Birdie bashers bow out for season

The Fort Frances Badminton Club went outside the lines to bring a close to its season Monday afternoon at Fort High.
Club members played alongside and against non-members (mostly parents of children in the club) in a series of exhibition doubles matches that was followed by a pizza party and an awards banquet in the school cafeteria.
Award winners for the 2002-03 season were as follows:
< *c>Junior 1
•Most Valuable Player—Connor Crook
•Best attendance—Kimika Alexander (98 percent)
•Best serve—Maureen Gustafson
•Best net shot—Ryan Shouldice
•Best overhead stroke—Keely Jolicoeur
•Best long serve—Kimika Alexander
•Best backhand shot—Jillian Gustafson
•Best high clear shot—Chad Bogacki
•Best underhand clear—Tessa Bogacki
•Achievements—Kimika Alexander (second in family doubles at Thunder Bay tournament)
< *c>Junior 2
•Most Valuable Player—David Dolph
•Junior 2 Challenge Ladder winners—1. Timmy Desjardins 2. Kristine Kerber 3. Casey Kerber
•Best attendance—Connor Crook, David Dolph (96 percent)
•Best underhand clear—Jimmy Whitburn
•Best net shot—Alex Witherspoon
•Best doubles rotation—Timmy Desjardins
•Best receiving smashes—Matthew Jolicoeur
•Best short serve—David Badiuk
•Best smash shot—Javiner McGinnis
•Best drop shot—Kristine Kerber
•Best high clear shot—Casey Kerber
•Best footwork—Robert Stevens
< *c>Senior
•Most Valuable Player—Jason Pattison
•Best doubles rotation—Natalie Desjardins
•Best singles strategies—Alberto Valenzuela
•Best doubles strategies—Simone Desjardins
•Achievements—Natalie and Simone Desjardins (top eight in doubles at all-Ontarios), and Jason Pattison (first place in consoldation bracket of the men’s singles ‘C’ division at the WWC Invitational in Winnipeg)