| (1) | Mount Royal | 78 | ||||||
| (8) | Mount Allison | 38 | Mount Royal | 66 | ||||
| (4) | Fraser Valley | 79 | Montmorency | 71 | Montmorency | 80 | ||
| (5) | Montmorency | 87 | ||||||
| —–MONTMORENCY | ||||||||
| (3) | Langara | 43 | ||||||
| (6) | Lethbridge CC | 60 | Lethbridge CC | 67 | Edouard-Montpetit | 58 | ||
| (2) | Edouard-Montpetit | 89 | Edouard-Montpetit | 68 | ||||
| (7) | Seneca | 81 |
In the quarterfinals, the 6th-seeded Lethbridge Kodiaks clipped the 3rd-seeded Langara Falcons 60-43 as Nikkina Weasel Head Spotted Bull scored 16, Laura Campbell 13, Tara Griffith 6, Krishia Cousin 6, Janene Hooper 6, Beth Anderson 6, Nadine Adams 5, Mackenzie Vander Woude 2, Kristen Hill 2, Claire Nesbitt 2, Savannah Magnussen 0, Rachel Johnson 0, Leah Nelner 0 and Chelsea Klungel 0. The Kodiaks hit 20-64 from the floor, 5-20 from the arc and 8-11 from the line, while garnering 15 assists, 47 boards and 3 blocks. Rachel Baldry paced the Falcons with 12. Amanda Knauff added 11, Leah Credico 8, Becky Atkinson 5 and Kira Carre 4, while Lisa Cavey, Lindsay Scruton, Hana Pesut, Emily Wright, Carley Dyer and Brittany Moon were scoreless. The Falcons hit 15-53 from the floor, 0-9 from the arc and 10-23 from the line, while garnering 12 assists and 37 boards. Both teams struggled offensively in the first half but Weasel Head Spotted Bull came off the bench in the second half to ignite the Kodiaks offence. “She didn’t let the pressure get to her,” Kodiaks coach Brad Karren told the Lethbridge Herald. “The pressure and hype we hear all week kind of got to the rest of them. Nikkina just kind of slips in there and does her thing.” Kodiak all-stars Tara Griffith and Beth Anderson were ineffective. “There were definitely nerves,” said Anderson. “We were not relaxed at all, especially me. I was all jitters in the first half, but once we got rid of them, we started playing our game.” Langara led 13-7 early by capitalizing on the post play of Rachel Baldry and Amanda Knauff. But Nadine Adams came off the bench to hit a trey and a jumper to knot the score at 13. Weasel Head drained back-to-back buckets to ignite a 9-0 run as the Kodiaks built their lead to 24-22 at the half. “Coach (Karren) said the first game is always the toughest,” Weasel Head said. “You could definitely feel the nerves at the start, but when the bench gets going everyone kind of says, ‘Hey’.” Langara coach Mike Evans said “all year long Lethbridge has been a top-five team. We came into this game as the underdog and it showed that we were.”
The 2nd-seeded Edouard-Montpetit Lynx dumped the 7th-seeded Seneca Sting 89-81 as Elise Caron scored 23, Stephanie Youakim 14, Sarah Gutkin-Sweezey 14, Marjolaine Gauthier-Theoret 12, Michelle Auger-Bellemare 10, Melisande Lefebvre-Campbell 5, Marie-Pier Fortin 4, Marie-Catherine Deschenes 4 and Alexandra Vaillancourt 3, while Vanessa Jean, Stephanie Nantel, Maude Peloquin and Maude Gilbert were scoreless. The Lynx hit 25-66 from the floor, 6-11 from the arc and 21-29 from the line, while garnering 26 assists, 38 boards and 1 block. Ashley Docking paced the Sting with 21. Natasha Thombs added 20, Amanda Orr 13, Heather Elchuk 9, Alana Vicks 8, Tamar Haughton 4, Tenesha Hardie 2, Natalie Smith 2, Emily Barclay 2, Stephanie Wilding 0, Lisa Best 0 and Cherrida Brown 0. The Sting, coached by Marcy Skribe, hit 33-66 from the floor, 1-7 from the arc and 12-25 from the line, while garnering 24 assists, 35 boards and 5 blocks. The Lynx led 48-38 at the half.
