Honouring their best
Mario Prusina
Times Editor
The Wheatland Athletics Association honoured their three teams at the annual awards banquet April 6 at the Strathmore Civic Centre.
The peewee Braves, bantam Warriors and midget Chiefs teams presented their top scorer, top defenceman, rookie-of-the-year, most improved, most sportsmanlike and team MVP for the 2011-2012 season.
“Since I’ve been here, this has been our lead season,” said WAA President Sandy Henry. “I’m not sure that we really could have asked for more – I guess you always beg for more, but it was (a great year). I did some stats and (between the three teams), we played 101 league games and we won 65, lost 26 and tied 10. So we were in that 65 winning percentage, which puts us in a really good spot.
“All our teams had success, we fell a little short in provincials, but all (three teams) got there.
“It was a great season.”
The Chiefs, which won the regular season banner and the league championship banner last year, repeated as the SCAHL Champions.
Matthew Quigley of the Braves and Shane Fraser of the Warriors were presented the Craig Kletzel Memorial Award, while Zach Wittenburg of the Chiefs repeated as the SCAHL Top Defenceman.
The WAA also presented Alan Barlow and Murray Christiansen with the “Members of Distinction” award
Here is a list of the award winners.
Wheatland Braves
Peewee AA
Top Scorer – Riley Romashenko
Top Defencemen – Matthew Quigley
Rookie of the Year – Tyler Skehar
Most Improved – Ty Stewart
Mosts Sportsmanlike – Scott Desserre
Most Valuable Player – Riley Romashenko
Wheatland Warriors
Bantam AA
Top Scorer – Shane Fraser
Top Defencemen – Josh Bishop
Rookie of the Year – Markus Lavallee
Most Improved – Ben Sorenson
Mosts Sportsmanlike – Easton Munchrath
Most Valuable Player – Shane Fraser
Wheatland Chiefs
Midget AA
Top Scorer – James Price
Top Defencemen – Zach Wittenburg
Rookie of the Year – Conner McCallum
Most Improved – Trevor Costello
Mosts Sportsmanlike – Kristian Ayoungman
Most Valuable Player – Abe Jensen