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The Norman Northstars hit the road for 3 games this past weekend.

Things got off to a rough start losing to the Winnipeg Wild 13-1 on Friday. Norman's lone goal came from: Anthony Keeper.

The Northstars were able to shake that off and powered to their first win of the season  beating Sothwest 4-1 on Saturday.  Scoring for Norman were: Anthony Keeper, Mikey Marcus, Bryce Horning and Evan Lutz.

With momentum on their side the Northstars went into Parkland Sunday and lost a heartbreaker 3-2. Norman was actually leading this game 2-1 early in the second period before the Rangers would tie things up and score the winning goal with less than 4 minutes remaining in regulation.

Goal scorers on Sunday were: Daylon Campbell and Taylor Richie

Norman falls to 1-7 and are back on the road for 4 games starting this Thursday in Kenora.

The domination continued for both of Hapnot's Senior soccer teams this past weekend.

The Kings and Queens both successfully defended their Zone titles in Thompson.

The Queens picked up their 9th straight Zone title by out scoring their opposition an amazing 44-2, including a 4-1 win over Thompson in the final.

The Kings outscored their opposition 29-2 in 4 games, and took it to Moose Lake 7-1 in the final.

This is the Kings 7th title in 10 years.

Congratulations to the coach's Tyler Kittle, Dean Grove , the tremendous athletes and good luck at Provincials in Winkler October the 17th and 18th.

The Norman Northstars will kick off their 3oth season next weekend when they hit the road for 3 games in 3 nights.

The Northstars will be in Brandon to start the MB Midget AAA hockey season on Friday October the 3rd, Yellowhead on Saturday and Sunday.

Norman's home opener is Saturday October the 11th VS Interlake.

Long time coach Doug Korman will be back behind the Northstar's bench, after taking over mid way through last season.

The Northstars did not have a single victory till Doug took over in November, where they would finish with a record of: 10-33-1 (21 points) 11th overall out of 12 teams and did not make the playoffs.

For the first time in the history of the event, there is a repeat winner in the 102.9 CFAR Tri- Service Million Dollar  Hole In One Event.

Congratulations to Darcy Salamondra who was this year's best, who shot a ball 37ft, 7 inches away from the hole to capture the win at the Phantom Lake Golf Club Sunday night. Salamondra also won in 2007.

Last year's winner Keenan Kennedy came in second at 44ft-8 and a half inches.

The Surprising Brian Dixon came in third at 85 ft- 1 inch. Dixon had the best shot in the semis at 4 ft, 5 and a quarter inches.

Among the highlights, there were three hole in ones in qualifying earlier in the week. Terry Arnold picked up the first one on Wednesday, with Richard Masson and Ryan Hanson getting hole in ones back to back on Friday.          

A big thank you to the Tri- Service Club, the Lions, Rotary and Kinsmen Clubs for spear heading the event for the 12th straight year.   

Proceeds from this year will go towards Habitat 53 degrees and the Island Development Group in Denare Beach.

Congratulations to former Flin Flon Bomber captain and defenseman, Michael Young on being invited to a development camp for the San Jose Sharks.

You can find more information Here

The Flin Flon Extreme Hockey School will return to the Whitney Forum August the 17th to the 22nd.

There will be programs for everyone including Junior 6-9, Intermediate 10-12 and Conditioning 15 and up.

There will also be Specialty Clinics August the 24th to the 26th.

For more information contact Mike Reagan at: 204-271-1407 or e-mail at: mikereagan39@hotmail.com.

If you sign up by July the 25th, you could win a draw for your hockey school absolutely free.

A registration skate is planned for August the 17th at 7PM.

The SJHL has released it's regular season schedule for 2014-2015.

The season kicks off September the 18th with Yorkton in Melville.

Flin Flon will kick off their season with a home and home against Nipawin, the weekend of September the 19th and 20th.

The Bomber's home opener is Friday September the 19th, with the return matchup at the Cage on Saturday.

