London Devilettes Tournament weekend, News, Midget Girls Rep, 2012-2013 (Kincardine Minor Hockey Association)

This Team is part of the 2012-2013 season, which is not set as the current season.
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Feb 10, 2013 | Gord Kemp | 991 views
London Devilettes Tournament weekend
 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 flared up the day of our 1st game with the winter blast , concerned for players even gettin away from Kincardine on the friday ,

 schools were closed,  There was a few familys went down Thur night including the goalie . There was some went to a London Knights game who were invited to attend with  the Elliott family and Jorie to watch the gamevs Sarnia Stings. After this game Jorie and her family , the Moores & Kemps were invited to meet the #6 "C" Scott Harrington defenseman & Seth Griffith R/W , then the entire Knight team had signed Jories jersey . The next morning the snow hit &  most players and families left from Kincardine early Fri morn for our 1st game @ 11:00 am in South London !! With the snow & road conditons were uncertain. London roads were a mees, not all plowed, yet  by 10am there was enough to start 2 lines, with all 16 players in total, the rest trickled in right up in to game time to have all players safely there ! Well the game #1  vs Lakeshore Lighting @ 11 am really got off to a great opening game start, winning 3-0 picking a goal up each period . Team team had some time to spend checking into the motel or went shopping to kill time . Playing their next game# 2  @ 6:45 pm vs LaSalle . This was a barn burner with this team had 10 skaters all 18-21 yrs of age, really kept us on our toes, with them leading 2 goals on us the entire game , with only 5mins left in the 3rd period, the girls scored 1 on a P/P , then still pressing in those last 5 mins hard, trying to build a line to attack & with 1:21 left in the period, we got TMM penalty , which now weakened a attack in last min, we pulled the goalie, only havin even skaters, we scored a tieing goal 2-2 at 42 seconds left , then finished the game a tie, was awesome !  To celebrate the Friday of hockey & snow, the team and families enjoyed a pizza & wing party at their motel  for a nice social evenig together !!!! With the next day game # 3 scheduled at 12:30pm , we were able to sleep in for a change . This was final game for the round robin  vs Oakville Hornets , once again a older team. The girls were still in tough, with the goal tending ontop performance these other teams had some great shooters, were goin into 3rd period tied 2-2 . well 2rd periods for us are always exciting, the team was now tied 3-3 with 1:30 left in the game, they took a penalty, with Kincardine scoring a P/P goal with 33 seconds left to win the game 4-3 . The 1/4 final game Sat nite @ 7:30 vs Windsor Wildcats, we were out matched by 1 player, as she was 21 years old, skated like Sidney Crosby & scored 5 of the 6 goals & assisted with the other . Most of these teams had a girls like this playing , always in on the points. Even in the 1st period we pulled off Battlers " Go-Go Gadget play once to get 1 goal in the 1st period , to trail 2-1 , seems # 6 "C" for Windsor would seek out for 2 more to take 4-1 lead.  The girls had a good weekend just the same, as they had another evening of fun at the motel & able to sleep in Sunday & head home from a nice weekend of well played Hockey from the Montgomery Ford Midget girls team . The team LaSalle made it to the finals, as we tied them in game# 2  made me realize that we can play at that level ! Individual stats on goals and assists are not reconized in the article from the weekend points as we play as a team , each game is treated this way. Our website has year to date stats for all the players & articles submitted for the year on this great team of girls is all posted on our website  !
 
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