The 5th-seeded Montmorency Nomades dumped the 4th-seeded University College of the Fraser Valley Cascades 87-79 in overtime as Julie Frappier scored 19, Jessica Saintot 17, Melanie Ouellett-Godcharles 16, Annick-Stephanny Charles 16, Laurence Rivest 10, Alex Lemieux 7 and Sarah-Emilie Lachapelle 2, while Emilie Villeneuve-Ouellet, Marie-Eve Dufault, Laurie Grenier, Julie Chapados, Claudia Goulet, Annie Boutet and Alix Vandal were scoreless. The Nomades hit 26-62 from the floor, 6-18 from the arc and 17-24 from the line, while garnering 23 assists, 36 boards and 7 blocks. Heather Boer paced the Cascades with 17. Carmella Silvestri added 16, Olivia Hunt 13, Michelle Buhler 10, Megan McAlister 9, Ashley Teister 9, Suzie Harriman 3, Carlee Babcock 1, Tiffany Boswell 0, Lindsay Robinson 0, Carling Muir 0 and Brooke Neufeldt 0. The Cascades hit 21-57 from the floor, 7-14 from the arc and 15-19 from the line, while garnering 21 assists, 26 boards and 2 blocks. “I am so happy because I thought we would have less points than we did in the end,” said Montmorency coach Guillaume Giroux. “Both teams had really good defence.” Giroux added that Laurence Rivest was exceptional in overtime. The Cascades took the early lead but Montmorency became aggressive in the second half and wore out the Cascades. The score was knotted at 72 after regulation.
In the last quarterfinal, the top-seeded Mount Royal Cougars whipped the 8th-seeded Mount Allison Mounties 78-38 as Ashley Hilton scored 20, Brittany Paterson 15, Alicia Wilson 12, Michelle Anderson 9, Nadeane Jackson 6, Jessica Mercier 5, Kristy Dykshoorn 4, Danielle Vogt 4, Allison Masterson 2, Paige Bowman 1, Kahle Erichsen 0 and Jessica Gill 0. The Cougars hit 26-65 from the floor, 3-12 from the arc and 17-37 from the line, while garnering 23 assists, 48 boards and 2 blocks. Lauren Purdy paced the Mounties with 8. Sarah Dupuis added 7, Sarah Trenholm 6, Catherine Cox 6, Brittany Carter 5, Shannon Parlee 2, Natalie Owens 2, Sarah Sutherland 1, Jenna Tracey 1, Lauren Scott 0, Katie Green 0, Carolyn Shaffner 0 and Ali Duret 0. The Mounties, coached by Al Hart, shot 12-44 from the floor, 1-4 from the arc and 11-21 from the line, while garnering 11 assists, 30 boards and 1 block. Mount Royal’s full-court pressure forced 37 turnovers in the rout. Mounties coach Al Hart said his troops were hampered by a knee injury to Sarah Trenholm. “Sarah is our first power forward off the bench. She played great and go injured and that’s unfortunate.”
In the bronze quarterfinals, the 7th-seeded Seneca Sting clipped the 3rd-seeded Langara Falcons 70-65. The Falcons (coached by Mike Evans, assisted by Dan Paxton) included Becky Atkinson, Amanda Knauff, Hana Pesut, Leah Credico, Brittany Moon, Carley Dyer, Kira Carre, Emily Wright, Lisa Cavey, Rachel Baldry and Lindsay Scruton.
In the other bronze quarterfinal, the 4th-seeded Fraser Valley Cascades whipped the 8th-seeded Mount Allison Mounties 71-38. The Mounties (coached by Al Hart) included Lauren Scott, Catherine Cox, Sarah Trenholm, Lauren Purdy, Jenna Tracey (Purdy?), Sarah Dupuis, Carolyn Shaffner, Brittany Carter, Shannon Parlee, Ali Duret, Sarah Sutherland, Natalie Owens and Katie Green.
