Novice Rep, U9, 2012-2013 (Listowel Minor Hockey Association)

The Novice Reps won game four of their Championship final by a score of 5-1 over the Goderich Sailors to wins the series 3 games to 1 and end the season as OMHA/WOAA Dodge Cup Champions. Congratulations to the players and coaches on a great season and it is nice to see all the hard work pay off. Complete breakdown of the final games to follow shortly.

The Novice Rep Cyclones won the B Championship at the annual Gord Hymers Novice Rep B/BB tourney. The morning started bright and early at 8am (after the clocks moved forward and hour to boot) vs the St. Mary's Rock.  The team was without the services of Drew "Zdeno Chara" Wilken on defense as he was off enjoying the sunny south and welcomed back their two "Harlem Shaking" young coaches back from Mexico without any sleep from the night before. 

The Novice Reps had a little time off before the start of playoffs so they had an exhibition game against Milverton to stay in game condition.  Missing Carter Coombs for the game, who for some reason would have rather attend a Detroit Red Wings game, although no one knows why, the team would see their 2 AP's get some game action.  The game was back and forth action and the final result was a 2-2 tie.  Ben Nauta and Harrison Meulensteen scored the goals unassisted. The team then would start their playoffs against the Minto Maddogs.

The Novice Rep team wound up their regular season with their own version of "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly". Coming off their Lucknow Tournament Championship on the Saturday, the team was flat from start to finish on the Sunday, suffering an ugly 6-1 loss to a Blyth-Brussels team they had just beat in the tournament a day earlier.  Carter Coombs got the only goal for the home team.

First up during the tournament was another matchup with Blyth/Brussels.  The team fell behind 4-2 with less then 2 minutes remaining but with the goalie pulled Ben managed to score twice to send the game into overtime.  The five minute overtime period got down to 1:38 when Carter Coombs managed to win it for the kids and send them to the Championship side of the tournament.  Coombsy ended up with 2 goals and 2 assists, Camden got the other goal and Owen adding an assist.