St. Clair Women’s Basketball Playing for OCAA Gold

Windsor, ON – The St. Clair College Women's Basketball team (11-0) pushed past Algonquin College (Ottawa) 78-50 in their OCAA Championship Semi-Final Wednesday night at the SportsPlex and advanced to the Gold Medal Final for the 3^rd straight season.  The Saints will face Humber College (Etobicoke) for Gold on Thursday at 7:30pm.  The Hawks won the other semi-final by a score of 80-74 but had to outlast a pesky Niagara College (Welland) team who nearly erased a 26-point deficit in the 2^nd half.  St. Clair is in search of its first provincial title since 2004.

A short rostered Algonquin squad scored the opening basket but the Saints were relentless the remainder of the first quarter and found themselves ahead 28-4 heading to the second.  A fairly even second quarter still resulted in a 45-19 lead for St. Clair entering halftime.  Algonquin was courageous in the third putting together their best quarter and outscored the Saints 20-16 while shooting 40% from the floor.  But the hill was too high a climb and the Saints were able to give their reserves some playing time as they cruised down the stretch. 

Logan Kucera (Chatham, ON) was named the St. Clair Player of the Game after scoring 16 points to go with 7 rebounds and 3 assists.  Sister Jana Kucera (Chatham, ON) recorded a game high 20 points and added 7 rebounds, 3 assists and a steal.  Ciara Emery (Windsor, ON/WF Herman) came off the bench to reach double figures with 10 points for the Saints.

St. Clair forced 18 turnovers and were rewarded with 24 points while outscoring the Algonquin bench 28-8.  The Saints scored 34 points in the paint but also hit 9 triples in the contest. 

Jade Lyons (Carp, ON) scored 13 points and added 6 rebounds along with a steal to earn Algonquin Player of the Game recognition in the loss while teammate Madison Robert (Orleans, ON) had a notable 12 rebounds to go with 8 points.  Algonquin will face Niagara in the Bronze Medal game at 5:00pm on Thursday.