In the semis, the 5th-seeded Montmorency Nomades stunned the top-seeded Mount Royal Cougars 71-66 as Laurie Grenier scored 20, Laurence Rivest 18, Jessica Saintot 14, Alex Lemieux 6, Julie Frappier 5, Sarah-Emilie Lachapelle 5, Julie Chapados 3 and Annick-Stephanny Charles 2, while Emilie Villeneuve-Ouellet, Melanie Ouellet-Godcharles, Marie-Eve Dufault, Claudia Goulet, Annie Boutet and Alix Vandal were scoreless. The Nomades hit 23-61 from the floor, 1-14 from the arc and 22-35 from the line, while garnering 11 assists and 44 boards. Ashley Hilton paced the Cougars with 13. Jessica Gill added 12, Brittany Paterson 11, Nadeane Jackson 10, Alicia Wilson 7, Allison Masterson 5, Jessica Mercier 3, Michelle Anderson 2, Kahle Erichsen 2, Danielle Vogt 1, Paige Bowman 0 and Kristy Dykshoorn 0. The Cougars shot 15-45 from the floor, 5-16 from the arc and 21-28 from the line, while garnering 13 assists and 29 boards.
In the other semi, the 2nd-seeded Edouard-Montpetit Lynx nipped the 6th-seeded Lethbridge Kodiaks 68-67. Lethbridge led 41-36 at the half after Laura Campbell opened the match with a trey and putback boards. Kodiak star Beth Anderson was sidelined by a gash above her left eye. Tara Griffith netted five consecutive points to start the second half and both Laura Campbell and Nadine Adams hit buckets as the Kodiaks built a double-digit lead. But the Lynx rallied to take a 63-62 lead on a Sarah Gutkin-Sweezey hoop with four minutes remaining. Marjolaine Gauthier-Theoret followed that up with a turnaround jumper in the lane to cap an 11-0 run. Lethbridge led by 14 with 10 minutes to play and by two with 50 seconds to play. But Lynx knotted the score with six seconds on a bucket-and-one by Elise Caron. “There’s no feeling like it when you make the game-winning shot,” Caron told the Lethbridge Herald. “I love basketball so much and I love to have all the weight on my shoulders when the game is on the line.” Lynx coach Catherine Thibaudeau said “there’s no one else I’d rather have (on the line) than Elise. She’s such a smart player to draw that foul and such a good player to make the big basket.” Kodiak guard Krishia Cousin had a good look at the buzzer but her trey drew air. “It was definitely a long night for us,” said Kodiaks forward Kristen Hill. “I don’t think many of us got much sleep after that game. We had it. It was in our hands and slowly it went away. The dream got smaller and smaller until it was gone. I think a lot of it was mental. We always played down to the level of our competition. We’d always wait until the second half to get things going because we knew we could turn it on when we had to. We were very inconsistent that way.” Kodiaks coach Brad Karren said “everything has to work out perfectly for you. You have to get the breaks, a shot falling here and there would help. It was a matter of one little thing not working for us when we needed it to. It just didn’t go our way.” Karren added that “it just didn’t sit right” for Beth Anderson either. “She got that elbow in the face and it cut her open pretty bad. The bleeding wouldn’t stop and she was in and out and so she could never get into the flow. … We started playing not to lose the last five minutes. I had to get them refocused and back into it. If we had some more time, I think we would have been OK.” Caron said “just one basket after one basket. Each basket and each point, we just needed to build on that.” Caron paced the Lynx with 26. Stephanie Youakim added 11, Sarah Gutkin-Sweezey 11, Marjolaine Gauthier-Theoret 11, Michelle Auger-Bellemarre 5, Melisande Lefebvre-Campbell 2 and Marie-Pier Fortin 2, while Vanessa Jean, Stephanie Nantel, Maude Peloquin, Maude Gilbert, Marie-Catherine Deschenes and Alexandra Vaillancourt were scoreless. The Lynx shot 22-17 from the floor, 4-16 from the arc and 12-25 from the line, while garnering 19 assists, and 30 boards. Tara Griffith paced Lethbridge with 15. Laura Campbell added 12, Nadine Adams 11, Krishia Cousin 8, Janene Hooper 6, Savannah Magnussen 5, Mackenzie Vander Woude 5, Claire Nesbitt 4 and Beth Anderson 3, while Rachel Johnson, Nikkina Weasel Head Spotted Bull, Leah Nelner, Kristen Hill and Chelsea Klungel were scoreless. The Kodiaks shot 13-42 from the floor, 8-19 from the arc and 17-26 from the line, while garnering 20 assists and 36 boards.
