Doug Zywina
Ace recorded at Battle of the Belts
The Battle of the Belts has new champions, while a Stonewall golfer went home $1,000 richer at the Gilbert Plains Country Club, Sunday.
The highlight of the tournament came when Shane Saunders of Stonewall sank his tee shot for a hole-in-one on no. 4.
Dale Murray and Boston Karlson combined to shoot a 63 to win the third annual tournament, finishing one shot ahead of runners-up Dave Campbell and Ted Rea, who were awarded second place on a countback over Jake Wiens and Jackson Delaurier, in third.
Countbacks were needed to determine the placing in each of the six flights.
First place in the first flight went to Shawn Pangman and Earl Thompson, with a 66. Mark Odut and Danny Scott were second on a countback over Regan Hedley and Jerron Kyle after both teams shot a 68.
Peyton Lepla and Nelson Lepla were the beneficiaries of a countback to win the second flight. Darnell Duff and Sam Brownell were second and Dave Sigvaldason and Sandy Hafenbrak were third, with all three teams shooting a 71.
Dean Murray Bob Murray won the third flight with a 74. In second place, one shot back was the team of Brad Sigurdson and Clayton Mychalchuk, while in third place was Neil Kichuk and Ryan Bettesworth, who were also one shot back of the winners.
Shawn Sarkonak and Errol Karlson won the fourth flight over Karl Messinbird and A.J. Zachenbiak after both teams scored a 77. Cash McCallum and Max Clemmenson were third with a 78.
In the fifth flight, Wayne Bazylo and Florence Burdeny took top honours after carding a 79. Troy Caruk and Jeff Zeiler were second and Jeff Campbell and Jordan Campbell were third, with each team scoring an 80.
Ron Paziuk and Sharon Paziuk topped the sixth flight over runners-up Dustin Dawson and Jodi Gancher, while Charlie McKay and Brennan Burns were third. They all finished with an 83.
Rea was the closest-to-the-hole on no. 9, while Ryan Rauliuk was closest on no. 14 and Brent Stykalo won the same contest in no. 17.
GPCC hosts ladies scramble
Pearl Maksymetz and Marilyn Schwitzer teamed up to win the 2022 Gilbert Plains Two-person Ladies Scramble, Saturday at the Gilbert Plains Country Club.
The pair shot a 77 to finish one shot ahead of Teresa Gulak and Stephanie Remniak. Jill Watt and Jen Knutson were third with an 80.
Melissa MacQuarrie and Nadine Soloway captured top spot in the first flight, carding an 85, three shots better than runners-up Kerry Brook and Pauline Murray. In third place on a countback was Bev Hess and Leanne Fedak.
A countback was needed to determine the top three spots in the second flight. First place went to Keesha Fairbrother and Megan Quesnel, while in second place was Jan Nakonechny and Linda Johnston, while third place went to Amber Tarrant and Beth Tarrant. All three teams finished with a 92.
It was the same case in the third flight, with Camillan Ironstand and Krystal Ironstand taking first place, over Karol McCaig and Eilene Moosen in second and Stella Talpash and Elise Karnes in third. They all shot a 101.
MacQuarrie won the closest-to-the-hole contest on number 9 and Dianna Taylor won on number 17. Quesnel had the longest drive on number 12 and Nakonechny won the closest-to-the-line in number 5.
New champ
Earl Thompson tees off on no. 16 en route to winning the Dauphin Men’s Golf Club Championship, Saturday at the Dauphin Lake Golf Club.
Thompson shot a two-round total of 155 to finish four shots ahead of runner-up Keith Hanke. Larry Nepinak won the first flight, carding a 162, two shots better than Dennis McKay, who was second.
Wayne Bazylo’s 176 was good for first place in the second flight, while David Contois was second with a 179.
Kelvin Korman was the low net winner with a 140 and Bart Michaleski was the runner-up with a 147.
Trotz discusses decisions about 2022-23 NHL season
He’s been without a job since early May, but Dauphin’s Barry Trotz has had a busy summer.
After losing his job as head coach of the New York Islanders, May 9, Trotz talked with several National Hockey League teams about their coaching positions, but in the end, he made the difficult decision to take a year off for personal reasons.
The situation with the Islanders did come as a bit of a surprise, but Trotz also kind of expected it.
The season, he said, was a bizarre one, which saw the Isles miss the playoffs after reaching the conference finals each of the two previous seasons.
“Lou (Lamoriello, Islanders general manager) has a really good pulse for what he wants with the team,” Trotz said, adding he left on good terms with Lamoriello, who he still talks with once a week. “There’s nothing personal. I think there’s a number of reasons. I can’t give you exact reasons, but we didn’t make the playoffs. We weren’t good enough and he felt maybe just to jar it up."
“I also know this, that Lane Lambert (Trotz’s replacement and former assistant coach) is a hell of a coach and he was going to get some play. And if (Lamoriello) was going to make a play, I’m glad he put Lane there.”
Lamoriello, Trotz said, liked a lot of things he and his staff were doing and if not for the Tampa Bay Lightning, the Islanders may very well have won the Stanley Cup.
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Showing their pride
Danielle Schwitzer shakes the hand of one of her Grade 1 students at Henderson School, June 28, before handing him a Project Pride certificate on behalf of the Dauphin Lion’s Club.
