Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Southpoint Sun - 19
Sports flashbacks from 1980 Coulter leads senior league scoring Greg Coulter of the Leamington Glass team, led the Leamington Men’s Senior Hockey League in scoring this year. Coulter’s 40 goals and 25 assists put his point total of 65 some seven points ahead of runner-up Richard Ropchan of the Realistics. Art Verhaeghe, Ken Cobby and Jim McCallum rounded out the top five. Rob Otton led the league in penalty minutes, while Albert Jenkins was runner-up in the bad boy category. Bulldogs file protest in Streetsville series The Leamington Ardiel Bulldog Juveniles have filed a double-barrel protest after a pair of weekend defeats in Streetsville placed them on the brink of elimination in the Ontario Juvenile A finals. Leamington coach Cliff Quick confirmed Monday, that the locals were protesting both games. The Bulldogs lost 5-3 on Saturday and 8-5 on Sunday up there. Streetsville now leads the bestof-seven series 3-1, with game five and six back in Leamington this weekend. At issue was the use of a suspended player in Saturday’s game, and a penalty stacking error in game two which allowed Streetsville to score a powerplay goal. John Bernhardt, Howard Forsyth and Steve Lewis scored the Leamington goals on Saturday. In Sunday’s game, the locals got two goals from Phil Wiper and singles from Manny Silva, Richard Kos and Mark Ribble. Fight mars Rotary title win A donnybrook at game’s end marred a 4-3 overtime win by Rotary over Buckingham Realty in the Midget division championship game on Saturday night. The melee broke out after Dean DeWaele shovelled the puck under Kelly Russelo in the Buckingham net at the four minute mark of the first overtime. It was Dewaele’s second goal of the game. Referees assessed misconduct penalties to Brian Collison and Ron Webster of Buckingham and Victor Eid of Rotary. Brian Pearce was tagged with a match penalty. Lorenzo Vernaroli and Manuel Festa scored the other goals for the champs.
WRAPPING UP THE SEASON
WHEATLEY — The Wheatley Hockey Group was recently permitted to run a program at Wheatley Arena, until the Emergency Brake shutdown put a stop to all organized hockey in the province. This U8 Development squad had fun in the weeks that led up to the shutdown, after sporadic on-ice activity that started back in October.In the back row are coaches, Jeff Bailey, Steve Bradley, Jeff Reid and Darryl Glasier. Standing are Andrew Hill, Oliver Ingratta, Dax Glasier, Travis Friesen, Thomas Fischer, Colton Friesen, Trent Williams. In the front row are Nolan Bradley, Rowan Wall, Logan Heide (goalie), Nik Sawyer, Easton Flaming, Mason Reid, Myla Walker-Smith (goalie), Bryce Bailey. Absent were Luke Enns and Mason Hutchins. Photo submitted
Sweet repeat for Flyers in 2014-15 By C. Scott Holland After winning the West playoff crown in 2013-14, the Flyers turned around and won again the following year by rallying to overcome deficits. With first-place secured, the journey began by easily defeating the eighth-place Lambton Shores Predators, who managed to get only one goal past the Flyers’ netminding duo of Trevor Wheaton and Michael Barrett. That lone tally came late in the third period of the second contest. Th Flyers blanked the Preds three times — 3-0, 5-0 and 8-0. The highlight of that first series came in a penalty-riddled third contest when a large brawl erupted. The second round was versus a perennial opponent — the London Nationals. The strengths of each were evident, but the Flyers prevailed by winning the series 4-2. The Flyers went down 2-0 in the first game but fought back and sent the game to OT but in the second extra frame London’s Tanner Ferreira ended it at 3:27. At London for game two, they would get blanked as Justin Tugwell halted 43 Flyers’ attempts. A close 2-1 win at home was a thriller and Mitch Amante, who opened the scoring, was given a penalty shot late in the third but his shot was stopped. In the next game, the Flyers shutout the Nats 2-0. Michael Barrett got the shutout. Game five had 1,100
fans present and the Flyers Matthew Opblinger tabbed a shorthanded tally to win it 5-4. Up 3-2 in the series, the Flyers closed it out by downing the Nats 5-2 as Tyler Duarte notched a hattrick. One London player was handed a match penalty for attempting to injure a Flyer. A dream match-up followed for the finals as the Flyers would face the LaSalle Vipers. Over 1,500 fans were at the opener and watched the Flyers double the Vipers 6-3. In game two, Eric Henderson shone by scooping two goals to pace the 3-2 victory. Back at home for game three, the home team would fall behind early but fought their way back to knot the game as Colin Moore notched the tying goal at 4:10 of the third. However Brett Langlois would score at 9:10 of OT and the Flyers suffered a 3-2 loss. Mitch Amante led the team to a 3-1 victory but in game four the Flyers fell behind early and never recovered. Amante tabbed the lone Flyers’ goal. In the critical game six, the two teams were tied 1-1 at the end of 20 minutes but Cale Phibbs and Matthew Opblinger thrust the Flyers into a 3-1 lead. Nathan Savage would put the heat on with a powerplay tally and the Vipers’ Conor Rosassen had a glorious chance to even the score on a penalty shot at 5:05 of the third.
However, Rosassen’s attempt was halted by Trevor Wheaton, who stopped 25 shots for a 3-2 victory and allowed Leamington to claim their second Bill Weir Cup. Members of the team were Trevor Wheaton, Michael Barrett, J. P. Grineau, Ryan Muzzin, Blaine Bechard, Jacob McGhee, Tyler Du-
arte, Ryan Shipley, Cale Allen, Cale Phibbs, Eric Henderson, Colin Moore, Matthew Opblinger, Zach Guilbeault, Mitch Amante, Alex Friessen, Chris Scott, Kyle Perkowski, Thomas Virban, Zac Parlette, Joe Ogden, Kyle Quick, plus APs Travis Campbell, Mitchell Crevatin and Alex Derksen.
Among the staff were GM Mike Sadler, assistant GM Kevin Hopper, head coach Tony Piroski, assistant coaches Lee Jones, Jamie McDerott, Anthony Iaquinta, Branden Robitaille, Ron Soucie, trainer: Dr. Steve O’Neil, and equipment managers Ryan Sellon and John Forbes.
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