The KCI Raiders appear to be the only team with any hope of beating the WCI VIkings in the Waterloo County senior girls basketball league playoffs.
That became clear on Thursday as the Vikings improved to 12-0 on the season with a 75-40 win over Sir John A. Macdonald in a showdown of undefeated teams. The Raiders are also 12-0 but have yet to face the mighty Vikings. Expect that to happen in the championship game.
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The qualifying round matchups have been set for the Waterloo County basketball playoffs. Keep in mind that WCI, KCI, SJAM and Eastwood receive first-round byes.
SENIOR GIRLS
Tuesday, Nov. 10
Southwood at Bluevale, 3:30 p.m.
Forest Heights at Galt, 3:30 p.m.
Elmira at Cameron Heights, 3:30 p.m.
Waterloo-Oxford at Grand River, 3:30 p.m.
JUNIOR GIRLS
Huron Heights at Forest Heights, 3:30 p.m.
Cameron Heights at KCI, 3:30 p.m.
SJAM at Preston, 3:30 p.m.
Grand River at Elmira, 3:30 p.m.
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With their 21-0 win over the Galt Ghosts on Thursday night, the Jacob Hespeler Hawks clinched first place in the B division of Waterloo County senior boys football league and managed to avoid an opening round A-division playoff game against Cameron Heights or Resurrection.
The first-round playoff matchup, with seeds, will look like this:
A DIVISION
Wednesday, Nov. 11
Galt (8) at Rez (1), 2 p.m.
Preston (5) vs. SJAM (4), at St. David, 6 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 12
Jacob Hespeler (6) at Bluevale (3), 2 p.m.
Southwood (7) vs. Cameron Heights (2), at St. David, 5 p.m.
B DIVISION
Wednesday, Nov. 11
St. David (5) at Huron Heights (4), 2 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 12
Grand River (6) vs. WCI (3), at St. David, 7 p.m.
KCI (8) at Elmira (1), 2 p.m.
Glenview Park (7) at Forest Heights (2), 2 p.m.
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The first-round, junior boys matchups are:
A DIVISION
Wednesday, Nov. 11
WCI (7) vs SJAM (2), at St. David, 4 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 12
St. Benedict (8) at Bluevale (1), noon
Jacob Hespeler (6) at Elmira (3), 2 p.m.
Cameron Heights (5) at Forest Heights (4), noon
B DIVISION
Wednesday, Nov. 11
Grand River (8) at Rez (1), noon
St. David (6) at Huron Heights (3), noon
Galt (7) vs. Preston (2), at Bill Struck, 5 p.m.
St. Mary's (5) vs. Southwood (4), at Bill Struck, 7 p.m.
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It was an emotional defeat for the Resurrection Phoenix at the Ontario field hockey championship. With star midfielder Natalie Buttinger forced into a role as spectator because of a knee injury, the CWOSSA champion Phoenix fell 2-1 to the Forest Heights Trojans in a quarter-final game at OFSAA.
It was difficult to watch as the tears flowed from Buttinger and her teammates after the disappointing loss. The fifth-year player and team leader's high school career ended during a morning round-robin game when she went down awkwardly in the dying minutes.
....er, yeah. Hard to have a 4-9 record when it's a 12 game schedule. Thanks for the info!
Posted by: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=520464017 | November 06, 2009 at 01:18 PM
Good eyes Mark. WCSSAA just fired me an email with the new matchups. They made a mistake. I'll make the changes.
Posted by: TheRecord | November 06, 2009 at 01:11 PM
Junior game is at 4 p.m. Ashkan.
Posted by: TheRecord | November 06, 2009 at 01:03 PM
I'm trying to figure this out myself Mark, especially the three 6-6 teams. As for the other one, there are no 4-9 teams, only two 4-8 teams. They are Southwood and Waterloo-Oxford. Forest Heights was 5-7.
Posted by: TheRecord | November 06, 2009 at 01:02 PM
Hey Mark, any idea how WCSSAA came up with those basketball tiebreakers?
....what I really don't understand is how Grand River is 3rd out of the "6-6" teams, especially after beating both of the other 2 head-to-head?
....also how WODSS is last of the 3 "4-9" teams despite beating Forest Heights head to head?
Under the rules section of the WCSSAA site, it states that In the event of a tie between three (3) teams and ALL THE TEAMS HAVE
NOT PLAYED EACH OTHER, the following procedure will be used.
The Head to Head Record of tied teams against will determine part of the order.
– If Team “A” beats Team “B” and no other teams have played each other, then
Team “A” must
finish ahead of Team “B”. To determine their relative positions use the
tiebreaking procedures outlines in 5.3.2→5.3.3→5.3.4.→5.3.5......
I know you didn't break the ties personally but just curious if you got any word from WCSSAA when they forwarded the info your way.
Posted by: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=520464017 | November 06, 2009 at 12:47 PM
theres a mistake with the scheduling. for seniors, preston plays sjam at st.davids at 6pm wednesday nov.11 but for junior, wci plays sjam at 6pm at st.davids as well? is there a typo?
Posted by: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=593411604 | November 06, 2009 at 11:52 AM