West Kootenay Wildcats take third in Vernon

The West Kootenay Wildcats played for third place in the Vernon tournament and won in a shootout.

West Kootenay Wildcats bantam girls hockey team 2012-13.

West Kootenay Wildcats bantam girls hockey team 2012-13.

The West Kootenay Wildcats played for third place in the Vernon tournament and won in a shootout.

Even though our team had a better goals for ratio, we ended up playing for third place – there were eight teams in the tournament. The Vernon tournament didn’t use BC Hockey tie breaker rules, and used the penalty rule as their first tie breaker. The Terrace team, Richmond team and our Kootenay team were all tied with 2 wins. The Terrace team went onto winning the tournament beating the host Vernon team 5-1.

That game went to Overtime 4 on 4 for 4 min, then 3 on 3 for 3min. Then went to a shootout.

The Abbotsford team shot first and Catalina Hartland saved it.

The Kootenay team then had Merissa Dawson shoot, and she scored.

The Abbotsford team shot again and scored.

The Kootenay team had to shoot again, and Kendra Waterstreet scored.

It was all up to Catalina Hartland to save the next shot and we would win, Catalina stopped the Abbotsford players shot for the win.

 

The final standings are,

4th place Kamloops 0 Williams Lake 3

3rd place West Kootenay 2 – Abbotsford 1 in a shootout

2nd place Richmond 4 South Island 3 in double overtime

1st place Terrace 5 Vernon 1

 

1st game: West Kootenay vs Kamloops  Friday Nov 2

Won 2-0

1st goal -Power play goal –  Merissa Dawson scored, assisted by Kendra Waterstreet

2nd goal – Julie Sidoni – unassisted

 

2nd game: West Kootenay vs Terrace Saturday Nov 3rd

Lost 2-1

only goal: Merissa Dawson scored unassisted

 

3rd game: West Kootenay vs Richmond Saturday Nov 3rd

Won 3-1

1st goal – Julie Sidoni scored, assisted by Merissa Dawson and Emma Caron

2nd goal – Emma Wheeldon scored, assisted by Kendra Waterstreet, and Julie Sidoni

3rd goal – Kendra Waterstreet scored, assisted by Merissa Dawson and Emma Caron

 

4th game: West Kootenay vs Abbotsford Sunday Nov 4th

only goal scored by – Julie Sidoni, assisted by Brady Stevens

This game was tied, and went to a shootout as it was a final game for third place.

Merissa Dawson, and Kendra Waterstreet both scored in the shoot out for the win over Abbotsford.

Catalina Hartland faced 2 shooters in the shootout, she saved one and let in one.

 

This West Kootenay Bantam Wildcats team has two exhibition games scheduled in Nakusp on November 17th,  and 18th against Kamloops.

Our next tournament is in Kamloops November 23-25th.

 

TEAM ROSTER

Number Name

 

Hometown

 

 

Position

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4 Dakota Mular

 

Warfield

 

 

D
5 Kali Horner

 

Nelson

 

 

D
6 Kayla Miller

 

Trail

 

 

F
7 Emilie Tebulte

 

Castlegar

 

 

F
9 Kendra Waterstreet

 

Fruitvale

 

 

F
10 Maddie Fisher

 

Rossland assistant captain

 

F
11 Merissa Dawson

 

Nelson team captain

 

D
12 Brady Stevens

 

Trail

 

 

F
14 Julie Sidoni

 

Trail assistant captain

 

F
15 Jordan Zilkie

 

Trail

 

 

D
16 Paige Gattafoni

 

Warfield assistant captain

 

F
17 Hailey Herridge

 

Nakusp

 

 

D
18 Reese McCrory

 

Nakusp

 

 

F
19 Emma Caron

 

Trail

 

 

D
20 Jessica Bonacci

 

Trail

 

 

F
22 Emma Wheeldon

 

Nelson

 

 

F
30 Catalina Hartland

 

Kaslo Goalie

 

G

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

D’Arcy Caron

 

Trail Coach

 

 

 

Simon Wheeldon

 

Nelson Assistant Coach

 

 

 

Michael Bonacci

 

Trail Safety

 

 

 

Jason Zilkie

 

Trail Safety

 

 

 

Lori Dawson

 

Nelson Team Manager

 

 

 

Dave Horner

 

Nelson Team Manager

 

 

 

 

 

– Submitted

 

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