Nicolaassen again opened the Lions scoring assisted by Chloe Hart.  

Jaeden Shaver scored his first goal of what would become a natural hat trick to put the Lions up 4-0 after two periods.  

Drawing assists on Jaeden’s three goals were Shelby Martineau (two), Mackenzie McKee Markell (two) and Caleb Douma.  

The Lions final two goals were scored by Kendrew Byers with Rachel Nicolaasen and Owen Ordendi drawing assists on both. 

Rachel Nicolaassen was a buzz saw around the net, creating turnovers and making strong passes.  As a result she was named Player of the Game.  

Michaela Mustard picked up her second consecutive shutout in the 6-0 victory.

With two victories in preliminary play the Lions were off to the “A” Final against the Casselman Castors who had won their previous two games by a combined score of 12-2.  

After Casselman opened the scoring the Lions came clawing back.  

A shorthanded goal by Shelby Martineau tied the game at 1-1 with assists credited to Jaeden Shaver and Morgan Hummel.  

This seemed to spark the team as they continued pressuring the Castors.  

This persistence paid off when Kendrew Byers scored from Rachel Nicolaassen and Owen Orendi to give the Lions a 2-1 lead heading to the third period.  

In the final frame, the teams exchanged numerous chances as the goalies made great saves time after time. 

Unfortunately, the Lions could not hold the lead as the Castors tied the game up at 2-2 on a breakaway with less than three minutes left on the clock.  

The following overtime periods of four on four and then three on three were instant classics with rush after rush resulting in great chances but no game winning goals.  

After the 2 overtime periods, the teams began a sudden death shootout.  

The Lions fantastic tournament run came to an end when the Castors scored the winner on the fourth round of shootouts.  

A full arena was cheering both teams at the end of a hard fought nail biter of a final.  

Shelby Martineau was awarded the Player of the Game in recognition of her short handed goal and her effort.  

Michaela Mustard stopped many shots in regulation and overtime and then played great in the shootout as well.

A tired bunch of Lions headed to Prescott on Sunday, December 11 to face the first place South Grenville 1 Rangers, and although they gave the Rangers a run for their money, they settled for a 3-2 loss.  

It would have been understandable if the Lions had not been able to get up for this game, but the Lions determination would not allow that.  

The Lions opened up the scoring with Shelby Martineau getting one past the Rangers goalie.  Jaeden Shaver drew an assist on the first goal.  

The Rangers came back to get the next two goals to take a 2-1 lead into the third period.  

Devon Swindells struck for the Lions to tie the game 2-2 with the assist going to Owen Orendi and Chloe Hart.  

The Rangers Michaela Mustard scored the winner with three minutes left in the game.

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We hear a lot of talk, in a negative way, about the “younger generation”, so here’s a story about an exceptional member of the other 95 per cent. 

Ewan Wilson, third generation of the curling Wilsons, was honoured last Monday night at a Little Rocks practice by three D-Js from radio station 104.5 from Cornwall regarding their “Kids With Class” program. It was a complete surprise to the youngster, doing his homework as he was before going onto the ice. There will be a write-up in the Seaway News, and there is considerable detail on the station’s website, variety104.ca/contest. 

Ewan is a very active eight-year-old in many sports, with considerable support and encouragement from his parents and grandparents. Ewan wins a $200 registered educational savings certificate, $100, a six-foot Subway sandwich, an ice cream cake, etc., donated by Cornwall businesses. He is also eligible for other prizes later on. The Little Rocks’ Christmas party was on Monday night. Sorry you missed it, folks. Congratulations, Ewan, and kudos to your family! You make all of us proud.

Moving now to the older generation, three teams of senior men travelled to Prescott last week for a friendly bonspiel. Our fellows won one game, lost one, and tied the third for a very friendly event, before lunch. 

The team members as per the schedule, were Dave King/Pete Zeran, Rick MacKenzie, Paul Dobry and Peter Byvelds, Sid Morell, Karl Duncan, Bud Perry and Al Gowanlock, as well as John Wilson, Arnold Barkley, Fred Langlotz and Ross Bennett.

These events are always a great opportunity for club curlers to meet and compete with those from other clubs in this friendly fraternity. The Bowman Trophy draw ends this Friday. 

The Morrisburg club hosted the Senior Zone Playdowns last weekend. This is a “double knockout” affair: two losses and you’re eliminated from further play. Contending against the perennial representatives from the Ottawa Curling Club were teams from Russell, Winchester, and R.C.M.P. 

For the men, RCMP’s Paquette lost out to Lewis, one of the three Ottawa Curling Club teams, for the “A” title. In the “B” final on Sunday, Paquette lost a very tight match in the 10th end to Morris, also of the Ottawa club. 

On the distaff side, Chisholm from OCC defeated Russell’s Sharon Courneyea, but lost to Janet Lapierre from Winchester in the “A” final in the afternoon. 

Going on to Regionals in Belleville again, with Janet are Janet Levere, Janet Thompson and our own Wendy Casselman. 

The “B” final saw Courneyea, who recently won our women’s invitational bonspiel, lose a very close match in the 10th end to Chisholm. The games were tight and well-curled before an appreciative audience. 

