The youthful Kitchener Resurrection Phoenix played well beyond their years over the weekend in Cambridge.The Phoenix --- whose offense came mostly from their grade 9 players --- defeated the Grand River Renegades 52-49 in a thrilling championship final on Saturday afternoon at Jacob Hespeler.
Jama Bin-Edward, Krissia Vasquez, Meghan Sharpie and Maddy Antwi, all in grade 9, paced Resurrection throughout the tournament.
Unfortunately for Grand River, they may have lost more than just the championship as one of their key players, Nyasha Mombeshora, went down with what looked like a very serious knee injury.
Resurrection defeated Our Lady of Lourdes (Guelph) 38-26 in one semifinal, while the Rens bested Cambridge Galt CI by a 52-30 count.
Galt knocked off Lourdes, 47-44, in the third place game.
First-round scores were: Lourdes 40, Jacob Hespeler 38 (in OT); Resurrection 58, Southwood 20; Galt 31, JF Ross 29; and Grand River 51, St. Benedict 28.
On the consolation side, Jacob Hespeler took the crown by defeating JF Ross 35-26 in the final. The Hawks took out Cambridge rivals Southwood (43-25) while JF Ross bested St. Benedict (57-43) in the semifinals.
Southwood won the 7th place game, 27-25 over St. Benedict.
