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Exeter Petite `BB's Western ringette champions
LONDON — The Exeter & District
Blizzard brought home the Western
Ontario Petite BB Ringette Championship
from the tournament held in London this
past weekend.
The Blizzard, the Huron -Perth's rep
team was scheduled in a double round
robin format, against Talbot Trail rep
Tillsonburg, and North Waterloo rep
team Waterloo.
The locals started Friday off with a 5-1
win over Waterloo in game one, and
shocked Tillsonburg in game two, win-
ning 7-4 in a come from behind effort.
Goaltender Chelsea Brintnell was out-
standing in net for Exeter.
Game 3 was an end-to-end game
against Tillsonburg, that found the
Blizzard scrambling in the last two min-
utes and losing 6-5.
Going into the final game of the round
robin, Exeter needed a win or tie to
secure first place and a bye to the final.
Melanie Smith came up big for the
Blizzard, scoring four of the five Exeter
goals in their 5-1 victory.
The Petite BB championship game was
a fast paced game with Tillsonburg and
Exeter both hungry for the champi-
onship.
The goaltenders both stopped many
great shots in the first 14 minutes of hard
end-to-end play.
Tillsonburg slammed one by Exeter's
goaltender in the final minute of the first
half of the game.
The locals started the second half
strong with Nicole Insley and Alana
Hodgert setting up Smith on the first
Exeter goal.
Two minutes later Smith blasted one
from the freepass into the net.
Exeter couldn't hold back the
Tillsonburg attackers and found them-
selves down 3-2 with four minutes to play
in the game.
Insley managed to equal the score with
1:49 to play on a pass from Hodgert and
Kelly Consitt.
The locals celebration was short, as
Tillsonburg got one in off the post only 24
seconds later.
The play moved into the Tillsonburg
end, with the goaltender on the bench,
Smith charged through the defense and
top-shelfed the equalizer into the net
with seven seconds to go, assisted by
Jordan Brintnell.
In the 15 minutes sudden victory over-
time, both teams managed great scoring
opportunities in the first two shifts.
But 2:23 into OT, Hodgert and Insley
relayed nice passes through to Smith,
and a hard wrist shot found the back of
the net to cap the Locals Championship.
Passing, teamwork, goaltending by
Chelsea Brintnell, and awesome defen-
sive play by Jessica Brock, Emily Govers,
Kelly Consitt, and Jordan Brintnell were
the keys to the Exeter Blizzards success-
ful weekend.
The Exeter and District Blizzard team brought home the Western
BB ringette championship last weekend. Front L -R: Nicole Insley, Brooke Gielen,
Chelsea Brintnell. Middle: Melanie Smith, Miranda Postill, Hilari McBride, Jessica
Brock, coach Michele Hodgert. Back: Manager Pauline Insley,Alana Hodgert, Kelly
Consitt, Emily Govers, Jordan Brintnell and asst. coach Cheryl Montgomery.
(photo/submitted)
Ontario Petite
Triumphant end to difficult season
By Pat Bolen
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF
WEST PALM BEACH — "It was a year anything that
could happen, did happen," was the way Ronnalee
Terry, coach of the Benjamin prep school girls basket-
ball team in West Palm Beach, Florida, described the
year the team had.
Overcoming player losses, personal illness and mov-
ing in the middle of the season Benjamin finally
emerged triumphant with the state championship and
being named coach of the year.
Terry, who is the daughter of
Exeter's Ron and Elaine Bogart, has
coached Benjamin for seven years,
leading them to seven straight appear-
ances in the state tournament, with
four titles, the last two back to back.
A graduate of Exeter Public and
South Huron District High School,
Terry started teaching and coaching
at North Middlesex High School before
moving to West Palm Beach.
She credits SHDHS coach Terry
O'Rourke for influencing her, saying
his passion for the game rubbed off on
her.
In her seven years coaching the Benjamin team,
Terry compiled a record of 182 wins and 34 losses,
with seven consecutive league, district,and regional
titles and state consecutive state fmal four's.
