“We’re a little bit inexperienced, we haven’t practised a lot together as a team.
He conceded Notre Dame had a “rough start” against Churchill in the final. “I think the biggest takeaway is we’re capable of doing some great things, but we also have a lot of work to do.” The Fighting Irish impressed head coach Pat O’Leary with how they competed at the team’s first tournament in two years. “We all contributed throughout the tournament.” “This wasn’t my best game, but I looked for my teammates and did what I had to do. I see myself as a leader on the team, but we all play so well as a team that any of us could have been MVP,” she said. “It’s really special for me to be named MVP. She shared this year’s award with her teammates. “I wanted to win it so we can have our names together and keep it at Sir Winston,” the Grade 12 student.īrookelyn Keltos, who competed in the inaugural BSPN Girls Basketball Tournament in her first year in high school, said it was “really special” to succeed former teammate Kaley DeMont as MVP.
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She said her older sister, who is now playing with a pro team in Manchester, England, posted a flashback of the 2015 tournament His 17-year-old daughter, Brookelyn Keltos, was selected as the tournament’s most valuable player, joining older sister Sam who won the same award in 2015 when the mid-season competition was known as the Standard Girls Basketball Tournament. “There were 24 teams in that tournament.” “We’re always going to get surprised potentially from a team from the north, but at Western, there was a team from Timmins, Sudbury, London, they were from all over. “We go to those tournaments out of town to see the other teams so we’re not going to be surprised,” Keltos said. Both losses have been against Hamilton Cathedral at competitions in Hamilton and London, Ont. “We managed through and that makes a good team.”Īll but two of Churchill’s wins have been at tournaments. They had some jitters, we went into some lulls, but we managed,” he said. Keltos was proud of the way the Bulldogs played against the Fighting Irish and throughout the 16-day tournament. “You’re going to have to play a really good game to keep up with us and beat us because we’ve been playing a lot of really, really competitive games.” “We have a really good team, and we just wanted to show everybody in Niagara that we’re a really good team,” he said head coach Frank Keltos.
Last November, they won the bronze medal as the host team at the OFSAA triple-A and so far this season are 16-2.Ĭhurchill, which opened the final against Notre Dame with a 19-0 run, returned the entire starting lineup from a team that went to provincials last year. Catharines.Ĭhurchill also won the championship at the tournament’s inaugural edition, but that was in 2019 and the Bulldogs have played a lot of basketball since then. Don’t let the basketball in their hands or the sneakers on their feet fool you, the Sir Winston Churchill Bulldogs are gold miners, not a senior girls high school team.Īnd they another step toward the motherlode - an Ontario Federation of School Athletic Association (OFSAA) championship - when they beat the Notre Dame Fighting Irish 49-20 to take the overall title at the second BPSN Girls Basketball Tournament at Governor Simcoe Secondary School Friday night in St.
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