NEW NORTHWEST SENIOR HOCKEY LEAGUE OPENS
The new North West Senior Hockey League is officially
underway. There are six teams in the loop playing the majority of
games in the North Interlake: OCN Blues, Norway House North
Stars, Cross Lake Islanders, Peguis Mohawks, Lake Manitoba
Eagles and Fisher River Terriers. The league President is Lorne
Cochrane, who hails from Fisher River, but is a businessman
in Winnipeg. Gerald McCorrister is the League Coordinator.
The League is sanctioned by Hockey Manitoba and will play all
games under Hockey Manitoba rules. The league champions will
also play in the Provincial Senior A playoffs this spring. At press
time, the leading scorer was one of the greatest scorers in the
Keystone Junior B Hockey League for many seasons, Skyler TaitReaume of the Norway House North Stars.
Northwest Senior Hockey
ARNISH PATEL WINS GOLD IN ALBERTA
Arnish Patel of the Winnipeg Winter Club took home his first national U-19 Boys
Singles Badminton gold medal during the first weekend of November by defeating
Lee Yang of B.C. 21-17 21-16 at Badminton Canada’s Yonex Alberta Junior Elite
Tournament in Edmonton. Born in India, Arnish emigrated to Thompson in 2011, and
moved to Winnipeg in 2012. He won gold in his first provincial U-15 tournament at
the Wildewood Club and since then has won several provincial titles in both singles,
doubles and mixed doubles. He has also represented Manitoba in Junior National
Championships, Western Canadian Team Championships and Western Canada Summer
Games. In early November, Patel also won a bronze medal in the U-19 Mixed Doubles
Arnish Patel, Badminton star
by pairing with Ontario’s Cara De Belle, a partnership that was newly formed in
Winnipeg at the Prairie Junior Elite in September, and just attempted for the first time
in Edmonton. Next on the docket for Arnish is the Western Canadian Team Championship Tryouts in November. Until
then, Arnish plans to continue his rigorous training schedule at the Winnipeg Winter Club, and keep up with his grade
12 studies at Fort Richmond Collegiate.
MANITOBA SKATERS QUALIFY FOR NATIONALS
Senior Women’s skater, Deidre Russell will lead nine Manitoba skaters
into the 2017 Skate Canada Challenge Competition in Pierrefonds
(Montreal), Que. In early November, Manitoba’s newest figure skating
team was identified at the 2017 Skate Canada Manitoba Sectional
Championship, held at the Access Event Centre, in Morden, Man. In
Pierrefonds, Manitoba’s skaters will compete against the rest of the
country’s best skaters at the Skate Canada Challenge. The event will run
from Nov. 30 to Dec. 4 and approximately 500 skaters from across the
country will compete at this flagship event.
These top Manitoba skaters have qualified through the 2017 Skate
Danae Russell
Canada Sectional Manitoba Championships. This is the only opportunity
for Novice, Junior and Senior skaters to qualify for the 2017 Canadian
Tire Figure Skating Championships, in Ottawa, Ontario, from January 16-22, 2017.
Mason Bennett UND
Deidre Russell
The following skaters will represent Skate Canada Manitoba in Pierrefonds:
Senior Women | Deidre Russell – Skate Winnipeg
Junior Women | Lindsey Hopkins – Selkirk Skating Club
Novice Women | Casey Bertholet – Hartney Figure Skating Club, Andrea Laskovic – Skate Winnipeg, Danae Russell – Skate Winnipeg
Pre-Novice Women | Julia Patenaude – Holland Figure Skating Club, Chanel Cabak – Portage Skating Club, Emma King – Skate Winnipeg
Pre-Novice | Yohnatan Elizarov – Skate Winnipeg
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