BY SCOTT HUNTER HADDOW
The Cambrian College womens' basketball team
earned a bronze medal at the Canadian College Athletics
Association (CCAA) volleyball championships in Quebec City last
weekend.
The Golden Shield were ranked sixth in the
country for the tournament. Cambrian defeated Grand Prairie,
the number three seed, in the bronze medal match three sets to
one.
Players Lisa Martin and Kristen Martel were
named first team All-Canadians. Laura Fowler made the second
All-Canadian squad.
Seven local skaters showed their pride and
power this past weekend at Countryside Arena during the 2005
Ontario Short Track Speed Skating Championships. One hundred
and eighty-nine skaters from across the province participated
in Sudbury for a shot at making Team Ontario to compete in the
North American Short Track Speed Skating Championships in
Milwaukee, Wisc.
Sudbury's Stephan Ayotte had a memorable
performance as he won the 500-metre event and also had strong
showings in three other events, which lead him to win the
overall silver in the juvenile boys division.
Ayotte was also selected to be a member of
Team Ontario and will now travel with the squad to
Milwaukee.
Other notable performances included: Kaelyn
Pitre, seventh in peewee girls, Kelsey Pitre, seventh in bantam
girls, Keegan Pitre, fifth in bantam boys, Jared Manchuk, fifth
in peewee boys, Caleb Laaper, 15th in midget boys and Amber
Ranich, eight in juvenile girls.
This was the first time an Ontario Speed
Skating event was hosted by Sudbury, and the kids showed the
province this town is made up of true champions.
Five members of the Sudbury Skating Club are
off to the Trillium Cup and the Trillium Star Skate events in
Kitchener this weekend at the RIM Park Waterloo.
Each skater had to qualify at earlier Ontario
skating events throughout the season in order to go to the
Trillium events.
Representing Sudbury are Erika Harris, 15,
Jazmine Roy, 13, Brittany Tremblay, 11, Danielle Coulombe, 11,
and Isabelle Sonier, 8.
Legendary Hockey Night in Canada and CBC
Sports host Ron MacLean will be in Sudbury on Thursday, May 26
at the Holiday Inn Hotel for the first annual Laurentian
University Athletics Celebrity Sports Luncheon.
The event is being staged to help raise funds
for student-athlete scholarships and bursaries. Corporate
tables are available for $800 by calling the Laurentian
athletic department at 675-1151, ext. 1025. Individual tickets
are available at Savage's Play it Again Sports, Eddie's
Restaurant or the athletic department for $80.
The luncheon will consist of a speech by
MacLean, silent auction and a sports forum.
The Copper Cliff Ice Angels won third place
at the Bert Winfield Synchronized Skating Competition in St.
Mary's .
It was the final event of the year for the
Ice Angels, and the coaches couldn't be happier with the
results and the hard work put forth by the girls all
season.
