A team including friends and family of Mike Ciaramitaro assembled together Saturday May 3^rd in honor of the 1997 GP North graduate who died tragically Feb.2, 2003. The team was one of three entries in the 13^th annual Marge’s Bar & Grill Hockey tournament put on by proprietor Jimmy Depuys and Brian Piggott.
  The first game of the tournament ended in a 3 to 1 loss for Mike C’s Stars against the “Remax In The Pointes” team which included Jimmy Depuys, Tony Zacaggni, Todd Beam, Rob Porter and a host of other local talented players.
 The very next game pitted Brian Piggott’s Red Squad against the Remax Blues, the “Red Squad” would prove to be too much for the Remax Blues to handle as Link Bessert would have a career game scoring 4 goals and 2 assists in a 6-4 win. The very next game of the tournament would match Mike C’s Stars against the very big and strong “Red Squad” with players such as Danny  “two and out” Paolucci, Rick Gram, Rick Carlson, Brian Piggott, John Rajt, Paul Mueller and a host of other talented players. A must win for Mike C’s was necessary along with a goal differential of 3 goals in order to secure a spot in the championship game. The game started with each team having great scoring chances only to be shut down by stellar goaltending at each end of the ice. The game remained scoreless until Mike C’s player Doug Wood scored on a penalty shot awarded after he was hauled down on a breakaway by Red team member Dan Paolucci. The 1-0 score would start the team momentum rolling, as Dan Miller would score assisted by Troy Bergman and Charles Thomas. Terry Shook would tally later in the second period with assists to Spatafora and Komasara. Doug Wood finished the scoring on an assist from Tony and Brian Gatliff to move the lead to 4-0. The game ended ensuring a trip to the championship game for Mike C’s against the “Remax in the Pointes” team who had defeated the Stars earlier by a 3-1 score.
    The game would start out with each team trading shots and great scoring chances throughout the first two periods, but the game was deadlocked at   0-0.  Pat McKee was playing superb in goal for the Remax team and was not giving up any rebounds or net to shoot at. Glen Burton was as stingy on the other end of the ice for Mike C’s and shut down the ever-powerful trio of Tony Zacaggni,Todd Beam and Jimmy Depuys. Until the 3^rd period when Doug Wood scored for Mike C’s the game had been scoreless. With less than four minutes to play, and Mike C’s team shorthanded due to a penalty, the Remax team would score to tie the game and send the game to a shootout to decide the tournament champion. Five shooters per side were selected to break the dead lock and decide the 2003 championship. Mike C’s entered Terry Shook, Dan Miller, Brian Gatliff, Matt Spatafora and Doug Wood. The Remax team had Zacaggni, Porter, Beam, Dobbs and Murray. Remax’s first three shooters were forced to shoot wide as Glen Burton’s excellent goaltending prevailed. Mike C’s had Shook and Wood score while Gatliff and Spatafora were shutdown by Goalie Pat McKee. The game was on the line. The fourth shooter for Remax had to score in order to keep any possibility of winning alive. As the shooter approached, Stars goalie Glen Burton stacked his pads and made a fantastic save and preserved the win for Mike C’s Stars for the 2003 tournament championship. Congratulations to all the players in the tournament.