Monday, March 15, 2010

LOCAL HOCKEY ROUND UP

The Kenora Senior AAA Thistles are heading to the Renwick Cup. Kenora advanced with a 3-1 win over Thunder Bay yesterday at Thistle Rink.

Brooks Maya scored the winner for the Thistles with 7 minutes left in the game.

They added an empty netter with under a minute left to ice the win.

Kenora was scheduled to play Fort Frances in Sundays HNO finale, but the Thunderhawks were disqualified for using an inellegable player.

With the win the Thistles move on to the Renwick Cup April 2-4 in Thunder Bay.

They will take on the Southern Ontario champion in a best of three series to move on the the Allan Cup.

The Kenora Midget triple "A" Thistles season is over. The Thistles season came to an end this weekend in Thunder Bay where they lost a pair of games, 2-1 and 4-3 in double overtime, to the Thunder Bay Kings.

At the Northwestern Ontario AAA bantam hockey championship Sunday afternoon at Fort William Gardens in Thunder Bay the West All-Stars where edged 3-1 by the Thunder Bay Kings.

With the loss team West will not be moving on to the provincial tournament opening next week in Ottawa.

The Northwestern Ontario All-Stars defeated the Thunder Bay Kings 5-4 in overtime yesterday to claim the Hockey Northwestern Ontario Peewee Triple-A Branch Championship.

Dryden's Geoff Kitt picked up 2 goals and the O.T. winner with Trevor Kavanaugh, Tyler Vanuden, Logan Ginn adding singles.

The Local team now represents this Region at the All-Ontario Peewee Championshio in St. Mary's on April 5th.