The
Juvenile Male section was the second competition to be decided on
Finals day, and Greenland were up against Alaska in the final. In the
final match of the group stage two days before, the hosts had defeated
their Alaskan counterparts with relative ease, and progressed to the semi-finals where they defeated the Northwest Territories 3:0, with two goals coming late in the second-half.
Five teams took part in this year's competition teams; apart from Greenland, Alaska and NWT, Yukon and Alberta North made up the numbers. It was a miserable competition for Alberta North, winners of the Juvenile Male age-group in 2014, who finished bottom this time around. A first-match point against NWT was as good as it got for them; as well as losing 4:2 to Alaska, they were heavily defeated by both Greenland and Yukon.The NWT squeaked into the semi-finals due to their drawing with Alaska in their final group match.
The Alaskan team, meanwhile, finished second in the group, which meant that they would face the third-placed Yukon Territory team in the second semi-final. Alaska took the lead in the 8th minute through Garrett Robinson-Doty, but the Yukon equalised within 90 seconds, and it was a state of affairs that remained through the rest of normal time, extra-time in its entirety and the first fourteen penalty-kicks. The Yukon missed their next kick, and Alaska converted their eighth to go through 8:7 on penalties.
If the Yukon team were suffering the after-effects of coming so close to victory in their semi-final, they didn't show during the third-place play-off against near-neighbours NWT. Bennett Kischchuk put them in front with just over three minutes left, and Callum Weir scored their second - and winning - goal straight from the restart to ensure that his team departed with a tangible reward for their efforts.
It was standing room only for the final as the locals crammed into the hall expecting Greenland to open their Futsal gold-medal haul against the Alaskans, but it was the visitors who scored first through Skyler Parks in the 11th minute. Niklas Grønhold Kleist equalised seconds later, but Willem Sturm put Alaska back in front early in the second-half. Less than 50 seconds later, the status quo was restored through a goal from Nick Johansen. It stayed that way until the 25th minute when Sturm scored again for Alaska, which was followed by a fourth with less than two minutes left; Jase McCullough scoring to ensure that Alaska bagged their first Juvenile Male title since 2000.
JUVENILE MALE
GROUP STAGE
07/03/16 Alberta North 1:1 NWT (Sturm; Sleno)
07/03/16 Alberta North 0:5 Greenland (Lynge, Nick Johansen, Nicklas Johansen (2), Bernhardsen)
07/03/16 NWT 2:4 Yukon (Sumagaysay (2); Roberts (2), Hanson, Sealy)
08/03/16 Alaska 2:1 Yukon (McCullough, Green; Kishchuk)
08/03/16 Greenland 5:0 NWT (Grønvold Kleist (2), Nicklas Johansen, Lynge, Nick Johansen)
08/03/16 Alaska 1:1 NWT (Denny; Mazen)
08/03/16 Greenland 3:1 Yukon (Nick Johansen, Bernhardsen (2); Lavanderos)
09/03/16 Alaska 4:2 Alberta North (Sturm (2), Kraka, Green; Brochu, Pitman)
09/03/16 Alberta North 0:8 Yukon (Hanson (2), Lavanderos (2), Kishchuk (2), Sealy, Farragher)
09/03/16 Alaska 1:3 Greenland (McCullough; Bernhardsen, Nick Johansen, Broberg)
SEMI-FINALS
10/03/16 Greenland 3:0 NWT (Niklas Johansen, Grønvold Kleist (2))
10/03/16 Alaska 1:1 Yukon FT/AET (Robinson-Doty; Kishchuk)
PENALTIES: Alaska 8:7 Yukon (Robinson-Doty, Denny, Green, Parks, Kraka, Hadjukovich, Schaefer, McCullough; Faragher, Kishchuk, Hanson, Lavanderos, Weir, Sealy, Bryant)
THIRD-PLACE PLAY-OFF
10/03/16 NWT 0:2 Yukon (Kishchuk, Weir)
FINAL
