Midget Girls Rep, 2012-2013 (Kincardine Minor Hockey Association)

The Montgomery Ford Midget girls played 3 games over last period of a week. Last Mon Tiverton Thunder came to the D/C for a exhibition game to prepare our team for Wed night game . With a 10 day layoff we needed a boost, well that came when we found out Jorie Elliot was coming home from London to play after her daily treatments. Well this was enough to give us spirit to play good hockey, Tiverrton took the lead in the 1st period , however when a powerplay developed in the 2nd period , only few seconds left, the girls tied it up 1-1 . Into the 3rd period the girls were playing a back & forth ...

Montgomery Ford Midget girls still skating there best trying to gain 1st spot in their league finish , even with the team missing some players such as Mercede Battler & Caylen Nashiem who are on student exchange in Europe, also Dakota Smith is still recovering from a concussion from the London tournament. We also were pleased to see the return of Jorie Elliott, who recently has been released from the hospital, still continuing with her treatments, the docotrs have giving her the green light to play hockey again ! Well as you can see the smile on her face in the photo that being on the bench ...

 Montgomery Ford Midget girls have  been preparing and looking forward to attending the London Devilettes Girls Hockey tournament this weekend . This is Londons biggest sporting event each year , consisting of over 274 team of all divisions and ages. The Kincardine Midgets was in a 16 team division split into 4 pools in Midget / Intermidiate  which for H/L , this is the only way our Midgets could enter, so our team 15-17aged  players, yet most the team we played were aged from 15 - 21 of age ! Just a little out of balance, yet we knew this going in , Well then 2 days before the tour, weather ...

Tuesday night Montgomery Ford Midget girls traveled to Kurtzville for a match vs Upper Maitland, a group higher then our own . This was a league crossover game, yet timing was good with tricky weather lately, causing 2 or 3 cancellations for the team, we needed this game to prepare for this weekend. The layoff was showing in hte 1st period as Upper Maitland takes a early lead. Even the 2nd period, the team still couldnt gain on this fast skating, hard shooting team, with finally in the 3rd period the girls returned the favor for a close close catch up, pulling the score to a 5-4 final, with ...

Montgomery Ford Midget girls are going to keep the level of effort high with hockey playing the rest of this season. Driven from the spirit and inspiration from our team mate and freind -- Jorie Elliott who has been in the hospital since Jan 9th diagnoised with Luekemia , missing her presense on the team is upseting yet hoping for a steady recovery. The team will chant her name "Jorie" at the start of every period of every game and will continue this the rest of the year . This league game was against Saugeen shores , game played in Southampton on Saturday nit Jan 26th was a make up game , ...