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Biography: Mathieu Girard has run more than 24,000 kilometres

April 4, 2013

By
Mathieu Girard

I discovered my passion for running in August 2004. Before that, though I was running on the trails of Parc du Mont Sutton, I didn’t really have any particular goal. It was on August 28, 2004 that the light went on. Like several million other viewers I watched the Athens Olympics and the final of the men’s 5,000 metres. I literally was blown away seeing Hicham El Guerrouj in this contest win the gold medal and his second Olympic Games medal. The splendour of his stride and the intensity of the moment had simply seduced me.

Cougars look for victory on home ice Thursday, trail semifinal series 2-1

April 3, 2013

By
Mike Hickey, Special to The Record

The Champlain College men’s hockey team will be looking to even their Quebec Junior AAA Hockey League semifinal playoff series tonight when they host College Francais of Longueuil at the Eugene Lalonde Arena.

Cantonniers chopped down by Amos Forestiers

April 3, 2013

By
John Edwards, Special to The Record

The Magog Cantonniers’ improbable run through the Dodge Cup playdowns came to a crashing end on Tuesday night at the Magog Arena, as they fell, 6-2, to the Amos Forestiers. The Cantonniers, who finished 13th in the Quebec Midget AAA Hockey League regular season, pulled off a pair of upsets to advance to the single-game qualifier, but saw their playoffs ended at the hands of the only other team on an even more improbable run, the 14th-seeded Forestiers.

Sherbrooke goaltender Gervais-Chouinard signs pro deal

April 2, 2013

By
John Edwards, Special to The Record

Jacob Gervais-Chouinard, the over-age goaltender who started 55 games for the Phoenix this season, has signed an amateur tryout contract with the Hamilton Bulldogs of the American Hockey League.
The 21-year-old Sherbrooke native compiled a 20-24-7 record for the Phoenix, with a 3.36 goals against average and a .895 save percentage. He closed out his junior career last week, as the Phoenix were swept out of the first round of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League playoffs by the Baie-Comeau Drakkar.

Please see Wednesday's sports page for the complete story.

Champlain Regional College Hockey: Cougars-College Francais tied 1-1 in semifinal series

April 1, 2013

By
Mike Hickey, Special to The Record

The Champlain Cougars will look to take a 2-1 series lead in their semi-finals series with College Francais of Longueuil tonight when the two teams meet in Longueuil.
The Cougars were in danger of being down two-games to nil Sunday afternoon when they entered the final period on the wrong side of a 3-1 score but Shane Lanoue scored twice to send the game into overtime and Nicolas Dube’s goal at the 2:05 mark of the first overtime period provided Champlain with a much-needed 4-3 victory.

Phoenix swept out of QMJHL playoffs

March 28, 2013

By
John Edwards, Special to The Record

The Sherbrooke Phoenix saw their inaugural season come to an end after a 5-2 loss to the Baie-Comeau Drakkar on Wednesday night at the Sports Palace. With the loss, the Phoenix were swept, four games to none, by the second-seeded Drakkar in their first round Quebec Major Junior Hockey League playoff series.

Drakkar takes 3-0 lead in series

March 27, 2013

By
Daniel Coulombe, Record Sports

Sherbrooke native Jeremy Gregoire had a hat trick and two assists as Baie-Comeau hammered the Phoenix 8-2 to take a 3-0 lead in their opening-round best of 7 series Tuesday.
In its first series at home in its short history, the Phoenix lacked defensive resources in the third period and let the Drakkar run up the score with five unanswered goals at the Palais des Sports Léopold-Drolet in front of 2,827 spectators.
The expansion Phoenix played well in the first two periods. Steve Lebel notably stood out scoring both of his team’s goals.

Champlain men’s team headed to provincials

March 26, 2013

By
Mike Hickey, Special to The Record

The Champlain Cougar men’s basketball team is headed to the provincial championships, to be held April 12-14 in Saguenay, after posting impressive results this past weekend at a regional tournament held in Trois-Rivieres.

Cougars complete comeback to knock off top-seeded St. Jerome

March 25, 2013

By
John Edwards, Special to The Record

Over the course of 24 hours, the Champlain Cougars men’s hockey team went from being on their last legs to making a date for the Quebec Junior AAA Hockey League semi-finals. The Cougars scored a 3-2 (OT) win in St. Jerome on Sunday afternoon in Game 7 of their quarter-final series to complete a comeback from 3-1 down and win the best-of-seven series four games to three.
In their upset of the league regular-season champions, the Cougars won three times in St. Jerome, a place where the Panthères had lost only four times in the entire regular season.

Phoenix drop first two playoff games, home for two this week

March 24, 2013

By
John Edwards, Special to The Record

If the Sherbrooke Phoenix come back to upset the Baie-Comeau Drakkar, it will be a rise from the ashes worthy of the mythical beast that gave them their name. The Phoenix were crushed in the fledgling franchise’s first-ever playoff games, being outscored by a combined total of 16-3 by the second-seeded Drakkar, suffering losses of 6-2 on Friday night and 8-1 on Saturday afternoon.
Baie Comeau leads the best-of-seven Quebec Major Junior Hockey League first-round series 2-0, with Games 3 and 4 set for Sherbrooke on Tuesday and Wednesday nights.

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