We all know the pinnacle will be held here in Brockville on June 7-8-9. Ron, Jack, Randy and the crew have been working for two years to prep for this event.Their hard work will come to fruition on that weekend.

I will feature some of the committee’s work along with some local athletes. I will also give you the opportunity to follow along as we trace the successes of two leagues; here at home , the Leeds and Grenville schools as they work their way thru LGSSAA, EOSSAA and East Regionals.

I will also try to keep everyone updated on the athletes from the South Region of the Toronto District (TDSSAA) as they progress towards OFSSAA on June 7-8-9.

Men Shot Put Junior
Name School Finals
1 Prophet, Brandon Smchs-Brockville 14.47m
2 Cholette, Kris Tiss- Brockville 12.94m
3 Muchmore, Jesse Rdhs - Elgin 10.87m
4 Glover, Thomas Rdhs - Elgin 9.44m

Men Discus Throw Junior
Name School Finals

1 Cholette, Kris Tiss- Brockville 41.34m
2 Prophet, Brandon Smchs-Brockville 41.03m
3 Muchmore, Jesse Rdhs - Elgin 36.41m
4 Glover, Thomas Rdhs - Elgin 31.60m
5 McDougall, Jared Smchs-Brockville 30.95m
6 Moorhead, Connor Rdhs - Elgin 30.10m
7 Lapierre, Hunter Rdhs - Elgin 29.09m
8 Surowiak, Caleb 21.69mM

Women Long Jump Midget
Name School Finals

1 Surowiak, Rachel 4.61m NWI
2 Ekeh, Odera Smchs-Brockville 4.54m NWI
3 Andrews, Kasey Tiss- Brockville 4.43m NWI
4 Atkinson, Carley-Ann 3.88m NWI
5 Wrona, Gabby 3.82m NWI
6 Stevens, Mikayla 3.60m NWI
7 Bailey, Halle Tiss- Brockville 3.52m NWI
8 Tackabeery, Kendra 3.50m NWI

Women Triple Jump Midget
Name School Finals

1 Wills, Rachel Bci - Brockville 9.85m NWI
2 Andrews, Kasey Tiss- Brockville 9.66m NWI
3 Surowiak, Rachel 9.54m NWI
4 Benson, Samantha Tiss- Brockville 8.38m NWI
5 Wrona, Gabby 8.35m NWI

Women 800 Meter Run Senior
Name School Finals

1 Baldissera, Emily Tiss- Brockville 2:24.34
2 Kent, Shelby Tiss- Brockville 2:29.72
3 Ouimette, Sarah 2:35.91
4 Bell, Siobahn Rdhs - Elgin 2:53.15

Women 1500 Meter Run Senior
Name School Finals

1 Baldissera, Emily Tiss- Brockville 5:01.56
2 Selleck, Emma Tiss- Brockville 5:01.63
3 Ouimette, Sarah 5:28.24
4 Kent, Shelby Tiss- Brockville 5:29.62
5 Gemmell, Christine Tiss- Brockville 5:31.17
6 Bell, Siobahn Rdhs - Elgin 6:01.58

Complete 2012 LGSSAA Track and Field Championships - info/results -

Event 71  Women 800 Meter Run Senior
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    Name                    Year School                  Seed     Finals  Points
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  1 64 Hill, Samantha            Eastern Commerce     2:15.00    2:19.71    10
  2 610 Yarranton, Brynne        University of To                2:20.36     8
  3 463 Edwards, Samantha        Northern - Toron     2:25.00    2:20.38     6
  4 655 Walmsley, Amy            Rosedale Hts                    2:20.54     4
  5 332 Emilio, Sarah            Malvern - Toront     2:23.00    2:22.09     2
  6 219 McDonald, Madeline       Lawrence Park -                 2:22.42     1  

Event 73  Women 1500 Meter Run Senior
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    Name                    Year School                  Seed     Finals  Points
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  1 219 McDonald, Madeline       Lawrence Park -                 4:51.34    10
  2 332 Emilio, Sarah            Malvern - Toront     4:45.00    5:00.01     8
  3 64 Hill, Samantha            Eastern Commerce     4:45.00    5:20.79     6
  4 601 Ho, Anthea               University of To                5:45.85     4
  5 472 Macdonald, Kiera         Northern - Toron                5:50.02     2
  6 342 Leone, Christina         Malvern - Toront     6:00.00    5:51.14     1 

Event 21  Women Long Jump Midget
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    Name                    Year School                  Seed     Finals  Wind Points
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  1 63 Hill, Kate                Eastern Commerce                  4.58m   NWI   10
  2 134 McCluskie, Kaitlyn       Humberside - Tor                  4.42m   NWI    8
  3 351 Sorra, Kersti            Malvern - Toront                  4.32m   NWI    6
  4 16 Loucas, Danielle          Danforth - Toron                  4.26m   NWI    4
  5 571 Yu, Iris                 Riverdale - Toro                  4.08m   NWI    2
  6 448 Hall, Alexa              North Toronto -                   3.98m   NWI    1  

