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Cornwall Lions Boy’s Senior Basketball Recap

By Jean Pierre Tibi EOBA (Eastern Ontario Basketball

Association) championship
n the weekend of May 27-28, weekend, competing in the top # 1
Othe senior Cornwall Lions boys division.
team travelled to Ottawa to compete
in Division 1 of the Eastern Ontario It’s a big accomplishment for a
Basketball Association tournament. small town.

With two wins on the first day A combination of returning veteran

players, who have been playing with
against the Gloucester Wolverines
and the Nepean Blue Devils, they the Lions basketball club for the last
5-6 years, and upcoming younger

finished first in their pool. They

easily defeated the ONL (Ottawa talent, was one of the keys to their
Next Level), team in the semi-finals. success.

The final was a close game through ONL director, Andrew DiMillo,
three quarters but the BCG (Boys and said that he hasn’t seen such a good
team from the Cornwall Lions Club
Girls) team, with a deep bench, in his 20 years at the helm of his
pulled away in the last quarter to program.
claim the championship. Star player
Tanner Nelson was the highest scorer The Lions team had a very From left to right: Assistant Coach Ron Turgeon, Zayden St-Germain,
for the Lions in the defeat playing for successful season with a 9-1-win Carter Turgeon, Jason Obeng, Edward Jacobs, Loïc Mageau, Tanner
loss record in the regular season
almost the entire game. Nelson, Kason Martel, coach Corey Nelson and Jacob Nimene in the
of EOBA play, and a 3-1 record in front. Photo Submitted
The Cornwall Lions team is a tournament play.
very talented team who played well playing as well in Toronto for the Cup, being ranked in the top 24 teams
throughout the season and over the They are looking forward to OBA Ontario Basketball Association in all of Ontario for the tournament.
Men’s Rugby is Back in Town

By Casey Leger and I think we met them well.”
Rugby in Cornwall is developing,
he, relatively, newly christened
TCornwall Rugby Football Club, or redeveloping, as the case may
be. Although the sport isn’t new to
or the Cornwall RFC, hosted its

first friendly of the 2023 season the Seaway City—Cornwall native
Maddy Grant is playing for Team
on the evening of Friday, May 19,
under the lights at Optimist Park Canada, and Sydney Seymour is
when the Lanark Highlanders rolled likely bound for national competition
as well, senior rugby in Cornwall is in
into town for what was touted as a
developmental tilt of master level a rebuilding phase. The club hosted
a few EORU exhibition games last
(35 and older) and rookie players.
season, and this year the club intends
Although the Highlanders won to host one game per month over
the contest handily by seven tries the season, with the next contest Photo@ksdphotography
to Cornwall’s single tally, Cornwall scheduled for 17 June.
RFC President, Alex de Wit, is for a women’s team, we’d like to Anyone interested in playing
At the moment, the club has roughly see ten ladies registered and coming
pleased with his club’s showing on rugby in Cornwall is invited to check

the field. “Another great day,” he fifteen players registered, technically out to practices for June, July, and the Cornwall Rugby Football Club

enough to field an entire side. “We’re August in order to fi eld a team for
says. “Although the score may say on Facebook and Instagram. “We’re
differently, I thought we put forward keeping things developmental and the Highland Games 7s tournament, an inclusive group,” says President
a strong effort, especially for our first recreational until we have numbers, and the John Jones 7s in Montreal in de Wit. ‘All are welcome.”

about 30 to 40,” says de Wit. “As September.”
game. Lanark is a very strong team,