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Page 10 THE VOICE of Pelham Wednesday, April 18, 2012
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Pelham Flyers known as local league champions Over the course of the year The Pelham Flyers have been referred to as as ”The Flyers Express” and “The Gladiators”. Going forward they carry a new title, one that will echo of the walls of the Pelham Arena years to come and in the memories of everyone involved for a lifetime. From this point forward The Flyers will always be known at the 2011-2012 Niagara District Local League Novice Champions! The play downs would be long and hard, as The Flyers would have to face the top six teams in the Novice A Division. They would rise to the challenge and storm through with a total of five wins and a single tie, a small reflection on how the entire year was played out. They would move into play-offs holding top spot and would have to face-off against the second place team The Thorold Black Hawks Red to play for the best two of three in order to claim the district’s top spot. The Flyers would start the play-off series on a 3 – 3 tie. Goal scorers for the team would be Davison Weir
THE FLYERS celebrate their championship: Front Row: Joshua Abbott-Tate, Michael Dykstra, Zachary Kuhn, Shane Keagan, Joseph Kita, Aiden MacRaw, Jessica Zanutinni, Samantha Carmichael.Middle Row: Corey Egerter, Julia Natale, Brianna Johnson, Davison Weir, Braeden Laliberte, Konner LittleCoaches: John Carmichael, Michael Kuhn, Jeff Dykstra, Scott MacRae, Harry Powell. /Special to the Voice
with two and Brianna Johnson, assists would be provided by Julia Natale, Michael Dykstra and Joshua AbbottTate.In game two of the series The Flyers would claim a 4 -2 victory over The Black Hawks coming back from a 2 – 1 deficit going into the third with Michael Dysktra delivering the first goal in the second period and a quick second at the start of the third, assisted by Samantha Carmichael.
Zachary Kuhn would deliver the third to bring The Flyers ahead and a fourth for good measure with assists provided by Davison Weir and Jessica Zanuttini. The Flyers would leave the season with one of the most spectacular games they have ever played. “The Wall of Defense” Michael Dykstra, Davison Weir, Braeden Laliberte, Konner Little and Corey Egerter would live up to their
reputation locking down the defensive zone and moving the puck to the forward lines. The forward lines consisting of Zachary Kuhn, Aiden MacRae, Jessica Zanuttini, Samantha Carmichael, Brianna Johnson, Joshua Abbott-Tate, Julia Natale and Joseph Kita would maintain dominance of the offensive zone firing shot after shot at The Black Hawks goal tender.
Aiden “The Initiator” MacRae would be the first to The Black Hawks net with the backing of Braeden Laliberte. Several rushes by Davison “The Sling Shot” Weir would produce a hat-trick plus one throughout the game with assists provided by Aiden MacRae, Jessica Zanuttini, Corey Egerter, Joshua Abbott-Tate, Brianna Johnson and Samantha Carmichael. Zachary Kuhn would join in on
the action delivering an un-assisted 5 on 3 short-handed goal in the second and Michael Dykstra would put his mark on the board as well. The man in the net Shane Keagan would rock the house making several glove saves and would not reveal an inch of netting to The Black Hawks. In the end The Flyers would finish the season with an outstanding record of 37 wins, eight ties and three losses and finish their last game celebrating a 7 – 0 shutout to become the Novice District Champions! A special thanks to the coaching staff: Harry Powell, John Carmichael, Jeff Dykstra, Scott MacRae, all the volunteers of the Pelham Minor Hockey Association, to the PMHA corporate sponsor Tim Horton’s and our team supporters Powell Drywall for providing names for The Flyers jerseys and Baron & Siding for sponsoring the Thorold Henderson Pharmacy Tournament. Your contributions make smiles possible for the kids of Pelham!
Kirkpatrick Monuments finish successful season In the peewee house league non body checking league, Pelham sponsored by Kirkpatrick Monuments has finished a very successful season in
the first year of the non body checking division. They finished the last four games of the season with one win and one tie against some very tough opponents. Once
playoffs started, the team went on a roll winning four of their six playoff games landing them in first place for the first round. In one of the games, Pelham killed off
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a two man disadvantage for two minutes and then scored 9 seconds later to win the game. In the final round of the playoffs, Pelham played against Grimsby White and both teams were pushed to their limits to get their four points. The first game ended in tie, Pelham took the second game 3-2 and Grimsby took the third game 2-0. Everything came down to the last game and both teams wanted the win. Unfortunately for Pelham, Grimsby was able to come out on top to win the series. After finishing last in regular season play, making it as far as they did was a tremendous
accomplishment for the team and a tribute to the coaching staff of Wayne Hennessy, John Song, John Slobodzian, Tony Colangelo, Dave Barnes and Dave Nunn. Sam Abbott-Tate once again led the points tally scoring 5 goals and adding 5 assists for 10 points followed closely by Ethan Keus with 7 goals and 2 assists for 9 points, Jeremy Colangelo with 7 goals and 1 assist and Matthew Calverly with 4 goals and 4 assists. Alex Barnes contributed 2 goals and 5 assists, Patrick Coupland had 4 goals and 2 assists, Ethan Ratcliffe netted 3 and had 3 helpers and Peyton Learn added
6 helpers. Christian Harford and Spencer Reynolds each had 5 assists while Gillian Hennessy added 3 assists. Nicholas Song and Chris Slobodzian had 1 goal and 1 assist each while Jacob Combe contributed 2 assists. Hannah Hennessy had 1 assist and Brodie Alderdice scored his first goal of the season, way to go Brodie. Jake Nunn played solid in front of the net and was instrumental in the extended playoff season. Congratulations to the entire team on their very successful season and the parents are looking forward to next year.