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Brussels Skating Club presented TV Tunes this past weekend to a full house. The Stage 1
skaters did their routine to Spiderman. (Vicky Bremner photo)
Blyth Novice Reps hosted Zurich
and travelled to Monkton. They
played Zurich on Saturday.
Leading the scoring was Parker
Gibbings, with five goals and an
assist. Also, scoring for Blyth were
Andrew VanWyk, Ethan Coultes,
and Tanner Boven.
Assists went to Damon Allen with
three and Carson Richmond.
Strong goaltending by Jacob
Gulutzen earned the win, which
ended with a final score of 8-1.
Blyth then headed to Monkton to
play Elma Logan.
The Dogs took the lead in the first
with a goal by Jared Shearer. Assists
were from VanWyk and Mitch
McNicol. Elma Logan tied it and
scored a couple more, before Blyth
scored again in the third.
The goal was by Richmond with
assists from VanWyk and Michaela
Rodger.
The Brussels Atom Local League
posted two wins and a loss this
weekend.
Friday night they faced Listowel
on home ice and won 4-2. The
defence of Bennett Newell, Derrick
Waechter, Dean Scarrow and Dylan
McNeil held the Listowel squad
until midway through the third
period.
Scoring for Brussels were
Christopher Van Veen from Dylan
McNeil, Cody Harding from Daniel
Fritz and Nathan Armstrong; Kiaran
Jared from Harding, and Van Veen
again from Harding and Jamie
Perrault.
Saturday they travelled to
Milverton. There was no scoring
until the second period. Brussels got
three goals, netted by Dalen Martin
from VanVeen; Harding, unassisted;
and VanVeen from McNeil. Despite
their best efforts, though, Brussels
lost.
Sunday’s game was in Zurich.
Brussels stomped all over the
opponents, winning 9-1.
Harding scored his first hattrick.
Newell netted his first goal of the
season.
Also scoring were Armstrong,
Kailey Wheeler, Jared and VanVeen
with two. Assisting them were
VanVeen, Martin, Wheeler, Perrault,
McNeil, Scarrow and Seth Nichol.
Konrad McArter was great in net
for all three games.
This weekend, the team plays
three games again.
The Blyth Midget Reps won game
one of the best-of-five series against
Ripley by 4-3 in overtime on
Monday, Jan. 19.
Blyth opened the scoring with a
goal from Matt Stevenson, assisted
by Dan Dery and Michael
McDowell.
Halfway through the second
period Ripley answered to tie it
heading into the third.
With Blyth in the box to start the
third, Ripley scored two goals less
than 45 seconds apart, to take a 3-1
lead.
After a timeout Blyth tied it, with
less than seven minutes to go with
goals from Dallas Pennington and
Dery. Picking up assists were Austin
Sjaarda, Tyler Black and Adam
Cronin.
The last five minutes saw end-to-
end action with goalies making huge
saves at both ends of the rink.
Neither team was able to score in
regulation time, sending this game
into a 10-minute sudden-death
overtime.
With just under two minutes into
the extra frame, on a powerplay,
Matt Popp scored the winner with a
blast from the point. Earning assists
on the goal were Dery and Cronin.
Midgets play Drayton in series
Ona Mezenberg, Owen Sound,
provided the lone goal in the
Saugeen Maitland Midget
Lightning’s Sunday night game
against the Waterloo Ravens. She
was assisted by Tammy Freiburger,
Wingham and Victoria Bertrand,
Port Elgin. Sarah McGall, Owen
Sound played excellent in net
chalking up another well-earned
shutout.
This was the last game of the
regular season in the Lower Lakes
Female Hockey League, leaving the
Lightning in first place with 33
points and their season record of 15
wins, four losses and three ties. The
team also boasted the most goals, 58
and the last goals against, 30, in their
division of 11 teams.
They will be scheduling their first
round of LLFHL division playoff
games against the St. Thomas
Panthers following this weekend’s
Silver Stick Tournament being
played out of Sarnia.
Also, within the next three weeks
they will be trying to fit in provincial
playdowns against the Stratford
Aces.
Medical attention
The routine for the junior/intermediate skaters, Tori Cardiff, Emma and Sarah Strome and
Kathryn Chalmers paid homage to ER and Grey’s Anatomy during the Brussels Skating Club’s
TV Tunes on Sunday. (Vicky Bremner photo)
The Blyth Midget Icedogs playedsome excellent broomball this pastweekend.The boys’ first game was Jan. 30in Blyth against Palmerston. Thevisitors were the first to get on thescoreboard after about eight minutesinto the game.
Five minutes later, Brent Drost
scored and Mike Rawlings earned an
assist. During the same shift, Mark
Dery sent the ball towards the net
and it bounced off of a Palmerston
player. Drost picked it up to score
his second of the night.
Palmerston scored with just over a
minute left in the first period.
Goalie Derek Logtenberg was the
team’s lucky charm as he stopped
the ball and made some awesome
saves as Palmerston pounded shots
at the net.
The period ended tied 2-2.
At the top of the second, Brendon
Boven drove the ball towards
Palmerston’s net and Rawlings
scored to put his team ahead.
Palmerston made some nice shots on
net, but Logtenberg stood firm. With
just under three minutes left in the
game, Tyler Hallahan ran up the ice
on a breakaway. Palmerston
intercepted his pass, so Hallahancharged on and stole the ball awayfrom his opponents, then went pasttheir defence to score. Blyth wonthis game 4-2.This was a great victory for theteam as the last time these teamsmet, Blyth lost in overtime.
On the next night, Jan. 31, the
Icedogs travelled to Mildmay.
Rawlings set up the first goal for
Drost to shoot the ball into the net
and put Blyth on the scoreboard.
Two minutes later Mildmay
scored. With less than a minute left
in the first period Mildmay took a
nice clean back-hand shot and fired
the ball into Blyth’s net from the
blueline.
With just over five minutes left in
the game, Blyth put out a power line
and later pulled their goalie. Blyth
stayed in control of the play, making
some nice shots on net and even
connecting with the crossbar.
However, the Mildmay goalie
wouldn’t let the ball get by him. As
the final buzzer sounded it was a 2-1
loss for the Icedogs.
Coach Billy Greidanus was
pleased with his team’s effort and
enthusiasm.
Icedogs play Palmerston
Blyth Atom Locals
post 2 victory, 1 loss
Lightning ends season on top
The Brussels PeeWee Reps won
the first round of playoffs against
Tiverton.
Tiverton started the scoring but
Brussels tied the game when Jordyn
Sholdice bulged the twine with
Reece McArter assisting.
Then Wyatt Ducharme scored
with Hayden TenPas assisting.
Brock McLean put in another
with the assist gong to Anthony
Vader.
This gave Brussels a two-goal
lead, but the game wasn’t in the bag
as Tiverton scored three quick ones
in the third.
Down by one, Brussels didn’t give
up and with only a second left
Mitchell Kellington took the team
into overtime with a goal. Kellington
then set up Lexi Smith for the
winning goal.
Matt McNichol played a great
series in net.
PeeWee Reps win first round
Little explorer
The Stage 1 skaters were Dora
and Diego during the Brussels
Skating Club’s performance on
Sunday afternoon. TV Tunes
featured popular television
shows from cartoons to Hockey
Night in Canada. (Vicky Bremner
photo)
Blyth
Novice
Reps
host
Zurich