D8 Junior Squads Face High-Level CompetitionThree D8 junior teams will be participating in two high-profile tournaments this coming weekend.
The St. Benedict Saints, currently in first place in the D8 circuit (by way of head-to-head tiebreak) are in Windsor at the Catholic Central "Comet Invitational".
The tournament has a website that you can check out for the full draw and information; the Saints are the lone CWOSSA team participating in the 16-team draw, which has a similar format to the Heinbuch Tournament. Teams that win their first two games are in the "gold" bracket, a "win-loss" puts you in the "silver" bracket, "loss-win" means "bronze" bracket, and "loss-loss" equals consolation bracket.
St. Benedict will play Windsor Brennan in their first-round game, and then either St. Anne (Lakeshore) or London John Paul II in the second round.
As I mentioned last week, both Kitchener Resurrection and Waterloo St. David are in Hamilton starting on Saturday at the All-Ontario Catholic Junior Boys' tournament, which is a competitive draw as always. Rez draws Hamilton Brebeuf, who are currently the top team in the Hamilton Catholic League (11-0), while St. David will play St. Francis (St. Catharines) in round one. Here's a look at the complete draw:
All-Ontario Catholic Junior Boys Tournament
Assumption (Burlington) vs. D'Youville (Brampton)
Notre Dame (Welland) vs. Holy Trinity (Oakville)
Resurrection (Kitchener) vs. Brebeuf (Hamilton)
Cardinal Newman (Stoney Creek) vs. Campion (Brampton)
Corpus Christi (Burl.) vs. Cathedral (Hamilton)
St. Thomas More (Ham.) vs. Bishop Reding (Milton)
Goetz (Mississauga) vs. Jean Vanier (Rchmd Hill)
St. Francis (St. Cath.) vs. St. David (Waterloo)
....favourties here would probably be D'Youville from Brampton and Bishop Reding from Milton, who recently won the Junior Rimrocker tournament, beating Father Henry Carr (Toronto) in the final.
Cvrkalj Starts in Lehigh Win
Stefan Cvrkalj (Bluevale '11) knocked home a game-high 18 points, including five three-pointers, in Lehigh's 71-49 win over Navy yesterday evening in Patriot League action.
Here's a video recap from the Lehigh Sports website:
Meanwhile, Bryson Johnson (Bucknell) remains tied for the Bison all-time school three-point record after going 0-for-3 on Wednesday at American. He did have 6 points in Bucknell's 56-55 victory.
