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Starting with the 19U division, the Division I game between the #2 Waterloo Wolverines and the #3 Waterloo Wildhawks certainly lived up to its billing on Saturday night.
The Wildhawks trailed by as many as 12 in the first half, but got some momentum going into the second-half thanks to a buzzer-beating three-pointer (and-one) by Javon Masters.
The 'Hawks would go on to clip the Wolverines in an 82-79 final, before bowing out in the semifinals to Oakville Vytis. They rebounded to take the bronze medal over the London Ramblers, 76-71.
The only other "CWOSSA based" program to medal at the U19 championships were the Centre Wellington Celtics, who finished with a silver medal in Division 8 after a 63-58 defeat to BC Troyka.
U17
Over in the Niagara Region, the #6 ranked Waterloo Wolverines received a 32-point performance from Jermaine Lyle in the bronze medal game (Nedim Hodzic added 18 and Jamal Murray had 17) as they defeated #2 Toronto Triple Threat 79-49.
In Division 3, the #1-ranked Guelph Phoenix lived up to their billing by going undefeated including a 63-61 win over #2 St. Catharines CYO in the championship finale. The Phoenix had a very strong showing, having won all four of their earlier games by double-figures.
In D5, the Waterloo Wildhawks defeated the Centre Wellington Celtics in an "all-CWOSSA" bronze medal game by a 58-42 final.
The KW Vipers provided the CWOSSA-area's other medal of the weekend, as the #8-seeded Vipers breezed through Division 6 undefeated, including a 60-55 win in the championship final against the #7 Mississauga Wolverines. Interestingly enough, none of the top-4 seeds made the semifinals in that division.
