In the quarterfinals, the Rothesay Netherwood Riverhawks defeated the Stanley Blue Devils 67-54. The Blue Devils included Jackie Everett.
The Harvey Lakers dispatched the Minto Memorial Tigers 84-14.
The Grand Manan Community Breakers stomped Boiestown Upper Miramichi Boas 71-45. The Boas included Kristin Munn, Mary O’Donnell, Jana Campbell.
In the last quarterfinal, the Sunny Corner North and South Esk Regional Cobras defeated the McAdam Warriors 64-49. The Warriors included Rachel Campbell.
In the semis, the Harvey Lakers defeated the Rothesay Netherwood Riverhawks 65-48 as Jill Rowe scored 18. Natalie Owens led the Riverhawks with 18.
In the other semi, the Grand Manan Community Breakers dumped the Sunny Corner North & South Esk Cobras 77-71 as Emma Russell scored 26 and Olivia Charters 21. Kassie Blackmore paced the Cobras with 29. Erica Hendry added 22 and Natalie Waye 20.
In the final, the Harvey Lakers whipped the Grand Manan Community Breakers 70-28. The Lakers broke to a 14-0 lead and never looked back, cruising to a 43-11 edge at the half and holding the Breakers to 21 percent from the floor. Jill Rowe paced the Lakers with 15. Emily Black, Vanessa Cartwright, Rebecca Clark and point guard Margaret Lister each added 10. “It feels great,” Lister told the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal. “It’s my last year and we won. It feels so good to come to the Aitken Centre two years in a row. It was just as much fun to win, with the crowd and everything.” Rowe, Amy Nason and Alicia Little each hauled downed 7 rebounds for the Lakers, who controlled the offensive glass by a 21-8 count. Emma Russell led the Breakers with 12 points and 12 boards. Lakers coach Paul Cartwright told the Fredericton Daily Gleaner that “there’s a lot of pressure coming into a game where you’re referred to as overwhelming favourites. That puts a lot of pressure on the kids, and I just wanted to keep them focused.” The Lakers opened with a 14-0 run and held the Breakers to two field goals in the first half. “When you’ve beaten a team before, there’s a sense that sometimes you come in a little overconfident,” said Cartwright. “They stayed cool, and I think they played really well. … We’ve played aggressive defence from the beginning. We usually try to start a game with full court man-to-man defence and grind a team down.” Lister said “I think it was over in the first couple of minutes. It feels great. It’s my last year and we won. It feels so good to come to the Aitken Centre two years in a row. It was just as much fun to win, with the crowd and everything.” Rowe said “we’re not really surprised. But we worked hard for this. I’m going to miss it. It was fun.” Breakers coach Verne Horsman said “even when there was no chance of winning, the support was there. The fans were great. … We have eight kids coming back, six of them in Grade 8 and 9. This is experience and, next year, we’re going for the gold. … They were nervous and they never got out of it. I thought as the game went along, we’d get into our game, but we never really did get into our game. I mean, we can play much better than that. It just never showed.” Cartwright said “in the first half, the idea is to take control of the game, and then we just held that. In a game like this, all the kids want to play, and I tried to give them relatively equal floor time. It’s not fair to the starters to sit them down for the whole game either.”
The co-bronze medalist Sunny Corner North & South Esks: Kassie Blackmore; Erica Hendry; Natalie Waye;
The co-bronze medalist Rothesay Netherwood Riverhawks: Natalie Owens;
The silver medalist Grand Manan Breakers: Emma Russell; Olivia Charters; Danielle Linton; Jenny Mullin; Angela Middleton; coach Verne Horsman
The gold medalist Harvey Lakers: Jill Rowe; Emily Black; Vanessa Cartwright; Rebecca Clark; Margaret Lister; Amy Nason; Alicia Little; Katie Rowe; Jessica Jones; Kristi Parker; Amy Nason; Lindsay King; coach Paul Cartwright; manager Melanie Boudreau