The Eagles’ Morgan Church drives to the net while she is challenged by a St. Ignatius defender during Game 1 of the NWOSSA?final, Friday night at Dryden High School. The Eagles would lose both games 52-17 and 51-32. Photo by Chris Marchand

By Chris Marchand

The Dryden High School Eagles Senior Boys Volleyball team is headed to ‘AA’ provincial championships in Stratford this week.

The Eagles scored the spot after downing Thunder Bay’s Sir Winston Churchill Trojans in a best of three NWOSSA final, Nov. 18. The local club claimed a straight sets victory (25-13, 25-21, 25-14) and (25-16, 25-12, 25-13), though accounts of the event indicated a harder fought battle than the scores reflected.

OFSAA action begins Thursday and continues into playoffs on Saturday. Dryden is seeded eighth among the participating 20 teams and finds itself in the same pool as third-ranked F.E. Madill, ninth-ranked North Hastings High School, Lester B. Pearson (14th) and 19th seeded St. Andrew’s College.

Senior girls fall to St. Ignatius Falcons

The Dryden Eagles Senior Girls basketball team ran into a wall in their bid to attend provincial championships, late last week.

Welcoming the St. Ignatius Falcons onto home court in Dryden, the Eagles had difficulty mounting their offence and matching the competitive level of the sharp Thunder Bay squad, losing Game 1 by a score of 52-17.

In Game 2, a 51-32 loss, coach Lorna Tremonti says the Eagles were catching up to the intensity level.

“Saturday morning’s game was a little bit better than Friday,” said Tremonti. “I think once the kids got over the fact that St. Ignatious plays at that higher pace, they caught up to it. I was really happy with our shooting — we had eight three point shots.”

Defensively, Tremonti says it was a great wrap up to the season.

“We were able to play against them man-to-man and I don’t think they (Falcons) play against a lot of man-to-man, so they were grateful to see that before they headed to OFSAA.