But this season tested Terry and the Benjamin team
to their limits.
After starting the season with 10 players, the team
was reduced to seven with injuries and players leaving.
But Terry was still confident, "that seven was pretty
good, my starting five were pretty solid and I was con-
fident we could do pretty well."
But a week before the state tournament, another
player was lost due to problems in school.
But Terry still had, "one of the best players in
America" in Erlana Larkins, who had been with Terry
for six years and could play any position on the court.
"She breaks press, and then she comes down and
posts up, if she could pass the ball to herself we would
have really been set. She has the knack to take over a
game and control things."
While Benjamin was cruising toward the state cham-
pionship on the court, off court Terry was encounter-
ing problems.
Her husband Mike had gone gone ahead to take a job
in New Mexico, leaving Terry with their three year old
and to continue planning the move.
Terry was also experiencing physical problems, not
having the same amount of energy she did
previously.
Finally relenting to see a doctor, Terry was
diagnosed as critically anemic as well as hav-
ing a malignant tumor in her colon, undergo-
ing surgery Feb. 10.
"Personally it was a blow for me, and for
the kids it was tough to see the coach not at a
100 per cent, but they really rallied around."
But Terry says she is on the road to recov-
ery and is feeling better than she has in the
past four months.
She returned to the Benjamin bench just
before the state tournament, although limited
to discussing strategy with assistant coach
Chris Norland who was running the team.
Playing Winter Park Trinity in the final, Benjamin
held a 16-12 lead at the half but gradually pulled away
in the second to take a 51-30 victory for the champi-
onship.
Terry was also named Florida's high school girls
basketball coach of the year recently for the first time.
She has completed her move to Albuquerque, where
she is finishing her chemotherapy and is considering
coaching options, saying she hasn't really decided yet.
Despite the triumphant end to the season, Terry said
it has been a mellow feeling of celebration.
"The kids celebrated, and then afterwards it was like,
we expected to win. This year I took a more relaxing
role and it is just a different feeling."
Ronnalee Terry
Tuesday Night Mimed
Challenge standings
At the end of the 2003-
2004 curling season, the
Tuesday Night Mixed
Challenge standings were
as follows:
1. Dan Shapton, Erin
Robinson, Adam
Thomson and C
Lindsey Rundle.
2. Dave
Desjardine,
Sarah Miller, Jeff
Boyes and Stacey
Pfaff.
3. Jim De Block, Kate
Hoornaert, Andy Flowers
and Rebecca Heessels.
4. M.J. and Ron Chanyi
and Bill and Marlene
Munn.
5. Kathy and Greg Pfaff
and Sue and Steve
Cooper.
6. Barb and John Smits
and Marcia and Tim
Sweet.
7. Leah and Scott
Morgan and Carol and
John Coleman.
8. Cathy Cade, Sam
(Larry) Regier, Cheryl
Masson and Jon
Mousseau.
9. Lynda Wilkey,
Murray Gorman, Jack
Hodgert and Mary Lou
Thomson.
10. Nancy Dietz, Mike
Hogan and Deb and Mike
Hunter.
11. Don Boyes, Dandra
Clarke, Drew Dalgleish
and Janet Mathers.
12. Dave Dhapton,
Leanne Snow, Jason
Corbett and Dawn
Corbett.
13. Geoffrey Stasik,
Rebecca DeVries,
Shawn McMurdy
and jen Graham.
14. Lauren
Miller, Barry
Parsons, Becky Corbett
and Jamie Beal.
Duplicate
Bridge (March 31)
Edith Brintnell
John Brintnell 54 1/2
Heather Beattie 51 1/2
J Al Beattie
L. Nell McCann
°' Lorna Stuart 5 1
Barb Cy Morrissey 50 1/2
W Henn Morrisse
1" high: Vesta Miller
2" high: Thea Vandenboom
Pt solo: Hubert Miller
2" solo: John Brintnell
Rosaleen Brends
Shorty Caldwell
Ray Rader
Hidden: Mary Horn
Elroy Desjardine
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