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Ironmen drop weekend games to Kincardine, Mitchell
The Wingham Ironmen suffered a
pair of setbacks in Western Junior C
Hockey League play on the
weekend. Both games were played
at the North Huron Wescast
Community Complex.
The Ironmen held period leads of
4-0 and 5-3 on Friday evening
against the Kincardine Bulldogs, but
ended up losing the contest 8-7. On
Sunday afternoon, the Ironmen were
doubled up by the Mitchell Hawks
6-3.
The Bulldogs scored five straight
goals in the third period on Friday
before the Ironmen attempted a
rally, but fell one goal short as the
Ironmen had to settle for the 8-7
defeat.
Aaron Armstrong picked up five
assists. Travis Donaldson and Derek
Elliott each scored two goals for
Wingham. Single markers were
added by Darren Kerr, Drew Gross
and Andrew Scott. Elliott also added
an assist. Justin Jacklin and Evan
Ducharme collected two assists
apiece. Single helpers were
recorded by Joey Terwoord.
Joel Alton scored twice for the
Bulldogs.
Each team had 31 shots on net and
the Ironmen were 0-3 on the power
play.
Coach Russ Sutton said it wasn’t a
bad game. “We started out the way
we wanted to, but we didn’t escalate
with our play throughout the full 60
minutes,” he said. “We just kind of
stayed the same and Kincardine kept
chipping away, and they got a win
out of it.”
He indicated the Bulldogs are a
tough, offensively strong team that
never quit in the game. “They kept
coming and coming and in the end
they prevailed because of it,” said
Sutton.
Brayden Pellett said the Ironmen
had a good start but they did not
finish well.
The first-year forward said it was
little breakdowns and little mistakes
the team made that enabled the
Bulldogs to overcome the 4-0
deficit.
“There was not much they could
do about it. We didn’t get the
bounces after the first period,” he
said. “We got to come back harder
for the next game.”
The Ironmen traded goals with the
Mitchell Hawks in the first period of
Sunday’s contest, before the Hawks
took a 5-3 lead after 40 minutes of
play.
Elliott scored all three goals for
Wingham. Armstrong picked up two
assists, with single helpers being
received by Donaldson, Brett
Brophy and Terwoord.
Scoring for Mitchell were Scott
Fries, Ryan Goetz, Jeremy Ennet,
Brent Rae and Ryan Syles.
Coach Sutton said the team was
lacking in defensive zone coverage
and that was the cause of the two
weekend setbacks. “Or maybe the
boys might have missed curfew last
night,” he said.
The coach said secondary scoring
is okay, saying they weren’t too bad
in that category, but noted they
could use help.
“Today was just an all-around bad
game,” he said. “We couldn’t do
anything right. We couldn’t get the
puck to the net, we couldn’t get the
puck out of our zone.”
Forward Elliott said they started
out pretty well, but then the wheels
fell off again.
“We just need to keep working
and we’ll be on top of the league
soon enough” said Elliott.
He said that Aaron Armstrong is
awesome to play with.
“He sees the ice well, a great
passer, he has wonderful hands and
you put your stick down on the ice
and he’ll find it, that’s how I get
goals,” he said.
The Ironmen have two games this
weekend. After playing host to the
Walkerton Hawks on Friday at the
North Huron Wescast Community
Complex, beginning at 7:30 p.m.,
the Ironmen travel to Mitchell on
Saturday for a 7:15 p.m. contest
against the Hawks.
By Jim Brown
The Citizen
Falling behind
Despite holding winning positions, the Wingham Ironmen dropped two games in weekend
action against the Kincardine Bulldogs, shown here, and against the Mitchell Hawks. The
Ironmen will welcome the Walkerton Hawks on Friday to try and snap their losing streak. The
puck drops at 7:30 p.m. (Jim Brown photo)
PeeWee AA Maitland team splits games
On Oct. 27 the Saugeen Maitland
PeeWee “AA” girls team played
their home opener in Howick against
the Mississauga Chiefs. In this
much-awaited for first home game,
the girls didn’t disappoint.
In the first period the Lightning
came out flying, controlling the puck
and pounding the goalie with shoots.
Although the girls outplayed and
outshot the Chiefs the score
remained 0-0 going into the second.
As the second period rolled on, the
Chiefs took it to the net and scored
first. This wasn’t going to stop the
Lightning, as they answered back
with an unassisted goal by Janelle
Smeltzer. Hard work from Madison
Beishuizen paid off as she put the
puck to the back of the net, assisted
by Smeltzer and Jamey
Cunningham.
In the third period the girls kept
the pressure on and pocketed two
more goals. These two goals came
from Smeltzer and Jaymee Nolan
with assists going to Emma Swift,
Kelsey Mighton and Megan Wilton.
The final score was 4-1. Great game
going out to Beishuizen, Leah
Herrfort and all the Lightning.
On Sunday the girls travelled to
Waterloo to play the Ravens. Trying
to keep the momentum rolling the
girls came out playing hard, but went
down by one goal as the first ended.
With the second period underway,
the girls tied up the game with a goal
by Smeltzer with the assist going to
Mighton. As the time ticked down,
the Ravens answered back with
another goal and took the lead 2-1.
As the third played out, the Ravens
scored one more goal and protected
their lead until the game ended at a
score of 3-1.
The Wingham Golf and Curling
Club returned the golf carts this
week just in time for curling. The
course will remain open for all the
diehard golfers until the snow flies.
The golfers enjoyed another
good year despite of the terrible
weather in October thanks mainly
to the early start in mid-March. The
Tuesday ladies had a super year
with three different winners of their
yearly trophies. Fern Wylie took
home the McKinney Award while
Debbie Currie captured the Wilma
Kerr and Gayle Neil the Conron.
The senior men came down to the
final week with Jamie Sanderson
holding off 92-year-old Clayton
Ruppel for the Bill Dauphin
Memorial Trophy. The Thursday
night men shattered last year’s
record number of golfers averaging
55 per night. There were 217 prizes
won by 94 different golfers. Ken
Mathers and
Brandon Rybicki led the way with
six each.
The Thursday night Belgrave
league kicks off the curling season
Thursday, Nov. 1 at 8:30 p.m. The
number of curlers is up from last
year, but some of the teams are still
looking for members as well as
spares. This Saturday, Nov. 3 the
club is holding a clinic from 9 a.m.
- noon and Goldline Curling will be
on hand to show the new curling
product lines available for the
2012/13 curling season.
The club is also thinking of
holding a weekly Sunday
curling camp for children ages
seven to 13.
If interested call Bruce at the pro
shop as soon as possible.
Chip and a Putt – By Bruce Skinn
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The Blyth Brussels Novice AE fell
short in an away game versus the
Zurich Thunder on Saturday by a
score of 3-1.
Previously the team hosted Arthur
for their home opener at the
Brussels, Morris and Grey
Community Centre on Oct. 27.
The team played well together and
had some chances to put the puck in
the net but fell short on the
scoreboard losing 3-0.
Novice AE loses to Zurich