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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 2007-04-05, Page 9The Brussels Atoms won the WOAA B championship. In this best of three series, the squad played Harriston. The first game was away and home-ice advantage helped the hosts to a 6-3 victory. Scoring for Brussels were Brock McLean and Brody TenPas with assists going to Jordyn Sholdice, Lexi Smith and Hayden TenPas. The next night, Harriston came to town and went home defeated. Brussels put up a good fight and edged their opponents 3-2. McLean and the TenPas brothers contributed with goals for the home team. With a week’s rest Brussels returned to Harriston for the deciding game. Harriston put the pressure on scoring two quick goals. Brussels didn’t let it be their undoing, however and scored a total of seven before the final buzzer. Harriston finished with four goals. Lighting the lamp for the locals was the TenPas brothers, Mitchell Kellington, McLean and Sholdice. Matt McNichol had three great games in the Brussels net. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 2007. PAGE 9. Wayne Carter is back to work after having his day surgery. The procedure was done in London and Wayne is doing very well. The April meeting of the Walkerburn Club will be held on April 16 (one week late because of Easter Monday) at the home of Betty Archambault. Deanna Snell will provide lunch and Ethel Ball will be in charge of the program. The group was to sing at Restview Retirement Home on March 27, but that was cancelled as they were painting the sitting room at the home. They hope to be able to go in the near future. I have one rule for Easter and that is, the chocolate shouldn’t outweigh the ham (or turkey). Beyond that, it’s all good. Happy Easter everyone. Brussels Atoms defeat Harriston to win WOAA B Our local boys rode west and they came back with the gold. The Hitmen, a juvenile broomball team out of Seaforth, won B- Division gold at the Canadian championships in Saskatchewan. The team included players from all around the area, including some players picked up from Windsor, as well as players from Blyth and Brussels. Adam DeBoer and Drew Taylor of Blyth and Steven McNichol and Adam McClure of Brussels played on the champion Hitmen, who were coached by Rob Hunking and Fred DeBoer. Although the Hitmen finished second in a qualifying tournament in November, the Hitmen were invited to participate after several east coast teams declined due to travel costs. The Hitmen lost their first game by a score of 4-3 in overtime, but were down 3-0 at the break, showing a lot of heart and skill to come back to tie it up. Unfortunately, the loss mapped the team’s course for therest of the tournament.“We had our good moments andour bad moments,” Hunking says. “In our first game, the first period really, we didn’t play up to our potential, but then we came back. We ended up losing in overtime, but in the second period we showed how we can play broomball.” After a second loss to a team from Quebec, another tough loss at 2-1, the Hitmen were eliminated from the A-Division medal round and dropped down to the B-Division where they began to show their true colours. The Hitmen beat a Saskatchewan team 3-1, then beat Team Manitoba 7-0, sending them to the playoffs. After another hard-fought win, the Hitmen were rematched with their first B-Division opponents from Saskatchewan with the Ontario boys coming out on top again by a score of 3-0. While the consolation gold is an achievement, the Hitmen finished third in the A-Division at the 2006 tournament, which had people thinking that they could have gone further. “The team played well enough to get to the A-Division finals. Some errors in overtime in their first game just cost them,” Fred DeBoer said. “There were errors that came from overconfidence, which is too bad, because they had potential in the A- Division.” Head coach Hunking agrees, saying that the Hitmen missed just astep or two out of the gate that costthem A-Division glory in thetournament. “It was just a little too much a little too late,” he said. “I think we just started our tournament one game too late, really just a period too late.” Looking ahead to the 2008 season, Hunking says it will be a major rebuilding year and that the Canadian championships are a big question mark next year. “We are hoping to compete, but we’ve lost the core of our team by going over age. So it’s a definite rebuilding year,” he said. “We hope to be back next year, but realistically I don’t think it’s going to happen, but I guess you never know.” The Hitmen have a history of success and they are not a team that likes missing the big tournaments. They have been at the Nationals in six of the last eight years and with the championships taking place in Windsor next year, it would be a simple commute. Again, Hunking is skeptical. He said the difference between the Hitmen and the opposition was skill and experience, something a bench full of fresh faces won’t have next year. Hunking has recruiting on his mind for the off-season, but mainly he’ll just have to wait and see which Hitmen team takes the ice next season. Seaforth Hitmen bring home the gold The Citizen 541 Turnberry St., Brussels 519-887-9114 404 Queen St., Blyth 519-523-4792 EDITH ADAMS OMNIBUS Looking for recipes the way your grandmother used to make it? This compilation of recipes by a famous Vancouver newspaper cook from the 1940s recalls recipes for baking, main courses, preserves and more. $24.95 DEERPROOFING YOUR YARD AND GARDEN Deer are beautiful creatures but they can be destructive in your yard and garden. 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