All teams will play 56 games, with the Bombers in the Sherwood Division along with Laronge, Melfort and Nipawin.

The Bombers will play Laronge 9 times, Melfort and Nipawin 8 times.

Flin Flon's first big road trip will be October the 14th to the 18th, when they will play 4 games in 5 nights starting in Humboldt.

Once again the Bombers will get a nice Xmas break wrapping up 2013, with a game at the Civic Centre in Battleford December the 20th. Flin Flon will get a 2 week break with their first game of the new year Sunday January the 4th VS Humboldt.

The regular season will wrap up March the 3rd, with Flin Flon travelling to Nipawin.

Don't forget to pick up your tickets for the Pontoon boat. This is a huge fundraiser for the hockey club and the draw is August the 10th.

The Flin Flon Lions Club hosted their first ever BMX and Skateboard Championship at the Flin Flon Skateboard Park on Friday June the 27th.

One of the organizers Ken Mansell said it went over very well, with over 20 kids signing up. The Flin Flon Lions Club hope to make this an annual event.

Here are this year's results:

13-18 Skateboard

1st- Brayden Dudley, 2nd- Jared Bradt, 3rd- Carson Ledoux

18+ Skateboard

1st- Cahlin Jesso, 2nd- Callum Spencer, 3rd-Scott Bortis

BMX

13-18

1st- Brandon Sawchyn, 2nd- Willy Eikel, 3rd-Adam Hilts

18+

1st- Kirkland Ferguson,2nd- Alex Clark,3rd-Chris Ringrose

The Flin Flon Bombers have hired a new assistant coach with ties to the SJHL.

Mike Reagan Head Coach and General Manager made the announcement earlier today on 102.9 CFAR.

The Bombers have hired Jason Lindner who played goal for Weyburn between 2005 and 2007, where he suited up for 19 games and compiled a .910  save %. Lindner is 28 and is from North Vancouver BC, and played in three leagues over the course of his career including the BCHL and the All American Hockey League.

Most recently Lindner has been living in Calgary and working with the Swiss International Hockey Program, and will be joining the Bombers in early August.

Here is Mike Reagan with today's announcement:

The Phantom Lake Open golf tournament took place this past Saturday with over 60 golfers taking part.

Here are the results:

Championship Flight

Jeff Woods

Runner Up

Darcy Salamondra

3rd

DJ Wilson

1st Flight

Kelly Petalik

2nd Flight

Sal Woloshyn

3rd Flight

Mike Morissette

4th Flight

Scott Smith

5th Flight

Jim Glynn

6th Flight

Greg Phair

7th Flight

Brian Row

Ladies Winner

Lori Salahub

Junior Winner

Ethan Anderson

The Phantom Lake Open is taking place this Saturday June the 28th.

It will kick off with a shotgun start at 11 am, with 18 holes of golf, great food and lots of prizes.

Men's, ladies and junior Divisions.

The first 80 to sign up are guaranteed to get in.

Call the Pro Shop to register at 306-688-5555.

The Phantom Lake Soccer Club wrapped up their season this past Saturday.

Division 2

Gold Medal Game

Rangers -3

Kickers-0

Bronze

Pirates-7

Legion-0

Division 3

Gold

Mustangs-5

Knights-1

Bronze

FFMA-3

Blazers-2   (penalty kicks)

Division 4

Gold

Shriners-3

Trades-1

Bronze

Rotary-2

Gunners-0

Tyler Kittle the Flin Flon Soccer President would like to thank all the coach's, referees, players and volunteers for making this another exciting season.

A number of Flin Flon teams attended the 17th annual Grevers Soccer Tournament in Saskatoon this past weekend.

It was a very successful weekend with a number of teams doing well.

The Flin Flon Collision- 12 and under girls coached by Steve Lytwin captured Gold by going 5-0 and beating the SUSC Falcons in the final 1-0.

