KJHL SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS
JARED MAGNE , ST . MALO WARRIORS
WAYLON NEAULT , PEGUIS JUNIORS
Neault , Magne Win KJHL Scholarships
By Johnston Hall Photos by James Carey Lauder and Laurie Anderson
Waylon Neault has completed his career with the Keystone Junior Hockey League ’ s Peguis Juniors , but he went out with a bang . The 5-foot-8 , 180-pound forward from Fisher Branch , not only dished out two assists in what turned out to be the championship game of the KJHL final , but he also got to raise the Baldy Northcott Trophy above his head for the second straight year .
On top of that , he was one of two winners of the annual $ 500 ( each ) Keystone Junior Hockey League Scholarship .
Neault of the Juniors and Jared Magne , the No . 2 scorer in the KJHL this season with 32 goals and 89 points for the St . Malo Warriors , were the two recipients of this year ’ s KJHL Scholarships .
Neault , 21 , who just completed his sixth season – a career which included three championships – with the Juniors , had 15 goals and 35 points in 19 games during the regular season and two goals and three assists in six games in the league final against Arborg . In six years with the Juniors , he played 164 games , had 131 goals and 248 points .
Neault is heading into the second year of his Electrician ’ s Diploma at Red River College . He also works with local youth in both Fisher Branch and Peguis .
Magne , meanwhile , had a terrific season – his fifth full season in St . Malo -- for the Warriors . He had was the second leading scorer in the league on a team that finished 24-9-0-1 , first overall in the South Division and first overall in the KJHL . This was his sixth full season with St . Malo , although he played four games with the Warriors during the 2011-12 campaign . Amazingly , he also played 164 career games in the KJHL , and had 113 goals and 282 points .
Magne , 21 , grew up in St . Malo and went on to play with the Bantam Southeast Jets and then played City Triple A Midget with the Eastman Selects . He also played a year of Provincial Triple A midget with Eastman .
He ’ s a third-year Faculty of Kinesiology student at the University of Manitoba who was on the Dean ’ s Honour Roll in the 2015- 16 Fall and Winter Terms . He carries a grade-point average of 3.57 and is also a Wild Land firefighter in Thompson from April to September . He ’ s also been a volunteer fire-fighter with the St . Malo Fire Department for the past five years .
His goal is to become a physical education teacher within the DSFM , Manitoba ’ s French school division .
Both Jared Magne and Waylon Neault are terrific hockey players and tremendous citizens who have committed at least five years each to the Keystone Junior B Hockey League . Both are outstanding selections as the 2017 KJHL Scholarship winners . n
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