The Citizen, 2004-01-08, Page 8Blocking the shot
A defence player from the Blyth PeeWee team is ready for
his Elma Logan opponent to take a shot on net during their
game on Jan. 4. (Elyse DeBruyn photo)
Black Buzzards
beat Palmerston
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PAGE 8. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 2004.
Snorts
Crusaders lose to Wildcats
The Blyth PeeWee Black
Buzzards broomball team took on
Palmerston Saturday at the Blyth
arena.
Blyth came out strong on the first
shift, working the ball deep into
Palmerston 's end. Kristin
VanGaalan passed to Brent Drost
who fired the ball into net for the
first goal.
The tans were treated to lots of
end-to-end action. Blyth's goalie,
Courtney Bos had a strong
performance in net, keeping
Palmerston oft* the scoreboard.
It was a 10-5 loss for the Brussels
Tykes when they hosted BCH 1 Dec.
27. •
Anthony Vader. scored his first of
the season to put Brussels on the
scoreboard. Sarah Dillon picked up
the assist.
BCH took a 3-1 lead into the
second, then scored three more, but
some solid play by the hosts kept
them in the game. Brock McLean
Brussels Curling Club was
informed that it took first prize at the
Santa Claus Parade. Organizers of
the entry were Gary Pipe, Nora
Stephenson, Mike Alexander
(tractor and wagon) and Paul Elliott
lgarage)..
-Winners of the Brussels Curling
Club's November and December
draw were: first. Steve Steiss, 43
In the second period Drost struck
again.
After breaking up the play at the
red line, he raced in on a breakaway
and put the ball deep in the net.
On his next shift, Drost picked the
ball up out of a scramble after a
faceoff in Blyth's end. _
He slipped by two defense players
into open ice for a breakaway on the
Palmerston net, and made no
mistakes putting the ball past the
goalie.
The win puts the Buzzards' record
at two and two.
with two, one unassisted, and
Mitchell Kellington kept the point-
spread at two. Matt McNichol,
Kellington and Colton Hastings
were credited with assists.
The wheels came off in the third,
however, with BCH bulging the
twine . four more times, while
holding their hosts to one. Brody
TenPas got the goal for Brussels,
assisted by Kellington.
points; Murray Pepper,' Leanne
Konarski, Jason Konarski; se-
cond, John Dorsch, 42 points,
Pauline Patterson, Marten Thomet,
Shane _ Gibstin; third. Ernie
Lewington, 36 points, Dona
Knight, Jan Deitner, Pete Exel;
fourth, Gary Pipe, 35 points, Ken
Jones, Janet Koehler, Catrina
Josling.
The Brussels Crusaders travelled
to Moukton on Friday night to play
the Wildcats.
Tyler Armstrong would open the
scoring with help from Ryan
Muirhead as the visiting team got off
to a good start halfway through the
first period.
Monkton would tie it early in the
second before Tyler Stewart would
regain the lead for Brussels with
help from Derek Cherrey and Brian
McNichol.
Monkton would tie it at two apiece
late in the second and this would set
the stage for a dramatic finish.
Monkton made it 3-2 in the early
part of the third, then jumped up by
two with roughly five minutes
remaining in regulation,
Brussels clawed back to make it 4-
3 as Chad McCallum scored the
goal with help from Cherrey and
Clint Fischer. However this would
be the final score in what proved to
be a hard loss to swallow.
Pre--Tykes as they played in Listowel
on Saturday, Jan. 3.
Andrew Patton scored the. first
goal unassisted at four minutes into
the first period. Kai Heimstra scored
right after him, then Patton scored
his second goal at the 10-minute
mark., Tim Waechter scored his first
goal of the game with six minutes
left on the clock.
_ Faith Sebastian tried to score her
first goal, but Listowel took the puck
to score -against goalie Scott
Dolmage. With only six seconds left
in the first period, Lexi Smith scored.
her first of the game, assisted by
Waechter.
Heimstra scored two more goals
early in the second period, then
Waechter scored two. unassisted. He
was then assisted by Smith for- two
more goals.
Listowel took the puck at the end
of the second period to score their
second of the game.
-In the third period, it was a clean
sweep for Brussels, with Waechter
scoring three; Smith, two; Heimstra,
two and Patton, one.- Waechter
picked up two assists, and Smith
picked up one asMst in the third.
