HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2009-02-19, Page 8A sweet win
The ABCDD Gals edged out the North Huron council and
staff team last Saturday in Blyth as part of the
municipality’s Luge-a-thon by a score of 5-4. After a tight,
evenly-played game, the teams went to a sudden-death
shootout with the Gals prevailing in dramatic fashion. (Shawn
Loughlin photo)
SportsPAGE 8. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2009.
The qualification playdowns have
started for the Ontario Women’s
Hockey Association provincial
championship tournament. The first
round consists of a three-game
round-robin against Lucknow,
Seaforth and Goderich.
The Blyth Brussels PeeWees
opened up with a 15-0 win against
Lucknow in Blyth on Feb. 7.
Next up was a trip to Seaforth on
Tuesday, Feb. 10 against the
perennial powerhouse Seaforth
Stars. The game opened with both
teams applying pressure for long
stretches of time, but the first period
ended scoreless.
The Blyth/Brussels girls started to
get a little more pressure and at the
midway point of the second period.
Kaitlyn Michie set up a two-on-one
break that ended with Jordyn
Sholdice sending a perfect pass to
Lexi Smith, who fired the puck into
the top of the net.
From the face-off at centre ice
Blyth/Brussels worked the puck
back into Seaforth’s end and Smith
picked up a loose puck and
attempted to pass to the middle of
the ice that deflected past the
Seaforth goaltender for an
unassisted goal 14 seconds after the
opening goal.
At the midway point of the third
Delayna Smith netted an insurance
marker with assists going to
Sholdice and Lexi Smith.
The rest of the game the team
played very good overall team
defence. The line of Ashley Higgins,
Mackenzie Nesbitt and Taylor
Higgins were able to consume
valuable time by cycling the puck in
the Seaforth zone and wearing down
the Seaforth players. When the
Seaforth players were able to get
loose on a break the defence of
Michie, Autumn Wightman,
Mackenzie McGavin and Leanne
Plunkett were there to thwart most
attacks.
The final line of defence,
goaltender Lindsay Shiell, played a
great game. She made many
difficult saves on screened shots and
was full value for the shutout
victory.
The final score was 3-0.
The Blyth Brussels PeeWee girls
played Goderich.
Brussels was on fire and sent the
Sailers home with a 4-2 loss.
Higgins surprised the goalie by
shooting from the blueline and
scoring. Then Sholdice put a point
on the board. Assisting was
Wightman. The Smiths did some
damage with a goal each.
Shiell played like a pro in net.
The Blyth Kings Bantam boys
travelled to Barclay, just outside of
Barrie to participate in the provincial
broomball tournament this past
weekend.
The Eastern Shadows were the
first team that the Kings were set to
play against, on Friday evening. The
Shadows took control of the ball and
kept it in Blyth’s end for the first half
of the period. Then Blyth decided to
get into the game and showed some
great ball control and made some
nice plays.
In the second period, Blyth
received two penalties but was able
to kill them. With just 50 seconds
left on the clock, Blyth was caught
on a bad shift change and with no
defenders in place to stop the
Shadows breakaway, the opponents
scored a goal.
Blyth’s next opponents were the
Courtice Cobras on Saturday
morning. Blyth dominated the first
period of this game. Zach Berwick
made a nice crossover pass towards
the net. Alex Sanders saw the goalie
come down to stop the ball, so went
in and chipped the rebound over the
goalie’s shoulder. Sanders scored
another goal for the team with an
assist from defender, Scott Jefferson.
Blyth received two penalties, but
didn’t allow their opponents to score
a goal.
Keeper, Bryce Glousher did a
great job covering the net and earned
a shutout for the Kings. The entire
team worked together to pull off a 2-
0 win.
On Saturday afternoon the Kings
met the Stealth to play another
exciting game of broomball. In the
first period Blyth spent some time in
the penalty box and at one point
received three penalties at the same
time. The rest of the players worked
hard to successfully kill the
penalties.
In the second period with just
under four minutes left in the game,
the Stealth scored a goal.
This loss ended the tournament for
Blyth.
The Bantams had a big team this
year. The players attending the
tournament were: Wyatt Bearss,
Zach Berwick, Greg Boyle, Hunter
Broda, Will Curran, Murray Dale,
Derek deBoer, Zach Drost, Bryce
Glousher, Brody Grummett-Nairn,
Jeff Hallahan, Scott Jefferson, Gerrit
Logtenberg, Tyler O’Rourke, Jordon
Reinink, Alex Sanders, Ryan Stute
and Kalvin VanMassenhoven.
Close one
The Blyth PeeWee Rep squad lost a close game last week
to Norwich in the first game of their OMHA quarter final
playoff by a score of 2-1. The teams came out early, both
scoring quickly. Late in the third period Norwich broke the
1-1 tie and eventually rode that goal to victory. Norwich
squeaked out another victory by a score of 3-2 on Thursday
night before the teams met again on Sunday night in Blyth
and Norwich swept the series winning 2-1. (Shawn Loughlin
photo)
The Brussels Novices travelled to
Mount Forest.
Goalie Jarron Thompson saw a lot
of action and just couldn’t stop the
opponents.
Brussels next played Zurich and
won 4-1. Noah Terpstra and Avery
McArter scored and Jack Pipe scored
two.
Kings end year at tourney
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Qualifiers start for PeeWee girls
Novices fall
to Mount Forest,
beat Zurich
The Brussels PeeWee Reps hosted
Clifford. The Brussels Bulls came
out charging and showed their stuff.
Clifford was unable to keep up. The
point difference was significant.
PeeWee Reps
play Clifford