Siermachesky scores Syracuse scholarship
Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES — Eighteen-year-old Kristen Siermachesky is taking her hockey career to a new level.The New Liskeard resident has been awarded a hockey scholarship to Syracuse University (SU) in New York state.Syracuse is a Division One school in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) playing in the Atlantic
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Hopefuls hit the ice for new season
Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES — It may not be hockey weather outside, but training camp opened for the Great North Midget League’s New Liskeard Cubs last week.Fifty-three players attended the first night of training camp for the Triple A Midget team Thursday, August 24, at the Don Shepherdson Memorial Arena
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Sports Digest
LIONS TRYOUTSThe New Liskeard Lions Midgets of the Abitibi-Témiscamingue Hyundai Midget BB League begins tryouts on Tuesday, September 5, at 8:30 p.m. at the Don Shepherdson Memorial Arena. New players must have permission-to-skate forms. Other sessions will be Thursday, Sept. 7, 8:30pm, and Saturday, Sept. 9, 6:15 p.m.CUBS CAMPThe New
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Rural Youth Mixed Slo-pitch League season ending tournament
Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter DISTRICT — The over 570 boys and girls playing in the Rural Youth Mixed Slo-pitch League grabbed their bats, gloves, umbrellas and enthusiasm heading to area ball fields to compete in the recent season ending Gate’s Gala tournament.Gate’s Gala is named after Gaetan Gosselin, a long-time volunteer league
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Straight From The Hip
When former sports columnist Cam Cole, along with Michael Traikos, talked about Hockey Canada becoming an elitist organization for those parents who can afford to put their kids into hockey on a yearly basis, I had to question the disadvantage in which other parents find
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Learn to swim
In this land of lakes and rivers, do you or the members of your family know how to swim?I was deeply disturbed to read the news about the recent drowning of 15-year-old Jeremiah Perry while on a school trip to Algonquin Park.Apparently Jeremiah failed a mandatory swim test before the
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Drag ’N Fly Summer Classic another success
Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter EARLTON — Once the light turns green it’s time to hold on to your eardrums and your seat as muscle cars, dragsters, motorcycles, drag sleds and go carts race down a quarter-mile track at the Earlton-Timiskaming Regional Airport.There’s nothing subtle about drag races. They’re loud, exciting and fast
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Cub hopefuls on the ice August 24
Steven Larocque Speaker Editor TEMISKAMING SHORES – The 2017-18 hockey season gets underway in earnest with the return of the New Liskeard Cubs to the ice next week.“Last year we had about 60 skaters, it would be great to get that many again this year,” head coach Steve Polyblank said of the
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Sport Shorts
by Sue NielsenFormer Temiskaming Shores Minor Hockey Association player Teagan Grant was invited to the 2017-18 National Women’s Under-18 Summer Showcase conditioning camp in Calgary, Alberta.This is impressive given 70 of the top women hockey players in Canada have also been invited to the camp.Melody Davidson, former Team Canada women’s
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Soccer club winds down after summer success
Steven Larocque Speaker Editor TEMISKAMING SHORES – The fields are a little quieter now with the end of another successful Tri-Town Soccer Club season.The 2017 summer sport came to an official end just before the Civic holiday long weekend.For some young players it was their first time playing organized soccer.Some adults had
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