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Stouffville Sun-Tribune (Stouffville, ON), 24 Apr 2014, p. 33

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Bill Scott has made it to the National Hockey . The former me District School studentandSpir- Secondary it ’1’. Avohinteerwon't be ying, Rather. the 33-year-o d former Rather. the 33-year-oid former Unionvilie resident will take up a position in the front office of the Edmonton Oilers after he was named their new assistant general manager. the NHLclub announced Monday. Bill spem tfie lastv four seasons as general manager of the Oilers' The'son of longtime Canadian Football begguq agept Gil Scott. SDSS graduate new assistant GM of Edmonton Oilers American Hockey League affiliate Oklahoma Cigy Barons. While with the Barons. Scott guided them to a berth in the play- offs this season. Scott will take over from Ricky Olczyk. who departed after he turned down another role within the Oflem Scott's climb up the hockey lad- der began while he attended Mich- igan State University and worked with their men's varsity team. with their men's varsity team. Upon graduating. he served as an intern with the Nashville Preda- tors and then worked for the East SPORTS 'Stouffville Sun-Tribune Coast Hockey League as its man- ager of hockey operations before joining the Barons in 2010. Garrick“: time-punt game help: Marllos win finale Sam Garrick scored a pair of goals and collected one assist to propel the Toronto Marlies to a 4-3 win over the visiting Rochester Americans in American Hockey League action Satqrday. _ The 22-year-old Shuffville lesi- dent and fifth-round draft pick of Three minutes after crossing the fin- ish line in Boston last year. Carol May- McQuillan heard the first of two presâ€" sure-cooker bombs go off. The second was'delonated 12 sec- onds later. In all. lhree people were killed and about 260 others injured. Mrs. Mayâ€"McQuillan and her hus- band Peter managed to walk away phys- ically unharmed. “l still replay all of that in my mind. see the explosion.” the Whitchurch- Stouffville resident said. Because Mrs. May-McQuillan fin- ished the race. she did not receive an automatic invitation to return for this week's race. The 45-year-old marathon and Iron- man finisher did. however. requalify for the iconic race. But because the Boston Athletic Asso- ciation instituted a roll-down qualifica- tion process. she actually missed her shot in Monday's race by eight seconds. Her requalifying race. which was held in Whitby. was very emotional. It took place a month after Boston and brought back a lot of memories. Mrs. May-Mc- Quillan said. ‘ Once her story got out last year. Mrs. May-McQuillm said a number of old training partners got in contact with her and even though she wasn't directly impacted by the bombings “it took a bad Runners re-doing Boston -â€" just not this year BY SANDRA BOLAN sbolunfl’yrmgxom the 'Ibmnto Maple Leafs in the 2010 National Hockey League entry draft. scored what would be the game-winning marker and second goal of the game and 14th of the season on a breakaway at the 17:35 mark of the third period. (larrick was credited with an assist on a goal by Josh beivo just over five minutes into the third period that tied the score at 3-3 and set the stage for his late-game heroics. (Darrick delivered his first goal of the game in the first period enabling the Marlles to overcome situation and turned it into a positive. I had so much support. it was over- wheiming." The rice. bombings and all that she experienced afterwards, mught Mrs. May-McQuillan what was important in life. "It was a wake-up call. A! 451’m lucky. I can re-appreciate and not get caught up in everyday life. I'm just happy I can run." she said. Mrs. May-McQuillan wants to return to Boston. “It's always a goal to try to qualify." But she wants to do the race with her husband and hit the re-set but- ton on the experience. The 118th Boston Marathon was run Monday moming. Anoiher local Vrunner. Ricardo Mansue- to. finished the marathon last year about an hour before the first bomb went off. He Ira-qualified for this year. but missed the registration deadline by a couple of days» He'll go back in 2015. "I know it would be nice to be part of those brave runners to fight back and be strong." he told The Sun-Dibune via email. “I'm not going to let them win." she “I still replay all of that in my mind, see the explosion." Playing his first full season with the Marlies after joining the club late last year when he started the 20i2-13 season with the Idaho Steelheads. Carrick finished the regular campaign with 14 goals and 21 assists in 62 regular season \contests. The Marlies finished the regular season in first place in the North Division standings and will play the Milwaukee Admirals in the first round of the Calder Cup playoffs starting in Milwaukee tomonow. a 1-0 deficit. â€"Michael Hayukmm

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