Dr. Charles Best Blue Devils and the Centennial Centaurs both finished the B.C. AAA senior girls high school soccer championships in dramatic fashion Saturday in Kamloops.
The Blue Devils secured seventh place among 16 teams via a 2-1 win in an overtime shootout over the Kelowna Owls, while the Cents settled for 10th after falling 2-1 in penalty strikes to Victoria's Oak Bay Bays.
Argyle Pipers of North Vancouver won the event after bouncing the Claremont Spartans of Victoria 5-2 in the final.
Jocelyn Trenamen of the Blue Devils and Centennial's Jenny Gluska were selected to the Commissioner's 11 all-star squad.
The Cents' Olivia Aguiar missed making the select side despite netting six of her team's nine tournament goals, good for second in scoring at the tournament.
The Blue Devils beat the Prince George Polars 5-0 and Oak Bay 1-0 but lost 2-1 to Argyle in round-robin play, before dropping a 3-1 count to the Point Grey Greyounds in the cross-over playoffs.
Centennial beat Cranbrook's Mt. Baker Wild 4-0, fell 3-0 to Claremont and knotted Kelowna 2-2 in their round robin pool, then edged West Vancouver's Sentinel Spartans 2-1 in a cross-over playoff match.
'CAPS OFF TO LEROUX
Sydney Leroux, a former Coquitlam City Wild youth standout, knocked in two goals to lift the visiting Vancouver Whitecaps to a 4-2 victory Saturday over the Los Angeles Strikers in United Soccer Leagues W-league action.
