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Cornwall Golf Club Champion: Grant Barr.

Summerheights Hosts 2020 Club Championship

Golfing is one of the activities that many have enjoyed over the summer while still social distancing. The annual Summerheights Golf Links 2020 Club Championship looked different this year as it was adapted so golfers could follow distancing protocols.

The 2020 Club Championship was held over a two-week period from August 23 to September 5. Players were required to play one round of 18 holes on each of the MacLennan and Matheson Courses. Prior to tee off, competitors reported to the starter that they would be counting this round toward their two-day 36-hole total. One Summerheights member and one other player, for a minimum of three players, accompanied the competitor to attest the score at the end of the round. All three players or the entire foursome could enter and register their respective scores to qualify for the championship.

Local Hockey Star Pete Piquette

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.