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Sarnia Ladies Earn Silver Medal at OWHA Provincial
Championships!
The tournament started for
Sarnia Friday afternoon at 1:15pm against St. Thomas. Sarnia
played with 9 skaters and a goalie,1 player was sitting a 2
game suspension and 2 others were at school. The girls
played well but had some penalty trouble in the 2nd period
and St. Thomas scored the only goal of the game on a 5 on 3
power play. Final St. Thomas 1- Sarnia 0.
Game 2 was played Friday night
against Plattsville. Sarnia this time had 10 skaters for
this game and came out with a 2-1 victory.Kyri Meyers opened
the scoring at 6:26 of the 2nd period unassisted.
Plattsville tied the game at 7:18 mark of the 3rd period.
Sarnia scored the winning goal
with 4:40 to go in the game, Danielle Laird scored the goal
with Jamie Lee Lewis getting the only assist. Final score
Sarnia 2 - Plattsville 1.
Game 3 was playedSaturday @
12:45 pm it was a sudden death game, win and you move on,
lose you go home. Sarnia vs Kitchener. The teams have played
3 times this yr in the Intermediate B/C division, Kitchener
won one game 2-0 the other games ended in ties 0-0 and
2-2.The game started out very quickly Sarnia scored 16
seconds into the game Kailey Whitlaw scored with assists
going to Danielle Laird and Becky Healy. Kitchener came
right back to tie the game 9 sec. later. THE pace stayed at
a fast pace and at the 5:07 mark Sarnia scored, Jessica
McIntyre from Kyri Meyers. Period 1 ended 2-1 for the Lady
Sting.
In the 2nd period only goal
scored was by Kitchener. The game was back and forth and
with 2:55 left in the 3rd Sarnia scored, Kyri Meyers from
Becky Healy. With just under 2 minutes to go Kitchener
pulled their goalie but couldn't put the puck past Melissa
(Melvin) Carey. Final score Sarnia 3 - Kitchener 2(.Finally
had 11 skaters for this game) Onto the semi final.
The semi-final was to start at
5:45 pm but didn't get started until 7:45 pm Sarnia was
playing ThunderBay. Because of the caliber of hockey games
were so close that overtime was played in a lot of the games
on Sat.(3periods - 4periods and 1game went 8 periods of o/t
)Not knowing anything about Thunderbay coach JR had the
girls play a very discipline game. At the 7:28 mark Sarnia
scored a powerplay goal, Kyri Meyers from Stephanie Meriam
,The score lasted until 1minute left in the 1st,thunderbay
scored to tie the game.1-1 after one .
As with other games this day
there was no scoring in the 2nd or 3rd periods, off to o/t
for the girls .At 7:21 of the 1st o/t period Stephanie
Meriam scored with Kyri Meyers getting the assist. Final
Sarnia2 - Thunderbay 1. Off to the FINALS...
Finals Sarnia vs Stratford. Good
game both teams skated well Sarnia with only 11 skaters
started to tire and took a few too many penalties. Stratford
opened the scoring with 2:18 left in the 2nd period. Sarnia
tied the game at 5:09 of the 3rd on a goal from Jenna
Whitfield with assists going to Kailey Whiitlaw and Danielle
Laird.Stratford scored on a 5 on 4 powerplay goal with 1:14
left in the 3rd.Sarnia pulled their goalie and with
Stratford two men down still couldn't find the back of the
net.
The girls played well all
weekend from the first game (9skaters),10 skaters for the
2nd game and 11 for the rest of the weekend, the girls have
nothing to be ashamed of and can be very proud of
themselves. I know their coaches are Jim Rawson who coached
the team all weekend and Trainer Carol Whitfield and coach
Jim Whitlaw who had to stay at home recovering from knee
surgery (chewed off all his fingernails) are very proud of
everyone of the girls.
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