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CENTRAL WEST HOCKEY HANDS OUT SUSPENSIONS

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  The Central West Senior Hockey League championship game is set for Friday night in Grand Falls Windsor at the Joe Byrne Memorial Stadium. The defending champions Cataracts and the Clarenville Caribous meet at eight  o clock.. And with that game the Cataracts will not have head coach Tom Coolen on the bench and the Caribous will be without trainer Scott Maidment. Both were involved in what has been called a bottle throwing incident in game six in Clarenville.     Whoever wins the Central West title won’t have much time to celebrate. The best of seven Herder Memorial Trophy…

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MIKES SQUIRES PASSES AWAY

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The Sports Community in St. John’s and indeed the province are morning the sudden passing of Mike Squires. Squires was the man who established the Shamrocks Athletics Association which had senior hockey as well as junior hockey and minor hockey teams. His Shamrocks senior hockey team won the Herder Memorial Trophy in 1979. He also helped in the formation of the Shamrocks senior baseball team that hold the record for most championships by any baseball team. Squires was inducted into the Newfoundland and Labrador Hockey Hall of Fame in 2004. Squires was 73. He is resting at Cauls Funeral home.…

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8th ANNUAL ST.PADDY’S DAY 5k SNOWSHOE CHALLENGE

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This past Sunday saw the running of The Outfitters 8th Annual St. Paddy’s Day 5km snowshoe race in the beautiful trails of Pippy Park in St John’s. Pat Collins (above) to the top spot with a incredible time of 19 min 48 secs. Top female competitor was Priscilla Rideout (below) with a time of 30 min 48 sec.   Full Results Bib # First Name Last Name Finish Time 8 Pat Collins 19m48s 22 Don Planchat 20m58s 26 Tom Browne 21m41s 20 Mike Russell 22m44s 5 Grant Dwyer 22m49s 25 Steve Forward 23m15s 50 Greg Tricco 25m10s 1 Forrest Mills…

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ADAM BOLAND CANADIAN CURLING CHAMPION

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    W E D N E S D A Y      Adam Boland and his Memorial University curling rink of Evan Kearley lead, Zach Young second and Stephen Trickett third are Canadian University Curling champions.   Boland defeated Thomas Scoffin and his Alberta rink 8-4 in the gold medal game. The Memorial team went undefeated in this competition. Earlier this year they won the AUS Curling title.   FINAL GOLD MEDAL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 FINAL University of Alberta (Scoffin) 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 4 Memorial (Boland)…

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