Home of the 2009 Peewee BB Provincial Champions

Tax receipts are in the process of being emailed out to the main contact of every family. Receipts are being completed in alphabetical order by surname of the main contact, we have currently completed the letters A-G inclusive. Please note that it will take approximately a couple of weeks to complete all of the receipts. Only players who were 15 years old or younger in 2009 are eligible to claim this tax credit. For more information regarding the 2009 Child Fitness Tax Credit, please visit the Canada Revenue Agency website.

OGHA Atom BB player, Kate Millar recently wrote an outstanding letter to the editor of the Ottawa Citizen regarding the suggestion of removing women's hockey from the Olympics. Well done Kate! You can read the letter by clicking here.

House league playoff schedules are now posted. Coaches and managers are asked to check and double check the schedule along with MOGHL's schedule on Goalline, if there are discrepancies, please report them to president@ogha.info immediately. Practices have been posted for the next week, the remainder of the month should be posted over the next few days. Sorry for the short notice, but practices could not be scheduled until MOGHL published the game schedules. Good luck to all teams in the upcoming playoffs.

WOW! Congratulations to all the Midget B players, team staff, and parents for a fantastic weekend and a championship celebration in Durham!

The weekend started with a long drive and an encouraging come-from-behind 4-3 win against Oshawa. The girls had a small setback later that day, losing 2-0 to the host Durham team in their second and final round-robin game but knew that they could beat them if they got another shot.

Saturday's thrilling quarter-final match was a 2-1 nailbiter of a win versus Napanee in a shootout. Esther Priddle scored the winning shootout goal while goalie Erika Leu stopped all three shooters she faced. Saturday evening's semi-final was a rough and tumble affair against a rested Aurora team who had won a bye to the semis. However our girls dug deep, scored two early goals and hung on for a thrilling 3-2 victory. Smiles all around and a trip to Sunday's final followed!

As predicted our intrepid Ice faced the host Durham team in the final game. This time the script was re-written and Ottawa once again built an early 2-0 lead. It was an intense back-and-forth struggle after that with Durham getting one goal back late in the 2nd period. However, in the game's final minute with their goalie pulled and Durham pressuring our end, co-captain Anitta Martignago dug the puck out of a scrum along the boards, headed up ice and sealed the victory with an empty-net goal.

Fantastic job, ladies! Your hard work all year has finally been rewarded! More and better pictures to follow :-)