Sports

Moffitt, Reid lead Bruins to double win

by Roger Varley

After leading the Uxbridge Bruins’ point scorers for the past couple of weeks, Joshua Cammalleri settled for an assist on the weekend, turning the scoring spotlight over to Cameron Moffitt and Brendan Reid as the team downed the Clarington Eagles and Little Britain Merchants with identical scores of 4-1.

Hosting the Orr Division’s second-place Eagles at the arena on Friday, the Bruins opened the scoring in the first period, with Cammalleri given an assist on Cameron Gillis’ goal.

In the second, another one-goal stanza, Moffitt scored what proved to be the winning goal, assisted by Reid.

Following a power-play goal by the Eagles early in the third, Reid answered, assisted by Moffitt and then Moffitt closed out the scoring with an empty-net marker.

The next night, the Bruins allowed the Merchants to open the scoring in the first period and then responded 30 seconds later, with Adam Bilyea scoring, assisted by Spencer Mazakian and Justin Bennett.

In the second period, Moffitt and Reid combined again on the period’s only goal.

Daniel Giorgio, assisted by Moffitt and Reid, increased the Bruins’ lead in the third and Bennett closed out the scoring, assisted by Bilyea and Mazakian.

Cam Smith was between the pipes for Uxbridge in both wins. In a rare scheduling change, the Bruins will be back in action tomorrow night, but not at the arena. Instead, they travel to Georgina to face the Ice at 7:30 p.m. The following night, they will be on the road again, going back to Little Britain to take on the Merchants at 7:30 p.m. Finally, on Tuesday, another road trip will see them In Lakefield to battle against the Chiefs at 7:25 p.m.

Tigers prepare for annual hockey trip to Weagamow

by Roger Varley

A team of 12 people from Uxbridge Secondary School, including members of the Uxbridge Tigers hockey team, will be leaving in a month for the seventh annual Hope Through Hockey gift-bearing trip to the remote northwestern Ontario native community of Weagamow. The Tigers, under the leadership of coach Don Simmonds, have arranged the trip every year since 2013 to take supplies of hockey equipment to the community of about 750.

As is the case each year, the team is looking for donations of new and gently used hockey equipment. Top of the list are adult large helmets, small player sets, sticks (mostly right hand), new jocks, jills, garter belts, undershorts, suspenders, and new and gently used equipment and skates. Donations can be dropped off at the Uxbridge Arena. Cash donations are also required to help offset the cost of shipping the equipment to Weagamow, which is a 90-minute flight north of Thunder Bay.

The team will spend the New Year’s period in the community running hockey clinics, increasing hockey skills of local youth and running tournaments.

The friendship between Uxbridge and Weagamow began in 2012 when a group of Uxbridge women visited the community on Mother’s Day weekend after learning that five mothers had tragically taken their own lives in a six-week period, orphaning 12 children. While there, they learned the community would be opening a brand new arena later in the year. The Tigers set about sending a team to help open up the new arena. The community estimated that about 40 young people would be interested in learning hockey that first year. Within two hours of opening registration, over 120 young people had signed up for the program. Since then, the community has sent a boys and girls teams to the First Nations youth tournament held each February in Dryden or Sioux Lookout. In the last six years, the community has seen a profound reduction in suicide and despair amongst its youth.

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Visit the link below to read Mike Davies, of the Peterborough Examiner, as he talks about Uxbridge skater Alicia Smith’s opportunity to skate alongside Canadian Olympians Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir.

https://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/sports-story/9636499-dream-come-true-for-special-olympics-figure-skater/

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Uxbridge Sports Organizations:

Uxbridge Minor Hockey Association
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Uxbridge Curling Club
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Uxbridge Swim Club
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Uxbridge Tennis Club
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Uxbridge Bruins
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Uxbridge Squash Club
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Uxbridge Soccer Club
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Uxbridge Cosmos Volleyball
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Uxbridge Youth Baseball Association
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Uxbridge Men’s Basketball League
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Phone: (905) 431-3392

Brock Rugby Club
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Phone: (705) 555-5555
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Greater Uxbridge Road Runners
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Phone: (905) 852-7224

Air Force Mavericks All-Star Cheerleading
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Phone: (905) 852-CHEER