Thursday, November 19

At Ridgemont
Game 1: 4:00pm - Ridgemont vs. Brookfield
Game 2: 5:30pm - St. Patrick's vs. Ashbury
Game 3: 7:00pm - Lester B Pearson vs. Mother Teresa
Game 4: 8:30pm - Sir Robert Borden vs. St. Pius X

At Glebe
Game 5: 4:00pm - Glebe vs. Franco Ouest
Game 6: 5:30pm - St. Michael's (Kemptville) vs. St. Paul's
Game 7: 7:00pm - Bell vs. Cairine Wilson
Game 8: 8:30pm - Colonel By vs. Perth

Friday, November 20

At Ridgemont
Game 11: 4:00pm - Winner Game 1 vs. Loser Game 2
Game 12: 5:30pm - Loser Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2
Game 15: 7:00pm - Winner Game 3 vs. Loser Game 4
Game 16: 8:30pm - Loser Game 3 vs. Winner Game 4

At Glebe
Game 9: 4:00pm - Winner Game 5 vs. Loser Game 6
Game 10: 5:30pm - Loser Game 5 vs. Winner Game 6
Game 13: 7:00pm - Winner Game 7 vs. Loser Game 8
Game 14: 8:30pm - Loser Game 7 vs. Winner Game 8

Saturday, November 21

At Ridgemont
Game 17: 9:00am - Winner Game 11 vs. Winner Game 15 [QUARTERFINAL]
Game 19: 10:30am - Winner Game 12 vs. Winner Game 16 [QUARTERFINAL]
Game 21: 12:00pm - Loser Game 12 vs. Loser Game 10
Game 24: 1:30pm - Winner Game 19 vs. Winner Game 20 [CHAMPIONSHIP SEMIFINAL]
Game 25: 3:00pm - Loser Game 16 vs. Loser Game 14
Game 27: 5:00pm - Loser Game 22 vs. Loser Game 24 [THIRD PLACE]
Game 28: 7:00pm - Winner Game 22 vs. Winner Game 24 [CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL]

At Glebe
Game 18: 9:00am - Winner Game 9 vs. Winner Game 13 [QUARTERFINAL]
Game 20: 10:30am - Winner Game 10 vs. Winner Game 14 [QUARTERFINAL]
Game 23: 12:00pm - Loser Game 11 vs. Loser Game 9
Game 22: 1:30pm - Winner Game 17 vs. Winner Game 18 [CHAMPIONSHIP SEMIFINAL]
Game 26: 3:00pm - Loser Game 15 vs. Loser Game 13


Players to Watch

Ridgemont -
Brookfield -
St. Patrick's - Daemar Thomas 5'11" F, Christian Kondo 6'0" G
Ashbury - Jean Pierre-Charles 6'7" F, Matt McLean 6'8" C
Lester B Pearson - Johnny Berhane 6'1" G, Achuil Lual 6'8" C
Mother Teresa -
Sir Robert Borden - Nikola Misljencevic 6'5" F, Amir Majidi 6'3" G, Jamal Aden 5'10" G
St. Pius X - Buay Reat 6'5" G/F, Ryan Jordan 6'3" G/F
Glebe - Payton Lemieux 6'4" F, Tom Armstrong 6'6" G/F
St. Michael's - Jon Wilson 5'8" G, Jeremy Benoit 5'11" G
Franco Ouest - AJ M'pemo 5'9" G
St. Paul's - Craig Peloso 5'8" PG
Bell - Josh Shiposh 5'10" F, Mohammed Salameh 6'0" G, Mo Darwiche 6'5" C
Cairine Wilson - Ryan Wyatt 6'2" G/F
Colonel By - Mehdi Tihani 6'3" G/F, Omar Mohamed 5'7" G
Perth - Mark Marriner 6'0" G, Kyle Jones 6'7" C

Game #5 is Glebe vs Franco Ouest while Game #6 is St. Mike's vs St. Paul.

