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Eight local girls won a chance to compete at the international level after winning the Ontario Aboriginal Summer Games volleyball tournament on Sunday, August 25. They will travel to Regina, Saskatchewan in late July of next year to represent Ontario in the North American Indigenous Games. An estimated 6,000 athletes will compete in the games. About 30 athletes competed in best-of-three series for the chance at the games, with the contests bringing close competition, especially in the 19-under...
Four people are facing federal indictments accusing them of conspiring to bring illegal aliens to U.S. soil stemming from a case that began in February. John Benedict and Angela Johnson pleaded not guilty on Thursday, August 22 in U.S. District Court, Syracuse, to conspiracy to bring aliens into the United States for purposes of commercial advantage and private financial gain. Dariusz Podgajny and Oleh Solomon entered not guilty pleas to transporting aliens into the country. Ian R.E. Tarbell and Mikita Palaukov previously had denied charges of...
Five people are looking down the barrel of spending the rest of their lives in federal prison after pleading guilty to involvement in an international cocaine and ecstasy smuggling ring that moved drugs through Akwesasne. April Burns, Elizabeth VanGuilder and John French pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Albany. All except French could face up to life imprisonment – he is facing a 40-year maximum sentence. Burns is looking at a minimum of 10 years b...
The Caughnawaga Indians took the Iroquois Lacrosse Association’s top honor for the 2013 season on Thursday, Aug. 15, defeating the Snake Island Muskies 8 – 6 in game five of a best-of-seven series at Massena Arena. They will advance to the President’s Cup to compete for the Quebec Lacrosse League Senior B title in Kahnawake over the week of August 26. Over 800 people attended. Although Snake Island took game one, the Indians came from behind and swept games two through five. “We’re going to...
A Cornwall Island, Ont., man was sentenced to just over three years in prison on Monday, Aug. 12 for conspiring to smuggle oxycodone through Akwesasne. Nathan Benedict, 34, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Albany to 37 months behind bars to be followed by three years’ post-release supervision. He admitted in March 2011 to charges of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute a controlled substance. According to court documents, Benedict and his wife, Donna, 34, formerly known as Donna Lazore, smuggled large q...
The Cornwall River Kings looking to bolster their ranks and improve on last year’s inaugural season have signed three men from Akwesasne to join their ranks this winter. Casey Swamp, Ian Boots, and Mike Stacy met with team heads last week at LaPierre Sport in Cornwall and put ink to paper, making them official squad members. “We’re happy to have them,” said River Kings general manager Rick LaPierre. “We’re in our second season – it’s still new. We’re changing a lot of faces on and off the bench...
The Akwesasne Indians were knocked out of the Ontario Lacrosse League Junior B playoffs by the Clarington Green Gaels in a best-of-five series. The Gaels won three games to one. Although the Indians took game one, Clarington went on to sweep the next three games, finishing off with home victories on Friday, August 3 and Saturday, August 4. Game three The series’ third game kept up the same back-and-forth, anybody’s-game tension of the previous two contests. Coming off of a two-goal defeat six days earlier, the Indians hit the floor with aut...
The Cornwall Island Redmen’s 2013 season ended Thursday night, Aug. 1 at Kahnawake Sports Complex as the Caughnawaga Indians took them three games to none in a best-of-five series of the first round of the Quebec Senior Lacrosse League playoffs. The Indians will take on the Snake Island Muskies in a best-of-seven series on dates yet to be determined. Although the Redmen started the series with a blowout loss in game one, they regained their bearing as the series progressed, falling by a single goal in game three. The series’ closing con...
Akwesasne Co-Ed Softball League action on Sunday, August 4 saw the Boob Pigs squeeze past the Braves 17 – 14 at the American Legion field. The Pig squad ferociously opened the game, sending six runners across the plate and going through their lineup twice. Their defensive squad held the Braves scoreless in the bottom of the first, taking out three runners in five at-bats. The Boob Pigs returned to the plate and were only able to go through five batters, but did manage to send a runner home b...
The Clarington Green Gaels handed the Akwesasne Indians their first loss of the 2013 Ontario Lacrosse League Junior B playoffs on Sunday at Anowarakowa Arena, ending the game with 13 goals to Akwesasne’s 11. The two teams will head to Clarington to end the best-of-five series, squaring off Friday at 7 p.m. at the Garnet B. Rickard Recreation Complex in Bowmanville, Ontario. The series is tied at one game piece, as the Indians squeaked by the Gaels on Saturday 10 goals to 9. Game two S...
