{"id":16310,"date":"2017-01-18T16:55:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T21:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=16310"},"modified":"2017-01-18T16:55:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T21:55:34","slug":"st-andrews-bolsters-hockey-program-with-new-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/st-andrews-bolsters-hockey-program-with-new-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Andrew’s bolsters hockey program with new tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n

The MacPherson tournament has a new ally.
\nJust two weeks before the annual historic varsity tournament at LaBrier Arena on the St. Andrew\u2019s campus, the Saints have initiated a varsity B tournament to reiterate their commitment to their hockey programs.
\nThe Gary West Senior Boys Hockey Tournament kicked off its inaugural running on Friday, playing host to six varsity teams from across Canada and the United States. It purposely coincided with Monday\u2019s holiday for Americans, allowing two teams from south of the border to participate.
\nLike Mr. MacPherson, assistant to the Headmaster for a quarter century, Mr. West holds a prominent position in St. Andrew\u2019s history. Mr. West taught at SAC for 33 years, juggling his duties as a teacher, coach, and athletic director.
\n\u201cGary was highly respected and well-liked; I think you\u2019d be hard pressed to hear a negative comment about him,\u201d says Greg Reid, Assistant Headmaster and Assistant Coach of the Varsity B Hockey team.
\nReid was the mastermind behind the new tournament, working since last year to get it off the ground.
\n\u201cIt helps contribute to a more robust schedule for the Varsity B team by including more games against non-traditional opponents who are playing at the varsity level,\u201d said Reid. \u201cThat is to say that four of the teams this year are their school\u2019s top team as opposed to St. Andrew\u2019s second senior team.\u201d
\nSAC went 1-2-2 in the tournament, taking down Gilmour Academy of Ohio on Saturday. The winners of the tournament were the nearby King City Secondary School Lions, who put up two wins and two ties, including a tie with the Saints on Friday, to secure the championship.
\n\u201cThe Saints for their part outshot their opponents in every game but had trouble finding the back of the net and gave up too many odd-man rushes in their losses,\u201d said Joel Morrissey, Head Coach.
\nAll six teams have confirmed their intentions to participate in next year\u2019s tournament, while St. Edward\u2019s High School from Lakewood, Ohio and Nichols School from Buffalo will round out an eight-team field.
\nWith an overwhelming amount of hockey talent, SAC\u2019s varsity B team provides what Reid calls \u201can alternative to community hockey\u201d, with a handful potentially making the jump to the A team for their grade 12 year, a team that has won back-to-back independent school championships.
\nThe focus at SAC now turns to the MacPherson tournament, a long standing tradition at SAC, which will play host to eight teams representing the provinces of Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec, and the states of Maine, Pennsylvania, and New York at LaBrier Arena next weekend.
\n\u201cSince its inception in 1984, this tournament has become a highly-anticipated tradition for our school and the larger community,\u201d said Kevin McHenry, Headmaster.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

he MacPherson tournament has a new ally.
\nJust two weeks before the annual historic varsity tournament at LaBrier Arena on the St. Andrew\u2019s campus, the Saints have initiated a varsity B tournament to reiterate their commitment to their hockey programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2017-01-19-07.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-4f4","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 11:15:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}