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Dubois, Loring win bronze medals with Team BC at National Aboriginal Hockey Championship

Three lakecity hockey players, and one former Williams Lake player, marched away with bronze medals.
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Williams Lake’s Cory Loring (left) and Daine Dubois picked up bronze medals May 6 at the National Aboriginal Hockey Championship in Cornwall. (Photo submitted)

Three lakecity hockey players, and one former Williams Lake player, marched away with bronze medals last week from the National Aboriginal Hockey Championships in Cowichan.

Forwards Daine Dubois and Cory Loring represented Team BC on the boys side, while goaltender Tamara William and defenceman Laine Grace, now living in Vernon playing hockey, all took home bronze medals for their respective teams.

The Team BC girls finished the tournament with five wins and one loss, defeating Saskatchewan 5-0 in game one, Team North in game two 8-0, Alberta 4-2 in game three and Eastern Door and North 7-0 in game four, before falling 4-3 to Saskatchewan in its semifinal game. They then went on to edge Alberta 2-1 in the bronze-medal match in double overtime.

William posted a shutout in the 8-0 win over Team North, with Grace tallying an assist in the game-one tilt with Saskatchewan.

On the boys’ side Dubois and Loring helped lead BC to a five-win, one-loss record, as well, dominating the majority of their games.

Dubois had a goal, while Loring added an assist in BC’s first game — a 7-4 victory over Eastern Door and North, before Dubois lit the lamp twice in a 4-2 doubling of Ontario in BC’s next contest.

They then shellacked Team Atlantic 9-0, with Dubois finding the twine once, then upended Alberta 7-2 with Dubois scoring and Loring adding an assist, before Ontario found its revenge in the semifinal with a 5-0 win.

In the bronze-medal game Loring scored for BC, with Dubois notching an assist to cap off the tournament.



Greg Sabatino

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