The Team at OFSAA

2007-08 turned out to be an amazing season for the Holy Trinity Varsity boy’s hockey team. They won the LOSSA AA regular season with an 11-1 record over teams from Pereyma, Central, Donevan, Brock, St. Stephens and Dennis O’Connor. In the first round of playoffs, they beat St. Stephens Two games to one and defeated Brock two games straight for the LOSSA AA championship title. Quite an accomplishment for their first year in the league. Winning LOSSA qualified the boys for the OFSAA tournament in early April in Ottawa. The team entered the OFSAA tournament seeded 6th out of 20 teams. In their first game, they faced Forest Hill and won 4-3. In the second game they squared off against Father Redmond and with 4.8 seconds left in a scoreless game, Mark Smith netted the winner to send the Titans to 2-0 in the tourney. The 3rd game saw H.T. square off against #1 seed Stouffville. The Titans got into penalty trouble early and Stouffvilles potent power play struck at will. The Titans battled back but giving Stouffville five 5-3 advantages, they could not catch up and ended up losing 7-4. That left the 4th game of the tournament a must tie or win for the Titans to advance to the playoff round. Facing a tough Garneau squad, the Titans went down 2-0 in the first half of the game. The boys battled back and tied the game. Garneau netted a 3rd goal but with the clock winding down, Andrew Kerr scored the equalizer and the Titans hung on to tie, thus advancing them to the playoff round. In the first game of the playoffs HT faced St. Theresa’s, this years COSSA champions. The Titans soundly cleaned St. Theresa’s clocks winning 4-1 to move into the final four. HT then faced Appleby College, a private school from Oakville with the winner advancing to the Gold-Silver game and the loser advancing to the Bronze-4th game. Holy Trinity played a great game but regretted a few mistakes and lost 3-2. That moved them into the Bronze medal game vs. Timmins. The boys had that Bronze medal in sight and played their hearts out. Chris Moore had 2 goals and Trevor Munce 1 in Holy Trinity’s 3-2 win. It was the first time any team from HT had won a medal at OFSAA and it was downright awesome. The boys were well behaved throughout the week and kept working hard every game. On behalf of the coaches, it was a pleasure to coach this bunch this year. Well done boys!