Saints are marching through season
Veterans help novices gain confidence
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The Portage la Prairie Collegiate Institute Saints girls’ hockey team was battling hard as the first half of its 2016-17 season ended.
Coach Jo-Anne Clark-Gillespie said she was pleased with the team’s record, which stood at eight wins, one overtime win and four losses after a close 2-1 loss to the J.H. Bruns Broncos on Dec. 19.
“It was another loss where we have pretty much dominated the game in many aspects but were not able to put the puck into the back of the net. We did a lot of things well in the offensive zone but defensively two mistakes cost us the game,” Clark-Gillespie said in an email message after the Broncos game.
The result left the Saints in fifth place in the Winnipeg Women’s High School Hockey League’s Winnipeg Free Press Division.
Clark-Gillespie said the top six teams in the Free Press Division are all closely matched, and there’s still time for the Saints to pull ahead.
“We have lots of hockey left in the season.”
Five Grade 12 students play for the Saints, with two of those girls in their fourth seasons with the team. Two others have played for three years.
Clark-Gillespie said the veterans help the novice players to improve their skills.
One such veteran is team captain Bailey Grantham, 17, who has scored 33 points in 12 games, making her the Saints’ scoring leader.
Grantham has already surpassed her 2015-16 total of 30 points, putting her on track to break her 2014-15 total of 39.
“I think the season’s going well,” Grantham said. “Our team is really clicking well and coming together.”
The team won their game against Miles Macdonell Buckeyes 3-1 on Dec. 21.
The Saints next home game is against the Garden City Gophers on Jan. 12 at 4 p.m. in the BDO Centennial Community Centre (390 1st St. NW).
For more information on the PCI Saints girls’ hockey team, see http://www.hometeamsonline.com/teams/default.asp?u=PCISAINTS&t=c&s=hockey&p=about
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Andrea Geary
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Andrea Geary was a community correspondent for St. Vital and was once the community journalist for The Headliner.
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