Rockyford captures gold

Justin Seward
Times Reporter

 

The Rockyford Ringers U19B ringette team went undefeated at the 30th annual Esso Golden Ring tournament from Jan. 15-17 in Calgary, winning gold convincingly over Airdrie 10-4 in the final.
For this group of girls it was their third year in a row winning the tournament, going back to their last couple of years at the U16 level, and head coach Colin Melcher said they played hard all the way through to the end.
“For the whole weekend they started playing as a team,” said Melcher.
“(The) defense was strong, the goalie was strong and just an all-around team effort. I know the whole ringette association and all the parents, they’re pretty proud.”
Melcher said it helped tremendously having an experienced group on his side.
“These girls are motivated,” said Melcher. “After three years of Golden Ring wins and three years of provincial wins, they know what to do. We played Airdrie and they beat us three times this year. After seeing the girls play throughout the weekend, I thought ‘yeah we can do this.'”
He added that this win will give them confidence going into the second half of the season after what he considered to be a slow start to the year.