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WOMEN-IN-HOCKEY Digest 52
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) 1995 North American Roller Hockey Championships
by "Marc J. Ouellette"
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 17:17:29 -0400
From: "Marc J. Ouellette"
To: email@hidden
Subject: 1995 North American Roller Hockey Championships
Message-ID:
Hi,
Andria just got back from the North American Roller Hockey
Championships in St. Louis. Unfortunately, she is incredibly busy with
her thesis work, so she asked me to pass along the following article.
Marc
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Women's North American Roller Hockey Championships
I just returned from competing in the North American Roller
Hockey Championships (NARCh) which were held in St Louis this
past weekend. There were 10 teams in the women's division.
I played for the Toronto Tornadoes. There were also 10
different men's/boys' divisions in the championships.
Here is the description of the teams in the women's division
as per the official NARCh program:
Group A
TEAM LOCATION QUALIFICATIONS
San Diego Seahawks San Diego, CA California State Champions, 2nd
Toronto Tornadoes Toronto, ON 1994 World Ice Hockey Champions ***
Austin Storm Austin, TX 1995 USAC National Championships, 3rd
Fast Forward Madison, WI 1994 Narch National Championships, 2nd
MedalCross Checkers Chicago, IL 1994 Narch National Champions
*** (see above) I don't know where they got that
from ... there were only 3 of us from Team Canada!!!
Group B
TEAM LOCATION QUALIFICATIONS
AKS She Devils Anaheim, CA California State Champions
Chicks With Sticks Chicago, IL 1995 USAC National Champions
Detroit Blades Detroit, MI 1995 USAC National Championships, 2nd
Toronto Rockets Toronto, ON
Tour Bandits St.Louis, MO
Here are the scores for our games in case you are interested. There
was an 8 goal mercy rule in effect. This meant that as soon as one
team was leading by 8 goals, the game was called:
Toronto Tornadoes 8 --- Chicago Cross Checkers 0
Toronto Tornadoes 8 --- Fast Forward 0
Toronto Tornadoes 5 --- Texas Storm 0
Toronto Tornadoes 7 --- San Diego Seahawks 1 *
Toronto Tornadoes 8 --- Detroit Blades 0 (medal round)
Toronto Tornadoes 2 --- Chicks with Sticks 3 (medal round)
Here are the scores for all other teams (sorry, I am missing
quite a few):
Friday, August 18th
San Diego Sea Hawks 3 --- Texas Storm 0
AKS She Devils 3 --- Tour Bandits 0
Detroit Blades 3 --- Toronto Rockets 0
Fast Forward 4 --- Chicago Cross Checkers 0
Saturday, August 19th
San Diego Sea Hawks 3 --- Fast Forward 1
Chicks with Sticks 3 --- Detroit Blades 1 *
Chicks with Sticks 3 --- AKS She Devils 4
Toronto Rockets 0 --- Tour Bandits 1
Sunday, August 20th
AKS She Devils 1 --- Detroit Blades 1
Chicago Cross Checkers 0 --- Texas Storm 0
Chicks with Sticks 6 --- Toronto Rockets 2
Chicago Cross Checkers ? --- San Diego Sea Hawks ?
Detroit Blades ? --- Tour Bandits ?
Toronto Rockets ? --- AKS She Devils ?
Tour Bandits ? --- Chicks with Sticks ?
Texas Storm ? --- Fast Forward ?
Medal Round (Sunday, August 20th)
Chicks with Sticks 7 --- San Diego Sea Hawks 1
Detroit Blades 5? --- San Diego Sea Hawks 7?
Final Medal Round Standings:
Team W L GF GA PTS
Chicks with Sticks 3 0 13 4 6
Toronto Tornadoes 2 1 17 4 4
San Diego Sea Hawks 1 2 9 19 2
Detroit Blades 0 3 6 18 0
NOTE: Games marked with a * were initial Round Robin games between
the top two teams of each pool. These games were counted in
the medal round results, according to tournament rules.
The Chicago Chicks with Sticks managed only 5 shots on our
goal, but somehow ended up beating us by a score of 3-2 to
claim the gold medal. Their goalie played amazing!! She
did everything but stand on her head to lead her team to the
victory. Unfortunately our goalie didn't have her best game. :-(
Another excuse :-) that I can think of (this is the normal reaction
to a loss, eh!) for our loss is that we really should have taken
more players to the tournament. We had an injury so that left
us with only 2 subs. Our last game of the round robin was at
6:00pm, the semi-final was at 7:00pm, and the final was at 8:00pm!
Wow, talk about tiring!! :-) Who set up that schedule?! ;-)
This was a very disappointing loss for us, needless to say, but
the overall experience was very rewarding. Like for example
I got to see the St Louis Arch! :-) But seriously, it was very
exciting for me because this was my first experience playing in
an organized roller hockey game. It was also nice to meet some
of the players on the other teams and to see so many women having
a lot of fun playing a great sport! Hopefully this tournament will
generate more interest in women's roller hockey. It sure was
a lot of fun, and it would be great to see interest in the sport
increase. Wouldn't that be super if there could be 10 women's/
girls' divisions, ranging from Squirt to Senior, just like with
the men's roller hockey!
Andria Hunter
P.S. The other 2 members of Team Canada (Ice Hockey) who played for
our team this past weekend were: Cheryl Pounder (defence) and
Lesley Reddon (goalie). In case you were wondering, no, Lesley
was not the goalie who played for us in the final!
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