KJHL SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS
JARED MAGNE, ST. MALO WARRIORS
WAYLON NEAULT, PEGUIS JUNIORS
Neault, Magne Win KJHL Scholarships
By Johnston Hall Photos by James Carey Lauder and Laurie Anderson
Waylon Neault has completed his career with the Keystone Junior Hockey League’ s Peguis Juniors, but he went out with a bang. The 5-foot-8, 180-pound forward from Fisher Branch, not only dished out two assists in what turned out to be the championship game of the KJHL final, but he also got to raise the Baldy Northcott Trophy above his head for the second straight year.
On top of that, he was one of two winners of the annual $ 500( each) Keystone Junior Hockey League Scholarship.
Neault of the Juniors and Jared Magne, the No. 2 scorer in the KJHL this season with 32 goals and 89 points for the St. Malo Warriors, were the two recipients of this year’ s KJHL Scholarships.
Neault, 21, who just completed his sixth season – a career which included three championships – with the Juniors, had 15 goals and 35 points in 19 games during the regular season and two goals and three assists in six games in the league final against Arborg. In six years with the Juniors, he played 164 games, had 131 goals and 248 points.
Neault is heading into the second year of his Electrician’ s Diploma at Red River College. He also works with local youth in both Fisher Branch and Peguis.
Magne, meanwhile, had a terrific season – his fifth full season in St. Malo-- for the Warriors. He had was the second leading scorer in the league on a team that finished 24-9-0-1, first overall in the South Division and first overall in the KJHL. This was his sixth full season with St. Malo, although he played four games with the Warriors during the 2011-12 campaign. Amazingly, he also played 164 career games in the KJHL, and had 113 goals and 282 points.
Magne, 21, grew up in St. Malo and went on to play with the Bantam Southeast Jets and then played City Triple A Midget with the Eastman Selects. He also played a year of Provincial Triple A midget with Eastman.
He’ s a third-year Faculty of Kinesiology student at the University of Manitoba who was on the Dean’ s Honour Roll in the 2015- 16 Fall and Winter Terms. He carries a grade-point average of 3.57 and is also a Wild Land firefighter in Thompson from April to September. He’ s also been a volunteer fire-fighter with the St. Malo Fire Department for the past five years.
His goal is to become a physical education teacher within the DSFM, Manitoba’ s French school division.
Both Jared Magne and Waylon Neault are terrific hockey players and tremendous citizens who have committed at least five years each to the Keystone Junior B Hockey League. Both are outstanding selections as the 2017 KJHL Scholarship winners. n
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