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Thursday, March 16, 2017 The Independent
HEADING TO OFSSAA
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The LCCVI Lancers have claimed the SWOSSAA Girls Hockey tle and a berth in the provincial championship. The Lancers earned the tle of SWOSSAA champions a er bea ng L’Essor 3-1, March 8. The team heads to Stra ord March 22 for the OFSSAA tournament. The Lancers are guaranteed three games, March 22 at 8 am against Fort Frances, 12:30 pm against St. Michaels and March 23 at 9 am against Iona. Coach Julie Vandersteen says this is the team’s second trip to the provincials in as many years. Last year, they lost in the consola on nal. Vandersteen says since the beginning of the year it was the team’s goal to make it back to OFSSAA.
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Wyoming teen heads to curling championship
Oiler Atoms tied up in OMHA nal
Nick Gerrits of Wyoming – seen here sweeping a rock during the SWOSSAA Championship
- and his Sarnia St. Patrick’s teammates are heading to North Bay to compete at OFSSAA in curling after defeating Ridgetown High School and Vincent Massey High School at SWOSSAA March 6 in Blenheim.
Joey Shaw scored the tying goal with 14.8 seconds left to play Sunday night at the Greenwood Recreation Centre. Shaw then picked off the winner in
The teams head back up the Lake Huron shoreline for game three Saturday at 3 pm, before returning to Greenwood for game four on Sunday afternoon at 4:10 pm.
The team, which includes Gerrits, Devon Crowe, Andrew Mousseau, and Dalton Crowe, travel to North Bay for the provincial tournament March 22 to 25.
Flyers met goals
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There might not be as many wins as they wanted but the president of Petrolia Flyers says the 2016-2017 season was a success.
The team which moved from Alvinston to Petrolia last year honoured its players and vol- unteers Saturday.
“The goal for the season was to make the playoffs and to establish ourselves in Petrolia,” says President Dennis Meeston. The Flyers – with only seven wins on the season – made it to the rst round to face Lakeshore and won the rst two games of the series. “The boys in this room never gave up and I’m proud of every one of you.”
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And Meeston says the people of Petrolia have been a great support. “We went from attendance of about 100 in Alvinston to about 200 a game here and that’s winning just seven games. When we get this rolling, we’ll have 300 people in the stands like the big guys in the east.”
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The team also honoured its top players. Mark McNally of Inwood was named the Roy Caley Most Improved Player, Hunter Bryce of Petrolia was given the Ron Tyler Scholarship; Carter Campbell was named the Owen Oriet Most Valuable Defenceman; Kole Keating was named MVP; Curtis Helps was named Rookie of the Year, Tim Kaldeway was Most Sportsmanlike and Zach VanEyk who played 39 games this year was the Most Dedicated Player.
The Flyers also honoured equipment manager Owen Bray as the volunteer of the year. Meeston joked he is so valuable to the team that one day, when the team lost by double digits, Bray was nominated as player of the game by the team.
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Cur s Helps was named Rookie of the Year
ATTACK HEAD TO PROVINCIALS
The Lambton A ack Novice “C” girls are now advancing to Provincials in Toronto next month. They beat out the Sarnia Lady S ng 7 points to 3 with a 3-1 win in the nal game.
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Joey Shaw with one of two goals in the Atoms 3-2 OT win over Kincardine Sun-
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The Petrolia Oilers erased a two-goal de cit to defeat Kincardine, 3-2 in the second game of their OMHA Atom “B” championship series with the Kinucks.
the overtime period with about four minutes left to play.
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Kincardine, the defending cham- pions, opened the six-point champion- ship series with a 3-1 win on home ice last Friday.