In the quarterfinals, held in Devon, the Picture Butte Sugar Queens defeated the Sylvan Lake H.J. Cody Lakers 40-30 as Shelley Shimek scored 25 and Cathy Bergen-Henengouwen 11. Connie Mannix led the Lakers with 14. Lorna Nielson added 7. The Lakers (coached by Ann Rowberry) also included Dianne Nielsen, Jill Holland, Jamie Holland, Pam Hambling.
Okotoks dispatched Fairview 44-37.
The Morinville G.P. Vanier Coyotes clipped Vermilion 31-22.
In the last quarterfinal, the Forestburg Falcons dispatched Bow Island 32-20.
In the semis, the Picture Butte Sugar Queens thrashed Okotoks 39-24 (also reported as 42-28) as Shelley Shimek and Cathy Bergen-Henengouwen each scored 14.
In the other semi, Morinville G.P. Vanier nipped the Forestburg Falcons 40-38.
In the bronze medal match, the Forestburg Falcons defeated Okotoks 34-29.
In the final, the Picture Butte Sugar Queens defeated Morinville G.P. Vanier Coyotes 47-27 as Shelley Shimek scored 16, Karen Ayukawa 13 and Cathy Bergen-Henengouwen 12. The Sugar Queens led 24-14 at the half. “I had a feeling that if we won our first game, against Sylvan Lake — which we did on Friday — that it would be game-over for us, we could go “all the way then,” Sugar Queens coach Rick Yamagishi told the Lethbridge Herald. “This is the third provincial championship for Picture Bulte in the last seven years, but my first as coach of the team. Karen was just tremendous, just like in our final zone championship game against Raymond. We ran a stall and totally frustrated the other teams — all the teams there like to run and also like to play a zone. Take them out of their zone and they tend to quit. We scored 14 straight points in nine minutes and they didn’t score at all.”
The bronze medalist Forestburg Falcons:
The silver medalist Morinville G.P. Vanier Coyotes:
The gold medalist Picture Butte Sugar Queens: Cathy Bergen-Henengouwen; Shelley Shimek; Karen Ayukawa; Jody Dudley; Becky Branch; Angela Tersteeg; Shari Evans; Cindy Ayukawa; Karen Braun; Wilma Takahashi; Suzanne Vogt; Eleanor Charlesworth; Tobi Neher; Carol Bodnar; Michelle Oliver; coach Rick Yamagishi