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Delia Team Buchwitz compete in Bantam finals

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On the weekend of March 11-13, Drumheller Curling Club hosted the Southern Curling Association (SACA) Bantam Curling finals.
Opening ceremonies were held on Saturday, March 12 and Bag Piper David Daly of Drumheller led the 16 teams and their coaches onto the ice. O’Canada was sung by Abby Fooks and the teams were welcomed by Drumheller Curling Club Vice-President Larry Needham.
Local rink Team Buchwitz from Delia, entered the tournament, and were led by skip Devon Buchwitz, 3rd Tyler Hutton, 2nd Tayslyn Bossert and lead Cayden Bossert. They played against Strathmore, Medicine Hat and the Huntington Hills team and these three games resulted in losses. According to coach Jason Reed, “Three members of our rink are new to curling this year.” “They were up against difficult competition, certainly a learning experience.” said Needham.
The SACA gold medals went to Medicine Hat, Team Zeidell, silver to Team Waite of Huntington Hills, Calgary and Bronze went to Team Whitmore from Lethbridge. Needham summed the weekend up, “It was a full weekend, overall very successful. It is great to see that younger players are joining curling. The criteria for Bantam players is 14 years old or younger and many of the teams had curlers as young as eleven. It was a great experience for all the teams.”

Mastel Raptors win League Championship

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On this past weekend, March 11-12, Drumheller’s Mastel Transport Midget Raptors, tier 3, battled to win   the Central Alberta Hockey League Championship.
       On Friday, March 11, the game was held at the Memorial Arena against the Midget team from Airdrie. The Raptors won the game by a score of 7-3. Matthew McDougald scored a hat trick and his teammates Shane Telford, Tyler Cardamone, Joseph Fabion and Dillan Witt each scored a goal.
   On Saturday, March 12, the Raptors went head to head, against Airdrie for game two of the three game series at the Airdrie Twin Arena.
   Matthew McDougald, Cody Hodge and Tanner Boutin each had a goal, and the Raptors were up 3-0 in the third period, when Airdrie scored three back to back goals. McDougald got a break away and scored the winning goal 4-3.        On Monday, March 13, Mastel Transport Midget Raptors coach Doug Hodge spoke with The Mail, “The last game got pretty tense. The kids all played well, worked hard and they were a good bunch to coach. I have coached six of them, since they were only 4 or 5 years old. The players were a very talented squad. 9 or 10 of them graduate school this year, so it was great for them, to bring home the banner.”

Drumheller Minor Hockey welcomes province

Drumheller is proud to host the Bantam B Provincial Minor Hockey Championships and on Thursday night, March 17, they welcomed the 10 competing teams, including Drumheller's own Raptors at their Opening Ceremonies.

Paul Isaac, zone director welcomed the participants and hosted the ceremonial puck drop before Abby Fooks shared her musical stylings.

Drumheller get ready for some great hockey action all weekend long.

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