Mar 22, 2010 | Brian Wightman | 725 views
Peewee Girls Win YCW Consolation
The Blyth-Brussels Peewee girls played in the 61st Annual Goderich Lion's Young Canada Week tournament over the March break.
Game 1 was against the TCDMHA (Chatsworth) Rebels and the team came out slow and lost by a score of 4 - 2.
Game 2 was the next morning against the host Sailorettes from Goderich. Lindsay Shiell play very well in net and held the team in the game until the scoring came to life in the third period. Emma Strome and Delayna Smith scored the goals enroute to a 2 - 0 victory.
Game 3 was against Normanby. Again the team started out very slow and Shiell held them in the game until the scoring kicked in again. Smith scored at the halfway mark of the final period and Mackenzie Nesbitt scored into the empty net to secure the 2 - 0 victory.
The 2 - 1 record put the team in first place in their pool and set up semi-final match with the Penninsula Northstars. The Northstars opening the scoring in the first period. The second and third period saw several chances for the girls to get the equalizer and with 4 minutes to go Ashley Higgins finally got one past the goalie. Regulation time ended at a 1 - 1 tie. There would be a five minute overtime played 4 skaters aside. That format seemed to throw the girls off and they lost the opening face-off and really never had control of the puck and after only 40 seconds the winning goal was scored by the Northstars.
That put the team in the Consolation Final against a familiar opponent the Mount Forest Rams. The girls again got off to a very slow start and spotted the Rams a 2 - 0 lead. That would end their scoring as our girls stepped up their game. Smith scored in the last minute of the second period and again in the opening minutes of the third to knot the score at 2. Higgins and Nesbitt would add a goal apiece to seal the victory by a final score of 4 - 2.