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Massena varsity girls and boys hockey are preparing to return to the ice for the 2017-18 season. The girls hockey team have a younger roster this year, and Coach Greg Paquin said they are working to fill key defensive roles. “Being so young we will be a work in progress throughout the year as we replace 3 of 4 defensemen and our goalie,” Paquin said in an email. We will rely heavily on some younger players this year. We do have 6 seniors as well.” Last year, the team was defeated in sectionals by Potsdam. This year’s team includes eighth...
Submitted by Barb Kelly Saratoga Springs, NY – Former Salmon River standout women's basketball player Abby Kelly led the Bowdoin Bears women's basketball team to the championship of the Skidmore College Tip-Off tournament this past weekend. In game one on Friday night against the home team Skidmore College Thoroughbreds, Kelly had 12 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 steals en route to a 76-42 victory. In the championship game on Saturday, the Bowdoin Bears faced St. Thomas of Minnesota, the n...
The Akwesasne Wild are a perfect 6-0 in National Capital Women's Hockey following a 4-0 win last weekend on Kawehno:ke. Their latest victim – the Russell Senior B club – put up a good fight throughout the first period, which ended 0-0. In that opener both sides had excellent chances as Akwesasne had four point blank chances to get on the board. Even when the Wild were shorthanded they kept the Russell team in their own end. Then, an early second period goal by Alicia Thomas started the sco...
Submitted by Al Vachon This past weekend, the Cornwall Typhoons Bantam B girl's hockey team competed in the Can-Am Lake Placid Tournament. We opened the tournament vs. the Clarington Flames on Friday morning. It was a close game resulting in a win with a power wrist shot by Chanel Thompson with .01 second left in the third period. The Typhoons extinguished the Flames! Our second game was later that day when we faced the Bay State Breakers from the Boston area. They are a varsity level hockey...
After an undefeated regular season, the Massena varsity volleyball team’s 2017 run has come to an end. The team lost in state playoffs to Burnt Hills on Wednesday, Nov. 8. “We played well, and represented the section, but could not match the offense that Burnt Hills has,” Coach Maggie Farrell said following the game. “Proud of this whole team, will miss our five seniors, but the younger players have a bright volleyball future if they work hard in the off season.” In the Burnt Hills bout, Mckenzee Lazore had three kills, three digs and five...
In action last week, the Akwesasne Wolves upped their record on the year at 4-2-1 as they won their recent game last Sunday 5-0 over the Lady Devils. Vanna Thompson led in the shutout with two, while Taylor Armstrong, Amanda King and Haley Cree scored one each. Another rezz team – the Stars – were defeated by the undefeated City Ladies team, 3-1. Taylor Francis scored that lone goal. That came in the second half as there were three City Ladies players in the packed crease and Francis nudged the...
It was a close finale for the girls in the Cornwall Tournament. The Akwesasne Wolves Bantam girls skated side by side with the visiting team from Colbourne in the Kinsmen Hockey tournament held last weekend at the Benson Center. In their tournament finale Saturday they fell to Kanata 3-1. After a scoreless first period Kanata got on the board with a minute remaining in the second period. With eight ticks left in that middle period Akenhiio Lazore tied the game. There was no recorded assist but...
Thursday, November 16 8-4 Home Heating Assistance Front Lobby 9-4 Nation Building Turtle Room 11-12:30 Cornwall Nationals 2-3 Sticks & Pucks 15yrs and over 3-4:30 Sticks & Pucks 14yrs and under 4:30-6 Own the Ice 6-9 AMHA 9-l0pm Women Wild (Practice) Friday, November 17 9-4 Nation Building Turtle Room 10-12 M. Delisle 2-3 Sticks & Pucks 15yrs and over 3-5 Sticks & Pucks 14yrs and under 5-8 Gibbs Hockey 8-10 Rock & Skate Saturday, November 18 8-4 Economic Development Turtle Room 8-9 AMHA Novice 9-10 AMHA Atom 10-11:30 Tom Smart 11:30-12:30pm...
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It was a couple of tough losses for the Wolves hockey program. Last Monday on Kawehno:ke the Charlan Rebels defeated the Akwesasne Novice B team 6-3. Teiowisatenion Herne scored twice in the loss, with Roman Castell scoring the other goal. Wade Francis picked up two assists. Herne's first goal came on the breakaway late in the opening period and was that period's only goal. The second period belonged to Charlan as they held the Wolves scoreless while netting four straight. Each team scored...
Submitted by Hannah Leaf On the weekend of October 27th-29th, 2017, the Can-Am Krush Women's Lacrosse Team, based out of the Akwesasne area, took an all First Nations team to participate in the 28th Annual Hawaii Lacrosse Invitational Tournament. Led by team captains Hannah Leaf and Elisha King, who also coach the team, they have been diligently practicing since early June to prepare for this tournament, and recently participated in a three-team mini tournament in September versus McGill Univers...
The Massena varsity football team ended their regular season on a high note and the varsity volleyball team lost their first matchup of the season in the Section 10 title game, but they will continue in state playoffs. On Monday, Oct. 30 at Mike Nichols Field, Massena beat Franco Cite from Ottawa, Ontario 58-18 to close their regular season. Quarterback Montana Pierce rushed 203 yards on 20 tries and ran in three touchdowns, went 3-3 passing and threw one 88-yard touchdown pass. He made four tackles on defense. Gage Fiacco ran 104 yards on...
HTI Are Buffalo Inferno Champs!!!...
