Sports in the Glens

The July 11 edition of The Glengarry News includes details on Glengarry Soccer League results from the senior men's, senior women's, tier 2 men's, U19 girls, and U16 girls divisions. Unfortunately, we did not have space for other minor results. These are posted here.

U12 girls

Maxville 3 vs. Laggan/GS 0
Char-Lan 1 vs. North Lancaster 0
VKH/Dunvegan B 1 vs. VKH/Dunvegan A 0
Char-Lan A 4 vs. Alexandria 0

U12 boys

Char-Lan 2 A vs. Laggan/GS 0
Alexandria Spartans 5 vs. Char-Lan B 1

U14 boys

Dunvegan 8 vs. Char-Lan 0
Alexandria 5 vs. Laggan/Glen Sandfield 1
Maxville 2 vs. Vankleek Hill 0

U14 Girls

Alexandria Devils 4 vs. Char-Lan A 0
Char-Lan B 2 vs. Maxville 0
Dunvegan 2 vs. Vankleek Hill 1

U16 boys

Char-Lan 7 vs. Maxville 0
Laggan/Glen Sandfield 3 vs. Vankleek Hill 0
Char-Lan 2 vs. Laggan/Glen Sandfield 0 

Competing in the senior Little League provincial tournament in Cornwall, the hometown Royals stand 4-0 following round-robin play, to advance to the championship game set for Monday, July 9 at 4 p.m., at Legion Park.

Their opponent has yet to be determined, as the East Nepean Eagles and Orleans Red Sox will battle today to decide who gets the berth. That game is also slated for a 4 p.m. start.

The winner of the tourney advances to represent Ontario at the national senior Little League tournament.

In an effort to make up matches postponed from earlier in the week due to extreme heat, the Glengarry Soccer League has been trying to make them up over the course of the weekend.

Tonight, July 8, there are youth matches at the U10 boys, U10 girls, U14 boys, and U19 girls levels, as well as tier 2 men's.

Sunday is traditionally a day of rest in the GSL regular season.

We will have more details in the next edition of The Glengarry News.

Usually a quiet night on area soccer pitches, this week will be decidedly busier as the Glengarry Soccer League strives to catch up on some matches postponed due to extreme heat in recent days.

The youth action tonight, July 6, includes games in U12 boys, U14 girls, and U16 boys divisions.

For the adults, there's a senior women's match on the Dunvegan field, featuring Laggan and Vankleek Hill, at 8:30 p.m.

Also at that time, there are two senior men's games on tap. In Greenfield, the hosts will entertain Glen Sandfield, while on the Lochiel field, McCrimmon and Dunvegan will be playing. 

More games this weekend

Saturday night, usually an off night, will have U14 girls and U16 boys games

Sunday evening features U10 boys, U10 girls, U14 boys, U19 girls, and tier 2 men's matches.

For the second straight night, and third evening of the last four, the Glengarry Soccer League is having to postpone/cancel scheduled youth soccer matches due to extreme heat.

Here's today's announcement:

The Glengarry Soccer League has decided, in the interest of the safety of our members, to cancel the 6:30pm games for Thursday, July 5th, 2018 due to the extreme heat. All U8 games are cancelled. All of the U14G games are being rescheduled.

Due to the extreme heat, the Char-Lan Minor Soccer Association has cancelled all matches for Thursday, July 5.

In the announcement, the league stressed, "The safety of our children and referees are our first priority, so we have made the decision to cancel our games."

Both the Glengarry Soccer League and East Regional Soccer League have announced that youth matches scheduled for tonight will be postponed due to the extreme heat.

For the GSL, this affects games in the U6, U12 boys, and U16 boys divisions. 

At this time, GSL U19 girls, tier 2 women's, and senior men's games are still on – all slated for 8:30 p.m. starts. 

For details on the Glengarry Soccer League's extreme heat game postponement/cancellation guidelines, please see this post.

Today, the Glengarry Soccer League announced its extreme heat policy, as a guideline to when scheduled youth and adult soccer games will be postponed and/or cancelled.

Monday (July 2) saw all matches scrubbed due to the hot, humid weather conditions, with the intention of these games all being rescheduled to play on Sunday (Jule 8). See this week's edition of The Glengarry News for more details.

Last evening, conditions moderated somewhat, allowing scheduled games to proceed.

Here are the GSL extreme heat guidelines: 

The Glengarry Soccer League will reschedule games league-wide for U10 and older, if the humidex for Alexandria, according to Environment Canada (weather.gc.ca), is 35 degrees or higher during game time.

The league will post / e-mail by 5 p.m. in regards to the 6:30 p.m. / 7 p.m. kick-offs, if the projection is 35 degrees or higher for 7 p.m.

