This past weekend, the Sarnia Jr. Lady Sting Bantam A Team played in the International Female Hockey Festival, “Hocktoberfest” taking 1^st place with 5 wins and 1 tie.

            In the first game against North Halton, the girls had a tough battle. The game ended up a 1-1 tie, with Kendra Marotta with the only goal, assisted by Krystal Adair. Karley Ferguson was goaltending this game, and made several amazing saves, including on a few breakaways. Although this was not the girls’ best game, they knew they had to take it to the next team.

The girls 2^nd game was against Sault Ste.Marie, and the girls had a 3-1 win. The goals were scored by Chantal Caraher, assisted by Marotta and Allison Lawrence. The second goal was scored by Emily Williams, with assists from Nicki Parkes and Jenna Rops. The third and final goal was scored, again by Emily Williams with assists from Nicki Parkes and Darian Adams. Erica Sullivan, whose amazing goaltending skills pulled through stopping several breakaways, keeping the girls in the game.

The next game, the girls played against Clearview.  Ferguson in goal stood strong and pulled Sarnia through for their first shutout. The game ended up a 4-0 win for Sarnia. The first goal was scored by Darian Adams, which was unassisted followed by Kassie Roache assisted by Sidney Weiss and Sydney Smith. Adams second goal, assisted by Marotta and Williams, put Sarnia in a 3-0 lead. The last goal was scored by Lawrence and assisted by Roache and Caraher.

 In the quarter finals, Sarnia captured a big win, 5-0 against Barrie. Erica Sullivan, making several saves, gave Sarnia another shut out, which would put them in the semis. Parkes, with the first goal, was assisted by Adams. The next goal, scored by Jennifer Zavitz and assisted by Weiss. For the 3-0 lead,  Adams got one, assisted by Williams and Smith. Zavitz scored again, with assists from Roache and Weiss. To finish the game on a good note,  Marotta popped one in, with assists from Caraher and Lawrence.

After the girls passed the quarters in flying colours, they headed to the semi-finals against Hamilton.  The first goal,  Smith slapped it in hard, with the assist from Williams. The next goal was scored by Roache with the assists from Rops and Weiss. The final goal the guaranteed the girls a spot in the finals, was scored by Smith unassisted. The game ended up a 3-1 win for Sarnia, with Ferguson in net, got the girls through again.

In the finals, the girls went in confident, and came out champions. The game against London was a tough game, but Sarnia pulled through and won it

2-0. Erica Sullivan kept the shutout all through the game, which definitely helped the girls make it through. The goals were scored by Jennifer Zavitz, a top-shelf, short handed (5 on 3 for London) goal which was unassisted. The last goal to keep the win strong was scored on a beautiful play by Darian Adams and Emily Williams, Adams with the goal, and Williams with the assist. Congratulations to the girls for finishing a tiring 6 game tournament, undefeated, coming out of it all, champions.