11/03/16 Alaska 4:2 Greenland (Parks, Sturm, Green, McCullough; Grønhold Kleist, Nick Johansen)
TEAMS
ALASKA: 10 Zavier HAJDUKOVICH; 2 Jordan GREEN, 3 Garrett ROBINSON-DOTY, 4 Benjamin KRAKA, 5 Skyler PARKS, 6 Max SCHAEFER, 7 Skyler DENNY, 8 Willem STURM, 9 Jase McCULLOUGH
ALBERTA NORTH: 1 Corbin CYPRIEN; 3 George McCOMBE, 4 Jeremy TOLENTINO, 5 Colton BROCHU, 6 Levi LEGAREE, 7 Christian BREZAC, 8 Ethan WINNICKY-HUSSEY, 9 Dario STAPLES, 10 Ethan PITMAN
GREENLAND: 1 Henning BÂJARE; 2 Mika JENSEN THYSSEN, 3 Lukka BROBERG, 4 Nicklas JOHANSEN, 5 Søren-Pele LYNGE, 6 Brian BERNHARDSEN, 7 Nick JOHANSEN, 8 Niklas GRØNHOLD KLEIST, 9 Samson ENEQUIST
NWT: 22 Oluyemi NEWKIRK; 4 Ahri EKENDIA, 5 Austin SLENO, 5 Emmanuel SUMAGAYSAY, 9 Emmanuel LAMVU, 10 Mazen DAHER, 11 Cole CLINTON, 14 Ethan HORN, 21 Arjun BUDGELL
YUKON: 5 Kaelen LEWIS; 2 Ashton BRYANT, 3 Andreas LAVANDEROS, 5 Kaelen LEWIS, 7 Andrew ROBERTS, 9 Callum WEIR, 10 Rhys FARAGHER, 11 Bennett KISHCHUK, 13 Jason SEALY, 23 Joseph HANSON
HONOURS-LIST
1990 Alaska
1994 Alberta
1996 NOT HELD
1998 Magadan
2000 Alaska
2004 Yukon Territory
2006 Northwest Territories
2008 North Alberta
2010 Yamal
2012 Greenland
2014 Alberta North
2016 ALASKA
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AUTHOR'S NOTE: Many thanks to Doris Landry, the recently-retired secretary of the Arctic Winter Games International Committee, for kindly allowing the reproduction of the above statistical information for the 2016 AWG, which is available via the following website, and for her general assistance:
http://awg2016.gems.pro/Default.aspx
Five teams took part in this year's competition teams; apart from Greenland, Alaska and NWT, Yukon and Alberta North made up the numbers. It was a miserable competition for Alberta North, winners of the Juvenile Male age-group in 2014, who finished bottom this time around. A first-match point against NWT was as good as it got for them; as well as losing 4:2 to Alaska, they were heavily defeated by both Greenland and Yukon.The NWT squeaked into the semi-finals due to their drawing with Alaska in their final group match.
The Alaskan team, meanwhile, finished second in the group, which meant that they would face the third-placed Yukon Territory team in the second semi-final. Alaska took the lead in the 8th minute through Garrett Robinson-Doty, but the Yukon equalised within 90 seconds, and it was a state of affairs that remained through the rest of normal time, extra-time in its entirety and the first fourteen penalty-kicks. The Yukon missed their next kick, and Alaska converted their eighth to go through 8:7 on penalties.
If the Yukon team were suffering the after-effects of coming so close to victory in their semi-final, they didn't show during the third-place play-off against near-neighbours NWT. Bennett Kischchuk put them in front with just over three minutes left, and Callum Weir scored their second - and winning - goal straight from the restart to ensure that his team departed with a tangible reward for their efforts.
It was standing room only for the final as the locals crammed into the hall expecting Greenland to open their Futsal gold-medal haul against the Alaskans, but it was the visitors who scored first through Skyler Parks in the 11th minute. Niklas Grønhold Kleist equalised seconds later, but Willem Sturm put Alaska back in front early in the second-half. Less than 50 seconds later, the status quo was restored through a goal from Nick Johansen. It stayed that way until the 25th minute when Sturm scored again for Alaska, which was followed by a fourth with less than two minutes left; Jase McCullough scoring to ensure that Alaska bagged their first Juvenile Male title since 2000.
