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CLEVELAND:
The Cleveland Indians will hold one of the team's three town hall meetings with current and former season ticket holders at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 13 at Westlake High School's Performing Arts Center.
The town hall format will provide Indians fans with the opportunity to engage in frank and honest dialogue with front office members of the Indians organization.
Scheduled to appear at the Westlake town hall meeting are Eric Wedge, Chris Antonetti, Dennis Lehman and Bob DiBiasio.
This is an invitation-only meeting and is free of charge to current and former Indians season ticket holders. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Westlake High School is located at 27830 Hilliard Road.

GATES MILLS- St. Ignatius' hockey team won the Brother James Gilmour Tournament today by completing a weekend of defeating four teams from four different states/provinces.

On Friday night the Wildcats defeated the No. 1-ranked team in Indiana, Hamilton Southeastern, 4-2, then beat Erie (Pa.) McDowell 2-1 in OT on Saturday morning and Naperville (Ill.) on Saturday night, 7-3. In the championship game this morning, Ignatius beat Ontario's Cardinal Newman, 2-1

The win over Southeastern was significant in that it was the same team that defeated St. Edward and University School one week earlier in the Brother Nettleton Classic in Serpentini Arena.

In the 4-2 win over Hamilton SE, the "Cats were down 1-0 with the game just 10 seconds old. Iggy tied it on a goal by senior Josh Smith at 14:00 of the first.

Hamilton scored in the second, then SI's Karl Scheffler notched a power-play goal to tie the game at two. Thomas Paras (took the shot) and Asa Frebes (got the deflection) scored later in the period to make it 4-2. Ed Zdolshek had 25 saves in the win.

Down 1-0 again against Erie McDowell, senior Patrick Nugent scored on a rebound goal to tie it in the second. It stayed 1-1 until overtime (3 on 3 format). 20 seconds into overtime, Karl Scheffler took a slapshot from the point, Ian Sewolich knocked the rebound to Chris Greve in front and Chris buried it for the win. Ed Zdolshek had 16 saves in the win.

The Cats were up 2-0 vs. Naperville, IL, but the Chicagoland boys tied 2-2 heading into the third period. Iggy then broke it open with five goals. Scoring goals for Ignatius were Gus Weir (2), Josh Smith, Chris Greve, Jacob Riemenschneider, Shane Fitzgerald, and Ian Sewolich. Naperville scored with 18 seconds left to make it 7-3. Zdolshek had 27 saves in the win.

In the finals, Shane Fitzgerald opened the scoring in the second period and Chris Greve notched a power play goal to make 2-0, Ignatius. Cardinal Newman scored a power play goal to close to 2-1, to close out the scoring. Zdolshek had 15 saves and was named tournament MVP. Fitzgerald, Greve, Paras, and Wyatt Pressick were all named all-tournament.

St. Ignatius' hockey team won the Brother James Gilmour Tournament today by completing a weekend of defeating four teams from four different states/provinces.

On Friday night the Wildcats defeated the No. 1-ranked team in Indiana, Hamilton Southeastern, 4-2, then beat Erie (Pa.) McDowell 2-1 in OT on Saturday morning and Naperville (Ill.) on Saturday night, 7-3. In the championship game this morning, Ignatius beat Ontario's Cardinal Newman, 2-1

Elyria Catholic's boys took fourth and Avon's boys sixth, while EC's girls took seventh and Avon's girls 14th at the 17-team Cloverleaf Swimming Invitational today.

Mike Weber won the 200-yard individual medley for the Panthers. Weber was then joined by Mike Haupt Alex Miehls and Jimmy Reitenbach in winning the 200 freestyle relay and taking second in the 400 free relay.

Miehls, a North Olmsted resident, took fifth in the 100 free and 100 butterfly for EC. Reitenbach was right ahead of him in fourth in the free race, as well as taking second in the 50 free.

Louis and Elliott Runge, and Nick Salvangi andd Jake Michelich took fourth place in the 200-yard medley relay and fifth in the 400 free relay for the Eagles. Emma Gerdes took fourth in the 500 freestyle for the Eagles.

Louis Runge took sixth in the 100 backstroke and 200 IM and Elliott sixth in the 100 breaststroke.

Rachel Buckley, Brooke Bartlebaugh, Caroline Hamp and Taylor Sustersic took third in the 200 free relay for EC. Evann Heidersbach replaced Sustersic to join the other three in taking third in the 200 free relay. Hamp took fourth in the 100 fly and fifth in the 100 back.

Playing on a bum knee, Chad Murphy registered a hat trick in limited playing time to lead North Olmsted to a 5-0 win over Avon Lake this afternoon on the ice in the North Olmsted Recreation Center, in a Red Division crossover game.

The Sun Hockey MVP of two years ago scored two unassisted goals and one that he received assists from Mike Minch and Ryan Sutton for his sixth hat trick of the season. Mike Konyesni and Brandon Hammermeister scored the other two goals. Sean McBride also had an assist.

"We don't worry about anything but the league," NO coach Tim Murphy said. "As far as we are concerned, we are 4-1 right now. We don't worry about tournaments, because people aren't throwing their best lineups out there. Heck, we skate four lines in the tourneys."

North Olmsted is 3-for-3 in tournaments, including a title earlier in the week at the Trinity Christmas Tournament.

"It used to be that if you won the Trinity or Thornton Park tournaments, you really had something," Murphy said. "Now those are just to get guys more playing time. We only care about our division and the Southwestern Conference tournament."

Both the Shoremen (0-4, 2-10) and Eagles (4-1, 16-1) will be in the SWC tourney Martin Luther King Weekend.

North Olmsted had five power-play opportunities, all of which AL killed.

"One area we have done well in is killing penalties," AL coach Brent Figueira said. "I would like to see us take some of the energy we use so well in killing power plays into even-strength situations and score some goals and play better defense."

Brenden Maye registered his fourth shutout of the season. Logan Galati saved 39 shots for the Shoremen.

Lutheran West is now 2-0 against arch-rival Brooklyn with one more meeting to go after this afternoon's 45-41 win in Brooklyn.

"We played them a lot closer than we did last time when we lost by 30 (at the Elyria Catholic Christmas Tournament)," Brooklyn coach Kristen Field said. "Our Achilles Heel all year has been fouls and today was no different."

The lead changed hands several times, but key free throws late in the game by Aimee Carpenter made the difference. Carpenter had a game-high 25 points. Brooklyn is now 2-5 and West 5-3.

Laryssa Byndas had 13 points while cousin Becca Byndas had nine for Brooklyn.

ROCKY RIVER:
The Magnificat basketball team used a solid inside offensive effort on Saturday afternoon to pound its way to a 61-36 win over visiting Lakewood behind 13 points from Kerri Kramer, 10 from Christine Ferry and another nine from Devon Hall.
The win pushed the Blue Streaks to 8-2 on the year before a Wednesday home date with Hathaway Brown.
The Rangers, 3-5 with the loss after a 10-day layoff, were never able to rally after tying the game at 4-4 on a pair of free throws form Chrissy Bruno with 3:14 left in the first quarter.
Magnifcat broke from a 11-6 edge after one quarter to open a 27-13 lead at intermission.
The Rangers, who play Brunswick on Wednesday, failed to get a player in double figures, being led by eight points from Jamie Wright and seven from Julie Harshman in the loss.