Just For The Fun Of It

We have the following unclaimed awards from the banquet:

Alex Murata – coach of the year

Jordan Chen – coach of the year

Keegan Morawiec – Bill MacLeod Memorial Cup

Eliot Blackwell and Dylan Blackwell – Two Ball Champions

Victor Chowdhury – Free Throw Champion

Simon Drumm – Two Ball Runner up

Jill Anderson – Free Throw Champion

Seth Beckwith – Holy Cross Spring League

Team of the Year Medals – several medals have gone unclaimed/

 

Please contact Roland Billings at roland.billings@sympatico.ca to make arrangements to pick up your awards. If your name does not appear on this list and you were a winner that could not attend the banquet, your coach has your award and will be in touch. 

The Don “Pete” Petersen Trophy: This award is presented annually to the individual from each division rendering the greatest and most faithful service to the general good of the league.

 

Little Guys – Jack Mason

Little Gals – Amber Allport

Girls – Juliana Sargent and Zoey Perault

Biddy- Sarah Fahy and Lisa Roberts

Graduate – Louis Grogan

 

Queen’s University Basketball Camp

Little Guys – Rowan Dwyer – Wildcats

Little Gals – Mackenzie Harmon- Rebels

Girls – Abby Ows – Comets

Biddy- Will Hanson – Cavaliers

Graduate – Caleb Olding – Hawks

 

The Referee’s Trophy: This award is given annually to the coaches of the year in each division who best exemplify what coaching in the league is all about.

Little Guys – Tarheels  – Cory Hollywood,

Shelby Soutar, and Hayden Hollywood

Little Gals – Monarchs – Rick Oleschuk and Sean Meleschuk

Girls – Storm – Caroline Hummell, Jordan Grey and Calista Payne

Biddy- Orange – Paul Medeiros, Madison Benoit and Chris Kerstens

Graduate – Heat – Alex Murata, Jordan Chen and Ryota Udo

 

 

The Guy Wells Trophy: This trophy is given to the male and female players who best exemplify what the league stands for – sportsmanship, fair play, team play and leadership.

 

            Sparks – Sarah Morris

      Heat – Graydon Garrett     

 

The Tony Pettitt Award: This award, started in  2007 was put in place in memory of long time league supporter Tony Pettitt and is given to recognize the contributions of a non-coaching, adult volunteer.

 

Joe Spinelli, Jeff and Doreen Hoekstra

 

Holy Cross Secondary School Spring League and Summer Camps

 

Little Guys – Jace Davidson – Rebels

Little Gals – Harlee Gordon – Golden Gals

Girls – Ava Cabral – Liberty

Biddy- Seth Beckwith – Magic

Graduate – Gavin McLaughlin – Heat

 

 

The Bill MacLeod Memorial Cup: This award is given annually to the player in each division who best reflects the spirit of the league format “Just for the Fun of it”

 

Little Guys – Parker Hollywood – Tarheels

Little Gals – Avery Vivian – Rockers

Girls – Maya Sousa – Sparks

Biddy- Dylan Joy – Grizzlies and Dayshawn DaSilva – Magic

Graduate – Curtis Bird – Sixers and Keegan Morawiec – Hawks

 

The Lenny Falcoa Award : This award is given for the TEAM OF THE YEAR in each division that best exemplifies the hustle, team work, and all around attitude that makes the league so much fun.

Little Guys – Hoosiers

Little Gals – Aztecs

Girls – Sparks

Biddy- Cavaliers

Graduate – Sixers

 

Lakers summer basketball camp

 

Little Guys – Maddexx Davidson

Little Gals – Madison Clements

 

John Long Award for “behind the scenes contribution to the success of the league”: Doug and Nancy Vivian

Two Ball Champions and Runners-up

 

Champions

Little Guys – Colton Irwin and Rowan Hicks

Little Gals – Norah Hogan and Maciee Webb

Girls – Ailsa MacLeod and Abby Ows

Biddy- Dylan Blackwell and Eliot Blackwell

Graduate – Emmitt Irwin and Grady Irwin

 

Runners up

Little Guys – Simon Drumm and Ethan Halliday

Little Gals – Harlee Gordon and Layla Halliday

Girls – Miranda Steele and Haleigh Gilbert

Biddy- Jack Molson and Will Hanson

Graduate – Ben Mignault and Matt Mignault

 

Trinity Van Heddegem Memorial Award for the Little Gals Rookie of the Year

 

Zoey Black – Tigers

 

The Gerry Besselink Award : This award is given for effort, respect and dedication to the league.

