against such teams as Nine Mile Creek , Milton, Southport , and D.B . & J.; they won the North River Trophy in 1951, and this trophy, on display in the local grocery store window, was lost in the fire when Earl Higgins ' store burned in 1959. In the winter of 1952, Ernest, Gordon and Lloyd MacMillan kept the rink in operation and a league was formed with Stanhope-West Covehead , , York and Marshfield . Players on the Stanhope- West Covehead team included Ernest Bell in the net, Lea and Tom Misener, Joe McCabe , Billy Marshall, David MacKinnon , George Shaw , Alvin MacLauchlan , Pat Horgan , Lloyd MacMillan and Vic Deacon (coach). Games were played in Covehead and Marshfield rinks. Season was finished with 2 games played in North River rink and the final one at the Charlottetown Forum with Marshfield winning with a score of 4-3. In 1953, after competing in a local league with Marshfield , York and teams, a team was made up of players from Stanhope and West Covehead which entered the Island Intermediate playdowns. Known as the Covehead Flyers, they defeated Rustico for the Championship , and Montague for the right to meet O'Leary for the Island C Championship . O'Leary played Covehead at North River for the first game and lost to the Flyers by one goal; Covehead captured the Championship when they beat O'Leary in their home rink, again by one goal. Members of that team included Vic Deacon (coach), Alvin MacLauchlan , Lea and Elmer Misener, Keir and Harvey MacDonald, Joe O' Brien , Bertie Thomas , Harold and Fred Hughes, Lloyd and Louis MacMillan and George MacKay. In 1960 Stanhope entered a school hockey team in the North River League; games were played on Saturday mornings and sometimes early in the evenings on weekdays. Known as the Stanhope Braves, they lost in the finals to Winsloe in their first year, and to Marshfield for the championship in their second year; in their third and final year the Stanhope Braves defeated Kingston 6-4 for the championship and the Fulton Warren school trophy. Some members of this winning team were Ronnie Campbell , Eddie Mitchell , Calvin Chappell , Donald Higgins , David Misener , Donnie, Gordon, Howard and Allison Ellis, Blair, Alan, Robert and Roger MacLauchlan and Jim Horgan ; the coach was Harry MacLauchlan . This team stayed together for only a few years as many of the players went on to the newly opened Charlottetown Rural High School. Many of the young boys then joined the Charlottetown minor hockey system. Bruce Ellis was one of the driving forces behind getting the Sherwood minor system moving, and for years was very busy transferring his own and many other children back and forth to the rink every day of the week. 194