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Colts to face Braves to start playoffs
GREG KIELEC greg.kielec@eap.on.ca
It will be a Highway 401 series to start the playoffs for the CCHL’s Cornwall Colts. In an anti-climactic end to the regular sea- son, the Colts lost 7-2 to the Carleton Place Canadians Sunday afternoon to drop into third overall, earning them a match up with their river rivals the Brockville Braves starting in Cornwall Thursday night. The Colts hit the ice Sunday without two of their three top scorers, including league scoring title winner Michael Pontarelli, Mitch Zion, Carl Belizario and their captain Stephen Johnson, all but guaranteeing a loss to the Canadians. Had the Colts won, they would have faced the Smiths Falls Bears in the first round. In- stead it will be up to the Canadians to con- tain the feisty Ottawa Valley team. The Colts had an even record of three wins and three losses against both the Bears and the Braves during the regular season. Pietro Antonelli got the Colts on the boad first with a marker from Jake Bannister and Marly Quince 8:33 into the first period, but the game quickly deteriorated over the next two and a half periods. The Canadians scored five unanswered goals – two in the latter half of the first, two in the second and one early in the third to take a commanding 5-1 lead. Marly Quince made it interesting with a power play marker from Kevin Hope and Jake Bannister 8:12 into the third, but were unable to cash in on a subsequent power play at the 10 minute mark. Poirier’s Pulp Comics are greatly in- fluenced by movies. Pulp comics have a story, artwork, a series of events, su- perheroes and unique characters that develop the plot and they conclude with a surprise ending. Comics today are in an upward spiral, and have grown in popularity with shows like “The Big Bang Theo- ry” which zeros in on comics and the superhero memorabilia showcased at the annual “Comicon” convention highlighted in that series. Poirier’s site bigtwinkies.tumblr.com plays host to an online weekly Name That 80s Movie contest, a game of art and trivia where Poirier draws some- thing from an 80s film and you guess what it is for a chance to win some original artwork. “I guess you could say that movies FROM COMIC PAGES: From Page 7
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Michael Pontarelli of the Cornwall Colts tries a wrap-around move on the Brockville Braves goalie during action at the Ed Lumley Arena in Cornwall in Dec. 6. The Colts will face the Braves in the first round of the CCHL Tier 1 playoffs beginning in Cornwall to- morrow (Thursday).
The Canadians increased their lead to 6-2 with 6:33 left in the game, and the Colts could not reply with Tyson Stewart of the Canadians in the box for roughing one min- ute later. The Canadians added one more with 27 seconds left to play to make the final score 7-2. Pontarelli finishes the regular season with 52 goals and 55 assists to take the league
scoring title with 107 points, seven points ahead of the Braves’ Ben Blasko and 14 goals ahead of the second leading goal scorer. The Cornwall Colts put themselves in a position to snatch second overall over the Canadians with a 7-1 routing of the Nepean Raiders Thursday night in Cornwall. The win temporarily put the Colts back into first place in the Robinson Division, two
points ahead of the Carleton Place Canadi- ans. But a Canadians’ victory over the Brock- ville Braves Friday night saw the Colts and Canadians tied heading into Sunday’s game. Brandon Hope led the Colts in scoring with two goals against the Raiders and Michael Pontarelli stretched his league scoring lead to seven points over Brockville’s Ben Blasko with a three-point night.
‘I’d like to continue making a living at something I enjoy doing’
have had the biggest influence on my life, followed by music and comic books. “Movies got me at an early age. I’ve seen so many of them in my life that I can almost plot the course of my life by them.” “My memories of a particular film are often tied to the events and circum- stances of my life at the time that I first saw it.” Re-watching a movie like “Batteries Not Included” takes me back to being 7 years old and playing Fireball Island with my cousins before their babysit- ter took us to see the movie in the the- atre.” Although he is always drawing in his spare time, watching movies, playing video games, listening to music, cook- ing with his wife Dorothy, and scour- ing through books and comic books for inspiration help him to escape and
relax after work. “I enjoy reading sci- ence fiction and fantasy novels. My fa- vourite series right now is George Mar- tin’s A Song of Ice and Fire. I also like to read biographies of musicians, actors and comedians and of course, need you ask, comic books,” said Poirier with a smile. When asked if there is anything in his life he would like to change or do again, Poirier admits he doesn’t know if he would ever want to change any- thing about his life thus far.” “I’m happy now and I wouldn’t be where I am without the good and the bad experiences I’ve had, and the choices I’ve made. In the future I would like to continue making a living at something I enjoy doing. “Being happy, healthy, raising a fam- ily, and being able to live comfortably within my means is what defines suc- cess for me.
Joel Runions
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