The Sarnia Lady Sting Bantam A's came home from Barrie on Sunday undefeated and with gold medals around their necks. They finished 1st overall in their pool which gave them a bye to Sundays finals in the Barrie Sharkfest Tournament. The Sting's first game was against a defensively tough team from Brampton. After looking like it was going to finish with no scoring, Alicia MacDougall chipped one in the corner on a pass from Dayna Hiller. Haley Pickett also assisted on the play. Unfortunately the Brampton Canadettes tied it up in the dieing minutes of the game. It finished a 1-1 tie. Casey Kerrigan did a wonderful job holding them to only 1 goal.

 

The second game saw Sarnia against the hosting Barrie A team. After out playing them the entire game, Sarnia finally opened the scoring with a beautiful break away goal from Seirra Butler on a pass from Marlowe Pecora. Megan Moore added another goal to secure the win. She was assisted by Danielle Girard. Danielle Lachapelle helped nail down the win by not allowing a single goal.

 

The Sting's 3rd game was against Barrie's second team who never really never challenged Sarnia. Shelbi Parizeau opened the scoring with assists from Kelsey Robinson and Hanna Molzan. The ever powerful Danielle Girard scored the second goal unassisted. Shelbi Parizeau added her second goal of the game with assists from Kelsey Robinson and Seirra Butler. After having a goal called off on her because of traffic in the crease, Dayna Hiller did it again a few minutes later, and this one was good. Haley Pickett got the assist with a nice pass out front. The final goal was once again from Danielle Girard unassisted. The Barrie team only managed to sneak one puck by Casey Kerrigan who was strong as always.

 

The Lady Sting finished first overall in their pool, which sent them straight to the finals on Sunday at 1:00. They were to face the Clearview A team, who only had lost once. Despite completely outplaying and out shooting the Icecats the game remained scoreless late into the 3rd period. With only 50 seconds remaining Shelbi Parizeau fired a bullet at the very tough Clearview goalie who never had a chance. Megan Moore assisted on the play. In desperation the Icecats pulled their goalie, only to allow Danielle Girard to fight off a defence man and add the insurance goal. Danielle Lachapelle had an impressive 2nd shutout of the tournament.

 

This was the Sting's first tournament win, they took home a well deserved gold medal. Alicia MacDougall also received a medal for MVP.