West Kootenay Wildcats take third in Vernon

The West Kootenay Wildcats played for third place in the Vernon tournament and won in a shootout.

Even though our team had a better goals for ratio, we ended up playing for third place - there were eight teams in the tournament. The Vernon tournament didn't use BC Hockey tie breaker rules, and used the penalty rule as their first tie breaker. The Terrace team, Richmond team and our Kootenay team were all tied with 2 wins. The Terrace team went onto winning the tournament beating the host Vernon team 5-1.

That game went to Overtime 4 on 4 for 4 min, then 3 on 3 for 3min. Then went to a shootout.

The Abbotsford team shot first and Catalina Hartland saved it.

The Kootenay team then had Merissa Dawson shoot, and she scored.

The Abbotsford team shot again and scored.

The Kootenay team had to shoot again, and Kendra Waterstreet scored.

It was all up to Catalina Hartland to save the next shot and we would win, Catalina stopped the Abbotsford players shot for the win.

The final standings are,

4^th place Kamloops 0 – Williams Lake 3

3^rd place West Kootenay 2 – Abbotsford 1 in a shootout

2^nd place Richmond 4 – South Island 3 in double overtime

1^st place Terrace 5 – Vernon 1

1st game: West Kootenay vs Kamloops  Friday Nov 2

Won 2-0

1st goal -Power play goal -  Merissa Dawson scored, assisted by Kendra Waterstreet

2nd goal - Julie Sidoni - unassisted

2nd game: West Kootenay vs Terrace Saturday Nov 3rd

Lost 2-1

only goal: Merissa Dawson scored unassisted

3rd game: West Kootenay vs Richmond Saturday Nov 3rd

Won 3-1

1st goal - Julie Sidoni scored, assisted by Merissa Dawson and Emma Caron

2nd goal - Emma Wheeldon scored, assisted by Kendra Waterstreet, and Julie Sidoni

3rd goal - Kendra Waterstreet scored, assisted by Merissa Dawson and Emma Caron

4th game: West Kootenay vs Abbotsford Sunday Nov 4th

only goal scored by - Julie Sidoni, assisted by Brady Stevens

This game was tied, and went to a shootout as it was a final game for third place.

Merissa Dawson, and Kendra Waterstreet both scored in the shoot out for the win over Abbotsford.

Catalina Hartland faced 2 shooters in the shootout, she saved one and let in one.

This West Kootenay Bantam Wildcats team has two exhibition games scheduled in Nakusp on November 17th,  and 18th against Kamloops.

Our next tournament is in Kamloops November 23-25th.

TEAM ROSTER

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