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Centre stage June 27

By: On the Home Front / Ashley Prest

27/06/2009 1:00 AM | Comments: 0

Centre stage

Colin Mathieson, who represented Canada at the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing in wheelchair racing, is back on the international racing circuit.

Mathieson competed in the Swiss Racing Series in Switzerland, which included three competitions in 10 days and concluded on Wednesday.

His best results came in Ibach when he placed second in the 200-metre race and 6th in the 100m.

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Drew Ellement of Winnipeg has committed to join Northeastern University in Boston for the 2009-10 season.

A 6-foot-1, 200-pound defenceman, Ellement was a key player with the Manitoba Junior Hockey League champion Portage Terriers last season. He led all MJHL defencemen and finished fifth overall in playoff scoring with 17 goals and five assists for 22 points in 13 games.

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Winkler Flyers captain Harry Mahesh has signed with the Swedish Division I team Kumlas for the 2009-10 season.

Last season, the 5-foot-11, 185-pound Mahesh played 58 games scoring 15 goals and 28 assists for 43 points. Mahesh, who hails from Vanderhoof, B.C., played three seasons in Winkler.

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Coach Mike Sirant of the University of Manitoba men's hockey team has recruited Troy Crowley, 20, of Winnipeg and Travis Mealy, 24, of Brandon for the 2009-10 season.

Crowley, a 6-foot-1, 185-pound forward, was recommended by Bisons alumnus Harry Mahood, who coached the forward with the Phoenix Polar Bears of the Western United States Hockey League (junior A tier III).

Mealy, a 5-foot-11, 204-pound defenceman, played for the University of Prince Edward Island Panthers in 2006-08.

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Kirby Schepp helped coach Canada's national men's cadet basketball team to a bronze medal at the FIBA Americas Under-16 Championship last weekend in Mendoza, Argentina and a historic accomplishment.

Canada beat Venezuela 106-81 in the bronze-medal match, which allowed Canada to qualify for the first-ever FIBA U17 World Championship in Germany next summer.

Schepp, the University of Manitoba men's basketball head coach, is an assistant to head coach Roy Rana.

On tap

The Manitoba Badminton Association is holding an international badminton exhibition on June 29 at 6:30 p.m. p.m. at the Winnipeg Winter Club.

The exhibition is being held in conjunction with a national training camp and will feature exhibition matches. David Snider, the 2008 Canadian national men's singles champion, will meet England's Carl Baxter, who is ranked 38th in the world.

Other international players who will be in action include Rune Ulsing and Britta Anderson of Denmark, Heung Ham of Korea, and Allen Sutedja and Lely Chandra of Indonesia. Other Canadian players will include: 2008 Olympians Andrew Dabeka and Anna Rice, 2009 U23 national champion Alex Pang, 2009 national doubles champions William Milroy and Toby Ng, and 2009 women's doubles champions Milaine Cloutier and Grace Gao. Admission is $10.

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Baseball Manitoba will host the 12th annual Rookie League Baseball Jamboree on June 27 at Canwest Park featuring 12 teams of youth baseball players aged nine and under.

The teams will compete in a fun tournament on three mini-fields using a pitching machine from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Teams will be from Deer Lodge, Gateway, Charleswood, Winakwa and Sinclair Park Community Centres in Winnipeg along with teams from Birtle, Dauphin, Pilot Mound, Portage la Prairie, Wawanesa, Kenora and Steinbach.

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition June 27, 2009 D11

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