When the ball tips off for the Brant senior
girls high school season on Thursday, there is little question the St.
John’s College Green Eagles will have a target on their backs.
The Green Eagles captured their second preseason tournament this past
weekend as co-hosts of the annual Brantford Tip Off Classic at
Assumption College and St. John’s.
The tournament featured teams from Waterloo, Hamilton, Cambridge,
Chatham-Kent and Guelph, as well as Brant’s Assumption College Lions,
Brantford Collegiate Institute Mustangs and Green Eagles.
The Green Eagles would meet the Lions in the championship and come away with a 46-10 victory.
St. John’s also beat the Waterloo Collegiate Institute Vikings and St.
Jean de Brebeuf Braves in the tournament. Grade 10 player Kaitlyn
Overeem scored 20-plus points against the Vikings and Braves.
The Green Eagles will host the Mustangs on Thursday to begin the season.
The game tips off at 5:30 p.m. Also on the first night of action, the
Paris District High School Panthers visit the Pauline Johnson Collegiate
Thunderbirds at 5:30 p.m. and the Lions host the North Park Trojans at 7
p.m.
Matchups for junior games shadow the senior games and begin 90 minutes earlier.
Changes to regional and provincial classifications have altered how the teams will compete to move beyond Brant this season.
There is no more AAAA class for the largest high schools. Instead, all
Brant schools fall into either the AAA classification with more than 950
students or the AA classification with between 500 and 950 students.
The Green Eagles, Lions, Mustangs and Trojans will compete for two
berths to the CWOSSA (Central Western Ontario Secondary Schools
Association) tournament at the AAA level. The T-Birds and Panthers will
compete for one entry to the AA CWOSSA tournament.
Boys volleyball also begins on Thursday, with a reciprocal schedule to girls basketball.
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