In the bronze semis, the top-seeded Mount Royal Cougars edged the 7th-seeded Seneca Sting 100-94. The Sting (coached by Marcy Skribe) included Cherrida Brown, Amanda Orr, Ashley Docking, Alana Vicks, Tamar Haughton, Stephanie Wilding, Natasha Thoms, Tanesha Hardie, Emily Barclay, Lisa Best, Natalie Smith and Heather Elchuk.
In the other bronze semi, the 4th-seeded Fraser Valley Cascades clipped the 6th-seeded Lethbridge CC Kodiaks 66-52. The Kodiaks (coached by Brad Karren, assisted by Kim Woolf and Mickey Folson) included Savannah Magnussen, Beth Anderson, Tara Griffith, Mackenzie Vander Woude, Krishia Cousin, Nadine Adams, Leah Nelner, Laura Campbell, Kristine Hill, Claire Nesbitt, Janene Hooper, Chelsea Kungel and Nikkina Weasel Head.
In the bronze medal match, the 4th-seeded University College of the Fraser Valley Cascades defeated the top-seeded Mount Royal Cougars 73-67. The Cougars, coached by Donovan Martin, took an early 10-point lead but Heather Boer dominated the paint as the Cascades rallied. Diminutive guard Megan McAlister took command in the second frame as Fraser Valley pulled away. “She came off the bench and she was tremendous,” said coach Al Tuchscherer. “She’s had a great weekend for us. But I think our team just gutted it out the last three games and I’m really proud of how we played.” Tuchscherer told the Abbotsford News that after the quarterfinal loss, forward Olivia Hunt told her teammates that “we’re not leaving here without a medal and our team really rallied around that.” Megan McAllister said the speech by Hunt “meant a lot. It was really touching and really emotional. You could tell how much she wanted it.” Tuchscherer said “it was an unequivocal success, without question. I think we maximized the potential of this team.” Heather Boer led Fraser Valley with 17. Megan McAlister added 15, Carmella Silvestri 15, Olivia Hunt 10, Michelle Buhler 7, Suzie Harriman 6, Ashley Teister 5 and Lindsay Robinson 2, while Tiffany Boswell, Carling Muir, Carlee Babcock and Brooke Neufeldt were scoreless. The Cascades shot 25-53 from the floor, 3-12 from the arc and 18-24 from the line, while garnering 15 assists, 38 boards and 1 block. Brittany Paterson paced Mount Royal with 13. Alicia Wilson added 10, Ashley Hilton 8, Jessica Mercier 7, Michelle Anderson 6, Danielle Vogt 6, Allison Masterson 6, Kahle Erichsen 5, Jessica Gill 4, Paige Bowman 2, Nadeane Jackson 0 and Kristy Dykshoorn 0. The Cougars (coached by Donovan Martin, assisted by Robyn Middlestead, Fabio Marcucci and Collette Anderes) hit 19-61 from the floor, 7-16 from the arc and 8-12 from the line, while garnering 23 assists, 32 boards and 3 blocks.
