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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2012-01-12, Page 9THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2012. PAGE 9. Tight loss The Blyth Midget Girls broomball team took to the ice on Friday night for a contest with a team from Palmerston. Unfortunately for the locals, it wasn’t their night as they came up on the wrong side of a tight 1-0 score. (Vicky Bremner photo) Novice team finishes seasonwith win, tournament trophyThe Blyth Brussels Novice LocalLeague team has had a positive start to its year beating the Zurich Thunder by a score of 5-4 on home ice and winning a tournament in Mitchell with two wins and an overtime loss. On Jan. 3 the squad travelled to Mitchell for a two-day tournament. The team played against BCH falling short by one goal in the 3-2 contest. Mitchell Townsend put one past the pipes to get on the scoreboard in the first period but BCH tied it up in the second. The team was hungry for a goal as Griffin Marshall fired one past the goalie to get his first of the season, assisted by Jeffery Walden and Tim Vincent. The game went to a shootout where BCH got the final goal. The next game was against the hometown Mitchell Hawks who fellto the Novice Local League team 3- 0. The team came out strong and played strong. Scoring priviliges go out to Walden with two, assisted by Joel Nesbit. Kennedy Huether put one off the boards and rebounded in the net to make the final score 3-0 with Ty McNichol getting another shut out. The team travelled back to Mitchell on Thursday, Jan. 4 to play the Mitchell Walkoms for their third game. Putting three goals up in the first period, the team was on fire. Scoring his first goals of the season was Liam Shortreed with two, assisted by Huether and Braden Radford. Mitchell Townsend slipped one past the goalie with the help of Radford. Coming out in the second three more goals were scored by Walden, unassisted, Huether assistedby Paige Willie, and the final goal was by Bailey Coles scoring her first goal of the season. The final game was a “sit on the edge of your seat” kind of game. Blyth Brussels came out strong scoring three in the first period. Braden Radford scored his first two goals of the season, assisted by Walden, Townsend and Colton Beaven. Walden scored on a breakaway to take the lead. Townsend and Walden ripped two in the net to win the Hawks Cup. Making great saves between the pipes was Ty McNichol. The team next sees action on Jan. 14 when they face off against the Seaforth Stars at the Seaforth and District Community Centre at 2:15 p.m. Atom Reps finish season in first with record of 11-2-1 The Blyth Brussels Atom Reps finished off their regular season on top with an impressive 11-2-1. For the start of 2012 the Reps travelled to Goderich on Jan. 3 for an exhibition game. The Sailors managed to pop two past goaltender Spencer Lazarevich in the first period, but with less than a minute left Ted Jacklin pushed one through to Alex Coultes who put it in the back of the net. Mitch McNichol started off the scoring in the second period with a pass from Ethan Scrimgeour. Colin Howson and McNichol then set up Scrimgeour to pull ahead of the Sailors. Scrimgeour came back strong again in the third period netting two more with the assistance of Howson and McNichol. Final score was 5-2 for the Reps. Late last year the South Huron Sabres came for an exhibition game on Dec. 29 in Blyth. Both teams battled end to end for the first period with no one making it on the scoreboard. Early in the second period Howson set up Bailey Bos for the first goal. Bos came back again to score and finish the period with a 2-0 lead. The Sabres continued to battle throughout the third, but Lazarevich held onto the shutout yet again providing a great way for the team to finish 2011. The Atom Reps participated in a tournament in Durham on Jan. 7 where they won two matches against Seaforth (2-1) and Durham (4-0) and lost their first game to Kincardine (5-4). The Atom squad visited Goderich on Jan. 9 and hosted Minto on Jan. 10. Final scores weren’t available at press time. Sting best Lightning in Guelph tourney The Saugeen Maitland Midget AA Lightning were edged 4-3 by the Sarnia Sting in the semi-final match of the Guelph Thunderstorm tournament last weekend. The Lightning went undefeated in round robin play including a 3-0 win against Haldimand, a 2-2 tie against North Halton and a 5-1 victory against Guelph. In the semi-final match, the league rival Sarnia Sting came out with a fast skating, tight checking game plan, jumped to an early lead and never looked back. Although the Lightning outshot the Sting 30-16, they couldn’t get the equalizer late in the game ending the Lightning’s 10-game unbeaten streak. The line of Stacie Vink, Kelly Gribbons and Hailey Herman had a standout weekend picking up a total of 14 points in the four games. Scoring for the Lightning were Laura Irwin (four), Stacie Vink (three), Dolle Meigs (two), Kaitlyn Soers, Hailey Herman, Kelly Garrow and Kelly Gribbons. Assists were awarded to Herman (four), Vink (three), Sara Gossell (two), Abbey Gibson (two), Soers (two), Garrow (two), Gribbons (two), Irwin, Hannah Davidson and Georgia Ottewell. Picking up the shutout in net for the Haldiman game was Shea Tilley. PeeWee AE finish season with two wins and a tie The Blyth Brussels PeeWee AE team finished their regular season schedule strong with a win at home and a tie and a win on the road. On Dec. 28 the Monkton Wildcats came to Blyth for the first game of a home and away set. Blyth Brussels would get on the board quickly when Avery McArter went in alone and scored for the early lead. The visitors would answer