Sports

CARP – The first games of the West Carleton Outdoor Hockey League (WCOHL) were held almost two weeks ago under perfect conditions – super-duper freezing cold.

ARNPRIOR – The West Carleton Rivermen’s first Eastern Ontario Super Hockey League (EOSHL) regular season game since the COVID shutdown was a 5-2 statement win against the hottest team in the league.

ARNPRIOR – The West Carleton Rivermen will re-start their march to the Eastern Ontario Super Hockey League (EOSHL) playoffs Saturday, Feb. 5 in their home barn, in a now slightly shortened regular season.

WEST CARLETON – When you’re dealing with the unpredictability of winter weather, add in the unpredictability of the COVID-19 pandemic, while organizing an outdoor hockey league requires pivots as fast as the ones used by the players on the ice.

DUNROBIN – A brother and sister team who grew up in West Carleton are on their way to the Winter Olympic games in Beijing this February.

ARNPRIOR – The West Carleton and the 11 other Eastern Ontario Super Hockey League (EOSHL) are working on a plan that will allow them to finish a season just past the halfway mark when the latest COVID-19 provincially mandated lockdown hit.

HAMILTON – Carp hockey talent Mason McTavish is on the move again following a 2021 where he already racked up the air miles after the Ontario Hockey League’s (OHL) Hamilton Bulldogs acquired the forward in a blockbuster trade yesterday (Jan. 9)

CARP – The Huntley Curling Club’s Team LIKE, in only two seasons of competition, will be playing in its first U18 provincial championship early in the new year.