The boys city hockey champion for the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) will have to play a lot of hockey this week to claim the title - namely three games in two days.
Both the quarterfinals and semifinals are set for Tuesday, March 9 - all at Canlan Sports Scarborough. The quarterfinal slate is as follows:* Lawrence Park vs Sir Oliver Mowat, 10 a.m.;* Etobicoke vs Humberside, 10 a.m.;* York Mills vs Malvern, 10:15 a.m.;* Birchmount Park vs Richview, 10:15 a.m.The semifinals run at 2 and 2:15 p.m. (featuring, respectively, the winners from the first two games and the winners from the latter two games).The 3/4A championship game is then slated for Wednesday, March 10 at Centennial Arena Scarborough at 1 p.m. (and preceded at 11 a.m. by the 1/2A final at 11 a.m.).Confirm times at board website, www.tdsb.on.ca (click on high school sports).The divisional championships were held last week and here are the results.NORTH/EAST FINAL: Mowat 4 (Blake Ertel, Ryan Kirkup, Dallas Ingram, Jamie Donaldson), York Mills 1 (Chris Phillips);WEST FINAL: Richview 3 (Leonard Dziemianko, Jeff Miller, Filip Todorovic), Etobicoke 2 (Dave Moore, Jack Pirie) in triple OT!;SOUTH FINAL: Malvern 5 (Matt Spanger, 2, Allister Warren, Stephen Mighton, Andrew Hood), Humberside 3 (Graham Low, Jordi Stevens Hall, Thomas Spolsky).Both the champion and finalist from each of the three divisions qualified for the city quarterfinal round and two wild card teams were added, Birchmount Park from the east division and Lawrence Park from the south division.Here's how the respective teams fared during the regular season.NORTH/EAST: 1 Mowat, 10-0 (52-12); 2 Birchmount Park 7-2-1 (26-15); 3 York Mills 5-5-0 (33-30);WEST: 1 Richview 8-2-0 (46-21); 2 Etobicoke 7-1-2 (39-18);EAST: 1 Malvern 8-1-1 (53-26); 2 Humberside 7-2-1 (47-21); *4 Lawrence Park 5-4-1 (31-28).* Lawrence Park won the East Division third-place qualifier game 4-1 against third place Leaside 7-2-1 (47-23).