A Voice from the Eastern Door
A Voice from the Eastern Door
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The Akwesasne Attack lacrosse club brought their game to the Massena High School last weekend. A Playday was held and local clubs performed very well, winning and losing, but representing well our field lacrosse community. Teams came in from Potsdam, Canton, Ogdensburg, Plattsburgh, Tri-Lakes and host Massena. This Sunday, June 11, it will be the Akwesasne Attacks turn to host our Playday with all fields at Generations Park being used. Last year's Attack hosted tourney was well received by out...
The kids were getting geared up to carry on the Akwesasne vs. Kahnawake lacrosse rivalry and the latest clash was last weekend on Kawehnoke. The Paperweight, Tykes, Novice, Bantam and Peewee B clubs all had games last Sunday. The Tykes tied their game at nine. Honegayehwas led the Storm with four goals and Kaden Thompson scored three. Rariwakerons Silver scored once. Rawehrenhatie Jacobs scored three for the visitors. In a Bantam matchup the Akwesasne 2 club nicked Kahnawake 5-4. Camrin King...
The 2017 Cornwall District Soccer league began last week. Both Akwesasne teams – the Lady Devils and Stars won their games – and both by the same 5-2 score. At Long Sault the Lady Devils, behind Iastha Porter's three goals, defeated McLeans Block. Jenna Prieur and Lady Devils' addition Karley Cree scored one each. Porter's first goal was the only one of the first half and she came in on MacLeans Block goalie Bonnie Woodside and did some fancy footwork for the goal. Prieur added one early in the...
Last weekend was a hot one so, a couple groups' of kids hit the roadside to raise money. In Kanatakon, Camrin King is trying to raise money for various lacrosse expenses and he, along with mom and sister Bria, sold Indian Tacos and Lemonade. On Kawehnoke, a group of friends set up a roadside stand and sold a variety of items in hopes of making enough money to buy themselves some Polaroid cameras and film. They plan to donate any extra money they made towards bracelets for the elderly in the...
Youth who want to learn the game or sharpen their skills have just recently participated in the Spikes Babes Volleyball program. This was weekly training sessions at the Kanatakon School and Heart to Heart, and under the instruction of coaches Nancy Jacobs, Tatum Lafrance, Bailey Thomas, Torri Skidders and Tianna Back, they learned all aspects of the game. The program concluded with an awards ceremony at Bears Den and it was sponsored by the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe's Environment Division and...
The always tough and fast Nepean Knights and Gloucester Griffins lacrosse programs came to Kawehnoke and put up some entertaining Minor Lacrosse action last weekend. In the morning games the Akwesasne Storm played against Gloucester clubs and in the afternoon they played against Nepean. In the first game of the play day Louie MacDonald of the Storm Novice 2 team scored twice but they came up short against Gloucester 7-4. Korvin Edwards and Camrie Cook also scored for the hosts. The Storm led...
The Cornwall Celtics provided rough, hard-hitting, fast-passing, lacrosse 40 years ago against Akwesasne. Last weekend that same spirit repeated itself on Kawehnoke. The Akwesasne Storm lacrosse program hosted their counterparts from across the river and like the rivalry 40 years ago there was hard hits, near fights, blowouts, hot goaltending and crisp passing plays. In the first game of the day the Cornwall Tykes held a brief 1-0 lead but Akwesasne busted this game open with a seven goal...
Elders at the St. Regis Seniors Center were treated last weekend to some great music from one of our own local performers. The River Mohawks were there to play up the release of their "Shine On! Shine On!" CD. They played country music standards that local fans have been listening to for years; Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, James Taylor and others were performed as the seniors got up to dance. The CD is available everywhere in Akwesasne, and is mostly cover songs of the classic favorites the band...
Last week, students from the southern portion were off on Spring Break and the Rooseveltown club was there for them. "Staycation" is an annual program where the club opens during the day as opposed to its regular afterschool hours of operation throughout the school year. The tech center, arts and crafts room, multi-purpose room and the playground outside were all open for business. In keeping with their healthy lifestyles policy the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe Health Program came in and held...
As per history, when Kahnawake comes to town, it is always some of the more spirited lacrosse competition. The Anowarako:wa Arena opened it's floor for the 2017 lacrosse season and several teams from Kahnawake made the trip along with plenty of loud and cheering fans. They got to watch battles from the tykes to midget and late in the afternoon the Juniors from both communities met in a scrappy game....
Easter festivities got underway last weekend at Snye Recreation. A Pie Bingo was held Saturday with meat pies and apple pies stacked and ready to go in the kitchen. During the intermission, an Easter Bonnet judging was held with the gang from Iakhihsohtha making the trip and joining in on the fun. Later that evening there was a Trivia Contest and the following day there was the popular Easter Egg Hunt and Kids Easter Bonnet decorating contest....
The St. Regis Rec Dance Club put on a big performance for one of their own. Last weekend the Club held the third Lip Sync Battle to raise funds to help Jordan Reese with medical costs. They raised over $3800 and the battle was co-sponsored by the St. Regis Recreation Committee. Generous donations were from Dr. Daniel, Cass Terrance and Mary and Philip Gray. Community members put up challenges to friends to lip sync and a few community members accepted the challenge to perform to the theme of...
The Stars Women's Soccer team of the Cornwall Indoor Soccer league won their matchup last weekend 1-0 over Dr. Bosse Dental. Lindsay Kennedy of the Stars got a kick off against Marissa Fontaine in the Dr. Bosse Dental net. The rebound came out to Kelby Mitchell who tucked it home. The Lady Devils had a shortage of players in their match up against Glengarry Gaels and they were forced to forfeit....