We had a great turnout from our club to handle the kitchen, the ice, the bar, and of course, to watch the competition. It was a very successful playdown, and the “A” and “B” winners will advance to the Regional competition at Belleville in January. As usual, the tournament was well-handled by Alan Brunt and Ian McGillis, still very active in the Ontario Curling Association. 

We’ll report next time on the results for the first half of the season in the various leagues, if the details are available in time.

The club’s decorating committee has done a great job of preparing the lounge for the Christmas season, and sprucing up the appearance of the clubhouse in general. We hope planning for the New Year’s Eve bonspiel goes well. There may still be a few openings left for the event. 

Party on, curlers!    

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The Morrisburg Junior B Lions are hanging tough with the big guys, but they continue to be plagued by a player shortage.

Saturday night, the Lions were on the road to Westport to take on the Rideau Division’s first place Rideaus and, after holding a 4-2 lead late in the second period, they ended up on the wrong side of a 6-4 count.

Although he expected to ice a full team Saturday night, such was not the case for a very discouraged coach Thom Racine.

“Lance Hodgson was hurt Friday night and couldn’t play, and we had a couple more who had exams on Tuesday, so they couldn’t play…which I don’t get.”

“For two periods we were in control of the game. We had a good talk after the second period, and then we started the third period and couldn’t get the puck out of our own end.”

To make matters worse, Racine says the Lions got on the wrong side of the referee when they complained about a missed call.

“One of our kids was cross checked from behind and when he retaliated he drew a penalty. We argued and got a bench minor.”

From then on Racine says, “I guess he decided we were acting like idiots.”

In the third period, the Lions drew  five minor penalties, a four minute spearing penalty, two game misconducts and a game ejection. The Rideaus drew two minors.

In addition, Racine learned the next day that two Lions were suspended (and will miss this Friday night’s game) for infractions during the game warm-up, one for a missing chin strap and the other a neck guard infraction.

Fortunately, the weekend wasn’t all bad news for the Lions.

Friday night on home ice, they posted a must-win 7-2 victory against the Akwesasne Wolves.

The Lions went up 1-0 late in the first period on a Michel Lefebvre goal from Sylvester Bzdyl.

But then in the second period, the Wolves came charging back with a pair and suddenly it was a whole new ball game.

“I called a time out when they went up 2-1.”

Racine says the Lions knew how important the game was for the Wolves, and they knew they were going to come out with every they had.

Following the talk, the Lions got their act together and finally Chris Rutley (from Zach Seguin and Ryan Dunbar) tied it with what Racine described as a “fluky goal.”

The icing on the cake came from Ryan Ward with the Lions short-handed in the last minute of the frame.

“On a two on one, Chris Rutley laid a beauty of a pass on Wardo’s (Ryan Ward) stick and he deflected it into the net.”

That put the Lions up 3-2 with two seconds left in the second period and clearly changed the Wolves’ momentum.

“They just didn’t respond in the third period.”

The Lions held the one goal advantage until the final 10 minutes of the third when they counted another four goals for the 7-2 win.

The goals were scored by Marc Antoine Kamel from Brayden Girard, Alex Steingruber from Sylvester Bzdyl, Clarke Veenstra from Chris Rutley and Michael Paquette and Bzdyl from Steingruber and Michael Keenan.

The Lions sat out six minor penalties and were assessed a 10 minute misconduct. The Wolves drew four minor penalties.

Saturday night in Westport, the game was tied 1-1 after one period with Ryan Ward (from Lefebvre and Sam Hodgson) providing the Lions’ first goal.

The Rideaus went up 2-1, just 40 seconds into the second period but 12 seconds later Bzdyl (from Ward and Lefebvre) answered to keep it even.

Then a pair of power-play goals allowed the Lions to go ahead, 4-2.

Lefebvre started it (from Ward and Bzdyl) and Bzdyl made it 4-2 with the assist going to goaltender Mikael Dion.

The Rideaus cut the Lions advantage to one in the last minute of the second period.

Then just over a minute into the third, Dustin Sinclair scored while the Rideaus were shorthanded to tie the game 4-4

They collected the winning goal  at 4:21, and the insurance market at 15:44. Both goals were scored on the Rideaus power play.

Mikael Dion was in net for both of the Lions weekend games. According to the stats he faced 57 Rideaus shots, while the Lions managed just 26 against opposing goaltender James Davis.

“Mikael played really well. He just didn’t get any support in the end,” said Racine.

The split in their weekend games prevented the Lions from making any headway against the fourth-place CharLan Rebels.

The Rebels also split their games, losing to Casselman, 15-4 and defeating Gananoque, 4-3.

Coming up this Friday night, December 23, the Gananoque Islanders are in town for an 8:30 p.m. game.

The Lions are scheduled to play a make up game in Prescott on Tuesday night, December 27.

Their next home game is not until Friday, January 6 against the Char-Lan Rebels.

On Saturday, January 7 they will open the 2012 Rideau-St. Lawrence Showcase Event with a 9:30 a.m. game against South Grenville. The Winchester Hawks are hosting this year’s showcase. 

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