Oct 23 local sports: Generals football; world wrestling; Tigers hockey; Brock sports; Holy Cross hoops; Thorold Badminton Club
Jackson Stewart scores a TD for the Niagara Generals bantam Tier 1 football team in a win over the Brantford Bisons. Photo by JEN STEWART.
NIAGARA GENERALS FOOTBALL
Atoms 38 Dolphins 26
Ezekiel Langendoen scored five touchdowns to lead the Niagara Generals atom football team to a 38-26 win over the Durham Dolphins.
Brett Wall added a touchdown and Hudson Grent contributed a two-point convert for Niagara.
The Niagara Generals will travel to Scarborough Saturday to play the Scarborough Thunder in the semifinals.
Peewees 12 Predators 6
Austin MacRae scored two touchdowns to power the Niagara Generals peewee football team to a 12-6 victory over the Waterloo Predators.
“I cannot say more about how well our defence did,” coach Bruce MacRae said. “They were one unit making the stop time after time. I lost count of the amount of times Nathan Vander Meer got into the backfield and made the stop.”
The Generals will hit the road Saturday to play the Brantford Bisons in the semifinals.
T1 Bantams 27 Bisons 12
Justin Savoie had two fumble recoveries to help the Niagara Generals Tier 1 bantam football squad record a 27-12 victory over the Brantford Bisons.
Scoring majors for Niagara were Nick Longo, Ryan Broome, Jackson Stewart and Quinn Johnston. Broome added three converts while Nolan Banga and Savoie had strong games on offence.
The bantams will travel to Burlington Saturday to take on the Stampeders Red in semifinal action
Clarington 52 T2 Bantams 18
Ben Maglicic scored three touchdowns but it wasn’t enough as the Niagara Generals Tier 2 bantam football team saw its season come to an end with a 52-18 loss to Clarington.
Joey Dilse led the Niagara defence with 11 tackles.
The Generals coaching staff was proud of the players who continued to play throughout the season with hardships and did not quit on their team when the game became tough.
PARSONS LOSES FIRST MATCH
Brock Wrestling Club member Jade Parsons lost 10-3 to China’s Qi Zhang in her opening match at the senior world wrestling championships in Budapest, Hungary.
According to the Wrestling Canada website, the 27-year-old Orilia native was the aggressor for the majority of the match, but was outmaneuvered in the groundwork by Zhang.
“It was disappointing,” Parsons said. “I didn’t really let the nerves get to me, it was just won on my lack of ground defence. I’ve got to work on wrestling defensive wrestlers. It’s frustrating when my opponent is extremely defensive.”
Zhang made it to the semifinals for losing and was in contention for a bronze medal.
ATOM TIGERS BLANK LINCOLN
Riley Caron notched his third shutout of the season to lead the Welland Niagara Street Pharmacy/Gene’s Skate Sharpening Tigers to an 8-0 win over Lincoln in Niagara District major atom action.
Brennen Hagar and Townes Bestward each recorded a pair of goals and Carter Kelly, Tanner Cutler, Colby Franchetti and Matteo Mete added singles.
Hudson Kipp and Tanner Cutler then scored for Welland in a 2-2 tie with Grimsby. Max Morreale and Liam Applebee were the goal scorers for Grimsby.
Welland is one point out of first with a 3-1-2 record and a league-leading 27 goals.
TIGERS PEEWEES 2-2 IN ST. THOMAS
The Welland Telus Tigers major peewee hockey team went 2-2 at the Boston Pizza Cup in St. Thomas, competing against 15 of the top major peewee teams in Ontario and the U.S.
The Tigers defeated Oakville 3-2 on goals by Carter Kipp, Quinten Hemauer and Easton McComber; lost 3-2 against an AA tournament team from the U.S., St. Clair Shores, with goals by Hemauer and Mitchell Tomaino in the final four minutes of play; beat Barrie 4-1, thanks to goals by Tomaino (2), Hemauer and Nicolas DiPietro; and, lost 2-0 to the London Mustangs.
In Niagara District league play, Welland blanked Fort Erie 4-0 ( goals from Preston Wainwright, Kipp, Carter Risto and Kaleb Séguin and Brandon Alexander with his third shutout of the season), tied Grimsby 3-3 (goals by DiPietro (2) and Tyler Rowland) and lost 2-1 to Garden City (goal by DiPietro).
Lucas Faughnan, Lukas Boettger and Luca Vallorani scored for Grimsby and Patrick Pettigrew and Troy Murray netted goals for Garden City.
MOELHLING AN ALL-STAR
Kaylah Moehling of Port Colborne has been named an Ontario University Athletics’ all-star in women’s rugby following a strong season at Brock.
Brock head coach Stefanie Pavlovich was named coach of the year and senior fullback Katelyn Heyens earned the community service award and was named an all star.
SHUTOUT FOR SPAGNOLO
Goalkeeper Marilena Spagnolo of St. Catharines recorded the shutout with nine saves as the Brock women’s soccer team blanked Waterloo 1-0 to earn the team’s first playoff appearance in 10 years.
“There’s no team in this league that deserves playoffs more than us,” Brock head coach Kevin Trethowan. “We had playoffs taken away from us last season and for the team to bounce back and turn it around the way we have this season is amazing.”
Niagara Falls native Sydney Sica scored twice for Brock in a 3-1 win over Laurier.
RAIDERS FALL TO PHOENIX
Sarah O’Rourke scored 21 points but it wasn’t enough as the Holy Cross Raiders senior girls basketball team lost 57-44 to Saint Francis.
Maddie Caughill added 14 points for Holy Cross and Paig Macoretta contributed five.
Scorers for Saint Francis were not reported.
THOROLD BADMINTON CLUB
The Thorold Badminton Club is looking for players for the 2018-19 season.
The club plays every Monday and Friday from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Richmond Street School in Thorold.
For more information about student and adult rates, please email Jay at pennzoil164@yahoo.ca.