 

Madison Young

 

 

 

St. Lawrence Basketball Camp Awards

Little Guys – Ryan Kyle – Wolfpack

Little Gals – Keira Hawkins – Aztecs

Girls – Vanessa Tapper – Storm

Biddy- Qosay Al Khalaf – Vikings

Graduate – Jordan VanDuesan – Sixers

 

The Bucky Spencer Memorial Free Throw Champions:

 

Boys

8 years – Thompson Fisher – Huskies

9 years – Tyler Flake – Rebels

10 years – Ryan Kyle – Wolfpack

11 years – Adam Mignault – Vikings

12 years – Will Hanson – Cavaliers

13 years – Victor Chowdhury – Celtics

14 years- Conor Murphy – Sixers  and Zach Flake – Hawks

15 years – Griffin Wade-Salay – Warriors

 

Girls

8 years – Jill Anderson – Monarchs

9 years – Summer Vallier – Tigers

10 years – Korra Feola – Lions

11 years – Abby Sweet – Comets

12 years – Aryana Denee – Monarchs

13 years – Rhys Baker – Starzz

14 years – Sadie DeArruda – Monarchs

 

 

Most Improved Players

Little Guys – Rowan Dwyer – Wildcats

Little Gals – Stella Lakins – Rockers

Girls – Miranda Steele – Mercury and Jayda English – Sting

Biddy- Alexander East – Suns

Graduate – Seth Dean – Bulls

 

Most Valuable Players

Little Guys – Henry Yanovsky – Ball – Jayhawks

Little Gals – Norah Hogan – Lions

Girls – Sadie DeArruda – Monarchs

Biddy- Jack Molson – Orange

Graduate – Rowan Lloyd – Heat

 

Most Sportsmanlike Players

Little Guys – Reed Rickards – Hoosiers

Little Gals – Rae Cantarutti – Tigers

Girls – Haleigh Gilbert – Starzz

Biddy- Adam Mignault – Vikings

Graduate – Max Gill – Bulls

 

The Carm Londry Trophy for the player in each division that shares the ball

Little Guys – Sasha Wheeler-Dee – Mustangs

Little Gals – Erika Oleschuk- Monarchs

Girls – Avery Herrington –Sting

Biddy- Will Hanson – Cavaliers and Elijah Daly – Ravens

Graduate – Simon Risk – Sixers

 

Top Defensive Players

Little Guys – Rowan Hicks – Huskies and Ryan Kyle – Wolfpack

Little Gals – Haley Kehoe – Tigers and Maciee Webb – Slammers

Girls – Mackenzie Duttle – Starzz

Biddy- Cole Brunet – Tarheels and Nathan Hibbert – Suns

Graduate – Riley Webb – Warriors and Brady Hennigar – Celtics

 

 

 

Results of Games Played Thursday, February 21, 2019

Tigers 26 (Haley Kehoe 12, Rae Cantarutti 6, Shelby Chase 4, Lily Cook 4)
Monarchs 22 (Erika Oleschuk 10, Lucy Meleschuk 4, Anderson Boles 4, Addyson Best-Taylor 2, Claire Anderson 2)

Slammers 38 (Ava Smith 12, Kylah O’Brien 8, Maciee Webb 6, Jessie LaPointe 4, Jayla Thompson 4, Peyton Cheema 2, Skyah Arruda 2); Lions 10 (Hayley Kehoe 4, Korra Feola 4, Marley Heyman 2)

Rebels 19 (Lydia Burke 4, Mackenzie Harman 4, Laurianne Deslisle 4, Isabella St. Germaine 2, Brooke Millotte 2, Addisyn Stewart 2, Megan Burtch 1)
Golden Gals 11 (Cara Tedford 6, Abigail Sells 3, Harlee Gordon 2)

Aztecs 21 (Reese Cuff 12, Amelia Spinelli 2, Finlay Evans 2, Keira Hawkins 2, Madeline Kerr 2, Laura Provost 1); Rockers 12 (Grace Blunt 4, Sophia Meneses 2, Jenna Martin 2, Ann Krasna 2, Avery Vivian 2)

Results of Games Played Monday February 18, 2019

Sixers 55 (Dylan Graham 4, Conor Murphy 16, Aiden Kelly 4, Jordan VanDuesen 5, Aiden Christmas 8, Simon Risk 4, Jackson MacNeil 5, Nicholas MacNeil 1, Noah Benoit 2, Griffin Hunt 6); Bulls 35 (Tyreese Tapper 8, Jabin Arbeau 3, Brendan Dalton 2, Angelo Agostino 4, Jack Nelson 2, Sam Serroya 5, Max Gill 10, Jacob Free 1)

