AA Ontario Ringette Provincials

  AA Ontario ringette provincials start next weekend!Provincials are like hockey play offs for ringette.This year they will be held in Waterloo, Ontario. Provincials start on Thursday March 7th, 2013 and end on Sunday March 10, 2013. The winning teams of each age division becomes Team Ontario and moves onto Nationals or Easterns depending on the age level.
   In AA Provincials each team is guaranteed six round robin games (2 each day). How well each team does in the round robin games determines if they will play in the semi finals on Sunday morning. If there are ties there are "mini games" to determine who moves on. A mini game is a 10 minute game between the two teams tied and whoever wins the game moves on. Mini games are NOT sudden death so the whole game is played no matter what. Nobody wants mini games because they are extremely stressful and nerve racking! Most of the time the team who gets the first goal is the team who wins. There are opening ceremonies on Thursday night held in the Gym at Rim Park to introduce all the teams competing.
  The teams who win provincials at their age division get to go to Nationals if they are a U16 team or older and Easterns if they are U14. There are 7 teams from Ontario going at the Junior (U16) level this year but only the number one team is Team Ontario and all the others go as their original team. Nationals are being held in New Brunswick this year. Easterns are being held in Nova Scotia. Every team at provincials main goal is to get to Nationals or Easterns because it extends the year for the team and it's a great team experience and a once in a life time chance.

Here's a link to the schedules for AA Ontario Ringette Provincials 2013:
http://www.ontario-ringette.com/gandt/2013AA.php
Here is another link to the Elora Fergus Edge U16AA Team's page (my team) :
 http://www.elorafergusringette.ca/league.php?scriptName=LEAGUEINFO&leagueID=13630&leagueInfoID=86688