For the third time in as many years, R.D. Parker Collegiate has a girls' provincial basketball champion, but this time it is the junior varsity squad that finished on top in Manitoba.
The Trojans defeated the University of Winnipeg Collegiate Wesmen 62-53 in the final game to claim the school's first junior varsity girls' AAA championship since 2009. That followed a 47-40 win over the John Taylor Collegiate Pipers in the semifinals and a 53-27 rout of the Calvin Christian Collegiate Eagles in their opening round-robin game.
RDPC's Ashley Williams was named the tournament's most valuable player and her teammate Emma Deibert was also named as a tournament all-star.
Avery Ritchie was the Trojans' player of the game in the final, while Williams was named RDPC's player of the game in their other two games.
The championship is the fourth for a girls' basketball team from RDPC in the past nine years. The varsity girls were back-to-back champions in 2015 and 2016 after losing in the finals the two previous years. The junior varsity girls won the championship in 2009.
RDPC's varsity boys and girls are competing at provincials in Winnipeg March 16-18.
