Godfathers Starting To Roll, News, Godfathers Reps, U13, 2008-2009 (Walkerton Minor Hockey Association)

This Team is part of the 2008-2009 season, which is not set as the current season.
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Jan 06, 2009 | sbieser | 658 views
Godfathers Starting To Roll
Let's Rock

The Godfather PeeWee Rep Girls made their annual trip this past weekend to WoodStock for the 13th annual Wildcat tournament.They began play on Friday morning by taking on Norfolk.The coaches had a uneasy feeling before this game as we had four players under the weather and one that did not even make the trip because she was not feeling well.After a so so first period the girls seemed to hit their stride in the second putting two behind the Norfolk goalie and coming away with a 2-0 win.Goaltender Alyssa Inglis was up to her usual stuff and was able to put up the goose egg.The second game was to be against Stoney Creek and rumour had it that they were big.Well the rumour was true and for some reason this always seems to bring out the best in the Godfather girls.For those that know this group we are not a big team.One thing they do have is a huge HEART and they know how to step it up.The girls came out flying and had Stoney Creek pinned in their end for a part of the first period.After many scoring chances the girls finally put one by their goalie to take a 1-0 lead.Into the second and this is where things started to heat up.Stoney Creek started to try and use their size to slow the girls down but with players like Des Berberich and Niki Lemont on the ice that was a big mistake.Now Godfathers were more determined than ever.They kept pouring it on but it took a Fantastic play by Niki before the girls got their second goal in the third to seal it up with a 2-0 victory.The defence of Em Daurio, Maddy Wright,Melynda McKenzie and Lindsay Dales played just brillantly.They kept Stoney Creek at bay all game long.This set up the final round robin game with Tillsonburg.The girls knew win and they would play on Sunday.Godfathers came out flying and two minutes into the game Sarah B struck for the first goal on a set up from Des and Joelle.They added one more in the second but Tillsonburg evened it up before the period was over.In the third with 8 min left Em Haight slammed home the winner after Dalesy had let one fly from the blue line.This victory pushed the girls right to the finals on Sunday who they played none other than Woodstock.These were two very evenly matched teams playing on olympic size ice.The girls received a real boost before the game when who walked into the dressing room Leah.She had made it back from sick bay and added a real spark to the team.The game began with end to end action and five minutes in Sarah opened the scoring on some real hard work by Em and Des.Mindy came up big with some real timely defensive stops to keep Woodstock at bay.Into the second And with 7 minutes left in the period Maddy found Joe breaking out of our end.Joe hit Nik who was just flying down the left side and let a shot fly.The goalie stopped but our girls were on the puck and Nik came out of the corner with it.Nellie had crashed the net occupying the Woodstock defence allowing Nik to put it in off the Woodstock defender for the lead.Woodstock got one back right after that but the team defensive zone coverage allowed Godfathers to come away with the Championship.The coaching staff was very pleased once again with the sportsmanship,heart and passion for the game of hockey that these young ladies displayed.Em Daurio summed it up perfectly  THIS  IS AWESOME!!!!
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