Epic game takes heavy toll
Apr 19, 2005 13:50:12 GMT -5
Post by M. Beaux-Eaux on Apr 19, 2005 13:50:12 GMT -5
Apr. 19, 2005. 01:00 AM
Epic game takes heavy toll
14-year-old sheds 9 pounds during OT marathon
'The girls could hardly lift their arms to shoot'
LOIS KALCHMAN
SPECIAL TO THE STAR
Randy Trebilcock knew that winning a provincial hockey championship in an epic game with 10 overtime periods took a lot out of his 14-year-old daughter.
But the head coach of the Timmins bantam C team had no idea just how much it had taken out of Mira until she got in the front seat of the car for the long drive home from Mississauga.
A warning light went off signalling that Mira wasn't heavy enough to be near an air bag.
"I know that my daughter lost nine pounds," Trebilcock said yesterday. "She was 109 when we left home and on the drive back the airbag light wouldn't go off, so she was under 100 pounds."
The Timmins team and a 12-girl squad from Ripley, a village of 600 near Kincardine, Ont., played six games in three days at the Ontario Women's Hockey Association championship tournament in Mississauga over the weekend.
They met in Sunday's final and were declared co-champions after playing three 12-minute stop-time periods and 10 10-minute stop-time overtime periods at Meadowvale Four Rinks. The teams were still tied 1-1 when OWHA officials called the game.
"The girls could hardly lift their arms to shoot the puck," said Trebilcock, a police officer.
"I can't believe they played at that level for so long."
Neither team wanted to decide the title with a shootout so both teams were awarded gold medals and championship banners.
Mira, the Timmins team captain, was so exhausted she didn't go to school. "We were so tired if you would try to get around another player your muscles were sore or if you tried to shoot the puck hard, you just couldn't," she said.
There were 15 players on the Timmins team, including three 12-year-olds and an 11-year-old.
Timmins goalie Vanessa Jacques, who is in only her second season of playing goal, was on the ice for the whole game and called it "awesome."
Trebilcock estimated that each goaltender faced at least 100 shots and made 15 or 20 "spectacular" saves.
"It was really fun because it's not likely to happen again," said Vanessa. "I was really tired and then after the third overtime period, I got a surge of energy and could have gone on forever."
Ripley coach Jamie Murr said he was "emotionally drained" by the end of the game and that half his team was too sore to go to school yesterday.
But he was sorry to learn that the teams quit playing just short of the NHL overtime record of 116 minutes and 30 seconds.
"If we had known we were that close to a record, we should have kept going," he said.
Although his 12 players were exhausted, they weren't too tired when they got home at 9:30 p.m. on Sunday night to take the fire truck ride that is a tradition in Ripley for any championship team.
"That's what's nice about a small town," said Murr.
Epic game takes heavy toll
14-year-old sheds 9 pounds during OT marathon
'The girls could hardly lift their arms to shoot'
LOIS KALCHMAN
SPECIAL TO THE STAR
Randy Trebilcock knew that winning a provincial hockey championship in an epic game with 10 overtime periods took a lot out of his 14-year-old daughter.
But the head coach of the Timmins bantam C team had no idea just how much it had taken out of Mira until she got in the front seat of the car for the long drive home from Mississauga.
A warning light went off signalling that Mira wasn't heavy enough to be near an air bag.
"I know that my daughter lost nine pounds," Trebilcock said yesterday. "She was 109 when we left home and on the drive back the airbag light wouldn't go off, so she was under 100 pounds."
The Timmins team and a 12-girl squad from Ripley, a village of 600 near Kincardine, Ont., played six games in three days at the Ontario Women's Hockey Association championship tournament in Mississauga over the weekend.
They met in Sunday's final and were declared co-champions after playing three 12-minute stop-time periods and 10 10-minute stop-time overtime periods at Meadowvale Four Rinks. The teams were still tied 1-1 when OWHA officials called the game.
"The girls could hardly lift their arms to shoot the puck," said Trebilcock, a police officer.
"I can't believe they played at that level for so long."
Neither team wanted to decide the title with a shootout so both teams were awarded gold medals and championship banners.
Mira, the Timmins team captain, was so exhausted she didn't go to school. "We were so tired if you would try to get around another player your muscles were sore or if you tried to shoot the puck hard, you just couldn't," she said.
There were 15 players on the Timmins team, including three 12-year-olds and an 11-year-old.
Timmins goalie Vanessa Jacques, who is in only her second season of playing goal, was on the ice for the whole game and called it "awesome."
Trebilcock estimated that each goaltender faced at least 100 shots and made 15 or 20 "spectacular" saves.
"It was really fun because it's not likely to happen again," said Vanessa. "I was really tired and then after the third overtime period, I got a surge of energy and could have gone on forever."
Ripley coach Jamie Murr said he was "emotionally drained" by the end of the game and that half his team was too sore to go to school yesterday.
But he was sorry to learn that the teams quit playing just short of the NHL overtime record of 116 minutes and 30 seconds.
"If we had known we were that close to a record, we should have kept going," he said.
Although his 12 players were exhausted, they weren't too tired when they got home at 9:30 p.m. on Sunday night to take the fire truck ride that is a tradition in Ripley for any championship team.
"That's what's nice about a small town," said Murr.