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Williams lands hockey scholarship at Neumann College EAMONN MAHER Staff Writer Georgetown's Holly Williams has yet to play a game for her new U.S. women's college hockey team and she's already become part of the intense rivalry between a couple of East Coast Athletic Conference Division III schools. The sports teams at Neumann College, located not far from Philadelphia, Pennsylvannia, and Plattsburgh State University in New York have developed a healthy dislike for each other over the years. Neumann's Knights were eliminated from the first round of playoffs by Plattsburgh State's powerhouse Cardinals, who finished the season with a 26-3-1 record and their first-ever appearance in the NCAA Division III national championship, losing to Middlebury, Conn. in the final. The Knights also enjoyed their best showing yet in the ECAC in 2005-06, posting a 12-10-1 record, but they're clearly not content with modest success. Neumann recently hired back head coach Matt Kennedy after a year behind Quinnipiac's bench and they were aggressive in their recruiting during the offseason, picking up six new players from the hockey hotbed of southern Ontario, including Williams. A high-scoring power forward, Williams nearly signed with the Cardinals but decided that Neumann's scholarship package would better serve her desire to become and education major. No fewer than 10 Knights' players were selected to the ECAC West's all-academic team. "Plattsburgh just didn't work out, even though they have the better hockey team right now," the 18-year-old Williams said in an office of her family's business, Halton Hills Rad & Tire. "Neumann has the better education program, and in the end it will be about the education. That's mostly why I made the choice HOLLY I did." WILLIAMS That's not to say that the Knights are just a bunch of bookworms who wear Hanson Brother-type glasses. Unlike many Canadian university hockey teams, the Knights are well supported by off-campus fans and routinely draw 1,500 spectators to their home games in the town of Aston, adding pressure to produce wins. "Hockey's really big down there because it's a small community and they're passionate about their sports," Williams added. "You can buy our jerseys at the corner store. It's really exciting to become part of something like that. I'm thinking about trying out for Neumann's soccer team too." See WILLIAMS, pg. 20 Up and over Sean Jobin of Georgetown rode Midnight Hour out of the Diamond Ridge stables to victory in the Open Equitation Classic at last weekend's Summer's Here Junior Horse Show staged at Halton Place. The competition drew equestrian horses and junior-aged riders from around south-central Ontario in a four-day event, which finished up Sunday. Also earning champion honours in her class was rider/owner Sara House of Acton aboard Ryan in the Junior Jumper 1.0m division. Photo by Sabrina Byrnes Halton Heat novices win Meltdown crown Going undefeated in all six games, the Halton Heat captured the championship of the Summer Meltdown tourney for the novice AAA division at Etobicoke's Canlan Ice Sports. Preliminary round-- Halton 3, Vaughan 0: Sammy Mitri (MVP). Halton 4, Ontario Blackhawks 0: Peter Iannou (MVP). Halton 7, Misfits 2: Josh Cosack (MVP). Quarter-final-- Halton 10, Ontario Blackhawks 2: Christopher Klack (MVP). Semi-final-- Halton 5, Leaside 1: Matthew Kreis (MVP). Championship game--Halton 7, Misfits 4: Josh Dickinson (MVP). Tournament scorers: Matty Hodgins (3A); Josh Dickinson (5G, 2A); Peter Ioannou (G, 6A); Christopher Klack (2G, 4A); Matthew Kreis (10G, 2A); Mitchell Kreis (5G, 6A); David Kiss (G, 3A); Michael McNiven (SO); Sammy Mitri (G, 3A); Colt Jaime (4G, 2A); Josh Kosack (3A); Brett Melanson (5G, 2A); Andrew Dumaresque (G, 5A); Bailey Watkins (2A); Daniel Bulario (G, A). Several Georgetown residents played for the Halton Heat squad that won the recent Summer Meltdown AAA summer hockey tournament at Canlan Ice Sports in Etobicoke. Members of the team (front, from left) are: Michael McNiven, Matty Hodgins, Josh Dickinson. Second row: Colt Jaime, Sammy Mitri, Daniel Bulario. Third row: Andrew Dumaresque, Josh Kosack, Bailey Watkins, Brett Melanson, Christopher Klack, Peter Ioannou, Mitchell Kreis, David Kiss, Matthew Kreis. Back row: Manager Rob Jaime, assistant coach Kirby Dumaresque, head coach George Ioannou, assistant coach Mike Klack. Submitted photo