Carson Cherepak was the recipient of this year’s Cam Alf Memorial Award as Dauphin Kings’ Most Valuable Player.

The Kings goaltender also shared the Most Valuable Playoff Performer Award with forward Logan Calder and topped the Parkland Source for Sports Three Stars, with Kaden Bryant named second star and Parker Malchuk was the third star.

Malchuk was named the winner of the Joe Dawson Memorial Award as Best Defenceman and Calder took home the Barry Trotz Award as Best Defensive Player.

Roblin’s Brayden Dube won two awards, taking home the Ernie Hlady Memorial Award as Most Popular Player On and Off the Ice and he shared the Dauphin Minor Hockey Award as Rookie of the Year with Gilbert Plains product Jayden Jubenvill.

Luke Morris capped off a successful rookie season by winning the Dauphin Herald Award for Outstanding Character and the Bill and June Brychka Atta Boy Award.

Other award winners were Colby Jaquet, who won the Steve “Boomer” Hawrysh Memorial Award as the Most Gentlemanly Player; Klim Georgiev won the Johnny Kay Memorial Award as Most Inspirational Player; Nick Braun won the Dave Snitka Memorial Award as Most Improved Player; and the Dave Seeley Memorial Award for Community Involvement went to Cordell Coleman. The awards were handed out, May 30.

Grade 10 students from Ste. Rose were in Dauphin, May 31, for the Assiniboine Community College Parkland Campus open house and job fair.

Students had a chance to tour the facility and learn more about the jobs available to them upon graduation.

From left, Parkland Ukrainian Family Fund board member Larry Hrytsay, Ukrainian Orthodox Parish of St.George secretary Marusia Sedor, Karla Tycholes of Irving’s Catering, Ukrainian Orthodox Parish of St. George president Kelvin Korman, family fund board members Jim Perchaluk and Don Tarrant and Parish vice-president Doris Dunfield were recently on hand for the presentation of a cheque for $6,000.

The money was raised from the fish fry fund-raiser hosted by the Parish and Irving’s Catering in April.

The Dauphin Kings added 11 players to its program, Saturday, when the Manitoba Junior Hockey League held its draft of first-year U18 players.

Dauphin used its first-round pick, 12th overall, to select forward Gavin Nemis of East St. Paul.

Nemis, five-foot, nine-inches tall weighing 130-pounds, played for the Rink Hockey Academy (RHA) Winnipeg U16 prep team in the Canadian Sport School Hockey League last season, scoring 14 goals and 25 points in 36 games.

In the second round, Dauphin selected forward Rhett Perrin of Morden, 20th overall.

Playing for the RHA Winnipeg U15 prep team, the six-foot, 170-pound Perrin tallied 14 goals and 29 points in 32 games.

In the third round, the Kings stayed in the Parkland, taking Parkland Rangers forward Hayden Seib of Russell, 37th overall.

Seib, six-feet, weighing 160-pounds, scored 13 goals and 26 points in 44 games with the Rangers last season.

Dauphin then selected Onanole’s Max Collyer in the fourth round, 50th overall after the six-foot, 172-pound forward netted four goals and 12 points in 43 games with the Yellowhead Chiefs of the Manitoba U18 AAA Hockey League.

In round five, with the 67th overall pick, Dauphin selected Winnipegger Dylan Jaquet, the younger brother of former Kings defenceman Colby Jaquet.

The younger Jaquet had 11 goals and 25 points in 33 games with the Winnipeg Bruins U17 team.

Dauphin had four picks in the sixth round, beginning with the 76th pick which was used to take defenceman Spencer Sabourin of St. Jean Baptiste.

The five-foot, eight-inch, 152-pound rearguard had one goal and one assist in 42 games with the Manitoba U18 AAA Hockey League’s Pembina Valley Hawks last season.

With the next pick, 77th overall, Dauphin selected forward Declan Hoad of Brandon.

In 33 games with the U17 Wheat Kings, Hoad scored seven times and had 13 points.

Five picks later, with the 82nd overall selection, the Kings took defenceman Zhenya Miles of Winnipeg, who played for the Kelowna RHA U16 prep team last season, where the six-foot, 146-pounder scored four goals and 22 points in 31 games.

