More than a half decade of playground hockey tradition was on display once again this past weekend as the SPHL (Sudbury Playground Hockey League) hosted their annual Mayor's Cup Tournament. While the event is essentially an in-house competition, that certainly did not diminish the intensity of the battles along the way, including some memorable finishes in the playoff round.
Sunday's championship affairs kicked off with one of the weekend's most exciting games as Riverdale's Kurtis Brisebois scored with just one second remaining in regulation time to send the Atom final to overtime. He followed that up by netting his sixth goal of the game with the teams playing two on two hockey (3rd O/T period), lifting Riverdale past the Algonquin Hawks 6-5.
Nico Presot answered with a hat-trick in a losing cause, with Anthony Zanetti and Jonathan Zanini picking up one goal apieve for the Hawks. In the Novice age grouping, the Westmount Wolverines survived the drama of a 1-0 double overtime victory in semi-final play, advancing to face the Algonquin Hawks in the Gold medal encounter.
This time around, they left nothing to chance, bolting out to a 3-0 lead and peppering Hawks' netminder Mitchel Cleaver throughout the contest in chalking up the shutout win. Mathieu Landry, the goal-scoring hero from the morning's semi-final, was joined on the scoresheet by Nicholas Marcoux and Steven Sagle in the final.
An interesting battle in the Peewee title tilt as the regular season's top two teams, Lo-Ellen and Long Lake, are sent to the sidelines in semi-final play, leaving Cedar Park and Riverdale to battle it out for all the marbles. Steven Vaillancourt drills a pair of goals, with singles coming from Perez Beaupre and Connor Napoli as Riverdale earns a second championship, dumping the Red Wings 4-1.
Riley Waugh broke the shutout bid for Cedar Park. And while the Barrie Knights' organization may have sent just one team up for this year's tournament, the Bantam squad made the most of their trek to the Nickel City, defeating Long Lake 3-1 in the championship final.
Francesco Morriello, John Luscombe (Jr) and Alex Mucci potted one goal each in the win, with Erik Duhamel responding with the only Long Lake goal. Following are complete game scores and goal scorers for all games played over the weekend:
Novice DivisionWestmount 3 (Nicholas Marcoux-2, Jordon Sagle)
Lo-Ellen 1 (Dominik Kapustik)
Algonquin 3 (Martin Bulic, Christian Dumont, Jack Nykilchyk)
Cedar Park 3 (Jay Chenier-2, Noah Gascon)
Long Lake 0
Riverdale 0
Westmount 7 (Luke Crepeau-2, Jordon Sagle-2, Dylan Dumontelle, Michael Morrier, Gavin Piaskoski)
Riverdale 0
Algonquin 3 (Jeff Suitor, Chad Gravelle, Martin Bulic)
Lo-Ellen 1 (Connor Curich)
Cedar Park 3 (Jay Chenier, Roger Poitras, Noah Gascon)
Long Lake 1 (Dawson Larcher)
Westmount 9 (Mathieu Landry-3, Jordon Sagle-2, Steven Sagle, Gavin Piaskoski, Luke Crepeau, Nicholas Marcoux)
Cedar Park 5 (Jay Chenier-3, Noah Gascon, Roger Poitras)
Algonquin 6 (Martin Bulic-3, Jack Nykilchyk-2, Chad Gravelle)
Riverdale 0
Lo-Ellen 3 (Joseph Sutton, Anthony Zilio, Connor Curich)
Long Lake 1 (Jacob Desjardins)
Semi-Finals
Algonquin 6 (Jack Nykilchyk-2, Chad Gravelle-2, Martin Bulic-2)
Cedar Park 3 (Jay Chenier-2, Roger Poitras)
Westmount 1 (Mathieu Landry)
Lo-Ellen 0
Championship Final
Westmount 3 (Mathieu Landry, Nicholas Marcoux, Steven Sagle)
Algonquin 0
Atom Division
Cedar Park 2 (Ryan Gratton, Michael Bouffard)
Antwerp 1 (Tyler Thibeault)
Westmount 6 (Tyler Smith-5, Kyle Sagle)
Lo-Ellen 3 (Jacob Sutton-2, Patrick Huska)
