Dan Williams Memorial Girls Hockey Classic

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LCCVI Lancer Girls’ Hockey team brought home the Gold from the Dan Williams Memorial Girls Hockey Classic in Listowel.  The tournament all started with a great bonding session in room 104 and Joe’s famous chicken fingers!  A good night’s sleep and then all alarm clocks failing to go off for a 7am loading of the bus!  Luckily the game time was later than thought so the girls were dressed and ready to take on Walkerton’s Sacred Heart.   Jessica Weed, Jillian Rops and Amanda Campbell started off the day’s scoring with assists from Danielle Campbell and Darian Limb.  Amelia Maniuk had her first great game of the day allowing only one goal that was knocked out of her glove.  Lancers won 3-1.

The second game found LCCVI up against Guelph Collegiate.  A very strong Guelph team were a challenge but goals from Jillian Rops, Danielle Campbell, Jennifer Zavitz and finally Shauna McPhail’s empty net goal put an end to their hopes.  Karly Dobbin, Darian Limb and Amanda Campbell added assists.  Amelia Maniuk played another fantastic game allowing only two goals for a 4-2 win. 

Two wins put the girls into the championship game against Wingham’s FE Madill.  Their superstar was shut down and frustrated by great defensive play from Kelsey Dobbin, Amy VandenEynde, Amanda Campbell and Stephanie Krall.  The game was kept to a 0-0 score even after an extra period of overtime.  The game then went to a 3 man shootout starting with Karly Dobbin.  After a slow start trying to get a rolling puck under control, she turned the goalie inside out and easily put it across the line.  Amelia Maniuk took on Wingham’s superstar and had no problem at all shutting her down.  Jillian Rops put the final touch on the game with her third goal of the day making Wingham’s goaltender look like she was standing still.  Once again Maniuk was the wall in net and held onto her first shut out of the day to give the girls the Championship!