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Dec 02, 2016 | mmores | 2024 views
Champions!!!!!!
This past weekend the Crusaders Bantam LL White team embarked on their first tournament of the year in Langton Ontario. 


This past weekend the Crusaders Bantam LL White team embarked on their first tournament of the year in Langton Ontario.  The weekend started off on a rough note with their first game being at 7:00 am Saturday morning.  The boys played the home towns number one LL team and lost a heart breaking 4-3 decision.  The boys were much more awake come the second game later that day as they crushed the other hometown team 9-4.  This set up a must win game on Sunday vs. Aylmer to see who would advance to the tournament final later that day against Langton's number one team.  The boys came out and smothered the opposition with stifling defence and stellar goaltending from Brennon Ouellette and beat Aylmer 3-0 to advance to the final.

The final saw a rematch against the 3-0 Langton team lead by their captain who had scored 3 of the 4 goals in the first meeting between the two on Saturday.  The home team got off to a quick start peppering the goal with 11 shots before the boys could manage their first.  However, the crusaders goalie Zach Mores was more then up to the challenge stopping everything thrown his way.  The entire team shut down the Langton offence after that and took control of the game.  The final score ended up being 2-0 for the Crusaders as they captured the gold medal with perseverance, hard work and outstanding team defence.  The boys rolled all three lines throughout the weekend with no one skipping a shift, proving that depth and team work wins every time.

The TEAM consists of the following:  Zachary Mores, Brennon Ouellette, Brandon Braithwaite, Noah Hawkins, Ethan Powell, Eric Boyd, Andrew Wagner, Patrick McCrimmon, Johnny (J-Mac) Thoman, Zach Walton, Steven Mayock, Nate Wood, A.J Simser, Ryan Tunney, Harrison Masur, Jackson King-Cameron.  Coaches Bruce Masur (head coach) Sean Walton (asst.) Jamie Simser (trainer) Andy Wood (asst. Trainer) Mike Mores (manager).

A special thanks to our social convenor Cheryl King for helping organize our dinner and brunches..
Please click on the link to see the local Langton newspaper write up of the tournament.

http://www.simcoereformer.ca/2016/11/28/silver-lining-at-langton-leafs-tourney?utm_source=addThis&utm_medium=addthis_button_email&utm_campaign=Silver+lining+at+Langton+Leafs+tourney+%7C+Simcoe+Reformer#.WD2DfOMNWk8.
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