2006 | 2007 Southeast Tweenselite level ‘tween’ (12/13 year olds)

Caroline wears #8 and plays defense on this very talented team. The team is comprised of players from Dieppe (6), Memramcook (3), Moncton (2), Riverview (2), Kent South (2) and Shediac/Cap-Pelé (2).

2006 | 2007 MontageGiven to the players as a souvenir of their season

A copy of this montage was given to the girls at the season ending party. A medium resolution version is available here (16x10 inches at 100DPI, ~520KB file size).

2007.04.08. Tween Eastern Canadian ChampionshipsTeam NB captures SILVER medal, Ontario captures Gold

The Tween Eastern Canadian Championships are contested each year between provincial champions from Ontario, Québec, NB, NS and PEI. It is the pinnacle for the Tween age group as no national event is held in canadian ringette until the next age group up (Junior level, 14/15 year olds). This year, Charlottetown very ably hosted the Championships that included Saint-Julie (representing Québec), Ottawa (representing Ontario), Halifax (representing Nova Scotia), our own NB Southeast region (representing New Brunswick) and two teams from Prince Edward Island (the Provincial team and the host team).

The NB team started off the tournament by defeating the host PEI team in a very lopsided game (~20-0). They were then awakened by a big and strong Québec team who came out on top by a 9-5 margin. The score however was not reflective of the game as team NB outshot Québec but struggled defensively. NB rebounded with wins of 7-4 against Ontario, 3-2 against old rivals Nova Scotia and 8-2 against team PEI. The NB team tied for first overall in the round robin portion of the tournament but Québec was awarded first place based on the tiebreaking scenario. The four teams making the playoffs were 1. Québec, 2. NB (both with 4-1 records), 3. Nova Scotia and 4. Ontario (both with 3-2 records, NS finishing 3rd on tiebreaking rules). In a rematch of Atlantic Championship Finalists, NB got their revenge by beating NS 4-2 to advance to the finals against Ontario who handily defeated Québec by a 7-3 score. Of note, at one point during the NB / NS semi final, the shots on goal were 16-1 in favour of NB who dominated throughout the game.

The Championship Game was a toss up: as a matter of fact, most present at the tournament felt that any of the four top teams could have emerged champion. But Ontario did.

Ontario went up by a score of 1-0 but NB tied within 10 seconds of that goal (both came about midway through the first period). Ontario then went up on a much disputed goal (ring taken from the crease, which is not allowed in ringette). NB tied the game before the end of the first period. Early in the second and final period, NB took their first lead but Ontario very quickly equalized. After a final period that was every bit as exciting as the first, the teams were deadlocked at 3 and a sudden death overtime period was needed to determine the eventual champion. Ontario scored after about 5 minutes of play in the overtime.

It is the second year in a row that the NB Southeast Tweens (representing NB) lose the Eastern Championships Finals in overtime to an Ontario team (NB was the 2005 Champion).

The girls of the NB Southeast team were simply fantastic and fun to watch all year. In the EC Championship Finals against Ontario, the whole team showed up (from the goalie, to the defense to the forwards and the coaching staff) against a faster opponent. NB was outshot in this game 40-19 (a major reversal from the round robin game against Ontario where NB was the more dominant team). But to their credit, Ontario provided constant pressure with speed and came prepared for this encounter. The shots on goal differential is also indicative of the fact that the NB squad was forced to kill off several penalties throughout the game, including a few 5 on 3's (where at one point, 3 NB players were in the penalty box at the same time).

The girls gave it their all throughout the year and came short of being crowned Atlantic Champions by an overtime goal and Eastern Canadian Champions by another overtime goal. Needless to say, their parents are all extremely proud of them.

As an aside, the Easter Sunday games (bronze and gold medal games) were both delayed by about four hours due to an overnight snowstorm that dropped over 30 cm of snow throughout the region.

Print versions of team photos are available with the names of the girls and without the names (both are 10x6 inches at 300DPI, ~1MB file sizes).

2007.02.11. Atlantic ChampionshipsThe NB tween team captures SILVER medal

In a surprising upset (to say the least :-), team Nova Scotia beat Caroline's team (team New Brunswick) in the finals of the Atlantic Championships. The NB team had tied the game 3-3 with 4.4 seconds left in regulation time but lost in sudden death overtime against the Nova Scotia team. Credit where credit is due, team NS played a tremendous game (in four previous meetings this year, including a round-robin game in this tournament, the NB team had come out on top by scores of 6-2, 8-3, 8-4 and 6-3). Onward to the Eastern Championships where hopefully team NB will get their revenge.

In round-robin play, team NB had won their three games by scores of 11-1, 6-3 and 7-0 against team PEI, team NS and the host NS team respectively to earn a spot in the championship game against NS (who narrowly earned their spot by beating team PEI by a score of 4-3).

Three side notes. 1) This was the first loss of the year for the NB team against opponents of their age group. 2) Other than the Tween age group, all other NB representatives emerged Champions in the 2007 Atlantics. 3) Assistant Coach Sue D.'s team (she's the goaltender) won the open division in overtime.

Print versions of team photos are available with the names of the girls and without the names (both are 10x6 inches at 300DPI, ~1MB file sizes).

2007.01.20. New Brunswick ChampionsSoutheast Tweens WIN by default

The Southeast Tweens were crowned New Brunswick Champions today. In December, the SE Tweens had defeated the Northeast / Captial Region Tweens by a score of 16-1 (in Moncton) in the first of a best of three playdown series to determine the NB champions. After several failed attempts to schedule the second game before the Jan. 20th deadline, the NE/CR region were forced to forfeit (and thus concede the NB crown to the SE team).

2007.01.07. Pierrefonds/DDO Tournament CHAMPIONS28th Annual Pierrefonds/DDO Ringette Tournament

As in their first tournament of the season (see below), the team overwhelmed their opponents in this their second tournament. In 5 games, they outscored their competition 36 to 9 (tournament scores are available here, click on the ‘BE-A’ button). Print versions of team photos are available with the names of the girls and without the names (both are 10x5 inches at 300DPI, ~1MB file sizes).

2006.11.29. First tournament, CHAMPIONS1st Miramichi Elite Invitational Tournament

The Southeast Tweens participated in their first tournament of the season during the last weekend of November 2006. They easily defeated the competition by a combined score of 34 to 6. Print versions of team photos are available with the names of the girls and without the names (both are 10x5 inches at 300DPI, ~1MB file sizes).