Solid Gold performance for U13 Wolfpack

By Casandra Turnbull

It was a solid gold performance for the U13 Team 1 Wolfpack as they travelled to the Stoney Creek Warriors Tournament on Family Day weekend, defeated the hometown hosts in the finals, and came home with some shiny hardware!

The action started with their first game Friday against the tournament hosts – Stoney Creek Team 1. It would be the team’s only loss of the tournament. After three exciting periods of hockey, Paris was edged out by Stoney Creek, 2-1.

Not letting that game get the better of them, the Wolfpack regrouped and faced the South Muskoka Bears in game two, where they easily took the 7-1 victory.

In game three, they shutout the Bruce Peninsula Predators (Black) by a score of 4-0 to advance to the quarterfinals. The Georgian Shores Lightning were no match for our Wolfpack as Paris put forward a commanding performance to win 9-0.

During semi-final action, Paris faced Stoney Creek Team 2 and worked hard to control a 2-1 game that would advance them to

The U13 Team 1 (Charles & Lloyd) Wolfpack won gold at the Stoney Creek Warriors Tournament over Family Day weekend. In regular season action, the team is sitting in third place behind Waterford and Langton.

Submitted photo the finals.

Up against Stoney Creek Team 1, the only team to hand them a loss, Paris knew they would need to rally and stay focussed if they wanted to win the tournament. What no one anticipated was gold medal match that would go into triple overtime and then a shootout with Jacob Oakes scoring Paris’ winning marker in the 3-2 finale.

The Wolfpack earned that gold medal scoring 27 goals throughout the tournament, while only allowing 6 goals against. Congratulations team!