Sports Briefs
Issue date: 11/27/07 Section: Sports
Brock News:
The Brock wrestling team hosted the Ontario Amateur Wrestling Association Senior Championships this past weekend.
The women's team finished first by a whopping 32 points with four girls claiming the top spot in their respective events: Alana King (48 kg), Jessie Bandy (51 kg), Michelle Fazzari (59kg), and Megan Swietzer (63 kg). Five other Badgers finished in the top three for a total of nine Badger females on the podium.
The men's team finished second in the tournament behind only Guelph by 17 points. Both Ryan Welker and Alex Theriault-Brown finished first in 66 kg and 84 kg weight classes respectively. Both Mike Neufeld (96 kg) and Steve Snijders (120 kg) finished second.
The Niagara IceDogs split a pair of games on the weekend. The dogs travelled to Ottawa on Friday to face the legendary Brian Kilrea and the '67s, however came back to Niagara with a 4-2 loss. The IceDogs ran into a hot goaltender as Ottawa's Adam Courchaine turned away 37 of 39 shots the dogs threw his way.
Niagara would redeem themselves on Sunday when the IceDogs Adrian Volpe started his first game of his young Ontario Hockey League career against the Owen Sound Attack. Volpe would receive a second star of the night stoning the Attack on 40 of 42 shots he faced, and helping his penalty killers kill off nine of the 10 power plays Owen Sound received.
Badgers men's hockey captain Ryan Del Monte and women's basketball player Sharon Hollinshead were named Henley Honda Brock Male and Female Athletes of the Week.
Del Monte helped lead the Badgers to their league leading 10th and 11th win of the season by notching three goals and one assist. Of Del Monte's three goals, two of them happened to be game winners. His first came in a shootout on Saturday against Windsor and his second was on the power play early in the second period on Sunday versus the same Lancers.
Del Monte continued his four-game point streak dating back to Nov. 14. During the streak he has recorded six goals and two assists.
Hollinshead registered her first career triple-double recording a season high 21 points, 16 boards, and 11 assists in a thrilling 97-91 double overtime victory over the Ontario University Athletics East leading University of Toronto Varsity Blues. With 3.2 seconds left on the clock of the first overtime and the Badgers down three, Hollinshead carried the ball over half and sent a prayer up from 40 feet out. Her prayer was answered and sent the game into double overtime where the Badgers would go on to win.
Hollinshead has also been named the Ontario University Athletics Pioneer Petroleums Female Athlete of the Week for the week ending Nov. 25.
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The Brock men's basketball team will host the five-time defending national champion Carleton Ravens Friday, Nov. 30 at 8 p.m.
The powerhouse Ravens have lost only six times in the past five years.
The Brock wrestling team hosted the Ontario Amateur Wrestling Association Senior Championships this past weekend.
The women's team finished first by a whopping 32 points with four girls claiming the top spot in their respective events: Alana King (48 kg), Jessie Bandy (51 kg), Michelle Fazzari (59kg), and Megan Swietzer (63 kg). Five other Badgers finished in the top three for a total of nine Badger females on the podium.
The men's team finished second in the tournament behind only Guelph by 17 points. Both Ryan Welker and Alex Theriault-Brown finished first in 66 kg and 84 kg weight classes respectively. Both Mike Neufeld (96 kg) and Steve Snijders (120 kg) finished second.
The Niagara IceDogs split a pair of games on the weekend. The dogs travelled to Ottawa on Friday to face the legendary Brian Kilrea and the '67s, however came back to Niagara with a 4-2 loss. The IceDogs ran into a hot goaltender as Ottawa's Adam Courchaine turned away 37 of 39 shots the dogs threw his way.
Niagara would redeem themselves on Sunday when the IceDogs Adrian Volpe started his first game of his young Ontario Hockey League career against the Owen Sound Attack. Volpe would receive a second star of the night stoning the Attack on 40 of 42 shots he faced, and helping his penalty killers kill off nine of the 10 power plays Owen Sound received.
Badgers men's hockey captain Ryan Del Monte and women's basketball player Sharon Hollinshead were named Henley Honda Brock Male and Female Athletes of the Week.
Del Monte helped lead the Badgers to their league leading 10th and 11th win of the season by notching three goals and one assist. Of Del Monte's three goals, two of them happened to be game winners. His first came in a shootout on Saturday against Windsor and his second was on the power play early in the second period on Sunday versus the same Lancers.
Del Monte continued his four-game point streak dating back to Nov. 14. During the streak he has recorded six goals and two assists.
Hollinshead registered her first career triple-double recording a season high 21 points, 16 boards, and 11 assists in a thrilling 97-91 double overtime victory over the Ontario University Athletics East leading University of Toronto Varsity Blues. With 3.2 seconds left on the clock of the first overtime and the Badgers down three, Hollinshead carried the ball over half and sent a prayer up from 40 feet out. Her prayer was answered and sent the game into double overtime where the Badgers would go on to win.
Hollinshead has also been named the Ontario University Athletics Pioneer Petroleums Female Athlete of the Week for the week ending Nov. 25.
Watch This:
The Brock men's basketball team will host the five-time defending national champion Carleton Ravens Friday, Nov. 30 at 8 p.m.
The powerhouse Ravens have lost only six times in the past five years.
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