Saints come up short in quest for OFSAA gold

The St. Peter Saints boys field lacrosse team can’t scale the St. Michael’s College wall.

For the fourth year in a row the Saints fell in the OFSAA Festival championship game to St.

Mike’s, this time 16-3 in Ottawa.

The Saints were 22-2 this season with both losses coming to St. Mike’s.

Holden Lowes, Mason Tardiff and Kalvyn Watson scored. Assists went to Lowes, Kaleb Hiltz and Tyson Pearce.

St. Mike’s is an independent school which recruits players and It puts them on a different footing than the rest of the competition, said Saints coach Rod McGillis.

“I’m really proud of our players, we did our best,” McGillis said. “We had a tremendous tournament. We just ran into a team that is in a league of their own.”

McGillis said St. Mike’s has a dominant faceoff specialist who continually got them possession.

“We were on defence most of the time,” McGillis said.

Earlier in the day, the Saints beat Whitby’s Donald A. Wilson 9-7 in semifinal action. In the quarter-final on Tuesday they beat St. Catharines’ Notre Dame in triple-overtime while no one came within 10 goals of St.

Mike’s.

Griffins win consolation

The Thomas A. Stewart Secondary School Griffins have won the consolation championship at the OFSAA girls AAA rugby championships in Streetsville.

The No. 9 seed Griffins were relegated to the consolation round after losing to No. 1 seed Oakville Trafalgar in the championship quarterfinals on Tuesday. Oakville Trafalgar later advanced to the gold medal game.

TASSS defeated Glebe Secondary School from Ottawa 12-5 on Wednesday morning in the consolation semifinals.

Daliah Mitchell and Lily Stewart had tries for the Griffins and McKayla Dick had a convert.

TASSS then edged Arnprior 31-24 in the consolation final Wednesday afternoon for a ninthplace finish at the 16-team provincial championship tourney.

Mitchell had two tries, Nadine Shilling and Abby Todd had tries and Dick had a total of nine points.

Tenth-place finishes

Four athletes from Peterborough earned four wins against three losses at the OFSAA tennis championships Monday and Tuesday in Toronto.

Jared Thomas, of Holy Cross, posted a 2-1 record in boys’ singles. He beat Nick Littlefield (NWOSSA) 8-6 and Ethan Zabarylo (GHAC) 8-0. He placed 10th.

Sandra Taskovic of St. Peter won her first match in open girls’ singles over Payton Latcham (SOSSA) 8-4 before losing to the top seed. She also placed 10th.

Kenner Collegiate’s Jamie Dicks and Payton Tummon won their mixed doubles opener over a team from NCSSAA 8-5 and placed 16th.