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Walden Rep Novice-Atom-Peewee Tournament

The 2008-09 season marks the 35th year of existence for the Walden Minor Hockey Association and this year's Novice-Atom-Peewee rep tournament provided plenty of reasons for club officials to celebrate. Not only were Walden Devil representative teams taking to the ice for three of the four championship encounters on Sunday afternoon, but for the fans benefit, all four games were decided by just a single goal.

The Novice age bracket featured the tournament’s only overtime contest as Julien Marshall netted the game-winning goal, lifting the Nickel Centre Flyers past the Rayside-Balfour Tigers 3-2 in semi-final play. Equally as close in the final as Mathieu Dokis-Dupuis and Braeden Dumais staked the Sudbury Bulldogs to a 2-0 lead before Tommy Vlahos narrowed the gap to one, scoring for Nickel Centre midway through the third. But that would be the last change made to the scoreboard as the Bulldogs edged the Devils 2-1.

After picking up a pair of championship banners at the 2007 event, the Bulldogs organization duplicated the feat this fall when Tyrus Cuculick was sent free on a breakaway with just over three minutes remaining in regulation time, making no mistake to give the Minor Atom Bulldogs a 2-1 win over the Walden Devils.

Dawson Nootchtai (Walden) and William Irvine (Bulldogs) traded goals over the opening two periods of play, setting the stage for the third period dramatics. Yet another great final in store for the Major Atoms as the Walden crew give the hometown gathering plenty to cheer about, stopping the North Bay Elite 3-2 to walk away with the divisional crown.

Bray Crowder netted a pair of goals for the victors with Riley Nadeau adding a second period power play marker to round out the scoring for Walden. Troy McLuhan and Jon Rosien replied in a losing cause for North Bay. And finally, the Minor Peewee Division provided a fitting conclusion to the day’s festivities as the Copper Cliff Redmen and Walden Devils remained deadlocked in a scoreless draw midway through period number three.

Cue the heroics as Dexter Lamarche drills the only goal of the game, allowing the Devils to earn a split of the hardware up for grabs at their own tournament, blanking the Redmen 1-0 in the Minor Peewee final. Following is a complete rundown of games played in all divisions along with goal scorers for the entire tournament:

Novice Division

Valley East Rebels 3 (Alex Frappier, Quintin Bertrand, Lucas Sprack)
Copper Cliff Redmen 2 (Dylan Will-2)

Sudbury Bulldogs 5 (Mathieu Dokis-Dupuis-2, Brett Jacklin, Thomas Crowther, Patrick Musico)
Nickel Centre Flyers 1 (Tommy Vlahos)

Rayside Tigers 5 (Brett Guse-2, Bailey Therrien, Noah Pasivista, Joseph Mazur)
Walden Devils 4 (Mathieu Seguin, Matthew Kvaltin, Gabriel Nadeau, Jakob Fahey)

Sudbury Bulldogs 8 (Brett Jacklin-2, Braeden Dumais, Thomas Crowther, Patrick Musico, James Colbourne, Carter Wachnuk, Mathieu Dokis-Dupuis)
Rayside Tigers 0

Walden Devils 6 (Brandon Atkins-2, Mathieu Seguin-2, Jakob Fahey, Mathew Kvaltin)
Copper Cliff Redmen 1 (Dylan Will)

Nickel Centre Flyers 1 (Jacob Matthews)
Valley East Rebels 1 (Aiden Chmielak)

Walden Devils 2 (Mathew Kvaltin-2)
Nickel Centre Flyers 7 (Shane Poitras-3, Tommy Vlahos-3, Ryan Patterson)

Valley East Rebels 1 (Mark McIlroy)
Rayside Tigers 2 (Mat Desormeaux, Brady Maltais)

Sudbury Bulldogs 7 (Mathieu Dokis-Dupuis-2, Julian Simeoni-2, James Colbourne, Josh Piche, Brett Jacklin)
Copper Cliff Redmen 1 (Dylan Will)

Semi-Final
Nickel Centre Flyers 3 (Tommy Vlahos-2, Julien Marshall)
Rayside Tigers 2 (Noah Pasivista, Brett Guse)
Overtime

Championship Final
Sudbury Bulldogs 2 (Mathieu Dokis-Dupuis, Braeden Dumais)
Nickel Centre Flyers 1 (Tommy Vlahos)


Minor Atom Division

Walden Devils 4 (Devun St Pierre-2, Zachary Peterson, Ben Lagadin)
Copper Cliff Redmen 4 (Camilo Rodrigue-Melo-2, Callum Roque, Carter Struk)

Sudbury Bulldogs 8 (William Irvine-2, Felix Cote-2, Noah Stargratt, Justin Lefrancois, Alex Paquette, Tyrus Cuculick)
Nickel Centre Flyers 0 (shutout - Nicholas Bissonette)

Walden Devils 2 (Joel Huffman, Jacob Brown)
Sudbury Bulldogs 1 (Brett Melanson)

Walden Devils 5 (Devun St Pierre-3, Joel Huffman-2)
Nickel Centre Flyers 0 (shutout Jeremy Welsh)

Sudbury Bulldogs 3 (Tyrus Cuculick-2, William Irvine)
Copper Cliff Redmen 0 (shutout Nicholas Bissonnette)

