Golden Ball awarded to the Coyotes!
The annual Island Elementary Flag Football Championships took place this past Monday at Assiginack Public school in Manitowaning. In classic back-in-the-day Grey Cup snow-bowl fashion, games were played in Manitoulin’s first significant snowfall!
Students coined the original trophy the “Golden Ball,” a semi-deflated football spray-painted gold, back when former Assiginack teacher Jeremy Mailloux hosted the first invitational. When the cold, muddy and slippery ball finally came to rest on Monday, it was Little Current Public School’s Coyotes No. 2 team who got to hoist the coveted Golden Ball trophy! Hats off to Roen, Max, Collin, Asher, Arabella, Hazel, Myla and coaches Tim Lockeyer and April Aelick.
Off their Rock hockey!
Congratulations on the beginning of another off-Island, hockey season to a pair of stalwart road warriors, Maximus Panamick and Kohyn Eshkawkogan.
Maximus plays out of Sudbury as a right winger on the Nickel City Sons U11 AA and on October 19-22, the team attended the Kitchener Oktoberfest Tournament where they faced some of the top teams in the province! The Sons went 4-0 in round robin play moving into the semi-final on Sunday morning. The semi-final was a back and forth affair with the Sons coming from behind a couple of times to tie the game against the Flamborough Sabres. Maximus, who hails from M’Chigeeng First Nation, scored the tying goal for the Sons. Overtime solved nothing and the game went to a shootout! The Sons were victorious in the shootout with some big saves from the Sons goaltender Tate Cunningham and a beauty goal by Chase Morrell which stood as the shootout winner!
The Sons then cruised to a 9-0 victory over the London Jr. Knights (Green) for the Gold medal. All players received a hockey stick on top of their medals for winning the tournament. Maximus had two goals and an assist during the tournament with the tying goal in the semi-final and the second goal in the Championship. The Sons went 6-0 on the weekend for the Championship which was a great team effort! Congrats Maximus and Sons on your championship victory in Kitchener!
Kohyn Eshkawkogan, still 14, has moved up to the AAA U16, North York Rangers! The team is ranked in the Top 5 in all of Canada’s Under-16 catalogue of squads. Even this early in his campaign, Kohyn, a strong defenseman, also has a bit of an offensive touch with three goals and 13 assists in just 17 games! Kohyn was recently recognized as his team’s worker of the game and celebrated on the team’s Instagram account. Have an awesome season, guys!
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