Event 23  Women Triple Jump Midget
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    Name                    Year School                  Seed     Finals  Wind Points
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  1 351 Sorra, Kersti            Malvern - Toront                 10.54m   NWI   10
  2 63 Hill, Kate                Eastern Commerce                  9.86m   NWI    8
  3 206 Barnett, Lauren          Lawrence Park -                   9.78m   NWI    6
  4 479 Petolescu, Catherine     Northern - Toron                  9.75m   NWI    4
  5 17 Ng, Kelly                 Danforth - Toron                  9.33m   NWI    2
  6 134 McCluskie, Kaitlyn       Humberside - Tor                  9.29m   NWI    1  

Event 58  Men Shot Put Junior
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    Name                    Year School                  Seed     Finals  Points
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  1 43 Inniss, Brad              East York - Toro                 13.15m    10
  2 111 MacDonald, Riley         Harbord - Toront                 10.27m     8
  3 284 Quattrocchi, Julian      Lawrence Park -                   9.40m     6
  4 428 Pitre, Sean              Monarch Park - T                  8.98m     4
  5 114 Watson, Tosh             Harbord - Toront                  8.87m     2
  6 315 Anthony, Tristan         Leaside - Toront                  8.26m     1
 -- 297 Westell, Andrew          Lawrence Park -                      ND
 -- 504 Johnson, Shareef         Northern - Toron                     ND
 -- 298 Wiseman, Ian             Lawrence Park -                      ND
 -- 278 Oliveria, Glener         Lawrence Park -                      ND  

Event 60  Men Discus Throw Junior
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    Name                    Year School                  Seed     Finals  Points
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  1 272 Kuzmich, Jason           Lawrence Park -                  37.78m    10
  2 251 Burton, Berndan          Lawrence Park -                  29.40m     8
  3 428 Pitre, Sean              Monarch Park - T                 26.75m     6  

Complete TDSSAA South and West Track Championships - 2012 Results - 

By RON SMITH , SPORTS EDITOR
From the R&T Article here

Records are made to be broken.

However, these two records were among the oldest in Leeds and Grenville.

Two long-standing senior hurdles records fell by the wayside in the annual Leeds and Grenville high school track and field championships at TISS on Wednesday. TISS Pirates' Rachel Bennett and Ryan Harper put themselves into the LGSSAA record books by knocking out marks that had been established in 1983 and 1978.

Bennett erased the 1983 record of Pirates' Pam Prophet with her time of 1:08.66 in the senior girls 400-metre hurdles. Prophet's mark was 1:10.5. Harper knocked out the 1978 record of South Grenville Giants' Brian Keller of 58.7 in the senior boys 400-metre hurdles. Harper's record time was 58.15 seconds,

"When I heard it was from 1983, I thought 'wow', that's impressive. I'm really proud," said Bennett after her victory.

Today Kate finished 2nd in the TJ and Sami won the senior girls 800m.

So all three advance to the next meet, aiming for OFSAA on June 7-8-9 here in Brockville.

05/15/12

The Saginaw Spirit today announce the signing of left wing Dylan Sadowy to an OHL contract, making the forward the third of the Spirit’s 2012 OHL Priority Selection picks to reach an agreement with the team. The Spirit had previously signed their first two selections in the draft, first round pick Jeremiah Addison, and second rounder Brandon Prophet. Sadowy comes to the Spirit after being the team’s last of two second round picks, going 37^th overall.

Sadowy spent last season with the Vaughan Kings Minor Midget program, where he recorded 33 goals, and 45 assists for 78 points in 53 games. He also added four points in five games in the 2012 OHL Cup, and was the second member of the Kings to be drafted into the OHL this year following Michael Dal Colle, who went in the first round to the Oshawa Generals.

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Penticton scores a couple of late goals (one in the last minute) to win the Royal Bank Cup!

• Jason Tatarnic's Slammers were oh so close!
• Nepean Riders must be upset as they were so close to winning the Fred Page Cup over Woodstock.
• Cornwall Colts can't feel any better as they had Nepean on the ropes and couldn't finish them off!
• And the same can be said for Pembroke Lumber kings, they had Nepean down as well!

This all speaks well for CCHL, they have arrived!

I am hoping you watched at least some of the RBC games on FASTHockey. Hockey Canada supplied them free of charge. They were a pleasure to watch from a technical point of view. Pretty darn nice. Your CCHL is considering switching (no pun intended) to FASTHockey next season.

