Novice Lakers Win Consolation Gold in Hamilton
MARCH 4, 2015
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Front Row L to R: Jamison
Turner, Haley VanHooft,
Teighan Stoukas, Myah
Lauzon, Riley Brush, Lyndi
MacDonald
Second Row L to R: Aliyah Shaw,
Layla Lauzon, Layla MacKenzie,
Emerson Giresi, Alexis
Tsaprailis, Avery Geary, Ashlyn
Morgan
Back Row L to R Coaches: Pauline
Turner, George Stoukas, Andy
Shaw
The Huron Lakers
Girls Novice team won Gold
medals at Hamilton's Blessed
Sacrament tournament this past
weekend. The Blessed Sacrament
tournament is the biggest in
Ontario and your team's results
have a direct effect on your
final provincial ranking and
seeding for the provincial
tournament. The Lakers entered
the tournament as the underdogs
matching up against teams ranked
as much as 14 seeds higher then
themselves, based on the initial
Ontario Basketball rankings.
Their first game of the
tournament had them matching up
against the division's highest
ranked Peterborough Power team.
The teams were tied at the end
of regular time and needed an
overtime shift to decide the
winner. The Lakers ended up
losing by one basket in a well
played game. They then faced a
big
imposing Blessed Sacrament team,
losing by 8 points. The last
game of pool play was against
Barrie Royals. The girls had
beaten Barrie in double overtime
at the Guelph tournament a few
weeks earlier. The girls were
very excited to come out on top
again with a score of 21-14. The
results of pool play had them
finishing 3rd in their pool,
which placed them in the
consolation semi finals the next
day.
The Lakers semi final game would
bring them up against a now
familiar Etobicoke team. The two
teams have played twice already
this season with the Lakers
coming out on top in two very
close games. The Lakers played
possibly their best game of the
tournament beating Etobicoke
26-11. This win lead them to the
gold medal game against a tough
St. Catherine's team.
The girls played extremely well
and came out winning th7 gold
medal with a score of 22-17. The
team worked very hard all
weekend. The coaches were most
impressed with their unselfish
play and aggressive defense
throughout the weekend. Their
next and last tournament will be
the provincial championships the
weekend of March 27th in Whitby.
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