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Beamsville Lions bring home the gold from holiday tourney To keep the excitement of the holidays going, the Beamsville Lions packed up their hockey bags on December 27, 2001 and headed to Thorold for some great hockey. Their first opponent was the Thorold Red Wings. The Red Wings played a hard game of their home ice, but the Lions plapyTitwe.nhyd.e.r, . . Andrew Palidwor of Beamwille, proudly stands next to his Hawaiian mural on November 12. Painting the image on his friend's property, Mr. Palidwor used the garage walls as practice for his artistic skills. A Kyle Lubeniecki put in the first goal of the game,just 27 seconds into the first period. But Thorold wasn't going to just stand there, they came back a few minutes later and scored on Devin Scott. Ryan Grant decided that he would not let the game be a tie, so with the assistance of Kyle 'he came in and got the puck past Thoroid's goalie. The Lions stayed strong through the second period scoring two more goals and the Red Wings remained with their single point on the board in this period. Scoring the unassisted goals in the sec- ond period for the Lions were Doug Capra and Kyle Lubeniecki with one each. The third period was started off with Jamie Lywood of the Beamsville resident can check out Hawaii - on her garage 4 RANNIE PUBLICATIONS, Wednesday, January 2, 2002 In the back row are: Coaching Staff: Left to Right: Rob Lywood, Dan Grant, Glenn Capra, and Glenn Zdriluk. in the middle row from left to right are Jamie Lywood, Ryan Grant, Doug Capra, Brad Zdriluk, Courtney Yale, Jesse Norris and Hayden Preston. In the front row from left to right are Aaron Grant, Adam Winger, Devin Scott, Austin Glover, Kyle Lubeniecki and Ethan Renalli. Lions scoring a beautiful final goal of the game. This Austin Git goal from the assist of Jessie made the final score 6-3 for the ucki Norris..The Red Wings came the Beamsville Lions. Norgis wi on in this period to challenge The driving on the second R an Gr us by scoring two goals on day of the tournament was a synod if/i Devin Scott. little more challenging than pm”, the I] Finishing the game with only fourteen seconds left on the clock, Kyle Lubeniecki single handily scored the final goal of the game. This made the final score 6-3 for the Beamsville Lions. The driving on the second day of the tournament was a little more challenging than the day before. Snow decid- ed to hit the St. Catharine's area and made the roads a little messy. The Beamsville ,- iM ready to play tM' 4:37: another great _ -> e game of hockey. With a lot ' more snow to ', deal with in their - neck of the ' woods. Cayuga's team was a little late, but they loo Citi, made it safe and " l T ‘3 sound. Once "->"" everyone was * ~ dressed and on F _ . the ice, the game . f- began. The Lions dominat- ood, Dan ed the first peri- eftto right od. Scoring two Courtney goals in this eft to right period was Kyle Iver, Kyle Lubeniecki, assisted by Doug Capra and Austin Glover. Also putting the puck in the net was Jesse Norris with the assist from Ryan Grant. The second period of play was ours again with the Lions scoring three goals and Cayuga getting one. Kyle, Doug and Adam each scored a goal in this by Kate Stark Staff Writer Even though the weather is getting cold and reports of snow flur, ries are not far behind, Mary Thomas of Beamsville can enjoy the scenery of Hawaii, just by looking out her back door. Showing off a newly decorated style, Ms. Thomas' back garage has been painted into a Hawaiian mural, depict- Lions all made it there safe and sound and were Weekend Edition, Saturday, January 12, 2002 - Page 5 period. Getting the assists in this period were Doug Capra Ryan Grant and Hayden Preston. The score continued to rack up in the third with Ethan Ranalli get- ting a nice goal off the assist of Austin Glover and Ryan Grant. Also assisted by Austin, Ryan Grant got the final goal of the game. Cayuga did get one goal in the past Devin in the third, making the final score 8-2 for the Lions. After the win against Cayuga, the team was head- ed into the "A" Division Championship game. But they didn't know who their opponent would be in that game. Well at least not right away anyway. But it didnt take long for the news to travel around the arena, that it would be another Beamsville team that they would face in the Championship game. Go figure, travel that far to play another home team. But it does show that they have some great hockey teams in the town of Beamsville. ing sand, beach and sun wrapping around all tour walls. The artist was long time friend Andrew Palidwor, whose former career was as a sign and commercial painter, creating such well known designs as the Fleming Chicks logo. Now," living in retire- ment, Mr. Palidwor con- tinues his painting strictly as a hobby, beautifying milk cans, felt hangings and of course, garages of his friends. The final day of the [our nament was here. The Lions fans were beginning to won- der if the Lions were going to come out of the dressing room. The officials had to head to the dressing room and advise the Lions that the game was starting early as a result of the previous game finishing early. . . Momiints later, dressed in their usual green jerseys, the Beamsville Lions emerged. In their usual Red Jerseys were Beamsville Pizza Pizza. The puck was dropped and the game began! And what a great game it was too. In the net for the Lions was Devin "Dcvinator" Scott and for Pizza Pizza was Aidan Mustoe. The puck. found many different sticks during the first period, but none of which could get it in the net. Devin and Aidan both made awesome saves in the first period to keep the score at 0- 0. In the second period, Jamie Lywood lifted the puck up and got the first goal of the game. Doug Capra and Kyle Lubeniecki assisted Jamie. "I was just going to paint it plain before he came along and said 'No, I'll do the scenery,' " said Ms. Thomas. Working a couple of hours at a time, Mr. Palidwor completed the mural in approximately six days, stopping only because of the increasing cold. Once the weather turns warm again, his future plans include adding sail- boats, sunbathers, and swimmers to his mural. See Page 12