A Voice from the Eastern Door
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COWICHAN, B.C. - It was a day 11 years in the making as the Team Kahnawake wrestling team reclaimed the coveted Todd Diabo Trophy as the best team in the competition. This was the first time that the Kahnawake grapplers have won this trophy since the 1997 North American Indigenous Games, which was held in Victoria, B.C. The Todd Diabo Trophy is named after a young Kahnawa’kehró:non and former wrestler who was taken from us too early. Team Kahnawake has won the NAIG wrestling championship in 19...
The St. Regis Indians are retired for the 2008 season. After winning their last home game on Saturday night, the team went to Peterborough down 3-1 in the seven game series and lost 11-6. Despite a team packed with the talent from players like John Tavares, Mark Steenhuis, Kevin Dostie, Andrew Lazore, Brandon Francis, Brandon Swamp, and Mike Thompson, the team’s path to a Mann Cup came to an end Monday night. The Peterborough Lakers – Major Series Lacrosse’s second place team - will now face...
North Country Sports Womens Summer Soccer Play offs took place on August 12 at SUNY Potsdam. They played against Massena’s Corkys Collision –Dr. Scruggs but fell to a score of 2-1. It was a hard fought game from both squads and it was a matter of who would put the ball in the net last. Alley Bero and Kim Terrance were the only ones to put a marker on the board for their team. Akwesasne Sports previously defeated Massena 7-1 during regular season play. Traci Bacon and Samantha Alfield were the...
Best of luck and congratulations to the Akwesasne Storm Midget Lacrosse Team, who will be participating in the Midget “A” provincials which will be held at the Ontario Summer Games in Ottawa, Ontario August 14-16, 2008. This year the team was rated in the “A” division of lacrosse, playing the best “A” teams of Ontario. Over the past month the team has competed in the standard 2 qualifiers, which consists of 13 top teams of Ontario all trying to get to the final eight teams competing in the “A” provincials. After much hard work and a great...
Akwesasne Storm Tyke Lacrosse team traveled to Whitby, Ontario for the Provincials tournament. On Sunday August 3rd, Akwesasne Tyke beat Brantford 9-2. That afternoon, Akwesasne played Guelph, upsetting them 13-0. On Monday August 4th, Akwesasne played Whitby in a hard fought game that ended in a 7-7 tie. On Tuesday August 5th, Akwesasne Tykes played in the Quarterfinals against Mimico. They played their hearts out to earn a 10-9 overtime win. To advance on in the afternoon, Akwesasne played...
Jeff Marshall of Fort Covington, NY sent a message to the rest of his competitors in the Coors Light DIRTcar 358 Modified Division at Mohawk International Raceway that he is not about to lay down and go away quietly in the 2008 points chase as the speedster picked up his 4th win of the season with a victory in the 14th running of the Village Engraver 25. Clayton Benedict and Delbert LeGrow started on the front row with Delbert grabbing the early lead followed closely by Benedict, John Lazore, Tom Jock, Jr. and Jeff Marshall. After eight laps o...
For the 21st season in a row, the Wolfclan Truckstop located on Route 37 in Akwesasne will sponsor an action packed night of racing that will feature as the main event of the evening the Coors Light DIRTcar 358 Modifieds in the 21st running of the Wolfclan Truckstop 25. “We expect a very good field of cars for this race night”, said Co-General Manager Jamie Davis, “There are always some great surprises and a lot of fun for everyone when Wolfclan is involved.” A full card of racing for the Action Race Parts UMP/DIRT Pro Stocks, Pecore Perf...
