Day 7 Feeling the Heat

Written by the coaches, Greg and Colette.

Day two of the tournament proved to be a tough one for the Lightning. We moved into the second round of the tournament and ended up facing the other Canadian team here, the Hamilton Heat. It was a hard fought battle with Hamilton scoring the game opener in the first period. However, that was short lived as we tied it up but Hamilton went on to score another goal in the final period to win the game 2-1. The player of the game was Sarah Esmail. We now need to win tomorrow morning to have a chance to move into the Semifinals. Today was also the skills competition and the pizza party for all the teams in the tournament. Two players from each team participated with Melissa Simone and Sarah Esmail representing our team. Both girls did extremely well. Sarah made it to the final two in the Precision Shooting contest and Melissa won the Shootout Contest, scoring 3 goals against the Finland National Team goalie, who was voted Top Goalie at the 2007 World Cup of Ringette. Despite the loss today, the girls are having fun and are getting pumped for tomorrow's game where we will play another Finnish Team. A special thank you to Lauri and Ollie for being so accommodating to our team. Today they made a special trip on the bus to take the girls to a Mall and others back to the hotel during a long gap in our Ringette schedule. They have really made our trip enjoyable.