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PeeWee Lightning take bronze at Provincials
Great job
It was a bronze medal for the Saugeen Maitland PeeWee AA Lightning at the provincial
tournament earlier this month with a victory over the rival London Devilettes in the bronze
medal game to wrap up another successful season. (Photo submitted)
Saugeen Maitland Bantams
win Hamilton Hawks tourney
The Saugeen Maitland PeeWee
AA Lightning took bronze at a
Provincial tournament held in
Mississauga on April 8-10.
After being bumped up to AA in
January with PeeWee girls just
proved what hard work and
believing in yourself can do. The
first game saw Saugeen up against
Kingston, a complete team effort
turned into a 3-0 win with Mel
Nolan scoring all three goals.
The second game of the day was
against Aurora and it took
everything the girls had to squeak
out a 1-1 win with Hanna Herman
scoring both goals.
On Saturday morning, the girls
found themselves fighting for the
top spot in the division with the next
opponent of Brampton. After a hard
physical game with Brampton
Saugeen the Lightning came away
with a 1-0 win with Neve VanPelt
scoring the lone goal. This 3-0
record now set the stage for the
quarter-final game against
Gloucester. With the medal round in
the back of these girls minds,
nothing was going to stop them. The
girls came out flying and never
really looked back, with the final
score 4-1 for Saugeen. Goals were
scored by Van Pelt, Delayna Smith
and Avery Reeves.
On Sunday morning, the
Lightning ran into a very strong
Leaside team, and they knew they
were in for the game of their lives.
The girls came to play, but ran into
some unbelievable goaltending
from this team. After outworking,
outplaying, heavy outshooting this
Leaside team, the girls still came up
short in a 2-0 loss. After the semi-
final loss the girls had to muster up
enough courage and strength to face
a strong London team for the bronze
medal. With back-to-back action
and great play from both ends of the
ice, the girls got the break they
needed and got the first goal, against
a very strong London goaltender.
The one goal seemed to be enough
for the girls to close the door on any
hopes of London getting back into
the game for a 1-0 win. Van Pelt
scored the lone goal.
The team received solid
goaltending all weekend from
Cassidy Becker; outstanding
defence by Abbi Akins, Hanna
Herman, Kayla McCabe, Brie
Becker.
Offence who helped throughout
the weekend was received from
Kaitlyn Eckert, Jessica Dales, Amy
Hepburn and Olivia Linklater.
The Saugeen Maitland Bantam
AA Lightning took part in the
Hamilton Hawks tournament on
April 2-4 weekend and managed to
walk away with top honours despite
losing to Barrie 3-1.
The girls had a great weekend and
played well. They competed with
Hamilton and won 7-1 and then
played Stratford and won 5-1. They
lost to Barrie 3-1 and moved into the
semi-finals with London. The game
was very rough, but Saugeen came
out on top with a 2-1 win. They then
moved into the finals with Barrie.
The girls were determined to win
gold and they did just that with a 3-
0 win.
Earlier this month the girls went to
the provincial finals with a few
injuries, but the girls were willing to
take on any challenge.
With their first game against the
top team of Ontario, Ottawa, the
girls had a great start, but the
Senators scored first.
Only minutes later, Kailyn Soers
netted a nice goal with Hailey
Herman assisting but Ottawa came
out strong in the third and scored
two quick goals to finish the game 3-
1.
The next game was against
Whitby. It was another good win by
a score of 4-1.
Goals were scored by Miranda
Lantz, Taylor Weber, Lexi Smith and
Ashley Lawrence.
The third game was against West
Northumberland and it was another
win by a score of 4-1.
They moved onto the qualifiers
with Clarington for a tough game.
The girls lost 2-1.
The Lightning ran out of time, but
had a great year.
Shae Tiley and Haileigh
Deplantis played well in net and the
Lightning finished in the top ten of
Ontario.
Skipping to victory
Murray Hoover skipped his team to victory on March 25 at
the Brussels Curling Club’s year-end banquet. His team,
which also consisted of Martin Thomet and Karen Uhler,
finished in first place in the event’s third draw at the
Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centre. (Vicky Bremner
photo)
Ending on a high note
The Saugeen Maitland Bantam AA Lightning ended the
season on a high note as they won a tournament in
Hamilton. That, coupled with an admirable showing at the
year-end provincial tournament resulted in the girls
finishing the season in the top 10 of Ontario. (Photo submitted)