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It was a contest between neighbours as the Blyth PeeWee Reps took on their counterparts
from Brussels at the BMG arena on Friday night. (Vicky Bremner photo)
Brussels Novices win A
ST. ANNE'S CATHOLIC
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Sports
Blyth loses close one
Dec. 17 Christmas came early to
the Brussels Novice team. They had
the opportunity to play at the John
Labatt Centre. Reece McArter, and
Hayden TenPas had the chance to
warm up with the London Knights.
It was a great night and all, the kids
will have a memory to last a
lifetime. Thanks go to the Waechter
family.
Brussels Novices had their work
cut out for them over the holidays.
They played Blyth three times and it
was great hockey. Dec. 23 Brussels
won 4-3 and on Dec. 29 they played
'them again and Brussels came out
on top 7-2.
On Dec. 30 Brussels played at
home against Harriston. It ended in a
tie.
The new year started out -with
another game against Blyth.
Brussels played hard, but it wasn't
their night as they lost 5-3.
Brussels played in the Lucknow
tournament on Jan. 7. The first game
was against Clifford. Brussels
played well.
After a well-deserved Christmas
break, the Brussels Tykes played
against the Blyth Its in Brussels
Saturday, Jan. 7.
Seth Nichol of Brussels, dressed
in his buddy's goalie equipment, was
ready for action. After six minutes of
play back and forth, Owen Webster
of Blyth scored the first goal of the
game.
Derrick Waechter and Nic Zwep
of Brussels worked together to get
the puck down in the Blyth end
where their teammate Logan
Kellington made a great shot and
evened the score.
Blyth was quick to retaliate, but
Nichol saved the shots. At the end of
the first period, Blyth's Dawson
Coultes slipped one past the
Brussels goalie to take a 2-1 lead.
Delayna Smith of Brussels started
out in centre at the beginning of the
second period and made a great pass
to Tiffany Dietner who passed to
Mitchell Kellington started the
scoring with Tim Waechter assisting.
Ben Hruska scored the second with
Kellington helping out. Then
Hayden TenPas pocketed two with
Lexi Smith having a great set up for
both.
Kai Heimstra took his turn
whisking two by the Clifford goalie,
with Logan Clark and Jason Baxter
there to help out.
Lastly, Wyatt Ducharme put in a
quick one making the score 7-0.
Matt McNichol got his first
shutout in net.
The second game was against
Ripley.
Brussels went out with great
determination and never let down for
a minute. They won 7-1. Goals were
scored by Heimstra with a hattrick,
Ducharme with a pair, TenPas and
Waechter.
The defence played a great game.
McArter, Scott Baan, Colton
Hastings and Scott Dolmage all got
an assist.
Taylor Higgins put all the fans and
Wyatt Machan down at the Blyth
end.
Machan, Austin Johnston, and
Dawson Peachy -managed to keep
the action at the Blyth end with
several shots on net, but the Blyth
goalie managed to save them.
At the very end of the second
period, Kellington of Brussels
slipped one past the Blyth goalie to
take the game into the third at 2-2.
Blyth's Colton Rodger slapped
one in early in the third, making it 3-
2.
Emily Mitchell had a break away,
but the Blyth defence stopped her
attempt to take the lead.
Blyth player Brandon Marshall
put two more goals in the Brussels
net at the end of the third giving his
team a 5-3 victory.
Brussels is playing at the Bruce
Williams Memorial Fun Days this
weekend with three games
scheduled.
the coaches on the edge of their seats
with two close calls at the net.
Now with the pressure on Brussels
was going for the A against. Minto
(Harriston).
The game started with Brussels
scoring first with Hayden TenPas
and Smith helping out.
Waechter scored a hattrick with
Kellington setting them up.
Heimstra got two nice ones with
Clark and Jason Baxter assisting.
Hruska and Ducharme each put one
in.
Minto turned on the heat in the
third period scoring four.
Brussels wasn't done however as
TenPas then Kellington scored.
Minto came out again scoring
three more to finish the game with a
score of 9-7 for Brussels.
McNichol played well and
won himself a best overall goalie
trophy. Mitchell Kellington won
MVP.
Coaches are Brian TenPas, Kevin
Kellington, Bob Hruska and Ken
Higgins.
Blyth hosted Elma Logan on Jan.
8. A good game was played by all.
Coultes scored the lone goal for
Blyth. Shelby Higgins played a great
game in net for Blyth.
