S P O R T S
LES NATIONALS L’EMPORTE CONTRE CARLETON PLACE
FRANCIS RACINE francis.racine@eap.on.ca
À la suite d’une victoire contre les Canadians de Carleton Place, les Nationals de Rockland ont réussi à s’assurer une place dans les prochaines séries éliminatoires. C’est le 22 février dernier que les Nats affrontaient Carleton Place, à l’aréna CIH de Rockland. L’équipe à domicile a vite fait de prendre les devants contre ses rivaux, à la suite de deux buts de Jack Sullivan, aidé de Gunnar Smith et Daniel Menges. Carleton Place a réussi à surmonter la défensive de Rockland en deuxième période. Ryland Mosley, aidé de ses coéquipiers Reece Bolton et Cameron Patton, a marqué. Les Nats ont vite répliqué, avec un but de Cameron Last, sur des passes de Cole Craft et Simon Labelle. Last a encore marqué en troisième période, assisté cette fois-ci de Griffin McGregor et Sullivan. Rockland a remporté la partie quatre à un. The Clarence Creek Castors are three games up against the Gatineau-Hull Volant and looking for a fourth and final win in their quarterfinal series in the National Capital Junior Hockey League. The Castors beat the Volant 4-1, 3-1, and 2-1 in the first three games of their quarter-inal series. If the February 26 game in Gatineau finishes in Clarence Creek’s favour, the Castors will move on to the semifinals and wait to see who they play against then. Scoring singles for Clarence Creek in the February 22 opener were Kyle Green, Patrick Lemay, Nathan Melée, and Sam Paquette. Assists came from Lemay, Etienne Agius- Pease, Tyler Baker, Aiden Cannell, Matthew Clifford, and Vincent Martel, with Corey Camirand guarding the net. Brad Faubert scored the lone Gatineau goal with assists from Mathieu Des Ruisseaux and Denis Gratton. Marc-Olivier Bastien was in the net. Saturday night at the Rockland arena, Agius-Pease, Baker, and Lemay scored for Clarence Creek, with assists coming from Martel, Paquette, and Samuel Gaudet, while Camirand guarded the net. Des Ruisseaux scored for Gatineau with help from Gratton and Jeremy Trudeau, while Bastien was in the net. Sunday afternoon in Clarence Creek, Martel and Raphaël Payant scored for the Castors, with assists from Clifford and Lemay, while Camirand blocked the net. Jérémie Cardinal scored for Gatineau with assists from Simon Hupé and Marquis Roy, while Bastien was in the net. Saint-Isidore Saint-Isidore is scrambling to get ahead of North Dundas in the NCJHL quarterfinal series between the two clubs. North Dundas has two wins to Saint-Isidore’s one, after the GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
The Rockland Nationals recently defeated the Carleton Place Canadians four to one. However, they were defeated by the Navan Grads, four to one. The Rockland team did manage to clinch a playoff spot. —archives
Les Grads de Navan dominent Les Nationals ont ensuite fait face aux Grads de Navan, à l’aréna de Navan le 24 février dernier. Ceux-ci ont pris les devants tôt en pre- mière période. Jackson Arcan, aidé de Nick Lachaine et Ben Badalamenti, ainsi que ce
dernier, aidé d’Arcan et Zack Hoffman, ont tous deux marqué. Rockland a répliqué avec un but de Last, aidé de Craft et Smith. Aucune des deux équipes n’a marqué en deuxième. En troisième, les Grads ont marqué à deux reprises. Lachaine a compté sans aide, tandis que son coéquipier Wil
Murray, aidé de Jesse Lycan et Hoffman, a marqué en fin de troisième. Rockland s’est incliné face à Navan, quatre à un. Les Nationals ont donc une fiche de 34 victoires, 14 défaites, trois défaites en période de prolongation et deux défaites en tirs de barrage. Ils ont 73 points.
