Sports

Owen Rice was a fundamental part of the Kahnawake Junior B Hunters winning the Founders Cup this year, an accomplishment which recognized on Wednesday by fellow Kanesatake community members.

Lacrosse is a game of community, and that is exactly what the Kahnawa’kehró:non who played in this year’s edition of the LAXNAI tournament in Utica, New York, felt over the weekend.

For Inter Species Wrestling (ISW) promoter Michael Woods, it was an easy decision to do something to try and help out wrestler Jeff Cannonball - one of the best friends he ever made in the business - and his family after he was recently diagnosed with ALS.

Now, as a crew member of the now three-time NASCAR Canada series champion Marc-Antoine Camirand, he’s finding himself right in the midst of his team’s own dominant run, as Camirand became the first driver to ever win back-to-back championships in the series.

NASCAR driver Derek White went into last weekend’s Craftsman Truck Series race, the EJP 175 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, with a new sponsor, JL Wholesale, on his #69 MBM Motorsports truck, looking to get a good result in his first start in New Hampshire since 2015.

This year’s winner of the Indian Summer Championship at Napierville Dragway is Kahnawake’s Darren Decaire, with his 1987 Oldsmobile Cutlass - equipped with a more modern General Motors 6.2L LS3 engine - posting a time of 10.98 seconds on the quarter mile in the finals against one of his oldest friends, Charlie “Chops” Rice.

For the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation next Tuesday, the Montreal Canadiens will be doing something special to showcase some of the Indigenous artists that live right outside Tiohtià:ke: they’ll be wearing beadwork pins of their logo, made by artists from Kahnawake and Kanesatake.

The Hospital baseball field was host to an unprecedented number of smiles and cheers for the fourth annual Challenger Baseball Game for Extraordinary Athletes, with over 100 people - more people than ever before - coming to watch the 23 players with special needs and those supporting them play their hearts out on Saturday

Sports stars of all different stripes have come out of Kahnawake - from lacrosse to paddling, water polo to hockey - there’s plenty of activities to choose from for young athletes.

Monday was supposed to be the third annual visit of the Canadian Football League (CFL)’s Montreal Alouettes to Kahnawake for a flag football and meet and greet event with players.