Inaugural Celly Hard Ball Hockey League season a success
There might not be ice on the surface at the Pineridge Ford Arena on Flying Dust First Nation, but many Meadow Lake-area kids with hockey sticks have been dueling it out over the last couple months.
As the first ever season of ball hockey wraps up, arena manager and coordinator of the program Clay DeBray said that it’s been a great one.
What started as a way to keep kids active after the regular hockey season has grown in interest, he said.
“This is the first ever year of ball hockey,” DeBray said. “When I started managing the arena, I had a breakfast program for the kids, I just felt to keep the kids in the hockey mind, organizing the ball hockey would be a great idea, and it was a great year for it. There were a little over 100 kids that signed up.”