Ross, Bishop Mac to meet in field hockey final
GUELPH – The Ross Royals and Bishop Macdonell Celtics are to meet Wednesday in the District 4/10 high school girls’ field hockey championship.
Both the Royals and Celtics advanced to the championship match with shutout victories in Monday’s semifinals at the Gryphon Soccer Complex.
Ross scored once in each half for a 2-0 victory over the Centre Wellington Falcons in the first game of the semifinal doubleheader.
Annabelle Docksteader scored both goals for Ross while Ella Parisotto had the shutout.
Ross had finished the regular season at 6-0-1 while Centre Wellington was sixth at 2-4-1.
Bishop Mac connected for two of its goals in the second half to down the Centennial Spartans 3-0 in the second game of the semifinal doubleheader.
Ava Long had a pair of goals for the Celtics while Isabelle Peverley had the other one.
Bishop Mac had finished the regular season in fifth place at 3-4-0 and had ousted the Centre Dufferin Royals in last week’s quarter-finals.
Centennial had finished second at the completion of the regular season at 5-0-2 making the semi-final setback their first D4/10 loss of the season.
Ross edged Bishop Mac 1-0 Sept. 20 in their regular-season meeting in a mini tournament at Centennial.
The Royals will be looking for their first league championship since 2019 while Bishop Mac last won the league title in 2015.
The championship game is set for Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. at the Gryphon Soccer Complex.
Both teams will advance to next week’s CWOSSA championship tournament Oct. 25 and 26 at Kitchener’s Woodside Park turf field.
The league champ will be put in that tournament’s Pool B along with the D8 champion and the D6/11 runner-up and is to play pool games Oct. 25 at 9:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.
The D4/10 runner-up is to compete in Pool A along with the D5/9 and D6/11 champions and is to play Oct. 25 at 11:15 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Top two in each pool are to advance to the CWOSSA semifinals Oct. 26 at 10 a.m. Winners of that game are to play for the CWOSSA title later that day at 1 p.m.
D4/10 teams have won the CWOSSA title three times since its inception in 1979 — St. John’s-Kilmarnock in 2002, Ross in 1987 and Orangeville Bears in 1982.
- Guelph Sports Journal