Curling results
for first draw
The winners of the Brussels
Curling Club's first draw of the
season are: first, 52 points, skip
Doug Dale; vice Pauline Patterson;
second Pegg-3, Aitchison; lead Laurie
Campbell; second, 51 points, skip
Steve Steiss; vice Ruth Bauer;
second Catherine Thomet; lead
Brian Warwick; third, 38 points, 44
rocks scored, skip Ernie Lewington;
vice Dona Knight; second, Brenda
McIntosh; lead Murray Hoover;
fourth, 38 points, 42 rocks scored,
skip Orval Bauer; vice Douwa Top;
second Sheila Cousins; lead Debbie
Campbell.
There were mixed results for the
Blyth Novice Reps as they finished
the 2005 games.
On Dec. 23' the squad hosted
trussels and were edged 3-2. Curtis
Raynard scored both Blyth goals
with Josh VanSoest assisting on the
first.
Blyth was leading 2-0 until the
end of the second period when
Brussels pulled within one. Then
while thwarting any further attempts
on their own net, the visitors bulged
the twine twice in the final period to
take the game.
Dalton Carey performed well in
goal for Blyth.
On Dec. 27 the Blyth team
travelled to Clifford and glided to a
6-0 win.
Raynard put Blyth on the board
with an unassisted goal late in the
first.
Dustin Pennington opened the
second period scoring. Two minutes
later VanSoest skated in to score off
a set up from Raynard. Two quick
shots by Pennington netted him a
hattrick before the buzzer.
The score remained unchanged
until the last three minutes of the
third when Raynard lit the light for
the final time.
On Dec. 29 Raynard repeated his
performance against Brussels in
Blyth by scoring the hosts' only two
goals of the game. Assists went to
Pennington and Connor Rodger.
The Brussels players were on their
game and trounced the home team 7-
2.
On Jan. 5 the Novices took on
Brussels in an exciting,, action-
packed game.
The first goal was scored
unassisted by Pennington, followed
by, two more from Pennington, one
assisted by Brendan Hallahan and
one assisted by Plunkett bringing
the score to 3-0 at the end of the
first.
The Blyth Atom Girls hockey
team travelled to Walkerton on
Sunday, Jan. 8.
Kayla Dale opened the scoring at
4:34 of the first period with an
unassisted goal.
Walkerton battled back to score
with just over a minute left in the
first.
Blyth's defence of Justine Reid,
Kelsey Kerr and Laura Higgins was
successful at keeping Walkerton's
scoring chances to a minimum.
-Forwards Courtney Middegaal,
Nicole Middegaal, Jordan Teed,
MacKenzie McGavin and Ashley
Higgins worked hard the whole
game never giving up.
Shelsie Popp had unassisted goals
in each of the second and third
Brussels came back in the second
with two goals but Raynard
wrangled one into the net with the
help of Ashley Higgins and Autumn
Wightman.
The third period started off with
lots of action. Pennington scored
with an assist from teammate
VanSoest. Brussels was able to score
with only 2:45 left in the game but it
wasn't enough to beat the Novices
who finished with a 5-3 victory.
On Jan. 7 the Novices played three
games at the Lucknow tournament.
Game one against Minto ended with
a 3-0 defeat.
Facing the home team of Lucknow
in game two didn't seem to
intimidate the Novices as they sailed
into a 9-1 victory.
Two goals were scored in the first
period by Pennington. The first was
assisted by Treble and Hallahan and
the second was assisted by Coultes.
The second period had five points
scored. The first was by Wightman,
assisted by Pennington, tile second
unassisted by Pennington, the third
by Dylan Walton, assiswd by
Pennington, the third by
Pennington, assisted by Walton and
Nesbitt and the final by Raynard
assisted by Walton and Nesbitt
bringing the score to 7-1.
The third period brought in two
more goals, one by Raynard,
assisted by Treble and Hallahan and
the second by Pennington, assisted
by Walton and Nesbitt.
As the visiting team once again,
Blyth took on Wingham at their final
game of the tournament. Wingham
scored in the first and although
Pennington managed a goal assisted
by Raynard and Plunkett in the
second, Wingham finished
victorious with a score of 3-1.
Goalie Dalton Carey won the
trophy for most valuable player and
Blyth was B runner up in the
tournament.
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periods.
Rebecca Chalmers was between
the pipes making many excellent
saves.
The final score was 3-1 for Blyth.
The coaching staff say they were
extremely proud of how the team
played.
Blyth Tykes battle Brussels
Atom Girls win 3