Copper Cliff Redmen 6 (Camilo Rodrigue-Melo-3, Gregory Trudeau-Paquet, Braeden Tulini, Tyler Lewis)
Nickel Centre Flyers 0

Championship Final
Sudbury Bulldogs 2 (William Irvine, Tyrus Cuculick)
Walden Devils 1 (Dawson Nootchtai)

Major Atom Division

Sudbury Bulldogs 1 (Bradley Sheppard)
Rayside Tigers 1 (Matthieu Verreault)

Walden Devils 1 (Bray Crowder)
North Bay Elite 1 (Troy McLuhan)

Timmins Boston Pizza Red Wings 5 (Samuel Bourgeois-2, Jace Soroko, Nickolas Hway, Noah Dumas)
Rayside Tigers 1 (Tyler Brisson)

North Bay Elite 6 (Kurtis McLuhan, Braedan Villeneuve, Travis Budge, Braiden Coughlin, Mickey George, Jake Grasser)
ACT - Sault Ste Marie 0

Sudbury Bulldogs 3 (Mathieu Quenville, Bradley Sheppard, Joel Piette)
Timmins Boston Pizza Red Wings 2 (Noah Dumas, Samuel Bourgeois)

Guelph Jr Storm 4 (Nick Mainprize, Natasha Costello, Joel MacPherson, Michael Moriarty)
ACT - Sault Ste Marie 1 (Cody Slumskie)

Goulding Park Rangers 1 (Michael Kelaiditis)
Rayside Tigers 0 (shutout Joshua Bodenstein)

North Bay Elite 5 (Gianni Chaput-3, Braeden Villeneuve, Travis Budge)
Guelph Jr Storm 1 (Josh Ciccia)

Walden Devils 3 (Riley Nadeau, Jake Stos, Ian Thom)
ACT - Sault Ste Marie 0

Goulding Park Rangers 5 (Michael Kelaiditis-2, Riley Durant-2, Adam Del Zotto)
Timmins Boston Pizza Red Wings 1 (Nickolas Hway)

Walden Devils 3 (Josh Duckett-2, Nic Chevrette)
Guelph Jr Storm 0

Goulding Park Rangers 7 (Michael Kelaiditis-4, Wesley Smythe, Robert Kyriacopoulos, Riley Durant)
Sudbury Bulldogs 2 (Brad Potvin, Kyle Liinamaa)

Semi-Finals
Walden Devils 5 (Nic Chevrette-3, Bray Crowder, Landon Morin)
Sudbury Bulldogs 1 (Martin Gagnon)

North Bay Elite 6 (Travis Budge-2, Braeden Villeneuve, Gianni Chaput, Kurtis McLuhan, Mickey George)
Goulding Park Rangers 1 (Adam Del Zotto)

Championship Final
Walden Devils 3 (Bray Crowder-2, Riley Nadeau)
North Bay Elite 2 (Troy McLuhan, Jon Rosien)

Minor Peewee Division

Sudbury Bulldogs 4 (Pierce Wallingford-2, Bradley Sutton, Cameron Quenville)
Copper Cliff Redmen 1 (Nicholas Jeffery)

Manitoulin Panthers 3 (Jeremy Couchie, Jacob Pitawanakwat, Brandon Pheasant)
Sudbury Bulldogs 1 (David Moorhouse)

Bradford Bulldogs 3 (Tarron Boyd-2, Zachary Savoie)
Valley East Rebels 1 (Cole Braney)

Copper Cliff Redmen 2 (Connor Vaillancourt, Tanner Schroeder)
Manitoulin Panthers 1 (Mitchal Payette)

Walden Devils 2 (Noah Lagadin, Steven Manarin)
Ottawa Sting 2 (Adam Allard-2)

Walden Devils 3 (Matthew Neault, Curtis Schryer, Cole Rogers)
Bradford Bulldogs 0

Ottawa Sting 3 (Adam Allard, Tyler Watungwa, Jacob Cummer)
Valley East Rebels 0

Valley East Rebels 5 (Brandan Dumouchel-4, Cole Braney)
Manitoulin Panthers 0

Bradford Bulldogs 2 (Garrett Gordon, Dylan Andrews)
Copper Cliff Redmen 3 (Kyle Guillot, Matthew Lewis, Ty Beauchamp)

Ottawa Sting 1 (Liam Kelly)
Sudbury Bulldogs 1 (Bradley Sutton)

Walden Devils 6 (Mitchell Mousseau-3, Noah Lagadin-2, Brett Miller)
Manitoulin Panthers 2 (Justice Corbiere, Matthew Craig)

Valley East Rebels 1 (Brandon Dumouchel)
Copper Cliff Redmen 3 (Tanner Schroeder, Matthew Lewis, Alexandre Savard)

Sudbury Bulldogs 1 (Pierce Wallingford)
Walden Devils 6 (Jason Bednarski-4, Ian White, Noah Lagadin)

Ottawa Sting 2 (Tyler Watungwa, Andrew Gordon)
Bradford Bulldogs 4 (Daniel Atcheson-2, Danny Vilon, Rob Graham)

Semi-Final
Copper Cliff Redmen 3 (Alexandre Savard, Miguel Lefebvre, Nicholas Jeffery)
Bradford Bulldogs 2 (Ian Atkinson-2)

Championship Final
Walden Devils 1 (Dexter Lamarche)
Copper Cliff Redmen 0