Pirates win home opener

Sasha Repko, a national-level Special Olympian from Port Hawkesbury, drops the puck to usher in the Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League action at the home barn of the Strait Pirates, the Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre. She’s seen her with Port Hawkesbury Mayor Brenda Chisholm-Beaton and Pirate President Adam Rodgers. Taking the face-off are Strait Pirate Taylor Pierce and Liverpool Privateer Brendan Humphreys.

PORT HAWKESBURY: With relative newcomer Ryan Bakker connecting for a pair of second period goals, the Junior Pirates managed a 3-2 win over the Liverpool Privateers last Friday night. “Overall, I think we played a solid three periods of hockey,” said Pirate coach, Taylor Lambke. “In the second, we got into some penalty trouble and…

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Grant McDaniel

Sports reporter Grant McDaniel is a Port Hood native, who after graduating from StFX University, joined The Reporter in 2001.