Orangeville Northmen Lacrosse

JUNIOR B NORTHMEN AWARD
Minor Tyke-Colin Courtney
Tyke-Shane Hillis

TONY ROSE MEMORIAL AWARD
Minor Novice-Nathan Janes
Novice-Nicholas Ritchie
Novice 3 Matthew Courtney

HUGH BROWN MEMORIAL AWARD
Peewee #1 Justin Gibson
Peewee #2 Jamie Bates
Peewee Select Alex Houle

CRAIG TROLL MEMORIAL AWARD
Bantam 1 Colton Horan & Brandon Ivey
Bantam 2 Jordan Critch
Bantam 3 Cedar Jasiuk
Bantam 4 Brendan Plester

MINOR NORTHMEN AWARD
Midget 1 Nick Rose
Midget 2 J.C. McAlpine

CHRIS GRAHAM MEMORIAL AWARD
Intermediate-Adam Carter & Mike Young 

COMMUNITY SUPPORTER AWARD
Novice 1 Brandon Slade
Novice 2 Jesse Boddam

LAURIE MONTGOMERY MEMORIAL AWARD
Peewee 1 Dylan Dempster
Peewee 2 Rebecca Buck & Braden Horan

BRISCOE AWARD
Bantam 1 Duncan Shaw and Parmbir Sohal
Bantam 2 Kevin Buck

FALKINER AWARD
Midget-Trevor VanAlstine 

KAREN PIRIE MEMORIAL AWARD
U15 #1 Shannon Kerr
U15 #2 Megan Gerrie

During the Orangeville District Minor Lacrosse Association recognition night
held on Tuesday November 23rd, Meghan Gerrie of Fergus was presented with the
Karen Pirie Memorial Award for the Most Dedicated Player on the U-15 Women's
Field Lacrosse team in 2004. From left to right...Phyllis Briscoe - President
Orangeville District Minor Lacrosse, Meghan Gerrie, Bill Fitzpatrick - Coach

ROBB MASON AWARD
U20 #1 Kaillie Briscoe and Laura Bryan
U20 #2 Jackie Philpott

SANDERSON COMMEMORATIVE VOLUNTEER AWARD
Linda and Michael Goodfellow 

TEAM ONTARIO WOMEN'S FIELD LACROSSE
Kaillie Briscoe U18
Shannon Kerr-U16
Paige Mason U18
Tory Merrill U18
Jessica Pietz U16
Carly Quinn U18
Ally Rusak U18
Brittany Smith U18
Torey Taferner U16

Peewee Nationals TEAM ONTARIO
Cody Britton
Tyler McCarthy
Cody McMahon
Travis Szabolcs
Bowman Webster
Bob Clevely
Bob McMahon

BOX ALL STAR SELECTIONS
Peewee-Cody McMahon & Travis Szabolcs
Bantam-Deron Dempster
Midget-Nick Rose

BOX M.V.P
Bantam Deron Dempster

LARRY RUSE AWARD "OUTSTANDING MIDGET GOALIE"
(Best G.A.A.)
Ryan Garbutt and Nick Rose 

BANTAM 1
ALL ONTARIO CHAMPIONS

Mike Barrett
Todd Bracken
Deron Dempster
Mike Dillabough
Greg Harnett
Colton Horan
Brandon Ivey
Steve Mendonca
Dave Morton
Jordan Ness
Jason Noble
Jeremy Noble
Duncan Shaw
Jayme Szabolcs
Jake Thompson
Mike Vatanen
Dillon Ward
Jesse Watts
Greg Thompson-Head Coach
Tim Harnett-Coach
Owen Ivey-Coach
Luke Coyle Assistant Coach
Laurie Montgomery-Manager
Peter Szabolcs -Trainer
Kaarina Dillabough-Conditioning Coach 

A group of grade four students recently travelled to Ithaca, New York to take part in the Turkeyshoot field lacrosse tournament and came back to Canada as the decisive champions. In what is billed as the largest lacrosse tournament in the world, the Turkeyshoot is a 7 on 7 field format similar to field lacrosse. Not knowing what sort of competition to expect, the boys worked hard in practices leading up to the tournament, including a couple of exhibition games against Brampton. Although they were able to handle their Canadian rivals fairly easily they did not take their American competition lightly.

The first game on Saturday was against the Canandaigua Braves, and the skill of the Northmen quickly showed who was the better team as they took a commanding lead early and cruised to a 19-2 win. Any loss from here on in would knock a team out of the hunt for a fourth game and chance to win the gold. The second game was against Penn Yan and once again the Northmen triumphed with a final score of 13-3. The semi-final opponent was the hometown Ithaca boys, who had also won their first two games and wanted to win their own tournament. However the Northmen had different ideas and gave Ithaca a lesson in their own game. The ability of our boys to move the ball around to open teammates and let the ball do the work led to numerous uncontested shoots. The Northmen moved into the final with a 16-5 win.

Brampton was the only other Canadian team in the grade 3/4 division was also able to make it to the finals with a close overtime win over Penn Yan. The Northmen started the game slowly, seeming over confident and lackluster and fell behind early. After taking a timeout to get the boys back on tract, they picked up the intensity at both ends of the field and carried it on to a 14-4 win and bragging rights as champions.

All the Northmen opponents commented on the skill and ability of the entire team and used them as examples to show their own teams how the game should be played.

From the goalie stopping and advancing the ball, to loose ball hustle and pick up, to defensive checking – especially the long poles, to the patience they showed in spreading out and controlling the ball, and especially their passing and catching ability, the boys dominated in all aspects of the games.

The boys and their parents had a great time in Ithaca. The team members are – Jesse Boddam, Dallas Bridle, Nathan Janes, Ryan Johnston (an Elora boy who fit in extremely well), Ryan Myles, Nick MacDonald, Trevor Smyth, Riley Thompson, Jason Charbonneau, Jeff Taylor, Joel Coyle and goalie Nick Fournier. The Coaching staff is Luke Coyle, John Kartalev, Dale Smyth and Greg Thompson. 

The novice 2 Northmen field lacrosse team recently won the bronze medal at the Provincial Championships in Hamilton!
 

THE 2005 SEASON IS DEDICATED TO LAURIE ANN MONTGOMERY-HORAN

"Never Forgotten"
Always in Our Hearts
Thanks for the Memories
1960-2004