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Cruisers capture Hikers Hockey Club Hair & Nails Tournament
The Hikers Hockey Club recently held its inaugural in-house ladies tournament, called the Hikers Hair & Nails Tournament, which was played at the Saint Stanislaus College forum. The tournament featured 30 players from the Hikers Ladies’ programme, including six national players who recently returned home after helping Guyana qualify for the 2013 Pan American Cup.
The players were split into six teams of five players and the teams played a preliminary round robin stage, after which they were seeded going into the knockout stage.
Hair & Nails Champions - Cruisers (from left) - Cora Towler, Vashema Bourne, Kenisha Wills and Cassidy Lall
At the end of the preliminary stage it was Cruisers and Star Chickas who ended tied on 8 points each, but Cruisers got the nod for the #1 seed due to their superior goal difference. While the top two teams received byes into the semifinal stage, the other four teams played quarterfinal matches to determine the other two semifinal spots.
In the quarterfinals Cake Soap, led by former national player Latoya Fordyce, defeated Sharing Lix 1-0 and Dewormers took care of Invaders 2-0 on penalty flicks after the game was tied at 1-1, at the end of regulation.
The finals turned out to be a rematch of the top two seeds as Cruisers edged Cake Soap 1-0 in the first semifinal then Star Chickas outlasted Dewormers in a shootout 3-2.
The final was a tense affair from the beginning, with both teams refusing to give an inch before Star Chickas captain Maria Munroe received a green card and Cruisers Cora Towler took full advantage by scoring the only goal of the game, before Munroe could return to the court.
The Club intends to make the tournament an annual affair as it helped give the junior ladies and adult beginners their first taste of high level competition. Cruisers will have their names engraved on the trophy as inaugural winners of the competition, as well as receiving a hair wash and style, compliments of Tricia’s Salon.
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