Lemoine heading to Oz
Hank Lemoine, 60, the American Association (Winnipeg
Goldeyes) baseball umpire who started his professional
umpiring career at age 58, is planning to travel to Australia to
umpire in the Australian Baseball League this winter. Back in
the day, he played baseball in Australia and was a tremendous
baseball player at a number of levels here in Manitoba. These
days he’s one of the most respected umpires in the American
Association and will be an outstanding addition to the ABL
this winter.
Richert fINISHES a strong European season
Winnipeg-based Canadian race car driver, David Richert,
called it a “strong finish,” and a “positive result.” Racing at
Germany’s legendary Hockenheimring during the first week
of October, Richert finished 15th in the final race of the 2015
Formula Renault NEC season. The triple-header race in Germany was not for the faint of heart. For the most part,
the weather conditions were perfect, but in Race 2 on Sunday morning there was a dramatic turn to the weekend
as the skies opened up and a deluge of rain brought extreme conditions to the circuit. “Even driving the cars to
the starting grid proved to be a challenge,” said Richert. “Several drivers had off-track adventures into the gravel.”
Richert was able to survive the conditions and finish with a 15th place result. Races 1 and 3, contested under
much better conditions, left Richert in 17th- and 16th-place respectively. “I was very happy to be driving a formula
car around Hockenheim in sunny conditions,” said Richert in an exclusive interview with mytoba.ca. “It’s a
dream as the car is so incredibly quick with lots of grip, it’s such a rush. In the rain however, it gets scary very fast
as the car is so light and low to the ground that you can lose control in an instant. It almost feels like the car is
trying to crash itself at every opportunity.
Lyles, Deezar lead defending Canada West champs
Jamel Lyles and Theo Deezar have the University of Manitoba
Bisons in the thick of the race for the 2015 Canada West
Football League championship. At 3-2, the U of M is tied with
UBC for second place. The University of Calgary is 5-0. Deezar,
a quarterback out of St. Paul’s, is the No. 3 QB in the country.
Deezar has
completed 98
of 159 passes
(61.6 per
cent) for 1888
yards (377.6
yards per
game). Lyles,
a freshman
out of British
Columbia,
leads the nation in all-purpose yards. He has 544 yards rushing,
96 yards receiving, 299 yards in punt returns and 292 yards in
kick returns for 1,231. He’s sixth in the nation in rushing with
544 yards (108.8 per game).
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