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SPORTS `Quote unquote' `It will be nice to see those guys again, even though everything goes once we get on the floor.' -- Brad Kri of the Toronto Rock. See below. Bulldog grads set to meet again in NLL matchup this weekend By Eamonn Maher emaher@theifp.ca This Friday's National Lacrosse League contest at Toronto's Air Canada Centre between the host Rock and Georgia Swarm will serve as a mini-reunion of sorts for members of the 2010 Halton Hills Jr. B Bulldogs. That special group won the Founders Cup Canadian title in Etobicoke on a steamy August afternoon with a 4-3 double OT victory over their rivals, the Mimico Mountaineers, on a spectacular goal by Dylan Gilbert. And while that was the pinnacle of the careers of most players on the team, four have gone on to play professionally in the NLL -- Halton Hills natives Brad Kri and Mike MacDonald with Toronto -- with Milton's Ethan O'Connor and Connor Sellars playing with the Swarm this season. "It will be nice to see those guys again, even though everything goes once we get on the floor," laughed the 24-year-old defender Kri, in his fourth NLL campaign after playing in 16 games with the Rock last season. "A lot of the guys on that team still live locally, so when I get home from being away for a while it's usually the first group of guys I call." Continued on page 34 Forward Mike MacDonald of Georgetown and defenceman Brad Kri of Acton of the Toronto Rock are looking forward to their National Lacrosse League matchup this Friday at the Air Canada Centre against the Georgia Swarm. The pair will face Ethan O'Connor and Connor Sellars, who also played for the Halton Hills Jr. B Bulldogs in 2010 when they won the Founders Cup Canadian championship. Photo courtesy Toronto Rock Jack Jacome jumped into the Ontario Junior ed collision Friday in Trenton against the Hockey League scoring lead Sunday evening 40-7-1-1 Golden Hawks in a rematch of last with a natural hat trick in the Georgetown year's OJHL championship series. It's the only regular-season meeting beRaiders' 4-0 dusting of the host Toronto Jr. tween the two clubs and the Raiders are gunCanadiens. ning for home ice advantage right through Jacome leapfrogged Wellington's the post-season, holding a six-point Brayden Stortz into the lead lead on the Dudley Hewitt Cup-host amongst the top point-getters with Hawks with four games left on the 85 on the campaign. The Clarkschedule. son University recruit had two in AWARD FOR ASTORINO: Afthe second period and an emptyter posting a 6-1-0 record with a netter to cement the Raiders' fivesparkling 1.68 goals-against avergame win streak. age in January, Georgetown RaidNicholas Latinovich made 33 ers' puckstopper Josh Astorino has saves for his fourth shutout of the been named Ontario Junior Hockey season and Andrew Court added a JACK JACOME League's Bardown Goaltender of first-period marker. the Month. On Saturday, the Raiders prevailed in The 20-year-old from Niagara Falls has another playoff-style contest with divisionbeen a key component in the Raiders' firstrival Burlington by a 3-1 count. place overall standing in the OJHL with a Jordan Crocker tapped in a loose puck in league-best record of 27-3-1 with a 1.97 GAA, the Cougar crease five minutes into the third a .935 save percentage and two shutouts. Asperiod to break up a 1-1 tie. Louis Kereakou torino reeled off six straight wins in January and Jacome (empty net) also tallied for the and his only defeat was a spectacular 34-save home side and Josh Astorino made 26 saves performance in a 1-0 overtime loss to the for the win in goal. Cougars in Burlington Jan. 27. Next up for 43-5-1-1 is a much-anticipat- Jr. A Raiders on five-game roll heading into clash with Hawks Clare named conference D-man of week Former Georgetown Raider defenceman Liam Clare was named Atlantic Hockey Defensive Player of the Week after netting three assists as his Sacred Heart University Pioneers earned a win and a tie in league action against Mercyhurst. The 21-year-old Clare, in his sophomore season with the Pioneers, has collected one goal and 20 assists in 30 games this season, scoring once with six help- LIAM CLARE ers in his last five starts. A six-foot, 180-pound Georgetown native, Clare played three years with the Ontario Junior Hockey League's Raiders alongside star centre Steve Hladin, a Mississauga resident who has six goals and four assists in 24 games with Sacred Heart this season. Clare is in the business program at Sacred Heart and the Georgetown District High School grad has made the Dean's List in each semester. Georgetown Slopitch Invites you to play ball. An information meeting for new teams, players and umpires will be held on Thursday Feb. 23rd at 7pm at Boston PIzza. League commitment fees are due by Thurs. March 9th, 2017. GSL is open to men and women 19 or over. Please visit our website at www.georgetownslopitch.com to register as a individual or a team, or for more information. Sponsors welcomed. Space is limited so act now! We encourage new teams and new players to joins us. 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