Lion Ted was on hand to explain to the students what Project Pride means.
Lion Ted visited Grade 1 students at Whitmore School, Smith-Jackson School, Ecole Macneill, Barker School, Henderson School and Ochre River School, with 137 students receiving small Canadian flags and certificates.
Carefoot back behind the bench
Tyler Carefoot will return behind the bench of the Manitoba U18 AAA Hockey League’s Parkland Rangers next season.
Carefoot guided the Rangers to an 18-17-2-3 record, good for fifth place in the league last season. The Rangers advanced to the semifinals after winning their first playoff series since the 2005-06 season.
Carefoot met with the team’s board of directors at the end of the season and during the discussion he expressed his feeling that he owed it to the program to continue coaching.
Having coached several Rangers players in minor hockey, Carefoot felt he had some unfinished business with them.
“I want to help them continue to develop. I’m excited for next season and beyond,” he said.
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Clippers honour the best on the gridiron
The Dauphin Clippers football team held its awards evening, June 27.
Matthew Zurba won three awards, taking home the Norris Aitken Memorial Award, as well as the Most Outstanding Player - Offence and Playoff Most Outstanding Player - Offence.
Joseph Lopez won the Most Improved Player from two seasons ago and Scott Gower won the Most Improved Player this season.
The Most Outstanding Player - Defence was won by Garrett Thompson and Kelton Amendt won the Playoff Most Outstanding Player - Defence award.
The Most Outstanding Lineman winners were Damon Nepinak on defence and Issiah Beardy on offence.
The Grade 9 and 10 Rookie of the Year was Sully Fox and Austen Semchyshyn won the Grade 11 and 12 Rookie of the Year.
The Wellborn Dedication Award went to Mat Bray and Susan Zurba received the Ron Ricketts Clipper Family Award.
Alex Tomkins won the Coaches Award.
The Clippers are expected to begin practices in early August to prepare for next season.
DeLaMare wins four awards
Cole DeLaMare won four awards at the Dauphin Clippers hockey team’s awards banquet, June 27.
DeLaMare took home the Top Scorer Award, Top Defenceman Award and the Playoff MVP and MVP awards.
Other awards winners included Jake Kuzmiak as Most Improved Player, Landon Brown for the Player’s Choice, Oliver Dandeneau for the Top Defensive Player, William Miner for the Clipper Commitment Award, Bradyn Paskaruk, who won the Coach’s Choice Award, Liam Chartrand for Rookie of the Year, Austyn Roos as Hardest Working Player, Owen Chubka as Top Goaltender and Logan Chapman for Top Forward.
Fair organizers could not be more pleased with 2022 edition
Organizers of the Dauphin Agricultural Society’s (DAS) Fair and Exhibition could not have asked for a better return after a two-year hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
DAS president Teren Stykalo said it was a fantastic weekend with a lot of people hitting the fair grounds to check out everything the fair had to offer.
“We just finished up our demo derby. We had a great success with that. The fireworks on Friday night were amazing. The midway has been great to work with. The people walking through there have been unbelievable. The kids zone in Credit Union Place, home living, everything has been littered with people. It’s great to see it back in the community,” he said.
DAS could not be happier with the crowds that attended the three-day event. The midway was packed full of people on Friday with lineups 20 deep or more. Stykalo hopes that bodes well for future fairs.
“We hope that continues in the next fairs. But we can’t thank everybody in the community enough for making this one of the most successful fairs we’ve had yet,” he said. “I talked to the midway owners on Friday night and they said it’s been a long time coming since they’ve seen lines like that at their rides. So everybody involved was pretty happy.”
One tradition that did not take place this year, one that organizers and patrons alike are thankful for, is rain. It seems like it usually rains at least one of the three days of the fair every year, but that wasn’t the case this year, which played a large part of the fair’s success.
“We were joking around the other night and we were saying that no president in history has probably had a three-day non-rain event. So this might go down in history as one of the best ones we’ve had yet. So I couldn’t be happier for it to come in my time as president,” Stykalo said.
Organizers will look at hosting more events at the grandstand in the future.
“Those facilities are amazing. The amount of people that they always draw in is fantastic and we need to try and utilize those. So we’re looking at doing a couple more shows there potentially and bring some different entertainment in, as well to just kind of make it an all-around great weekend once again,” Stykalo said.
The success of the fair’s return would not be possible without the support of the many sponsors and volunteers who stepped up as they always do every year.
“Without those people, we would not be able to have any of this. Once again, thank you to all of our sponsors and all of our volunteers,” he said. “The amount of volunteers that we had come forward has been just unbelievable. We can’t thank them enough. We just hope everybody is able to come back and support us again next year.”
Stykalo also wishes to thank the local media for their coverage and support of this year’s fair.
A slammin’ good time
Headliner Cowboy James Storm drags his opponent Tyler James around the ring in one of two main attractions as Canadian Wrestling’s Elite returned to the Watson Arts Centre in Dauphin for the first time in three years, Saturday.
Storm, a former TNA world champion, later pinned James for the win.
A crowd of between 100 and 125 people witnessed Bryce Bentley (Dauphin’s own Steven Stashko) team with Sammy Peppers to regain the CWE tag team titles from The Boston Bruiser Kevin O’Doyle and The Headline Shaun Martens in the main event, one night after losing the belts.