The Turkish Grand Prix roars into action(7 a.m. Speed channel),
Wigan Athletic
faces Manchester United in English
Premier League soccer action (10 a.m.
The Score), Toronto Blue Jays are at
the Cleveland Indians (noon Sportsnet),
The Players Championship final round
tees off (1 p.m. NBC, Global) and the
Philadelphia Flyers are in Pittsburgh to
face the Penguins in their conference
final (6:30 p.m. CBC).
Today's events
HORSE RACING
Thoroughbreds -- At Assiniboia Downs.
Post time 1 p.m.
Winnipegger Clay gets his shot to play for Canada
TREVOR Clay played ice hockey at an Ivy League school but has always wanted to wear the Maple Leaf.
Clay is one of nine Manitobans trying out for Canada's national men's inline hockey team, which will compete in the 2008 IIHF Men's Inline Hockey World Championship June 21-29 in Bratislava, Slovakia. Clay, a 25-year-old goaltender with the local senior men's Blue Devils team, was joined by four Blue Devils teammates in defencemen Lee Kuryk and Justin Moutray and forwards Tom Goodfellow and Reggie Goodfellow.
In 2006, the Blue Devils team competed in the pro division of the NARCh (North American Roller Hockey Championships) winter and summer championships which gave them a taste of the game at the elite level.
"For our entire Blue Devils team, we know that we can compete at the highest level in terms of with guys who have made Team Canada and Team USA so this was just a great opportunity to hopefully get a chance to represent Canada," said Clay, a Winnipeg native who played three seasons with Princeton (2001-04). The Winnipeg tryout was held on Saturday night at Maginot Arena during Roller Sport Manitoba's 2008 Can Am Cup tournament.
"Chances to play for your country like this don't come around very often so I just want to do the best I can," said Tom Goodfellow, 23, noting his brother Reggie, 26, is the Blue Devils leading scorer and a veteran inline player.
Team Canada assistant coach Michael Hunt is from Winnipeg, but now lives near Boston and is a professional inline player with Team Rink Rat. Hunt said there are 90 players across Canada trying out for 15 positions -- 12 skaters, two goaltenders and one alternate.
-- Ashley Prest
Goldeyes' pre-season ends with a cancelled whimper
The Winnipeg Goldeyes' pre-season ended quietly on Saturday as the club had its scheduled game with the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks cancelled due to poor weather.
The Goldeyes returned to Winnipeg and planned to work out late this afternoon.
Manager Rick Forney has until 5 p.m. on Monday to trim his roster to 22 players and currently has 28 players in camp. Winnipeg opens its regular season on Thursday at home against the Kansas City T-Bones.
The Goldeyes finished the pre-season with a 1-3-1 mark.
Hockey Canada lauds Hartney's Forsyth
JACK Forsyth, commissioner of the Manitoba AAA Midget Hockey League for the past 12 years who has served over 40 years in numerous volunteer roles in amateur hockey, received the Hockey Canada Award of Merit-West on Friday night in Quebec City at the Hockey Canada annual general meeting.
"It's a marvellous and wonderful feeling to be recognized like this, you feel humbled but rewarded," said Forsyth, 56, a retired teacher from Hartney who was reached in Quebec City on Saturday as he watched the Russia-Sweden game in the 2008 IIHF World Men's Hockey Championship on Saturday in Le Colis ©e. "It's was a special night."
Forsyth, who was the midget league's statistician for 10 years after it began in 1986, is a past-president of Hockey Manitoba and has served on Hockey Canada's development council among numerous volunteer roles in local amateur leagues.
The award of merit was started in 1960 to "honour those individuals who, for many years, have served amateur hockey faithfully, having participated as players, served as coaches and association members, and made outstanding contributions to Canadian amateur hockey."
Forsyth said he met his wife Phyllis through hockey.
"I started coaching with a female team in the early '60s in Shoal Lake and met my wife there, she was the goaltender! We've been married 45 years," Forsyth said.
Bisons' Jeavons named MVP for West in East West Bowl
JIM Jeavons, the University of Manitoba Bisons
linebacker who was a late addition to Saturday's
2008 East West Bowl university football all-star
game at McMaster University in Hamilton, was
named West MVP with three tackles including
one for a three-yard loss.
Bisons coach Brian Dobie
coached Team West which
lost 25-12 to the East, the first
West loss during the six-year
history of the game. Other Bisons
in the game included receiver
Simon Blaszczak who caught the
West's only touchdown on a 25-yard pass
in the fourth quarter. Kicker Scott Dixon went
1-for-2 in field goals hitting a 35-yarder and was
also Team West's punter with a 35.1 average over
nine punts.
"It was a great week for all three Bisons and I
was proud of how well they responded. It was an
honour to coach the bowl game," Dobie said in a
release. "With Jeavons being selected West MVP,
that makes two years in a row for such accolades
for Manitoba players in the East West Bowl (Justin
Cooper was defensive MVP in 2007)."
Lacrosse legacy honoured
TWO players scored pairs of goals in the second
annual Jim Hunt Memorial All-star game for the
Winnipeg High School Field Lacrosse League on
Saturday in Art McQuat Park. Evan Faris and
John Vandette scored two goals apiece as Team
White beat Team Red 10-3.
League president Tracey Groening, who is the
daughter of Jim Hunt, said her family is proud of
her father's lacrosse legacy.
"The game is named to honour a man who
provided leadership, who loved sports and loved
working with the players," said Groening of
Hunt, who passed away in 2006. Jim Hunt was
a principal in the Louis Riel School Division
and former coach of the Vincent Massey field
lacrosse team.
Hockey training centre opens
JEFF Wood and Glenn Carnegie of Focus Fitness
unveiled the Total Hockey Training Centre at
the grand opening on Saturday at 181 Stradbrook
Ave. which is billed as the first of its kind in
Canada. It is a 5,000-square-foot facility which
includes 1,000 square feet of synthetic turf, four
shooting bays with targets and radar, stick handling
stations for development of quick hands,
slide boards for leg strength.
The aim of the facility is to "deliver a positive
training experience that improves speed of
movement and strength of character, training
athletes from beginners (eight-year-olds) to professionals."
For information, call 488-6611.
Dauphin to host 2010 RBC tourney
DAUPHIN has been selected as host of the 2010
RBC Cup national junior A hockey championship,
Hockey Canada announced on Saturday in
Quebec City at the conclusion of its 2008 annual
general meeting.
Dauphin's application was approved by Hockey
Canada's board of directors. Also approved was
a motion that Hockey Canada "develop a critical
path to address bullying and relating tactics in
hockey with reference to education, roster sizes
for junior and senior hockey, suspensions, verbal
abuse and discipline related to fighting."
ashley.prest@freepress.mb.ca
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