Spartans, Bears get first-place showdown in senior hoops
GUELPH – The Centennial Spartans and Orangeville Bears have looked headed for a showdown for first place the entire District 10 high school senior girls’ basketball league season.
Well, that showdown’s upon us as the Spartans and Bears will clash Thursday at Centennial with the winner getting first place.
The loser will get second, although both could end in a tie with the Guelph CVI Green Gaels, but either one will win a tiebreaker with the Gaels thanks to scores of their victories over GCVI in the regular season.
Centennial defeated the Lourdes Crusaders Tuesday while Orangeville downed the Bishop Macdonell Celtics. GCVI was knocked out of the reckoning for top spot with a loss to the Ross Royals.
The Centennial-Orangeville senior game is to start at 5:30 p.m. Thursday.
Centennial 50 Lourdes 37
Hayley MacMillan had 21 points for the Spartans.
Ciara Hayne led Lourdes with 14 while Olivia Doucette added 12.
Orangeville 64 Bishop Macdonell 57
Scoring leaders not reported.
Centre Wellington 41 St. James 30
Lara Thys connected for 14 points for Centre Wellington and Natalie Abra followed with 13.
Eva Wenger had 18 for St. James and Sam Griffiths netted 10.
Ross 66 Guelph CVI 43
Sam Tesfit Ezra led Ross with 15 points while Abby Blashuk and Sierra Curvan each had 13.
Molly Hannay’s 22 topped GCVI’s scoring list while Sam Aljoe had 10 and Tishan Delfinado added nine.
Junior Girls’ Basketball
Bishop Macdonell 68 Orangeville 13
Maeve Bedard hit for 15 points for Bishop Mac as the win kept the Celtics undefeated. Sophia Anstett added 13.
A. Larocque had seven for Centennial.
Centennial 35 Lourdes 34
Camryn Stam led Centennial with 12 points while Dana Hasson had nine and Libby Anderson added six.
Jwokmeer Omot had a game-high 27 for Lourdes and Claire Levesque picked up four.
Ross 52 Guelph CVI 32
Rachael Van Milligan paced Ross with 21 points while Alex Blashuk followed with 14.
Gwen Rankin had 12 for GCVI and Gurmen Judge gathered 10.
Centre Wellington 34 St. James 28
Scoring leaders not reported.
- Guelph Sports Journal