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St Joe’s Panthers Girls’ Hockey Team Repeats as

SD&G Champions

By Staff Writer

he St Joe’s Girls’ Panthers
THockey Team defended
their title as champions with a
3-0 victory over North Dundas
in the semi-finals. In the final it

was another classic St Joe’s vs
Holy Trinity game, with St Joe’s
coming out on top 2-1. Goal
scorers for the Panthers were
Leah Whelan and Ally Hebert.

Front L to R: Ally Hebert, Kyra
Butlin, Avery Brown, Andrea Ulhr
Back L to R: Mylene Forget, Amy
Kuhn, Danika Poulin, Macey
Dionne, Emma Ravery, Miranda
Richer, Emily Kuhn, Mikaela
Coleman, Leah Whalen, Brenna
Cameron, Sidnye Brownell
Coaches: Corey Fleury, Hailey
Dickson, Keith Dickson
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MURPHY’S SPORTS LAW By David Murphy

It’s 2019 and it saddens and infuriates me that brutal To make matters worse, so-called security asked the Diabys to
incidents of blatant and unrepentant racism still exist move to another section and only asked the racist phone wielding fan to
in sports. change seats.
Sports are meant to unite us while giving us an The Diabys eventually left the arena in attempt to deescalate the
opportunity to share our love of a game, whatever situation.
that sport must be. While the LNAH (the same league the Cornwall River Kings used
Jackie Robinson broke the Major League
to belong to) has attempted to apologize and reassure the Diabys those
Baseball colour barrier in 1947 - Willie O’Ree fans will be banned, the fallout from this incident isn’t over.
did the same in the NHL in 1958.
Saint-Jerome is less than an hour from downtown Montreal where
72 years later and we still haven’t completely
figured it out as a society. Jackie Robinson once shone for the Montreal Royals before moving up
Recently, fans in Saint-Jerome, Quebec attending the to the MLB’s Brooklyn Dodgers.
LNAH game between Jonquiere and Saint-Jerome began taunting 24 The team is attempting to rectify the situation but short of actually
banning all those involved and making sure there’s a new security team
year old defenceman Jonathan Diaby with racial slurs.
One knuckle dragger (not worthy of being called a fan) was captured (as a of press time, nobody has been concretely identified as being
on video as he mimicked eating a banana and moving like a gorilla to involved in the incident).
taunt Diaby. The same fan also brought up a picture of a baboon on his Shame on the Saint-Jerome fans and security.
phone and pointed to Diaby. Just when you thing we’ve stepped forward as sports’ fans, some
Several other fans began to taunt Diaby’s family and girlfriend as less than desirables drag us two steps back.
they attempted to watch the game from the stands. Let’s hope this incident doesn’t repeat anytime soon.