{"id":1378,"date":"2010-04-19T00:37:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T04:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=1378"},"modified":"2010-04-19T00:37:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T04:37:34","slug":"cookie-takes-the-cake-and-the-icing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=1378","title":{"rendered":"Cookie Takes The Cake (and the icing)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well after going 3-0 in day one, and 2-1 in day two, my daughter Cookie and the Ottawa Fusion 14U girls team went into the elimination round with some pretty high expectations on Sunday. \u00a0The first match had them dumping the Tornadoes in straight sets 25-14 and 25-16. \u00a0A good start to the day.<\/p>\n

Their second match was against the South County Bandits from Essex and the roll continued with a 25-14 and 25-15 straight set victory.<\/p>\n

This set up a repeat showdown against the Leaside Lightning. \u00a0The team that had given the Fusion their only loss of the tourney a day earlier. \u00a0Leaside is coached by Canadian Olympian and bronze medalist John Child. \u00a0Leaside is one tough team. \u00a0The Lightning were flawless in a first set trouncing of the Fusion 25-9. \u00a0The Fusion were demoralized. \u00a0The smiles were gone. \u00a0The heads were hanging. \u00a0They were in a very dark place.<\/p>\n

The second set started out with more of the same and the Leaside Lightning took a commanding 19-7 lead. \u00a0When up to serve stepped the youngest Fusion player. \u00a0Barely 13 years old and with nerves of steel, Bekah went on an 11 serve streak to bring the game back to 19-18. \u00a0Halfway through the streak you could see the spirit returning to the Fusion as if it was being sapped directly from the Lightning. \u00a0The teams traded a few points but the comeback was well on it’s way and the second set was taken by the Fusion 25-22 in an amazing show of spirit, resilience and determination.<\/p>\n

The trend didn’t change much in the third set as the Fusion were rolling at this point. \u00a0When all was said and done, the tiebreaker went to the Fusion 15-6. \u00a0In what might be called the comeback of the tournament the Fusion went from being outscored 44-16 to outscoring the Lightning 33-9. \u00a0The comeback was complete and the Fusion were off to the Gold Medal match against the number 1 seed in Divison 2, the North Bay Blizzard.<\/p>\n

Both games in the final were great displays of skill, power and poise, but in the end Cookie and the Fusion won 25-20 and 25-18 to take the Division 2 Gold Medal!!<\/p>\n

While waiting for the medal ceremony, the team was chasing down the Ottawa 14U Fusion boys to see how they had done in their bronze medal match (which they won) and we were asked if we wanted another shot with the PM. \u00a0Clearly the girls gleefully accepted.<\/p>\n

The award ceremony had all the parents gleaming but there was one more award to be presented. \u00a0Each team awards one player with the Award of Excellence which was voted on by the players and coaches. \u00a0It goes to the player who best displays a combination of traits including spirit, leadership, poise, skill, perserverence, etc. \u00a0I had a tear in my eye when the coach called Cookie up to receive the award.<\/p>\n

There wasn’t a prouder father.<\/p>\n

The icing on the cake.<\/p>\n

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Well after going 3-0 in day one, and 2-1 in day two, my daughter Cookie and the Ottawa Fusion 14U girls team went into the elimination round with some pretty high expectations on Sunday. \u00a0The first match had them dumping the Tornadoes in straight sets 25-14 and 25-16. \u00a0A good start to the day. Their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,47,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-officiallyawesome","category-personal","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}