World Bagatoway players!
Sisters, Mackenzie and Reese Shigwadja are playing right now at the Word Box Lacrosse Championships at Utica, New York! The pair are playing for the Haudenosaunee Nationals who compete against other nations’ teams! In their first game they lost to Team USA 11-4 and then trampled ‘poor’ old England, 14-6!
Mustangs Ride!
The Manitoulin Secondary, Mountain Bike Team high school team had their first race last Thursday at Kivi Park. Overall there were 70 riders from 11 schools in the region, registered.
The MSS team did well including: Novice: Joey Roy 17th, Junior: Isaac Quackenbush 11th and Sebastian Mara 14th. In the Senior division, it was Bradley Slaght in third, Xavier Coleman 6th and Tim Arabadzhyi 14th.
Manitoulin MTB teammate, Dane Gibeault, who races for LoEllen, finished second, just ahead of Bradley! A little payback perhaps for unknowingly, raced for the, ‘Lo-Ellen Sucks’ team at this summer’s 6-Hour Relay!
They all have three more races coming up. This week’s race is at the Walden Mountain Bike Trails. Go Mustangs, go!
Mustang Alumni hit University, running and rowing!
Brodie Pennie, who as a freshman, runs for the University of New Brunswick Reds was in London for the Western Invitational X-country and helped his team to a second place, podium finish. Brodie finished in 20th overall
Other MSS alumni that were also there competing, were Mac (Mackenzie) Green (Nipissing) and TJ Green and Alan Wilkin (Laurentian).
Meanwhile, Brodie’s cousin, Brooke Gibeault is attending Western and another first-year, varsity, team member! Brooke made the stalwart, Western team thanks in part to her commitment and also being part of the Lake Ramsey Rowing club while attending high School in Sudbury.
In her very first race, she finished third in the Double-Scull category! To give you an idea the of what it takes to be there, Brooke attends 5:30 am workouts on the water as well as separate, strength training sessions! What a great learning experience it must be, to balance academics and the rigours and logistics of a varsity commitment, good job Alumnis!
Off their Rock, hockey!
There were two local kids who recently signed with the U-18 AA Sudbury Wolves, congratulations to Pahquis Trudeau and Peyton Ominika. Pahquis, who will wear #18 as a forward has been a Wiikwemkoong Hawk all these years and just decided to try out, ‘Rep’ hockey and makes it!
Huge B-Day Slow Pitch
Tourney battles fog and wins!
Gerry Baibomcowai always goes big and to celebrate his son Kyle’s birthday, he just holds a big’ol co-ed, slow-pitch tournament, birthday party, thing! He had eight teams playing for good prize money. The final game got fogged out, so a couple of K’s went to each of the Greg Trudeau-Paquet and Jonas Aiabens’ teams. Of course, the fog-out didn’t slow Gerry down and had some money games, homerun derby, relay races, fastest man and women and kids! It sounds like a great time and Gerry already has plans for next year!
Jump in, the Pool is nice!
The Spring Bay Pool League finished another successful season with Rich Waters of Mindemoya taking the A team trophy and Joyce Digout of Spring Bay the B team winner. The following list of team members demonstrates that Spring Bay Pool draws people from all over! A-team members were Don Thompson and Derek Stephens of Providence Bay, Jim Emery of Ice Lake, John Stewart, Rusty Auxier and Cheyenne Migwans of M’Chigeeng, John Szewczyk of Mindemoya, Pierre Labonte of Gore Bay and Phil Harper of Silverwater. The B-team rounded out with Sally Miller and Nancy McDermid of Providence Bay, Cindy Harper of Silverwater and Ray Digout of Spring Bay. The group held two fundraisers during the season with the donation going to Manitoulin Pet Rescue. Pool will start again on November 16th. If you feel like shooting some pool, call Ray Digout at 249-997-0020.