The final score was 18-2 for
Brussels.
The next game is in. Brussels on
Saturday night the team hosted the
Lucknow Lancers and the Lancers
showed the Crusaders why they are
near the top of the league using
speed and skill enmute to a 6-2
victory.
The Brussels goals were-scored by
Fischer and Mark Wilson. Assists
were earned by Stewart and Dave
Lewington.
The team travels to Shelburne on
Saturday night and to Mildmay . on
Sunday afternoon in two pivotal
games as the Crusaders jockey for
playoff position.
Earlier the Brussels Crusaders lost
to the Wingham Spitfires Dec. 23 in
the team's last action before the
Christmas break.
Brussels scored two powerplay
goals in the first 12 minutes of the
opening period. Both goals were
scored by Mike Bromley and
assisted by Mike Haggitt. Muirhead
earned an assist on the second one.
Wingham would make it 3-2 by
game. Unfortunately, Listowel
managed one more in the final
minutes to claim the 5-4 victory.
It was another hattrick for
McClinchey Jan. 2 when the squad
upset a visiting Elma-Logan team.
While the visitors took a quick 2-
0 lead, McClinchey, with an assist
from Campbell brought them within
one before the end of the first
period.
Darcey Cook and Robbie Semple
set up the play for Campiiell in the
second to tie it, then Bernard, with
assists -going to Cook and Cory
Chapman gave Brussels a one-point
lead. McClinchey scored seconds
later and the team took a 4-2 lead
into the third period. Andrew
McDonald picked up the assist on
the McClinchey goal.
Monkton.
the end of the second.
There would be no" more scoring
from that point on with both teams
having many chances to do so. -
During the intermission of the
senior game the Wingham Novices
and Brussels Novices played.
Wingham led after the first half 1-0
and scored four more goals in the
second half for a 5-0 win.
At the WOAA Senior All-Star
game in Tavistock the Crusaders
were to be represented by Bromley
and Brett Fischer. However. Fischer.
sustained an injury and Muirhead
took his place.
Bromley scored a goal and earned
two assists in the contest playing
with Travis McKeag and P.J. Slade
of the Ripley Wolves. Muirhead
played defense with Brad Hayter of
the Wingham Spitfires until a skate
problem .derailed him and he was
forced to exit.
The South team, of which both
players were a part won 16-5.
Continuing to thwart Elma-Logan,
Brussels added to their lead after the
break. Tate Stephenson took his turn
lighting the light, with an assist from
Chapman. Then Mitch Blake set up
McClinchey up for the hattrick to
end the game at 6-2.
Blyth
Bantams
win 4-3
Blyth Bantam Bulldogs played
one exhibition game during the
Christmas break, on Monday, Dec.
29 against Seaforth. The final score
was 4-3 for Blyth.
Scoring for Blyth were Blake
Hesselwood, Curtis Robertson and
Johnathon McDowell. Assists went
to Lee Watkins, two, Trevor
McArter, two and Curtis Robertson.
Scoring for Seaforth were Alex
Murray, James McColl and Chad
VanDyk.
Steiss rink wins draw
Blyth Novices tie Zurich
The Blyth Novices travelled to scored the second goal. Chloe
13ayfield arena Jan. 4 to play Zurich. Middegaal and Caroline McDowell
The result was a 2-2 tie. helped out with assists.
The Bulldogs came out playing Drew Wood played net working.
hard. Nathan Plunkett scored the very hard keeping out many of
first two goals, and Alex Peters Zurich's shots. -
In an outstanding display Brussels
Midget Matt McClinchey notched
six goals in two games in recent
hockey action.
On Dec. 23 the squad lost a close
one in Listowel. After the hosts
scored two, McClinchey responded
quickly bringing his team within
one. Assisting were Chris Bernard
and Steve Ropp.
McClinchey, with help from Nick
Campbell and Pat Rushton scored
again mid-way through the middle
period, only, to see it cancelled
seconds later. Listowel then widened
the margin with two minutes to go`-
before the buzzer.
Campbell skated in for a goal of
his own to begin the third period.
then with .his hattrick McClinchey,
with help from Bernard, tied the
Brussels Pre- Tykes
Tykes lose to BCH trounce Listowel
It was another win for the Brussels Saturday, Jan. 10 at 9 a.m. against
McClinchey scores 6 in 2 games