In the final, the 5th-seeded Montmorency Nomades whipped the 2nd-seeded Edouard-Montpetit Lynx 80-58 to avenge four losses to the Lynx during the campaign, including a loss in the Quebec final. The Lynx suffered a serious injury early when Melisande Lefebvre-Campbell was forced to the sidelines and they never recovered. “We played our best basketball this week,” said Nomades coach Guillaume Giroux. “I’m really proud of them.” Giroux told the Lethbridge Herald that “I don’t care where we play. The important thing is we won the one that counts. “We finally played up to our expectations. We played our best basketball tonight, and we’ve never done that in any of the previous games against them. “I believe we were always more talented than them and we finally showed that tonight. We played our best basketball collectively, and we needed every single one of these girls to do that tonight. A lot of help, help, help. (Caron) got in early foul trouble (three in the first half) which meant she couldn’t drive to the basket and kill us like she usually did. They didn’t shoot well tonight because we were in their face from the start.” The Nomades took a 14-11 lead on a pair of treys by Melanie Ouellet and never again trailed. They led 35-25 at the half and opened the second half with a 16-4 run as Jessica Saintot dominating the boards. Lynx coach Catherine Thibaudeau said “they are a little bigger than us physically and they used that size to control the tempo. They beat us inside over and over. We didn’t play as well as we could have, as well as we have before. We didn’t do the things we had to get Elise the ball and let her do what she does best.” Giroux said that “every year we lose some games that teach us how to win. We lost to (Montpetit) two weeks ago and that showed us what we needed to do when we played them again. We learned from our losses and came through at the end.” Annick-Stephanny Charles paced Montmorency with 17. Laurie Grenier added 16, Jessica Saintot 16, Melanie Ouellet Godcharles 11, Laurence Rivest 9, Julie Frappier 8 and Sarah-Emilie Lachapelle 3, while Emilie Villeneuve-Ouellet, Marie-Eve Dufault, Julie Chapados, Claudia Goulet, Annie Boutet, Alix Vandal and Alex Lemieux were scoreless. The Nomades hit 20-59 from the floor, 4-12 from the arc and 28-50 from the line, while garnering 19 assists, 47 boards and 4 blocks. Elise Caron paced Edouard-Montpetit with 18. Stephanie Youakim added 13, Marjolaine Gauthier-Theoret 9, Marie-Catherine Deschenes 7, Sarah Gutkin-Sweezey 5, Vanessa Jean 3, Maude Gilbert 2 and Michelle Auger-Bellemarre 1, while Stephanie Nantel, Melisande Lefebvre-Campbell, Maude Peloquin, Marie-Pier Fortin and Alexandra Vaillancourt were scoreless. The Lynx hit 12-56 from the floor, 3-12 from the arc and 25-33 from the line, while garnering 12 assists, 44 boards and 1 block.
The all-tournament team featured MVP Jessica Saintot (Montmorency); Brittany Paterson (Mount Royal); Michelle Buhler (Fraser Valley); Elise Caron (Edouard-Montpetit); Laurence Rivest (Montmorency) and Sarah Gutkin-Sweezey (Edouard-Montpetit).
The second team featured: Natasha Thombs (Seneca); Alicia Wilson (Mount Royal); Laura Campbell (Lethbridge); Carmella Silvestri (Fraser Valley) and Laurie Grenier (Montmorency)
The bronze medalist University College of the Fraser Valley Cascades: Heather Boer; Megan McAlister; Carmella Silvestri; Olivia Hunt; Michelle Buhler; Suzie Harriman; Ashley Tesiter; Lindsay Robinson; Tiffany Boswell; Carling Muir; Carlee Babcock; Brooke Neufeldt; coach Al Tuchscherer; assistant Denise Tuchscherer; assistant Hannah McLendon
The silver medalist Edouard-Montpetit Lynx: Elise Caron; Stephanie Youakim; Marjolaine Gauthier-Theoret; Marie-Catherine Deschenes; Sarah Gutkin-Sweezey; Vanessa Jean; Maude Gilbert; Michelle Auger-Bellemarre; Stephanie Natel; Melisande Lefebvre-Campbell; Maude Peloquin; Marie-Pier Fortin; Alexandra Vaillancourt; coach Catherine Thibaudeau; assistant Danny Vincent
The gold medalist Montmorency Nomades: Annick Stephanny-Charles; Laurie Grenier; Jessica Saintot; Melanie Ouellet-Godcharles; Laurence Rivest; Julie Frappier; Sarah-Emilie Lachapelle; Emilie Villeneuve-Ouelett; Marie-Eve Dufault; Julie Chapados; Claudia Goulet; Annie Boutet; Alix Vandal; Alex Lemieux; coach Guillaume Giroux; assistant Alain Doyon; assistant Martin Gagnon