Confederation City Classic

Last weekend our D1 girls basketball team packed their bags and headed to beautiful Prince Edward Island for the Confederation City Classic. After a good start to the season locally, our girls were excited to see how they matched up against some of the best teams in the Maritimes.

The girls opened the tournament against one of the co-hosts, Bluefield High School. While it took us a while to get our legs back under us after the trip, the girls eventually found their rhythm and cruised to victory. We knew that day two of the tournament would be our toughest as we faced the always-tough Citadel Phoenix from Halifax and the powerhouse program from Charlottetown Rural.

In our first game of day two, our girls were both excited and nervous as they had the opportunity to play on the main court at the University of Prince Edward Island. While we fell behind in the game early, our team never gave up and fought tooth and nail every minute. Thanks to some heroic defensive performances and some opportunistic chances on offense, our girls found themselves down by just three points in the dying seconds of the game. While we were unable to find victory on the scoreboard in the game, there were so many positives to take from the game that it didn’t feel like a loss. In our third and final game of the tournament, we faced a big, athletic, and well-coached team from Charlottetown Rural. Whether it was physical fatigue from our last two games or emotional fatigue from the tremendous effort earlier in the day, we simply couldn’t keep pace with the eventual tournament champions.

As is always the case in sports, and especially when traveling to tournaments, many of our best memories were made off the court sharing meals and laughs together. The girls continue their final push for playoffs where they hope to earn our first-ever girls SSNS D1 provincial championship berth.