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Huron Expositor, 2007-08-15, Page 12Page 12 The Huron Expositor • August 15, 2007 Celebrity game, auction at Shoot2Score camp to raise funds for kids Susan H u n d e r t m a r k After four years without a sum- mer hockey school, Seaforth's minor hockey players will be once again receiving instruction from professional players during the Shoot2Score camp running next week. With 68 boys and girls enrolled so far, the weeklong day camp at the Seaforth arena is a joint ven- ture of Brian Melady and Dan Wildfong, former Seaforth Centenaire and coach of the CHL's Texas Brahmas. While participants receive on and off -ice training from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Monday to Friday beginning Aug. 20, the week finishes off with a celebrity hockey game and silent auction to raise money for Seaforth• minor hockey. "The celebrities will be playing a bunch of local talent. They want to give back to letes. Instructors also include mem- bers of the Bossier -Shreveport Mudbugs including defenseman Jason Basile and goalie Ken Carroll. Along with the instructors, celebrity players may also include Boyd Devereaux, of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Andy McDonald, of the Anaheim Ducks, Tyler Doig, of the Belleville Bulls and Jimmy Campbell, of the Cambridge Winter Hawks. "We've extended invitations and some have committed barring anything else coming up," says Melady. "Dan and I have been working on the camp for the past seven to eight months and he wanted to have a celebrity game. He was always one of the helpers at the Dave Mcllwain camp," he says of the fact that a celebrity game was always part of the Mcllwain 'They want to give back to their roots - it's their way of thanking the community,'-- Shoot2Score organizer Brian Melady their roots - it's their way of thanking the community," says Melady. "It's also a way to kick off the minor hockey season," says John Steffler, who is helping to organize the event. With Wildfo g - who played hockey for eig years profession- ally with the ossier-Shreveport Mudbugs - le ding the coaching staff, the instructors also include Seaforth alumni Derek Nesbitt, who has played professional hock- ey for two years with the Idaho Steel Heads and Cal O'Reilly, who has played professional hockey one year with the Milwaukee Admirals. Other Seaforth alumni include Mike McLaughlin, who has accept- ed a full hockey scholarship to Northeastern University in Boston, Ryan O'Reilly, a top prospect for the OHL draft and Brian O'Reilly, a local coach who works with Olympic -calibre ath- hockey school which ran for 10 years before ending in 2003. The silent auction will involve mostly hockey -related memorabil- ia such as signed jerseys from Seaforth alumni such as Boyd Devereaux, Rem Murray and Dave Mcllwain. "We got jerseys from all the Seaforth guys and are getting them to sign it," says Steffler. Through Wildfong's connections in the hockey world, a.signed stick and picture of Sidney Crosby and a signed jersey from Corey Perry will also be on offer. For those who aren't hockey fans, tickets for the Blyth Festival and Stratford Festival will also be available to bid on. "We want to make it fun and make it a family event and we're confident the community will sup- port us," says Melady. "It will only get bigger as it See SUMMER, Page 13 Aaron Jacklin photo Derek Mitchell, of Goderich, and Steve Sharpe, of St. Columban go after the ball in a Thursday night game for the U18 boys' year-end play-offs last week. St. Columban U18 boys play well in final playoffs Aaron Jacklin Despite a rocky early U18 soccer season, the St. Columban coached by Tony Arts played well in the playoffs last week, only losing to Clinton 3-0 in the final last weekend. "They're a strong team," he says. "They only lost one game all year and we were the ones that beat them." Arts says there were a lot of ups and downs this season. "We were short of players a lot of the time," he says. "There were two St. Columban teams. We each only had 14 players." Usually a soccer team aims for 16 players. Arts says they won four, lost seven and tied one. "We put it all togeth- er for the playoff tour- nament though," he says. "They worked hard." Arts says they were the underdog team and that the players improved over the sea- son. "That's what you like as a coach," he says. "They improved and they all worked hard. We had to; there are a lot of good teams." The league was divid- ed into two pools, with teams playing against others in their pool to see who would go on. In the playoffs, they beat Lucknow 3-0, lost to one of the Goderich teams 4-2 and beat the second Wingham team 4-0. "That meant we were first in our pool," he says. "In the semi- finals we played the Wingham 1 team and beat them 2-0." That win put them in the finals against Clinton. "We played well," he says. "It's a lot of games in a week." Arts says the players seemed to have fun. "It was a great bunch of kids," he says. "We were probably a younger team versus a lot of the other teams." He says only two of the players he coached this season will be too old to play next year. Despite having a bet- ter regular season overall, the other U18 St. Columban team, which was coached by Carl Bolton, lost to Clinton on Saturday morning. Bolton says the loss put them out of round robin play. They had nine wins, three losses and two ties this season. "It's disappointing," says Bolton. "I thought we had a chance to go all the way but we ran into a hot goaltender." Clinton won 3-1, then went on to win the tournament. "It's the only team we didn't beat all year," he says. Bolton says the St. Columban teams received a "pretty good ,compliment" from one of the officials this sea- son. "We had a referee who referees in other leagues comment that St. Columban teams were the most sports- manlike teams that he had to ref."