Page 17 - Cornwall Sports Energy News Issue No 96, Mike Piquette

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Presents Jim Riddell’s Sports Talk

with Area Senior Barry Coleman

Barry then became a goaltender and
eventually played with the Cornwall
Midget B travelling team. It was then
onto Jr. B for the 1971-72 season with
the Alexandria Glens when the team
arry Coleman grew up in a home won the league but got beat out late
Bwith two brothers and one sister in the playoffs. The following year,
in the area around Water Street and Barry was to return to the Glens but
Seymour. “There were a lot of kids in while playing broomball he suffered a
that area and that meant a lot of sports broken leg the very first game of the
and things to do. My siblings and I season. “My older brother, Brian and
would play hockey on the school rink I were playing on the same team and
and on the canal. With the other kids, he got hit above the eye with a stick
we played softball and tackle football and headed to the hospital for stitches.
under the old bridge, soccer, and A few minutes later someone fell on
horseshoes, and we went swimming my leg and I heard it snap. I was at
in the old canal in front of our house. the hospital being processed and the
Across the canal we had lots of area lady asked me, “Do you guys have any
for things like fishing and camping. other brothers?”.”
My dad (Harley) had been a pretty The broken tibia ended Barry’s
good hockey player in his day with season but in 1974, he was back in
the Cornwall Falcons Sr. team and he
net, this time playing the first of two
had a couple of nets for us to use. My seasons with the Morrisburg Lions.
dad, my older brother, and I took care
In 1975, the Lions won the Gill Cup
of the nearby rink on the canal. We as champions of the Eastern Ontario
would clear it, cut holes in the ice, and Junior Hockey League. At the same
use pails to flood the surface.”
time, Barry was also attending St.
Playing out until he was in Bantam, Photo Submitted
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