The Yorkton United Girls U18/16 team competed in the Saskatchewan Soccer eight vs. eight U18 Provincial Indoor Championships recently in Regina
The team was pitted against the Regina FCR in a two game Aggregate Championship Final, meaning it was a two game total goal series, the winner of which would be declared Provincial champion.
The first game on Saturday opened up with both teams playing stingy defence before Kendra Varjassy opened the scoring for the Yorkton club midway through the first half.
Allison Berge extended Yorkton’s lead to 2-0 before Regina countered with a strike just before half.
In the second half Yorkton came out strong and Varjassy scored back-to-back goals for a 4-1 lead.
Regina kept pushing to close the gap to one with the final score in Game One being 4-3 for Yorkton setting up an exciting second game.
Varjassy led the team with the hat trick with Allison Berge adding a single marker. Ali Debnam earned the victory in goal.
Game Two was a defensive battle with both teams limiting their oppositions scoring chances with some great team defence and goaltending.
Neither team was able to find the back of the net with the game ending in a 0-0 tie. Debnam earned the shutout in net.
Despite not scoring a goal in the final game, Yorkton srill won the two game aggregate 4-3 to be crowned Provincial Champions.
In addition to claiming the Championship trophy the team was also awarded the Fair Play Award as voted on by the game officials and Sask Soccer representatives.
It was a great weekend performance by the entire team.
