MONDAY, MARCH 3, 2014 | WWW.PGCITIZEN.CA Sports 13 Seehra celebrates in the ring Ted CLARKE Citizen staff actually, he scored a couple of eight-counts,” said Inner City Jag Seehra has joined boxing’s coach Bob Pegues. “Jag now has a century club. 71-30 record.” The 24-year-old Inner City Seehra, who fights at 60 Boxing Club member celebrated kilograms, and former national the 100th fight of his amateur A-team fighter Kenny Lally will career Friday night with a win by be among the featured boxers unanimous decision over Roberto in the Night of the Fighting Irish Simon of Seattle at the Tacoma fight card, Saturday, May 3 at (Wash.) Golden Gloves champi- the Charles Jago Northern Sport onships. Centre. Then on Saturday night, Seehra “We have six Irish boxers com- defeated Yonnie Rubio of Seattle ing, and whatever [bouts] we in another unanimous poll of the can’t make up out of that Irish CP PHOTO judges. team we’ll make up with boxers Ottawa Senators’ Clarke MacArthur, left, scores against Vancouver Canucks’ goalie Eddie Lack as “He blew the guy out, from Tacoma,” said Pegues. Senators’ Kyle Turris, right, watches during the Heritage Classic at B.C. Place stadium in Vancouver on Sunday. Stoughton tough Canucks lacklustre to beat at Brier in Heritage Classic loss Monte STEWART The Canadian Press home loss to Detroit on Thursday in their first game after the Olympic break. Ceci went minus-2 in the loss. Scott EDMONDS Saskatchewan’s Steve Laycock 7-5 VANCOUVER — Senators rookie Cody Ceci is “It’s great to be young,” said Senators coach Paul The Canadian Press in the morning draw. But Laycock trying to help his team by helping his own cause. MacLean. “They have short memories.” bounced back in the afternoon, Ceci’s second-period goal stood up as the winner Both of Ceci’s goals this season have been game- KAMLOOPS — Two-time world beating Northern Ontario’s Jeff as the Ottawa Senators downed the Vancouver Ca- winners. He led the Sens to a win over St. Louis in champion Jeff Stoughton needed Currie 6-4. nucks 4-2 before a disappointed crowd of more than mid-December. Clarke MacArthur, Erik Karlsson an extra end to grind out a 7-6 win There is now a four-way tie for 50,000 people Sunday in the NHL Heritage Classic. and Colin Greening, into an empty net with 1:33 over the Northwest-Yukon Ter- second at 2-1 between Menard, “It means a lot,” said Ceci, a 20-year-old Ottawa left in the game, also scored for Ottawa. ritories Sunday afternoon at the Morris, Laycock and Ontario’s native. “These are points that we need right now go- Jason Garrison and Zack Kassian scored for the Canadian men’s curling Greg Balsdon, playing in his first ing down the stretch, and it means a lot to me. I’m Canucks before Ottawa goaltender Craig Anderson championship. Brier, who took down 2006 Olym- just trying to earn my spot here.” shut them out the rest of the game. Anderson, who It might not have been pretty pic gold medallist Brad Gushue The Senators (27-23-11) posted their first win in appeared to have little difficulty playing in a stadi- but, with a loss for John Morris and his Newfoundland and three games and kept pace in the race for the eighth um venue with different lighting than a traditional and his B.C. squad, Stoughton and Labrador rink 7-6. and final playoff berth in the Eastern Conference. arena, posted his 20th win of the season, recording Manitoba claimed sole possession Balsdon scored two in the 10th The Canucks (28-25-10) suffered their ninth loss 29 saves as Vancouver outshot the Sens 31-28. of first place as the only unbeaten end to win 7-6 and was continuing in 10 games and remained on the bubble in their MacLean praised Anderson for making difficult squad at the Canadian men’s to celebrate just being able to curl quest for eighth in the Western Conference. saves look easy, but the goaltender’s calm demean- curling championship with three for the men’s title, after a morning Ceci put the Senators ahead 3-2 midway through our between the pipes defied how he actually felt at straight wins. 5-4 loss to Jamie Koe and the Ter- the second. The defenceman moved up, took a pass the outset of the game. “It was one of those things “A little surprise we’re the only ritories, who sat at 1-2, along with from Jason Spezza, and fired home a shot from where you have the butterflies going and the nerves