Sports highlights, March 24 to March 30, 2018

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The Wallaceburg Ice Angels had a successful showing on Saturday, March 24 at the Deveau/Winfield Synchronized Skating Invitational held in Amherstburg. The Wallaceburg Skating Club’s Beginner 1 team finished in third place out of 11 teams to capture bronze ribbons. Team members, include: Jillian Anderson, Denisha Atoe, Brooklyn Bennett, Hayley Clarke, Abigail Coffin, Sophia Ferreira, Leela McLaughlin, Rebecca McLaughlin, Erica Fields, Sunny Gamble, Daylia Hall, Christa Konola, Sophie Konola, Kylee Mahoney, Sadie Martin and Juliet Osborne. The team is coached by Cathy Shaw and the team managers are Kylie Coffin and Tracy McLaughlin.

The Aarkel Bantam TC1 Lakers from Wallaceburg are the Tri-County Hockey League champions. On Saturday afternoon, the squad traveled to Mooretown for Game #2 of their best-of-three series. The Lakers found themselves down 1-0 through two periods of play but eventually tied things up in the third period with a goal from Zander Cogghe. Minutes later, Jackson Oliver fscored to give Wallaceburg the lead. With solid goaltending by Aiden “Macky” MacDonald and shut down defense by the team in the remaining minutes, Wallaceburg held on to win 2-1, making them the Tri-County champs.

And finally… the Dresden White Peewee Local League Team finished up their season recently. The squad finished the regular season at 15-3-2 in second place. They then went 8-2 in the playoffs and finished in second once again. Dresden beat Mooretown Orange two games to one in their best of three finals to capture the Kent Tri-County League championship.

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