JUVENILE MALE
GROUP STAGE
07/03/16 Alberta North 1:1 NWT (Sturm; Sleno)
07/03/16 Alberta North 0:5 Greenland (Lynge, Nick Johansen, Nicklas Johansen (2), Bernhardsen)
07/03/16 NWT 2:4 Yukon (Sumagaysay (2); Roberts (2), Hanson, Sealy)
08/03/16 Alaska 2:1 Yukon (McCullough, Green; Kishchuk)
08/03/16 Greenland 5:0 NWT (Grønvold Kleist (2), Nicklas Johansen, Lynge, Nick Johansen)
08/03/16 Alaska 1:1 NWT (Denny; Mazen)
08/03/16 Greenland 3:1 Yukon (Nick Johansen, Bernhardsen (2); Lavanderos)
09/03/16 Alaska 4:2 Alberta North (Sturm (2), Kraka, Green; Brochu, Pitman)
09/03/16 Alberta North 0:8 Yukon (Hanson (2), Lavanderos (2), Kishchuk (2), Sealy, Farragher)
09/03/16 Alaska 1:3 Greenland (McCullough; Bernhardsen, Nick Johansen, Broberg)
TEAM
|
P
|
W
|
D
|
L
|
GF
|
GA
|
PTS
|
GD
|
GREENLAND
|
4
|
4
|
0
|
0
|
16
|
2
|
12
|
14
|
ALASKA
|
4
|
2
|
1
|
1
|
8
|
7
|
7
|
1
|
YUKON
|
4
|
2
|
0
|
2
|
14
|
7
|
6
|
7
|
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
|
4
|
0
|
2
|
2
|
4
|
11
|
2
|
-7
|
Alberta North
|
4
|
0
|
0
|
4
|
3
|
18
|
1
|
-15
|
SEMI-FINALS
10/03/16 Greenland 3:0 NWT (Niklas Johansen, Grønvold Kleist (2))
10/03/16 Alaska 1:1 Yukon FT/AET (Robinson-Doty; Kishchuk)
PENALTIES: Alaska 8:7 Yukon (Robinson-Doty, Denny, Green, Parks, Kraka, Hadjukovich, Schaefer, McCullough; Faragher, Kishchuk, Hanson, Lavanderos, Weir, Sealy, Bryant)
THIRD-PLACE PLAY-OFF
10/03/16 NWT 0:2 Yukon (Kishchuk, Weir)
FINAL
11/03/16 Alaska 4:2 Greenland (Parks, Sturm, Green, McCullough; Grønhold Kleist, Nick Johansen)
TEAMS
ALASKA: 10 Zavier HAJDUKOVICH; 2 Jordan GREEN, 3 Garrett ROBINSON-DOTY, 4 Benjamin KRAKA, 5 Skyler PARKS, 6 Max SCHAEFER, 7 Skyler DENNY, 8 Willem STURM, 9 Jase McCULLOUGH
ALBERTA NORTH: 1 Corbin CYPRIEN; 3 George McCOMBE, 4 Jeremy TOLENTINO, 5 Colton BROCHU, 6 Levi LEGAREE, 7 Christian BREZAC, 8 Ethan WINNICKY-HUSSEY, 9 Dario STAPLES, 10 Ethan PITMAN
GREENLAND: 1 Henning BÂJARE; 2 Mika JENSEN THYSSEN, 3 Lukka BROBERG, 4 Nicklas JOHANSEN, 5 Søren-Pele LYNGE, 6 Brian BERNHARDSEN, 7 Nick JOHANSEN, 8 Niklas GRØNHOLD KLEIST, 9 Samson ENEQUIST
NWT: 22 Oluyemi NEWKIRK; 4 Ahri EKENDIA, 5 Austin SLENO, 5 Emmanuel SUMAGAYSAY, 9 Emmanuel LAMVU, 10 Mazen DAHER, 11 Cole CLINTON, 14 Ethan HORN, 21 Arjun BUDGELL
YUKON: 5 Kaelen LEWIS; 2 Ashton BRYANT, 3 Andreas LAVANDEROS, 5 Kaelen LEWIS, 7 Andrew ROBERTS, 9 Callum WEIR, 10 Rhys FARAGHER, 11 Bennett KISHCHUK, 13 Jason SEALY, 23 Joseph HANSON
HONOURS-LIST
1990 Alaska
1994 Alberta
1996 NOT HELD
1998 Magadan
2000 Alaska
2004 Yukon Territory
2006 Northwest Territories
2008 North Alberta
2010 Yamal
2012 Greenland
2014 Alberta North
2016 ALASKA
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AUTHOR'S NOTE: Many thanks to Doris Landry, the recently-retired secretary of the Arctic Winter Games International Committee, for kindly allowing the reproduction of the above statistical information for the 2016 AWG, which is available via the following website, and for her general assistance:
http://awg2016.gems.pro/Default.aspx
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