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The St. Clair Saints’ soccer season got here to an abrupt finish on Sunday.
Enjoying in single-degree temperatures, the Saints turned the ball over six occasions and fell 43-0 to the Hilltops in Saskatoon within the Canadian Junior Soccer League semifinal. Saskatoon will now face Westshore within the league ultimate.
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“It was clearly a tricky sport and the climate was extra of an element than we anticipated,” Saints’ head coach Mike LaChance stated. “We threw for 300 yards, had 23 first down and got here away with zero factors.
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“If you flip the ball over at an obscene price, you aren’t profitable towards a group like that. We coughed up 5 fumbles and actually put our defence in precarious positions. Saskatoon waits so that you can make errors and so they capitalize.”
Darius France had 110 yard receiving on seven catches for the Lancers with quarterback Matthew Guenette throwing for 173 yards and quarterback Maurice Sodja throwing for 123 yards and speeding eight occasions for 55 yards. Working again M.J. Doyle-Marshall was held to 43 yards on 10 carries.
“It actually hurts, however it’s a part of the method,” stated LaChance, who loses 15 gamers to commencement. “We’re constructing one thing particular and folks see it occurring.
“Something that’s value getting takes a whole lot of exhausting work, sweat and, sadly, tears. We are going to get there.”
Saints shock gold
The St. Clair Saints ladies’s cross-country group shocked the sector to win group gold on the OCAA championships in Cambridge on Saturday.
After ending no larger than third in meets main as much as the OCAA championships, St. Clair had all 4 scoring runners end within the prime 20 to earn the varsity its first gold on the ladies’s facet since 2013.
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Victoria Horrobin led the way in which with a fourth-place end in a season-best time of 24 minutes and two seconds over the 6km course. Camryn Crawford was ninth, Justine Abbott completed in sixteenth place and Vista Academy product Melody Knight in nineteenth place. Horrobin was a first-team all-conference choice and Crawford was a second-team choice whereas Knight was named the meet’s feminine Honest Play Award winner.
The boys’s group positioned sixth total with Sandwich highschool product Wesley Hearn main the way in which over the 8km course in 28:49.
Traisnel strikes gold
Maidstone’s Lindsay Traisnel, driving Bacyrouge, was a part of the Canadian equestrian group’s gold-medal profitable squad in eventing on the Pan American Video games in Chile.
Third after the primary day of competitors, Canada overtook america and Brazil to win the nation’s first gold medal within the occasion since 1991 and earn a spot for the Paris Olympics.
In the meantime Traisnel additionally moved up from seventh place in dressage to fifth place in cross nation and third place in present leaping to win a bronze medal within the particular person occasion.
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No Saints bronze
The St. Clair Saints ladies’s soccer group misplaced on penalty kicks to Durham Lords within the bronze-medal sport on the OCAA championship in Vaughan on Saturday.
Twice the Saints rallied from a one-goal deficit to pressure further time with Abby Redmond and Victoria Walsh pulling St. Clair even.
Nevertheless, Durham went five-for-five in penalties and the Saints missed on one try and settle the match.
Rockets drop Vipers
The Strathroy Rockets moved into first place within the Western Convention of the Larger Ontario Junior Hockey League with a 5-4 win over the visiting LaSalle Vipers on Saturday.
Owen Pitters scored twice and added an help for the Vipers (9-4-1-0) whereas Ryan Clark and Kyle Greene added single targets towards the Rockets (10-4-0-0).
73’s preserve rolling
The Essex 73’s proceed to roll to start out the season within the Invoice Stobbs Division within the Provincial Junior Hockey League.
The 73’s made it 13-straight wins to start out the season with a 5-2 highway win over the Amherstburg Admirals on Saturday.
Liam Corridor scored twice for the 73’s (13-0-0-0) whereas Ryan McKim, Luke Sherk and Kale Couvillon added single targets. Allan Djordjevic and Jacob Archer replied for the Admirals (2-11-0-0).
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The Wheatley Sharks (7-3-1-1) watched a two-goal lead slip away within the third interval in a 3-3 time beyond regulation tie with the Mooretown Flags (4-6-1-2).
Braedon Caetano, Darby Drouillard and Evan Cote scored for Sharks.
Lancer hockey swept
The Windsor Lancer males’s hockey group dropped a a 7-2 OUA determination to the Carleton Ravens on Saturday whereas the ladies’s group fell 2-1 in time beyond regulation to the Western Mustangs.
Jake Durham and Dylan Schives scored for the Lancers (4-2-0), who beat the Ottawa Gee-Gees 4-3 on Friday.
Emily Eikelboom pulled the Lancers (3-0-2-1) even within the third interval, however the Mustangs would get the time beyond regulation winner to snap a three-game profitable streak for Windsor after Friday’s 5-1 win over Brock.
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