The Flin Flon Kickers 12 and under boys coached by Corrie Pomarenski, also went 5-0 and beat Regina 1-0 to win Gold

The Flin Flon Queens under 18 girls coached by Dean Grove were 1-0-2 and lost the Bronze medal game to the East Side Banshees.

The Flin Flon Fusion under 18 boys, coached by Tyler Kittle and Sean Black lost both their games.

The Flin Flon Fusion under 14 girls coached by Tyler Kittle were 2-1, and were tied for first with 2 other teams, but were eliminated on goal differential

Congratulations to Flin Flon's Jed Reeves on his 1st mixed martial arts amateur win.

The win came Saturday June the 7th in Saskatoon, in an event hosted by Honor Fighting.

Jed with his coach, Derek Abrahamson and brother Kyle Reeves in his corner defeated Danen Ehalt from Humboldt.

It took Reeves a mere 19 seconds to win his first fight, stunning Ehalt with a series of jabs and uppercuts which forced his opponent to the mat, when the referee called the match.

Reeves plans to fight again in the fall.

story compiled by Jace Anderson

Hapnot Collegiate hosted their athletic banquet last night in front of a packed house at the Hapnot gym.

Among the many awards presented were the male and female athletes of the year.

Male- JV

Taylor Kittle

Female-JV

Taylor Oliynyk and Heather Graham

Male- SV

Blake Wallaker and Brett Muench

Female- SV

Krista Beck

Hapnot Collegiate will be hosting their athletic awards banquet this Thursday at the school.

This is open to teachers, coach's, athletes and athlete's parents.

Awards will be handed out in both individual and team sports for Senior and Junior Varsity including the male and female athletes of the year.

102 CFAR will have full coverage.

The Flin Flon Bombers have completed the trade that sent Brett Boehm to the Yorkton Terriers December the 11th.

95 born defenseman Tanner Lishchynski fresh off winning a Western Canada Cup and RBC, will be wearing maroon and white the next couple of seasons.

Lishchynski began the season with the WHL'S Prince George Cougars before being sent to Yorkton, and picked up 11 assists and 22 penalty minutes in 20 games this season.

Mike Reagan Head Coach and GM of the Bombers made the announcement on 102.9 CFAR today.

Brett Boehm's CJHL playing rights are also returned to the Bombers for the upcoming season, and Flin Flon will also have 1995 born forward Dalton Menke who they picked up December the 11th.

Good luck to the 23 athletes from Hapnot Collegiate who are off to track and field Provincials in Winnipeg.

Competition is taking place this Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the U of M campus.

Hapnot is fresh off taking the track and field Zone banner in The Pas a couple weekends back with over 30 kids winning medals.

The Harder Avalon Classic Soccer Tournament took place in Saskatoon this weekend, with a number of Flin Flon teams competing.

I gathered up as many results as I could.

Flin Flon Collision 12 and under girls went undefeated and won Gold.

Flin Flon Kickers 12 and under boys coached by Corrie Pomarenski won Silver after going undefeated and losing to Humboldt in the final.

Under 10 boys coached by Ric Bacon lost 2 games and tied 1.

Fusion 14 and under girls coached by Tyler Kittle, Corrie Pomarenski and Ginger Finnie, won 1 and lost 2.

Flin Flon Fusion 18 and under boys coached by Tyler Kittle, Silvie Dufour and Sean Black tied 2 and lost 1.

Saskatoon will be hosting the Harder Avalon Classic Soccer Tournament this weekend.

There will be two teams from Flin Flon competing. The girls team is the Flin Flon Fury, and the boys team is the Flin Flon Fusion.

Here is a schedule of their games:

Flin Flon Fury (girls)

Friday- 7:45 pm against V.U.S.C

Saturday 8 AM against Swift Current United U16,  1:45 pm against Aurora Mirage

Playffs start Sunday at 9:20

Flin Flon Fusion (boys)

Saturday noon against Humboldt Hurricanes, 5:45 against Lakewood

Sunday noon against Swift Current United

Playoffs start at 1

As promised here are the interviews from this past Wednesday's Bomber AGM with President Hank Kozar and Head Coach and GM Mike Reagan.

