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Eagles reach semis of consolation
The St. Anne’s Eagles reached the semi-finals of the
consolation round of the playofts of the OFSAA AA
volleyball championships held last week.
The 20-team provincial championship was hosted by
St. Anne’s of Clinton and the Goderich District
Collegiate Institute Vikings. Two teams represented the
WOSSAA conference — host St. Anne’s which was
seeded 17th and the F. E. Madill Secondary School
Mustangs of Wingham, which was seeded 14th.
In the round-robin portion of the tourney, the Eagles
won matches. St. Anne’s defeated ninth-seed Clarke
High School of Newcastle, 25-20, 14-25 and 15-6 and
defeated 16th-seed Saugeen District Secondary School
of Port Elgin in two straight, 25-22 and 25-17.
The Eagles lost to the number one seed, Francis
Libermann Collegiate High School of Scarborough 19-
25 and 14-25 and also fell to eighth-seed Ecole Sec-
ondaire Franco-Cite of Ottawa, 21-25 and 21-25.
In the quarter-finals of the consolation round, the
Eagles went up against lOth-seed Malvern Collegiate
Institute of Toronto and won 26-24, 25-27 and 15-12 to
advance to the semi-final against 12th seed Renfrew
Collegiate Institute and were defeated, 14-25 and 17-25.
Also, in the quarter-final, Renfrew defeated 19th-seed
Timiskaming 25-23 and 25-15, third-seed Pene-
tanguishene Secondary School defeated 13th-seed
Stouffville District Secondary School 25-13 and 25-14
and 18th seed Lester B. Pearson High School of Bur
lington defeated Clarke High School 25-22, 17-25 and
Blyth Atom girls have busy weekend
The Blyth Atom Girls had a very busy weekend of
hockey.
They headed over to Wingham on Saturday and met up
with the PeeWee team. The girls had a great game with
Rebecca Chalmers, Alisha Middegaal, Lauren Cronin
and Caroline McDowell all skating hard. Courtney
Middegaal, Lauren Cronin and Caroline McDowell all
skating hard.
Courtney Middegaal had some very close scoring
opportunities, while Mikayla Middegaal had her very
first penalty.
Blyth Local League Atoms host BCH
A St. Anne’s Eagles’ player makes a return during round
robin play against Clarke High School from Newcastle. The
Eagles won the match in three games and reached the
semi-finals of the consolation side before being eliminated.
Wingham’s F. E. Madill Secondary School also competed
in the OFSAA AA girls’ volleyball championship. (Jim Brown
photo)
On March 7 Blyth Atom Local League hosted BCH.
Blyth started the scoring off in the first period with
Cody K. and Steven Ellis each recording an unassisted
goal.
In the second period Ellis scored twice more, with the
assists going to Caroline McDowell and Nathan Verburg.
In the third period Laura Higgins sent the puck to Cody
K. for another goal for Blyth. To finish off the third
period Ellis scored another goal for Blyth, with the assist
15-9.
Pearson upset Penetanguishene 25-18 and 25-21 in the
semi-final to go up against Renfrew in the final. In the
consolation championship, Pearson defeated Renfrew
28-30, 25-19 and 15-9.
Madill lost out in three games to Penetanguishene.
After winning game one, 25-20, the Mustangs dropped
the next two, 16-25 and 5-15. They also lost in three
games to Timiskaming, 25-19, 20-25 and 13-15.
The Wingham high school also lost two straight to
sixth-seed Sir James Dunn Collegiate and Vocational
School of Sault Ste. Marie, 16-25 and 20-25; and to
llth-seed Governor Simcoe Secondary School of St.
Catharines, 11-25 and 22-25.
On the championship side, the number one seed, Lib
ermann met up with the second seed Chippewa
Secondary School from North Bay, with the top-seed
prevailing, 25-19, 25-20 and 25-21.
In the quarter-final round, Libermann defeated
seventh-seed Parkside High School of Dundas 25-21 and
25-19, Chippewa downed Franco-Cite 25-23 and 25-18,
fourth-seed Belle River District High School got past
Governor Simcoe 25-i8 and 25-15, and Sir James Dunn
defeated fifth-seed Hillcrest High School of Thunder
Bay 25-20 and 25-19.
In the semi-finals, Francis Libermann downed Belle
River 25-19 and 26-24 and Chippewa beat Sir James
Dunn 29-27 and 25-18. Belle River won the bronze
medal by getting past Sir James Dunn, 25-19 and 25-20
Jeanette Plaetzer, Chloe Middegaal, and Justine Reid
did a great job on defence and Laura Higgins got a
chance to play both forward and defence. Heidi Raynard
scored two goals for Blyth with a final score of 3-2 for
Wingham.
Jessie Walton was solid in net.
On Sunday the girls had a home game against Saugeen
Shores that didn’t go as well as the previous day. This
ended in a 6-1 loss with Shelsie Popp scoring for Blyth.
The girls’ next game was in Blyth on Tuesday at 7:30
p.m.
going to McDowell.
Kennan MacDonald enjoyed a shutout game, with the
final score being 6-0 for Blyth.
Also instrumental in this great game were Nick
Brandon-Caldwell, Jason Meier, Wes Thompson, Heidi
Raynard and Ronnie Vercruyssen.
The Blyth Atom Local League has been coached this
season by Ron McDowell and Glen Raynard, with Alice
McDowell as trainer.
Ironmen hold 2-1 series lead
If the first three games are any indication the final series of the Western
Junior C Hockey League may be going the full seven games.
After battling their way to a 3-0 decision in game one of the best four-of-
seven series at the North Huron Wescast Community Complex on Friday
evening, the Wingham Ironmen were handed a 4-2 setback by the Kincardine
Bulldogs in game two, played Sunday afternoon at the Davidson Centre.
The Ironmen scored a 3-1 decision on Monday at the complex to take a
two games to one lead in the series.
Game four is played tonight, Thursday, at 7:30 p.m. in Kincardine, with
game five going Saturday in Wingham, beginning at 8 p.m. Game six, if
necessary, will go Monday in Kincardine at 8 p.m. and a seventh and
deciding game will be played March 23 at 8:30 p.m. at the complex in
Wingham.
Matt Hill did all the scoring for Wingham in game one, with Cole Stewart
of Bly th assisting on two of the three goals. Zack O’Krafka also picked up a
pair of assists.
Both Joel Hemingway of Brussels and Stewart said on Friday evening,
following their 3-p victory, that it was going to be a long hard-fought series.
"All the games are going to be close and low scoring,” stated Hemingway.
“This is going to be a tough physical series.”
He noted that the Bulldogs gave the Ironmen a game on Friday, but the
Ironmen had a solid defence and the forwards were working hard.
“This was the type of game I expect from Kincardine,” said Stewart after
Friday’s contest. “It’s going to be like this the whole series.”
He was not surprised at Hill getting all three Wingham goals, as Stewart
said he was a good player.
After scoring at 1:11 of period one, Hill added two more goals in the third
period, one at 14:47 and then an empty-netter at 19:46.
In the sixth minute of play in the third period, Hill rang a shot off the
crossbar. But, he wasn’t the only Ironman to hit metal. With Matt McCann
serving a four-minute cross-checking infraction, penalty-killer Matt
MacPhee got a break-away and hit the post.
Jason Blinkhom recorded the shutout in the Wingham net.
The Ironmen took a 1-0 lead on the Bulldogs in the first period on a goal
by O’Krafka, just 36 seconds into the game. Hill received the assist.
Hill tallied the second Wingham goal, at 12:02 of period three with help
from Travis Fowlie and O’Krafka.
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