After 60 minutes of tight, back-and-forth play, the Snake Island Muskies narrowly defeated the Caughnawaga Indians 16 – 14, clinching first place in their division and securing a bye in the first round of this year’s Quebec Lacrosse League Senior B playoffs. They will face the winner of the Indians’ series against the Cornwall Island Redmen. Both teams played hard out of the gate, ending the first period at a 5 – 5 tie. Caughnawaga’s Miles Thompson opened scoring at 1:17, with an assist from Ang...
The Snake Island Muskies took their fourth straight victory on Thursday, July 18 decimating the Kahnawake Mohawks after three periods at the Massena Arena. It was a disappointing defeat for the Mohawks as it was only their third loss of the 2013 regular season. The match started off as anybody’s game. Snake Island found the back of Kahnawake’s net twice in the first three minutes and a third time by the stanza’s close, with Kahnawake answering twice. Snake Island’s first mark on the scorebo...
Mohawk International Raceway (MIR) barely eeked by Rocket Ronnie’s by a final score of 11 – 10 in Akwesasne Co-Ed Softball League Action played Sunday at Frogtown field. Rocket Ronnie’s got off to a hot start, bringing six runners home in the first inning while holding their opponents to only three. Their next at-bat didn’t live up to their showing from the opening inning, going through five batters with none getting across the plate. When it was MIR’s turn to take up the bat, they narrowed...
The Akwesasne Indians are continuing their powerhouse showing in the Ontario Lacrosse League Junior B playoffs, having defeated their round two opponents the Halton Hills Bulldogs in the first two games of a best-of-five series. Game One Akwesasne opened the series with a bang, taking the Bulldogs down 10 – 6 after three periods of play. The Indians’ offense was strong from the start, managing a 5 – 2 advantage over their opponents at the close of period number one. Akwesasne’s offensi...
MASSENA – The Snake Island Muskies are on a three-game winning streak after taking down the Caughnawaga Indians at Massena Arena on Thursday, July 11 and the Vermont Voyageurs on Sunday, July 14. Muskies 13, Indians 10 The two teams came to win, as can be seen not only by the close, high-scoring game but also the number of citations each team received for unnecessary roughness – a dozen in all for a total of 24 penalty minutes. Caughnawaga quickly gained the upper hand, closing the first per...
The Akwesasne Co-Ed Softball League’s Bone Crushers got an early lead and walked away the victors over the Winos on Friday, July 12 at Frogtown field. The Bone Crushers lived up to their name right from the start by sending 10 runners across home plate in the first two innings of play. In that same timeframe, the Winos scored only once. But that didn’t mean they had given up. They batted in five runs in the third inning while holding their opponent to just one run, which would be the last tim...
The Akwesasne Indians started round one of the Ontario Junior B Lacrosse League playoffs with a 9 to 4 victory against the Nepean Knights. The two met Saturday night, July 6 at the Anowarakowa Arena. The game was a wild affair, with both teams drawing a total of 69 penalty minutes; Akwesasne garnered 45 minutes and Nepean was docked 24 minutes. Akwesasne established an early lead, closing the first period with three goals, two of which came out of Adam Bomberry’s stick. He was the contest’s ove...
Akwesasne Co-Ed Softball league action saw the Winos defeat Got The Runs with a walk-off win by a final tally of 11 runs to 10 on Sunday at Frogtown field. The Winos set themselves up with an early lead, closing the first inning with 5 runs, three of which came off of a three-run inside-the-park home run. Got The Runs started to come back, answering with two runs in the bottom of the first and holding their opponents scoreless in the second inning. They added three more runs by the end of the th...
Quebec Lacrosse League Senior B action on Thursday, July 4 saw the visiting Snake Island Muskies defeat the Cornwall Island Redmen by a 13 to 6 landslide at A’nowara’kowa Arena. About 250 spectators attended. The Muskies had a strong showing right from the get-go, scoring four goals in the first 8:16 of play, two apiece coming off the sticks of Josh Sanderson and Rusty Kruger. Sanderson finished the game with three goals and one assist, Kuger ended with four points of his own – two goals and t...