With the next pick, 83rd overall, Dauphin took Winnipeg’s Ethan Cull of the RHA Winnipeg U16 prep squad.

The five-foot, seven-inch, 134-pound forward had four goals and seven points in 31 games, last season.

Dauphin then took Josh Fluker of Boissevain in the seventh round, 96th overall.

The five-foot, 10-inch, 134-pound defenceman had six goals and 20 points in 38 games with the Southwest Cougars of the Manitoba U18 AAA Hockey League and added five assists in 10 games with the Western Hockey League’s Swift Current Broncos.

Another members of the Cougars went to Dauphin in the eight round, 109th overall, when the Kings selected forward Jackson Hofer.

In 28 games with Southwest, the Deloraine native scored twice and recorded four points.

Kings head coach and general manager Doug Hedley said they wanted to get the best possible player available.

“Anytime you draft, it depends on the guys drafting ahead of you which direction you go in. When the Nemis kid and the Perrin kid were both available in the first two rounds, they were our guys. We got two of our top five picks,” he said. “They’ve got speed. They’ve got skill. They can both skate real well.”

Forwards were a need that Hedley filled with eight selected in the draft, compared to just three defencemen.

“Our backend is decent with the ‘04s and ‘05s right now. So we thought we could probably top up the forwards section,” he said.

The Kings will play host to the annual Par 3 Extravaganza, Saturday at the Gilbert Plains Country Club. The annual general meeting will be held, June 23, at 7 p.m. in the Aspen Lodge at the Parkland Recreation Complex. The Manitoba Junior Hockey League prospects camp will be in July in Winnipeg.

Hedley made his first deal of the offseason, acquiring goaltender Cole Sheffield from the French River Rapids of the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League for future considerations.

The 18-year-old native of London, Ont., posted a 13-15-1 record in 31 games, with a 3.75 GAA and .904 save percentage.

Hedley said if starter Carson Cherepak gets a Division 1 scholarship, last year’s backup Keaton Woolsey would become the starter for next season and Sheffield would be in line for the backup position. If Cherepak returns to the Kings next season, however, Woolsey has indicated he has no interest in being a 19-year-old backup, opening the door for Sheffield.

“It was a good move for us. This kid is very good,” Hedley stated.

Both Dauphin Clippers rugby teams fell short on their bid for a championship in the Westman High School Rugby League.

The Clippers girls qualified for the final with a 57-15 win over the Swan Valley Tigers, Wednesday in Dauphin, while the Clippers boys earned their berth in the championship game with a 50-0 triumph over the Tigers.

The Dauphin girls traveled to Rivers, Friday, to face the first-place Rams, who beat Crocus Plains, 63-0 in their semifinal match.

Rivers bested the Clippers, 20-7, winning their first championship.

Clippers coach Aaron Miner was pleased with the girls’ play in the final.

“They came out hard and played well. That Rivers team is just a force to be reckoned with this year. They have a great program there. But we are coming along,” he said.

The Dauphin boys hosted the Souris Sabres, Sunday. Souris had beaten Crocus Plains, 43-7 in their semifinal. The championship game saw Souris win their fifth league title, with a 15-12 win over the host Clippers. Penalties, Miner said, was the difference in the both games for the Clippers.

“Penalties are really starting to hurt our Dauphin teams here as you could see today. It definitely played a big part in the boys game today, as well as the girls game on Friday. We had probably a three-to-one penalty ratio and it hurt,” he said. “We just couldn’t get our emotions under control. The boys were tackling aggressively. Hard, just like we wanted them to. But we just couldn’t get our emotions in check. Our tackles were a little high around the neck and it cost us.”

Losing in the finals does not take away from both team’s successes in the regular season, which saw the boys go undefeated until the final, while the girls only lost to a strong Rivers squad.

“It’s been a great season. You can’t ask for much more other than a championship,” Miner said.

The season is not over just yet for the Clippers as both teams qualified for provincials, June 10 and 11, in Brandon.

“If the stars all align, we could still have a good shot at winning a provincial title with the team we’ve got next weekend,” Miner said. “We’re going to take another run and try to get a banner next weekend.”

A young rodeo participant hangs on for dear life in the chute dogging event during the high school rodeo, Saturday in Gilbert Plains.

