The 2008 ESSO Women's Nationals were hardly that. A new format to this tournament this year had two separate tournaments going on: the first for the the senior women's title and the second for the club championship. The senior women's group did consist of teams representing a province, however, there were only four teams in the group with three of the four coming from the atlantic provinces. I guess since the four teams were representing provinces it can be called a national title but with nine provinces and territories absent from the tournament, I hardly see this as a national title. Not to mention one of the clubs teams hailed from the new province of Minnesota. (Don`t worry, you didn`t miss the memo, Minnesota is still a state in the USA).This so called national title was won earlier today by Manitoba (the only team outside of the atlantic provinces) when they defeated Prince Edward Island 5-1 on a two goal effort by Ashley Jaffray. The bronze game went to Nova Scotia 3-2 in a shootout where Jocelyn LeBlanc was the only skater to score. Nova Scotia took a 2-1 lead into the first intermission but New Brunswick quickly tied the game in the second before the scoring stopped.
As for the club championship, the bronze game was won by the Calgary Oval X-Treme 5-2 over the Minnesota Whitecaps. It took the Whitecaps until the third period before they figured out how to beat Amanda Tapp (Calgary's goaltender) while Calgary managed four goals before the third. In the championship game, the Brampton Canadette-Thunder scored first but it was the Mississauga Chiefs who got the last goal and it came in the second overtime. Cherie Piper was the hero for the Chiefs as she lead the 3 on 1 charge into the Brampton zone and made some nice moves to beat Cindy Eadie for the overtime winner.
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