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The Times Advocate, 2008-08-13, Page 2020 SPORTS Times–Advocate Wednesday, August 13, 2008 Zurich Mites are tournament 'A' champions MITCHELL — Thanks to the determination of a young team, the sixth rated Zurich Girls Mite team won the 'A' championship in the Mitchell hosted tournament Aug. 8-9. Friday night, Zurich beat third place St. Marys 12-4 to advance to the 'A' semifinals. On Saturday afternoon, Zurich edged second place Mitchell 6-5 to advance to the final against fourth rated Sebringville. The game was delayed due to rain in the bottom of the second inning with Sebringville leading 3- 0. After rain subsided, the final game was finished in Mitchell early Sunday evening, where Zurich took back control and won the 'A' Championship with the final score of 6-4. The Zurich Girls Mite team, coaches and parents thank the Mitchell tournament conveners for a well organized and hosted event. Lawn Dru °l n Tournament Exeter hosted a Men's Pairs Tournament on Wed., Aug. 6. Teams participated from Seaforth, Goderich, Woodstock, London, Mitchell, Sarnia, Kitchener and Exeter. 1. London Elmwood 3W49 2. Mitchell 3W48+6 3. Seaforth 2W47 4. Heritage 2W45 5. Exeter's Peter McFalls - Jeff Mason 2W44 Winning weekend —The Zurich Mite girls captured the 'A' championship at a tournament hosted in Mitchell over the weekend.The team is front from left: Raven Blyde, Shelby Heywood, Kirsten Brintnell, Kathleen Gregus, Kiley Pincombe and Shay Durand. Middle: Emily DePaepe, Jenna Schade, Lauren Robinson, Emma Smallman and Julienne Geoffrey. Back: coaches Stu Blyde, Doug Schade and Fred Gregus.Absent is player Kara McBride. (photo/submitted) Crediton Mites wrap up successful baseball season CREDITON — I want to say thanks to the kids of the Crediton Mites Minor Baseball Team for a great season of baseball. You played a fantastic tourna- ment and although we came up short in the semifinals against a team who only lost one game all year all of you showed tremen- dous heart and determination. Mitchel Sutherland, I'm impressed how quickly you adapted to switching from a right handed batter to a left. Rikki-Lee Skinner, your speed running the bases was unparal- leled. Jesse Simpson, you are every coaches dream...reliable, dependable, expendable...and a "thank you Gary" after every practice and game. I'm impressed! And Donovan Brewer... Wow, what can I say? Fantastic sea- son buddy! You only got out once the whole year...and how many home runs? I lost track! I could go on and on naming each of you for the great things you did to contribute to such a successful season. I enjoyed coaching each and every one of you. I also want to thank Joan Ryan and Audrey Bergsma for orga- nizing and running the conces- sion booth the entire day. Thanks to the parents who were very supportive and fun to work with. Lori Dean and Scott Simpson...thank you so much for your help in coaching. I could not have done it without you. And finally, congratulations goes out to both Winthrop teams (Winthrop -1 who won the 'A' championship side) and Winthrop -2, who went the entire season without winning a single game, took home the 'B' championship side. Great work guys! Article submitted by Gary Hartman Weekly minor soccer league scores U7 Gold This weeks game against the green team was another well played match. All the hard work and practice over the summer is paying off. Kobe's passing skills were clear as he completed a super one to Nathan that resulted in a goal. Conner and Kennedy made a tough defensive pair that turned away many a rush. Alexis was incredible in goal with a couple of out of this world saves. Vanessa demonstrated great speed and passing ability to keep the ball moving. Katie's hard work and accurate kicks to her teammates were awesome. Goals by Nathan, Kennedy, Alexis and Vanessa helped us to win the match. Great job Gold team, you have really come a long way in your passing and soccer skills over the past few months. Go Gold! U7 Blue The team ended the season on a strong note Wednesday night against a feisty purple team. Hanna Tait was the top scorer with five goals, a career record. Peter Frielink had another excellent game scoring several times as well. Congratulations to Ben Prins for scoring his first goal of the season. Emma Dietrich attacked the purple net time after time. Lexi Szabo also scored a goal and made several key passes during the game to assist some goals. Dylan Kints was a man on a mission. He was a key defender and made several runs with the ball and gained an assist. Milian Reiger played the best game of the season. She was shielding the ball on defense and scored her first goal. Great work!! U7 Red Red versus Blue Tanner tried to fend off a strong blue squad with three great saves in a row but the Red Team still came out with the loss. Dean and Kurt were strong on defense as there was a lot of intense Red end action. Logan was showing his stuff once again with the fancy footwork. Red versus Purple Red had two fierce forward lines this week and were unstoppable. Red goals were scored by Kyle, Kurt, Logan and Tanner. Nice communication and passing. Despite having a small squad, Purple made a huge effort. Red versus Gold This was the best showing by the entire Red team this season. "The JJs" (Jacqueline and Jillian) and Taylor really made efforts to get the ball away from Gold. Cormick came with his game face on and was using big kicks to clear the ball out of the Red end. Tanner and Kurt put on a lot of miles and with some help from AJ, Paiton and Dean, final- ly both got one past Gold. Jack, Kyle and Logan kept the goal well protected. It was a closely matched game. Red versus Green July 31 What a way to wrap up the season. Logan and Tanner each came out with hat tricks and Kyle was just behind them with two goals. Jack, AJ and Kurt helped bring Red to victory as well. Dean was in position many times to score and helped set up his team- mates with some great passes. Taylor just missed out on his opportunity for a goal but put forth his best effort of the sea- son. Cormick was our starting goalie and did a super job. Jack and Logan took over and made some big saves. You have all improved dra- matically and this game proved it. U11 Girls Aug. 7 South Huron Lightning 1 versus South Huron Thunder 1 Great game by both evenly matched teams. Each team having their share of the ball having to defend and attack for good periods of the game. With the game tied 0-0 at half time, the Lightning struck first in the second -half with a well taken goal by Danielle Smith's first goal of the year. Thunder rumbled back and Kasie Dasilva tied the game with a hard shot from just inside the penalty box. Good luck to both teams in their Challenge Cup quest. U13 Aug. 6 South Huron's U13 girls played an exciting home game against Strathroy. The girls played strong defence keeping the play in the opposing end for most of the game as well as having many shots on net. The game ended in a tie with a score of 0-0. Good job girls, in dominating the game!! U13 Boys South Huron 0 North Middlesex #1 2 Some heroic second half goal - keeping from Robbie Anderson kept us in the game. Not our best performance of the season and we learned if we do not shoot we will never score.