The two-day event, which also ran on Sunday, included all of the rodeo favourites, including bareback riding, barrell racing, breakaway roping, bull riding, goat tying, pole bending, saddle bronc riding, steer wrestling and team roping for both high school and junior high school athletes.

Residents at Ochre Beach and Crescent Cove experienced more flooding recently as a result of high winds and rising water levels on Lake Dauphin.

As of June 5, the water level was at 859.6-feet, above the 858-foot flood stage level.

Some residents have begun cleaning up, while others have yet to begin as they wait for the water to go down.

Houses along Crescent Cove were surrounded by water on all sides. The water has since receded enough for residents to begin the difficult task of cleaning up.

Like many beachfront residents, Malcolm Strang had his property protected by super sandbags, but they were flattened by wave action when wind pushed water over top of them.

“They’re now buried in the sand and we’re just going to building up behind them and on top of them for something else for the waves to wash up against and, hopefully, prevent further damage,” he said.

Strang was fortunate in that he did not have much damage done to his property other than to the beach itself.

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The Old Fire Hall at the Watson Arts Centre was home to another Open Mic Night, hosted by Gary Procyshyn.

Area musicians took to the mic to put their talent on display.

The next open mic will be June 3, at 7 p.m.

Wayne Heide makes a nice shot out of the trees on number 5 during the Gary Brandon Memorial Golf Tournament, Saturday.

Wayne and Scott Heide went on to win the fourth flight championship. Jake Wiens and Steven Desroches won the championship flight, while James Stoesz and Jerron Kyle won the consolation.

In the first flight, Terry James and Jeff Sutherland won the A-side title and Grant and Daniel Edgar won the consolation.

Rob Bouchard and Mike Sparrow won the second flight crown, while Michael and Ryan Zazulak took home the consolation crown.

The third flight title was won by Ron Low and Andy Pickering. Seth Gares and Noah Wiens were consolation champs.

The fourth flight consolation was won by Jason and Neil Shaw. Larry Catagas and Denis McKay won the fifth flight and Kelvin Korman and Wayne Bazylo won the consolation.

Ken Wiebe and Randy Vanhumbeck took home first place in the sixth flight, while Mitch Drysdale and Trevor Robak took home the consolation.

Because of the wet weather, Sunday’s matches were cancelled, with prizes awarded to the top four teams in the A and B-side.

The top seeded teams were declared the winners.

The Dauphin Clippers girls and boys rugby teams are set to host the Swan Valley Tigers in the Westman High School Rugby League semifinals, Wednesday.

For the first time in the team’s history, the Clippers boys finished in first place, finishing 4-0. The girls, meanwhile, finished second with a 4-1 record.

Both teams ended the season with shutout victories over the Vincent Massey Vikings, Friday in Brandon, with the boys winning by a 46-0 score and the girls walking away with a 60-0 triumph.

Clippers coach Aaron Miner said both teams look good heading into Wednesday’s semifinal matches, adding they were able to work on the small things against Vincent Massey, while getting all of the players some playing time.

“The younger players played full games. We sat a lot of our veteran players to avoid injuries. And we need to build the team for next year,” he said. “We’re going to be losing our two Grade 12s and our three exchange students. So those five rookies (that played) got a lot of playing time, because we’ll need them for next year.”

This is the first year the boys have finished in first place and Miner said Gerald Lopez has been a key to this season’s success.

“He coaches both rugby and football and he drew in a lot of his football players into the rugby program. And then we also have our youth program that’s now really starting to show,” he said, adding there may have been only two players who had to learn the basics. “Usually you’re teaching half a team how to hit, how to take a hit. All the safety stuff. Well, on day one, we were practicing plays. Now we’re working on the small things that most teams haven’t gotten to yet, because they don’t have the experienced players that we do.”

Facing their arch rivals from Swan Valley, Miner is expecting a tough battle in both contests.

“Swan is not a pushover team at all. They play like we do. They have a good, strong football program that rolls into their rugby program. They’re girls program has always been quite strong. They have some big girls there that don’t like to play against Dauphin,” he said. “It’s always a hard fought battle between these two teams and I expect Wednesday to be nothing less than that. It will be both games that we have to come prepared for.”

Game time for the girls is 5:30 p.m., with the boys game to follow.