In their opening game of the weekend facing the Windsor Valiants, St. Clair topped their opponent 80-45. Chatham’s Bridget Carleton had a spectacular game scoring 34-points, and adding 4 rebounds, 5 steals, and 2 assists. Paige Johnston of Dresden scored 9-points in the game, while Dresden’s Aryn Finley had 6-points.

Facing Tri-County Saturday afternoon, the St. Clair team took home a 70-58 victory, with Carleton again topping local scorers, this time with 16-points. Anique Daley of Chatham scored 6-points and had 5-rebounds in the win, while Finley had 2-points and an incredible 12-rebounds.

St. Clair’s third game of the weekend was against a tough Hamilton Transway team, which they edged out, winning 66-61. Bridget Carleton led St. Clair with 23-points and 11-rebounds. Anique Daley had 4-points and 8-rebounds in the win.

The St. Clair JUEL team will now prepare for the JUEL Championship weekend, May 10-12 in London.

Carleton has played for Team Ontario’s U15 team the past two seasons, winning a National Championship.

In prepreation for this year’s tournament she will participate in 8 training Camps and two exhibition tournaments being held in Chicago (Nike Tournament of Champions) and Washington DC. (Junior National Championships).

Carleton, 15, is currently a grade 10 student at John McGregor Secondary School where she plays for the Senior Basketball team, is also playing for the St. Clair JUEL team this season. She has also been invited to tryout for the Canadian U16 team (Cadette Team). This team will compete in the FIBA Americas tournament in June.

Carleton, playing with the local Chatham-Kent Wildcats the last two seasons, also helped her team to two Provincial championships.

Last year, Carleton received the 2012 U15 Hazel Milner Award for outstanding contribution to the sport of basketball in her community at the Basketball Ontario Awards Gala.

Max Allin – Photo courtesy of Adam Gagnon

Allin was named the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks Athlete of the Year Monday night at the annual Laurier Athletic Banquet.

The award follows Allin’s recognition as a CIS Second Team All-Star and OUA First Team All-Star. Allin was the OUA and CIS’ top scorer this season with 441 points.

In terms of weekly honours this season, Allin was named the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks male athlete of the week six times. He also won OUA and CIS athlete of the week honours once.

Laurier’s mens basketball team finished fourth in the OUA West this season, completing their 21 game regular season with 8 wins and 13 losses.

Atom Chatham-Kent Wildcats – Provincial Cup bronze medalists – Submitted Photo

Ranked 10th in the Province, the Wildcats entered the Provincial championships on a hot streak, winning 10 of their last 11 games.

Chatham-Kent opened the tournament with a round robin win over the Huron Lakers. Olivia Lozon paced all scorers with 10-points, while Grace Mwasalla had 8-points, and Diana Lucarelli and Holly Beaumont chipped in with 4 each, as the Wildcats defeated Huron 37-27.

The Wildcats lost a high scoring second game to the North Toronto Huskies 49-46. Mwasalla scored an incredible 16-points in the loss. Other top scorers were Lozon with 9, and Niveen Tekhli with 8-points.

The Atom girls got back in the win column in their third game, facing the IEM Spartans from Newmarket. Lozon scored 16-points, and Mwasalla had 9-points as the Wildcats downed the Spartans 35-19.

Facing Toronto Triple Threat, the Chatham-Kent Wildcats needed a win to advance to the gold medal game, but an incredible individual performance from a Triple Threat player, who scored 40-points, sent Chatham-Kent to the bronze game with a close 49-46 loss. Lozon scored 15-points, while Lucarelli had 9.

In a rematch against the North Toronto Huskies, who handed Chatham-Kent a loss in the round robin, the Wildcats were looking for revenge in the bronze medal game. Lozon and Beaumont led all Chatham-Kent scorers with 8-points each, helping their team to a 32-19 win, securing the bronze medal. Audrey Mackay-Barr and Diana Lucarelli had 4-points each, and Grace Robertson had 2 in the bronze medal win.

All precedes from this important event goes towards the annual Paul Dudley Memorial
Scholarship. The tournament will be organized with competition planned for the following groups (all ages are as of Jan. 1/13):

• Boys under 10, under 12, under 14, under 16, under 18
• Girls under 10, under 12, under 14, under 16, under 19

Team entry fee is $60 payable in cash or by cheque payable to Paul Dudley Memorial 3 on 3. Deadline for entry is March 29th. Contact Blake Handsor – handsobl@yahoo.com for full details.

