Sarnia hosted Ontario Cup at Veteran’s Park on June 14^th and 15^th.  The draw found them up against Southwest London Tornadoes, Tecumseh Warriors ’93 Red, London City Falcons and London Freedom.  All four of these teams play in a league higher than the Sarnia Spirit.  The Tornadoes are in 1^st place in the L3 league, with the Falcons in 2^nd, and Freedom in 3^rd.   

The first game against the Tornadoes was a great opener for the Spirit.  Megan Moore scored the lone goal for Sarnia in a 1-1 game.  Sarnia played very well as a team creating some nice scoring opportunities and minimizing London’s chances.

The second game vs Tecumseh was not as much of a challenge for the Spirit.  Only one of the scoring chances was capitalized on but Sarnia controlled most of the game.  Erin Alexanders scored the winner in a 1-0 game. Karly Dobbin earned the shut out. 

London City had two players that had to be shadowed constantly in the third game.  Spirit did a very good job of this and shut them down to only a couple good goal scoring chances throughout the game.  Again Sarnia had chances but no goals.  London won this game 1-0. 

The final game vs the London Freedom had little less pressure on the girls as a win, loss and tie was not enough for them to be able to move on to the final round of Ontario Cup.  The girls played well and passed the ball around beautifully.  Freedom got a questionable penalty shot in the first half and scored top corner.  Sarnia did not give up, played some great soccer and fought until the end.  Hannah Kennedy scored a nice goal to tie up the game.  Miscommunication in the 18 yard box caused another Freedom goal to go ahead 2-1.  Sarnia had a chance to tie it on a penalty shot but failed to score with the game ending in a 2-1 loss.  Freedom won the round robin and earned a spot in the Summer games.