A positive end to a rough season.
Girls hockey suffered this year in Yarmouth, with no Midget rep team for the first time in many years.
Grade 12 student and forward Laura Legere says they had a lot of bad luck this year.
“We tried to get into the Valley League, but that didn’t happen. We decided we’d go to a few tournaments. When we got it up and running, work-to-rule started. We stopped playing. We tried to get another rep team going and join the Midget X league as well, but that didn’t happen. It was so off-and-on. Pretty sad for our last year of hockey.”
Fortunately, the Vikings were invited to two late-season tournaments with no championship banners on the line.
Despite not playing all season, the girls would go 1-1 at the first tournament against Division 1 teams, and win their second tournament in Middleton.
They did this while icing just 10 players.
Grade 12 goaltender Lindsey Minard says she is proud of her teammates.
“We really pulled through. You could tell the love of hockey was still there, we missed it all season. You could tell during that last game, we really gave it our all.”
Yarmouth defeated NKEC 4-0 in the championship game of the March 26th tournament.
Legere had a hat-trick in that game, and Olivia Eyre was named MVP.
There was no banner, except one a parent made out of paper towel.
