Girls U15B team wins bronze at provincials
Collingwood Lightning U15B, made up of girls from Creemore, Stayner, Wasaga Beach and Collingwood, have won a bronze medal at the Ontario Women’s Hockey Association provincial championships played in the GTA April 14-16.
The team played six games in championship tournament tying 3-3 with Ottawa Valley Thunder, winning 2-0 over Twin Centre Hurricanes and 4-1 over Markham Stouffville Stars. The team celebrated a quarterfinal 3-2 win over Stoney Creek Sabers in second overtime before a 2-3 loss in the semifinals with Mount Forest Rams and finally a 3-2 win in the bronze medal game over North Bay Ice Boltz, a strong team, sealing the Lightning U15B team’s third place in Ontario’s top-20 teams.
The team went undefeated in the Oakville Harvest Classic Tournament Championship and the were Gold Medal Championship winners of the Kitchener Fallfest Tournament.
The Lightning finished the season at the top of their division with an impressive 32-game record with 21 wins, three losses, eight ties, 98 goals for, and 29 goals against with the support of head coach Paul Keating, assistant coaches Trevor Littlejohns and Ed Leonard, trainer Jesse Guscott, assistant trainer Alicia Bradey-Hendry and manager Natalia Gillespe.
Contributed photo: Collingwood Lightning U15B won a bronze medal at the Ontario Women’s Hockey Association provincial championships played in the GTA April 14-16. Front row, from left: Jenna Morrison, Ivy Foubert, Kaitlynn Potts,Izzy Mitchell, Stella Keating (captain). Middle row, from left: Maddy Littlejohns, Shay Walker (alternate captain), Penelope Wigle, Kelsi Schackmann, Meckenzie Brannigan, Alicia Bradey-Hendry (assistant trainer), Paul Keating (head coach). Top row, from left: Trevor Littlejohns (assistant coach), Ed Leonard (assistant coach), Avery Rys, Caitlin Guscott, Hazel Dempsey (alternate captain), Victoria Gillespe, Mollie Leonard, Jesse Guscott (trainer).
