The Sarnia Spirit U15 L4 Girls’ Soccer team has captured its first championship at the Middlesex United Invitational Tournament.  The girls allowed no goals in the first three games.  In the opener they tied Byron 0-0 with Samantha Mellon and Nikki Arthur sharing the shutout in net.  Tori Taylor scored her first two goals of the tournament along with a single from Hannah Kennedy to beat LaSalle 3-0 in the second round robin game.  The girls ended up in first place after round robin play earning them a bye into the semi final. Sarnia put Southwest out of the tournament with their third shutout of the weekend.   Tori and Hannah each scored singles to win 2-0.  Karly Dobbin earned both shutouts.  The final team London Matrix was great competition for the girls.  Sarnia made some beautiful passing plays but only found the back of the net once.  Tori ran the ball up the field and crossed the ball to Hannah to put Sarnia up 1-0.  They held onto the lead until the very last play of the game when a free kick was called for London to tie up the game.  Two golden ball overtime halves could not determine a winner so the game went to a shootout.  Sarnia only needed four of their five shooters to win the shootout 3-2.  Sydney Mellon and Anna Blysniuk scored with Megan Moore getting the winner.  Karly Dobbin played in net.

The Sarnia Spirit U15 L4 Girls team will host the first round of Ontario Cup this weekend at Veterans Park in Sarnia.  The first game is set for Saturday at 11am vs Southwest London Tornadoes.  Saturday’s second game will take place at 5:00pm vs Tecumseh Warriors.  Sunday’s games will be at 2:00pm and 5:00pm vs London City Falcons and London Freedom.  The winner of this round will go to the Ontario Cup finals in Ottawa in August. 

In league play the team is tied in the lead with 2 wins and a tie.  The first league game was a blowout against Orangeville.  The girls had control of the whole game winning 8-0.  Jenna Prevost led in goals with 4 along with singles from Samantha and Sydney Mellon, Hannah Kennedy and Tori Taylor.  The second game vs Waterloo Wild Wings ended in a 1-1 tie.  Jenna scored the lone goal.  London United came to Sarnia on Tuesday night for their third league game and once again Sarnia completely controlled the game.  Jenna added 4 more goals to lead the league in scoring.  Morgan Breeze added a couple with Hannah Kennedy and Elyse Trudell scoring singles.  Hannah and Morgan are also in the league’s top 10 scorers.  Karly Dobbin played net. 

Other members adding to the success the team has had so far are Marlowe Pecora, Carolyn Doidge, Chloe Cadieux, Sabrina Abrams and Erin Alexander.   The team is coached by Kevin Simmonds, Alan Speed, John Blysniuk and manager John Doidge.