The Seaway Valley Rapids Atom AA hosted the Gloucester Rangers last weekend on Kawehno:ke and despite several excellent chances Gloucester handed them a 10-1 loss. Kaiden Pyke scored the Rapid's only goal-a second period tally-as he weaved his way from the blue line and stick-handled around the Ranger's defenders to score. Minutes later Beyton Hopps-Thompson used the same play taking the same route from the blue line but he was stopped. The Rangers ran into penalties and the Rapids power play...
The two Akwesasne based clubs had their third meeting of the Cornwall Indoor Soccer season last weekend with the Stars winning this round 2-1. Kelby Mitchell started the scoring for the Stars in the first quarter. Both teams had great chances to go ahead or tie. In the second quarter Amanda King of the Lady Devils tied the game as she had a foot race against Stars goalie Diane Lazore. King sidestepped the netminder and got one past her to tie the match. Near the midway point of the final half...
The Cornwall Colts Novice team stayed with the Akwesasne Wolves for one period but then their wheels fell off. On Monday, January 30 the two clubs met on Kawehno:ke and traded first period goals. Teiowisatenion Herne for Akwesasne, and Matt Lewis for Cornwall. But :52 into the middle period Taeys Tasse-Benedict started a beauty end-to-end rush from behind his own net and scored for that period's only goal. The Colts had a big chance to tie in that opening period as the Wolves swapped out...
Tryton Sunday of the Akwesasne Wolves Bantams scored :57 into the game, and three minutes later three goals were scored within a minute and the Wolves cruised to a 13-0 win. This game was played February 2nd on Kawehnoke. In total they scored seven goals in the opening period, once in the second and picked up the scoring spree with five in the third. Khyler Johnson and Stone Chubb each scored three, Kyren Lazore and Aiden Peters had two each and Rorontakehte David, Tryton Sunday and Iate Thomas...
The game came down to literally the last second. The South Stormont Selects Peewee "B"s came to the Anowarako:wa Arena on January 25 and almost went home with a tie but the host Akwesasne Wolves pulled off the win 5-4. Kyden Burns scored twice in the win while Richard Thompson, Camrin King and Carsten Mitchell scored one each. The Wolves led by period leads of 1-0 and 4-1 before the Selects came back with three third period goals. Akwesasne was leading 4-3 in the final two minutes when South...
The Akwesasne Wolves Bantams had a huge five goal third period on the way to a 9-1 win over the Cornwall Colts Bantams. Aiden Peters and Vance Adams scored two each in the win. Single goals came from Stone Chubb, Khyler Johnson, Kyren Lazore and Rowennaskats Porter. Tsiorahkwahse Benedict, Treyton Sunday and Iate Thomas collected one assist each. Porter and Adams picked up two assists while Sunday had three helpers. The Cornwall Colts stayed in this game trailing only 4-1 at the end of two...
Last week the Akwesasne Atom "B" team pulled off a squeaker 2-1 win over the NGS Braves. Kinley Rourke of the Wolves finally connected in the second period to open the scoring. In that scoreless first period Rourke had two big chances but missed. The Braves tied the game early in the third and late in the third Otsi Benedict scored the game-winning goal with Rourke picking up the assist. This game was played at the Anowarako:wa Arena....
A huge first period five goal blanking gave the Akwesasne Wolves Peewees a big win over the NGS Braves. The game was played January 18 on Kawehno:ke. Both teams scored two each in the second period and three times each in the third. Kyden Burns led with 4 goals, Damen Oakes scored a pair, Camrin King netted one goal and added two assists while Bryli Thompson, Richard Thompson and Carston Mitchell each scored one goal....
Lindsay Kennedy scored three for the Stars last Sunday as they defeated Dr. Bosse Dental 4-3 in Cornwall Indoor Soccer play. Taylor Francis scored once. Two of Kennedy's goals came as she was parked in the crease and played the rebound to score. Her other goal came as she tipped in a shot from Ashley Martin. The Lady Devils were blanked by Glengarry Gaels 1-0....
The Alexandria Glens hockey program came to the Anowarako:wa Arena last Monday and went home with two hard fought wins. In game one the Wolves Novice team and the Glens played to a scoreless first period. In the second the visitors scored in the first two minutes and added another with two minutes remaining. Between those two Alexandria buzzed around the Akwesasne goal and couldn't find their third. In one sequence they went 3 on 1 against the Wolves. Their goalie put down that rush and even...
A huge third period led to a convincing 9-2 Akwesasne Wolves Peewee win over Cornwall. Kyden Burns scored five in that win including a hat-trick in that big third period. Damen Oakes, Camrin King, Bryli Thompson and Kahentaienni Thompson scored one each. Kahentaienni Thompson and Gavin Jacobs picked up two assists a piece. Jack Vierville scored twice for Cornwall....
Depleted opposition benches made for a runaway couple of games for the Chiefs in Massena Men's Broomball. In their first game last Sunday the Akwesasne team had almost two full lines while their opponents-Clarkson-had only one line and two spares. The Chiefs walked to a 7-0 win. In their second of back-to-back games, Nez Construction had only five runners and a goalie and the Chiefs won that matchup 6-3. The Ice Pigs had a bye weekend and both are in action this Sunday. The two Akwesasne teams...