Hank discusses finances, new board members and the direction of the club.

Mike talks about their expectations for the upcoming season, a very successful spring camp and futures trades that are now being completed.

You can hear those interviews here:

Hank interview

Mike interview

The Flin Flon Bombers held thair annual general meeting last night at the Flin Flon Community Hall Green room.

among the highlights

Bomber President Hank Kozar thanked all the volunteers and board members for all their hard work this past season. Hank said one of the biggest plusses from the past year was the organization purchasing their own bus, with contributions from corporate sponsors.

Hank also went on to thank the bus drivers , Paul Garrett, Joe Danis, Tom Morrison and Cornelious Weib who were all volunteers.

Kozar noted that they had to make some tough trades, but believes it was best for their organization at the time and is very excited about the futures coming back in trades and young recruits coming in with a very good group of returnees.

The Bombers will be looking for a new secretary treasurer as Dave Brooks after ten years serving on the board did not seek re-election. Hank thanked Dave for all his contributions and received a standing ovation from all those in attendance.

Financially speaking things are starting to look good.

Revenue is up in corporate advertising, souvenirs, the golf tournament and boat draw.

Unfortunately season tickets were significantly lower.

The Bombers turned a profit of: $9,885.38 and their overall debt is around $120,000. Not bad when you consider $75,000 of that is owing on the bus.

It was also noted that 41% of the Bomber crowds this past season  paid at the door.

Mike Reagan mentioned that it was a very successful spring camp in Saskatoon this past weekend, and their are a number of elite prospects they would like to sign.

Some of the prospects include Lance Yaremchuk who played with the PA Mintos, Curtis Roach from the Saskatoon Contacts and younger brother of former Bomber Josh Roach and Dustin Perillat from the Saskatoon Blazers. Perillat played in 11 games for the Bombers last season picking up 4 points, 2 goals and 2 assists

More future trades were announced:

The Bombers have completed the trade with Dauphin by re-aquiring Dillan McCombie, and 6'4 forward Tanner Lomsnes who had 34 points in 32 games last season.

Flin Flon also gets forward Chris Rauckman from Drumheller of the AJHL. This was futures in the Devin Buffalo trade. Rauckman had 33 goals last year and could be a potential 40 goal guy this year. The Bombers will receive one more player from Drumheller who will be named after the AJHL Showcase.

Reagan mentioned that the futures from the Yorkton Terriers will be announced next week, although in a surprising development from the AGM, it was learned that Brett Boehm's rights will revert back to Flin Flon.

Boehm could potentially be back in a Bomber uniform to start the season.

There is also 26 players returning next season with Junior A experience.

New board director's elected to positions last night.

Paul Garrett re-elected to Vice President

Directors for 2 year positions- David Hane, Gary  Westhaver and Tanya Benoit

Directors for 1 year positions- Lisa Tower and Emily Robinson

I will have audio with Mike and Hank on tomorrow's blog.

Hapnot Collegiate will be hosting a basketball camp for the second straight year, later this summer August the 1st to the 3rd.

It will be open to the first 40 boys and girls to sign up between 11-13. Cost is $50.00 per child.

The instructors will be Don Dyke- coach of the Hapnot SR Boys, Dale Wride coach of the JR Boys and Ian Clark coach of the Creighton SR Boys.

All registration forms and money is to be returned to your school's main office by June the 12th.

The Phantom Lake Golf Club held their opening day tournament this past Saturday.

Here are the results:

Championship Flight- Ray Shirran- 74 (winner)

2nd Darcy Salomandra

3rd Jeff Woods

1st flight

winner- Derek Reid

Seniors Championship Flight

winner- Doug Anderson

Seniors 1st flight-

Steve Stelmach- winner

Ladies Championship-

Judy Maitland- winner

Ladies first flight

Sheila Sproxton- winner

Junior Championship

Brad Fox-winner