Submitted by Stephane Bissonnette After finishing 9th of a 10 team field with 4 wins, 14 losses, and 2 ties last year in its first year in the Ottawa District Women’s Hockey Association bantam house hockey league, the 2017/2018 Akwesasne team has a promising year ahead of them. With four games into the season the Wolves have a 1-1-2 record. The only loss was a result of only allowing one goal. The Wolves started the year with a 0-0 tie against Gloucester #1. In their second game, both teams had numerous chances but finished with Ottawa #3 scori...
The Ice Pigs added another win to their undefeated season with a big 7-0 win over The Club. In an earlier game the Chiefs defeated Open Net/Ole Smokehouse 2-1. In the first game of the season for both clubs they were scheduled to play each other, but the Chiefs forfeited. The Ice Pigs now sport a 4-0 record for first place in the league while the Chiefs are 3-1-1....
Thursday, November 9 8-4 Home Heating Assistance Front Lobby 11-12:30 Cornwall Nationals 2-3 Sticks & Pucks 15yrs and over 3-4:30 Sticks & Pucks 14yrs and under 4:30-6 Own the Ice 6-9 AMHA 9-l0pm Women Wild Friday, November 10 CLOSED HOLIDAY REMEMBRANCE DAY Saturday, November 11 10-11:30 Tom Smart 11:30-12:30pm Learn to Skate 12:30-4 For Sale 3-4 Designated for party package with Turtle Room 4-6 Glen Walter 7-9 Dangles & Dekes 9-10 B Adams Sunday, November 12 10-11 AMHA IP 11-12 Ron Henhawk 12-1 For Sale 1-2:30 Charlan 3-4 Women’s Wild vs. R...
Submitted by Shawn O'Brien The Cornwall Bantam B Typhoons competed in the 34th Annual Cornwall Competitive Tournament on October 27 - 29, 2017 going undefeated to win gold. The Typhoons competed in a 6 team pool bracket. Their first game on Friday afternoon would be against the Napanee Crunch and they came out strong winning the game 5 - 1. The evening game would be against a league rival, the Goulbourn Rockets. The Rockets came out flying and jumped to a 2 – 0 lead, but the Typhoons r...
The Akwesasne Wild won their game last weekend on Kawehnoke over Rockland 3-1. Denise Thompson opened the scoring in the first period as she tipped in a blast from Krystal Peters taken from the face-off circle. Near the halfway point Rockland’s Jenyka Brondon scored their only goal after a wild goalmouth scramble in front of the Wild net. Akwesasne had a big chance to pull ahead toward the end of the first period as they buzzed all over the Rockland net. Tia Mitchell grabbed the loose puck and circled their net twice holding onto the puck while...
The CISL now has more representation from Akwesasne as the Stars and Lady Devils are joined by the Akwesasne Wolves. That new team is composed of former Lady Devils and Stars players as well as local women who had joined Cornwall teams in the past. The Stars and the Wolves had already met in the first game of the season on October 1 and that ended in a 1-1 tie. Also that day the Lady Devils had tied their game 2-2 against Dr. Bosse Dental. A week later all three Akwesasne teams lost their games...
Akwesasne was well represented at last weekend's 34th Annual tournament. The three-day event was held at the Benson Center in Cornwall and one Cornwall team made it to the championship with Akwesasne players in their ranks. The Novice B team defeated Kemptville in that final with Anastasia Terrance scoring two. In the second period Cornwall led 2-1 but halfway through the third period Terrance's second goal was the insurance marker and they held on for the win....
Third time was the charm for Canyon Laughing. The NF Squirts player had two breakaways in last Saturday's game against Tri-Town. His first two were stopped by Tri-Town Timberwolves goalie Ethan Gibson. His third attempt came at the end of the third period as he connected to tie the game at two and that is how it ended. The game was played at Salmon River Central. Tristan Russel and Erin Landry started the scoring for the visitors with their goals coming on top of each other two minutes into the...
The Massena Central varsity volleyball team completed yet another perfect regular season with wins over Salmon River and Brushton-Moira. Meanwhile, the varsity soccer teams were eliminated from playoffs. On Oct. 25, the volleyball team took a moment to recognize their graduating seniors before downing Brushton-Moira 3-0. They honored graduating players Jenna Tarbell, Brittany Condon, Cayla Hinkley, Mckenzee Lazore and Alyssa Eubank, and managers Rachel Hurlbut and Amy Lapointe. After taking the...
Thursday, November 2 8-4 Home Heating Assistance Front Lobby 11-12:30 Cornwall Nationals 2-3 Sticks & Pucks 15yrs and over 3-4:30 Sticks & Pucks 14yrs and under 4:30-6 Own the Ice 6-9 AMHA 9-l0pm Women’s Wild Friday, November 3 9-5 Justice Department Workshop 2-3 Sticks & Pucks 15yrs and over 3-5 Sticks & Pucks 14yrs and under 5-8 Gibbs 8-10 Rock & Skate Saturday, November 4 10-11:30 Tom Smart 1-2pm Learn to skate 2-3 For Sale 3-4 Designated for party package with Turtle Room 4-6 Glen Walter 7-9 Dangles & Dekes 9-10 B. Adams Sunday, November 5...
Kana:takon School Cross Country Team...
The Massena varsity volleyball team is now one game away from a perfect regular season. Meanwhile, the girls and boys soccer teams lost NAC title games and the football team earned a win on a forfeit. The volleyball team beat Chateaugay 3-1 at home on Oct 19. The scores were 22-25, 25-14, 26-24 and 25-21. "Chateaugay is a team that gains momentum by making amazing hustle plays. They play very well at the net and make some smart decisions. We matched the hustle at times and overall made less...