CLARENCE CREEK CASTORS SEEK FOURTH AND FINAL WIN IN QUARTERFINALS
first three games. North Dundas won the first two games against Saint-Isidore 4-3 each time. Jarrett Williams punched in two goals for North Dundas with Bradley Stitt Tom Fingler tallying singles in the February 22 opener in Saint-Isidore. Assisting on goals were Jarrett, Fingler, Cameron Brown, Matthew Cowley, Justin Lefebvre, and Hugo Lusignan, with Reilly Tondreau guarding the net. Ryan Wells scored twice for Saint-Isidore with Kevin Howson popping in a single. Goal assists came from Jakob Brunette, Frédérik Laflèche, Francis Laviolette, and Sebastien Roy, with Dawson Irving in the net. Saturday in Chesterville saw singles for North Dundas from Lefebvre, Lusignan, Kyle Collette, and Connor Roth. Assisting were Cowley, Fingler, Williams, Brad Nash, and Dylan Robinson with Tondreau in the net. Scoring for Saint-Isidore were Brunette, Wells, and Zackary Bougie. Assisting were Bougie, Howson, Laflèche, Tyler Druce, and Mathieu Grandmont, with Dawson in the net. Sunday, at home, Saint-Isidore beat North Dundas 4-2 with a pair of goals from Howson and singles from Roy and Xavier Leclerc. Assisting were Brunette, Wells, and Daniel Scott, with Dawson guarding the net. Roth scored twice for North Dundas, with help from Lefebvre and Jack Van Kessel, and Tondreau in the net. Saint-Isidore hosts the fourth game in the series, February 28, with the fifth in Chesterville on March 1. Vankleek Hill The battle has begun for a place in the championship finals of the National Capital Junior Hockey League and the Vankleek Hill Cougars and the Bytown Royals are split at two games to one in the quarterfinals so far. The Royals got a 5-2 win against the Cougars last Friday night on their home ice. Scoring two goals each for Bytown were Jonathan Cauchon and Gregory Knighton with Justin Proulx tallying a single. Goal assists
Les Castors de Clarence Creek ont remporté trois victoires contre le Volant de Gatineau-Hull et sont à la recherche de leur quatrième et dernière victoire dans leur série de quarts de finale dans la Ligue de hockey junior de la capitale nationale. Si le match du 26 février se termine en leur faveur, les Castors passeront au calendrier des demi-finales. —photo Gregg Chamberlain
came from Proulx, Dylan Lajeunesse, Eric L’Heureux, Nicolas Loyer, Samuel Paquette, and Joshua Renaud, with Danik Gervais guarding the net. Goals for the Cougars came from Tyler Dopelhamer and Jonathan Lacroix. Assisting were Lacroix, Keean McEachern, and Jacob Trempe, with Alexander Labrèche in the net. Saturday night at the Vankleek Hill Arena, the Cougars crowned the Royals 9-5, with McEachern and Trempe both punching in a pair of goals for Vankleek Hill. Tallying single points were Dopelhamer, Justin Labrosse, Trystan Lavoie, Danny Plourde-Grenon, and Nikolas Ayotte. Assists came from Ayotte, Dopelhamer, Labrosse, McEachern, Plourde- Grenon, Trempe, Zacharias Leblanc, Hugo Blanchard, Ryan Allen, and Joey Simoneau, with Labrèche guarding the net. For the Royals, Cauchon scored twice with single points going in from Samuel
Constantineau, Francis Proulx, and Justin Proulx. Assisting were Constantineau, Lajeunesse, Knighton, Loyer, and Renaud, with Gervais in the net. Sunday afternoon in Vankleek Hill, the Cougars clawed the Royals 6-1 with single goals from Allen, Ayotte, Castonguay, Dopehamer, Lavoie, and Jonathan Leblanc. Assisting were Allen, Ayotte, Castonguay, Dopelhamer, Labrosse, Plourde-Grenon, Trempe, and Zacharie Leblanc, with Frederick Durocher blocking the net. Francis Dall scored the lone Bytown goal with help from Samuel Paquette. Gervais was in the net. The Cougars and Royals are in Ottawa Friday night with a fifth, and maybe final game between them, Saturday night in Vankleek Hill. Remaining games, if necessary, will be Sunday in Ottawa and then next Wednesday in Vankleek Hill.
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