Semi Finals

On Tuesday, March 18th, the Eagles travelled to Chatham to face the John MacGregor Panthers in the SWOSSAA (South Western Ontario Secondary Schools Athletic Associations) semi-final matchup for A/AA schools.

(A/AA is a championship for schools with 900 students or less.) John MacGregor scored with 4:47 left in the first on a powerplay. Both teams played aggressively, but excellent goaltending at both ends of the rink meant there were no goals scored in the second. The Eagles tied up the game with 4:49 left in the third on a great faceoff by Courtney Smith that saw the puck move to Kelli Vandenboer who wasted no time in burying the puck high behind the Chatham goalie. Not to be outdone, the Grade nine line went out on the next shift and Shelbi Parizeau scored on a pass from Kelsey Campbell with 3:37 to go. The Eagles tried to make the game even more exciting by taking two penalties with a little over 2 and a half minutes to go. The Panthers pulled their goalie and the Eagles were faced with 2 minutes of 6 on 3 hockey. Patience, control and amazing goaltending by Chelsea Fraser led to the Eagles victory.

Finals

On Thursday, March 20th the Eagles headed to Belle River to take on the L'Essor Aigles from Tecumseh. After the excitement of Tuesday's matchup, the game was rather anti-climatic with the Eagles winning 7-0 to qualify for the OFSAA (Ontario Federation of Schools Athletic

Association) championship being held in Pembroke on April 2 - 4th.
 

Scoring for the Eagles were Shelbi Parizeau with 2 goals and 1 assist, Kelsey Campbell and Grace Mellon with 1 goal and 1 assist each, Justine Goulet, Brittany Anderson and Kelli Vandenboer with a goal each.

Assists went to Taylor Thompson with three, Kerri Dirven and Marcie Soetemans with one each. Chelsea Fraser posted the shutout.