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Wednesday, August 11, 2010 Orono Weekly Times - 5 Chad has the Midas touch in lacrosse Ontario's Bantam Girls Lacrosse team is the best in Canada, and Orono's Tessa Chad helped them win that title. The Ontario team beat the British Columbia team 4 - 0 in the final game at Whitby's Iroquois Park Arena on Saturday to win the gold. The Ontario team only lost one game in the tournament their first game, which they played against the same British Columbia team they beat in the finals. Twelve-year-old Chad had to compete with 75 other girls her age for the 18 spots on the Provincial team. She is the only Clarington girl to have played on a lacrosse team representing her province. Chad, a right-shooting runner, says she loves the fast tempo of the game. While body checking is not allowed, cross checking is, and Chad has given and received some nasty bruises playing the game. "I like giving bruises," she told the Orono Times on Monday, "and as long as we win, I don't mind taking a few." With five goals and seven assists to her credit in this year's Ontario Lacrosse Festival, Chad was one of the leading scorers on her team. The ten-day Ontario Lacrosse Festival, hosted by the Ontario Lacrosse Association in Whitby and Oshawa, features competitions by 40 provincial and national lacrosse championships for 6 - 21 year-olds. The Festival hosts 475 teams and proximally 9,000 athletes. The tournament marks the end of the lacrosse season, and Chad says she is already looking forward to next season. She hopes someday to play field lacrosse rather than the box lacrosse she currently plays, "because that is where the scholarships are," she told the Times. With hockey season starting next week, Chad is getting ready to lace up her skates. After being the only girl on the some of the Orono teams she was with, Chad now plays for the Clarington Flames, an all girls team. She says she likes hockey and lacrosse equally and hopes to play in the Olympics some day. 12-year-old Tessa Chad of Orono helped her Ontario Bantam Girls Laccrosse team win gold at the national tournament on Saturday. Donations are always appreciated at the C l a r i ng t o n E a s t Food Bank 905-9 987-1 1418