Authored by: Butch (The Beast) McLarty on Saturday, March 05 2011 @ 08:04 PM EST

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Mar. 5, 2011

Hutzler, Dally topple Ottawa to advance to CIS Regionals

LONDON, Ont. - The Western Mustangs women's basketball team won fifth-
place in the OUA with a 60-44 win over the Ottawa Gee-Gee's in Alumni Hall
on Saturday afternoon.

Matteke Hutzler won the battle of the paint against the OUA East player of the
year Hannah Sunley-Paisley. Hutzler scored 21 points, four rebounds and four
steals, while Sunley-Paisley had 16 points and four rebounds, well under her
season average of 11.5 per game.

Laura Dally and Beckie Williams were the other Mustangs in double-digits in
scoring as Dally had 13 and Williams added 10 points. The Mustangs played
excellent defence forcing 26 turnovers by Ottawa.

The game got off to a slow start as neither team could find a rhythm
offensively and each team traded fouls. The Mustangs and Gee-Gee's battled
back-and-forth and Western held a slim 12-11 lead after the first quarter.

The Mustangs stepped out the defensively pressure in the second quarter,
alternating full-court and half-court defence to force a number of Ottawa
turnovers. Western outscored the Gee-Gees 19-9 in the quarter to take a 31-
20 halftime lead. The lead was due in part to Ottawa having 15 turnovers to
just six for the Mustangs.

The Mustangs saw a 13 point lead get cut to four points by Ottawa during the
third quarter. Western responded to increase their lead and at the end of the
third the Mustangs had a nine-point lead 41-35.

Western opened up a double-digit lead 50-40 with 4:54 left in the game on a
feed into the post to Hutzler. The Mustangs held Ottawa scoreless for the
next three minutes of game action as Western extended their lead to 57-40.
Each team would trade baskets in the final minute as the Mustangs won fifth
place in the OUA with a 60-44 victory.

The Mustangs will advance to a CIS regional tournament to play for a spot at
the CIS Nationals in Windsor, Ont. on Mar. 18-20.


Andrew Simpson
Sports Information Coordinator
Western Mustangs
The University of Western Ontario

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Authored by: Butch (The Beast) McLarty on Saturday, March 05 2011 @ 09:16 PM EST

LONDON MAJORS VS. MICHIGAN JET BOX BASEBALL 4th ANNUAL EXHIBITION
GAMES RESCHEDULED

[March 5th, 2011 – London, ON] The London Majors of the Intercounty
Baseball League will prepare for its season with what has become a highlight
of the pre-season, the annual exhibition games against Michigan Jet Box
Baseball this spring.

The games have been rescheduled for Friday, April 29th
at 7:30 PM and a double header on Saturday, April 30th at 1:00 PM.

A tradition that began in 2008, this will be the first opportunity to see the
2011 London Majors in action. “We are looking forward to the start of baseball
season and playing the Jet Box in our fourth annual exhibition game”, says
Roop Chanderdat, Co-Owner, General Manager and Field Manager.

Seating will be general admission and tickets will be just $3 with proceeds
being donated to KidSport London. KidSport™ provides support to children in
order to remove financial barriers that prevent them from playing organized
sport.

Free parking inside Labatt Park.

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Authored by: Betty McLarty on Sunday, March 06 2011 @ 11:07 AM EST

City crews clearing snow. No roads closed due to flooding.

City street plows are clearing the 5 cm to 7 cm of snow that fell overnight.
Main streets and bus routes should be cleaned by early afternoon. Salt trucks
will follow behind road plows.

All sidewalk plows have started cleaning main street and bus route sidewalks.
They will be working through the day to complete the plowing.

There will be no plowing of local streets or sidewalks today as we are below
the standard for plowing. This will be further assessed tomorrow.

There are no roads closed due to flooding.

The north and south branches of the Thames River peaked over night, along
with Medway and Stoney Creeks over night. The North Branch flow is being
controlled by Fanshawe Reservoir.

