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Overage Player Recognition Awards. These players are now
finished playing Junior hockey. (Left to right): Marcel Fohkens,
Nate Watson and Tyler McCracken.
Photos courtesy of Doug Cruickshank
Award winners for the Goderich Orr Insurance Flyers Junior C Hockey Club for the 2016/2017 Season. (Left to right): Tyler McCracken,
Top Forward; Nate Watson (goalie), Most Valuable Player; Riley Conners, Future Leadership Award; Tyler Stacey, Top Scorer (won by
Ryan Stulp and accepted by Tyler, his "wing man"); Brad Watson, Top Defenseman Award; Trent Buchanan, Rookie of the Year. (Absent:
Jack Francis, winner of the Heart Award).
Head Coach Dave Errington and General Manager Dan Kerr with
Nate Watson.
The Goderich Onlnsurance Flyers look ahead to the 2017-2018 season
Richard Madge
Special to the Signal Star
While two teams, the Ayr
Centennials and the Port Hope
Panthers, play in the Schmalz
Cup final series to determine
the Provincial Junior Hockey
League champions for 2017,
the Goderich Orr Insurance
Flyers, like all the other
sixty -some Junior "C" hockey
teams in Ontario have to look
ahead to the 2017-18 season.
The Flyers have already held
two April rookie camp skates in
the quest for new players.
The camp attracted over 40
players from a wide range of
area minor hockey systems in
what team General Manager
Dan Kerr described as the
GDCI Vikings soccer results
Kathleen Smith
Goderich Signal Star
Last week, both the Sen-
ior Girls and Senior Boys
soccer teams played in two
matches, one against Strat-
ford Central and another
against host team South
Huron D.H.S.
The Senior Boys team fell
3-0 against home team
South Huron, but managed
to leave the pitch with a 1-0
win over Stratford Central.
Goal -keeper Greg Morning-
star came away with a
shutout.
The Senior Vikings find
themselves in fifth place,
with 6 points. They trail
behind St. Anne (6 points),
Stratford Central (6 points),
South Huron (9 points) and
in first place, St. Michael (12
points).
Last week, the Senior
Girls Vikings continued
their winning streak, by
defeating South Huron 5-0,
with goals going to
Doherty, B. Lewis, Noel,
Reitsma and Lang. The
Senior Girls also managed
to defeat Stratford Central
2-1, seeing goals contrib-
uted by Squire and
Bowman.
most talented pre -season
group he has seen in his ten-
ure with the Flyers.
On Wednesday, May 10, at
7:30 pm, the Flyers will be stag-
ing a prospects exhibition game
at the Maitland Recreation
Centre and the main camp for
the Flyers starts on Saturday,
August 12 at 1 pm at the MRC.
To put the cap on the
The Senior Girls are cur-
rently in first place, with 12
points, with a trailing St.
Michael team with one less
game and 9 points.
For the next two
matches, the Senior Boys
and Senior Girls Vikings
will compete against St.
Anne and St. Michael soc-
cer teams.
The Junior Boys and Girls
soccer teams unfortunately
are not having a similar start
to their season.
The Junior Boys played on
Friday, April 28 at home
against St. Michael and were
defeated 5-0.
2016-17 season, the Flyers
held their end of the year
banquet on April 22.
The banquet featured the
presentation of awards for
last season. The Most Valua-
ble Player Award went to
goaltender Nate Watson. The
Top Defenceman Award
went to Brad Watson.
Ryan Stulp, who had 19
Only having played three
games in the season so far,
the Junior Vikings find
themselves in the second to
last position in the
standings.
In a slightly higher posi-
tion than the boys, the Jun-
ior Girls find their position
at third from last.
The Junior Girls also com-
peted on Friday, April 28,
tying Mitchell 0-0.
The Junior Boys and
Junior Girls soccer teams
compete at home on
Thursday May 4 against
Central Huron and F.E.
Madill next.
goals and 18 assists in 32
games, was the top scorer.
The Most Sportsmanlike
Award went to forward Jack
Francis, while the Leader-
ship Award, as chosen by the
last year players, went to
Riley Connors.
The Rookie of the Year
award went to Goderich
native, defenceman Trent
Buchanan.
Booster Club Service
Awards went to trainer Les
Phillips and Bob Kuno.
General Manager Dan
Kerr says the team is close to
being able to announce the
name of the new head coach
of the team for next season,
but as yet no details are
available.
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The Senior Girls soccer team have continued their winning
streak and are now in first place.