ones,” Stoughton said, starting to Currie and Gushue. right wing on a three-on-two rush. going,” he said. “Everything’s just a little bit differ- add they were lucky to win before “We’re having fun, it’s been a He helped the Sens make a classic comeback as ent than your usual normal routine. It’s a big win for checking himself. blast, we’re playing pretty well but they produced four unanswered goals after trail- us and it’s a great venue and it’s one of those things “We hung in there and battled the experience has been nothing ing 2-0 in the first five minutes. The score was tied that we’ll be smiling about for while, because it’s and made a couple of shots finally like we’ve ever curled before,” 2-2 after the first period before Ceci decided the kind of a once-in-a-lifetime experience.” in 9, 10 and 11 and got the W,” said Balsdon, a 36-year-old golf outcome in the second and Greening closed out the Canucks goalie Eddie Lack, who appeared to be he said instead. “We know we pro from Toronto, who works and scoring in the third. fighting the puck at times and gave up more re- can play a heck of a lot better curls out of the Glendale Golf and “I think it was huge that we tied the game before bounds than usual, suffered the loss as he drew his than that... We were just miss- Country Club in Hamilton. going into the intermission,” said Ceci. “That was big third consecutive start following the NHL’s Olympic ing too many draws heavy today Gushue had issues with the ice for us, just because we’ve had it tough lately before break. Nominal No. 1 Roberto Luongo watched and finally got it together late in Saturday but blamed only himself the [Olympic] break and the game right after it.” from the bench while sporting a toque and replica the game... If we’re a little off, as Sunday. The Senators bounced back from a humiliating 6-1 vintage pads and gloves. we’ve been, we’re squeaking by.” “The ice was good today there Stoughton is set to play winless was no reason to miss shots,” he New Brunswick Sunday night. said. Morris and his B.C. rink fell 7-4 “It’s not a hard game if you hit to Quebec’s Jean-Michel Menard the broom and throw the right after Menard jumped into an early way. We can’t seem to do either lead with a four in the first end, one.” thanks to a packed four-foot that Ice conditions made for a Morris couldn’t clear. strange end to Saturday night’s “Four was like a blessing from faceoff between Gushue and heaven,” said the Quebec skip, Stoughton. Both their final draws adding that they thought they finished perhaps five metres from might end up with two or maybe the house. three. The villain was a warm air cur- “If we can play like we played rent that heated up one end of the the first three games, we’ve got sheet where they were playing. It a sniff at making the playoffs,” was decided to cool the arena and added the 2006 Brier champion, shut off air circulating equipment who also won silver at the world during games to prevent a repeat. championship the same year. Also in the morning draw, Eddie Morris was disappointed in the MacKenzie scored a pair of points way he played. in the ninth end to lead P.E.I. “Those guys were great and we past winless Nova Scotia’s Jamie were average and that was the dif- Murphy 7-5, moving Mackenzie ference,” he said. “We have to step to 1-1. Alberta’s Kevin Koe also our game up a bit for sure. I can overpowered James Grattan and call a better game.” New Brunswick 10-1 for his first It was Menard’s second win of win and sat at 1-1 heading into the the day after beating evening draw. Henley capitalizes on second chance The Associated Press birdie attempt. “This isn’t going to sink in for a PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. while,” Henley said. — Russell Henley made good Thousands of fans who spent on his second chance at the 18th hours in the warmth and wind of hole Sunday and won the Honda south Florida surely felt the same Classic after a wild day that began way. David Hearn (67) of Brant- with Tiger Woods walking off ford, Ont., finished 6-under par to the course with a back injury and tie with American Will MacKenzie ended with a four-man playoff. for sixth. The closing hour at PGA Na- Woods abruptly quit after 13 tional was a series of blunders holes and was driven straight to by the contenders – and even the his car.