Huron Expositor, 2009-04-01, Page 13Sports
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Call them "the Seaforth cotnec-
tion."
The combination of Ray Huether at
centre and Dean Johnston on right
wing of the starting line for the St.
Anne's junior boys' hockey team didn't
leave the competition with much of a
chance as the two -Seaforth players
racked up the points during a tourna-
ment in Stratford March 25.
• Huether, a Grade 9 student and
scoring . leader on the St. Anne's se-
nior team, scored two goals and eight
assists while Johnston, in Grade 10,
scored three goals and four assists in
four games.
Their efforts helped the squad breeze
past the round robin games and into
the final, where they emerged as tour
nament champions.
In the first game, St. Anne's defeat-
ed 'ate 5-1. They :Sarnia Collegiate y faced
Central Huron Secondary School
next, in what head coach Steve Gei- eight games.
ger said was their toughest game. The "As a Grade 9 player, he's just phe-
boys came away with a 3-0 win and nonrenal," Geiger says.
advanced to meet Stratford Central Johnston, who was a relative un -
in the final game of the round robin, known to Geiger and the senior squad
clobbering them 8-0. In the tourna- before the tournament, proved he's got
ment finals, St. Anne's again faced what it takes to bea major contender
Sarnia Collegiate and skated away for a spot on the team next season.' �..yt arra ~'+r�: s' -.;t
with a 5-2 victory. � $�' Seaforth player Kalen Devereaux,
Geiger says while jum�r boys' teams
do not compete against each other in a,
league, they do participate in various.
tournaments throughout the year.
It's a chance for Grade 9 and 10
players to step up their game and im-
press senior team coaches to All their
rosters for the following season. butions Seaforth players made to the
junior tournament.
He says he'd like to register the
team to play in an upcoming tourna-
ment
-
ment in Woodstock on April 1445.
There's been, considerable interest
in the tournament and there . is talk
of expanding it to a third day, Geiger
says.
also on the senior team, scored two
goals and one assist during the tour-
nament.
Grade 10 player Travis Jansen, also
from Seaforth, earned two assists''
"They were leaders, being on .the se=
for team," Geiger said of the contri-
It's also a time .for . $nether and
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-Johnston to shine.`} 4� .
Geiger says the assistant captain
Huether, who earned' eight aa"sists,
was setting up his .teammates more
in this tournament.Inhis
play with. the senior..: squad, wether
netted111ne goals and five assists In
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He says he'll find out this week if
the St. Anne's junior boys' team will
be able to attend. ,
Teams in the tournament- will ,be
asked if they wants to be categorized
in the tougher 'A' division or less com-
petitive
`B' division.
Stratford Central and Sarnia Col- c
legiate have both expressedan inter-
estsn.�i'
in playing in the 'B' division, but
Geiger says he'd like to have his team
compete in the `A' division.
"There will be some London schools
there and it's guaranteed to have some
f tougher competition," Geiger says.
= He says the success of the junior
tournament in Stratford means it's
looking good for the senior team ros-
ter next season.
"We saW guys playing really well
that we didn't know about," he says.
"Even if we don't lose any of our se -
mors, they'll preure the guys for
repots on the team. It's. good for. the
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