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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1997-03-19, Page 17WILIEZA. TIN 527-0180 L. McGRATH Plumbing & Heating 522-049:1 wh iO, !M7 JANET'S Country Donut Cafe 527.2551 SEAFORTH CO -O. 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Petite 'A' ringette Seaforth sweeps to Ontario gold MILTON J. DIETZ LIMITED 522-0608 SEAFORTH SEWING CENTRE 527-1900 McKILLOP MUTUAL INSURANCE 527-0400 "The Comeback Kids won a petite A provincial ringette title for Seaforth at the cham- pionships in Waterloo last Wednesday. Lindsey Kumni fired a hat trick, and Emily Ratcliffe added another pair of goals. as Seaforth rolled through an exhausted Upper Ottawa Valley 7-1 in the noon -hour final of the four-day Ontario tournament. Seaforth won all seven games last week at Waterloo but insisted on doing it the difficult way. They came from behind in all Give final games of the preliminary round.. "It's hard on the nerves." admitted coach . Go.rd Carnoehan, adding all year they played."just well enough to- win." Why? • "Just to drive their fans nuts." Carnochan, says. "The parents go crazy. • "It showed confidence in their own defence and goal- tending." When the area girls. the majority 11 or 12 years -old, got back last Wednesday evening they earned•a ride around town in the fire truck. They beat Ottawa Valley twice, and Waterloo, Thunder Bay. -Pickering, Waterloo, West Ferris (North ,Bay) and Hamilton to win the provin- cial gold. WILD COMEBACK • Hamilton was favoured, and Seaforth took them 8-7 in their second. game of the tourney that Sunday It was a wild one, that earned. them the "comeback kids" label, and the key to the championship according to their coach. Seaforth trailed 5-2 at the •half, then 6-2 early in the sec- ond. Things,proceetled toilet interesting. Hamilton led until the.end, and the ,score went 6-3, 6-4 744, 7.5, 7-6, 7-7 to the horn. :Ranee Nash ringed thc.goal that counted -most of all, 2:12 into overtime from Kayla Flanagan. And the fans want nuts! THERMAL Hamilton exhausted Upper Ottawa Valley on the way 10 a 5-4 upset in last Wednesday morning's early Ontario semi-final, leaving them ripe for fresh Seaforth's pickings m the -final later that day. 'Erin Van Dooren was named defensive player of the. game in the final. Defensively Seaforth made their opponents shoot from a distance. Jenny Phillips was her usual solid self in in the Seaforth net:stopping 17 • Ottawa shots. Mary Finlayson . and Shannon Brooker also scored. . . One of Kumm's three goals came one -second before the half-time buzzer, giving Seaforth a 3-1 lead, a humon- gous goal. - Miraculous sskat Brig,14 fuiture -for C4th Belles, finish fourth best in province She who taunts too • soon is lost. So learned Caledonia, the hard way. against Se aforth.s belles at .last week's Provincial ringette champi- onships. In Seal'orth's sixth and Gnat .game of the bitterly -fought preliminaries last Tuesday in the tournament at Waterloo. they were down by six goals. 11.-5 with 4:38 left in the game against their. arch - league rivals, who thought it was in the bag and couldn't resist rubbing it in. They maybe should have bit their tongues. Because Seaforth stormed back with a vengeance. Kim Devereaux scored the winner for the young local women two minutes into overtime to win it 12-11. The comeback:kept Caledonia from further play, allowing 'Kendra to advance to the medal round, where they won Ibe gold medal. LAST LAUGH -Seaforth tied with •the Caledonia and Kenora.betles in the elite i‘. .division .with three _wins and three losses in the prelitninaries,-but was rel- egated to fourth place on. the •basis of their plus-minus. record. Still Seaforth coachKathy O'.Reilly says she "could. be no pi -Calder" of her,players. "The coaches .wore impressed with thc.enthusi- asm and genuine effort exert- ed every.game." She adds '?this team, com- prised of 14 ;to I8 -year-olds was the youngest.tcatn;to•ppr- ticipate in the !Ontario Championship Belle division. Most teams at -this level are comprised of predominately 17 and 18-year-olds. The Seaforth team had two -play- -ers aged 14. nine 16 -year- olds, two 17-year-olds, and two 18 -year-old_ players. "All will be able to come back next year and it is hoped that all players will -return .to challenge for the provincial title once again in '98." "An important tact was Seaforth continued to domi- nate the teams from. Southwestern -Central Ontario during the tourna- ment," O'Reilly says. "We beat the team (Woolwioli) that ultimately -forced us to apply for the •wild card -entry by a score -of 3-2. We also beat league rivals Caledonia (12-II10T) and Whitby (7- 4) -It was the -best belle teams from the forth and east in the province that gave -Seaforth trouble. Eventual gold -medal winners, Kenora-Keewatin beat .them 9-4. North Bay nudged them 6-5 ..apd .Pembroke bested them 10.4, for their three.losses. ;DOUBLE:HAT ` RICK -6rieka $urns was hot as a pistol, firing .six ,goals in the Caledonia•tniraGle. -Burris. benise •DeJong and Nicole.Munro,led .Seaforth.10 the .narrow .win over 'Woolwich. in their third -lite Atolls, Munro .and Kim Devereaux ended ,up in the tournatpent's .top -10 ,in r- ing. :Outstanding perfor- mances :wore .a matter of cuurse,;gamc in and game iNorr HUED on Page 8. SEAFORTH JEWELLERS LTD. 527-0270 PROGRESSIVE Turf Equipment Luc. 527-1080 TOTAL IMAIGE JJ 527-0780 4ORTH FOiI MARKET 527-1631 NEW {ORLEANS 'MA 527-0040 KELLY AUTO Sales & Service 527-1122 Carnochan says his, charges finished first in Huron -Perth, have played .about 80 "games all told this season, and seem their best in tournaments. They had entered four before last week's big one, winning their own tourney (the mid- February provincial district. qualifier in Seaforth) but fin ishing second to "double A" teams from Exeter. London and Waterloo- in the other three. A couple of his players said they "were sick of silver" on their way to the _golds at Waterloo. • The host team at the Provincials .was the only one Seaforth had seen so far this season. . LOOKING GOOD The champs have all but two players going'up a divi- sion next season. The petite age levet is healthy here. with 28 girls registered on two teams in Seaforth this year. Ratcliffe had 15 points at the tournament,. from 12 goals and •three assists. Nicole •Kistner had five goals and eight assists. Finlayson SEAFO fired seven goals and helped .11/4.1114:0111 set up. another five. Flanagan p�•t ►�'� had the most assists, eight. to 527-0030 go with two goals for 10 points in the seven games. The roster of the provincial petite "A" champions looks .oke so: Brette Dietz, Mary: -Finlayson, Jenny Phi.11ips,` .Amanda Van Miltenburg,, Nicole ,Kistnor, Kayla• Flanagan, Becky ;Hiltz, :Erin Van Dooren, Emily Ratcliffe, Kendal Carnochan, Renee Nash, Lindsay Kumm, Shannon_ Brooker, Michelle' Durst. 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