The league will post / e-mail by 7 p.m. in regards to the 8:30 p.m. kick-offs, if the projection is 35 degrees or higher for 9 p.m.

The league may make the call to reschedule games earlier in the day if the humidex is going to be significantly higher than 35 degrees.

For games that start on the half hour, we will use the next available projected rating to determine if the game is on. For example, a 6:30 p.m. kick-off time will use the 7 p.m. projected humidex rating to determine whether the game will or will not be played.

U8 games will cancelled and not rescheduled, as there are no official standings or playoffs in the U8 divisions.

U6 will be left to the discretion of the area reps as to what temperature they would like to cancel their sessions at and can be done prior to 5 p.m.

Games that are to be rescheduled will be moved to the Friday, Saturday, or Sunday of the week of cancellations. If teams are unable to play on the rescheduled date, the coach is asked to let the GSL know ASAP that they will have to unfortunately forfeit.

The Glengarry Soccer League would like to thank you for your patience and consideration on this issue. We want to remind our players and officials to keep well-hydrated on game days. If you feel that it is unsafe for your child to play, please notify your child's coach; the GSL will leave that up to the parents' discretion.

This week's issue of The Glengarry News features coverage of the Canada Day Big Blocks race at the Cornwall Motor Speedway.

Here are the results from the other races.

Sportsman class feature race results (25 laps): Thomas Cook, Brianna Ladouceur, Adam Rozon, Kurtis Cayer, Justin Lalancette, Devin Willis, Shane Pecore, Evan Racine, Justin Desrosiers, Pascal Racette, Tristan Draper, Billy Cook, Derek Cryderman, Jason Rose, Jason Fetterly, Fred Bellemare, Bob Ray, Chris Ferguson, Rick Thompson, Robert Delormier, Delbert Legrow, Brent Lozo, Gordon Clair.

Mini-Stock class feature race results (15 laps): Chris James, Justin Jodoin, J-C Bouchard, Teddy Bair, Skylar Ladouceur, Alexis Charbonneau.

Looking ahead to racing scheduled for Sunday, July 8, the speedway is booked to host a pair of series from Quebec, along with most of the regular classes, with the exception of the Mini-Stocks.

Our latest online gallery features images from the June 30 OFC Cornwall Wildcats football game versus the Peterborough Wolverines. For the story, be sure to check out this week's edition of The Glengarry News. The photo gallery can be viewed here.

The new basketball court at Alexandria's Island Park was initiated into action on Canada Day with a three-on-three tournament, organized by Brian Caddell. We have the details in this week's edition of The Glengarry News. Here's a photo of the participants, courtesy of Elizabeth Caddell.

All scheduled July 2 soccer matches in the Glengarry Soccer League have been postponed.

That's the word coming down from the GSL admin today as a result of the extreme heat that has stricken our county.

Given the extreme weather conditions (heat advisory) and the risk of severe thunderstorms, the Glengarry Soccer League has decided in the interest of the safety of our members to cancel all games for Monday, July 2, 2018.

Games will be rescheduled for Sunday, July 8 at the same time and location (provided the field is available) and we will continue to monitor the weather for the remainder of the week.

Monday's postponed games include youth and tier 2 men's action.

With hot weather forecast to continue this week, it's likely that there will be additional postponements in the days ahead.

ERSL postpones action as well

The Ottawa-based ERSL, which includes youth Glengarry Hearts teams, was evaluating the status of its matches at the time of this post.

However, we do know that the U13 girls game slated to be played in Alexandria has been deferred to a later date.

We are currently monitoring weather conditions and will provide a decision regarding tonight's games no later than 3:00pm pic.twitter.com/bqMHVofKwT

— ERSL (@EastRegionSL) July 2, 2018

Alexandria's Chris Raabe, who is on quite a run of racing success of late, is featured in a recent article in Dirt Track Digest. You can read the story online here.

We will also have updates in The Glengarry News throughout the racing season.

Next week's issue of The Glengarry News features a story about the late Gary Shepherd, one of five inductees this year to the Glengarry Sports Hall of Fame. In this photo below, he's seen, at left, with a team of young hockey players.

McCrimmon's senior men's soccer team last night played Vankleek Hill to a 2-2 tie. The draw was the first time that the northerners hadn't won this season, with VKH's record now dropping to 5-1-0.

Meanwhile, McCrimmon remains just behind, at 4-1-1.

In other June 27 action, Greenfield pounded Glen Sandfield 7-1.

We will have the details next week in The Glengarry News.

There's one more senior men's GSL match on tap this week, slated for the pitch at Dunvegan on Friday, June 29, where the host side will take on Greenfield at 8:30 p.m.