Top prospect Josh Barnes has
committed to Pennsylvania
State University for the 2020-21
season.
That means Barnes will play
with his hometown Cornwall
Colts beginning in the 2018-19
CCHL season.
Barnes will only turn 16 in late
September but suited up for the
Colts last season and in seven
games had 3 goals and 2 assists
for 5 points during the regular
season. He followed that up with
6 points in 7 games during the
Colts first round playoff loss to
Hawkesbury.
As a 15-year-old, Barnes led
the U18 AAA Colts with 52
points in 39 games in 2017-18.
Grade 10 student, Hannah
Rousseau won first place in
archery at OFSAA. Her goal was to
beat her score from last year, when
she won silver. OFSAA was held in
Richmond Hill in mid-May.
“There are a few girls that I
have met at these tournaments and
we have a healthy, competitive
friendship so we push each other,”
shared Hannah. “Winning this year
was great. First to fifth place, after
the first half, were only separated by
five points—so I was stressed! I had
to focus and tweak a few things in
my form to make sure every arrow
counted. The second half I had my
highest score to date with a 290/300,
which was the third highest half of
the tournament, including the boys
division. I was very pleased with
my hard work!”
CharLan District High School is
the only school in the UCDSB that
offers the National Archery in the
Schools Program. They have an
archery setup and they offer archery
in gym class.
Hannah started archery in 2014,
after seeing her father shooting
to prepare for a moose hunt. She
says part of the reason she enjoys
archery so much is because of the
quality time she gets to spend with
her father. This summer she wants
to harvest a deer using her bow.
When Stephanie Leask was
in grade three, her school
let her compete against the grade
fours, fives, and sixes. She beat
them all and won the 400m race.
Now Stephanie is a grade 12
student at Holy Trinity Catholic
High School. She has attended
OFSAA for track and field before,
in grade ten, and she is on the
path to qualifying again this year.
Heading into East Regionals at the
end of May, Stephanie is looking
to qualify for OFSAA in the 400m
hurdles.
Coming from an athletic family,
Stephanie also played hockey,
soccer, and basketball throughout
high school. Some concussions
from hockey forced Stephanie to
stop playing sports where there is
contact with other players. This
has left her to focus on track and
field, which she said is fine by her
because she loves running.
The Seaway Karate Club recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. Jim Riddell, who is a fifth degree black belt, started the club in 1993. Back then there were no karate clubs in the area unless a person travelled to Brockville. Riddell remembers the first night the club opened, when 27 people came out to the class.
Maleeka Virtue is not a typical
weightlifter. Or is she? One
of the outstanding characteristics of
sports, fitness, and athletics in this
day and age is that the atypical is
the new typical, and that is certainly
true of Maleeka, this year’s Lions’
Club Weightlifting Award winner.
“She has shown the most drive
and dedication of any club member
this year,” according to Kyle Pichie
of the Cornwall Weightlifting
Club, which currently trains out
of Caveman Strong. “In the long
term, she has tremendous potential
By Casey Leger as a weightlifter,” says Pichie, who
coaches and trains club members.
That’s high praise, and it’s
certainly justified: at 14, Maleeka is
2 kilos (4.4 lbs.) away from breaking
the juvenile record of 53 kilos (116.6
lbs.) for the “snatch”, which is one
of her favorite lifts. She competes
in the under 48 kilo division, and
if you’ve followed the math, she
weighs in at a maximum of 105.6
pounds, so she’s lifting above her
body weight. Not impressed yet?
This grade eight student is squatting
185 pounds on a regular basis.
Ellery Maloney, recently spoke
with Sports Energy News to
remember his friend Pete Piquette.
Piquette was a local hockey
goaltender in the 1940’s and 50’s
who saw great success in his
hockey career, landing him a spot in
the Cornwall Sports Hall of Fame.
Maloney says he’s known Pete and
his wife Betty for most of his life.
“We both played hockey, we were
both goaltenders on separate teams.
We’ve been such close friends since
our early teens,” says Maloney.
“We were in each other’s wedding
parties as well.”
Pete Piquette was an exceptional
good goaltender and he started his
junior hockey with the Cornwall
Community Sports Club. Piquette
was soon called to play with the
Oshawa Generals Jr. A team in the
OHA, (Currently OHL). Maloney
recalls one of the highlights of
Piquette’s time with the Generals
was his encounter with George
Armstrong, an All-Star player with
the Toronto Maple Leafs.