Riverdale 4 (Kurtis Brisebois-3, Dominik Valentic)
Algonquin 4 (Andrew Scott, Nico Presot, Jacob Lebeau, Anthony Zanetti)
McFarlane Lake 2 (Eric Mullin-Belanger, Seresa Seguin)
Long Lake 0
Westmount 2 (Tyler Smith-2)
Antwerp 1 (Mateo Miller)
Algonquin 3 (Nico Presot-2, Ben Evans)
Long Lake 1 (Nicholas Boulay)
Riverdale 5 (Kurtis Brisebois-4, Dominik Valentic)
McFarlane Lake 2 (Eric Mullin-Belanger-2)
Cedar Park 3 (Alex Dorazio, Mitchel Legault, Harry Smith)
Lo-Ellen 2 (Jacob Sutton, Kyle Ormsby)
Championship Final
Riverdale 6 (Kurtis Brisebois-6)
Algonquin 5 (Nico Presot-3, Anthony Zanetti, Jonathan Zanini)
Peewee Division
Riverdale 4 (Steven Vaillancourt, Jeff Giroux, Jacob Tessier, Ryan Allick)
Lo-Ellen 2 (Brayden Taylor, Thomas Costelo)
Cedar Park 2 (Rebekah Rego, Alexie Castilloux)
Long Lake 1 (Bradley Lavoie)
Algonquin 7 (Marcus Goegan, Ashley Binette, Josh brown, Matthieu Berthelot, Cody Dunn, Michael Vocaturo, Andrew Harvey)
Westmount 0
Antwerp (# 2) 2 (Jared Debassige, Aiden Ingriselli)
Antwerp (# 1) 0
Long Lake 5 (Nicholas Watkins, Julian Scodnick, Justin Watkins, Bradley Lavoie, Daniel Eddy)
Algonquin 2 (Evan Lielkalns, Josh Brown)
Cedar Park 6 (Daniel Rego-3, Alex Mayotte-2, Riley Waugh)
Westmount 1 (Owen Basso)
Lo-Ellen 5 (Nicholas Petryna-2, Dylan Kelly, Brayden Taylor, Thomas Costelo)
Antwerp (# 1) 3 (Zack Chmilar, James Ross-Arsenault, Zack Hopkins)
Riverdale 8 (Jacob Tessier-2, Liam Pyott-2, Jeff Giroux, Joel Sheppard, Justin Stapleton, Connor Roy-Shaw)
Antwerp (# 2) 0
Long Lake 7 (Wesley McHattie-2, David Delong-2, Justin Watkins, Jarvis Hill, Nicholas Watkins)
Westmount 1 (Owen Basso)
Cedar Park 6 (Daniel Rego-3, Riley Waugh, Luca Dorigo, Alex Mayotte)
Algonquin 0 (shutout Anthony Madison)
Lo-Ellen 11 (Brayden Taylor-5, Dylan Kelly-2, Nicholas Petryna-2, Thomas Costelo, Billy Boylan)
Antwerp (# 2) 0
Riverdale 4 (Jeff Giroux, Steven Vaillancourt, Joel Sheppard, Connor Napoli)
Antwerp (# 1) 0
Semi-Finals
Cedar Park 5 (Daniel Rego-2, Jean Noel Desbarais, Alex Mayotte, Riley Waugh)
Lo-Ellen 0 (shutout Anthony Madison)
Riverdale 2 (Jeff Giroux, Liam Pyott)
Long Lake 1 (Wesley McHattie)
Championship Final
Riverdale 4 (Steven Vaillancourt-2, Perez Beaupre, Connor Napoli)
Cedar Park 1 (Riley Waugh)
Bantam Division
Long Lake 2 (Alex Jibb, A.J. Querney)
Westmount 1 (John Maley)
Antwerp 8 (David Pare-5, Jonah Lynott, Gabriel Carriere, Damien Mullin)
Cedar Park 2 (Eric Forest-2)
Algonquin 1 (Jeffrey Yas)
Riverdale 1 (Aaron Mizuik)
Barrie Knights 8 (Alex Mucci-4, Alec Boogaards-2, Keith Capstick-2)
Antwerp 0
Riverdale 1 (Alex Dupuis)
Westmount 0
Long Lake 3 (A.J. Querney-2, Marty Scheer)
Algonquin 1 (Derek Webber)
Long Lake 7 (A.J. Querney-3, Carniel Emerson-2, Alex Jibb, Curtis Williamson)
Cedar Park 0
Barrie Knights 3 (Kris Helmkay, John Cardo, Francesco Morriello)
Riverdale 1 (Billy Kosar)
Algonquin 6 (Stephen Brown-2, Jeffrey Yas-2, Doug Bennett, Zach Berens-Firth)
Antwerp 0
Barrie Knights 3 (Matt Mucci, Keith Capstick, Mike Giannini)
Long Lake 3 (Jordan Lavallee, Carniel Emerson, A.J. Querney)
Riverdale 6 (Eric Pilon-2, Alex Dupuis-2, Billy Kosar, Patrick Bennett)
Cedar Park 0
Westmount 4 (Matthieu Dalcourt-2, John Maley, Matthew Kennedy)
Antwerp 1 (Edward Burla)
Algonquin 3 (Stephen Greco-2, Doug Bennett)
Westmount 1 (Faith Bellaire)
Barrie Knights 8 (John Luscombe (Jr)-3, Mike Giannini-3, John Cardo-2)
Cedar Park 1 (Coady Leduc)
Championship Final
Barrie Knights 3 (Francesco Morriello, John Luscombe Jr, Alex Mucci)
Long Lake 1 (Erik Duhamel)
