Season ends for three SHS teams

Nov 06, 2024

It is a busy week in the world of high school sports, as three of the Sydenham Golden Eagle Teams were eliminated in KASSAA playoff action, and a fourth, the senior football team, played their quarterfinal on Wednesday, after this paper was printed..

In junior girls basketball action, the Golden Eagles faced Holy Cross, at Holy Cross, in a semi-final matchup. In the regular season, Holy Cross beat SHS by fifteen points, 46-31. And it was a similar story in the semi-finals this week, with Sydenham going down to defeat by a score of 25-13.

The senior girls basketball team were facing an even more difficult path in their semi-final against the top seeded team in the playoffs, Frontenac SS. Frontenac was undefeated coming into the final, winning all 8 of their regular season games, before soundly defeating Mille Iles in the quarterfinals, 69-12. In their regular season meeting, Frontenac rolled over Sydenham 52-16, in Sydenham. And in the semis on Tuesday (November 5) , it was Frontenac 38, Sydenham Golden Eagles 21.

In junior football action, Regiopolis defeated Sydenham 8-7 at the Point Park on Tuesday afternoon (November 5) ending the Golden Eagles campaign for 2024.

In senior football, the Sydenham Golden Eagles are also playing Regiopolis at the Point Park, on Wednesday, November 6, at 3:30pm. The Golden Eagles won the regular season game against Regiopolis by a score of 20-6, also at the Point. The winner of the game will play in the semi-final on November 12 at CaraCo field.

The Varsity Field Hockey Team has moved beyond KASSAA for the year, however. They are in Niagara Falls at Ridley College, and the OFSAA (Ontario Federation of Secondary School Athletic Associations) tournament. Round robin action in the tournament starts on Thursday, November 7. The Golden Eagles are in Pool D, and will play three games over two days on Thursday and Friday morning. The top two teams in each pool will advance to the first elimination game on Friday afternoon, and the semifinals and finals will take place on Saturday, November 9.