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Team Dippel steers through first season on race track By Caroline Sealey
Longtime volunteers- Alma residents Thelma and Morley Trask received the Tim Hahn Memorial Award and plaque from local T-Ball coach Jim deBock at the Alma minor ball banquet on Sept. 8. The Trasks were honoured for the time, energy and resources they have dedicated to ball in Alma. T-Ball players from the Alma area have enjoyed the use of Morley’s Meadows, a ball diamond on the Trask farm, for many years. Photo by Caroline Sealey
Two deaths in head-on crash in Mapleton MAPLETON - An Arthur man and a St. Marys man were killed in a head on collision here on Sept. 9. Trevor Vollett, 38, of Arthur, and Beverly Coveny, 74, of St. Marys, were pronounced dead at the scene of a crash on Wellington Road
12 near Wellington Road 45 in Mapleton Township. Wellington County OPP responded to the crash at around 3:30pm. Mapleton Fire and Rescue also responded, along with Guelph Wellington Paramedic Services.
Police say Coveny was driving a 2015 Ford Explorer towing a boat that was travelling south on Wellington Road 12. Vollett was driving a 2017 Jeep Compass northbound on Wellington Road 12. SEE CRASH » 8
DRAYTON - A newlyformed stock car racing team, Team Dippel from Drayton, has successfully steered through its first season at Full Throttle Motor Speedway in Varney. Team Dippel members include Drayton residents Isaac and Luke Dippel, Richard Geerlinks of Moorefield and former Mapleton resident Tyler Arnold, who now resides in New Hamburg. In his second year of competition in the fun stock class at the speedway, 13-year-old Isaac Dippel finished the season with 10 wins, 24 top five finishes and 25 top ten finishes, earning 1,824 points for an overall first place finish. Nicknamed “Lightning,” Isaac says racing is fun, win or lose. “I’m still number 18 and I’m driving a 2006 Chevy Cobalt that has more horsepower than the car I drove last year. The Cobalt gives me the power to pull away in the straight,” Isaac said. “I like my car because it’s quicker and smoother.” With his only fear being the wall, Isaac hopes to continue racing for a number of years, moving up to the mini stock class, with the possibility of another vehicle in his
Medal haul - Isaac Dippel, left and brother Luke, show off some of the medals they have earned in the Fun Stock classes at Full Throttle Motor Speedway in Varney this season. Photos by Caroline Sealey future. “The only thing that I wish would change in racing is the competitiveness. There are some drivers who need to take a more relaxed approach to the races. They need to have more fun,” Isaac said. Joining Isaac on Team Dippel is his younger brother, Luke. Just 10 years old, Luke continued to work on a car while doing an interview for this article. Competing in the kid stock class as number 01, Luke has earned the nickname “Thunder” at the
track. His accomplishments this season include seven wins. “When people ask me why I race, I say because I’m allowed,” Luke said. “I was scared at first but not anymore. It is fun.” Unfortunately Luke was in the wrong place at the wrong time on the track and was involved in a collision. His 1998 Dodge Neon, painted to resemble the General Lee of Dukes of Hazzard fame, was destroyed in the mishap. A 1996 Dodge Neon was quickly found to replace the SEE TEAM DIPPEL
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Mapleton youths part of provincial championship squad LISTOWEL Three Mapleton youths are part of a provincial baseball championship team. Moorefield residents Owen Ottens, Ethan Culling and Cody Frook are members of the Listowel Rookie Ontario Baseball Association (OBA) squad. The team is constructed of boys born in 2008 and 2009. The Listowel team qualified for the 2017 OBA Provincial Championships held in Wallaceburg, from Sept. 1 to 4, finishing the tournament with a perfect 6-0 record. Exhibiting exceptional defensive play, the team only surrendered 16 runs total in the tournament, officials say. Listowel topped a team from Wyoming in the final game 11-3, earning championship rings for their efforts. “Along with great coach-
ing this was a special group of boys with a ‘team first’ mentality which was one of the main reasons for their overall success,” Ethan’s father Jeremy Culling told the Community News. “Our three local boys were the youngest players and integral players on the team.” The team went also undefeated in league play this season, competing against teams within the Western Ontario Baseball Association. Team members include: Ethan Culling, Owen Ottens, Cody Frook, Jaxon McLaughlin, Kaleb Schouten, Tate Berfelz, Preston Henhoeffer, Noah Kaye, Liam Biesinger, Ryan Antoniadis, Kai Wick and Henry Meulensteen. Coaches include Curt McLaughlin, Chad Kaye and Curt Berfelz.
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Provincial champions - From left: Moorefield residents Owen Ottens, Ethan Culling and Cody Frook were members of the Listowel Rookie team that won the Ontario Baseball Association Championship for their age level at the Provincial Championship tournament in Wallaceburg from Sept. 1 to 4. The team went 6-0 in the tournament to follow up an undefeated regular season. ABOVE: One of the OBA championship rings earned by team members. Submitted photos
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