 

Celtics 77 (Matthew Sutton 17, Ben Mignault 15, Andrew Almeida 2, Brady Hennigar 10, Sam Harris 3, Graydon Garrett 9, Matthew Mignault 5, Adam Mignault 4, Zack Flake 12); Hawks 61 (Grady McAuley 18, Henry Seymour 9, Delali Afidenyo 17, Hunter Freeman 2, Jacob Freeman 4, Lucas Kirkland 5, Derwin Fernandes 2, Darcy English 4)

 

Heat 67 (Emmitt Irwin 10, Grady Irwin 9, Rowan Lloyd 14, Graydon Garrett 18, Henry Garrett 2, Evan Jarvis 5, Aiden Foulds 2, Harrison Andrew 7); Warriors 43 (Evan Joy 8, Michael Pointer 10, Braeden Mackler 8, Delali Afidenyo 17)

 

 

As we head into the weekend we want to remind everyone that we will be playing our season finale games in both the Graduate and Biddy Divisions on Monday night, February 18, as we kick off our last week of the season. Enjoy Family Day and then bring the family along to celebrate another successful season of basketball in the league that Pete built!

Results of Games Played Thursday, February 14, 2019

Rockers 12 (Avery Vivian 6, Libby Thompson 4, Sophia Meneses 2)
Golden Gals 10 (Madison McCauley 4, Cara Tedford 2, Amelia Watt 2, Gracie Reynolds 2)

Rebels 16 (Lydia Burke 6, Brooke Millotte 6, Sydney Hunter 4)
Aztecs 16 (Reese Cuff 8, Leigha Provost 2, Olive Girard 2, Morgan Ferguson 2, Madeline Kerr 2)

Tigers 36 (Amanda Valente 8, Lily Cook 6, Summer Vallier 4, Rae Cantarutti 4, Ashlyn Zuuring 4, Shelby Chase 4, Haley Kehoe 4)
Slammers 13 (Jessie LaPointe 4, Maciee Webb 3, Peyton Cheema 2, Kylah O’Brien 2, Jayla Thompson 2)

Lions 20 (Norah Hogan 10, Marley Heyman 3, Liliana Butler-McLaughlin 2, Faith Duong 2, Korra Feola 2, Alexis Clarke 1)
Monarchs 16 (Erika Oleschuk 4, Anderson Boles 4, Claire Anderson 2, Ember Robinson 2, Addyson Best-Taylor 2, Rylee Drew 2)

This season we have had more cancellations than we would normally have, and we are often asked “will the games be made up?”. We thought that we should let you know why the answer to that question is no. Each season we need to plan our activities in May so that the gym time at the two schools where we play can be reserved. We have a wonderful relationship with the Algonquin and Lakeshore Catholic District School Board, but we are only one of the community groups looking for space in the schools every year. Our schedule is set to run between the Saturday after Labour Day, and to be finished before the March Break. The back end is decided for us through the availability of the hall where our banquet takes place. We book the hall immediately after the banquet this year, and again, even though we are regular “bookers” we are not the only groups using the facility. The date for the Christmas break is chosen to allow the schools where we play time to use and decorate their gyms for their own school events. We schedule for 38 teams in five divisions, and in operating four nights a week there is no “wiggle room” in the schedule to add games. Along with booking the gym time, our insurance covers us only for the facilities and dates specified on the policy. The reason we include that detail is because it has been suggested that we could play the make up games at another school. That is not possible. If we were to include a cancellation week into the schedule to be filled with cancelled games being replayed, we would lose that week from the total number of games played in all divisions. All of us involved as volunteers in the league want you to understand that on game nights we would much rather be in the gym, and we don’t like cancelling games any more than you as players and families like losing the opportunity to be there. We do not have any control over weather conditions, school closures or bomb scares that cancel community use of schools. We have committed that on days where the weather is causing cancellations around the city, we will make the decision to cancel as early in the day as possible so that our volunteers can contact their teams to prevent unnecessary travel. We always agonize over making that decision because we know how important the games are to all of us. Our organizational guideline is to make the call on cancellation by 2 pm, and to post the decision on our web site and through social media, and often we stretch that time in the hope that the forecast will change. We hope this helps you understand what goes in to planning the season every year. The good news is that the long range forecast for next week and the banquet is looking pretty good right now.