Aquinas, King's Christian headed to girls' basketball OFSAA By Jon Kuiperij BEAVER SPORTS EDITOR 35 · Wednesday, November 25, 2009 OAKVILLE BEAVER · www.oakvillebeaver.com Up and down seasons are finishing on high notes for the St. Thomas Aquinas Raiders and King's Christian Collegiate Cavaliers. Despite owning sub-.500 overall records this season, the Raiders and Cavs have both qualified for their respective Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations (OFSAA) senior girls' basketball championships. Aquinas will compete in the AA tournament in Belleville, while KCC will participate in the A competition in Cornwall. Both tournaments start tomorrow (Thursday) and conclude Saturday. Raiders head coach Mike Giammichele is ing scorer Melanie Enright. no stranger to the tournament, having led Enright showed her worth last week Aquinas to provincial silver in 2000 and sub- against Peel challenger Ascension, helpsequent OFSAA appearances in 2002, 2003 ing the Raiders earn their OFSAA berth and 2005. with a 68-62 victory. Enright "I think we're He said his team's record this knocked down six three-pointmuch more season is misleading. ers on the way to a 28-point "Our record was only 13-14, competitive this outing, while Nicole Lopes, but in tournaments we played year. I'm the Raiders' inside threat, was against bigger schools," he expecting more." eight-for-10 from the free said. throw line. The coach added that two of KCC coach Aquinas is seeded 13th for the the Raiders' four losses in league Eric Bulthuis 18-team tournament. Guelph's Bishop MacDonnell Celtics are play were "preventable". Giammichele benched a key player (discipli- the top seed. KCC is making its second straight trip to nary reasons) in one loss, while the rescheduling of another game against Christ the OFSAA, and head coach Eric Bulthuis is optiKing meant the Raiders were without lead- mistic of a better showing than last year's quick ousting. "We've played well against AA and AAA teams. I think we're much more competitive this year," said Bulthuis. "I'm expecting more." The Cavaliers went 3-7 in Halton play and missed the Division 2 playoffs. But two of their seven losses came by two-point margins, while another defeat came by seven points to OFSAA-bound Aquinas. KCC, led this season by forward Katy Moes and guards Kristina Marra and Tori Odetunde, beat Hamilton ACMT and Brampton Christian in playdowns to earn its OFSAA spot. The Cavaliers are also seeded 13th at provincials, where Elgin's Rideau is the top seed. CONSTRUCTION Just a Countertop SELL-INSTALL-DELIVERY COUNTERTOPS Inter-Can Painting Inc. 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