The Upper Thames River Conservation Authority issued a boating ban at
midnight.

Londoners are warned to be particularly cautious around stormwater
management ponds. During spring thaw conditions, ice on frozen water
bodies is unsafe. Stormwater management ponds are built to contain rain and
melt waters. The ponds will generally fill from beneath the ice surface with
warmer water and therefore changes in ice conditions are difficult to see and
predict. People should stay away from the banks and ice surfaces of these
ponds as well as banks of rivers and streams.

The Upper Thames River Conservation Authority is closely monitoring weather
conditions and watershed flows and will provide updates to the Municipal
Flood Coordinator as required. As of early this week the UTRCA’s flood
control reservoirs at Wildwood (Trout Creek near St. Mary’s), Pittock (Thames
River in Woodstock), and Fanshawe (North Thames River in London) all have
more than 95% of flood storage capacity.

The UTRCA is one of 36 conservation authorities in Ontario. Their area of
jurisdiction, the upper watershed of the Thames River, covers 3,432 sq km in
southwestern Ontario and is home to approximately 485,000 people. The
UTRCA monitors stream flow and meteorological conditions within the UTRCA
watershed on a continual basis.

The information is collected at several remote sites, and analyzed at the
UTRCA's administration centre in London. Data are usually posted to the web
site early each morning during low flow periods and more frequently during
times of flooding.

Tom Copeland
Division Manager, Wastewater and Drainage Engineering

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Authored by: Butch (The Beast) McLarty on Monday, March 07 2011 @ 12:37 AM EST

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Western to host 100th Queen's Cup Men's Hockey Championship

The University of Western Ontario will host the 100th playing of the Queen's
Cup men's hockey championship this Saturday March 12, 2011 at 3:30 PM at
Thompson arena on the University of Western Ontario campus.

The Queen's Cup is symbolic of university men's hockey supremacy in Ontario
University Athletics (OUA). The Cup, originating at Queen's University in
Kingston, Ontario, has a long history, dating back more than 100 years.

It was first contested in 1903, having been awarded every year since, except
during the two World Wars.

The nationally #5 ranked Mustangs will host the #2 ranked and defending
Queen's Cup champions from McGill University (Montreal, QC).

McGill is the oldest hockey team in the world, now in its 134th season, and
the Redmen have won the Queen’s Cup 15 times in their storied history.

The University of Western Ontario first earned the Queen's Cup in 1994-95
and has hoisted the cup on three occasions (1994-95, 2004-2005 & 2008-
2009)

A slate of special events are planned to celebrate the 100th playing of the
Queen's Cup.

The event is the last spectator event of the Mustangs 2010-2011 season.

For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit the Western
Mustangs website at www.westernmustangs.ca

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Authored by: Mr_Ambassador on Monday, March 07 2011 @ 10:50 AM EST

Drug traffickers arrested

On Sunday, March 6, 2011, at 2:45 pm members of the London Police Service
Guns-and-Drugs Section, along with members of the Emergency Response
Section, executed a search warrant at an address on Dundas Street.

The search warrant was in relation to an investigation into drug trafficking.

On entering the apartment, police arrested a 20-year-old London man along
with two 20-year-old men from Toronto.

At the completion of the search, police seized $2,498.60 in cash as well as 46
grams of crack cocaine ($4,600), 20, eight milligram hydromorphone pills
($400) and 1 gram of marijuana.

London Police have charged 20-year-old Michael Buller-Curcio of London
with unlawfully possessing crack cocaine.

Police have also charged 20-year-old David Buckeridge of Toronto with
possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking and possession of
marihuana.

20-year-old Ahmed Nyamekye, of Toronto is charged with possession of
cocaine for the purpose of trafficking, possession of hydromorphone for the
purpose of trafficking and two counts of failing to comply with conditions of
his release.


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