Rear: Left to right: Robin Dionne (No. 2); Stephen Stortz (No. 11), Alex Tapper (No. 3) Keith Perreault (No. 7). Lower row, left to right: Paul Dionne (No. 9) and Ivan Harris (No. 8).

Courtesy of the Ann Arbor Beavers

A record 225 teams and more than 1,500 players participated over the weekend in a national pond hockey championship held in Eagle River, Wis.

A local team took home one of the top prizes.

The Ann Arbor Beavers won the 21-and-over bronze division with a 10-8 victory over the Leftovers.

“We snuck into the playoffs by goal differential, barely got in in the tie-breaker and then we won in the semifinals, then sure enough, we played the Leftovers,” Ann Arbor's Paul Dionne told the Rhinelander Daily News. “Met them again in the final. Talk about a story. That was cool, because they play physical, too, not dirty but ... they play hard.”

The latest on the local team, which is based out of the Ann Arbor Ice Cube, can be found on their Web site.