And did the FASTHockey broadcast ever look good on my Samsung Tablet with it’s Android operating system. Silverlight doesn’t run on Apple iOS nor Android.

I had a great time at the 20th M & M Charity BBQ. Sold a lot of burgers and dogs, and hopefully raised a lot of money fro Crohn’s disease research. Rebecca got her first taste of working with volunteers, and is now much better prepared for next year. I got to know Kevin ( a KPMG confrere of Rebecca’s) a little bit and it helped pass the time.

I was back to Kingston Sunday (who would ever buy a corner lot?). In those new subdivisions in Kingston the lot sizes are minute, except for some of the corner lots. And you can guess who has one. Rebecca was not alone in what appeared to be a dandelion grow area. It was a sea of yellow. While I mowed the lawn, Colleen (great Mother’s day) was down on her hands and knees digging up those damdelions!

Rebecca and I treated Colleen to a tasteful Mother’s Day dinner at Greek Islands on Bath Road. We had a super waitress, knowledgeable and friendly which always makes the meal more enjoyable and the bill more tolerable. I just have to mention, that Saganaki is by far one of the best tasting foods in the world. No discussion of health issues here, please.

Jordan is still struggling with the edict by Oswego State about athletes and International scholarships. Tears my heart to see what this is doing to him.

As a converted Expo fan, we keep hoping the Blue Jays, and a couple of their big hitters, are going to get their act together on a regular basis and do some serious damage in the AL East.

The semifinal winners will meet in Sunday’s championship game, which can be seen at 7:30 p.m. ET/4:30 p.m. PT on TSN2/RDS, Hockey Canada’s official broadcasters (check your local listings). Both semifinals can be seen live via webcast through FASTHockey at hockeycanada.fasthockey.com. Fans can watch all the action for free by following three steps:

STEP 1: Visit hockeycanada.fasthockey.com and sign up for a free FASTHockey account.
STEP 2: Like the RBC Cup on Facebook at www.facebook.com/rbccup.
STEP 3: Just prior to the game, click the RBC Cup LIVE link on the RBC Cup Facebook page to watch.

For more information on the 2012 RBC Cup, visit www.hockeycanada.ca/rbccup, or follow the tournament via social media at www.facebook.com/rbccup and www.twitter.com/hc_rbccup.

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HUMBOLDT, Sask. – The 2012 RBC Cup, Canada's 42nd National Junior A Championship, held its awards banquet on Friday night at the Humboldt Uniplex. The recipients of all six individual awards were announced at the banquet.

The awards were based on the tournament's preliminary round, which ran from Saturday to Thursday.

The 2012 RBC Cup award winners are:

Most Valuable Player (Roland Mercier Trophy) – John Kleinhans (Soo Thunderbirds)

Top Goaltender – John Kleinhans (Soo Thunderbirds)

Top Forward – Andrew Johnston (Humboldt Broncos)

Top Defenceman – Troy Stecher (Penticton Vees)

Most Sportsmanlike Player (Tubby Schmalz Trophy) – Micky Sartoretto (Soo Thunderbirds)

Top Scorer – Andrew Johnston (Humboldt Broncos)

In addition, Stouffville Spirit (Ontario Junior Hockey League) forward Christian Finch was presented with the 2012 RBC Canadian Junior Hockey League Player of the Year award. A defenceman until the start of the 2010-11 season, Finch has settled right in at forward for the Spirit, taking home the OJHL scoring title this year with 104 points (37 goals, 67 assists), 18 more than any other Ontario leaguer. He was rewarded for his offensive efforts, taking home the OJHL MVP award and earning a spot on the league’s First All-Star Team.

Theodore Hannah of the Carleton Place Canadians (Central Canada Hockey League) was on hand in Humboldt to receive the RBC National Junior A Scholarship. Hannah was chosen from 10 finalists – one from each of the Canadian Junior Hockey League's member leagues – to receive the $5,000 scholarship.

The RBC Cup Legacy Scholarships were also handed out at the awards banquet. Established following the 2004 RBC Royal Bank Cup in Grande Prairie, Alta. and contributed to following successful National Junior A Championships in Weyburn, Sask., Prince George, B.C., and Cornwall, Ont., these $500 scholarships are awarded to one graduating 20-year-old player from each of the five participating teams.

The RBC Cup Legacy Scholarship winners are:

Humboldt Broncos – Ryan Marshall

Penticton Vees – Kyle Beaulieu

Portage Terriers – Cody Kostecki

Soo Thunderbirds – Kris Barclay

Woodstock Slammers – Tim Campbell

The CCHL Board of Governors has unanimously approved the transfer of the Kemptville 73's Hockey Club from Paul Brenton to Bob Thompson.
Brenton purchased an expansion franchise five seasons ago and was responsible for bringing Junior A hockey to North Grenville. Notable graduates include Calvin deHaan, who was the teams first overall draft selection, who went on to represent Canada at the World Junior Championships and become a first round NHL selection of the New York Islanders.

