Submitted by Debbie Goulding & Gord KempThe Kincardine Montgomery Ford Midget girls travelled to the South Huron Minor Hockey 2013 "Pink on the Rink" girls' hockey tournament to raise money for Breast Cancer Research on January 11 - 13.The entire team, except Tara Wood who is out with a concussion, had back to back practices on Sunday & Mondayto prepare for the tournament in Lucan and Exeter to find out one of our "Star" players, Jorie Elliott was rushed to London'sSick Kids Hospital on January 9th. After some bloodwork and tests, she has been diagnosed with Leukemia and willbe in the hospital for some time.Our prayers are with Jorie and her family as the team led this tournament off with a prayer in the dressing room prior tothe first game.
. With Jorie's number painted on the
team's faces and her jersey on the bench for luck, this team was on a quest
to win this tournament for her!
On Friday, the girls had two games. The
first game was against Twin Centres. The final score of this game was 4-0 with
goalie
Breanna Goulding earning a shutout. Goals were scored by Malorie
Woods, assisted by Madison McFadden and
Megan Stewart-Kemp, Maddie McFadden,
Tegan Moore and Rachel Whitney. MVP of the game was Mallory Woods.
Game two
later that day was against the LaSalle Sabre Cats. Scoring for Kincardine was:
Tegan Moore, assisted by
Woods; Cassandra Howse, assisted by Woods and
Caelyn Nashiem and Whitney, assisted by Gracie Stewart and
Mercedes Battler;
Woods, assisted by Jordan Murchie and Whitney, assisted by Emily Simpson. The
final score was 5-0
with Goulding earning her second shut-out puck of the
tournament. MVP was Maddie McFadden.
The third game played Saturday night was
against Twin Centres again. Goal scorers were: Elsie Shewfelt, assisted
by
Eden McFarlane and Moore; Woods, assisted by Howse and Howse, assisted by
Dakota Smith and Woods. This was the
third shut-out for Goulding with a final
score of 3-0. MVP of the game was goalie, Breanna Goulding.
The fourth game
was played very early Sunday morning which was the semi-final. The girls came up
against
the LaSalle Sabre Cats again. Our girls came out on top of a 2-0
score. Goals were both scored by Woods,
one assisted by Nashiem. MVP of the
game was Jordan Murchie. Goulding was handed her fourth shut-out puck.
This
advanced the local girls to the final game on Sunday night against a very strong
Ilderton Jets team. Ilderton rang
the buzzer first breaking Goulding's shut
out streak. But Kincardine was not to be stopped and the mighty Ford
girls
found the back of the net three times before the final buzzer. Shewfelt
was the first to score, assisted by Moore and McFadden;
then Eden McFarlane,
assisted by Woods and Stewart-Kemp then Stewart Kemp, assisted by Moore! Final
score 3 - 1 and
Kincardine was awarded the banner and medals! The girls won
the tournament for Jorie!
Congratulations girls on a well played tournament!
All your hard work and dedication paid off!