It was no doubt nothing less than a resounding experience for their opposition as the Falcons stepped onto the floor in their quest for the Mens D Qualifier Championship.
The Ottawa Capitals posted a record of 3-0-1 enroute to the Championship in Oshawa. The clubs defensive game plan of shutting down the middle of the floor and pressing the oppositions defence was the key throughout the tournament.
The Ingersoll Assassins from London are the 2011 Eastern C Regional Qualifier Champions. Our friends from the hockey hot bed, traveled west to Oshawa this past weekend and posted an undefeated 6-0-0 record to capture the title.
John Romano
St. Petersburg Times
The growth marks on the wall began low, but the boy always dreamed large. Even when he began high school back home in St. Johns at 114 pounds. Even when he went undrafted the first time. And the second. And the third, too.
The Ontario Ball Hockey Association (O.B.H.A.) has been the leader in organized ball hockey since its inception in 1974. It was 36 years ago this past summer that the first Provincial Championship was held and the rest, as they say is history. Since then the association has experienced exponential growth and development at all levels of participation.
The event was hosted in the City of Mississauga, May 12 and 13, and was indeed a showcase for all the competing players and teams and the host the Ontario Ball Hockey Association. Thirty-two boys and ten girls teams from across the province competed hard as the OBHA Crowned Highschool Champions at their respective division.
There was plenty of BLING and the ROYALS were out, but this wasnt the wedding. This was of course the Womens Pre Season Tournament and just another great weekend for the sport as fourteen teams competed for the championship at the A and B level of competition in Mississauga.
The tournament will be held at South Fletchers Sportsplex, 500 Ray Lawson Blvd. It will take place over the weekend of Friday June 17, 2011, Saturday June18, 2011, and Sunday June 19, 2011.
The newest addition to the Ontario Ball Hockey Association commenced operations on Sunday, May 1, 2011. It was a great day at the venerable Georgetown Memorial Arena as the Halton Hills Minor Ball Hockey celebrated the first Opening Day in league history.
All of the clubs fought hard through four days of round robin action as the field would be narrowed down to eight teams by late Saturday afternoon and the quarter-final match ups were set.