The 16U Girls played up two age categories on Saturday, January 8th at the OVA 18U Girls Challenge Cup - Zone B, in Trenton.   The team was playing without the services of a couple of injured players, so the girls went into the tournament knowing that the task at hand would indeed be a challenge.

 

The 16Us' first opponent was Aurora Storm Cyclones who stepped up to beat us in 2 straight sets, 22-25 and 19-25.  Kingston Pegasus was up next.  The girls played well for the most part but made a few critical mistakes at very crucial moments to go down to defeat once again by scores of 25-27 and 24-26.  This placed us 3rd in pool.

The girls began the playoff round by soundly defeating Birch Cliff Crush in 2 games, 25-14 and 25-17.  Durham Attack Red was up next but the girls were not as successful, going down to defeat  by scores of 25-27 and 19-25.  That put us into a playoff for 5th place against Pegasus.  This time the girls easily defeated the Kingstonians in two games 25-16 and 25-12 (quite a different outcome from round robin play).  The 16U CAPS ended up with a 5th place finish at an 18U tournament.

According to Coach Cathy O'Doherty, "It was our second match of the day against Pegasus that really hurt us.  I considered us to be one of the top 3 teams at this tournament, but because we lost to Pegasus we had to play Durham Attack, and that bumped us out of the semis.  I'm confident that we'll reach finals at the next 18U date when all our players are healthy.  But each of the girls got 3 to 4 games in, so the 5th place was a team effort."

Final Results - OVA 18U Girls Challenge Cup - Zone B