After three consecutive finals appearances, Georgian-Barrie finally won one, emerging from the U of T Scarborough tournament with a nailbiting 2-1 overtime victory over #2 rated Seneca-Newnham to take the crown after surviving a tough road to the finals.
The tourney started well with a unfortunate default win over Laurier-Brantford who had transportation troubles, but hit a roadblock against U of T Scarborough 1. Barrie fell behind 2-0 but came back to tie it up, and outchanced U of T by a wide-margin but could not finish. It caught up to them as the fell 3-2 in a shootout. This set up a must win game against Humber-North and Barrie proved up to the task with a solid effort to prevail 5-2 and earn a semi-final appearance.
Seneca-Newnham, coming off a tournament championship at their own tourney the previous week, kept on rolling with wins over Boreal, Humber-Lakeshore and U of T Scarborough #2 to claim a semi-final slot. Georgian-Orillia won their pool with wins over McMaster, Centennial and Trent to claim the third semi-final slot with the last wild card spot being claimed by Humber Lakeshore.
The semis featured a rematch of the Seneca and Humber-Lakeshore round robin match up, which Seneca had won 5-2 - and Seneca prevailed again, this time by a 5-4 count. Arch-rivals Barrie and Orillia faced each other for the third time in a semi-final this year - the two previous match-ups seeing Barrie win by a goal each time. This game was no different, with Barrie taking the game 4-3.
In the final, both Seneca and Barrie played cautiously, but Seneca scored midway through the 2nd to go up 1-0. It stayed that way until late in the 3rd when Jason Campeau stuffed one in to tie it up and force overtime. In the extra frame, some great work behind the net by Lee MacDonald saw him set him Robbie Beaumont in the slot for the game winner - and a Challenge Cup berth.
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