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18                 Issue #113 June 2022                                                           www.sportsenergynews.com



      1970-71 St. Lawrence College Roadrunners


      Hockey Club Holds 50th Anniversary Reunion



       By Alex MacDougall                     The Roadrunners played out of the
                                            Long Sault Arena, which they used to
          he  1970-71  edition  of  the  call the Long Sault Ice Palace - when
      TRoadrunners Hockey Team held a  it was minus 20 outside, it was usually
      reunion at their old watering hole, the  minus  30 inside.  The  team  had  our
      St. Lawrence House now known as La  own dressing room, and the players
      Maison. The group had wanted to hold  were able  to leave  their  equipment.
      it last year however COVID prevented  One memory brought up during the
      it from taking place.                 reunion recalled  when the team  had
                                            returned from a road trip to Western
         There was a very good turnout with   Ontario in a snowstorm and the roof
      players coming from as far away as
                                            had collapsed on the arena.
      Kingston. Some of the players attending
      had not seen their teammates for 50     The Alumni Association  provided
      years and so there was a lot of catching  a swag bag to each of the players            1970-71 St. Lawrence College Roadrunners
      up and a few good memories shared.    and picked  up the cost of the  pizza   L  to  R;  Allan  Herrington,  Norm  Fournier,  Bruce  McLennan,  Jack
                                            ordered at Riverside restaurant across   McLennan,  Cameron  McDonald,  Bordie  Herrington,  Andre  Ayotte,
         The coach that year was Orval      the road, the restaurant the players all
      Tessier, who was unable to attend due   ate at during their years at the college.   Alex MacDougall, Ray Lavigne, Gerry Menard, Jack St. Thomas, Terry
      to health issues. In 1971-72, Orval lead   Everyone  had a great  time  and the   Hart, Bill Snelgrove,
      the Royals to the Memorial Cup. The   players promised to stay in touch with   Missing from photo Coach Orval Tessier, Cortney Bolton, Bob Brunet,
      70/71 group joked that Orval got all his   one another.                     Eric Pederson, Mike Lebrun (deceased), Trainers Gary Lalonde, Ron
      training from them.                                                         Johnson (deceased) and Don Petrimoulx (deceased). Photo Submitted






























             
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