The Record • Wednesday, January 4, 2012 • A13
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New Westminster earns Xmas draw BY TOM BERRIDGE SPORTS EDITOR tberridge@royalcityrecord.com
The New Westminster Royals were not shut out at the Burnaby Minor bantam AAA hockey tournament last week. The Royals earned a single point following a 4-4 draw against Ridge Meadows on the opening day of the 49th annual postChristmas tourney. Garett Hoffard tallied a hat trick, including the go-ahead goal in the final minutes of play for the Royal City squad. Ridge Meadows went on to place ahead of New Westminster in divisional pool play, taking third place on goals for and against. In New West’s first of two games on Dec. 27, the Royals blew a 3-1 lead against Vancouver in a 6-4 loss. Hoffard, Ermias Mulatu and Josh Lauener all scored a goal and added one assist apiece. Dalton Lupul had the Royals’ only goal in a 6-1 loss to North Delta in the team’s final division game. New West then faced eventual bronze medal-winning Semiahmoo in the crossover elimination round, dropping a 9-2 result. Semiahmoo defeated Seafair of Richmond 5-3 in the game for third place. Cloverdale won the Burnaby tourney 6-3 over the North Shore Winter Club. The Eagles made it to the quarter-finals of the 49th annual tourney for the first time in more than a decade, when Burnaby lost to eventual champion Surrey in the 1999 semifinal. Although Burnaby’s appearance in the tournament final eight was marred 9-0 by eventual
Hoop Hyacks second at Douglas tourney BY TOM BERRIDGE SPORTS EDITOR tberridge@royalcityrecord.com
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Icebreaker: Josh Lauener broke the ice for New Westminster, scoring the team’s first goal in a 9-2 loss to Semiahmoo in the elimination round of the Burnaby bantam hockey tournament on Dec. 29. and first-time bantam champion Cloverdale on Friday, the significance of the feat was not. “Together we’re just happy to keep ourselves growing – taking baby steps and keeping moving up the ladder,” said Burnaby captain Marcus Vela. The Eagles advanced into the quarters with third-period rally in a 5-3 victory over South Delta. Mario Juzipovic led the rally with a goal and two assists.
Christian Bettiol and Ken Takahashi also had third-period counters. The Colts won their third straight bantam tournament, handing the North Shore Winter Club its first loss in three previous meetings in the gold-medal final. Christopher Seto, who shared a gold medal with the Burnaby Winter Club at last year’s Burnaby tournament, was named the most outstanding forward for
Cloverdale. “It’s never the same,” said Seto after the game. “Our team is getting better on offence and defence and our hope is we’re going to win the St. Albert tournament, then win the provincials and then get to the Westerns.” Joining Seto, were outstanding goalie Bo Didur and most outstanding defenceman NSWC Mitchell Stapley.
The New Westminster Hyacks placed second at the Douglas College Winter Classic high school girls’ basketball tournament to end 2011. The Hyacks pounded W.J. Mouat 73-32 in the final game of the tourney behind 34 points from player of the game Ariana Sider. Centennial, 73-66 winners over New Westminster in the opening game of the four-team tourney, won the Winter Classic title. Hyack player of the game Meriam Ali potted 25 points against Centennial, while Sider led the squad with 28 points. The Hyacks also outscored Mennonite Educational Institute 68-53 at the tournament. Sider and Ali scored 25 and 19 points, respectively, while Sharmaine Hayley chipped in with 14 points. New Westminster improved its record to 9-3. The Hyacks are back at it this week at the Archbishop Carney tournament in Port Coquitlam, beginning today (Wednesday).
NWSS and Record name high school athletes
◗ continued from Friday, Dec. 30
July:
Royal City Youth Soccer Club left the 5District Westminster district for the 4District league. Casey Cook became the new commissioner of the Western Lacrosse Association, taking over the reigns from outgoing commish Ernie Truant. Kamila Rogic-McLeand and Jamie Wandell were named New Westminster Secondary’s female and male athletes of the year.
New Westminster intermediate boys won a fourth career A1 minor lacrosse title with a 16-4 win over Coquitlam.
Simon Fraser University co-head men’s field lacrosse coach, Jef Cathrea, resigned from his post. Hyack club swimmer Sherry Liu qualified for the Pan American Games after a secondplace finish in women’s 800-metre freestyle at Canadian summer nationals.
Dante St. Prix placed third at the Canadian junior national judo championships.
B.C. midget and bantam girls’ lacrosse teams both won silver medals at the Canadian championships in New Westminster.
B.C. finished third at the under-18 Football Canada Cup in Lethbridge, Alta.
August:
New Westminster won the A1 bronze medal at the B.C. bantam lacrosse championships.
B.C. earned silver medal at the Canadian bantam boys’ lacrosse championships. The midget and peewee boys’ teams both took bronze.
Monica Podgorski was named The Record high school athlete of the year.
Matthew Buchanan and Hayden Goss received Burnaby Mountain Selects scholar athlete awards.
Laurette Ticong shared in an u-15 girls’ basketball title at Basketball B.C.’s 3-on-3 tournament in Richmond.
The New Westminster Salmonbellies lost the Western Lacrosse Association best-of-seven playoff in six games to
the Langley Thunder.
Jackson Schaefer was named to Canada’s under-17 national water polo team for the Pan American championships. Canada wound up in fifth place. Tyler Richards was named the top goalie in the Western Lacrosse Association. Salmonbellies teammates Ian Hawksbee and Curtis Manning were named along with Richards to the first team. Katrina Heinonen garnered four Division 6 gold medals, including a provincial record in the 50-metre butterfly, at the B.C. Summer Swimming Championships.
September:
B.C. defeated six-time champion Team Ontario for the first time ever, winning the Alumni Cup 11-10 at the field lacrosse nationals in Burnaby. BCIT student Patrick Switzer won an unprecedented fourth downhill skateboard World Cup race in Calgary. Sapperton Rovers and Vancouver United affiliated in a ◗September Page 14