Thompson is a long time hockey executive with the Ottawa Valley Titans and more recently with the 73's, whose son Shayne played five seasons in the CCHL with Kanata and Brockville before accepting an NCAA Division I hockey scholarship at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, where he is entering his junior year.
The CCHL wish

es to thank the Brenton family for their contributions and welcome the Thompsons to the league.

The CCHL hosts its annual Prospects Camp from May 25-27 at Bell Sensplex and its annual draft on May 31 at Gloucester's Earl Armstrong Arena.

BENIK SCORES WINNER AS VEES FINALLY EARN FIRST WIN AT RBC CUP

HUMBOLDT, Sask. – Joey Benik scored the game-winning goal early in the third period as the Penticton Vees earned their first win of the 2012 RBC Cup with a 2-1 victory over the Woodstock Slammers on Tuesday night.

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The win stopped Penticton’s first two-game losing streak of the year and kept the Vees from becoming the first Pacific Region team to start the National Junior A Championship 0-3 since the Vernon Vipers in 1999 (although the Vipers ended up winning the national title).

Benik tipped a Mike Reilly point shot past Woodstock goaltender Matt Murphy to give Penticton (1-2) a couple of firsts at this year’s tournament: Benik’s goal was the first scored on the power play by the Vees, and gave them their first lead.

Ryan Reilly scored the other goal for the Vees, who entered the national championship as the CJHL’s top-ranked team, but were the last in the five-team field without a victory before Tuesday night, a shocking turn of events considering Penticton won 70 of 80 regular season and playoff games this season.

Andrew Langan had the lone goal for Woodstock (1-2), giving the Slammers a short-lived 1-0 lead, as Reilly tied it just 80 seconds after Langan’s icebreaker. Woodstock couldn’t build on the momentum from its Monday night win over Portage – it managed only 21 shots on Vees netminder Michael Garteig, and was outshot 41-21.

The Penticton win leaves a four-way log jam for second place, with the Vees, Slammers and Soo Thunderbirds all sitting at 1-2, while Portage is 1-1 after four days of action.

The Vees will look to clinch a berth in Saturday’s semifinals when they closes out their preliminary round on Wednesday night against Portage (7:30 p.m. MT), while Woodstock will try to book a Saturday spot of its own on Thursday afternoon against the Soo (3 p.m. MT).

The next ten years in Rebecca’s life were typical hell for a severe Crohn’s patient. They had their highlights and their lowlights. Month long stays in the hospital, irregular school attendance, impeded horse shows but including sitting in Wade Redden’s box for an emotional playoff game between the Sens and the Leafs and a week long trip to the equestrian Masters Cup in Calgary, courtesy of the Starlight Foundation.

Rebecca graduated from Queen’s School of Business in 2009 an was hired by KPMG to start in October of that year. And eerily similar to Matt Light’s story which follows, she was scheduled for surgery to remove 23” of her intestine, during a 5day hospital stay. As with Matt, severe complications and a near death event, extended that stay for two months. She missed a planned trip to Greece with Ali but did get out of the hospital in time to start her career with KPMG.

She has had a couple of hospital stays since and is still not Crohn’s free. So much for the average Joe, you can read Theo Fleury’s book, “Playing With Fire” or as a start just read the following newspaper article and view the short video.

Matt Light reveals battle with Crohn's

Retiring Patriots lineman talks about dark period while fighting intestinal disease

Updated: May 8, 2012, 2:55 PM ET

By Mike Reiss | ESPNBoston.com

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• Damien Woody shares his thoughts on former teammate Matt Light's retirement,

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- When members of the New England Patriots gathered at owner Robert Kraft's home to receive their Super Bowl rings in the summer of 2004, offensive lineman Matt Light couldn't make it. It wasn't by choice.

Light was fighting to stay alive, in the middle of a 30-day hospital stay.

"It was one of the darkest periods in my life," he recalled Monday.

“

The pain became so difficult that in the offseason it just paralyzed me. I'd hit the ground. You can't wake up. You can't sit down.

” -- Matt Light on his struggle with Crohn's disease

Had things unfolded according to plan, Light would have had 13 inches of his intestine removed, the intestine would have grown back, there would have been no complications and he would have been back on the field for the start of 2004 training camp.

But that's not the way it happened.

Instead, there were post-surgery complications. Light didn't eat for a month. His weight dropped from 315 pounds to 260, as his under-the-radar battle with Crohn's disease -- a bowel disease that causes inflammation of the lining of the digestive system -- was attacking him with force.

Balance of the story at ESPN Boston

And you can go to your local M&M store this Saturday for their BBQ fundraiser for Crohn’s. We’ll be there.