U13 Green (Durham Crusaders Hockey)

Our home tournament was one that everyone was looking forward to, hosted at Delpark Homes Centre in Oshawa, and one that the players and staff were hoping to go deep in and compete for medals. Both Crusaders and Manvers teams were taking part from Three County together with Oro Thunder, Temiskaming Shores Puckhounds, Frontenac Flyers and Kemptville Royals.

This one-day tournament was a fun day for the players. Six teams were competing with four from the Inter-Community Hockey League and Ennismore Eagles from the League of Eastern Ontario, and the format consisted of two pools of three teams with each team playing their pool opponents with the first placed teams playing in the “A” Championship Final and so on.

 Tournament #4 this season was a local one-day tournament in Orono.  It was an opportunity to reset and go hard to start the second half of the season.  It turned out that our two group games were against home teams, as would our eventual final opponent.  Eight teams were competing, and the format consisted of two pools of four teams with each team playing two pool opponents with the first placed teams playing in the “A” Championship Final, and with the second placed teams playing the “B” Championship Final, and so on.

Our third tournament of the season was a short trip slightly north of Peterborough to Apsley, to compete in the Apsley Flames Fall Classic 2025.  The tournament consisted of four teams from the League of Eastern Ontario (Apsley, Bancroft, Havelock and Lakefield), with three teams from Three County (Durham, Highland and Sturgeon) together with Stirling Blues from the Inter-Community Hockey League.  The format consisted of four Round 1 games with the winners moving onto the Semi-Finals for the A and B Championships and the winner of those games making the A Championship Final.  The team that ...

Green arrived Friday with high hopes of making it deep into the Tournament, and that they did with some stirring performances along the way.  They were pitted against three teams from the Georgian Bay Triangle Local League in the group stage.