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this season. The team opens at a good man hug. I really miss
No.10 in MLB power rankings. hugging my mom, my brother,
The RUFFO Report • Canada Soccer’s Men’s and my niece and nephew.

with Perry Ruffo National Team completed the • Easter #2 with little to no
first challenge in its FIFA World gatherings and maybe a masked
Cup Qatar 2022™ Qualifiers social distanced visit. Hopefully,
free-falling in the East. We need
journey with victories over the you enjoyed your weekend with
them back on home soil and Cayman Islands and Bermuda. family.
pril 2021: what am I going playing at the ACC. They could Canada’s six points across two
Ato write about? use the energy from their fans in matches puts them in first place • Soon the girls will be home
• With the time change in Jurassic Park. in their group. Canada will next from school. and that means
energy will be back in the
March, the days have gotten • I like what I see from my gather as a group in the June FIFA house. Also, more groceries and

longer, and spring is in the air. Oilers. My fingers are crossed window where it is scheduled to
laundry!
In the sports world, the arrival for them to be the team that face Aruba on June 5th and host
of spring means playoff hockey, comes out of the NHL North Suriname on June 8th to wrap up • Blizzard-like conditions on
March Madness, and the start of Division. group play. April 1st, that was no joke!
baseball season.
• The Jays are looking good • I miss hugs! I’m that guy My name is Perry Ruffo & this
• It’s tough to see the Raptors and should be exciting to watch who likes to hug – you know, has been the RUFFO Report.

Kaleb Malyon:

Lacrosse Scholarship with Newbury Wolves

lacrosse moments include winning a
By Victoria Klassen
Provincial “C” Championship with
the CMLA peewee team, coached by
aleb Malyon began playing Rick Filion, and assisted by Bill Perras
Klacrosse as a three-year-old.
and his dad, Steve Malyon. Making
A family friend, Terry Turcotte, it to the provincial finals with the Jr
was president of Cornwall Minor B Indians and being drafted to Junior
Lacrosse Association (CMLA) at the
A are also memorable highlights.
time.
The latest accomplishment on his is
“I believe Terry literally came signing a scholarship offer with the
knocking at our door when I was Newbury Wolves.
little and asked my parents if I’d be “I am very excited to further my
interested in joining lacrosse,” said
lacrosse dreams all the while earning
Malyon. “Honestly, if it weren’t for a degree. It doesn’t get better than
him, I would have never joined the
that!” shared Malyon. “To be honest,
sport.”
it all happened really fast. I had been
Malyon played box lacrosse talking to a few different schools in
from paperweight to minor bantam the U.S., but nothing really clicked
with the Cornwall Minor Lacrosse until Newberry called. The Newberry
Association and then moved to play head coach reached out to my Ottawa
with the Akwesasne Storm for his Capitals field team coach, Jay Fox,
major bantam and midget years. In and he called me the next day. Within
2019, as a midget, he made the Jr. a week or so, I was signed.”
B. Akwesasne Indians as a call-up Newberry, located in South
where he played nine regular season
Carolina, has a business program
games and 12 playoff games. In that Malyon is excited to take.
January 2020, he was drafted to the
He one day hopes to run his own
Six Nations Jr. A Arrows team, but business. While he gets his degree,
never got to play for them due to the he is looking forward to settling into
COVID-19 pandemic.
his new community and continuing
Malyon got his start in field lacrosse his lacrosse journey.
at age 10 playing with the Akwesasne
“Another important aspect Photo Submitted
Attack for two seasons. He went on was the small school and small-
to play with Evolve for a year and
town atmosphere that Newberry liked the student-to-faculty ratio,” great that I have played, and currently
then with the Ottawa Capitals for the
offered. Newberry has approximately said Malyon. “The field and sports play, with a couple of guys who are
last four years.
10,000 people and the school has facility are new and look awesome, going there, and one who is already
Some of his most memorable only about 1,200 students. I really which is definitely a bonus. It is also there.”