World Bagatoway Bronze!
‘Wiky girls!’ I can just hear Eric Corbiere baa yelling it to the rafters if he were there! Mackenzie and Reese Shigwadja had a great tournament at the World Box Lacrosse in Utica, New York last week. The girls, playing for Team Haudenosaunee, had an amazing run, taking the bronze medal! BTW, Mackenzie was even the subject of a feature article this week on the Brock University website.
The women’s gold was won by the USA over team Canada while on the men’s side, Team Canada prevailed over the US. Interestingly, lacrosse will be returning to the Olympics for the 2028 Games in Los Angeles from a brief hiatus since it was played back at the 1908 Olympics in London! Wiky GIRLS!
Manitoulin Mustang MTB
(plus Dane)
The second race of the season took place at the Walden Mountain Bike trails on September 26. The race course was a rugged 4.9km loop with Novice riders completing one lap, Junior riders completing two laps and Senior riders completing three laps. In all, there were 73 riders participating from twelve schools, including 12 riders from Manitoulin Secondary (plus Dane!).
The following are Island Kid results from each division. In the Novice Male race, Joey Roy was 20th and Alina Brown was second in the female event.
The Junior Males featured Isaac Quackenbush, 7; Sebastian Mara,12; and Thomas Redmond, 17! The Senior Male race was almost a carbon copy of last Thursday’s first race with Manitoulin’s Dane Gibeault (cycling for LoEllen), again was second to Mustang Bradley Slaght, in third. Then, Xavier Coleman, 12; Jacob Swartz, 17; Jack Koehler, 18; Tim Arabadzhyi, 22; and Cole Laidley, 23.
Georgia Roy picked up a bronze in the senior female race! Congratulations to all!
The local racers (plus Dane) will really be excited for the next race as MSS will host at the McLean’s Park. I am quite certain that they will have the advantage of knowing where every single hazard, intimately! If you want to see this fast moving, skilled event, check it out tomorrow, October 3 on New England Road in Assiginack.
NOSSA Golf tomorrow!
Trinity Cheechoo, a Gr. 9 student at Wiikwemkoong Highschool has qualified for NOSSA Golf alongside two girls from MSS, Ava Corbiere and Amy Smith. They head to Stone Ridge in Elliot Lake this week for Thursday’s October 2 event. Good luck, girls!
WHS is back!
It is great to see that Wiikwemkoong High School sports has picked up where COVID left them. Along with Trinity in golf, athletics director Jillian Peltier relayed that they also have a girls basketball team competing in the NSSSA B division for the first time since pre-COVID! They are anticipating rebuilding their Athletics program. Great job, Jillian!
Elementary Three-Pitch
championships
In the annual, dog days of summer classic, Manitoulin softball (3-pitch version) players were playing in Gore Bay for the Junior tournament while Central Manitoulin Public School played host to the Senior version.
The Mindemoya event was a multi-headed volunteer effort. Thanks to Greg Lockeyer and umpires Rodney Cox, Bruce Wiggins, and to new recruits for stepping up, Jamie Farquhar and Lisa Pennie. Also, to scoreboard operators Gloria Haner and Lauren Dewar. Many thanks as well to the Central Manitoulin Lions Club for allowing the Grade 8 class to use the food booth for a fundraiser.
The home-town team played host and as it turns out, were the new champions. Congratulations to new Coach Allison Orford and her players (as yet, unnamed).
Charles C. McLean hosted the Grade 6 and under tournament in Gore Bay. The Assiginack Allstars were on top with Lakeview second and Little Current, third. Assiginack had a perfect record, 5W-0L, winning the final 8-2, scored five runs in the final inning!
Holliday on holiday!
With all the above youth activity it is still encouraging to see some of our slightly older, citizens still training and competing! Gerry Holliday, who has been running and coaching since shoes were invented, is still at it. Last week he took a ‘holiday’ to catch up with running pupil Brodie Pennie in his first university race in London. The plan was made only slightly complicated by being entered in a 24-hour Relay that day!
The run was called “Dam Hill Relay” in Springbank Park, last week. The relay went from 8 am Saturday to Sunday with repeated 4.7 km laps. Gerry figures he completed about 33 km over the 24 hours. He is not sure of his team’s placing but confirmed that they were the oldest team there, by far.
The relay wasn’t just a ‘one and done’ for Gerry who then ran the Don Farquharson 4 km Memorial race in Aurora. He finished 2nd in the 70 – 74 age group category in a time of 20:221 He is glad to see his times are slowly improving, although he intimates that, “at my age it sure a lot harder than when I was young. Great to be back at it!” It is great that you are great to be back at it, Gerry!
A good sport is good for sports
