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The Renfrew Mercury - January 6, 2011
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SPORTS
Remember when?
Timberwolves netminder Mike Rosebrook stares down a would-be Perth Blue Wing sniper during Eastern Ontario Junior Hockey League action earlier this year. Rosebrook was the Renfrew club’s most valuable player in 2009-10. Photo courtesy of Perth Courier
Members of the St. Joseph’s Jaguars and Renfrew Collegiate Raiders cross-country teams break from the starting line in the midget boys race at the Renfrew County high school championship at Ma-TeWay Park in October. Mercury photo by Peter Clark
Olympic fever struck the continuing care unit at Renfrew Victoria Hospital Feb. 12. Joining residents for festivities, in back row in white, from left are torch bearers Haley Gale, Robert Perry, Brad Bennett and Marilyn Delarge. Mercury photo by Gemma Robillard
The year 2010 is now a part of history. Here are some of Renfrew and area’s top sports stories. • The league champion Atom Timberwolves win six tournaments during the 2009-10 season, capped by the Eastern Ontario Tournament of Champions. Renfrew also claims the crown in the final year of the minor midget rep loop. • Ryan Cuthill of the Major Midget Timberwolves is named to the all-star team at the International Silver Stick Hockey Tournament in Sarnia. • The Renfrew Skating Club captures five major awards at the Interclub competition. Sonya Bergin is the club’s Carol Anderson Memorable Award recipient. • Renfrew’s Katelyn Rousselle is seen on a television screen near you. The Vancouver resident is a medal bearer at the Winter Olympic Games. • Paul Boese of Haley Station officiates sledge hockey at the Paralympic Games in Vancouver. • The Upper Ottawa Valley Belle A Ringette team wins gold in Kingston, and the Tween B team the league championship in Arnprior. • The Junior B Timberwolves top the Arnprior Packers 7-6 to win their Valley Division semifinal series 4-2 on same day (Feb. 28) some guy named Crosby scores to win gold for Canada. The Wolves later fall 4-0 in the Valley Division final to Perth. • Scotiabank edges NAPA Auto Parts in an all-Renfrew Upper Ottawa Valley peewee house league final. • Megan Rousselle (Officials Cup for female athlete who best demonstrates the true spirit of overall wrestling) and Jake Cartman (male athlete at Riverdale) win major wrestling awards. • Cassandra Lafont hits the bull’s eye to win the singles title at a major legion darts tournament in Pickering. • Kelly Homes wins the Saturday Night Hockey League crown; Finnigan’s of Renfrew captures its third consecutive Eganville Hockey League title. • Fred English of Foymount hoists powerlifting gold in Quebec City. • Running with an artificial leg, Tom McIntyre completes the 10-kilometre event at the Ottawa Race Weekend. Colleen Berry finishes her 11th marathon in Ottawa, leading her age category; and Stewart Campbell runs the New York City Marathon in 3:19.38. • Renfrew’s Willie Sharp of the University of Toronto Blues helps the East defeat the West 12-9 with an interception in the end zone at the eighth annual Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) East-West Bowl. • RCI captures the Renfrew County junior girls soccer title while the St.
PETER CLARK PETER’S PUTTERINGS Joseph’s girls win a one-game playoff to advance to A-level EOSSAA. • The NHL Players’ Association’s Lester B. Pearson Award – the player judged the most valuable as selected by his peers – is renamed the Ted Lindsay Award, which brings local ties, as Lindsay was born in Renfrew and father Bert Lindsay was the goaltender for the Renfrew Millionaires. • RCI’s 11-year Renfrew County cross-country streak ends, but the Raiders are still a big presence at EOSSAA with 62 team members qualifying. • The St. Joseph’s Jaguars turn in one of the school’s best track and field days at the Renfrew County championships. Eleven of 23 athletes advance to Eastern Ontario. • The Reunions defeat Ray’s Flowers 33-22 to capture the 2010 Renfrew Ladies Spring Basketball League championship. It’s now four different league champions in four years. • Local diabetic marathoner Hughie Nolan completes China’s Great Wall Marathon. • Dwight Reinhart of the Renfrew Golf Club is the 2010 Ottawa Valley Golf Association class A match-play champion. • Renfrew Millionaires Special Olympics softball team wins silver at the Special Olympics Canada Summer Games in London. • Beachburg’s Nathan Blok captures his first Formula 1600 race at the Ted Powell Memorial Race Weekend in Calabogie. • Renfrew’s Jason Walters heads to Vasteras, Sweden to continue his hockey career. • Renfrew Blue U12 boys capture Valley United Soccer League crown. • Renfrew’s Isabell Wilson, with Team Ontario, brings home two swimming medals (gold and silver) from the Canada 55+ Games in Brockville in the women’s 75+ age category. • The Aikenhead’s Hospice Golf Classic raises $31,000. • Stephen Dowd of Arnprior edges 10-time champion Rob Warren by one stroke to win the Renfrew Golf Club’s 2010 club championship. Cindy Lacroix is ladies champion. Warren later plays in a record 40th Gordon Cup as Renfrew finishes second. • Dragonfly junior Cooper Brown captures overall hardware for total points in the five-event 2010 Ottawa PGA Junior Challenge Tour championship, based on the top three scores, two firsts and a second. • Unbeaten Arnprior Aces earn
Tuesday Night Recreational Baseball League honours, while the Legends win a second consecutive Renfrew town baseball championship. • James Ferguson and Sheila Windle are singles champs at the Renfrew Senior Tennis Open. • Shawn Kelly wins his second consecutive Renfrew Fair Demolition Derby. • T. Williams Plumbing & Heating captures the mixed slo pitch title and ProTyre the men’s crown. • RCI Raiders win 15th consecutive Renfrew County cross-country title. • Renfrew wins the Ultimate Fitness Boot Camp Games over Arnprior. • Charlie Lemenchick, who created and tended Charlie’s Park, is honoured by the Renfrew Golf Club. • The Peewee Timberwolves win their own tournament as Cameron Iob and Colin Schwartz combine for three shutouts. • The Renfrew Gymnastics Club swings back into operation under the leadership of Meghan Campbell and assistant instructors Melissa Hartwick, Kaitlynd Hartwick, Lily Freemark and Megan Scissons. • John Fuller Jr. of Renfrew finishes fifth to earn $10,000 in the Stridea Showcase for Canadian residents. • Sandra Hill of Ottawa wins the third annual Hold ’em for Hospice poker tournament. Held in memory of J.J. and Rosemarie Enright, the 2010 event raises $6,100 for Hospice Renfrew. • RCI Senior Raiders end Arnprior’s five-year reign as Renfrew County senior girls basketball champions when overcoming a 26-13 halftime deficit to win 34-29. The Raiders later become the first team to represent the county at girls basketball OFSAA. • St. Joseph’s Jaguars host and win consolation honours at A EOSSAA. • Former RCI cross-country runner Adam McGregor of the Dalhousie Tigers is named Atlantic University Sport (AUS) male rookie of the year. • The Scots invade the Renfrew Curling Club but Renfrew, Ontario gains the upper hand in all but one match against the boys from Renfrewshire, Scotland. • Cal Smith is named coach of the Junior B Timberwolves following the 2009-10 season. But with a 7-11-and-3 at the halfway point of the current campaign, Smith is replaced behind the bench by Tony Iob. • The UOV Novice C ringette team wins gold in Arnprior tournament. The Upper Ottawa Valley AA minor bantams win the Regional Silver Stick title in Sudbury. • The Steve and Rick Allen rink, competing under the Renfrew banner, wins the A title at the Tankard Zones, the first step on the road to the Brier.