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Trojans girls first and third at latest tournaments

R.D. Parker Collegiate’s varsity and junior varsity girls’ basketball teams finished first and third respectively at tournaments Feb. 6-7.
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R.D. Parker Collegiate’s varsity girls’ basketball team showed why it is ranked first in the province among AAA schools by winning the championship at their latest tournament in Sanford.

R.D. Parker Collegiate’s varsity and junior varsity girls’ basketball teams finished first and third respectively at tournaments Feb. 6-7.

The varsity girls won all three of their games to capture the championship at the Sanford Sabres Varsity Girls Classic tournament, defeating the University of Winnipeg Collegiate Wesmen 66-59 in the final. They knocked off Linden Christian School 55-51 in the semifinals after opening with a 52-21 victory over Steinbach Regional Secondary School. The Trojans’ Adrianna Proulx was named tournament MVP and her teammate Caitlin Fennel was picked as a tournament all-star.

The junior varsity girls beat the Swan Valley Tigers 49-41 in the third-place game at the Dauphin Junior Varsity Girls Clipper Classic after losing to the Grandview Spartans in the semifinals. RDPC opened the tournament with a victory over the Hapnot Collegiate Institute Kopper Kweens from Flin Flon.

All four RDPC basketball teams were on the road Jan. 30-31 and all four finished in the top four of their tournaments, with two returning home as champions.

The varsity girls’ team was one of the big winners, going undefeated at the Zone 11 varsity girls’ pre-zone tournament in Flin Flon, where they defeated Margaret Barbour Collegiate Institute (MBCI) of The Pas 41-28 in the final. That was a closer score than in the round robin, when the Trojan girls beat the Spartans 59-22. RDPC scored 80 points in both their other round-robin matches, knocking off the host Hapnot Collegiate Institue Kopper Kweens 80-21 and the Otter Nelson River School (ONR) Nikiks from Cross Lake 81-19. The varsity girls’ dominance was recognized by the Manitoba High Schools Athletic Association, which ranked them first overall among the province’s AAA schools in its Jan. 29 and Feb. 5 rankings, up from their previous second-place ranking.

RDPC’s junior boys’ team also returned home triumphantly after beating Shaftesbury High School 59-53 in the final to win the Gimli Lakers junior boys’ invitational. The JV Trojan boys qualified for the final by defeating one of the two Gimli teams 53-47 in the semifinal after opening with a 65-34 win over the Warren Wildcats.

The senior boys Trojans were also on the court in Flin Flon, where they fell 51-48 in the final against Hapnot after recording their first win of the season in a 65-59 decision over MBCI in the semifinals. RDPC’s varsity boys lost 58-40 to Hapnot, 53-48 to MBCI and 57-43 to ONR in the round robin. 

The junior varsity girls’ team won their first matchup in an AAAA tournament at Elmwood High School in Winnipeg, defeating Steinbach Regional Secondary School 62-35 before falling to the St. Norbert Celtics in the semifinals and 48-38 to the St. James Jimmies in the third-place game.

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