Also, Games 5,6,7,8 are listed as at GLEBE on my schedule, not at St. Pat's. Can anyone confirm that location?

You're right about St. Pat's not hosting. My mistake. Otherwise, this was the draw provided by coachc on the previous board, so I'm not sure about changes.

Thanks for the update on the draw. I think the confusion was that St. Mike's replaced St. Peter but there was a bit of a shuffle of the draw the help with transportation concerns. Looks good now!

Glebe Results

Franco Ouest 82 [ot]
Glebe 72

St. Michael's 52
St. Paul's 49

Bell 82
Cairine Wilson 60

Perth 49
Colonel By 32

AJ M'pemo scored 42 points in Franco Ouest's win. Perth's star forward Mitchell Pierman will miss the tournament due to injury.

St. Patrick's 59 (Kondo: 22 Points)
Ashbury 43 (Legault 14 Points)

Borden beat Pius

Lester B Pearson beat Mother Teresa

Brookfeild beat Ridgemont

Ridgemont scores on Friday:

Ashbury 57
Brookfield 41

St. Pat's 94
Ridgemont 15

Lester B Pearson 64
St. Pius X 52

Sir Robert Borden 69
Mother Teresa 21

Ridgemont Quarterfinals tomorrow:
9:00 am - Lester B Pearson vs. Ashbury
10:30 am - St. Pat's vs. Sir Robert Borden

Despite both teams playing their third game of the day, the scoring and overall excitement of this year's Ottawa Referees' championship game was still high as Sir Robert Borden Bengals defeated the Lester B Pearson Panthers, 76-70.

Both teams looked early to find an inside presence with SRB's 6'5" Nikola Misljencevic and Pearson's 6'7" centre Achuil Lual, but Misljencevic's third foul with 1:26 left in the first quarter had him on the bench for the remainder of the half. SRB's guards got hot in the second quarter with their outside shooting, including grade 10 Farhan Awaleh who scored 11 of his eventual 15 points. Lual ended with 12 points in the half, which ended knotted up 34-34.

While Pearson star guard Johnny Berhane continued to find ways to score from the outside or off the dribble, the Borden shooters continued to stay hot in the second half and would grab leads as high as 7 until the two minute mark of the fourth quarter. That's when Darren Pagal's two three-pointers pulled Pearson to within 72-70 with just over a minute left. After Awaleh made two free-throws to make it a two possession game, Pearson was unable to get any closer.

SRB 76 (Amir Majidi 27, Nikola Misljencevic 16, Farhan Awaleh 15, Jamal Aden 14)
LBP 70 (Johnny Berhane 22, Achuil Lual 19, Darren Pagal 12, Mike Placide 10)

Perth defeated St. Paul's for the bronze medal, 46-30.

Borden over Pearson in the Referees' final: It's 1988 all over again!

Thought it was an impressive tournament was there like a first and second group of stars from this tournament if possible?

LBP, St Pauls, St Pats, St Pius have shown that they're better than people expected them to be. Bell is also better than people think because they did miss 2 key players in Sham and Salameh. Also, this tournament showed that anyone can beat anyone on any given day. In my eyes, there's no clear favourite to win AA or AAA in Ottawa this year. There won't be a team like St Matts this year. Some teams that didn't play this weekend but I believe will surprise teams once others start watching more of them are Nepean, St Matts, Sacred Heart and Earl Of March.

I agree with MehdiTihani that it is still unclear who the favourites to win this year might be, but I would add Hillcrest to his list of teams to watch for as the season begins. The Bill Wren tournament at St. Matts will start to give more insight to which teams are the early favourites but even then so much can happen between now and February!

Who were the top 8-10 players looking good at this tournament?

Some of the top players I saw were Lual from LBP, Christian from St. Pats, the blonde haired player from Perth (sorry I don't know his name), Jordan from Pius, #21 from Bell, and the shooter for LBP (#14 I think but I cannot remember for sure). Sorry only six guys but these guys played well in the games I saw and there were others that could be mentioned but I cannot remember names etc. so I will stop at 6.