S P O R T S
VCI CURLERS GONE TO EOSSAA
L’équipe de curling mixte de VCI, composée de Rafael MacKinnon (à gauche), Madison Parisien, Addison Eva et Tristan Das Eiras, a remporté son match de championnat régional, ce qui lui permet de se qualifier pour les championnats de curling de l’EOSSAA qui auront lieu cette semaine à Kingston. —photo fournie
The VCI girls curling rink of skip Sydney Mode (left), Heidi Zihlmann, Cooper Smith, Alexa Maclaren won their regional title match, qualifying them for the EOSSAA curling championships this week in Kingston. —supplied photo
The VCI girls rink and the mixed rink both won the regional curling titles for the school during the Prescott-Russell Secondary School Athletic Association curling finals March 2 at the Vankleek Hill Curling Club. The VCI girls rink of skip Sydney Mode, Heidi Zihlmann, Cooper Smith, and Alexa MacLaren beat Russell High School’s team
10-3 in a single-game playoff. The VCI mixed rink of skip Rafael MacKinnon, Madison Parisien, Addison Eva, and Tristan Das Eiras won their category by default as the Embrun rink had to bow out of the final competition because of injuries and illness among its members. Both VCI rinks are scheduled for
competition in the Eastern Ontario Secon- dary School Athletic Association curling championship (EOSSAA) in Kingston at the Royal Kingston Curling Club. The EOSSAA curling spiel started Monday, March 6 with the finals on March 7. VCI is scheduled for 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. in the opening round.
GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
They rocked their regional title compe- tition and now this week two rinks from Vankleek Collegiate are on the EOSSAA schedule.
COUGARS AND THE VOLANT BATTLE FOR WINS
in their series. A win either way still means at least one more return match in Vankleek Hill to decide who will move on to the next round in the National Capital Junior Hockey League playoffs (NCJHL). Friday night in Gatineau Last Friday night’s round of the series in Gatineau finished 5-3 for the Volant. Samuel Lamarch put the host team on the scoreboard first four minujtes into the game with an assist from Cédric Bertrand. The Volant extended their lead to 3-0 with
another first-period goal by Jérémy Marcotte and one at the second-period mid-mark from Benoît Milloy. Cougars assistant captain Eric Skyba broke the Volant’s scoring streak with a goal for Vankleek Hill in the last five minutes of second period. Andy Lightle-Blais assisted on the goal. Maxime Laliberté gave the Cougars their second goal of the night during the first minute of third period, with assistant captain Joshua Desjardins assisting. Skyba tied up the score with his second goal of the night at the period midpoint, with the help of Brenden Easterbrook. Marcotte ruined the Cougars’ chances of a win with two more goals for a hat trick in the last half of the period. Sunday night in the Den The Cougars came out roaring Sunday night in their temporary Den at the Robert Hartley Sports Centre and chewed up the Volant 9-2. Marcotte opened up the scoreboard first with a goal for Gatineau halfway through first period. After that the Cougars dominated the scoring with a shorthanded goal a minute later by team captain Mikael Bissonnette, with help from assistant captain Joshua Desjardins, to tie up the score, and then a tie-breaker by assistant captain Eric Skyba in the last five minutes of the period, with Des- jardins and Brenden Easterbrook assisting. Second period belonged to the Cougars with Desjardins scoring a pair of goals during the first half of the period. Bissonnette helped on Desjardins’ first goal and also on the second one with support from Skyba. Bissonnette scored his second goal of the
GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
The Vankleek Hill Cougars and the Gatineau-Hull Volant are an even match so far in their elimination round of the National Capital Junior Hockey League playoffs. The Cougars and the Volant each have two wins so far as they head back to the ice Wednesday in Gatineau for a fifth game
night on a power play during the last half of second period. Desjardins and Skyba both assisted on the goal. Assistant captain John Mahoney scored an unassisted goal for the Cougars in the first two minutes of third period. Gatineau got its last goal of the night a minute later from Alex Beauséjour, with help from Clément Gravelle. Wrapping up the scoring for Vankleek Hill were Thomas Kelly, assisted by Easterbrook and Mahoney; Alexandre Chenier, with help from Skyba and Bissonnette; and a power- play goal by Landen Sweet in the final three minutes, with Chenier and Jake Lalonde assisting. Frédérick Durocher-Bourdon guarded the Vankleek Hill net in both games. The Cougars are in Gatineau March 8 for the fifth game in their series against the Volant. The sixth game date was not listed on either team’s website schedule by press time but should be over the weekend with Vankleek Hill as the host. Les Cougars de Vankleek Hill et le Volant de Gatineau-Hull ont deux victoires chacun avec au moins deux autres matchs à jouer dans leur série éliminatoire des séries éliminatoires de la LHJCN. — photos de la première page et de l’intérieur Yeon Photograpy
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