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The Citizen, 2011-02-24, Page 8PAGE 8. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2011. Blyth Minor Soccer & Baseball 2011 REGISTRATION Saturday, March 5, 9 am - 12 noon and Wednesday, March 16, 7 pm - 9 pm will be held at the Blyth Public School on For more information call: Blyth & District Soccer (ages 3 and up) Blyth Minor Ball (ages 5 and up) Soccer Contact Herb 519-523-4202 Ball Contact Tim 519-523-9295 Sports Bauer leads winning team The Brussels Curling Club has completed two draws for the season and is very pleased with the turnout of curlers this year. The new rocks are really nice. It doesn’t seem to take as much effort to throw the rocks and they curl well. New arena manager Abi Corbett is trying hard to work the kinks out of the ice and we hope the new ice cleaner cloth will help. The curlers are having fun and our oldest curler, Jean Bewley reports that sometimes her feet won’t move but her nose sure can run. The winners of the first draw were Merv Bauer skipping, Don Chesher, Catherine Thomet and Cory Campbell, 43; second, Orval Bauer skipping, George Zwep, Maryanne Bernard and Abbi Corbett, 42.5; third, shared, 33.5, Mike Alexander skipping, Dona Knight, Murray Pepper and Charles Corbett share with Murray Hoover, skipping, Sandra Josling, Jeff Thompson and Sandra Cable. The second draw had more curlers joining the night of fun which had enough curlers for 12 teams creating a bye situation for the draw. Winners were: first, skipped by Steve Steiss, Mary Ann Bernard, Jeff Cardiff and Marsha Bietz, 45.5 points; second, Doug Dale, skip, Dona Knight, Jeff Thompson and Abbi Corbett, 40; third, tied with 38 points each, skip Steve Knight, Don Chesher, Debbie Campbell and Holly McCutcheon and Orval Bauer, skip, Annette Lewington and Fred DeBoer. The new draw starts this week and a couple more curlers would be great to round out the teams. Give Steve Steiss a call and get on a team for the last few weeks of the year. The senior students of Brussels Public School are coming to learn how to curl beginning on Monday, Feb. 28. They are on the ice from 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. and anyone wishing to help out can call Jo-Ann McDonald. Help is needed in teaching the proper delivery and how to skip. Give it a go The Brussels Curling Club held free curling at the Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centre on Monday for Family Day, inviting families and curlers of all ages and skill levels in to give the sport a try. One of the youngest to step up was Claire Mitchell who tried her hand at throwing a stone. (Vicky Bremner photo) On Wednesday, Feb. 16, a rare event happened at the Wingham Golf and Curling Club. The team of Karen Burke, Shawn Cottrill, Scott Miller and Dean Newson counted all eight curling stones they threw to score, to my knowledge, only the second eight-ender ever at the club. Burke executed a terrific double takeout on her last rock to accomplish the feat and even more remarkable, the opposition team was the first place team of Robert Grein’s that on this night was being skipped by Karen’s dad Earl Fitch. In other regular league action the Monday daytime curlers finished the second draw with Ross Ludington and Allan Webster skipping their team to victory. The Tuesday ladies’ winning teams were Cathy Skinn, Emily Elston, Amy Miller and Kelsie Eadie. The Tuesday competitive league had Rob Middleton, Calvin Ruttan and Shawn Cottrill pick up wins. The Wednesday mixed league winners were Burke, Jenn Elston and Scott Bridge teams. Thursday daytime winners were Neilson Frank, Wendell Stamper, John Mann, Mac Inglis, Barry Simpson and rookie skip Clayton Ruppel. The Belgrave league had skips Niel Edgar, Fred Meier, Larry Robinson and Murray Shiell go home with victories. The Friday night mixed teams and ladies bonspiel winners will be published next week due to the early deadline because of the family day holiday. OUT OF THE HACK The spring temperatures last week had lots of eager golfers looking forward to spring. Golfers don’t forget to take advantage of the early- bird discount! Skips and Stones – By Bruce Skinn Bantam Girls start playdowns with win The Blyth/Brussels Bantam girls opened up their provincial playdowns against the Upper Maitland Mustangs in Howick on Feb. 16 and came away with a convincing 6-2 win. There are six teams in the southern loop who face off in a home or away game. Blyth/Brussels will compete against Upper Maitland, St. Marys, Seaforth, South Huron and Lucknow. At the end of the series, the two teams with the most points advance to the provincial finals in Brampton in April. With three minutes left in the first period on Feb. 16 Shelby Hinschberger opened up the scoring by one, timing a pass from Ashley Delapena. A minute later Ashley Higgins scored unassisted. In the second period, the girls were on fire. With a man advantage, Higgins scored on a pass from Delapena. Upper Maitland responded a minute later with an unassisted goal by Rachel Goetz. Mackenzie Nesbitt fired one past the goalie unassisted. Leanne Plunkett fired a rocket shot from the blue line to make the score 5-1. With two minutes left in the second period, Higgins rounded out her hattrick with a goal assisted by Jessica Thompson. Upper Maitland opened up the third period with a goal by Regan Miller, assisted by Goetz (and a defenseman’s skate). This would be the only goal of the third period ending the game with a score of 6-2. Lindsay Shiell protected the Blyth/Brussels net. Sydney Carson was in net for the Upper Maitland Mustangs. The Blyth/Brussels Bantam girls return to Blyth on Thursday to face off against South Huron at 7:30 p.m. The final game of the series will see Blyth/Brussels travel to Lucknow on March 2 for a 7 p.m. start. Lightning make tournament finals The Saugeen Maitland PeeWee AA Lightning travelled to Pickering for the Feb. 11-13 weekend to participate in their first AA tournament since moving into the division. On Friday afternoon the girls took on Kingston and squeaked out a win by the slimmest of margins, 1-0. After that big win, the girls needed another against Durham West to lock down first place. The girls came out blazing on Saturday morning against the Durham West team, continuing the tournament shutout streak, beating the host team by a score of 2-0, setting up a contest with their ranked opponents, the Clarington Flames, in the semi-finals. The Lightning outshot the Flames 11-2 in the first period, but the score was deadlocked at one at the end of the first. In the second, the Lightning began to run out of gas as the Flames capitalized and took a 2- 1 lead. The Flames eventually won the game by a score of 3-1 and went on to win the tournament. The girls are now looking forward to a rematch with the Flames in the provincial tournament. Big win The Brussels Atom Rep Bulls hosted the Listowel Cyclones on Saturday at the Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centre and came away with a big win by a 9-4 margin. The Bulls host Mitchell in their next game on Friday. (Vicky Bremner photo)