Chatham-Kent’s Novice girl’s Wildcats team will be participating under the direction of Coach Dureck Culverwell. The Novice girls are currently ranked 21st and will play in Division 3. The team is very excited, as this is many of the girls’ first experience at a provincial championship.

The local Chatham-Kent Wildcats team will play three round robin games to open the tournament. Game one will be Friday, March 22 at 5:00pm at Tilbury District High School. Game two for the Wildcats is Saturday, March 23 at 1:30pm at John McGregor Secondary School, and game three that day at JMSS at 7:30pm.

Games for the Ontario Basketball Provincial cup will also take place at St. Clair College, Ursuline College (The Pines), Chatham Kent Secondary School, and Blenheim District High School.

Max Allin was named a CIS Second Team All-Star – Photo by Adam Gagnon

Allin led the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks, OUA, and CIS in scoring this season with 441 points.

Allin was named the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks Male Athlete of the Week six times this season, and was the OUA Athlete and CIS Athlete of the Week once. This season long success earned him the honour of being named an OUA First Team All-Star.

He also set a new single game WLU Golden Hawks scoring record with 43-points against Guelph January 12.

Max Allin of the WLU Golden Hawks – Photo by Adam Gagnon

After receiving second team honours twice before, Allin broke out this season dominating the OUA from start to finish.

Allin was the CIS and OUA scoring champion compiling 441 points en route to averaging 23.2 points per game in 19 contests. Allin also finished third amongst OUA rebounders with 179, and averaged 4.6 assists per game.

Unfortunately for Allin, his Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks were eliminated by Brock in the first round of the OUA playoffs after finishing fourth in the OUA West with an 8-13 record.

Allin was the Wilfrid Laurier male athlete of the week six times this season and was named the OUA and CIS athlete of the week once. He also set a school record for points in a game when he scored 43 against Guelph in January.

This is the fourth consecutive season Allin has received an honour from the OUA as he was a two time second team all-star and was named to the West All-Rookie team in 2009-2010.

Chatham-Kent Wildcats Atom Girls win gold in Hamilton – Submitted Photo

After being seeded 4th in Pool A, the Wildcats surprised their competition in the round robin and through the medal round, upsetting the tournament’s top teams along the way. In their opening round robin game, Chatham-Kent defeated the Sudbury JAM 29-26. Olivia Lozon and Grace Mwasalla topped all Chatham-Kent Wildcats scorers with 10-points each in the win.

In their second game, Chatham-Kent suffered their only loss of the tournament to a tough Etobicoke team 30-23. Grace Mwasalla again topped all Chatham-Kent scorers with 6-points, while Makara Vandusen and Niveen Teklhi each had 4-points.

Facing the number 1 seeded Huron (Sarnia) Lakers, in a game they had to win to advance, the Chatham-Kent Wildcats edged out a tight 35-33 victory. Olivia Lozon had an incredible game for the Wildcats scoring 11-points. The win advanced the Chatham-Kent Wildcats to the semi-final against Newmarket.

During the round robin, the IEM (Newmarket) Spartans finished with a 3-0 undefeated record. Chatham-Kent came ready to play however, and clawed out a 22-21 win, sending them to the final. Mwasalla topped all Chatham-Kent scorers with 9-points, while Lozon had 5-points, and Holly Beaumont scored 3.

In the final, again facing the Etobicoke Thunder, the Chatham-Kent girls would not let their opponent take another win. The Wildcats poured on the offense winning 41-21 to take home the gold. Olivia Lozon had 13-points to lead the Wildcats, while Mwasalla and Diana Lucarelli had 7-points each.

Allin, who was named the Laurier Athlete of the Week five times this season, and the OUA and CIS player of the week once, again led his team in scoring collecting 23 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists. Allin also finished as the OUA and CIS’ leading scorer this season.

The York Lions, who feature Shauney Fischer and Erin Sarapnickas of Wallaceburg saw their OUA season end Wednesday as well, losing the quarter-finals to the Toronto Varsity Blues 88-52.

Fishcer had 9 points and 6 rebounds in the loss, while Sarapnickas chipped in 6 points.

Finally, Chatham native Erica McFadden also had her OUA playoffs end Wednesday as her Guelph Gryphons fell to the McMaster Marauders 81-51. McFadden had 7 points and 5 rebounds for Guelph.