Weekend Roundup - June 7/8

This past weekend, the League1 Ontario Cataraqui Clippers held their home opener down at the St. Lawrence College field on Saturday with a 5pm kickoff. The Clippers' OYSL team continued their fight in the U17 division. Kingston FC played a pair of games out of town split between Milton and North York. And finally, the Kingston United women play up in Ottawa this evening.

Outdoor Season is almost upon us... (Updated)

As the snow begins to melt and the grass (and turf) underneath begins to become visible and obvious, outdoor seasons are and tournaments are starting to warm up the turf in the Kingston area.

This past weekend, one of the last indoor tournaments took place, the Queen's High School indoor invitational, out at the Kingston 1000 Islands Sportsplex in Westbrook.

On the boys side, St. Pius X from Ottawa repeated as the boys champions with a 2-0 victory over Cornwall's St. Joseph's. Eight teams started pool play with St. Pius X and St. Joseph's finishing first in their respective divisions and a bye to the semi finals. St. Joseph's beat Belleville's Bayside 1-0 in the semis to advance to the final. St. Pius beat Pickering's Pine Ridge 2-0 in the semi finals on their way to the championship.

The girls side saw another repeat champion, also from Ottawa, as St. Francis Xavier HS won in a thrilling 1-0 overtime victory over Alliston's Banting Memorial. Thirteen teams started pool play with St. Francis Xavier, Banting Memorial and Whitby's Donald A Wilson capturing their respective divisions. Banting Memorial reached the final with a 1-0 quarter final victory over Smiths Falls, and a 1-0 semi final victory over Donald Wilson. St. Francis Xavier beat Bayside 3-1 in the quarter finals, and Pine Ridge 4-0 in the semi finals on their way to capturing the title.

High School - OFSAA Day 2 and Playoffs

Day two at the OFSAA AAA soccer tournament in Hamilton continued a disappointing showing for both the Regiopolis-Notre Dame girls and a good comeback attempt that fell just short by the Sydenham boys.

All of the games were delayed by about 90 minutes due to the thunderstorms the previous day, and thus the first round of the playoffs was also delayed, this time to Saturday morning.

After the final games from Thursday were completed, including Regiopolis-Notre Dame's 1-0 loss to Northern, the Sydenham boys were first up at 11am against Crestwood.

High School - OFSAA Day 1

With day one in the books at the boys and girls soccer OFSAA tournament in Hamilton, both Kingston teams find themselves with fairly big hills to climb.

Sydenham Secondary School, at their first ever provincial tournament, found themselves matched up against the defending boys champions, Corpus Christi from Burlington in the Golden Horseshoe Athletic Conference (GHAC). Unfortunately, Sydenham lost by a 3-0 scoreline in the tournament opener at 9am.

The Regiopolis-Notre Dame girls kicked off at 10:30am, also against Corpus Christi, but did not fare much better, dropping the game with a 4-2 scoreline with Jessica Almeida scoring her first two goals of the season, the second early in the second half to tie things up at 2-2. Unfortunately, Corpus Christi scored twice in the last seven minutes of the game to take the victory.

High School - OFSAA 2012 AAA Soccer schedule

The 2012 OFSAA Girls and Boys AAA soccer tournament begins this Thursday in Hamilton at the Mohawk Sports Complex in Hamilton, Ontario.

From the Kingston area, Sydenham Secondary School represents the senior boys, while Regiopolis-Notre Dame represents the senior girls. Both teams find themselves in a 20-team tournament to challenge for the Ontario title.

Regiopolis-Notre Dame is in Pool C against Ancaster H&VS from SOSSA, Corpus Christi CSS from GHAC, SWOSSA's #2 team, Northern CI&VS and Senator O'Connor College from TDCAA.

Sydenham finds themselves in a tough pool with last year's champions, Corpus Christi (GHAC), Mary Ward CSS (TDCAA), Father Bressani HS (YRAA #2), and Crestwood SS (COSSA).

High School - EOSSAA Championship results

The EOSSAA boys and girls soccer championships took place this week, the girls on Tuesday, May 29 in Pembrooke, and the boys on Wednesday, May 30 in Kingston, at Tindall Field.

Four Kingston area teams competed, junior and senior, boys and girls based on the KASSAA playoffs that finished last week. Holy Cross represented the junior girls, Regiopolis-Notre Dame the senior girls and junior boys, and Sydenham the senior boys. Both days were sunny and warm days for the Kingston junior teams to compete for the 'AAA' EOSSAA titles, while the senior teams competed for the titles and berths at OFSAA.

High School - KASSAA Playoff results

The Kingston Area Secondary Schools Athletic Association seasons came to a close yesterday afternoon with the finals in Boys and Girls soccer, at both Junior and Senior levels.

By the end of Thursday's finals, four teams had booked their spots in the EOSSAA tournaments to be held next week. The Boys AAA tournament is being hosted by KCVI here in Kingston on May 30th, while the Girls AAA tournament is in Pembroke this year on May 29th.

High School - Playoff quarter-final rounds

The Kingston area High School soccer season came to an end last week and the playoffs began in earnest this past Monday evening.

The top eight teams in each division (Junior and Senior for both Boys and Girls) make it to the quarter final round of the playoffs. The top placed teams move onto the EOSSAA tournament with a chance at playing in OFSAA in the second week of June.