Girls AAAA Basketball in St. Anne: ROPSSAA tier 1 champion Campion is seeded 9th and opens the tournament against 3rd seeded Westdale from the Hamilton public league. Meanwhile, runners up Notre Dame are seeded 10th and will play 4th seed Waterloo Collegiate. The first two rounds are tomorrow. If either team wins their second game, they will move on to the quarter-finals on Friday. St. Thomas More from the Hamilton Catholic league is the heavy favourite to win and continue GHAC's dominance of this tournament. (7 titles in the past 10 years.)
Boys AAAA Volleyball in Hamilton: If Mississauga had not called it quits on their season, they would have been looking at a top-3 seeding. Rick Hansen was probably on pace for a top-8 seed. However, for the first time in over a decade, neither school will represent the region at OFSAA. Instead, ROPSSAA champions BCSS are seeded #10 and will play #4 Holy Names (Windsor), #7 Glebe (Ottawa), and #Cardinal Newman (Hamilton Catholic). Robert Hall is seeded last among the 16 teams and will play #1 Bill Crothers (Markham), #6 Saunders (London), and #11 Bishop Allen (Toronto Catholic). Bill Crothers is probably the best high school volleyball team in the entire country, filled with starters for Ontario's Ontario's top club program. Look for them to beat either St. Michael or Grand River in the final.
Boys AAA Volleyball in Hamilton: The seeding committee was not kind to Applewood, placing them in the 19th spot out of 20 teams. The Axemen will play #3 Beatrice Desloges (Ottawa), #8 Milton, #9 Waterloo-Oxford and #14 Kingston CVI. The top seed from London Oakridge would be a high seed even at AAAA so expect them to be in the final. Beatrice Desloges has a lot of solid club players from Ottawa and could be their opponent.
Boys AA Volleyball in Stratford: #17 St. Paul plays in Pool D, along with #4 Essex (Windsor area), #7 Loyalist (Kingston), #10 Lo-Ellen (Sudbury), and #13 Barrie Central. Eden out of St. Catharines is seeded #1 but Franco Cite from Ottawa played a tougher league schedule and might be the eventual winner.
Boys A Volleyball on Manitoulin Island: This is the only one of the 8 OFSAA tournaments this week to start on Friday instead of Thursday. Brampton Christian is seeded #14 and, for a change, is competitive despite being an automatic ROPSSAA rep at he A level in every sport in which they compete. They actually finished ahead of eventual tier 1 champion BCSS in the regular season and won a round in the tier 1 playoffs before losing to HAll in the quarters. They will face #3 Mere-Terese (Hamilton Catholic), #8 West Elgin, #9 Manitouwadge, and #19 Charles Garnier (Whitby). It's hard to say who is the favourite. Many of the teams get beaten up regularly against bigger schools in league play and it's anyone's guess who will respond best to playing against school's their own size. Quinte Christian from Belleville is the top seed.
There are no ROPSSAA teams in Girls AAA basketball in Kingston, Girls AA basketball in Brockville, and Girls A basketball in St. Catharines. Ontario powerhouse Hamilton St. Mary's (AAA) is probably the clearest favourite of any of the four levels of basketball while General Amherst (AA) won this level 4 times in a row not too long ago and seem to be the favourite after three years without a title. The top two seeds in A are both from EOSSAA so one of Elgin and North Grenville is s good bet to bring home the gold.
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