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Bly th A toms ‘storm ’ to series lead over Walpole
Saturday, Feb. 24 saw the Blyth
Atoms take to the road for game
two of their OMHA series with
Walpole.
Despite the weather warnings
the game went on and the travel
wasn’t too bad. After a delayed
start the Blyth team took to the ice
full of enthusiasm and ready to play
hockey.
Brad Anderson opened the scor
ing with two goals in the first
minute of play. Both goals were
assisted by Chris Stewart and Mike
Salverda. Late in the first period
Walpole replied with a goal of their
own.
Blyth started out fast with three
goals early in the second period.
Chris Stewart scored twice with
assists going to Mike Salverda,
Brad Anderson and Chad Haggitt.
Jason Rutledge also scored assist
ed by Greg Toll.
Walpole scored at 7:41 of the
period but Blyth replied quickly to
maintain their lead. Mike Salverda
scored assisted by Brad Anderson
and Jason Rutledge. The score
after two periods of play was Blyth
6 - Walpole 2.
Walpole scored early in the third
to come close but Blyth never let up
and scored twice in the period to
end the game on top of Walpole by
an 8 - 3 margin.
Brad Anderson scored assisted
by Ben Craig and Chris Steawrt
and Ben Craig finished the scoring
assisted by Jason Rutledge and
Jason McDougall.
STORM-STAYED
Due to the bad weather we
decided to stay overnight. The
people of Walpole were excellent
hosts. They had two hunting lodges
which they opened to us and
supplied us with blankets and food.
The people of Walpole showed
what good neighbours are.
The next day at 1:30 Blyth played
Walpole for game three of the
series. Blyth opened the game with
a three goal lead in the first period
before Walpole scored their first
goal with 30 seconds left in the first
period.
Jason Rutledge scored first from
Rob Johnson. Chad Haggitt scored
with assists going to Chris Stewart
and Brad Anderson. Brad Ander
son notched the three assisted by
Mike Salverda and Chris Stewart.
The Walpole team could not get
the puck past Blyth’s strong de
fense for the rest of the game.
Blyth scored one more goal in the
second period and three times in
the third to win the game 7-1 and
lead the series two games to one.
three, 7 to 1.
Games four and five will be
Brad Anderson from Chad Haggitt
and Darryl Shannon.
The entire Blyth team put out. a played in Blyth Saturday, March 3
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Goals came from Chris Stewart
from Brad Anderson; Brad Alder
son unassisted; Jason Rutledge
from Ben Craig and Rob Johnston;at 12:30
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Champs
Blyth Atoms received their WOAA championship trophy last week as they prepared to continue their
questfor theAII-Ontariocrown. Membersof thechampionshipteamare (front row, left to right) Brad
Anderson, Chris Stewart, Jason McDougall, Chris Bromley, Jason Rutledge, Wesley Wilson, Chad
Haggitt; (second row) Frederick Datema, Ben Craig, Mike Salverda, Robbie Johnston, Greg Toll and
Darryl Shannon. Coaches are (rear) Ralph Datema, Wayne McDougall and Terry Rutledge.
Blyth Novices
lead
Huron Park
The Blyth Novice team skated
away with an easy 10-1 win
Thursday to start their best of five
series in their second round of the
WOAA novice playdowns.
Jeff Cowan scored early in this
game and Blyth never looked back.
Darryl Bromley led the scoring
parade with a hat-trick and one
assist. Amanda Anderson racked
up five points with two goals and
three assists. Michael Courtney
scored twice and assisted on two,
with linemate Michael Haggitt
picking up two goals and one
assist. Chris Carter helped out on
two goals and Jerimiah Hamm and
Jeff Johnston each picked up one
assist.
Scott Bromley had an easy night
between the pipes allowing one
goal, as Blyth out-shot Huron Park
35 - 5.
BLYTH 3 - HURON PARK 1
Game two was played the follow
ing night in Huron Park and Blyth
found this game much tougher to
win. The play went end to end but
strong goaltending at both ends
kept the puck out. Scott Bromley
did the job for Blyth.
Jeff Cowan got the game’s first
goal early in the second on an
unassisted effort giving Blyth the
1-0 lead. Darryl Bromley put Blyth
up 2-0 minutes later on a shot to the
corner set up by Jeff Cowan and
Amanda Anderson. Blyth sealed
the win with 1:06 left when
Amanda Anderson found an open
ing, scoring on a set up by Jeff
Cowan.
Huron Park ended the game with
a goal with only 17 seconds left.
The third game in this series will
be played in Huron Park Wednes
day, February 28 at 7 p.m. Game
four, if necessary, will be played in
Blyth, Thursday, March 1 at 7 p.m.
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