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Lightning ends year with tournament
July 17 the Blyth Lightning U-I3
played against the Seaforth
Centurions in Seaforth.
Tyson Sjaarda received the first
goal of the night, with Jory Lynn
Uyl. Jessica Nethery, and Brittany
Bos getting the assists. Seven
minutes after that. Uyl scored and
Bos got the assist.
Seaforth came back with two goals
of their own. making the score at the
end of the first half 2-2.
Seaforth got on the board early in
the second half, getting three goals,
but Sjaarda was not finished. He
earned another goal, along with
assists from Uyl, Bos, and Jordan
Good. Blyth had several chances to
score, but the ball did not want to co
operate.
The final score was 5-3 for
Seaforth.
Netkeeper for Blyth was Blaine
Hallahan.
The week of July 22 - 26 saw the
Lightning Mosquitos play their year-
end tournament in Lucknow.
Blyth played their first game
against the Clinton Crushers.
Sjaarda scored 10 minutes into the
game with Jamie Parish getting the
assist. Clinton got their first goal, 15
minutes later.
Ten minutes into the second half,
Tony Bean scored for Blyth,
unassisted. Bean kicked the ball
from the comer and it bounced off a
Clinton player and into the net. He
scored again, but the goal was called
off because a Blyth player was off
side.
Clinton came back and scored
making it a 2-2 tie. But the Lightning
squad was not discouraged. Parish
scored with an assist going to
Uyl.
This 3-2 win against Clinton put
the Lightning into the A division of
the tournament. Good was the
netkeeper for game one.
The second game of the
tournament saw the Lightning play
against Wingham Selects. Blyth
scored the only goal in the first half.
Uyl put the ball into the Wingham
net, with an assist from Sjaarda.
In the second half, the Lightning
again was to receive the only goal,
Uyl scored, with Bean getting the
assist.
In net for the Lightning was
Jordan Good making this his fourth
shutout game of the season.
The Lightning advanced to game
three.
On July 25 the third game was
played against the Seaforth
Centuriens. This game brought both
teams into the semi-final game.
Seaforth got on the board first, but
Blyth came back with a goal of their
own.
Bean scored, with the assist going
to Daniel Bouman. Seaforth came
back, getting five goals before Blyth
got another. Bean received this goal,
unassisted.
Blyth lost 6-2, thus eliminating
them from the tournament. “The
Blyth Mosquito Lightning squad
should be very proud of their
season,” said Coach Peter and Coach
Hillie.
They thank each player for their
dedication to the team, their hard
work, for sacrificing their bodies
while getting knocked around, for
playing positions that didn’t want to
be played and for “just being a great
bunch of kids.”
Thomas accepts coaching position out west
By Bonnie Gropp
Citizen editor
A Brussels man is the new goalie
instructor for the Junior B Airdrie
Thunder in Alberta.
Jamie Thomas, the 22-year-old
son of Bob and Debbie, came up
through the Brussels Minor Hockey
system and was a goalie for the now
defunct Brussels Jr. C Bulls. In his
minor hockey days he was a
recipient of the Don Higgins
Memorial Trophy for most
outstanding goalie.
Thomas also was between the
pipes for two years with the AAA
Bantam team out of Durham and for
two years with the AAA Midgets in
Cambridge.
For the past two summers he has
“run” a AAA Midget and has also
been the first goalie instructor in
Wingham for the Jr. C Ironmen.
“’’The goalies like this,” said
Debbie. “It’s something Jamie would
have loved to have had when he was
playing.”
Noting that Thomas has helped
with hockey schools all over the
province, Debbie said he has made
many contacts in the sport
throughout the years. “He is talking
to people all the time. You get
connected.”
Some of those connections have
nsen to prominence. “Some kids he
played with have gone on to the
NHL,” said Debbie. One, for
example is Chris Neil, now playing
with the Ottawa Senators.
His connections, she believes, got
him on to the Alberta position. “I
don’t really know how it came
about,” said Debbie, “but I know he
was offered the position after
speaking to someone on the phone.”
Thomas left Aug. 27 with plans to
tour, visit and do some fishing
enroute. He is being accompanied by
world level curler John Morris and
curler Paul Moffat, who are
establishing a rink out west.
Thomas, a graduate of Wilfrid
Laurier’s computer science program
plans to look for other employment
once he arrives, said his mother.
“The main reason he took this was
because he wants to take his
advanced coaching. It’s not available
here. The facility is there to do this
while working with a Jr. B club.”
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Hedley’s Trout Farm near Belgrave. Some 50 visitors on a mystery bus tour fed the catfish
and trout, walked the nature trail and tasted fresh fried fish as well as enjoying the flowers at
Hedley’s last Thursday. Dave Hedley said, “Sometimes I think we don’t do enough to let
people know how much North Huron has to offer visitors.” (Sandra Johnstone photo)
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The Wingham Ironmen
Hockey School Organization
Would like to express their gratitude to all the participants,
parents of the participants, sponsors (Subway), head-ice
instructors, Ironmen players, group leaders and helpers, off-ice
instructors North Huron Wescast Community Complex staff
including pool and fitness centre and any others that we have
not mentioned in making our 2nd annual hockey school a great
success. Without all the above great volunteers, we would not
be able to host and run a successful hockey school. We have
received numerous positive comments along with some
suggestions on how to improve our school. We are already
planning for 2004 school running from August 9, 2004 for 2
weeks with 2 separate sessions per week. Also check out the
Ironmen web page www.winghamironmen.com for some photos
of this year's hockey school and information on the 2004 school
will be available on the site soon.
Again many thanks.
Dennis Knox & Doug Neil
Co-Administrators
Wingham Ironmen Hockey School