The North Park CVS Trojans of Brantford are the first CWOSSA team to tip-off at OFSAA today, playing the St. Theresa's Thunder of Midland in a noon game at Queen's University in Kingston. Check back here for the updates.
The Thunder have made a local tournament appearance this year --- having played at the Mike Moser Invitational Tournament. They made the finals before bowing out to Bluevale by a 68-55 final (note: Andrew & Karsten Beney were out that weekend).
Thunder Coach Dan Bouchard thinks his team is "still a year away from an OFSAA medal," he told the Alliston Herald, "our goal this year was to qualify for the provincial finals and be competitive."
This will be St. Theresa's first OFSAA appearance. They have a young roster with many rotational players only in grade 11 (frontcourt guys Derek Stobbs & Blake Hayley among them). Hayley was the Thunder's top performer (14 points) in their 47-35 GBSSAA championship victory over St. Joseph's of Barrie.
I look for Coach Todd Andrew's veteran Trojans, who have played a very tough tournament schedule this year, to take this opening round game under the leadership of Dave Eves, Cale McDonald and Mark Dickens. But it won't come easy.
"Now you're getting the best of the best," he told the Brant News, "if you're not ready to play, you'll be going home."
Of course, a first round loss isn't the end of the world at OFSAA with the "double-knockout" format. North Park will play either #4 Jarvis CI of Toronto or #10 Frontenac of Kingston on Tuesday morning ---- both should be tough games. Frontenac participated in Guelph Centennial's East Side Mario tournament, where they defeated both Cameron Heights (60-37) and SJAM (34-31) before falling to Centennial (55-50) in the final.
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