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Medals, Medals, Medals

By Casey Leger Foot and Ankle Clinic on Pitt
Street in Cornwall, is also the
019 is off to a very strong start president of the Cornwall Girls’
2for local girls’ hockey. The Hockey Association. “Getting kids
Cornwall Typhoons brought home included in hockey and keeping
three medals—two gold and one prices affordable is one of the
silver—the first week of the year. Association’s main goals,” he says.

The Typhoons Atom B team came Andrea Francis and her Atom
home from Belleville with silver,
Black team also won a gold medal in
while the Peewee Red and the Atom the Kingston Icewolves Tournament.
Black teams each earned gold in
They played Kemptville, Kingston
Kingston. and Ottawa in round-robin play;
Michelle Guay and her Atom B they then won a quarter-final game
squad went into the semi-finals of
and a semi-final game, which left
the Belleville Bearcats tournament them undefeated going into the final
with a 2-0-1 record, earning a bye
against a strong Whitby team. “The
through the quarters. They beat game was very back and forth,”
the Kingston Icewolves in the last says Coach Francis. Each team
minute of play of that game to earn
scored in the first and it was a tie
a berth in the finals, with Kayla game until 13.5 seconds left in the
Donnelly notching the winner with
third when we scored.”
less than a minute to play. The girls
put up a fight in the gold medal All three coaches had high praise
tilt but came up short against the for the tournaments in which their
powerhouse Goulbourn Rockets. teams played. The competition
was tough but clean, and the teams
“This was our second year at this
worked hard to earn their medals.
tournament,” says Coach Michelle For the two teams participating in
Guay. “The competition was
the Kingston tournament, the event
great, and the teams were evenly
had an extra, special dimension.
matched. The girls had to work Coach Francis tells the story:
hard to earn that medal.” Not all
of the fun, though, was had on the “My favourite part was in the
ice: According to Coach Guay, final game. Once we arrived at the
“The kids always enjoy just being arena, we learned that our [Cornwall
together as a team, working hard on Typhoons] peewee team was also
the ice and of course the hours of playing for gold. Their game was
fun in the hotel.” at 4:00 on the pad next to us, and
our game was scheduled for a 4:30
The Typhoons Peewee Red and
start. My girls dressed quickly
Atom teams tore it up in Kingston and decided to cheer on our older
at the Icewolves Tournament. Cornwall team for a few minutes.
Michael Turcotte coached his squad
We were able to stay and watch the
to a gold medal, despite being short first period, but then had to head to
players, and despite an illness that
our game. With about 5 minutes
hit a couple of his athletes. “We had left in the third period of our gold
to stop one game a couple of times medal game, we noticed that the
because our goalie was feeling
entire peewee team had come to
unwell,” says Coach Turcotte. Even cheer us on dressed in their Typhoon
with the short bench, the Peewee
jerseys. As soon as my girls noticed
Red girls took home the gold, them, the game started to change,
defeating Kingston in the finals by and we began to dominate in their
a 4 to 3 margin.
end, which eventually lead to our
Turcotte, who operates The winning goal!”
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