Goulbourn Major Atom Girls Great Season Finish
The Goulbourn Major Atom
Girls basketball team completed a very successful season, finishing tenth in the
province out of 63 teams. The team travelled to Mississauga at the end of March
for the Provincial Tournament. The team was very strong in their pool, winning
all their games: 34-28 against Peterborough Power; 38-24 against Caledon
Cougars; 50-36 against Newman Youth. On the third day of the tournament,
Goulbourn took on the Tecumseh Saints in the semi-finals and won 36-27. The
Hornets played the Kitchener –Waterloo Lightning in the final game. It was a
very close game but the Hornets came home with silver after losing 27-29.
The
last tournament of the basketball season for the Major Atom Hornets was the
Eastern Ontario Basketball Association (EOBA) Tournament in Kingston on April
10. In the round robin games, Goulbourn faced Barrhaven and Hull. The Hornets
beat Barrhaven 28-17, player of the game was Isabelle Gemmill. The team also
defeated Hull 48-21 and the player of the game went to Nicole Murphy. In the
final game, the Hornets faced Barrhaven again and came home with gold medals,
winning 31-24, player of the game was Emma Hunt. The EOBA tournament MVPs were
Emma Streatch and Anyssa Close.
The Goulbourn Hornets are coached by Dawn
Murphy, Al Thomson and Mike Mount. The team manager is Sharon Streatch.
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EOBA Major Atom Girls Winners:
Front Row (Left to Right): Emily Mount,
Sasha Thomson, Isabelle Gemmill, Nicole Murphy
Middle
Row
(Left
to
Right):
Head Coach Dawn
Murphy, Andrea Banks, Hailey Norman, Olivia Brown, Emma Streatch, Emma Hunt,
Taylor Drew, Asst. coach Mike Mount
Back Row (Left to Right):
Julia Blais, Anyssa Close,
Asst. coach Al Thomson
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Hornets Major Atom Girls Win Medals
The Goulbourn
Hornets Major Atom
Girls basketball
team played in the
Mike O’Connor
Tournament in
Gloucester in
February. It was a
very successful
tournament with 3
wins in the round
robin against Ottawa
South, Kingston
Impact White and
Kingston Impact
Blue. Players of the
game were Sasha
Thomson and Emma
Streatch. The
Hornets met Kingston
Blue again in the
semi-finals and won
36 -25. In the
finals, the Hornets
were beat by St.
Victoire from
Montreal and came
home with silver.
A few weeks later,
the Hornets
travelled to
Kingston for the
Kingston Impact
Tournament March
5-7. On Friday, the
team played the
Kingston Cats and
won 44-17 (player of
the game was Julia
Blais). In
Saturday’s first
game the Hornets
defeated Belleville
52-15 (player of the
game was Taylor
Drew) and in the
second game they
beat Kingston Impact
Blue 39-21 (player
of the game was
Emily Mount). In the
semi-finals on
Sunday, the Hornets
defeated Capitol
Xelles 49-9 (player
of the game was
Andrea Banks) which
took them on to the
finals against
Kingston Impact
Blue. Goulbourn was
victorious, winning
35-18 and coming
home with gold
medals (player of
the game was Emma
Hunt).
The
Hornets Major Atom
Girls finished 9th
in the province out
of 63 teams. They
will be travelling
to Etobicoke, ON to
play in the
Provincial
Championship on the
weekend of March
26-28.
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EOBA Major Atom Girls Winners:
Front Row (Left to Right):
Isabelle Gemmill, Nicole
Murphy, Hailey
Norman, Olivia Brown
Middle
Row
(Left
to
Right):
Emily
Mount,
Sasha
Thomson
Back Row (Left to Right):
Coach
Dawn
Murphy,
Taylor
Drew,
Julia Blais, Anyssa
Close, Emma Hunt,
Andrea Banks, Asst.
coach Al Thomson,
Asst. coach Mike
Mount
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Major Atom Girls Win Silver in
the Chris Paulin Tournament in Kanata
The Goulbourn
Hornets Girls Major
Atom team played in
the Chris Paulin
Tournament in Kanata
at the beginning of
December.
It was their
first tournament of
the 2009-2010 season
and was a very
successful event for
the team.
The team won
all of their games
on Friday and
Saturday, beating
Barrhaven, Kingston
White and Kingston
Blue.
On Sunday,
they played Ottawa
South in the
semi-finals and won
43- 31.
The final
game was very
exciting with the
Hornets coming home
with silver medals
after getting beaten
in a close game by
Barrhaven 31-32.
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Front Row (Left to Right):
Hailey
Norman,
Isabelle
Gemill,
Emily
Mount,
Sasha
Thomson,
Nicole
Murphy,
Olivia
Brown
Back Row (Left to Right):
asst.
coaches
Al
Thomson
&
Mike
Mount,
Emma
Streatch,
Emma
Hunt,
Anyssa
Close,
Julia
Blais,
Taylor
Drew,
Andrea
Banks,
head
coach
Dawn
Murphy
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