back two minutes later to tie the score. Both teams would spend most of the game killing penalties, but it would be Carson Richmond scoring in the third on a power play assisted by Craig Raynard to take the lead. The hometeam would hang on for the 2-1 win. The World Juniors wouldn’t be the only ones playing on New Year’s Eve as the boys made the trip to Monkton. Blyth Brussels would get on the scoreboard halfway through the first when Wyatt Machan would bulge the twine assisted by Richmond. It took Monkton until the second period to pull even, but the tie would be short lived when Owen Andrews sbuck one in assisted by Dylan McNeil. Monkton would score again to even the score, but three minutes later defenceman Brett Stevenson, would give his teammates the lead and get his first of the season. The third would see Blyth Brussels take the lead when McArter would score assisted by Raynard. The Wildcats would claw their way back in the remaining minutes of the third but the AE team would hold on for the tie. Friday, Jan. 6 the team travelled to Milverton to face the Drives for their final game of the regular season. It was a penalty-filled affair but the boys would skate away with a dominating 6-1 win. The PeeWee team showed unselfish play by passing the puck nicely and keeping their opponents running showing that they’re still progressing as a team and looking forward to playoffs. Goal scorers for Blyth Brussels were Dylan McNeil, Jared Shearer, Carson Richmond, Avery McArter, Wyatt Machan and Benny Newell. Assists went to Nolan Johnston (3), Damon Allen (2), Craig Raynard (2), and singles going to McArter, McNeil and Richmond. The team also took to the ice against Zurich on Jan. 11, however a score was unavailable at press time. The Blyth Brussels PeeWee AE team next takes to the ice for a second game against Zurich at the Zurich-Bluewater Community Centre. The action starts against the Thunder at 7:45 p.m. on Jan. 13. AA Lightning win games over the border The Saugeen Maitland Bantam AA Lightning started the new year in the win column, defeating the Cambridge Roadrunners in league play and downing three Detroit teams in a cross-border exhibition series. After a well-deserved break from the ice over Christmas, the Bolts were a little rusty during a rare Thursday night game against the Roadrunners in Teeswater. Call-up Mel Nolan got things started with a first-period goal with assists going to Lexi Smith and Miranda Lantz. Smith then potted one of her own with helpers from Nolan and Lantz. Tori Terpstra finished off the scoring with a shot to the top shelf; Neve VanPelt and Maddie Duncan earned assists. Morgan Baker turned aside all shots to earn the shutout in the 3- 0 win. The Bantam AA Lightning were disappointed to have been excluded from the weekend Guelph tournament. However Coach Lark, wanting to get the team ready for the second half of the season, arranged an exhibition series against the best three Bantam age girls teams in Detroit. In a period of less than 24 hours the shorthanded Bolts gutted out wins against Detroit Honey- Baked (4-2), Detroit Little Caesars (3-0) and Detroit Compuware (6-1). Scoring over the weekend were Ashlee Lawrence (four), Lantz (four), Avery Reeves (two), Jessica Dales, Nikki Zabel and Duncan. Assists were earned by Dales (two), Duncan (two), Lantz (two), Smith (two), Jamie Simpson, Ciara Lark, Terpstra, Zabel, Lawrence and VanPelt. Goaltenders Rebecca Ropp and Baker were solid in net all weekend. The Bolts close out the season on the road, but look to finish strong and solidify their playoff position. Follow the Lightning results at www.saugeenmaitlandlightning.com The Blyth Brussels PeeWee Local League (LL) team travelled to Durham on Sunday, Jan. 8 for a one- day tournament. The team’s first game was against Collingwood and the PeeWee LL team fought hard but lost in a shoot- out. Blyth Brussels was the first to score with a nice shot from Wyatt. Collingwood evened the score in the second but Damon scored with a pass from Cody giving the squad a brief lead before Collingwood tied it up again. The teams then went into a five- minute sudden-death overtime which resulted in no score from either team. Collingwood was able to take the match in the shootout. Game two was against Normanby and saw Blyth Brussels once again go into overtime where they would triumph this time. The boys scored three goals in the first period, with Normanby getting one goal. Wyatt scored two with awesome slapshots from the blue line with assists from Dylan, Hudson, Brock and Cody. Cody received a nice pass from Dylan and scored to end the action for the first period. The second period saw no score from either team but awesome defense from Dylan, Jeff, Hudson and Evan as well as goaltender Derrick standing on his head making great saves. Normanby scored two goals in the third period to tie it up. Overtime would prove useless again as neither team scored, leading to another shootout. Blyth Brussels triumphed in the shutout to enter the “C” final. Between Blyth Brussels and the trophy was Durham. Durham scored two goals early in the first period, but only briefly held the two-point lead as Joseph put one in the net with a pass from Brock and Dean. Durham widened the gap during the second, scoring another marker to put the score at 3-1. The third period belonged to Blyth Brussels however as the squad came out swinging. Cody scored off of a pass from Mason. Damon scored with a pass from Wyatt to tie the game leading to another overtime. The boys didn’t waste time however as, with goaltender Derrick holding off the other team, Joseph put one into the Durham net to win the “C” final. Local League PeeWee team wins Durham tourney