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14 Issue #107 December 2021
Sudbury Silver for OHA U15 Boys
By Staff Writer
n Thursday, November 4th, the
OOntario Hockey Academy’s
U15 AAA Major Bantams hit
the road for the Big Nickel AAA
Tournament in Sudbury, Ontario.
The team was full of optimism
after recently defeating the Ottawa
Valley Titans on October 31st to
mark their first win in league play.
The team opened the tourney
with a strong effort, beating the
Nickel City Sons 4 – 2 in their
morning game. The afternoon
brought a more exciting contest
versus the North Bay Trappers,
with a couple of unlucky bounces
sending the game into OT. Early
in the extra frame, #85 Takanobu
Hiraga found another gear and
blasted around the defense on the
outside to roof the OT winner in
tight.
Saturday’s play began with a
tightly fought game against the
Nickel City Capitals, who played
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desperate for the win in front of
their hometown crowd. OHA
relied on steady defense to come
out with a 2-1 victory over the
Caps, setting themselves up for an
afternoon match-up with the Soo
Sault Marie Greyhounds. In what
might have been OHA’s strongest
performance to date, the team
created chances with speed, played
physical when required, and relied
on the efforts of Donald Hickey in
between the pipes to roll to a 5-2
victory.
After awaiting results late
Saturday, OHA learned that they
would face the North Bay Trappers
for the second time in the semis
on Sunday morning. OHA came
out strong and were much more
dominant in the re-match, rolling
to a 5-2 win, and earning a berth in
the tourney final.
The boys came up against the
Toronto Young Nationals in the
final, and despite weathering an
early storm and scoring first, the
Young Nats proved to be too deep.
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The 5-1 loss was disappointing Serov, and Rafek Dianov from
for the group, but head coach Russia rounding out the roster.
Brent Loney helped put it all in
perspective for them; “These boys The Mavericks came home for
a league game against top-ranked
took a big step this weekend. There
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was much better puck movement, the road again on November 17th
team play, and the results speak for for Moncton New Brunswick to
themselves. Once they get over the compete in the Monctonian AAA
loss, I am sure they will be very Challenge.
proud of coming home with a 5-1
record and the silver medal that
goes along with it.”
Individual honors went to #1
Donald Hickey for “Best Team
Player” and #85 Takanobu Hiraga
who shared the honor of Top
Scorer.
The U15 roster includes
goalies Donald Hickey from
Newfoundland and Ivan Petrov
from Russia and an all-Canadian
defensive core led by Captain
Jack Marnell and Tyler Hill from
Newfoundland, Mack Olivier from
Quebec, Joshua Plourde and Will
Reynolds from New Brunswick,
and local Bennett Harty from Long
Sault. Up front, the Mavericks
have Samuel Lussier and Jeremy
St. Louis from Quebec, with Nate
Driscoll, Will Reynolds, and Owen
Graham from New Brunswick. OHA Captain Jackson Marnell
Takanobu Hiraga is from Japan, receives his Siler Medal from
with Dymitrii Novikov, Vasily Coach Brent Loney
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