Chatham-Kent Sports Year in Review: June 2011

December 28, 2011 4:36 pm

Jack Parry Award - Kailey Houston and Thomas Bednarik

Jack Parry Award Winners - Kailey Houston and Thomas Bednarik

After a wet and wild month of May, June welcomed drier weather, the end of high school sports, and the beginning of a number of summer activities. Here is just a sneak peak at the top moments from sports in Chatham-Kent during June 2011:

June 2 – Michael Woods and Dylan McTavish, two John McGregor Secondary School students captured Chatham-Kent’s highest ever OFSAA tennis finish, placing 4th in the boys doubles division. Read more about Woods and McTavish at OFSAA Tennis…
June 2 – Mainly sunny, a chance of clouds…that was music to everyone’s ears from farmers to athletes in Chatham-Kent as weeks of games had been postponed and cancelled in high school athletics, track and field, football, soccer, and baseball. Read about sports in Chatham-Kent back underway in June…
June 5 – The UCC Lancers stopped the WDSS Tartans one win short of an undefeated season taking the 2011 Kent Junior Football Championship. Many of those same Tartans would go on to have an undefeated season of their own this year winning the Senior title. Read about the Kent Junior Football final…
June 7 – In one of the best “giving back” stories of the year, local umpires, lead by Chatham’s Adam Ripley, decided to donate a portion of their umpire fees to breast cancer. On top of that, the umpires wore pink uniforms for these donated game. Read about the Umpires in Pink initiative here…
June 9 – The biggest high school athletics awards of the year were handed out in early June, with Chatham-Kent Secondary School sweeping both the Male and Female Jack Parry Award honours. Kailey Houston and Thomas Bednarik took home the 2011 honours. Read about the 2011 Jack Parry Awards…
June 12 – Former Wallaceburg Minor Lacrosse player Zach Herreweyers accepted a full ride athletic scholarship to play for the Loyola University Field lacrosse team. Read more about Zach Herreweyers here…
June 21 – It was a big day for Lacrosse in Wallaceburg as the Novice 1 team became the first Wallaceburg Lacrosse team to reach “A” status in the provincial rankings in over 20 years. Read more about the Wallaceburg Novice 1 Griffins here…
June 24 – Three Blenheim, Ontario rugby players, Tegan Williams, Breanne Nicholas, and Amber Nicholas were named to Team Ontario Rugby rosters. Read more about the three Blenheim rugby players on Team Ontario…
June 24 – In an official release from the Municipality of Chatham-Kent, TekSavvy, and the Kent Havoc, the organizations announced they would host two international rugby matches involving four nations during the summer of 2011 as a part of the TekSavvy Kent Cup. Read about the major rugby announcement here…
June 25 – Chatham’s Mallor Johnston captured a silver medal as a member of Team Canada at the 2011 World Ball Hockey Championships in Slovakia. Read about Mallory Johnston’s silver medal performance…
June 25 – In what had to be the month’s most disappointing moment, Wallaceburg’s Seth Griffith, a star with the OHL’s London Knights, was passed over in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft. Griffith was later invited to Tampa Bay Lightning camp and is one of the OHL’s leading scorers this season. Read about Seth Griffith and the NHL draft here…
June 27 – As a sign of his success, Griffith was invited to the Tampa Bay Lightning training camp only days later. Read about Griffith’s invitation to Tampa Bay Lightning camp…
June 28 – Undermanned, the Maple City Brewers called on 67-year-old manager Wayne Tulloch to step up to the plate and play the field so they would not have to forfeit their weekend game. Amazingly, Tulloch had a hit and an RBI for the Brewers. Read about Wayne Tulloch’s amazing game here…